TALLAHASSEE – Striving to promptly obtain ample petition signatures to get on the 2024 ballot, a political committee leading attempts to pass a constitutional amendment aimed at making certain abortion legal rights gathered nearly $1.942 million in June, in accordance to a recently filed finance report.
As of June 30, the Floridians Shielding Liberty committee had gathered about $4.719 million considering that currently being shaped in April.
It experienced expended almost $4.59 million, which includes about $2.52 million in June. Most of the June investing went to petition-collecting initiatives, in accordance to the report posted on the state Division of Elections website. Large donors in June involved Planned Parenthood corporations and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.
To get the proposed constitutional amendment on the November 2024 ballot, Floridians Shielding Freedom will want to submit at least 891,523 valid petition signatures to the state by Feb. 1. If the measure reaches the ballot, it would have to have aid from at minimum 60 percent of voters.
The initiative was launched just after Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-managed Legislature this spring authorized a invoice that seeks to avert abortions after 6 weeks of being pregnant.
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