Ron DeSantis could run for president without resigning his post as governor of Florida, according to an election bill amendment filed Tuesday by a Republican state senator.

The amendment to the elections bill, SB7050, would exempt “Persons seeking the office of President of Vice President of the United States” from state rules that require political office holders to resign their current position in order to qualify as a candidate for another office.

The strike-all amendment was filed Tuesday afternoon by state Senator Travis Hutson, a Republican from northeast Florida, whom DeSantis endorsed last year.

Florida law currently states that “No officer may qualify as a candidate for another state, district, county, or municipal public office if the terms or any part thereof run concurrently with each other without resigning from the office he or she presently holds.”

The officer’s “resignation is irrevocable,” the law states, and it “must be submitted at least 10 days prior to the first day of qualifying for the office he or she intends to seek.”

Republican leaders have expressed openness to amending the resign-to-run law since DeSantis won a landslide re-election victory in November. While he has not officially declared his candidacy, DeSantis is seen by many as the top Republican challenger to former president Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination.

After the November election, state House Speaker Paul Renner and state Senate President Kathleen Passidomo both said they were on board with changing the law.

“If an individual who is Florida governor is running for president, I think he should be allowed to do it. I really do,” Passidomo told reporters, according to Politico. “That’s a big honor and a privilege, so it is a good idea.”

Florida lawmakers have changed the law in the past. In 2008, lawmakers changed it so then-governor Charlie Crist – a Republican at the time – could be considered as a running mate for then-GOP nominee John McCain. Lawmakers reinstated the resign-to-run law in 2018.

A carve-out for an office holder whose term was about to end allowed then-governor Rick Scott to run for his U.S. Senate seat in 2018. That carve-out doesn’t apply to DeSantis, whose term as governor runs into January 2027.