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CHILES v. DEPT. OF STATE, DIV. OF ELECTIONS

No. 97-3854.

711 So.2d 151 (1998)

Lawton CHILES, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Florida, and Robert F. Milligan, in his official capacity as the Comptroller of the State of Florida, Appellants, v. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, DIVISION OF ELECTIONS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

May 12, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Hardin Peterson, General Counsel and Thomas Crapps, Tallahassee, for Appellant Governor Lawton Chiles.

Harry Hooper, General Counsel; Robert Beitler, Chief Counsel; Richard Donelan, Assistant General Counsel, Tallahassee, for Appellant Robert F. Milligan, Comptroller.

Barry Richard of Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentel and Donald Bell, General Counsel, Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

Dan B. Hendrickson, Kisha R. Pruitt, Tallahassee, and Peter Belmont, St. Petersburg, for Amicus Curiae Florida Consumer Action Network, Common Cause/Florida, The League of Women Voters of Florida, The Sierra Club, Florida League of Conservation Voters, Florida Public Interest Research Group, and The Florida Women's Consortium.

PADOVANO, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final declaratory statement by the Division of Elections on behalf of the Department of State. The Division determined that public funding of state political campaigns was suspended by a 1997 amendment to section 215.3206(2), Florida Statutes, the law governing the dissolution of state trust funds. We disagree and reverse.

The Florida Election Campaign Financing Act, sections 106.30-106.37, Florida Statutes, requires...

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