Bill Text: FL H0075 | 2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Freeholder Voting
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-06 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/SB 116 -HJ 1116 [H0075 Detail]
Download: Florida-2012-H0075-Comm_Sub.html
CS/HB 75 |
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2 | An act relating to freeholder voting; amending s. |
3 | 100.241, F.S.; deleting the current process and |
4 | creating a new process by which an elector may |
5 | establish that he or she is a freeholder and qualified |
6 | to vote in an election or referendum limited to |
7 | freeholders who are qualified to vote; providing an |
8 | effective date. |
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10 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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12 | Section 1. Section 100.241, Florida Statutes, is amended |
13 | to read: |
14 | 100.241 Freeholder voting; election; penalties for |
15 | ineligible persons who vote as freeholders.- |
16 | (1) In any election or referendum in which only electors |
17 | who are freeholders are qualified to vote, the regular |
18 | registration books covering the precincts located within the |
19 | geographical area in which the election or referendum is to be |
20 | held shall be used. |
21 | (2) Qualification and registration of electors |
22 | participating in a freeholder |
23 | subject to this section shall be the same as prescribed for |
24 | voting in other elections under this code, and, in addition, |
25 | each such elector shall submit a written declaration, verified |
26 | pursuant to s. 92.525, affirming |
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28 | elector residing in the county, district, or municipality in |
29 | which the election or referendum is to be held. |
30 | (3) Each registered elector who submits the written |
31 | declaration |
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33 | location of property in the elector's name which is not wholly |
34 | exempt from taxation is |
35 | election or referendum and is |
36 | (4) The actual costs of conducting a freeholder |
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38 | shall be paid by the county, district, or municipality requiring |
39 | the election or referendum |
40 | (5) A |
41 | county, district, or other election or referendum which is |
42 | limited to a vote of the electors who are freeholders, unless |
43 | the |
44 | person who violates |
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46 | provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. |
47 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012. |
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