Section 7. Substantive Powers of the Convention; Limitations; Mandatory Duties of the Convention.--(a) Except as hereinafter provided in subsection (b), the constitutional convention shall have the power by a vote of a majority of the one hundred sixty-three to make recommendations to the electorate on the following subjects only (i) Legislative Apportionment (now covered by sections 16, 17 and 18 of Article II of the Constitution), (ii) Judicial Administration, Organization, Selection and Tenure (now covered in part by Article V of the Constitution), (iii) Local Government (now covered by Articles XIII, XIV and XV, and part of Article IX of the Constitution), (iv) Taxation and State Finance (now covered by part of Article IX of the Constitution) and (v) any amendment proposed but not approved at the May 1967 primary.
(b) The convention shall not consider or include in its recommendations any proposal which clearly permits or prohibits the imposition of a graduated income tax by the Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions nor shall that part of Article IX, Section 1 of the Constitution providing that: "All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general law . . ." be modified, altered or changed in any respect whatsoever, nor to Article IX, Section 18 relating to the Motor License Fund.
(c) In dealing with the subject matter as prescribed by this section, the convention may recommend the transfer to another article of any provision contained in those articles, or it may recommend its modification, deletion, repeal, the substitution of an entirely new provision or its continuation without change.
(d) The convention shall make its recommendations regarding legislative apportionment as a replacement for the existing sections 16, 17 and 18 of Article II of the Constitution, and shall arrange its recommendations on the other subjects assigned to it in separate articles.
(e) The convention's recommendations on any of the articles shall not be numbered. If approved by the electors these articles shall be numbered by the Governor as provided in Act No. 180 approved the 17th day of August 1965.