Florida Senate - 2007 PROPOSED COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
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Proposed Committee Substitute by the Committee on Ethics and
Elections
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the presidential preference
3 primary; amending s. 103.101, F.S.; revising
4 the dates relating to the presidential
5 preference primary; providing an effective
6 date.
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8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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10 Section 1. Subsections (1), (2), (3), and (6) of
11 section 103.101, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
12 103.101 Presidential preference primary.--
13 (1) Each political party other than a minor political
14 party shall, on the third second Tuesday in February March in
15 each year the number of which is a multiple of 4, elect one
16 person to be the candidate for nomination of such party for
17 President of the United States or select delegates to the
18 national nominating convention, as provided by party rule.
19 (2) There shall be a Presidential Candidate Selection
20 Committee composed of the Secretary of State, who shall be a
21 nonvoting chair; the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
22 the President of the Senate; the minority leader of each house
23 of the Legislature; and the chair of each political party
24 required to have a presidential preference primary under this
25 section.
26 (a) By October December 31 of the year preceding the
27 Florida presidential preference primary, each political party
28 shall submit to the Secretary of State a list of its
29 presidential candidates to be placed on the presidential
30 preference primary ballot or candidates entitled to have
31 delegates appear on the presidential preference primary
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1 ballot. The Secretary of State shall prepare and publish a
2 list of the names of the presidential candidates submitted.
3 The Secretary of State shall submit such list of names of
4 presidential candidates to the selection committee on the
5 first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of the
6 January each year preceding the a presidential preference
7 primary election is held. Each person designated as a
8 presidential candidate shall have his or her name appear, or
9 have his or her delegates' names appear, on the presidential
10 preference primary ballot unless all committee members of the
11 same political party as the candidate agree to delete such
12 candidate's name from the ballot. The selection committee
13 shall meet in Tallahassee on the first Tuesday after the first
14 Monday in November of the January each year preceding the a
15 presidential preference primary is held. The selection
16 committee shall publicly announce and submit to the Department
17 of State no later than 5 p.m. on the following day the names
18 of presidential candidates who shall have their names appear,
19 or who are entitled to have their delegates' names appear, on
20 the presidential preference primary ballot. The Department of
21 State shall immediately notify each presidential candidate
22 designated by the committee. Such notification shall be in
23 writing, by registered mail, with return receipt requested.
24 (b) Any presidential candidate whose name does not
25 appear on the list submitted to the Secretary of State may
26 request that the selection committee place his or her name on
27 the ballot. Such request shall be made in writing to the
28 Secretary of State no later than the second Tuesday after the
29 first Monday in November of the year preceding the
30 presidential preference primary January.
31 (c) If a presidential candidate makes a request that
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1 the selection committee reconsider placing the candidate's
2 name on the ballot, the selection committee will reconvene no
3 later than the second Thursday after the first Monday in
4 November of the year preceding the presidential preference
5 primary January to reconsider placing the candidate's name on
6 the ballot. The Department of State shall immediately notify
7 such candidate of the selection committee's decision.
8 (3) A candidate's name shall be printed on the
9 presidential preference primary ballot unless the candidate
10 submits to the Department of State, prior to the second
11 Tuesday after the first Monday in November of the year
12 preceding the presidential preference primary January, an
13 affidavit stating that he or she is not now, and does not
14 presently intend to become, a candidate for President at the
15 upcoming nominating convention. If a candidate withdraws
16 pursuant to this subsection, the Department of State shall
17 notify the state executive committee that the candidate's name
18 will not be placed on the ballot. The Department of State
19 shall, no later than the third Tuesday after the first Monday
20 in November of the year preceding the presidential preference
21 primary January, certify to each supervisor of elections the
22 name of each candidate for political party nomination to be
23 printed on the ballot.
24 (6) Delegates must qualify no later than the second
25 Friday in November of the year preceding the presidential
26 preference primary January in the manner provided by party
27 rule.
28 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.
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