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Senate Bill 0132
    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 132

    By Senator Crist





    20-91-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to elections; amending s.

  3         106.17, F.S.; prohibiting state agencies and

  4         certain other governmental entities from

  5         soliciting pledges or authorizing or conducting

  6         polls or surveys relating to candidacies for

  7         public office; providing an effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Section 106.17, Florida Statutes, is

12  amended to read:

13         106.17  Polls and surveys relating to candidacies;

14  prohibitions.--

15         (1)  Any candidate, political committee, or state or

16  county executive committee of a political party may authorize

17  or conduct a political poll, survey, index, or measurement of

18  any kind relating to candidacy for public office so long as

19  the candidate, political committee, or political party

20  maintains complete jurisdiction over the poll in all its

21  aspects.

22         (2)  A state agency may not solicit any pledge or

23  authorize or conduct any political poll, survey, index, or

24  measurement of any kind for the purpose of evaluating or

25  rating any candidate for public office.  As used in this

26  subsection, the term "state agency" means any official,

27  officer, commission, authority, council, committee,

28  department, division, bureau, board, section, or other unit or

29  entity of the executive branch of state government or adjunct

30  or advisory thereto or any other unit of government which

31  receives the majority of its funding from the state.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 132
    20-91-98




  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1998.

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      Prohibits state agencies and their subdivisions and
  6    adjunct or advisory bodies, and any other units of
      government which receive the majority of their funding
  7    from the state, from soliciting any pledge or authorizing
      or conducting any political poll, survey, index, or
  8    measurement of any kind for the purpose of evaluating or
      rating any candidate for public office.
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