House Bill hb1073

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                HB 1073

        By Representatives McGriff, Kendrick and Jennings






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to Alachua County; amending the

  3         Alachua County Home Rule Charter to authorize

  4         the county to adopt by charter amendment

  5         restrictions more stringent than those imposed

  6         by general law on campaign financing in regard

  7         to candidates for elective county offices

  8         identified in the charter; providing for a

  9         referendum; providing an effective date.

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

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13         Section 1.  Section 1.6 is added to Article I of the

14  Alachua County Home Rule Charter to read:

15         ARTICLE I.  CREATION, POWERS AND ORDINANCES OF HOME

16  RULE CHARTER AND GOVERNMENT

17         Sec. 1.6.  Campaign finance regulation.

18         Alachua County shall have the power to adopt by charter

19  amendment restrictions more stringent than those imposed by

20  general law upon the financing of campaigns conducted by

21  candidates for elective county offices identified in Article

22  II, Section 2.2 (Legislative branch) and Article III, Section

23  3.1 (Elected county constitutional offices) of this home rule

24  charter.  These additional restrictions may apply to all

25  aspects of campaign financing, including solicitations,

26  contributions, expenditures, recordkeeping, reporting

27  requirements, and noncriminal penalties for violation.  The

28  initial additional restrictions authorized by this section

29  shall be proposed by amendment of this home rule charter at

30  the general election held in either 2004 or 2006 and shall be

31  adopted if approved by a majority of the electors of Alachua

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                HB 1073

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  1  County voting on the amendment in that general election.  All

  2  additional restrictions shall be proposed by amendment of this

  3  home rule charter at a subsequent general election and shall

  4  be adopted if approved by a majority of those electors of

  5  Alachua County voting on the amendment in that general

  6  election.  Charter amendments adopted pursuant to the

  7  authority granted in this section shall not be preempted by

  8  general law unless the general law expressly supersedes all

  9  special acts authorizing county charter home rule power for

10  campaign financing.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect only upon its

12  approval by a majority vote of those qualified electors of

13  Alachua County voting in a referendum to be held by the Board

14  of County Commissioners of Alachua County in conjunction with

15  the general election to be held in 2002, in accordance with

16  the provisions of law relating to elections currently in

17  force, except that this section shall take effect upon

18  becoming a law.

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