Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1794
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: OO            .                                
                  01/29/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Rodriguez) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Between lines 92 and 93
    4  insert:
    5         (7)(a) A sponsor that collects petition forms or uses a
    6  petition circulator to collect petition forms serves as a notary
    7  fiduciary to the elector signing the petition form, ensuring
    8  that any petition form entrusted to the petition circulator
    9  shall be promptly delivered to the supervisor of elections
   10  within 30 days after the elector signs the form. If a petition
   11  form collected by any petition circulator is not promptly
   12  delivered to the supervisor of elections, the sponsor is liable
   13  for the following fines:
   14         1. A fine in the amount of $50 for each petition form
   15  received by the supervisor of elections more than 30 days after
   16  the elector signed the petition form or the next business day,
   17  if the office is closed. A fine in the amount of $250 for each
   18  petition form received if the sponsor or petition circulator
   19  acted willfully.
   20         2. A fine in the amount of $500 for each petition form
   21  collected by a petition circulator which is not submitted to the
   22  supervisor of elections. A fine in the amount of $1,000 for any
   23  petition form not submitted if the sponsor or petition
   24  circulator acted willfully.
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   26  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   27  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   28         Delete line 68
   29  and insert:
   30         Section 2. Subsections (3) and (6), paragraph (a) of
   31  subsection (7), and subsections (11) and (13) of section
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   33  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   34  And the title is amended as follows:
   35         Between lines 13 and 14
   36  insert:
   37         specifying that an initiative sponsor serves as a
   38         notary to an elector signing a petition form;