Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1262
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/21/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Lee) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 34 - 57
    4  and insert:
    5  March in an odd-numbered year or even-numbered year, or any
    6  combination thereof.
    7         (b) If a municipal charter or ordinance requires a runoff
    8  election for municipal office, the governing body of a
    9  municipality shall conduct its elections in any of the following
   10  formats:
   11         1. The initial election shall be held at the primary
   12  election on the Tuesday 10 weeks before the general election and
   13  the runoff election shall be held on the same date as the
   14  general election.
   15         2. The initial election shall be held at an election on the
   16  Tuesday 10 weeks before the election held on the first Tuesday
   17  after the first Monday in November in an odd-numbered year and
   18  the runoff election shall be held at an election on the first
   19  Tuesday after the first Monday in November in an odd-numbered
   20  year.
   21         3. The initial election shall be held at an election on the
   22  Tuesday 10 weeks before the third Tuesday in March and the
   23  runoff election shall be held at an election on the third
   24  Tuesday in March.
   25         (c) Any county for which a special act has established a
   26  date for the election of municipal officers applicable to all
   27  municipalities within its jurisdiction occurring on a date other
   28  than that of the general election or on the first Tuesday after
   29  the first Monday in November of an odd-numbered year shall have
   30  the election date for all municipalities within its jurisdiction
   31  be the third Tuesday in March. If a municipality within such a
   32  county requires a runoff election for municipal office, such
   33  municipality shall conduct its elections in accordance with
   34  subparagraph (b)3.
   35         (d) This subsection does not affect the manner in which
   36  vacancies in municipal office are filled or the manner in which
   37  recall elections for municipal officers are conducted.
   38         (e) Notwithstanding any general law, special law, local
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   40  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   41  And the title is amended as follows:
   42         Delete line 7
   43  and insert:
   44         therefor; requiring counties that have established
   45         certain dates for the election of municipal officers
   46         through a special act to conduct municipal elections
   47         on specified dates; preempting to the state the
   48         authority to