Amendment
Bill No. HB 7149
Amendment No. 495967
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Kiar offered the following:
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3     Amendment to Amendment (069089) (with title amendment)
4     Remove lines 103-114 and insert:
5     Section 5.  Subsection (1) of section 101.6103, Florida
6Statutes, is amended to read:
7     101.6103  Mail ballot election procedure.--
8     (1)  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (7), the
9supervisor of elections shall mail all official ballots with a
10secrecy envelope, a return mailing envelope, and instructions
11sufficient to describe the voting process to each elector
12entitled to vote in the election not sooner than the 20th day
13before the election and not later than the 10th day before the
14date of the election. All such ballots shall be mailed by first-
15class mail. The return mailing envelope must include a postage
16paid indicia paid by the supervisor. Ballots shall be addressed
17to each elector at the address appearing in the registration
18records and placed in an envelope which is prominently marked
19"Do Not Forward."
20     Section 6.  Subsection (2) of section 101.64, Florida
21Statutes, is amended, and subsection (5) is added to that
22section, to read:
23     101.64  Delivery of absentee ballots; envelopes; form.--
24     (2)  The certificate shall be arranged on the back of the
25mailing envelope so that the line for the signature of the
26absent elector is across the seal of the envelope; however, no
27statement shall appear on the envelope which indicates that a
28signature of the voter must cross the seal of the envelope. The
29absent elector shall execute the certificate on the envelope.
30The supervisor may not place on the mailing envelope any
31information indicating the voter's party affiliation or no-
32party-affiliation status.
33     (5)  The mailing envelope for each absentee ballot must
34include a postage paid indicia paid by the supervisor.
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T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T
38     Remove lines 320-322 and insert:
39petition form; amending s. 101.6103, F.S.; requiring
40return mailing envelopes for mail ballots to include a
41postage paid indicia paid by the supervisor; amending s.
42101.64, F.S.; prohibiting a supervisor from placing
43certain information on a mailing envelope containing an
44absentee ballot; requiring mailing envelopes for absentee
45ballots to include a postage paid indicia paid by the
46supervisor; amending s.


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