The Florida Senate

SB 2156: Campaign Financing

GENERAL BILL by Dockery

Campaign Financing; allows unopposed legislative candidates to transfer surplus campaign funds to or retain such funds in campaign account for reelection to same office; establishes limits on transferable amount of such funds. Amends 106.141.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  2/16/2006	Senate	• Filed
  3/3/2006	Senate	• Referred to Ethics and Elections; Rules and Calendar
  3/7/2006	Senate	• Introduced, referred to Ethics and Elections; Rules and Calendar -SJ 00170
  3/23/2006	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 03/28/06, 9:30 am, 412-K --Temporarily postponed
  3/30/2006	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 04/04/06, 1:15 pm, 412-K
  4/4/2006	Senate	• Favorable with 1 amendment(s) by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 3 NAYS 2 -SJ 00397
  4/5/2006	Senate	• Now in Rules and Calendar -SJ 00397
  5/5/2006	Senate	• Died in Committee on Rules and Calendar

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• SB 2156, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 2/16/2006 at 2:41 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Ethics and Elections (Post-Meeting) 3/29/2006 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  H 1037 (e2)	Campaign Financing	Rivera	Compare	Last Action: 5/5/2006 S Died in Messages, Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to CS/CS/SB 716 (Ch. 2006-300) Location:

  Committee Amendments (1)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  140380 - Amendment	Ethics and Elections (Sebesta)	4/3/2006 8:28 PM	Favorable 4/4/2006	Web Page PDF

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  4/4/2006 1:15 PM	Ethics and Elections	3 Yeas - 2 Nays

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  106.141	Disposition of surplus funds by candidates.

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