The Florida Senate

SB 1860: Election Code Violations

GENERAL BILL by Aronberg

Election Code Violations; includes persons, political committees, electioneering communications entities, & political organizations subject to requirements of 26 U.S.C. s. 527 in prohibition on maliciously making false statement about a candidate; provides penalties. Amends 104.271.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  2/8/2006	Senate	• Filed
  2/23/2006	Senate	• Referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary
  3/7/2006	Senate	• Introduced, referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary -SJ 00149
  3/9/2006	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 03/14/06, 9:30 am, 412-K
  3/14/2006	Senate	• Favorable with 1 amendment(s) by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 4 NAYS 0 -SJ 00235
  3/15/2006	Senate	• Now in Judiciary -SJ 00235
  5/5/2006	Senate	• Died in Committee on Judiciary

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• SB 1860, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 2/8/2006 at 1:21 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Ethics and Elections (Post-Meeting) 2/27/2006 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  H 961	Election Code Violations	Gannon	Identical	Last Action: 5/5/2006 H Died in Committee on Ethics & Elections (SAC) Location:

  Committee Amendments (1)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  540816 - Amendment	Ethics and Elections (Rich)	3/10/2006 4:04 PM	Favorable 3/14/2006	Web Page PDF

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  3/14/2006 9:30 AM	Ethics and Elections	4 Yeas - 0 Nays

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  104.271	False or malicious charges against, or false statements about, opposing candidates; penalty.

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