Health care repeal amendment clears first panel
by Keith Laing
The News Service of Florida
12/09/2010
After being fast-tracked through its first committee stop Wednesday, a proposed constitutional amendment to prevent the federal government from compelling people to participate in any health care system could be the first bill passed during next year’s session, Senate President Mike Haridopolos said Wednesday.
The resolution, SJR 2, easily cleared the Senate Health Regulation Committee, with only the Democratic members of the panel, Sens. Jeremy Ring (D-Margate) and Eleanor Sobel (D-Hollywood), voting against it.
The proposal is a tweaked version of what would have been Amendment 9 in this year’s election had the Florida Supreme Court not thrown the question off the ballot.
The 9-2 vote Wednesday came a week before the next round of legal hearings in the lawsuit filed by Florida and 19 other states over the health care law.
But a vote on a constitutional amendment could not happen for at least two years. Haridopolos said Wednesday it was important to try again to allow voters to weigh in, even if the issue may be decided by the federal courts by the time they have the chance.
Haridopolos noted that the proposed constitutional amendment that started working through the Legislature Wednesday is changed a bit from last year’s, in deference to the Supreme Court’s concerns that kept it off the ballot. ...
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