No. CS/SB 132
Filed under Elections.
Restoration of Voting Rights; Requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database containing certain information for a certain purpose; requiring the Department of Management Services, acting through the Florida Digital Service, to provide certain technical assistance to the commission; providing that a person who takes certain actions in reasonable reliance on the database has an affirmative right to register and to vote and may not be charged with certain violations of criminal law, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Florida Commission on Offender Review must build a database tracking, for each person barred from voting by an eligible felony conviction, their remaining probation time, restitution, fines, and fees, everything needed to check restoration eligibility.
State agencies, courts, and county comptrollers must feed the commission this information every month. By July 2029, funding permitting, the commission must publish the database online and post plain instructions for restoring rights and registering to vote.
Anyone who registers or votes because the database indicated their rights were restored gets a legal shield: they cannot be charged with fraudulent voting or registration for that reliance, even if the underlying record turns out to be wrong.
By July 2027, the commission must send the Governor, the Senate President, and the House Speaker a full plan covering data sources, technology needs, staffing, and cost estimates, plus draft legislation, before the public database can actually go live.
AIThe Florida Commission on Offender Review must build and maintain a database, for each person disqualified from voting by an eligible felony conviction, recording their remaining supervision term, restitution, fines and fees, and anything else needed to determine restoration eligibility.
AISubject to the legislature funding it, the commission must put the database on a public website by July 1, 2029, updating it monthly and posting clear instructions for restoring voting rights and registering.
AIAnyone who registers or votes because the database showed their rights restored gets an affirmative right to do so, and cannot be charged with a criminal violation for fraudulently voting or registering based on that reliance.
AIBefore the database can be built out, the commission must deliver a comprehensive plan covering data sources, technology and staffing needs, cost estimates, and draft legislation, to the Governor, Senate President, and House Speaker by July 1, 2027.
AIThe Department of State, Department of Corrections, circuit court clerks, county comptrollers, and Board of Executive Clemency must each send the commission, every month, whatever information they hold that the database needs.