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Senate Bill 0204
    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 204

    By Senator Brown-Waite





    10-113-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to campaign financing; amending

  3         s. 106.07, F.S.; revising reporting

  4         requirements applicable to candidates for other

  5         than statewide office who qualify with the

  6         Department of State; providing an effective

  7         date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section

12  106.07, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         106.07  Reports; certification and filing.--

14         (2)(a)  All reports required of a candidate by this

15  section shall be filed with the officer before whom the

16  candidate is required by law to qualify.  All candidates who

17  file with the Department of State shall file the original and

18  one copy of their reports.  In addition, a copy of each report

19  for candidates for other than statewide office who qualify

20  with the Department of State shall be furnished to filed with

21  the supervisor of elections for each in the county any portion

22  of which lies within the jurisdiction of the office for which

23  where the candidate seeks election resides.  Reports shall be

24  filed not later than 5 p.m. of the day designated; however,

25  any report postmarked by the United States Postal Service no

26  later than midnight of the day designated shall be deemed to

27  have been filed in a timely manner. A certificate of mailing

28  obtained from and dated by the United States Postal Service at

29  the time of mailing, or a receipt from an established courier

30  company, which bears a date on or before the date on which the

31  report is due, shall be proof of mailing in a timely manner.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 204
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  1  Reports shall contain information of all previously unreported

  2  contributions received and expenditures made as of the

  3  preceding Friday, except that the report filed on the Friday

  4  immediately preceding the election shall contain information

  5  of all previously unreported contributions received and

  6  expenditures made as of the day preceding that designated due

  7  date.  All such reports shall be open to public inspection.

  8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect January 1, 1999.

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12    Requires candidates for other than statewide office who
      qualify with the Department of State to furnish copies of
13    their campaign finance reports to the supervisor of
      elections of each county any portion of which is within
14    the jurisdiction of the office that the candidate seeks.

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