ARTICLE 5

RELATING TO CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

     SECTION 1. Proposition to be submitted to the people. -- At the general election to be

held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November 2020, there shall be submitted to the

people (“People”) of the State of Rhode Island (“State”), for their approval or rejection, the

following proposition:

     "Shall the action of the general assembly, by an act passed at the January 2020 session,

authorizing the issuance of bonds, refunding bonds, and temporary notes of the State of Rhode Island

for the capital projects and in the amount with respect to each such project listed below be approved,

and the issuance of bonds, refunding bonds, and temporary notes authorized in accordance with the

provisions of said act?"

Project

(1)Higher Education Facilities Bond $117,300,000

Approval of this question will allow the State of Rhode Island to issue general obligation

bonds, refunding bonds, and/or temporary notes in an amount not to exceed one hundred seventeen

million three hundred thousand dollars ($117,300,000) for capital improvements to higher education

facilities, to be allocated as follows:

(a) University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center $57,300,000

Provides fifty-seven million three hundred thousand dollars ($57,300,000) to fund repairs

and construct a new facility on the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus in support of the

educational needs for the musical, theatrical, visual, and graphic arts disciplines.

(b) Rhode Island College Clarke Science Building Renovation $38,000,000

Provides thirty-eight million dollars ($38,000,000) to reconstruct Clarke Science Building

on the campus of Rhode Island College. This project will improve the science and technology

laboratories and facilities that support high-demand degree programs critical to the college’s

mission of statewide workforce development.

(c) Community College of Rhode Island Renovation and Modernization $12,000,000

Provides twelve million dollars ($12,000,000) to fund restoration and enhancement of

academic and student support spaces and other infrastructure on the four campuses of the

Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI).  Funds will go towards modernizing and renovating

facilities, addressing repairs, improving safety and energy efficiency, and replacing outdated

technology and equipment used for teaching and learning.  

(d) Center for Ocean Innovation $10,000,000

Provides ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the development of a Center for Ocean

Innovation in collaboration with the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, promoting cutting

edge education, research and innovation, solidifying Rhode Island’s leadership in the Blue

Economy. The funds will support the construction, renovation, attaining and securing of

facilities/spaces as well as investment in infrastructure and equipment to support the education and

the creation, incubation, exploration, testing, prototyping, piloting, and deployment of undersea

and other maritime technologies to create a “Smart Bay”.

(2) Beach, Clean Water and Green Bond $64,000,000

Approval of this question will allow the State of Rhode Island to issue general obligation

bonds, refunding bonds, and/or temporary notes in an amount not to exceed sixty-four million

dollars ($64,000,000) for environmental and recreational purposes, to be allocated as follows:

(a) State Beaches, Parks, and Campgrounds $35,00,000

Provides thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) for major capital improvements to state

beaches, parks, and campgrounds, including the design, development, expansion, and renovation

of new and existing facilities. Improvements may include a new facility at Goddard Park beach;

upgraded facilities including new bathrooms at Roger Wheeler State beach, Scarborough State

beach, Misquamicut State beach, and Brenton Point; and campground improvements including new

bathrooms facilities and utility upgrades.

(b) Local Recreation Projects

$4,000,000

Provides four million dollars ($4,000,000) for up to eighty percent (80%) matching grants

for municipalities to acquire, develop, or rehabilitate local recreational facilities to meet the growing

needs for active outdoor recreational facilities.

(c) Natural and Working Lands

$3,000,000

Provides three million dollars ($3,000,000) to protect working forest and farm lands

throughout Rhode Island including through the purchase of forest conservation easements, the

purchase of development rights by the Agricultural Lands Preservation Commission, and the State

Farmland Access Program.

(d) Clean Water and Drinking Water $15,000,000

Provides fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for clean water and drinking water

infrastructure improvements. Clean water projects include wastewater collection and treatment

upgrades, stormwater resilience improvements, combined sewer overflow initiatives, water pollution

control, and other water quality protection activities. Drinking water projects include construction of

and improvements to water supply, treatment, and distribution infrastructure.

