Florida Senate Bill 516 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Rules Subcommittee on Ethics and Elections
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Expanding the list of available sites at which early voting may be held to include specified facilities or any other location designated by a supervisor of elections as meeting the requirements of state law; deleting a requirement that an early voting site be designated and used as such for at least 1 year before an election; requiring that each county operate a certain total number of voting sites; revising the beginning and ending dates of early voting; revising the hours of early voting to 12 hours per weekday and 12 hours in the aggregate each weekend at each site during the applicable periods; deleting provisions that authorize the supervisor of elections to provide early voting for certain elections and to determine the hours of operation of early voting sites in those elections, etc.

Early Voting

Sen. Nan Rich [D]

Sen. Maria Sachs [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Rules Subcommittee on Ethics and Elections
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 46
2011-11-02		Referred to Rules Subcommittee on Ethics and Elections; Rules -SJ 46
2011-10-12		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
101	657		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/516
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0516/BillText/Filed/HTML