Amendment SA4-SB259

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2011 - 2012 LEGISLATURE

SENATE AMENDMENT 4, TO 2011 SENATE BILL 259

November 1, 2011 - Offered by Senators Taylor and Darling.

SB259-SA4,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:

SB259-SA4,1,2 1. Page 2, line 1: before that line insert:

SB259-SA4,1,3 " Section 1c. 5.58 (2) and (3) of the statutes are amended to read:

SB259-SA4,2,3 5.58 (2) State superintendent of public instruction; judiciary; county executive; county comptroller; and county supervisors. There shall be one separate ballot for state superintendent, judicial officers, county executive under s. 59.17, and county supervisor, except as authorized in s. 5.655. In counties having a population of 750,000 or more, the ballot shall also include the office of comptroller and in counties having a population of 500,000 or more, the ballot also shall also include those offices under s. 8.11 (2) (b) and (2m). The arrangement of names of candidates for state superintendent, justice, court of appeals judge , and circuit court judge shall be determined by the board in the manner specified in s. 5.60 (1) (b). Arrangement of the names of candidates for county executive, county comptroller, and county supervisor shall be determined by the county clerk or by the executive director of the county board of election commissioners in the manner specified in s. 5.60 (1) (b).

SB259-SA4,2,20 (3) Names on spring ballot. Only 2 candidates for state superintendent, for any judicial office, for any elected seat on a metropolitan sewerage commission or town sanitary district commission, in counties having a population of 750,000 or more, only 2 candidates for the office of comptroller, in counties having a population of 500,000 or more only 2 candidates for member of the board of supervisors within each district, in counties having a population of less than 500,000 only 2 candidates for each member of the county board of supervisors from each district or numbered seat or only 4 candidates for each 2 members of the county board of supervisors from each district whenever 2 supervisors are elected to unnumbered seats from the same district, in 1st class cities only 2 candidates for any at-large seat and only 2 candidates from any election district to be elected to the board of school directors, in school districts electing school board members to numbered seats, or pursuant to an apportionment plan or district representation plan, only 2 school board candidates for each numbered seat or within each district, and twice as many candidates as are to be elected members of other school boards or other elective officers receiving the highest number of votes at the primary shall be nominees for the office at the spring election. Only their names shall appear on the official spring ballot.

SB259-SA4, s. 1d Section 1d. 5.60 (1) (title) and (ag) of the statutes are amended to read:

SB259-SA4,2,23 5.60 (1) (title) State superintendent; judiciary; county executive; county comptroller; and county supervisors.

SB259-SA4,3,7 (ag) There shall be one separate ballot for state superintendent, judicial officers, county executive, county comptroller in counties having a population of 750,000 or more, and county supervisor, except as authorized in s. 5.655. For county supervisor, the ballot shall be prepared in accordance with ss. 5.58 (2) and 59.10 (3). Arrangement of the names of candidates for county executive, county comptroller, county supervisor, and municipal judge, if the judge is elected under s. 755.01 (4), shall be determined by the county clerk or the executive director of the county board of election commissioners determining ballot arrangement under s. 5.58 (1c), in the manner prescribed in par. (b).

SB259-SA4, s. 1g Section 1g. 8.11 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 8.11 (2) (b).

SB259-SA4, s. 1h Section 1h. 8.11 (2) (a) of the statutes is created to read:

SB259-SA4,3,12 8.11 (2) (a) A primary shall be held in counties having a population of 750,000 or more whenever there are more than twice the number of candidates to be elected to the office of comptroller.".

SB259-SA4,3,13 2. Page 2, line 1: delete " Section 1" and substitute "Section 1m".

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