     (e) Municipal Resiliency $7,000,000

Provides seven million dollars ($7,000,000) for up to seventy-five percent (75%) matching

grants to municipalities for restoring and/or improving resiliency of infrastructure, vulnerable coastal

habitats, and restoring rivers and stream floodplains. These funds are expected to leverage significant

matching funds to support local programs to improve community resiliency and public safety in the

face of increased flooding, major storm events, and environmental degradation.

(3) Housing and Infrastructure Bond $87,500,000

Approval of this question will allow the State of Rhode Island to issue general obligation

bonds, refunding bonds, and/or temporary notes in an amount not to exceed eighty-seven million five

hundred thousand dollars ($87,500,000) to housing, facility improvement and infrastructure projects,

to be allocated as follows:

(a) Housing Opportunity $25,000,000

Provides twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) to increase the availability of affordable

housing through the redevelopment of existing structures and new construction.

(b) Port of Davisville Infrastructure at Quonset $20,000,000

Provides twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for infrastructure projects that will support the

continued growth and modernization at the Port of Davisville. This investment will finance the Port

master plan, including construction of a new Pier at Terminal Five, the rehabilitation of Pier One, and

dredging. These projects will position Davisville to accommodate offshore wind project cargo and

logistics staging while continuing to support the Port’s existing businesses.

(c) Industrial Site Development $21,500,000

Provides twenty-one million five hundred thousand dollars ($21,500,000) for industrial site

development and economic revitalization. The funds will be allocated competitively to prepare sites

for the development of facilities for purposes related to manufacturing, assembly, distribution, and

other job-producing commercial activities. Funds may also be used for infrastructure, including

municipal infrastructure, to catalyze development.

(d) Early Childhood Care and Education Capital Fund $15,000,000

Provides fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for physical improvements to and

development of licensed early childhood care and education facilities through the Early Childhood

Care and Education Capital Fund. Quality early childhood education and child care is necessary for

a robust economy in support of parents in the workplace and as foundation to the academic success

of Rhode Island’s children. In 2019, only twenty percent (20%) of the physical space licensed for the

State’s four-year-old population meets the State definition of quality, and there are eighteen (18) cities

and towns that do not have any infant/toddler care options. These funds will support greater access to

safe, high-quality early learning opportunities for Rhode Island children.

(e) Cultural Arts and the Economy Grant Program $5,000,000

Provides five million dollars ($5,000,000) in funding for 1:1 matching grants to continue the

Cultural Arts and the Economy Grant program administered by the Rhode Island State Council on

the Arts (RISCA) for capital improvement, preservation and renovation projects for public and

nonprofit artistic, performance centers, museums and cultural art centers located throughout the State

of Rhode Island.

1. Trinity Repertory Company $2,500,000

For the Lederer Theater and the Pell Chafee Performance Center, both in Providence, used

for performance facilities, educational instruction, production and administration.

2. Rhode Island Philharmonic $1,500,000

For the Carter Center for Music Education and Performance in East Providence, used for

music teaching, learning, performance and administration.

3. Other funds to be allocated by RISCA $1,000,000

For 1:1 matching grants to be allocated by RISCA to 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural

organizations which lease or own their performance space, and for RISCA expenses in administering

the program. In awarding such grants RISCA shall consider financial need, the availability or actual

expenditure of matching funds for the projects, available gifts or grants for projects, the amount of

square footage to be improved, the geographical location and characteristics of audiences benefitted.

(f) State Preservation Grants Program $1,000,000

Provides one million dollars ($1,000,000) in funding to cities, towns and nonprofit

organizations to preserve, renovate and improve public and nonprofit historic sites, museums, and

cultural art centers located in historic structures in the State of Rhode Island to be administered by

the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission.

     SECTION 2. Ballot labels and applicability of general election laws. -- The Secretary of

State shall prepare and deliver to the State Board of Elections ballot labels for each of the projects

provided for in Section 1 hereof with the designations "approve" or "reject" provided next to the

description of each such project to enable voters to approve or reject each such proposition. The

general election laws, so far as consistent herewith, shall apply to this proposition.

     SECTION 3. Approval of projects by people. -- If a majority of the People voting on the

proposition in Section 1 hereof shall vote to approve any project stated therein, said project shall be

deemed to be approved by the People. The authority to issue bonds, refunding bonds and/or

temporary notes of the State shall be limited to the aggregate amount for all such projects as set forth

in the proposition, which has been approved by the People.

