Public Integrity & Ethics Committee
Monday, February 26, 2018
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
402 HOB
ACTION PACKET
REVISED

Richard Corcoran
Speaker

Larry Metz
Chair

 Committee Meeting Notice
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Public Integrity & Ethics Committee
Start Date and Time:

Monday, February 26, 2018 02:00 pm

End Date and Time:

Monday, February 26, 2018 05:00 pm

Location:

Sumner Hall (404 HOB)

Duration:

3.00 hrs

Consideration of the following bill(s):

HB 709 Voting Systems by Drake
CS/HB 1049 Poll Workers by Government Accountability Committee, Sullivan

Discussion of investigation into local agency actions relating to the February 14 shooting at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School.

Pursuant to rule 7.11, the deadline for amendments to bills on the agenda by non-appointed members shall
be 6:00 p.m., Sunday, February 25, 2018.
By request of the Chair, all committee members are asked to have amendments to bills on the agenda
submitted to staff by 6:00 p.m., Sunday, February 25, 2018.

NOTICE FINALIZED on 02/25/2018 4:07PM by Tully.Melissa

02/25/2018

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 COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT
Public Integrity & Ethics Committee
2/26/2018

2:00PM

Location: Sumner Hall (404 HOB)
Summary:
Public Integrity & Ethics Committee
Monday February 26, 2018 02:00 pm

HB 709

Favorable With Committee Substitute

Amendment 048663

CS/HB 1049

Committee meeting was reported out: Monday, February 26, 2018
5:45 pm

Nays: 2

Yeas: 15

Nays: 0

Adopted

Favorable

Print Date: 2/26/2018

Yeas: 13

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Public Integrity & Ethics Committee
2/26/2018

2:00PM

Location: Sumner Hall (404 HOB)
Attendance:
Present

Absent

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Larry Metz (Chair)
Larry Ahern
Jason Brodeur
Cord Byrd
Robert Cortes

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Kimberly Daniels

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Tracie Davis
Jason Fischer

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Julio Gonzalez

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Thomas Leek
Lawrence McClure
Amy Mercado
Daniel Perez

x

Kathleen Peters

x
x
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Sharon Pritchett
Jake Raburn
David Richardson
Emily Slosberg

15

Totals:

0

Committee meeting was reported out: Monday, February 26, 2018

Print Date: 2/26/2018

Excused

5:45 pm

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Public Integrity & Ethics Committee
2/26/2018

2:00PM

Location: Sumner Hall (404 HOB)
HB 709 : Voting Systems

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Favorable With Committee Substitute
Yea

Nay

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Larry Ahern
Jason Brodeur
Cord Byrd
Robert Cortes

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Jason Fischer

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Julio Gonzalez

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Lawrence McClure
Amy Mercado
Daniel Perez

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Jake Raburn

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David Richardson
Emily Slosberg

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Larry Metz (Chair)

Total Yeas: 13

Total Nays: 2

HB 709 Amendments
Amendment 048663

[!]Adopted

Appearances:

Brown, French (Lobbyist) - Opponent
Verified Voting.org
215 S. Monroe St Suite 815
Tallahassee FL 32301
Phone: 850-270-5525
Riner, Guy - Information Only
Election System and Software
Regional Manager
56336 Griffin Rd
Callahan Florida 32011
Phone: 904-903-1451

Committee meeting was reported out: Monday, February 26, 2018

Print Date: 2/26/2018 5:45 pm

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 COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT
Public Integrity & Ethics Committee
2/26/2018

2:00PM

Location: Sumner Hall (404 HOB)
HB 709 : Voting Systems (continued)
Appearances: (continued)

Folsom, Nancy on behalf of James Kracht - Information Only
Florida Council of the Blind
President
6500 Montrose Trail
Tallahassee Florida 32309
Phone: 850-524-5026
McCoy, Carl - Information Only
Florida Council of the Blind
180 B S.E. Villas CT
Tallahassee Florida 32303
Phone: 850-509-4594
Ramba, David (Lobbyist) - Information Only
Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections, Inc
120 S Monroe St
Tallahassee FL 32301
Phone: (850) 727-7087
Helmich, William (Lobbyist) - Waive In Support
Election Systems & Software, LLC
120 S Monroe St
Tallahassee FL 32301
Phone: (850) 251-3126

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Section 2.

