Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 666
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/07/2023           .                                
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       The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Collins) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 67 and 68
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section
    6  105.031, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         105.031 Qualification; filing fee; candidate’s oath; items
    8  required to be filed.—
    9         (4) CANDIDATE’S OATH.—
   10         (b) All candidates for judicial office shall subscribe to
   11  an oath or affirmation in writing to be filed with the
   12  appropriate qualifying officer upon qualifying. A printed copy
   13  of the oath or affirmation shall be furnished to the candidate
   14  by the qualifying officer and shall be in substantially the
   15  following form:
   16  
   17  State of Florida
   18  County of ....
   19         Before me, an officer authorized to administer oaths,
   20  personally appeared ...(please print name as you wish it to
   21  appear on the ballot)..., to me well known, who, being sworn,
   22  says he or she: is a candidate for the judicial office of ....;
   23  that his or her legal residence is .... County, Florida; that he
   24  or she is a qualified elector of the state and of the
   25  territorial jurisdiction of the court to which he or she seeks
   26  election; that he or she is qualified under the constitution and
   27  laws of Florida to hold the judicial office to which he or she
   28  desires to be elected or in which he or she desires to be
   29  retained; that he or she has qualified for no other public
   30  office in the state, the term of which office or any part
   31  thereof runs concurrent to the office he or she seeks; that he
   32  or she has resigned from any office which he or she is required
   33  to resign pursuant to s. 99.012, Florida Statutes; and that he
   34  or she will support the Constitution of the United States and
   35  the Constitution of the State of Florida.
   36  
   37  	...(Signature of candidate)...
   38  	...(Address of legal residence)...
   39  
   40  Sworn to and subscribed before me this .... day of ....,
   41  ...(year)..., at .... County, Florida.
   42  
   43  ...(Signature and title of officer administering oath)...
   44  
   45  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   46  And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete line 5
   48  and insert:
   49         candidate oath; amending s. 105.031, F.S.; revising
   50         the address that judicial candidates must provide on
   51         the form of candidate oath; providing an effective
   52         date.