     SECTION 4. Bonds for capital development program. -- The General Treasurer is hereby

authorized and empowered, with the approval of the Governor, and in accordance with the provisions

of this Act to issue capital development bonds in serial form, in the name of and on behalf of the State

of Rhode Island, in amounts as may be specified by the Governor in an aggregate principal amount

not to exceed the total amount for all projects approved by the People and designated as "capital

development loan of 2020 bonds." Provided, however, that the aggregate principal amount of such

capital development bonds and of any temporary notes outstanding at any one time issued in

anticipation thereof pursuant to Section 7 hereof shall not exceed the total amount for all such projects

approved by the People. All provisions in this Act relating to "bonds" shall also be deemed to apply

to "refunding bonds."

     Capital development bonds issued under this Act shall be in denominations of one thousand

dollars ($1,000) each, or multiples thereof, and shall be payable in any coin or currency of the United

States which at the time of payment shall be legal tender for public and private debts. These capital

development bonds shall bear such date or dates, mature at specified time or times, but not mature

beyond the end of the twentieth (20th) State fiscal year following the fiscal year in which they are

issued; bear interest payable semi-annually at a specified rate or different or varying rates: be payable

at designated time or times at specified place or places; be subject to express terms of redemption or

recall, with or without premium; be in a form, with or without interest coupons attached; carry such

registration, conversion, reconversion, transfer, debt retirement, acceleration and other provisions as

may be fixed by the General Treasurer, with the approval by the Governor, upon each issue of such

capital development bonds at the time of each issue. Whenever the Governor shall approve the

issuance of such capital development bonds, the Governor’s approval shall be certified to the

Secretary of State; the bonds shall be signed by the General Treasurer and countersigned by Secretary

of State and shall bear the seal of the State. The signature approval of the Governor shall be endorsed

on each bond.

     SECTION 5. Refunding bonds for 2020 capital development program. -- The General

Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered, with the approval of the Governor, and in accordance

with the provisions of this Act, to issue bonds to refund the 2020 capital development program bonds,

in the name of and on behalf of the state, in amounts as may be specified by the Governor in an

aggregate principal amount not to exceed the total amount approved by the People, to be designated

as "capital development program loan of 2020 refunding bonds" (hereinafter "Refunding Bonds").

     The General Treasurer with the approval of the Governor shall fix the terms and form of any

Refunding Bonds issued under this Act in the same manner as the capital development bonds issued

under this Act, except that the Refunding Bonds may not mature more than twenty (20) years from

the date of original issue of the capital development bonds being refunded.

     The proceeds of the Refunding Bonds, exclusive of any premium and accrual interest and net

the underwriters’ cost, and cost of bond issuance, shall, upon their receipt, be paid by the General

Treasurer immediately to the paying agent for the capital development bonds which are to be called

and prepaid. The paying agent shall hold the Refunding Bond proceeds in trust until they are applied

to prepay the capital development bonds. While such proceeds are held in trust, the proceeds may be

invested for the benefit of the State in obligations of the United States of America or the State of

Rhode Island.

     If the General Treasurer shall deposit with the paying agent for the capital development bonds

the proceeds of the Refunding Bonds, or proceeds from other sources, amounts that, when invested

in obligations of the United States or the State of Rhode Island, are sufficient to pay all principal,

interest, and premium, if any, on the capital development bonds until these bonds are called for

prepayment, then such capital development bonds shall not be considered debts of the State of Rhode

Island for any purpose starting from the date of deposit of such moneys with the paying agent. The

Refunding Bonds shall continue to be a debt of the State until paid.

     The term "bond" shall include "note," and the term "refunding bonds" shall include

"refunding notes" when used in this Act.

     SECTION 6. Proceeds of capital development program. -- The General Treasurer is

directed to deposit the proceeds from the sale of capital development bonds issued under this Act,

exclusive of premiums and accrued interest and net the underwriters’ cost, and cost of bond

issuance, in one or more of the depositories in which the funds of the State may be lawfully kept in

special accounts (hereinafter cumulatively referred to as "such capital development bond fund")

appropriately designated for each of the projects set forth in Section 1 hereof which shall have been

approved by the People to be used for the purpose of paying the cost of all such projects so

approved.

