Pennsylvania Financial Assistance for Flood Damages Amendment (1975)
| Pennsylvania Financial Assistance for Flood Damages Amendment | |
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| Election date November 4, 1975 | |
| Topic Water | |
Status Approved | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Pennsylvania Financial Assistance for Flood Damages Amendment was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Pennsylvania on November 4, 1975. It was approved.
A "yes" vote supported providing for tax rebates, credits, exemptions, and grants for individuals, corporations, associations, and nonprofit institutions, and private schools, to "alleviate the danger, damage, suffering, or hardship" caused by great storms or floods of 1974 or 1975. |
A "no" vote opposed providing for tax rebates, credits, exemptions, and grants for individuals, corporations, associations, and nonprofit institutions, and private schools, to "alleviate the danger, damage, suffering, or hardship" caused by great storms or floods of 1974 or 1975. |
Election results
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Pennsylvania Financial Assistance for Flood Damages Amendment (1975) |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
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1,241,622 | 67.59% | ||
| No | 595,254 | 32.41% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for this measure was as follows:
| “ | Shall Article 8, Section 17 of the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended so that the General Assembly may provide for tax rebates, credits, exemptions, grants-in-aid, State supplementations, or otherwise provide special provisions for individuals, corporations, associations or nonprofit institutions, including nonpublic schools (whether sectarian or nonsectarian) in order to alleviate the danger, damage, suffering or hardship cause by great storms or floods of 1974 or 1975? | ” |
Path to the ballot
In Pennsylvania, the General Assembly must pass a constitutional amendment by a simple majority vote during two successive legislative sessions to refer the measure to the ballot for voter consideration. The legislature can also pass a measure by a two-thirds vote during one legislative session if a “major emergency threatens or is about to threaten the Commonwealth.”
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