Senate Bill 2356

    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 2356

    By Senator Dawson





    30-948-00

  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 July 1, 2000.

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21                          SENATE SUMMARY

22    Changes the date of the presidential preference primary
      from the second Tuesday in March to the first Tuesday in
23    March.

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