     All monies in the capital development bond fund shall be expended for the purposes specified

in the proposition provided for in Section 1 hereof under the direction and supervision of the Director

of Administration (hereinafter referred to as "Director"). The Director or his or her designee shall be

vested with all power and authority necessary or incidental to the purposes of this Act, including but

not limited to, the following authority: (a) to acquire land or other real property or any interest, estate

or right therein as may be necessary or advantageous to accomplish the purposes of this Act; (b) to

direct payment for the preparation of any reports, plans and specifications, and relocation expenses

and other costs such as for furnishings, equipment designing, inspecting and engineering, required in

connection with the implementation of any projects set forth in Section 1 hereof; (c) to direct payment

for the costs of construction, rehabilitation, enlargement, provision of service utilities, and razing of

facilities, and other improvements to land in connection with the implementation of any projects set

forth in Section 1 hereof; and (d) to direct payment for the cost of equipment, supplies, devices,

materials and labor for repair, renovation or conversion of systems and structures as necessary for the

2020 capital development program bonds or notes hereunder from the proceeds thereof. No funds

shall be expended in excess of the amount of the capital development bond fund designated for each

project authorized in Section 1 hereof. With respect to the bonds and temporary notes described in

Section 1, the proceeds shall be used for the following purposes:

     Question 1, relating to bonds in the amount of one hundred seventeen million three hundred

thousand dollars ($117,300,000) to provide funding for higher education facilities to be allocated as

follows:

      (a) University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center

$57,300,000

Provides fifty-seven million three hundred thousand dollars ($57,300,000) to fund repairs

and construct a new facility on the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus in support of the

educational needs for the musical, theatrical, visual, and graphic arts disciplines.

(b) Rhode Island College Clarke Science Building Renovation $38,000,000

Provides thirty eight million dollars ($38,000,000) to reconstruct Clarke Science Building on

the campus of Rhode Island College. This project will improve the science and technology

laboratories and facilities that support high-demand degree programs critical to the college’s mission

of statewide workforce development.

      (c) Community College of Rhode Island Renovation and Modernization

$12,000,000

     Provides twelve million dollars ($12,000,000) to fund restoration and enhancement of

academic and student support spaces and other infrastructure on the four campuses of the Community

College of Rhode Island (CCRI).  Funds will go towards modernizing and renovating facilities,

addressing repairs, improving safety and energy efficiency, and replacing outdated technology and

equipment used for teaching and learning.  

      (d) Center for Ocean Innovation $10,000,000

     Provides ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the development of a Center for Ocean

Innovation in collaboration with the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, promoting cutting edge

education, research and innovation, solidifying Rhode Island’s leadership in the Blue Economy. The

funds will support the construction, renovation, attaining and securing of facilities/spaces as well as

investment in infrastructure and equipment to support the education and the creation, incubation,

exploration, testing, prototyping, piloting, and deployment of undersea and other maritime

technologies to create a “Smart Bay”.

Question 2, relating to bonds in the amount of exceed sixty-four million dollars

($64,000,000) for environmental and recreational purposes, to be allocated as follows:

(a) State Beaches, Parks, and Campgrounds $35,00,000

Provides thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) for major capital improvements to state

beaches, parks, and campgrounds, including the design, development, expansion, and renovation of

new and existing facilities. Improvements may include a new facility at Goddard Park beach;

upgraded facilities including new bathrooms at Roger Wheeler State beach, Scarborough State beach,

Misquamicut State beach, and Brenton Point; and campground improvements including new

bathrooms facilities and utility upgrades.

(b) Local Recreation Projects $4,000,000

Provides four million dollars ($4,000,000) for up to eighty percent (80%) matching grants

for municipalities to acquire, develop, or rehabilitate local recreational facilities to meet the growing

needs for active outdoor recreational facilities.

(c) Natural and Working Lands

$3,000,000

Provides three million dollars ($3,000,000) to protect working forest and farm lands

throughout Rhode Island including through the purchase of forest conservation easements, the

purchase of development rights by the Agricultural Lands Preservation Commission, and the State

Farmland Access Program.

