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Florida Statutes § 960.298 — Priority of liens.
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Existing liens already in place when a restitution lien is placed take priority over the restitution lien.
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Florida Statutes § 961.01 — Short title.
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Sections 961.01-961.07 may be cited as the “Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Compensation Act.”
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Florida Statutes § 961.02 — Definitions.
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This section defines key terms used in the wrongful incarceration compensation provisions.
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Florida Statutes § 961.03 — Determination of status as a wrongfully incarcerated person; determination of eligibility for compensation.
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A person seeking wrongful-incarceration compensation must file a sworn, specific petition in the original sentencing court, meet stated deadlines, and prove required facts; the prosecuting authority must respond, and the court may certify, dismiss, or transfer the petition based on the response.
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Florida Statutes § 961.04 — Eligibility for compensation for wrongful incarceration.
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A wrongfully incarcerated person cannot get compensation for any incarceration period when they were also serving a sentence for another felony conviction.
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Florida Statutes § 961.05 — Application for compensation for wrongful incarceration; administrative expunction; determination of entitlement to compensation.
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Eligible wrongfully incarcerated people must apply for compensation, generally within 2 years, and the Department of Legal Affairs must process the application on a set schedule.
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Florida Statutes § 961.06 — Compensation for wrongful incarceration.
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People found entitled to compensation for wrongful incarceration can receive payment and other listed benefits, while agencies must process the claim and expunge the record; the annuity cannot be sold or used as collateral.
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Florida Statutes § 961.07 — Continuing appropriation.
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This section sets up a continuing appropriation for certain payments, starting in fiscal year 2025-2026 and each year after.
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Florida Statutes § 98.015 — Supervisor of elections; election, tenure of office, compensation, custody of registration-related documents, office hours, successor, seal; appointment of deputy supervisors; duties.
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This section sets out how county supervisors of elections are chosen and what they must do in office, including oath-taking, record handling, office hours, training, address-list maintenance, and compliance with voter-registration rules.
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Florida Statutes § 98.035 — Statewide voter registration system; implementation, operation, and maintenance.
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Florida’s Secretary of State must implement and maintain a statewide voter registration system, and the department may adopt rules for it.
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Florida Statutes § 98.045 — Administration of voter registration.
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This section tells supervisors how to handle voter registration: register eligible applicants, decide ineligibility on listed grounds, keep certain records for at least 2 years, and restrict removal of registered voters except in specified cases.
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Florida Statutes § 98.065 — Registration list maintenance programs.
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Supervisors must run annual voter registration list maintenance programs and follow specified address-check and record-updating steps.
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Florida Statutes § 98.0655 — Registration list maintenance forms.
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The department must prescribe voter registration maintenance forms with specific notices, and voters in certain address-change situations must return the form or may be marked inactive.
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Florida Statutes § 98.075 — Registration records maintenance activities; ineligibility determinations.
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This section requires the department and supervisors to keep voter registration records accurate, identify potential duplicate/deceased/ineligible voters, and follow notice, hearing, removal, and reporting steps.
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Florida Statutes § 98.0751 — Restoration of voting rights; termination of ineligibility subsequent to a felony conviction.
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Some people with felony-based voting disqualification must have that disqualification ended and their voting rights restored after they finish all sentence terms.
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Florida Statutes § 98.0755 — Appeal of determination of ineligibility.
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A person may appeal a supervisor’s determination of ineligibility to the circuit court, but the notice of appeal must be filed on the appellate rules’ timetable and the appeal stays enforcement.
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Florida Statutes § 98.077 — Update of voter signature.
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Registered voters may update their signature on file at any time, and election supervisors must provide notice about how to do it.
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Florida Statutes § 98.081 — Names removed from the statewide voter registration system; restrictions on reregistering; recordkeeping; restoration of erroneously or illegally removed names.
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If an elector is removed from the voter registration system, the supervisor of elections must keep the original registration application, and a voter registration official must restore an erroneously or illegally removed name upon satisfactory proof, even after the registration period closes.
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Florida Statutes § 98.093 — Duty of officials to furnish information relating to deceased persons, persons adjudicated mentally incapacitated, persons convicted of a felony, and persons who are not United States citizens.
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Officials and agencies must share specified voter-eligibility information with the department, mostly on a weekly basis.
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Florida Statutes § 98.0981 — Reports; voting history; statewide voter registration system information; precinct-level election results; book closing statistics; live turnout data.
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Supervisors of elections and the department must report, compile, publish, and update election-related data on strict deadlines.
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