Florida Senate - 2017                                     SB 726
       
       
        
       By Senator Powell
       
       30-01272-17                                            2017726__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to vote-by-mail ballots; amending s.
    3         101.64, F.S.; authorizing an absent elector to
    4         personally deliver his or her completed vote-by-mail
    5         ballot to an early voting site during specified hours;
    6         requiring the Division of Elections to adopt rules;
    7         providing an effective date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (5) is added to section 101.64,
   12  Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         101.64 Delivery of vote-by-mail ballots; envelopes; form;
   14  early voting sites.—
   15         (5) An absent elector may vote by personally delivering his
   16  or her completed vote-by-mail ballot to an early voting site
   17  during the early voting period hours established under s.
   18  101.657. The Division of Elections of the Department of State
   19  shall adopt uniform rules for the receipt of the ballots.
   20         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.