(d) Clean Water and Drinking Water $15,000,000

Provides fifteen million ($15,000,000) for clean water and drinking water infrastructure

improvements. Clean water projects include wastewater collection and treatment upgrades,

stormwater resilience improvements, combined sewer overflow initiatives, water pollution control,

and other water quality protection activities. Drinking water projects include construction of and

improvements to water supply, treatment, and distribution infrastructure.

     (e) Municipal Resiliency Projects $7,000,000

Provides seven million dollars ($7,000,000) for up to seventy-five percent (75%) matching

grants to municipalities for restoring and/or improving resiliency of infrastructure, vulnerable coastal

habitats, and restoring rivers and stream floodplains. These funds are expected to leverage significant

matching funds to support local programs to improve community resiliency and public safety in the

face of increased flooding, major storm events, and environmental degradation.

Question 3, relating to bonds in the amount of eighty-seven million five hundred thousand

dollars ($87,500,000) for housing, facility improvement, and infrastructure purposes, to be allocated

as follows:

(a) Housing Opportunity $25,000,000

Provides twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) to increase the availability of affordable

housing through the redevelopment of existing structures and new construction.

(b) Port of Davisville Infrastructure at Quonset $20,000,000

Provides twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for infrastructure projects that will support the

continued growth and modernization at the Port of Davisville. This investment will finance the Port

master plan, including construction of a new Pier at Terminal Five, the rehabilitation of Pier One, and

dredging. These projects will position Davisville to accommodate offshore wind project cargo and

logistics staging while continuing to support the Port’s existing businesses.

(c) Industrial Site Development (Site Readiness) $21,500,000

Provides twenty-one million five hundred thousand dollars ($21,500,000) for industrial site

development and economic revitalization. The funds will be allocated competitively to prepare sites

for the development of facilities for purposes related to manufacturing, assembly, distribution, and

other job-producing commercial activities. Funds may also be used for infrastructure, including

municipal infrastructure, to catalyze development.

(d) Early Childhood Care and Education Capital Fund $15,000,000

Provides fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for physical improvements to and

development of early childhood education facilities through the Early Childhood Care and Education

Capital Fund. Quality early childhood education and child care is necessary for a robust economy in

support of parents in the workplace and as foundation to the academic success of Rhode Island’s

children. In 2019, only twenty percent (20%) of the physical space licensed for the State’s four-year-

old population meets the State definition of quality, and there are eighteen (18) cities and towns that

do not have any infant/toddler care options. These funds will support greater access to safe, high-

quality early learning opportunities for Rhode Island children.

(e) Cultural Arts and the Economy Grant Program

Provides funds for 1:1 matching grants to continue the Cultural Arts and the Economy Grant

program administered by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) for capital

improvement, preservation and renovation projects for public and nonprofit artistic, performance

centers and cultural art centers located throughout the State of Rhode Island. Contracts for

construction entered into, on, or after November 6, 2014 shall be in compliance with § 37-13-1 et seq.

(prevailing wage); however, contracts entered into prior to November 6, 2014 shall not be subject to

this requirement.

1. Trinity Repertory Company $2,500,000

For the Lederer Theater, in Providence, used for performance facilities, educational

instruction, production and administration.

2. Rhode Island Philharmonic $1,500,000

For the Carter Center for Music Education and Performance in East Providence, used for

music teaching, learning, performance and administration.

3. Other funds to be allocated by RISCA $1,000,000

For 1:1 matching grants to be allocated by RISCA to 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural

organizations which lease or own their performance space, and for RISCA expenses in administering

the program. In awarding such grants RISCA shall consider financial need, the availability or actual

expenditure of matching funds for the projects, available gifts or grants for projects, the amount of

square footage to be improved, the geographical location and characteristics of audiences benefitted.

(f) State Preservation Grants Program $1,000,000

Provides one million dollars ($1,000,000) in funding to cities, towns and nonprofit

organizations to preserve, renovate and improve public and nonprofit historic sites, museums, and

cultural art centers located in historic structures in the State of Rhode Island to be administered by

the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission.

