Bill Amendment: FL S1256 | 2024 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Voter Registration Applications

Status: 2024-03-06 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 135 [S1256 Detail]

Download: Florida-2024-S1256-Senate_Committee_Amendment_949112.html

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       Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1256
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Martin) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 30 - 128
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (5) of section
    6  97.053, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         97.053 Acceptance of voter registration applications.—
    8         (5)
    9         (b) An applicant who fails to designate party affiliation
   10  must be registered without party affiliation, except that the
   11  party affiliation of an applicant who is updating a voter
   12  registration record may not be changed unless the applicant
   13  designates and consents in writing to a change in party
   14  affiliation. The supervisor must notify the voter by mail that
   15  the voter has been registered without party affiliation and that
   16  the voter may change party affiliation as provided in s.
   17  97.1031.
   18         Section 2. Subsections (2) and (6) of section 97.057,
   19  Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsection (14) is added to
   20  that section, to read:
   21         97.057 Voter registration by the Department of Highway
   22  Safety and Motor Vehicles.—
   23         (2) The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
   24  shall:
   25         (a) Notify each individual, orally or in writing, that:
   26         1. Information gathered for the completion of a driver
   27  license or identification card application, renewal, or change
   28  of address can be automatically transferred to a voter
   29  registration application;
   30         2. If additional information and a signature are provided,
   31  the voter registration application will be completed and sent to
   32  the proper election authority;
   33         3. Information provided can also be used to update a voter
   34  registration record, except that party affiliation will not be
   35  changed unless the individual designates a change in party
   36  affiliation and separately consents to such change in writing;
   37         4. All declinations will remain confidential and may be
   38  used only for voter registration purposes; and
   39         5. The particular driver license office in which the person
   40  applies to register to vote or updates a voter registration
   41  record will remain confidential and may be used only for voter
   42  registration purposes.
   43         (b) Require a driver license examiner to inquire orally or,
   44  if the applicant is hearing impaired, inquire in writing whether
   45  the applicant wishes to register to vote or update a voter
   46  registration record during the completion of a driver license or
   47  identification card application, renewal, or change of address.
   48         1. If the applicant chooses to register to vote or to
   49  update a voter registration record:
   50         a. All applicable information received by the Department of
   51  Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in the course of filling out
   52  the forms necessary under subsection (1) must be transferred to
   53  a voter registration application.
   54         b. The additional necessary information must be obtained by
   55  the driver license examiner and must not duplicate any
   56  information already obtained while completing the forms required
   57  under subsection (1).
   58         c. A voter registration application with all of the
   59  applicant’s voter registration information required to establish
   60  the applicant’s eligibility pursuant to s. 97.041 must be
   61  presented to the applicant to review and verify the voter
   62  registration information received and provide an electronic
   63  signature affirming the accuracy of the information provided.
   64         d. The voter registration application may not be used to
   65  change the party affiliation of the applicant unless the
   66  applicant designates a change in party affiliation and provides
   67  a separate signature consenting to the party affiliation change.
   68         e. After verifying the voter registration information and
   69  providing his or her electronic signature, the applicant must be
   70  provided with a printed receipt that includes such information
   71  and documents any change in party affiliation.
   72         2. If the applicant declines to register to vote, update
   73  the applicant’s voter registration record, or change the
   74  applicant’s address by either orally declining or by failing to
   75  sign the voter registration application, the Department of
   76  Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles must note such declination on
   77  its records and shall forward the declination to the statewide
   78  voter registration system.
   79         (6) A person providing voter registration services for a
   80  driver license office may not:
   81         (a) Make any change to an applicant’s party affiliation
   82  unless the applicant provides a separate signature
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   84  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   85  And the title is amended as follows:
   86         Delete lines 3 - 12
   87  and insert:
   88         amending s. 97.053, F.S.; providing an exception to a
   89         requirement that certain voter registration applicants
   90         must be registered without party affiliation; amending
   91         s. 97.057, F.S.; requiring the Department of Highway
   92         Safety and Motor Vehicles to notify certain
   93         individuals of certain information;