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Statement Of Proposed Constitutional Amendments<br />
November 6, <strong>2018</strong><br />
In compliance with R.S. 18:431 and R.S. 18:552, a statement of the<br />
Proposed Constitutional Amendments in the order in which they will<br />
appear on the ballot for the November 6, <strong>2018</strong> election is provided as<br />
follows:<br />
1. “Do you support an amendment to prohibit a convicted<br />
felon from seeking or holding public office or appointment within<br />
five years of completion of his sentence unless he is pardoned?”<br />
Act 719 (<strong>2018</strong> Regular Session) adds Article I, Section 10.1.<br />
Proposed Constitutional Amendment provides that the following<br />
persons shall not be permitted to qualify as a candidate for elective<br />
public office or hold elective public office or appointment of honor,<br />
trust, or profit in this State: 1) a person who is actually under an order of<br />
imprisonment for conviction of a felony; or 2) a person who has been<br />
convicted within Louisiana of a felony and who has exhausted all legal<br />
remedies, or who has been convicted under the laws of any other state<br />
or of the United States or of any foreign government or country of a<br />
crime which, if committed in Louisiana, would be a felony and who has<br />
exhausted all legal remedies and has not been pardoned either by the<br />
governor of Louisiana or by the officer of the state, nation, government,<br />
or country having such authority to pardon in the place where the person<br />
was convicted and sentenced.<br />
Proposed Constitutional Amendment provides an exception and<br />
shall not prohibit a person convicted of a felony from qualifying as a<br />
candidate for elective public office or holding such elective public office<br />
or appointment of honor, trust, or profit if more than five years have<br />
elapsed since the completion of his original sentence for the conviction.<br />
Proposed Constitutional Amendment relating to felony convictions<br />
shall not prohibit a person from being employed by the state or a political<br />
subdivision.<br />
2. “Do you support an amendment to require a unanimous<br />
jury verdict in all noncapital felony cases for offenses that are<br />
committed on or after January 1, 2019?”<br />
Act 722 (<strong>2018</strong> Regular Session) amends Article I, Section 17(A).<br />
Present Constitution provides that a noncapital criminal case for an<br />
offense in which the punishment is necessarily confinement at hard<br />
labor shall be tried before a jury of twelve persons, ten of whom must<br />
concur to render a verdict.<br />
Proposed Constitutional Amendment provides that a noncapital<br />
criminal case for an offense committed prior to January 1, 2019 in<br />
which the punishment is necessarily confinement at hard labor shall<br />
be tried before a jury of twelve persons, ten of whom must concur to<br />
render a verdict.<br />
Proposed Constitutional Amendment provides that a noncapital<br />
criminal case for an offense committed on or after January 1, 2019, in<br />
which the punishment is necessarily confinement at hard labor shall<br />
be tried before a jury of twelve persons, all of whom must concur to<br />
render a verdict.<br />
3. “Do you support an amendment to permit, pursuant to written<br />
agreement, the donation of the use of public equipment and<br />
personnel by a political subdivision upon request to another political<br />
subdivision for an activity or function which the requesting<br />
political subdivision is authorized to exercise?”<br />
Act 717 (<strong>2018</strong> Regular Session) amends Article VII, Section 14(B).<br />
Present Constitution prohibits the funds, credit, property, or things<br />
of value of the state or of any political subdivision from being loaned,<br />
pledged, or donated, except as otherwise provided by this constitution.<br />
Proposed Constitutional Amendment retains present constitution<br />
and adds an exception that allows, pursuant to a written agreement,<br />
the donation of the use of public equipment and personnel by a political<br />
subdivision upon request to another political subdivision for an<br />
activity or function the requesting political subdivision is authorized to<br />
exercise.<br />
4. “Do you support an amendment to remove authority to appropriate<br />
or dedicate monies in the Transportation Trust Fund to<br />
state police for traffic control purposes?”<br />
Act 720 (<strong>2018</strong> Regular Session) amends Article VII, Section 27(B)(1).<br />
Present Constitution provides that monies in the Transportation Trust<br />
Fund shall be appropriated or dedicated solely and exclusively for the<br />
costs for and associated with construction and maintenance of the<br />
roads and bridges of the state and federal highway systems, the Statewide<br />
Flood-Control Program or its successor, ports, airports, transit,<br />
state police for traffic control purposes, and the Parish Transportation<br />
Fund or its successor and for the payment of all principal, interest, premium,<br />
if any, and other obligations incident to the issuance, security,<br />
and payment in respect of bonds or other obligations payable from the<br />
trust fund.<br />
Proposed Constitutional Amendment removes the authority to appropriate<br />
or dedicate monies in the Transportation Trust Fund to the<br />
state police for traffic control purposes.<br />
5. “Do you support an amendment to extend eligibility for the<br />
following special property tax treatments to property in trust: the<br />
special assessment level for property tax valuation, the property<br />
tax exemption for property of a disabled veteran, and the property<br />
tax exemption for the surviving spouse of a person who died<br />
while performing their duties as a first responder, active duty<br />
member of the military, or law enforcement or fire protection officer?”<br />
Act 721 (<strong>2018</strong> Regular Session) adds Article VII, Sections 18(G)(6), 21(K)<br />
(4) and (M)(4).<br />
Present Constitution provides the assessment of residential property<br />
receiving the homestead exemption which is owned and occupied by<br />
any of the following, if the owner has an adjusted gross annual income<br />
that does not exceed the income threshold, shall not be increased<br />
above the total assessment of that property for the first year that the<br />
owner qualifies for and receives the special assessment level, provided<br />
that such person or persons remain qualified for and receive the special<br />
assessment level: 1) people who are sixty-five years of age or older; 2)<br />
people who have a service-connected disability rating of fifty percent<br />
or more by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; 3) members<br />
of the armed forces of the United States or the Louisiana National<br />
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