SENATE AMENDMENT
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11 Senator Campbell moved the following amendment to amendment
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
15 On page 84, line 31, through page 106, line 20, delete
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19 Section 65. Effective upon this act becoming a law,
20 section 100.061, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
21 100.061 First primary election.--In each year in which
22 a general election is held, A first primary election shall be
23 held on the first Tuesday that falls on the 6th day or later
24 in September of each year in which a general election is held
25 for nomination of candidates of political parties shall be
26 held on the Tuesday 9 weeks prior to the general election. If
27 only two candidates appear on the ballot for nomination to a
28 particular office, the candidate receiving a majority of the
29 votes cast in the first primary election shall be declared
30 elected. If three candidates appear on the ballot for
31 nomination for a particular office, the candidate receiving
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2 votes cast shall be declared nominated. If four or more
3 candidates appear on the ballot for nomination to a particular
4 office, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes in
5 excess of 33-1/3 percent of the votes cast shall be declared
6 nominated. Each candidate receiving a majority of the votes
7 cast in each contest in the first primary election shall be
8 declared nominated for such office. A second primary election
9 shall be held as provided by s. 100.091 in every contest in
10 which a candidate does not receive the necessary number of
11 votes for nomination a majority.
12 Section 66. Effective upon this act becoming a law,
13 subsection (2) of section 100.091, Florida Statutes, is
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15 100.091 Second primary election.--
16 (2) The names of the candidates placing first and
17 second in the first primary election shall be placed on the
18 ballot in the second primary election for each contest in
19 which no candidate receives the necessary number a majority of
20 the votes cast in the first primary election, subject to the
21 following exceptions:
22 (a) In any contest in which there is a tie for first
23 place in the first primary election, only the names of the
24 candidates so tying shall be placed on the ballot in the
25 second primary election.
26 (b) In any contest in which there is a tie for second
27 place in the first primary election and the candidate placing
28 first did not receive the necessary number a majority of the
29 votes cast, the name of the candidate placing first and the
30 names of the candidates tying for second shall be placed on
31 the ballot in the second primary election.
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6 And the title is amended as follows:
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10 amending s. 100.061, F.S.; amending
11 requirements for nomination as a candidate in
12 the first primary election; amending s.
13 100.091, F.S.; conforming provisions; amending
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