Excerpt from
Florida Statutes
Section 47. Section 103.101, Florida Statutes, is
amended to read:
103.101 Presidential preference primary.—
(1)
(a)
There shall be a Presidential Preference Primary Date Selection
Committee composed of the Secretary of State, who shall be a nonvoting
chair; three members, no more than two of whom may be from the same
political party, appointed by the Governor; three members, no more than
two of whom may be from the same political party, appointed by the
Speaker of the House of Representatives; and three members, no more
than two of whom may be from the same political party, appointed by the
President of the Senate. No later than October 1 of the year preceding
the presidential preference primary, the committee shall meet and set a
date for the presidential preference primary. The date selected may be
no earlier than the first Tuesday in January and no later than the
first Tuesday in March in the year of the presidential preference
primary. The presidential preference primary shall be held in each year
the number of which is a multiple of four.
(b)
Each political party other than a minor political party shall, on the
date selected by the Presidential
Preference Primary Date Selection Committee l
ast Tuesday in January
in each year the number of which is a multiple of 4, elect one person
to be the candidate for nomination of such party for President of the
United States or select delegates to the national nominating
convention, as provided by party rule.
Any party rule directing the vote
of delegates at a national nominating convention shall reasonably
reflect the results of the presidential preference primary, if one is
held.
(2)
(a) There shall be a
Presidential Candidate Selection Committee composed of the Secretary of
State, who shall be a nonvoting chair; the Speaker of the House of
Representatives; the President of the Senate; the minority leader of
each house of the Legislature; and the chair of each political party
required to have a presidential preference primary under this section.
(b)
By
October 31 of the year preceding the presidential preference
primary, each political party shall submit to the Secretary of State a
list of its presidential candidates to be placed on the presidential
preference primary ballot or candidates entitled to have delegates
appear on the presidential preference primary ballot. The Secretary of
State shall prepare and publish a list of the names of the presidential
candidates submitted
not
later than on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of
the year preceding the presidential preference primary.
The Secretary of State shall
submit...
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