HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/HB 1925
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CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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11 Representative(s) Goodlette offered the following:
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13 Amendment (with title amendment)
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15 remove from the bill: all of said lines
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17 and insert in lieu thereof: candidates more responsive to the
18 voters of the State of Florida and as insulated as possible
19 from special interest groups. The Legislature intends ss.
20 106.30-106.36 to alleviate these factors, dispel the
21 misperception, and encourage qualified persons to seek
22 statewide elective office who would not, or could not
23 otherwise do so and to protect the effective competition by a
24 candidate who uses public funding.
25 Section 47. Section 106.33, Florida Statutes, is
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27 106.33 Election campaign financing; eligibility.--Each
28 candidate for the office of Governor or member of the Cabinet
29 who desires to receive contributions from the Election
30 Campaign Financing Trust Fund shall, upon qualifying for
31 office, file a request for such contributions with the filing
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1 officer on forms provided by the Division of Elections. If a
2 candidate requesting contributions from the fund desires to
3 have such funds distributed by electronic fund transfers, the
4 request shall include information necessary to implement that
5 procedure. For the purposes of ss. 106.30-106.36, candidates
6 for Governor and Lieutenant Governor on the same ticket shall
7 be considered as a single candidate. To be eligible to
8 receive contributions from the fund, a candidate may shall not
9 be an unopposed candidate as defined in s. 106.011(15) and
10 must shall:
11 (1) Agree to abide by the expenditure limits provided
12 in s. 106.34.
13 (2)(a) Raise contributions as follows:
14 1.(a) One hundred fifty thousand dollars for a
15 candidate for Governor.
16 2.(b) One hundred thousand dollars for a candidate for
17 Cabinet office.
18 (b) The following may not be used to meet the
19 threshold amounts in paragraph (a):
20 1. Loans or contributions from the candidate's
21 personal funds;
22 2. Contributions from national, state, and county
23 executive committees of a political party; or
24 3. Contributions from individuals who at the time of
25 contributing are not state residents. For purposes of this
26 subparagraph, any person validly registered to vote in this
27 state shall be considered a state resident.
28 (3) Limit loans or contributions from the candidate's
29 personal funds to $25,000 and contributions from national,
30 state, and county executive committees of a political party to
31 $25,000 in the aggregate, which loans or contributions shall
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1 not qualify for meeting the threshold amounts in subsection
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3 (4) Submit to a postelection audit of the campaign
4 account by the division.
5 Section 48. Subsection (2) of section 106.35, Florida
6 Statutes, is amended to read:
7 106.35 Distribution of funds.--
8 (2)(a) Each candidate who has been certified to
9 receive contributions from the Election Campaign Financing
10 Trust Fund shall be entitled to distribution of funds as
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12 1. For qualifying matching contributions making up all
13 or any portion of the threshold amounts specified in s.
14 106.33(2), distribution shall be on a two-to-one basis.
15 2. For all other qualifying matching contributions,
16 distribution shall be on a one-to-one basis.
17 (b) Qualifying matching contributions are those of
18 $250 or less from an individual, made after September 1 of the
19 calendar year prior to the election. Any contribution that is
20 a loan, is an in-kind contribution, is received from a
21 political committee or committee of continuous existence, or
22 is received from an individual who is not a state resident at
23 the time the contribution is made shall not be considered a
24 qualifying matching contribution. For purposes of this
25 paragraph, any person validly registered to vote in this state
26 shall be considered a state resident. Aggregate contributions
27 from an individual in excess of $250 will be matched only up
28 to $250. A contribution from an individual, if made by check,
29 must be drawn on the personal bank account of the individual
30 making the contribution, as opposed to any form of business
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1 corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, trust, or other
2 form of business arrangement. For contributions made by check
3 from a personal joint account, the match shall only be for the
4 individual who actually signs the check.
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8 And the title is amended as follows:
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13 election campaign financing; amending s.
14 106.35, F.S.; providing that certain
15 contributions may not be used as qualifying
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