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of section 98.065, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as

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paragraphs (b),

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Registration list maintenance programs.-

The supervisor shall enter into an agreement with the

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local clerk of the circuit court to receive monthly from such

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clerk change-of-address information and a list of potential

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jurors who identified themselves as aliens, as defined ins.
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Bill No. HB 709

(2018)

Amendment No. 1

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327.02(2), during the preceding calendar month. Each list shall

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include the name, address, date of birth, sex, and, whichever is

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available, the Florida driver license number or Florida

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identification card number of each such person. The supervisor

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shall compare all of the information included in the list each

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month with the statewide voter registration system.

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Section 3.

Paragraph (h) is added to subsection (2) of

section 98.093, Florida Statutes, to read:

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to deceased persons, persons adjudicated mentally incapacitated,

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afi4 persons convicted of a felony, and persons identified as

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aliens.-

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(2)

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government agencies shall facilitate provision of information

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and access to data to the department, including, but not limited

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to, databases that contain reliable criminal records and records

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of deceased persons. State and local government agencies that

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provide such data shall do so without charge if the direct cost

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incurred by those agencies is not significant.

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(h)

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shall furnish monthly to the department a list of persons who

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identified themselves as aliens, as defined ins. 327.02(2),

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during the preceding calendar month. Each list shall include the

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name, address, date of birth, sex, and, whichever is available,

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the Florida driver license number or Florida identification card

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 COMMITTEE/SUBCOMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 709

( 2018)

Amendment No. 1

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number of each such person. The department shall compare all of

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the information included in the list each month with the

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statewide voter registration system and if the department

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determines that a registered voter is an alien, provide the name

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of such voter to the supervisor of elections of the county in

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which the voter is registered.

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An act relating to voting; amending s. 97.021, F.S.; revising

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the definition of the term "marksense ballots" for purposes of

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the Florida Election Code; amending s. 98.065, F.S.; requiring

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supervisors of elections to enter into agreements with clerks of

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the circuit courts to receive specified information; requiring

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supervisors of elections to compare certain information with the

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statewide voter registration system; amending s. 98.093, F.S.;

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requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to

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furnish monthly to the Department of State a list of persons who

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identified themselves as aliens; requiring the Department of

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State to compare such list with the statewide voter registration

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system and provide the names of registered voters who are aliens

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to the supervisor of elections of the county in which the voter

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is registered; amending s. 101.151, F.S.; providing

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applicability of
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 February 27, 2018
James Kracht President
Florida Council of the Blind
9901 SW 13 8th Street
Miami, Florida 33176
Mobile 305-724-3720

House Public Integrity and Ethics Committee
The Honorable Larry Metz Chair
404 House Office Building
the Capitol
Tallahassee, Florida

February 27, 2018
Testimony
Good morning Chairman Larry Metz, sponsor Brad Drake, and honorable members of the
House Public Integrity and Ethics Committee. My name is James Kracht and I am submitting
this testimony as the president of the Florida Council of the Blind in support of the passage of
HB 709.
For more than a dozen years Florida's blind voters in many counties have been forced to
accept the status of second class citizens and vote on old DRE touch screen voting machines.
These machines were specifically found by the Florida legislature to be unreliable, without
verifiable ballots and thus illegal for continued use by all Florida voters but the blind.
It was 1954 when this nation's highest court held that "separate but equal" is unlawful and
discriminatory, resulting in unequal treatment in education and thus was not to be tolerated. If
such discrimination is unlawful in education, it only follows that 65 years later, it is unlawful and
unacceptable discrimination in voting. Honorable members of this committee the continuation of
this discrimination in voting is just plain wrong.
Florida's voters who are blind deserve the right and the privilege to have their counties
provide more than old retired voting machines that are not deemed fit for use by the rest of
Florida's voters. This Legislature, the Florida Supervisors of Elections, the county Clerks, and
the advocates who promote their own bias noninclusive agendas, have stood by idly. They have
knowingly assisted in the continued push back of a mandate not requiring accessible verifiable
voting by all counties for more than 13 years, or now until 2020. Further pushback and delay is
intolerable and unacceptable.
After all these years, HB709 must finally be passed and passed now. In response to our pleas,
vendors have produced and obtained certification by Florida's Division of Elections of accessible
voting machines with verifiable ballots. Now, with just 2 years to go, voters, and not just blind
voters, but "all" voters must be given the ability and the right to vote on the same voting
equipment and end the discrimination faced by blind voters in Florida. Allowing all voters in
Florida to use the same voting system would mean that counties would no longer be forced to
buy machines used only by the blind. The availability of these machines for all would reduce
waiting lines in polling places. The continued availability and use of already outlawed and
outdated voting machines must end.

