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1S-2.0091 Constitutional Amendment Initiative Petition Submission Deadline; Verifying Electors' Signatures
NOTICE OF CHANGE
Notice is hereby given that the following change is being made to the above-referenced proposed rule in response to comments received from the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee subsequent to the public hearing held on December 14, 2006. The Notice of the Proposed Rule was published in Vol. 31, No. 47 of the November 23, 2005 issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.
(1) Subsection (3)(a)1. of the proposed rule is revised to add the requirement that all signature verification certificates submitted to the Division of Elections prior to January 1, 2007, must contain information as to the total number of signatures checked. This conforms to the statutory requirement under Section 100.371, Florida Statutes.
(2) A cite to Article XI of the Florida Constitution is added to the list of laws implemented as the legal basis for imposing a February 1 deadline to initiative petition submissions.
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Maria Matthews, Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of State/Division of Elections, R. A. Gray Building, 500 S. Bronough Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399, (850)245-6520
