Bill Amendment: FL H7013 | 2013 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Elections

Status: 2013-05-21 - Chapter No. 2013-57 [H7013 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-H7013-Senate_Floor_Amendment_977492_to_Amendment_301346.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for HB 7013
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Joyner moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (301346) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 61 and 62
    5  insert:
    6         Section 5. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) of
    7  section 101.045, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    8         101.045 Electors must be registered in precinct; provisions
    9  for change of residence or name.—
   10         (2)(a) An elector who moves from the precinct in which the
   11  elector is registered may be permitted to vote in the precinct
   12  to which he or she has moved his or her legal residence, if the
   13  change of residence is within the same county or the precinct to
   14  which the elector has moved his or her legal residence is within
   15  a county that uses an electronic database as a precinct register
   16  at the polling place, and the elector completes an affirmation
   17  in substantially the following form:
   18  
   19               Change of Legal Residence of Registered             
   20                                Voter                              
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   22  Under penalties for false swearing, I, ...(Name of voter)...,
   23  swear (or affirm) that the former address of my legal residence
   24  was ...(Address of legal residence)... in the municipality of
   25  ...., in .... County, Florida, and I was registered to vote in
   26  the .... precinct of .... County, Florida; that I have not voted
   27  in the precinct of my former registration in this election; that
   28  I now reside at ...(Address of legal residence)... in the
   29  Municipality of ...., in .... County, Florida, and am therefore
   30  eligible to vote in the .... precinct of .... County, Florida;
   31  and I further swear (or affirm) that I am otherwise legally
   32  registered and entitled to vote.
   33  
   34  ...(Signature of voter whose address of legal residence has
   35  changed)...
   36  
   37         (b) Except for an active uniformed services voter or a
   38  member of his or her family and except for an elector who has
   39  moved his or her legal residence to a precinct within a county
   40  that uses an electronic database as a precinct register at the
   41  polling place, an elector whose change of address is from
   42  outside the county may not change his or her legal residence at
   43  the polling place and must vote a provisional regular ballot;
   44  however, such elector is entitled to vote a provisional ballot.
   45  
   46  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   47         And the title is amended as follows:
   48         Delete line 1171
   49  and insert:
   50         amending s. 101.045, F.S.; authorizing an elector to
   51         vote at the polling place in the precinct to which he
   52         or she has moved if such county uses an electronic
   53         database as a precinct register; amending s. 101.051,
   54         F.S.; revising restrictions