Florida Senate - 2022                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (502578) for SB 524
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Taddeo) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Between lines 234 and 235
    4  insert:
    5         (4) If a person collecting voter registration applications
    6  on behalf of a third-party voter registration organization
    7  alters the voter registration application of any other person,
    8  without the other person’s knowledge and consent, in violation
    9  of s. 104.012(4) and is subsequently convicted of such offense,
   10  the applicable third-party voter registration organization is
   11  liable for a fine in the amount of $10,000.
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   13  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   14  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   15         Delete lines 176 - 177
   16  and insert:
   17         Section 4. Present subsections (4) through (7) of section
   18  97.0575, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (5)
   19  through (8), respectively, a new subsection (4) is added to that
   20  section, and paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of that section is
   21  amended, to read:
   22  
   23  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   24  And the title is amended as follows:
   25         Delete line 17
   26  and insert:
   27         year; specifying that a third-party voter registration
   28         organization is liable for a certain fine if a person
   29         collecting voter registration applications on its
   30         behalf is convicted of unlawfully altering any
   31         application; amending s. 98.065, F.S.; revising the
   32         frequency