Title: Voter Registration Maintenance

Summary: Requires supervisors of elections to enter into agreements with clerks of circuit courts to receive specified information; requires supervisors of elections to compare certain information with statewide voter registration system; requires DHSMV to furnish monthly to DOS list of persons who identified themselves as aliens; requires DOS to compare such list with statewide voter registration system & provide names of registered voters who are aliens to supervisor of elections of county in which voter is registered.

Full Text:
An act relating to voter registration maintenance; amending s. 98.065, F.S.; requiring supervisors of elections to enter into agreements with clerks of the circuit courts to receive specified information; requiring supervisors of elections to compare certain information with the statewide voter registration system; amending s. 98.093, F.S.; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to furnish monthly to the Department of State a list of persons who identified themselves as aliens; requiring the Department of State to compare such list with the statewide voter registration system and provide the names of registered voters who are aliens to the supervisor of elections of the county in which the voter is registered; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subsection (4) of section 98.065, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as paragraphs (b), (c), and (d), respectively, and a new paragraph (a) is added to that subsection to read: 98.065 Registration list maintenance programs.-(4) HB 2019 (a) The supervisor shall enter into an agreement with the local clerk of the circuit court to receive monthly from such clerk change-of-address information and a list of potential jurors who identified themselves as aliens, as defined in s. 327.02(2), during the preceding calendar month. Each list shall include the na me, address, date of birth, sex, and, whichever is available, the Florida driver license number or Florida identification card number of each such person. Each month the supervisor shall compare all of the information included in the list with the statewid evoter registration system. Section 2. Paragraph (h) is added to subsection (2) of section 98.093, Florida Statutes, to read: 98.093 Duty of officials to furnish information relating to deceased persons, persons adjudicated mentally incapacitated, and persons convicted of a felony,and persons identified as aliens.-(2) To the maximum extent feasible, state and local government agencies shall facilitate provision of information and access to data to the department, including, but not limited to, databases that contain reliable criminal records and records of deceased persons. State and local government agencies that provide such data shall do so without charge if the direct cost incurred by those agencies is not significant. (h) The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles shall furnish monthly to the department a list of persons who HB 2019 identified themselves as aliens, as defined in s. 327.02(2), during the preceding calendar month. Each list shall include the name, address, date of birth, sex, and, whichever is available, the Florida driver license number or Florida identification card number of each such person. Each month the department shall compare all of the information included in the list with the statewide voter registration system and if the department determines that a registered voter is an alien, provide the name of such voter to the supervisor of elections of the county in which the voter is registered. Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.