Bill Text: FL H0057 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sovereignty of the State

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Federal Affairs Subcommittee [H0057 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-H0057-Introduced.html

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HM 57

1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States,
3	urging Congress to discontinue its practice of
4	imposing federal mandates and legislation upon the
5	states which exceed the scope of its constitutionally
6	delegated powers under the Tenth Amendment to the
7	Constitution of the United States and to repeal
8	existing compulsory federal legislation that directs
9	the states to comply or requires the states to pass
10	specific legislation in order not to lose federal
11	funding.
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13	WHEREAS, the people of the State of Florida assert their
14	residual and inviolable sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to
15	the Constitution of the United States over all powers not
16	otherwise enumerated and granted to the Federal Government by
17	that Constitution, and
18	WHEREAS, the people of the State of Florida also refuse to
19	comply with mandates issued by any branch of the Federal
20	Government which are beyond the scope of such constitutionally
21	delegated powers and demand that the Federal Government cease
22	and desist from issuing mandates that are beyond the scope of
23	such powers, and
24	WHEREAS, the people of the State of Florida further refuse
25	to recognize or comply with any compulsory federal legislation
26	that directs the state to comply or requires the state to pass
27	specific legislation in order not to lose federal funding, and
28	WHEREAS, the sovereignty of the State of Florida is
29	threatened by federal mandates and legislation that exceed the
30	scope of power delegated to the Federal Government under the
31	Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and
32	WHEREAS, the imposition of excessive federal enactments
33	diminishes the rights and abilities of the people of the State
34	of Florida to govern themselves as a free and independent state,
35	NOW, THEREFORE,
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37	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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39	That the Congress of the United States is urged to
40	discontinue its current practice of imposing federal mandates
41	and legislation upon the states which exceed the scope of its
42	constitutionally delegated powers under the Tenth Amendment to
43	Constitution of the United States.
44	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Congress is also urged to
45	repeal all existing compulsory federal legislation that directs
46	the states to comply or requires the states to pass specific
47	legislation in order not to lose federal funding.
48	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
49	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
50	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
51	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
52	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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