Florida Statute 106.33 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title IX
ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 106
CAMPAIGN FINANCING

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106.33 Election campaign financing; eligibility.—Each candidate for the office of Governor or member of the Cabinet who desires to receive contributions from the ¹Election Campaign Financing Trust Fund, upon qualifying for office, shall file a request for such contributions with the filing officer on forms provided by the Division of Elections. If a candidate requesting contributions from the fund desires to have such funds distributed by electronic fund transfers, the request shall include information necessary to implement that procedure. For the purposes of ss. 106.30-106.36, the respective candidates running for Governor and Lieutenant Governor on the same ticket shall be considered as a single candidate. To be eligible to receive contributions from the fund, a candidate may not be an unopposed candidate as defined in s. 106.011 and must:

(1) Agree to abide by the expenditure limits provided in s. 106.34.

(2)(a) Raise contributions as follows:

1. One hundred fifty thousand dollars for a candidate for Governor.

2. One hundred thousand dollars for a candidate for Cabinet office.

(b) Contributions from individuals who at the time of contributing are not state residents may not be used to meet the threshold amounts in paragraph (a). For purposes of this paragraph, any person validly registered to vote in this state shall be considered a state resident.

(3) Limit loans or contributions from the candidate’s personal funds to $25,000 and contributions from national, state, and county executive committees of a political party to $250,000 in the aggregate, which loans or contributions do not qualify for meeting the threshold amounts in subsection (2).

(4) Submit to a postelection audit of the campaign account by the division.

History.—s. 1, ch. 86-276; s. 40, ch. 90-315; s. 20, ch. 91-107; s. 68, ch. 2001-40; s. 47, ch. 2005-278; s. 27, ch. 2013-37; ss. 1, 6, ch. 2024-116.

¹Note.—The trust fund expired, effective November 4, 1996, by operation of s. 19(f), Art. III of the State Constitution.

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Scott v. Roberts, 612 F.3d 1279 (11th Cir. 2010).

Cited 53 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 15897, 2010 WL 2977614

...tions. To be eligible to participate in the system, a gubernatorial candidate must submit an application for matching funds, Fla. Admin. Code Ann. r. 1S-2.047(1); be an 11 opposed candidate, Fla. Stat. § 106.33; agree to abide by an expenditure limit, which for the 2010 election is $24,901,170, id. § 106.34; raise an initial $150,000 in qualified contributions from Florida residents before receiving any public funds, id. § 106.33(2)(a)(1); agree to limit loans or contributions from their personal funds to $25,000, id. §106.33(3); limit contributions from national, state, and county executive committees of a political party to $250,000 in the aggregate (this limit applies to all candidates participating or not), id.; submit disclosure and reporting statements of each qualified contribution, id. § 106.35(3)(a); and submit a post-election audit of the campaign account, id. § 106.33(4)....

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Smith v. Crawford, 645 So. 2d 513 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994).

Cited 19 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1994 WL 592242

...On July 18, 1994, Jim Smith, who currently serves as Florida's Secretary of State, filed his papers to qualify as a candidate for Governor pursuant to the requirements of the Florida Election Code. Candidate Jim Smith, during his campaign for Governor, participated in public election campaign financing pursuant to section 106.33 of the Act....

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Adams v. Sch. Bd. of St. Johns Cnty., 318 F. Supp. 3d 1293 (M.D. Fla. 2018).

Cited 2 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida

provided for students of the other sex." 34 C.F.R. § 106.33. To prove his claim here, Adams must demonstrate

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Connor v. Div. of Elections, 643 So. 2d 75 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 9460, 1994 WL 532584

law. To be eligible for campaign financing, section 106.33, Florida Statutes (1993), requires that a candidate

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Richard L. Scott v. Dawn K. Roberts (11th Cir. 2010).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

...tions. To be eligible to participate in the system, a gubernatorial candidate must submit an application for matching funds, Fla. Admin. Code Ann. r. 1S-2.047(1); be an 11 opposed candidate, Fla. Stat. § 106.33; agree to abide by an expenditure limit, which for the 2010 election is $24,901,170, id. § 106.34; raise an initial $150,000 in qualified contributions from Florida residents before receiving any public funds, id. § 106.33(2)(a)(1); agree to limit loans or contributions from his personal funds to $25,000, id. §106.33(3); limit contributions from national, state, and county executive committees of a political party to $250,000 in the aggregate (this limit applies to all candidates participating or not), id.; submit disclosure and reporting statements of each qualified contribution, id. § 106.35(3)(a); and submit a post- election audit of the campaign account, id. § 106.33(4)....

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Drew Adams v. Sch. Bd. of St. Johns Cnty. Florida (11th Cir. 2021).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

provided for students of the other sex.” 34 C.F.R. § 106.33. Whether the Board violated Title IX turns

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Thurston v. State, Florida Elections Comm'n, 210 So. 3d 684 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2017 WL 625791, 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 2059

Division a request for matching funds pursuant to section 106.33, Florida Statutes.1 By e-mail dated August

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Drew Adams v. Sch. Bd. of St. Johns Cnty., Florida (11th Cir. 2022).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

cilities provided for students of the other sex,” id. § 106.33. As such, this appeal requires

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Drew Adams v. Sch. Bd. of St. Johns Cnty. Florida (11th Cir. 2020).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

as all facilities are “comparable.” 34 C.F.R. § 106.33. The School Board argues Mr. Adams did

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Drew Adams v. Sch. Bd. of St. Johns Cnty. Florida (11th Cir. 2020).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

as all facilities are “comparable.” 34 C.F.R. § 106.33. The School Board argues Mr. Adams did

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