House Bill 0819

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                 HB 819

        By Representative Maygarden






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the presidential preference

  3         primary; amending s. 103.101, F.S.; changing

  4         the date of the presidential preference

  5         primary; providing an effective date.

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

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 103.101, Florida

10  Statutes, is amended to read:

11         103.101  Presidential preference primary.--

12         (1)  Each political party other than a minor political

13  party shall, on the first second Tuesday in March in each year

14  the number of which is a multiple of 4, elect one person to be

15  the candidate for nomination of such party for President of

16  the United States or select delegates to the national

17  nominating convention, as provided by party rule.

18         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

19  law.

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22                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Changes the date of the presidential preference primary
24    to the first Tuesday in March in each year the number of
      which is a multiple of 4.
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