The Florida Senate

HB 1189: Presidential Preference Primary Elections

GENERAL BILL by Kriseman ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Fitzgerald ; Jenne ; Long ; Planas

Presidential Preference Primary Elections; Permits voter with no party affiliation to vote in either Republican or Democratic presidential preference primary; specifies ballot criteria; provides that if party has only one candidate then that candidate shall not be on ballot; authorizes each contested Republican or Democratic presidential preference primary to be treated as universal primary contest for purposes of tabulating & reporting results.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  2/27/2008	House	• Filed
  3/2/2008	House	• Referred to Economic Expansion & Infrastructure Council
  3/3/2008	House	• Referred to Ethics & Elections (EEI) by Economic Expansion & Infrastructure Council
  3/4/2008	House	• Introduced, referred to Economic Expansion & Infrastructure Council -HJ 00095; Referred to Ethics & Elections (EEI) by Economic Expansion & Infrastructure Council -HJ 00137
  5/2/2008	House	• Died in Committee on Ethics & Elections (EEI)

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• HB 1189, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 2/27/2008 at 1:17 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  S 2726	Presidential Preference Primary Elections [LPCC]	Dockery	Identical	Last Action: 4/16/2008 S Unfavorable by Judiciary, laid on Table; YEAS 3 NAYS 5 -SJ 00686 Location:

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  103.101	Presidential preference primary.

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