Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2176
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11  The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Productivity
12  (Margolis) recommended the following amendment to amendment
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15         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
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17            page 74, line 2, delete those lines
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20         Section 39.  Subsection (2) of section 106.23, Florida
21  Statutes, is amended to read:
22         106.23  Powers of the Division of Elections.--
23         (2)  The Division of Elections shall provide advisory
24  opinions when requested by any supervisor of elections,
25  candidate, local officer having election-related duties,
26  political party, political committee, committee of continuous
27  existence, or other person or organization engaged in
28  political activity, relating to any provisions or possible
29  violations of Florida election laws with respect to actions
30  such supervisor, candidate, local officer having
31  election-related duties, political party, committee, person,
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2176
                        Barcode 865958
 1  or organization has taken or proposes to take. Requests for
 2  advisory opinions must be submitted in accordance with rules
 3  adopted by the Department of State. A written record of all
 4  such opinions issued by the division, sequentially numbered,
 5  dated, and indexed by subject matter, shall be retained.  A
 6  copy shall be sent to said person or organization upon
 7  request. Any such person or organization, acting in good faith
 8  upon such an advisory opinion, shall not be subject to any
 9  criminal penalty provided for in this chapter. The opinion,
10  until amended or revoked, shall be binding on any person or
11  organization who sought the opinion or with reference to whom
12  the opinion was sought, unless material facts were omitted or
13  misstated in the request for the advisory opinion.
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17  And the title is amended as follows:
18         On page 79, line 31, after the first semicolon,
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21         deleting a provision that requires the Division
22         of Elections to retain copies of its advisory
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