PUB 700721: Minimum Residency Requirement for State Elected Officials by A. Miller

ARTICLE VI: SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS, Section 4. Disqualifications.

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.
2. 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
3. No person may appear on the ballot for election to any of the following offices if he or she has not been an elector in the State of Florida for at least 11 years prior to any election in which he or she would be on the ballot:
   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