General Bill
Ballot Pamphlets:
Requires the Secretary of State to be responsible for preparing and printing ballot pamphlets for statewide elections; provides requirements for the preparation, printing, and content of ballot pamphlets; requires the Division of Legislative Information Services to prepare specified information for ballot pamphlets; provides ballot pamphlet format requirements; requires the division to prepare analyses of proposed legislation to be included in ballot pamphlets; provides for the content and format of the analyses; authorizes the division to seek assistance from specified entities; requires approval of analyses by a committee; providing for committee membership, duties, and reimbursement; requires each supervisor of elections to provide notice to voters of ballot pamphlet availability; provides for contents of the notice; authorizes candidates for nonpartisan elective office in any local election to prepare a candidate statement; provides for the content of candidate statements; provides requirements for filing, withdrawing, and changing candidate statements; requires each supervisor of elections to include candidate statements as a supplement to ballot pamphlets; provides requirements for Spanish and Creole translations of candidate statements; authorizes the supervisor of elections to require printing, handling, and translating reimbursement costs from candidates; provides for liability for false, slanderous, or libelous candidate statements; requires each supervisor of elections to notify candidates by a certain date of candidate statement reimbursement charges; provides for content of judicial candidate statements; provides for the inability of a candidate to pay a candidate statement fee; provides for the content and submittal of a statement of financial worth to the supervisor of elections by an indigent candidate; provides requirements for the supervisor of election's determination of candidate indigence; provides for the format of candidate statements; provides for the public examination of candidate statements; authorizes a fee for copies; provides for a writ of mandamus or an injunction upon the showing of certain evidence; provides for the parties in a writ of mandamus or injunction proceeding; provides for a voter's writ of mandamus regarding ballot pamphlets upon the showing of certain evidence; provides for priority and venue of writ of mandamus proceedings; provides requirements for each supervisor of elections to mail ballot pamphlets and candidate statements to voters; requires the Secretary of State to deliver ballot pamphlets to each supervisor of elections; requires the Secretary of State to reimburse each supervisor of elections for mailing costs.
Effective Date:
July 1, 2006.
Last Event:
Died in Ethics & Elections Committee on Friday, May 5, 2006 11:59 PM
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Bill #:
SB 2448
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Subject:
Florida Ballot Pamphlet Act
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Relationship:
Identical
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