     SECTION 7. Sale of bonds and notes. -- Any bonds or notes issued under the authority of

this Act shall be sold at not less than the principal amount thereof, in such mode and on such terms

and conditions as the General Treasurer, with the approval of the Governor, shall deem to be in the

best interests of the State.

     Any premiums and accrued interest, net of the cost of bond issuance and underwriter’s

discount, which may be received on the sale of the capital development bonds or notes shall become

part of the Municipal Road and Bridge Revolving Fund of the State, unless directed by federal law or

regulation to be used for some other purpose.

     In the event that the amount received from the sale of the capital development bonds or notes

exceeds the amount necessary for the purposes stated in Section 6 hereof, the surplus may be used to

the extent possible to retire the bonds as the same may become due, to redeem them in accordance

with the terms thereof or otherwise to purchase them as the General Treasurer, with the approval of

the Governor, shall deem to be in the best interests of the state.

     Any bonds or notes issued under the provisions of this Act and coupons on any capital

development bonds, if properly executed by the manual or electronic signatures of officers of the

State in office on the date of execution, shall be valid and binding according to their tenor,

notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor, any or all such officers shall

for any reason have ceased to hold office.

     SECTION 8. Bonds and notes to be tax exempt and general obligations of the State. --

All bonds and notes issued under the authority of this Act shall be exempt from taxation in the State

and shall be general obligations of the State, and the full faith and credit of the State is hereby pledged

for the due payment of the principal and interest on each of such bonds and notes as the same shall

become due.

     SECTION 9. Investment of moneys in fund. -- All moneys in the capital development fund

not immediately required for payment pursuant to the provisions of this act may be invested by the

investment commission, as established by Chapter 10 of Title 35, entitled “State Investment

Commission,” pursuant to the provisions of such chapter; provided, however, that the securities in

which the capital development fund is invested shall remain a part of the capital development fund

until exchanged for other securities; and provided further, that the income from investments of the

capital development fund shall become a part of the general fund of the State and shall be applied to

the payment of debt service charges of the State, unless directed by federal law or regulation to be

used for some other purpose, or to the extent necessary, to rebate to the United States treasury any

income from investments (including gains from the disposition of investments) of proceeds of bonds

or notes to the extent deemed necessary to exempt (in whole or in part) the interest paid on such bonds

or notes from federal income taxation.

     SECTION 10. Appropriation. -- To the extent the debt service on these bonds is not

otherwise provided, a sum sufficient to pay the interest and principal due each year on bonds and

notes hereunder is hereby annually appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise

appropriated.

     SECTION 11. Advances from general fund. -- The General Treasurer is authorized, with

the approval of the Director and the Governor, in anticipation of the issue of notes or bonds under the

authority of this Act, to advance to the capital development bond fund for the purposes specified in

Section 6 hereof, any funds of the State not specifically held for any particular purpose; provided,

however, that all advances made to the capital development bond fund shall be returned to the general

fund from the capital development bond fund forthwith upon the receipt by the capital development

fund of proceeds resulting from the issue of notes or bonds to the extent of such advances.

     SECTION 12. Federal assistance and private funds. -- In carrying out this act, the

Director, or his or her designee, is authorized on behalf of the State, with the approval of the Governor,

to apply for and accept any federal assistance which may become available for the purpose of this

Act, whether in the form of loan or grant or otherwise, to accept the provision of any federal legislation

therefor, to enter into, act and carry out contracts in connection therewith, to act as agent for the

federal government in connection therewith, or to designate a subordinate so to act. Where federal

assistance is made available, the project shall be carried out in accordance with applicable federal

law, the rules and regulations thereunder and the contract or contracts providing for federal assistance,

notwithstanding any contrary provisions of State law. Subject to the foregoing, any federal funds

received for the purposes of this Act shall be deposited in the capital development bond fund and

expended as a part thereof. The Director or his or her designee may also utilize any private funds that

may be made available for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 13. Effective Date. -- Sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 12 and this Section 13 of this article

shall take effect upon passage. The remaining sections of this article shall take effect when and if the

State Board of Elections shall certify to the Secretary of State that a majority of the qualified electors

voting on the proposition contained in Section 1 hereof have indicated their approval of all or any

projects thereunder.