 Folks like those from Verifiable Ballots only last week called me as President of the Florida
Council of the Blind requesting me to withdraw our support of this bill. They continue asking
blind voters to back off and accept the use of illegal, separate, unequal and "different" voting
machines. They seemingly call for more study and analysis at the expense of blind voters who
have already been forced to endure voting on illegal voting equipment for the past 13 years. This
we should not do. This you cannot do again.
Please pass HB709 and let all voters have the ability, the opportunity and the right to use the
same voting machines. If the equipment is good enough to be certified by use for the blind, it
only follows that it must be available for use by the rest of Florida's voters. These new machines
do in fact have ballots which are verifiable not just in the voting machine itself, but also in the
tabulator, and in the eye of the voter's hands as well. To suggest that the existence of an
additional bar code on the ballots renders them nonverifiable is false, and misleading.
Please support the adoption ofHB 709 and give us and our sighted peers the same civil right,
the right to vote on the same voting machines.

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 COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT
Public Integrity & Ethics Committee
2/26/2018

2:00PM

Location: Sumner Hall (404 HOB)
CS/HB 1049: Poll Workers

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Absentee
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Larry Ahern
Jason Brodeur
Cord Byrd
Robert Cortes

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Kimberly Daniels

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Tracie Davis
Jason Fischer

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Julio Gonzalez

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Thomas Leek
Lawrence McClure
Amy Mercado
Daniel Perez

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Kathleen Peters

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x
x
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Sharon Pritchett
Jake Raburn
David Richardson
Emily Slosberg
Larry Metz (Chair)

Total Yeas: 15

Total Nays: 0

Committee meeting was reported out: Monday, February 26, 2018
Print Date: 2/26/2018

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COUNCIL/COMMITTEE BILL ACTION WORK SHEET
Council/Committee: PIE
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Place: 404 HOB
Time: 2-5

Bill Number: CS/BB 1049
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 COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT
Public Integrity & Ethics Committee
2/26/2018

2:00PM

Location: Sumner Hall (404 HOB)

Actionable Items
Motion to adopt Report on Proposed investigation - Approved

Committee meeting was reported out: Monday, February 26, 2018
Print Date: 2/26/2018

5:45 pm

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 The Florida House of Representatives
Public Integrity & Ethics Committee
Richard Corcoran
Speaker

Larry Metz
Chair

Report on Proposed Investigation
February 26, 2018
The Hon. Richard Corcoran
Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
Dear Mr. Speaker:
Your Public Integrity & Ethics Committee herewith submits the following report regarding a
proposed investigation into the actions or omissions of public agencies relevant to events and
circumstances related to Nikolas Jacob Cruz prior to, during, and immediately following the tragic
shooting that occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018.
At the request of the Speaker, the Public Integrity & Ethics Committee will coordinate the
investigation, initially in the gathering of relevant records, documents, and data. The purpose of
the investigation is to identify policy changes and resources required in order to ensure such an
event will never happen again. While Florida law entitles the committee to have access to such
materials held by any public agency, including any confidential information contained therein, s.
11.143, F.S., does not set any time requirement for a response to such demands. The legislative
calendar makes time of the essence and the committee believes that subpoenas duces tecum with
a prompt return date may advance the committee's access to such records.
The House has authority pursuant to Section 5, Article III of the Florida Constitution, to compel
production of documents upon any matter under investigation and may directly punish any refusal
to obey its lawful orders. Therefore, the committee recommends the House issue subpoenas duces
tecum to the Broward County Sheriff, the Broward County School Board, Broward County, the
Palm Beach County Sheriff, and the City of Coral Springs seeking such documents as the House
deems pertinent to the investigation. In addition, the House should request and expect all relevant
records from any state agency that may have pertinent infmmation.

402 House Office Building, 402 South Monroe Street, Tallahassee, Fl 32399-1300
(850) 717-4881

 Report on Proposed Investigation
February 26, 2018
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A quorum was present in person, and a majority of those present agreed to the above report.
Respectfully,

Larry Metz, Chairman