Florida Senate - 2017                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 352
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Hutson moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to House Amendment (547997) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Between lines 20 and 21
    5  insert:
    6         Section 2. Section 97.029, Florida Statutes, is created to
    7  read:
    8         97.029 Challenges to state legislative or congressional
    9  districts.—
   10         (1) If an active challenge to the validity of boundaries of
   11  senatorial, representative, or congressional districts of the
   12  state is still pending in court when the qualifying period
   13  begins pursuant to s. 99.061, candidate qualifying, nomination,
   14  and election for the offices in the apportionment plan subject
   15  to the challenge must proceed using the districts that are in
   16  place on the 71st day before the primary election. If a court
   17  orders revisions to senatorial, representative, or congressional
   18  districts on or after the 71st day before the primary election,
   19  the revised districts shall govern beginning with the subsequent
   20  primary and general elections in the next even-numbered year.
   21         (2) This section does not supersede or impair the
   22  procedures governing the judicial review of apportionment as set
   23  forth in s. 16, Art. III of the State Constitution.
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   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete line 41
   28  and insert:
   29         Florida Election Code; creating s. 97.029, F.S.;
   30         providing that candidate qualifying, nomination, and
   31         election for state legislative and congressional
   32         offices must proceed using current district boundaries
   33         if revisions to districts subject to an active court
   34         challenge are not ordered by a certain date; providing
   35         for construction; amending s. 99.061, F.S.;