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Florida House Approves Salzman Plan For Term Limits On County Commissioners
April 20, 2025
The Florida House on Wednesday passed a joint resolution to amend the Florida Constitution to include term limits on county commissioners and school board members.
The House voted 82-33 to back the joint resolution filed by Escambia County Republican Rep. Michelle Salzman.
The joint resolution proposes an amendment to the Florida Constitution to provide term limits for county commissioners and school district board members after serving eight consecutive years. The limitation would apply applies to terms of office for county commissioners beginning after November 3, 2026, and terms of office for school district board members beginning on or after November 8, 2022.
“This is the House joint resolution to put term limits for county commissioners and school board members at eight years on the ballot,” Salzman said on the House floor. She said most American back term limits, while opponents say any term limits should be decided by local voters, not mandated by the state.
In 2023, the Florida Legislature approved Eight-year term limits for school board members were approved by the Florida Legislature in 2023, but the term limits are not in the Constitution.
If approved by the Legislature, the amendment would appear on the ballot for the 2026 general election
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8 Responses to “Florida House Approves Salzman Plan For Term Limits On County Commissioners”
What does this accomplish? Voters should be the judge. Term limits have been a dissaster in Florida. They replaced good old boy corruption with hip young hot corruption.
Is that really what we want? There’s no institutional memory in the legislature but there is deep well of expertise in farming Republicans in the ad agencies, real estate lobby blobs, and corporations like Chevron who fund our local representatives while supplying gas to foreign dictators.
I am firmly apposition to term limits. The longer you do your job , the better you are at it.
So County Commissioners can take a partial break and run for school board for one term then go back and run for another eight years. It needs to be eight years period or it is just a break once in a while. They can hold office as many years as they want as long as they take a break every two terms.
There should be term limits on ALL Politician’s not just County Commissioner’s. Anyone who think they spent months running for office just to receive a salary are sadly mistaken.
Eight years is TOO LONG.
JR, if you haven’t noticed, all statewide offices are already under term limits, including Salzman’s house seat.
Every political office in the nation needs term limits.
Strange how the state and federal legislatures support term limits with the exception of themselves.