Amendment
Bill No. HB 7149
Amendment No. 814945
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Randolph offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
4     Remove lines 2098-2122 and insert:
5     (1)
6     (d)  No person, political committee, or committee of
7continuous existence may, in any election, make contributions in
8excess of $5,000 to an electioneering communications
9organization that makes any coordinated expenditure as provided
10in s. 106.011. For purposes of this subsection, the primary
11election and general election are not separate elections.
12     (2)(a)  A candidate may not accept contributions from
13national, state, including any subordinate committee of a
14national, state, or county committee of a political party, and
15county executive committees of a political party, which
16contributions in the aggregate exceed $50,000, no more than
17$25,000 of which may be accepted prior to the 28-day period
18immediately preceding the date of the general election.
19     (b)  A candidate for statewide office may not accept
20contributions from national, state, or county executive
21committees of a political party, including any subordinate
22committee of a national, state, or county committee of a
23political party, which contributions in the aggregate exceed
24$250,000, no more than $125,000 of which may be accepted prior
25to the 28-day period immediately preceding the date of the
26general election. Polling services, research services, costs for
27campaign staff, including office expenses, professional
28consulting services, communications media, and telephone calls
29are not contributions to be counted toward the contribution
30limits of paragraph (a) or this paragraph. Any item not
31expressly identified in this paragraph as nonallocable is a
32contribution in an amount equal to the fair market value of the
33item and must be counted as allocable toward the contribution
34limits of paragraph (a) or this paragraph. Nonallocable, in-kind
35contributions must be reported by the candidate under s. 106.07
36and by the political party under s. 106.29.
37     (5)
38     (e)  An electioneering communications organization may not
39accept a contribution from any other electioneering
40communications organization.
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D I R E C T O R Y  A M E N D M E N T
44     Remove lines 2095-2096 and insert:
45     Section 43.  Subsection (2) of section 106.08, Florida
46Statutes, is amended, and paragraph (d) is added to subsection
47(1) and paragraph (e) is added to subsection (5) of that
48section, to read:
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T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T
52     Remove line 220 and insert:
53F.S.; providing limits on contributions to electioneering
54communications organizations; deleting provisions limiting the
55amount of


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