The Florida Senate

HB 1537: Voting Rights

GENERAL BILL by Braynon ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Bullard

Voting Rights; Requires release of certain clemency investigation records; authorizes public access to certain data; requires Division of Elections to provide voter registration information before felon's release; requires assistance in completing forms; provides that knowledge that person's civil rights have been restored is considered request to have name placed into statewide voter registration system, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  3/7/2008	House	• Filed; Introduced -HJ 00211
  3/11/2008	House	• Referred to Economic Expansion & Infrastructure Council; Policy & Budget Council -HJ 00227
  3/12/2008	House	• Referred to Ethics & Elections (EEI) by Economic Expansion & Infrastructure Council -HJ 00281
  5/2/2008	House	• Died in Committee on Ethics & Elections (EEI)

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• HB 1537, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 3/7/2008 at 10:58 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  S 2240	Voting Rights [LPCC]	Hill	Identical	Last Action: 5/2/2008 S Died in Committee on Ethics and Elections Location:

  Citations - Statutes (11)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  14.28	Executive clemency.
  97.017
  98.045	Administration of voter registration.
  98.065	Registration list maintenance programs.
  98.0755	Appeal of determination of ineligibility.
  98.081	Names removed from the statewide voter registration system; restrictions on reregistering; recordkeeping; restoration of erroneously or illegally removed names.
  98.093	Duty of officials to furnish lists of deceased persons, persons adjudicated mentally incapacitated, and persons convicted of a felony.
  104.051	Violations; neglect of duty; corrupt practices.
  940.066
  940.09
  945.10	Confidential information.

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