Bill Text: FL S0782 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Election Board Composition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-03-08 - Died in Community Affairs [S0782 Detail]

Download: Florida-2024-S0782-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2024                                     SB 782
       
       
        
       By Senator Yarborough
       
       
       
       
       
       4-00396-24                                             2024782__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to election board composition;
    3         amending s. 102.012, F.S.; requiring an election board
    4         to include members from certain political parties;
    5         providing an effective date.
    6          
    7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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    9         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 102.012, Florida
   10  Statutes, is amended to read:
   11         102.012 Inspectors and clerks to conduct elections.—
   12         (2) Each member of the election board shall be able to read
   13  and write the English language and shall be a registered
   14  qualified elector of the county in which the member is appointed
   15  or a person who has preregistered to vote, pursuant to s.
   16  97.041(1)(b), in the county in which the member is appointed. An
   17  No election board may not shall be composed solely of members of
   18  one political party and must include at least one member from
   19  each of the two largest political parties in the state; however,
   20  in any primary in which only one party has candidates appearing
   21  on the ballot, all clerks and inspectors may be of that party.
   22  Any person whose name appears as an opposed candidate for any
   23  office shall not be eligible to serve on an election board.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.