Amendment AA1-SB822

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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1, TO SENATE BILL 822

February 22, 2024 - Offered by Representative Krug.

SB822-AA1,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:

SB822-AA1,1,5 1. Page 1, line 8: after “reports" insert “, an election official's personal information, battery against election officials, whistleblower protection for municipal clerks, county clerks, and election officials who witness and report election fraud or irregularities,".

SB822-AA1,1,7 2. Page 1, line 9: delete “and making an appropriation" and substitute “, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty".

SB822-AA1,1,8 3. Page 9, line 19: after that line insert:

SB822-AA1,1,9 “ Section 30m. 19.36 (14) of the statutes is created to read:

SB822-AA1,2,3 19.36 (14) Identities of election officials or election registration officials. Unless access is specifically authorized or required by statute, an authority shall not provide access under s. 19.35 (1) to records containing the personally identifiable information of an election official, as defined in s. 5.02 (4e), or an election registration official, as defined in s. 5.02 (4g), except that an authority may provide access to the name of an election official or election registration official and the city and state where the official resides.

SB822-AA1,30n Section 30n. 66.0512 of the statutes is created to read:

SB822-AA1,2,14 66.0512 Whistleblower protection for certain disclosures made by municipal clerks. No municipal clerk, as defined in s. 5.02 (10), county clerk, as defined in s. 5.02 (2), or election official, as defined in s. 5.02 (4e), may be discharged, disciplined, demoted, or otherwise discriminated against in regard to employment, or threatened with any such treatment, as a reprisal because the clerk or election official lawfully reported, or is believed to have reported, witnessing what the clerk or election official reasonably believed to be election fraud or irregularities. For purposes of this section, “lawfully reported” means a report of information the disclosure of which is not expressly prohibited by state or federal law, rule, or regulation.”.

SB822-AA1,2,15 4. Page 11, line 15: after that line insert:

SB822-AA1,2,16 “ Section 33m. 940.20 (4m) of the statutes is created to read:

SB822-AA1,2,18 940.20 (4m) Battery to election officials, election registration officials, or clerks. (a) In this subsection:

SB822-AA1,2,19 1. “County clerk” has the meaning given in s. 5.02 (2).

SB822-AA1,2,20 2. “Election official” has the meaning given in s. 5.02 (4e).

SB822-AA1,2,21 3. “Election registration official” has the meaning given in s. 5.02 (4g).

SB822-AA1,2,22 4. “Municipal clerk” has the meaning given in s. 5.02 (10).

SB822-AA1,3,3 (b) Whoever intentionally causes bodily harm to an election official, election registration official, county clerk, or municipal clerk who is acting in his or her official capacity is guilty of a Class I felony if the person knows or has reason to know that the victim is an election official, election registration official, county clerk, or municipal clerk and the victim does not consent to the harm.”.

SB822-AA1,3,4 (End)