| 1 | Representative Pafford offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove lines 592-615 and insert: |
| 5 | (5) In any civil action brought by the Attorney General or |
| 6 | the state attorney for enforcement, if the court finds that no |
| 7 | violation occurred, the Attorney General or the state attorney |
| 8 | shall be liable for attorney's fees and costs to the person or |
| 9 | organization against whom the complaint was brought. |
| 10 | (6)(4)(a) The division shall adopt by rule a form to |
| 11 | elicit specific information concerning the facts and |
| 12 | circumstances from a person who claims to have been registered |
| 13 | to vote by a third-party voter registration organization but who |
| 14 | does not appear as an active voter on the voter registration |
| 15 | rolls. The division shall also adopt rules to ensure the |
| 16 | integrity of the registration process, including rules requiring |
| 17 | third-party voter registration organizations to account for all |
| 18 | state and federal registration forms used by their registration |
| 19 | agents. |
| 20 | (b) The division may investigate any violation of this |
| 21 | section. Civil fines shall be assessed by the division and |
| 22 | enforced through any appropriate legal proceedings. |
| 23 | (7)(5) The date on which an applicant signs a voter |
| 24 | registration application is presumed to be the date on which the |
| 25 | third-party voter registration organization received or |
| 26 | collected the voter registration application. |
| 27 | (8)(6) The civil fines provided in this section are in |
| 28 | addition to any applicable criminal penalties. |
| 29 | (9)(7) Fines collected pursuant to this section shall be |
| 30 | annually appropriated by the Legislature to the department for |
| 31 | enforcement of this section and for voter education. |
| 32 | (10)(8) The division may adopt rules to administer this |
| 33 | section. |
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| 38 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 39 | Remove line 31 and insert: |
| 40 | any other appropriate order; providing circumstances under which |
| 41 | the Attorney General or state attorney shall be liable for |
| 42 | certain fees and costs; requiring that the division |