Bill Text: FL S7036 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Presidential Preference Primary
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-18 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7035 (Ch. 2015-5) [S7036 Detail]
Download: Florida-2015-S7036-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2015 SB 7036 By the Committee on Ethics and Elections 582-01886-15 20157036__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the presidential preference 3 primary; amending s. 103.101, F.S.; revising the date 4 of the presidential preference primary; providing an 5 effective date. 6 7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 8 9 Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 103.101, Florida 10 Statutes, is amended to read: 11 103.101 Presidential preference primary.— 12 (1) Each political party other than a minor political party 13 shall, at the presidential preference primary, elect one person 14 to be the party’s candidate for nomination for President of the 15 United States or select delegates to the party’s national 16 nominating convention, as provided by party rule. The 17 presidential preference primary shall be held on the thirdin18each year the number of which is a multiple of 4 on the first19 Tuesday in March of each presidential election yearthat the20rules of the major political parties provide for state21delegations to be allocated without penalty. Any party rule 22 directing the vote of delegates at a national nominating 23 convention shall reasonably reflect the results of the 24 presidential preference primary, if one is held. 25 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.