HJR 1025 Summary

• Declares the sanctity of life paramount to all other constitutional rights and grants juries sole authority to determine compensation for injuries resulting in death or from acts creating significant risk to life.

• Establishes juries' sole authority to determine compensation amounts for injuries to or deprivation of private property, based on the right to hold and possess property as essential to freedom.

• Permits the General Assembly to enact laws prescribing compensation amounts for employer-provided workers' compensation for employee injuries or death, as an exception to jury authority.

• Prohibits any other laws from limiting the amount recoverable for injuries to persons or property, except for workers' compensation laws.

• Requires a three-fourths vote of state electors at a general election to amend, repeal, or supersede this constitutional provision; effective January 1, 2023.