Florida Senate - 2024                                     SB 438
       
       
        
       By Senator Ingoglia
       
       
       
       
       
       11-00034A-24                                           2024438__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to term limits; creating s. 124.012,
    3         F.S.; establishing term limits for county
    4         commissioners; prohibiting specified persons from
    5         seeking certain offices until after a specified
    6         timeframe; providing construction; providing an
    7         effective date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Section 124.012, Florida Statutes, is created to
   12  read:
   13         124.012 Term limits of county commissioners.—
   14         (1) Notwithstanding the terms of any county charter to the
   15  contrary, a person may not appear on the ballot for reelection
   16  to the office of county commissioner if, by the end of his or
   17  her current term of office, the person will have served, or but
   18  for resignation would have served, in that office for 8
   19  consecutive years. The person may not qualify for or appear on
   20  the ballot for a different district seat of the county
   21  commission or an at-large county commission seat of the county
   22  after his or her initial 8-year term of office until 2 years
   23  after the end date of his or her initial term. In any county in
   24  which term limits are not imposed by a county charter as of July
   25  1, 2024, service of a term of office which commenced before
   26  November 8, 2022, may not be counted toward the limitation
   27  imposed by this subsection.
   28         (2) This section does not supersede any term limit imposed
   29  by a county charter which is more restrictive than the term
   30  limit imposed in this section.
   31         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.