Florida House Bill 227 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 14-1)
Status: Engrossed on April 21 2011 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2011-05-02 - Ordered enrolled -HJ 1162
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Authorizes absent uniformed services voters & overseas voters to use federal write-in absentee ballot to vote in any federal & certain state or local elections, under certain circumstances; prescribes requirements for designating candidate choices; provides for disposition of valid votes involving joint candidacies; allows for abbreviations, misspellings, & other minor variations in name of office, candidate, or political party; authorizes submission of multiple ballots under certain circumstances, etc.

Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot

Rep. Janet Adkins [R]	Rep. Larry Ahern [R]	Sen. Frank Artiles [R]	Sen. Dennis Baxley [R]
Sen. Jeffrey Brandes [R]	Rep. Richard Corcoran [R]	Rep. Clay Ford [R]	House Government Operations Subcommittee
Rep. Mike Horner [R]	Rep. Larry Metz [R]	Rep. Scott Plakon [R]	Rep. Ronald Renuart [R]
Rep. Jimmie Smith [R]	Sen. Greg Steube [R]	Rep. Charles Van Zant [R]

2011-04-29 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RCS#5 (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2011-04-20 - House - House: Third Reading RCS#253 (Y: 116 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-02		Ordered enrolled -HJ 1162
2011-04-29		Withdrawn from Rules Subcommittee on Ethics and Elections; Rules; Budget -SJ 585
2011-04-28		Received -SJ 572
2011-04-27		Referred to Rules Subcommittee on Ethics and Elections; Rules; Budget -SJ 572
2011-04-21		In Messages
2011-04-20		Read 2nd time -HJ 714
2011-04-18		Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/20/11
2011-04-07		Favorable by- State Affairs Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 -HJ 589
2011-04-05		On Committee agenda-- State Affairs Committee, 04/07/11, 8:00 am, Morris Hall
2011-03-28		Now in State Affairs Committee -HJ 338
2011-03-25		Pending review of CS under Rule 7.19(c)
2011-03-23		CS by Government Operations Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 -HJ 325
2011-03-21		On Committee agenda-- Government Operations Subcommittee, 03/23/11, 8:00 am, 306 HOB
2011-03-08		Introduced -HJ 25
2011-02-01		Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee -HJ 25
2011-01-18		Filed

S0378 () 2011-04-29 - Read 2nd time -SJ 585

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
101	5614		Amended Code	See Bill Text
101	6952		Amended Code	See Bill Text
102	166		Amended Code	See Bill Text
104	18		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/227
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/0227/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/0227/BillText/c1/HTML
Roll Call	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/0227/FloorVotes/3LDBeit7UwqUXlZbzqc9DifP1Ts=|7/Public/Votes/Bill/20110420/HouseVote_h0227c1253.PDF
Roll Call	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/0227/FloorVotes/a4K0fzgEV6rVYjgrJQDEnI68W=PL=8=|7/Public/Votes/Bill/20110429/SenateVote_h0227c1005.PDF