Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1794
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                 Comm: UNFAV           .                                
                  01/29/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Rodriguez) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (509936) (with directory and
    2  title amendments)
    3  
    4         Between lines 63 and 64
    5  insert:
    6         (7)(a) A sponsor that collects petition forms or uses a
    7  petition circulator to collect petition forms serves as a notary
    8  fiduciary to the elector signing the petition form, ensuring
    9  that any petition form entrusted to the petition circulator
   10  shall be promptly delivered to the supervisor of elections
   11  within 30 days after the elector signs the form. If a petition
   12  form collected by any petition circulator is not promptly
   13  delivered to the supervisor of elections, the sponsor is liable
   14  for the following fines:
   15         1. A fine in the amount of $50 for each petition form
   16  received by the supervisor of elections more than 30 days after
   17  the elector signed the petition form or the next business day,
   18  if the office is closed. A fine in the amount of $250 for each
   19  petition form received if the sponsor or petition circulator
   20  acted willfully.
   21         2. A fine in the amount of $500 for each petition form
   22  collected by a petition circulator which is not submitted to the
   23  supervisor of elections. A fine in the amount of $1,000 for any
   24  petition form not submitted if the sponsor or petition
   25  circulator acted willfully.
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   27  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   28  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   29         Delete line 39
   30  and insert:
   31         Section 3. Subsections (3) and (6), paragraph (a) of
   32  subsection (7), and subsections (11) and (13) of section
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   34  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   35  And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete line 440
   37  and insert:
   38         electronic format; specifying that an initiative
   39         sponsor serves as a notary to an elector signing a
   40         petition form; revising the length of time that a