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FL S1374

Bill

Status

Failed

3/10/2018

Primary Sponsor

Victor Torres

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Origin

Senate

2018 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Enacts the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote into Florida law, allowing the state to join other states in this compact.

  • Requires member states to conduct statewide popular elections for President and Vice President, with each state's chief election official calculating a national popular vote total across all member states.

  • Designates the presidential slate with the largest national popular vote total as the winner, and requires member states to appoint their electoral votes to that winner's slate.

  • Agreement takes effect when states cumulatively possessing a majority of electoral votes (270 of 538) have enacted the agreement in substantially the same form.

  • Allows member states to withdraw at any time, except withdrawals made six months or less before the end of a President's term cannot take effect until the next presidential term begins; agreement terminates if the Electoral College is abolished.

Legislative Description

Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote

Last Action

Died in Ethics and Elections

3/10/2018

Committee Referrals

Ethics and Elections1/12/2018

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