Your November 2026 General Election Guide

The referendum would authorize St. Johns County to issue up to $100 million in general obligation bonds to acquire and manage lands for conservation. Eligible projects include lands that protect water quality, drinking-water resources, working farms, forests, coastal areas, wildlife habitat, and provide outdoor recreation. Each potential project would be vetted through a transparent process that includes two public meetings of the county’s citizen conservation board and a third public meeting before the Board of County Commissioners.

Florida should maintain strong reserves for hurricanes and recessions, and it already does. We don't need to lock $750 million a year into the Constitution. Florida has more than $14 billion in reserves. Budget decisions should balance saving for emergencies with the needs Floridians face now. Every dollar frozen in the Constitution is a dollar not going to schools, insurance relief or storm recovery.

We support Florida's farmers, but Amendment 2 gives a permanent constitutional tax exemption to agricultural businesses regardless of their size or need, while taking about $31 million a year from local governments and schools. Florida can provide targeted relief to working farms without creating another permanent property-tax exemption.

While qualifying homesteaded homeowners would get a break on their property-tax bill, the deputies, firefighters and paramedics who answer your 911 call — and the roads, parks and libraries your family uses every week — still have to be paid for. Amendment 3 strips billions of dollars a year out of the local budgets that fund them and provides no replacement revenue, leaving counties and cities to make up the difference with higher fees, other taxes, fewer services, or all three. It also writes a separate, valuable tax advantage for commercial and other non-homestead property into the Florida Constitution by cutting their annual assessment-growth cap from 10% to 5%. A lower property-tax bill is not real relief if your household ends up paying more everywhere else.

There is a better path: the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission, charged with evaluating Florida's tax structure, is already scheduled to convene in 2027. Reform of this magnitude belongs in that vetted, deliberative process — not locked into our Constitution by a measure rushed to the ballot.

Slower response times. Deteriorating roads. New fees. Vote NO on 3.

The Attorney General revised this amendment's ballot summary language on August 13, 2026 after the original wording was challenged as misleading.