1. No person convicted of a felony, or adjudicated in this or any other state to be mentally incompetent, shall be qualified to vote or hold office until restoration of civil rights or removal of disability except as provided in subsection (b). 

(b)       Any person who has lost his/her voting rights because of a felony conviction shall have his or her voting rights restored if all of the following criteria are met:

            (1) At least seven years have passed since the individual finished his/her terms of sentence including parole or probation.

            (2) The individual has not been convicted of any felony or more than 14 misdemeanors during that seven year period.

            (3) The individual has paid all due legal and trial related fees.

            (4) The felony was a third degree or second degree felony.

(5) The individual’s felony conviction was not the result of him/her committing any of the following crimes: murder or manslaughter, attempted murder or manslaughter, terrorism, sexual offences and related crimes (including attempted or the encouraging of), gun related crimes, kidnapping, aggravated crimes, child pornography related activity, treason, causing someone to ingest a controlled substance, racketeering activity, directly or indirectly giving bribes to or receiving bribes from a candidate, campaign, elected leader, or the office of an elected leader, robbery or theft that amounts to worth of more than ten thousand dollars, obtaining or using public assistance unlawfully, property damage that amounts to more than ten thousand dollars in damage, election law violations, or voting/election related crimes.

(c)        Convicted felons who do not meet the above criteria to have their voting rights restored may still have their voting rights restored by the means provided in the Constitution and the laws made pursuant thereto.

(d) Subsection (b) shall not prevent a convicted felon from having his/her voting rights restored at an earlier time through the means provided in the Constitution and the laws made pursuant thereto.

1. No person may appear on the ballot for re-election to any of the following offices:
   if, by the end of the current term of office, the person will have served (or, but for resignation, would have served) in that office for eight consecutive years.
   1. Florida representative,
   2. Florida senator,
   3. Florida Lieutenant governor,
   4. any office of the Florida cabinet,
   5. U.S. Representative from Florida, or
   6. U.S. Senator from Florida