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FL S0744

Bill

Status

Introduced

11/4/2015

Primary Sponsor

Community Affairs

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Origin

Senate

2016 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Defines "address of legal residence" to include all information necessary to differentiate one residence from another, including apartment, suite, lot, room, or dormitory room numbers or other identifiers.

  • Requires voter registration applications to include the applicant's address of legal residence, but specifies that failure to include distinguishing apartment or room numbers does not affect voter eligibility or ballot counting.

  • Prohibits challenges to voter eligibility or ballot rejection based solely on missing distinguishing address information on registration applications.

  • Requires election supervisors to maintain lists of valid residential street addresses with distinguishing information and make reasonable efforts to obtain missing residence details from voter registration applications.

  • Changes Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles address verification process from mandatory rejection to permissive rejection of applications that cannot be matched to valid street addresses; takes effect July 1, 2016.

Legislative Description

Addresses of Legal Residence

Last Action

Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 541 (Ch. 2016-23)

2/18/2016

Committee Referrals

Rules2/3/2016
Community Affairs1/21/2016
Ethics and Elections11/18/2015

Full Bill Text

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