Bill Text: FL S1200 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Voter Registration Maintenance
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-03-14 - Died in Ethics and Elections [S1200 Detail]
Download: Florida-2020-S1200-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2020 SB 1200
By Senator Gruters
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to voter registration maintenance;
3 amending s. 98.065, F.S.; requiring supervisors of
4 elections to enter into agreements with clerks of the
5 circuit courts to receive specified information;
6 requiring supervisors of elections to compare the
7 information with the statewide voter registration
8 system; amending s. 98.093, F.S.; requiring the
9 Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to
10 furnish monthly to the Department of State a list of
11 persons who identified themselves as aliens; requiring
12 the Department of State to compare the list with the
13 statewide voter registration system and provide the
14 names of registered voters who are aliens to the
15 supervisors of elections of the counties in which the
16 voters are registered; providing an effective date.
17
18 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
19
20 Section 1. Present paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of
21 subsection (4) of section 98.065, Florida Statutes, are
22 redesignated as paragraphs (b), (c), and (d), respectively, and
23 a new paragraph (a) is added to that subsection, to read:
24 98.065 Registration list maintenance programs.—
25 (4)(a) The supervisor shall enter into an agreement with
26 the local clerk of the circuit court to receive monthly from the
27 clerk change-of-address information and a list of potential
28 jurors who identified themselves as aliens, as defined in s.
29 327.02(2), during the preceding calendar month. Each list must
30 include the name, address, date of birth, sex, and either the
31 Florida driver license number or Florida identification card
32 number, whichever is available, of each such person. The
33 supervisor shall compare all of the information included in the
34 list each month with the statewide voter registration system.
35 Section 2. Paragraph (h) is added to subsection (2) of
36 section 98.093, Florida Statutes, to read:
37 98.093 Duty of officials to furnish information relating to
38 deceased persons, persons adjudicated mentally incapacitated,
39 and persons convicted of a felony, and persons identified as
40 aliens.—
41 (2) To the maximum extent feasible, state and local
42 government agencies shall facilitate provision of information
43 and access to data to the department, including, but not limited
44 to, databases that contain reliable criminal records and records
45 of deceased persons. State and local government agencies that
46 provide such data shall do so without charge if the direct cost
47 incurred by those agencies is not significant.
48 (h) The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
49 shall furnish monthly to the department a list of persons who
50 identified themselves as aliens, as defined in s. 327.02(2),
51 during the preceding calendar month. Each list must include the
52 name, address, date of birth, sex, and either the Florida driver
53 license number or Florida identification card number, whichever
54 is available, of each such person. The department shall compare
55 all of the information included in the list each month with the
56 statewide voter registration system and, if the department
57 determines that a registered voter is an alien, provide the name
58 of that voter to the supervisor of elections of the county in
59 which the voter is registered.
60 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
