November 3, 2026 general · Three certified legislative referrals · Not an official ballot

Florida’s 2026 amendments: what is certified, and what is not

If you voted in August and didn’t see marijuana, Medicaid, or a statewide tax rewrite, that wasn’t a missing page. August 18 was mostly nominations. The certified statewide amendments print on November 3, 2026. The Florida Department of State’s constitutional initiatives database lists three 2026 general legislative referrals that made ballot. Citizen initiative petitions did not. This page is the kitchen-table walkthrough of those three texts — not a sample ballot, and not us telling you how to vote.

We don’t publish Christian 45 / Constitution 35 / GOP 20 scores on amendments. Those bars are for candidates. An amendment is a constitutional text with a 60 percent approval bar under Article XI. If you want candidate numbers, open the home guide and how we score. The measures area of the home guide is the in-tool companion to this essay — still not the Supervisor of Elections.

What is certified, and when it prints

Three legislative referrals made the 2026 general ballot:

• Amendment 1 — Budget Stabilization Fund. Sponsor: Florida Legislature / HJR 5019. Made ballot June 17, 2025.
• Amendment 2 — Exemption of tangible personal property on agricultural land from taxation. Sponsor: Florida Legislature / HJR 1215. Made ballot June 18, 2025. The Department of State title on the database has a typo (“TANGILBLE”). We’re leaving the official title alone.
• Amendment 3 — Increased homestead exemption; lower cap on increases in non-homestead property assessments. Sponsor: Florida Legislature / HJR 1F. Made ballot June 16, 2026.

That matches the public line already on the home guide: only three statewide amendments are certified, and most amendments hit the November general. Some campaign pages have called Amendment 3 “Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes.” That’s framing. The legal title and summary are the Department of State’s. We use those.

Local tax, charter, or school questions can still appear on a county style in August or November. Only the SOE PDF knows. ZIP is not precinct. Walkthrough: how to read a Florida sample ballot.

The 60 percent bar

Florida doesn’t pass a constitutional amendment on a simple majority. Article XI requires 60 percent. A 55–45 night is a failed amendment. That’s the rule before any values argument. It’s also why a last-week slogan is a weak substitute for the official summary.

Amendment 1 — Budget Stabilization Fund

Official Department of State summary: increase the amount that may be retained in the budget stabilization fund from 10 percent to 25 percent of general revenue collections; require the legislature to transfer the lesser of $750 million or the amount required to reach 25 percent of general revenue collections each year unless certain conditions are met; allow the legislature to withdraw funds for critical state needs.

In plain English, this is the rainy-day fund. The constitution already lets the state keep a reserve. The amendment raises the ceiling, writes an annual transfer rule, and keeps a withdrawal door for “critical state needs.” If you care about fiscal restraint, you’ll feel two directions at once: a larger locked reserve can be prudence, and a withdrawal clause can be a future legislature’s temptation. We’re naming that tension. We’re not scoring it 45 / 35 / 20.

Detail page: constitutionalinitiatives.dos.fl.gov, account 10, sequence 108. Sponsor text is HJR 5019.

Amendment 2 — Tangible personal property on agricultural land

Official summary: exempt tangible personal property habitually located or typically present on land classified as agricultural, used in the production of agricultural products or for agritourism activities, and owned by the landowner or leaseholder of the agricultural land, from ad valorem taxation. If approved, it first applies to tax years beginning January 1, 2027.

Enrolled HJR 1215 is the legislative text. This is farm and agritourism equipment and related tangible property on classified agricultural land — not a homestead rewrite and not a sales-tax holiday. Rural counties will feel it more than a condo tower. If you vote in a city church, you still see it on the statewide style. The ordinary questions on this site still apply: property rights, who pays which tax base, and whether an exemption is stewardship of working land or a shift onto someone else. Again, we don’t print a candidate-style score on the amendment.

Amendment 3 — Homestead exemption and non-homestead caps

Official Department of State summary, compressed into readable pieces:

• Increases the homestead exemption, for all non-school taxes, to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028, then inflation.
• Requires the Legislature to prescribe a uniform procedure for counties and municipalities to increase the homestead exemption up to full assessed value; special districts may do the same subject to referendum.
• Persons who are not Florida residents on December 31, 2026, receive the existing homestead exemption upon qualifying, with the increased exemption beginning the fifth year, to the extent permitted by the U.S. Constitution.
• Reduces the annual cap on assessment increases for non-homestead properties from 10 percent to 5 percent.
• Requires counties and municipalities to use property taxes solely for listed core purposes: public safety, education and schools, infrastructure, natural resources, bond debt service, retirement benefits, and operations and administration. Other expenditures may be approved by governing bodies unless prohibited by general law.

Effective January 1, 2027. Detail page: Department of State initiatives database, account 10, sequence 110. Sponsor text is HJR 1F.

Two lines in that summary matter more than a campaign nickname. First, the homestead increase is for non-school taxes. School levies are carved. If you care about classroom funding, read that carve-out before you treat the amendment as a school-board proxy. Second, new residents as of December 31, 2026, don’t immediately receive the larger exemption. That’s a constitutional design choice about who benefits first, not a rumor.

Property tax sits next to family housing costs, church and school budgets, and how big local government gets to be. Amendment 3 is also a government-power text: it names allowed purposes and then leaves a gate for other spending. We’re not going to tell you how to mark it. We are going to tell you to read the official summary instead of a four-word banner.

What failed to make the 2026 initiative ballot

On February 1, 2026, the Department of State said all twenty-two active initiative petitions failed the statutory requirements for the 2026 general election ballot. That’s a press note, not a rumor. Recreational marijuana, Medicaid expansion, and the rest of that petition class are not on the 2026 ballot. Some remain listed toward 2028 on the same database — including Adult Personal Use of Marijuana (Smart & Safe Florida) and Provide Medicaid Coverage to Eligible Low-Income Adults (Florida Decides Healthcare, Inc.). Listed for 2028 is not on your November 3, 2026 style.

If a friend forwards a 2024-style marijuana or Medicaid card and says “it’s on the ballot again,” the official answer is no for 2026. If a later court or a later filing changes a 2028 petition, that’s a later cycle. This essay is about the three legislative referrals that already made the 2026 general ballot.

Local measures are the SOE’s, not ours

Counties can still place tax, charter, or school questions on a local style. Those don’t appear in the statewide three. We’re not inventorying sixty-seven local measures here. Your Supervisor of Elections PDF is authority. How to pull it: sample ballot. How to cast it: how to vote. Mail has to be received by Election Day, not merely postmarked.

Don’t reuse an August PDF in November. Party nominees will have changed. These three amendments will have appeared. A nonpartisan runoff pair may have replaced a four-person field. After August 18, November 3 is still the general. Unofficial nominee stamps are on the home guide; this page is still the amendments walkthrough.

Corrections with a public source go to hello@jesusvoter.com. We’re independent editorial — About — not the Department of State. Florida is the only live state. Other states are text, not links.