Bill Text: FL S0226 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Presidential Preference Primary [GPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Ethics and Elections [S0226 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0226-Introduced.html
 
Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 226 
 
By Senator Joyner 
18-00013-10                                            2010226__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to the presidential preference 
3         primary; amending s. 103.101, F.S.; revising dates 
4         relating to the presidential preference primary; 
5         providing an effective date. 
6 
7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
8 
9         Section 1. Subsections (1), (2), (3), and (6) of section 
10  103.101, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 
11         103.101 Presidential preference primary.— 
12         (1) Each political party other than a minor political party 
13  shall, on the first last Tuesday in February January in each 
14  year the number of which is a multiple of 4, elect one person to 
15  be the candidate for nomination of such party for President of 
16  the United States or select delegates to the national nominating 
17  convention, as provided by party rule. 
18         (2)(a) There shall be a Presidential Candidate Selection 
19  Committee composed of the Secretary of State, who shall be a 
20  nonvoting chair; the Speaker of the House of Representatives; 
21  the President of the Senate; the minority leader of each house 
22  of the Legislature; and the chair of each political party 
23  required to have a presidential preference primary under this 
24  section. 
25         (b) By December October 31 of the year preceding the 
26  Florida presidential preference primary, each political party 
27  shall submit to the Secretary of State a list of its 
28  presidential candidates to be placed on the presidential 
29  preference primary ballot or candidates entitled to have 
30  delegates appear on the presidential preference primary ballot. 
31  The Secretary of State shall prepare and publish a list of the 
32  names of the presidential candidates submitted. The Secretary of 
33  State shall submit such list of names of presidential candidates 
34  to the selection committee on the first Tuesday after the first 
35  Monday in January each November of the year a preceding the 
36  presidential preference primary election is held. Each person 
37  designated as a presidential candidate shall have his or her 
38  name appear, or have his or her delegates’ names appear, on the 
39  presidential preference primary ballot unless all committee 
40  members of the same political party as the candidate agree to 
41  delete such candidate’s name from the ballot. 
42         (c) The selection committee shall meet in Tallahassee on 
43  the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January each 
44  November of the year a preceding the presidential preference 
45  primary is held. The selection committee shall publicly announce 
46  and submit to the Department of State no later than 5 p.m. on 
47  the following day the names of presidential candidates who shall 
48  have their names appear, or who are entitled to have their 
49  delegates’ names appear, on the presidential preference primary 
50  ballot. The Department of State shall immediately notify each 
51  presidential candidate designated by the committee. Such 
52  notification shall be in writing, by registered mail, with 
53  return receipt requested. 
54         (3) A candidate’s name shall be printed on the presidential 
55  preference primary ballot unless the candidate submits to the 
56  Department of State, prior to the second Tuesday after the first 
57  Monday in January November of the year preceding the 
58  presidential preference primary, an affidavit stating that he or 
59  she is not now, and does not presently intend to become, a 
60  candidate for President at the upcoming nominating convention. 
61  If a candidate withdraws pursuant to this subsection, the 
62  Department of State shall notify the state executive committee 
63  that the candidate’s name will not be placed on the ballot. The 
64  Department of State shall, no later than the third Tuesday after 
65  the first Monday in January November of the year preceding the 
66  presidential preference primary, certify to each supervisor of 
67  elections the name of each candidate for political party 
68  nomination to be printed on the ballot. 
69         (6) Delegates must qualify no later than the second Friday 
70  in January November of the year preceding the presidential 
71  preference primary in the manner provided by party rule. 
72         Section 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011. 
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