House Bill 0267e2

                                      HB 267, Second Engrossed/ntc



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to campaign financing; amending

  3         s. 106.07, F.S.; revising reporting

  4         requirements applicable to candidates for other

  5         than statewide office who qualify with the

  6         Department of State; providing an effective

  7         date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section

12  106.07, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         106.07  Reports; certification and filing.--

14         (2)(a)  All reports required of a candidate by this

15  section shall be filed with the officer before whom the

16  candidate is required by law to qualify.  All candidates who

17  file with the Department of State shall file the original and

18  one copy of their reports.  In addition, a copy of each report

19  for candidates for other than statewide office who qualify

20  with the Department of State shall be furnished to filed with

21  the supervisor of elections in each the county any portion of

22  which is within the jurisdiction of the office where the

23  candidate seeks resides.  Reports to the Department of State

24  shall be filed not later than 5 p.m. of the day designated;

25  however, any report postmarked by the United States Postal

26  Service no later than midnight of the day designated shall be

27  deemed to have been filed in a timely manner.  A certificate

28  of mailing obtained from and dated by the United States Postal

29  Service at the time of mailing, or a receipt from an

30  established courier company, which bears a date on or before

31  the date on which the report is due, shall be proof of mailing


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                                      HB 267, Second Engrossed/ntc



  1  in a timely manner.  Reports shall contain information of all

  2  previously unreported contributions received and expenditures

  3  made as of the preceding Friday, except that the report filed

  4  on the Friday immediately preceding the election shall contain

  5  information of all previously unreported contributions

  6  received and expenditures made as of the day preceding that

  7  designated due date.  All such reports shall be open to public

  8  inspection.

  9         Section 2.  This act shall take effect January 1 of the

10  year after the year in which enacted.

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