Senate 0720: Relating to Initiative Procedures & Standards

S720     GENERAL BILL/CS by Ethics and Elections; Posey  (Similar H 0773, Compare
  S 1244)
  Initiative Procedures & Standards; revises requirements for verification
  of signatures on petitions; provides requirements for initiative
  sponsors filing for undue burden; provides procedures to contest alleged
  improper signature verification; revises procedures for placing
  initiative on ballot; provides for verifying & counting signatures
  submitted for verification before effective date of act; provides for
  severability, etc. Amends 99.097, 100.371, 101.161.  EFFECTIVE DATE:
  08/01/2006 except as otherwise provided.
  11/15/05 SENATE Filed
  12/14/05 SENATE Referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Transportation
                  and Economic Development Appropriations; Ways and Means;
                  Rules and Calendar
  03/07/06 SENATE Introduced, referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary;
                  Transportation and Economic Development Appropriations; Ways
                  and Means; Rules and Calendar -SJ 00087
  03/23/06 SENATE On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 03/28/06, 9:30
                  am, 412-K
  03/28/06 SENATE CS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS  5  NAYS  0 -SJ 00355; CS
                  read first time on 03/30/06 -SJ 00358
  03/30/06 SENATE Now in Judiciary -SJ 00355; Withdrawn from- Transportation
                  and Economic Development Appropriations; Rules and Calendar
                  -SJ 00354
  04/13/06 SENATE On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 04/19/06, 1:30 pm, 401-S
  04/19/06 SENATE Unfavorable by Judiciary, laid on Table; YEAS  4  NAYS  4
                  -SJ 00579
  
  

   0099.097
   0100.371
   0101.161

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