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House Bill 0217




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                 HB 217

        By Representative Putnam






  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.  For the purpose of

26  this subsection, "state agency" means any official, officer,

27  commission, authority, council, committee, department,

28  division, bureau, board, section, or other unit or entity of

29  the executive branch of state government or adjunct or

30  advisory thereto or any other unit of government that receives

31  the majority of its funding from the state.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                 HB 217

    584-100-97






  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1997.

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  4                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Prohibits any state agency and its subdivisions and
  6    adjunct or advisory bodies, and any other unit of
      government that receives the majority of its funding from
  7    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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