Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1504
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/30/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Flores) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 162 - 176
    4  and insert:
    5         (d) Any action for a judicial determination that the ballot
    6  title or ballot summary embodied in a joint resolution is
    7  inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise defective must be commenced
    8  within 30 days after the joint resolution is filed with the
    9  Secretary of State or at least 150 days before the election at
   10  which the amendment will appear on the ballot, whichever occurs
   11  later. The court, including any appellate court, shall accord
   12  the case priority over other pending cases and render a decision
   13  as expeditiously as possible. If the court determines that the
   14  ballot title or ballot summary embodied in the joint resolution
   15  is defective and further appeals are declined, abandoned, or
   16  exhausted, the Attorney General shall promptly prepare a revised
   17  ballot title and ballot summary to correct the deficiencies
   18  identified by the court, and the Department of State shall
   19  furnish a designating number and the revised ballot title and
   20  ballot summary to the supervisors of elections for placement on
   21  the ballot. The court shall have continuing jurisdiction to
   22  correct any revisions by the Attorney General which are alleged
   23  to be inaccurate, misleading, or defective. A defect in the
   24  ballot title or ballot summary embodied in the joint resolution
   25  is not grounds to remove the proposed amendment from the ballot.
   26  The ballot title shall consist of a caption, not
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   29         And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete lines 25 - 33
   31  and insert:
   32         specifying a deadline to commence a legal challenge to
   33         an amendment proposed by the Legislature to the State
   34         Constitution; requiring the Attorney General to revise
   35         the wording of the ballot title and ballot summary for
   36         an amendment to the State Constitution proposed by the
   37         Legislature if the wording is found by a court to be
   38         inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise defective and the
   39         decision of the court is not reversed; requiring the
   40         Department of State to furnish a designating number
   41         and the revised ballot title and ballot summary to the
   42         supervisors of elections for placement on the ballot;
   43         providing that a defect in a ballot title or ballot
   44         summary embodied in the joint resolution is not
   45         grounds to remove the proposed amendment from the
   46         ballot; making technical and grammatical changes;
   47         amending s. 104.185, F.S.;