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House Bill 1753

Florida House of Representatives - 1997 HB 1753 By the Committee on Civil Justice & Claims and Representatives Warner, Bradley, Ritter, Flanagan, Byrd, Thrasher, Burroughs, Cosgrove and Clemons 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the judiciary; amending s. 3 26.031, F.S.; increasing the number of judges 4 in specified judicial circuits; amending s. 5 34.022, F.S.; increasing the number of judges 6 in specified county courts; providing an 7 effective date. 8 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10 11 Section 1. Section 26.031, Florida Statutes, 1996 12 Supplement, is amended to read: 13 26.031 Judicial circuits; number of judges.--The 14 number of circuit judges in each circuit shall be as follows: 15 16 JUDICIAL CIRCUIT TOTAL 17 (1) First...........................................19 18 (2) Second........................................1211 19 (3) Third........................................... 5 20 (4) Fourth........................................2928 21 (5) Fifth.........................................2018 22 (6) Sixth...........................................37 23 (7) Seventh.......................................2120 24 (8) Eighth..........................................10 25 (9) Ninth.........................................3332 26 (10) Tenth..........................................18 27 (11) Eleventh.......................................70 28 (12) Twelfth........................................17 29 (13) Thirteenth.....................................33 30 (14) Fourteenth......................................9 31 (15) Fifteenth......................................31 1 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. Florida House of Representatives - 1997 HB 1753 686-100-97 1 (16) Sixteenth...................................... 4 2 (17) Seventeenth..................................4645 3 (18) Eighteenth.....................................21 4 (19) Nineteenth.....................................13 5 (20) Twentieth......................................20 6 Section 2. Section 34.022, Florida Statutes, 1996 7 Supplement, is amended to read: 8 34.022 Number of county court judges for each 9 county.--The number of county court judges in each county 10 shall be as follows: 11 12 COUNTY TOTAL 13 (1) Alachua..........................................5 14 (2) Baker............................................1 15 (3) Bay..............................................3 16 (4) Bradford.........................................1 17 (5) Brevard..........................................7 18 (6) Broward.......................................2524 19 (7) Calhoun..........................................1 20 (8) Charlotte........................................2 21 (9) Citrus...........................................1 22 (10) Clay............................................2 23 (11) Collier.........................................3 24 (12) Columbia........................................1 25 (13) Dade.........................................4140 26 (14) DeSoto..........................................1 27 (15) Dixie...........................................1 28 (16) Duval..........................................13 29 (17) Escambia........................................5 30 (18) Flagler.........................................1 31 (19) Franklin........................................1 2 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. Florida House of Representatives - 1997 HB 1753 686-100-97 1 (20) Gadsden.........................................1 2 (21) Gilchrist.......................................1 3 (22) Glades..........................................1 4 (23) Gulf............................................1 5 (24) Hamilton........................................1 6 (25) Hardee..........................................1 7 (26) Hendry..........................................1 8 (27) Hernando........................................1 9 (28) Highlands.......................................1 10 (29) Hillsborough...................................13 11 (30) Holmes..........................................1 12 (31) Indian River....................................2 13 (32) Jackson.........................................1 14 (33) Jefferson.......................................1 15 (34) Lafayette.......................................1 16 (35) Lake............................................2 17 (36) Lee.............................................6 18 (37) Leon............................................4 19 (38) Levy............................................1 20 (39) Liberty.........................................1 21 (40) Madison.........................................1 22 (41) Manatee.........................................3 23 (42) Marion..........................................3 24 (43) Martin..........................................2 25 (44) Monroe..........................................4 26 (45) Nassau..........................................1 27 (46) Okaloosa........................................2 28 (47) Okeechobee......................................1 29 (48) Orange.......................................1413 30 (49) Osceola.........................................3 31 (50) Palm Beach.....................................17 3 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. Florida House of Representatives - 1997 HB 1753 686-100-97 1 (51) Pasco...........................................3 2 (52) Pinellas.......................................13 3 (53) Polk............................................6 4 (54) Putnam..........................................1 5 (55) St. Johns.......................................2 6 (56) St. Lucie.......................................3 7 (57) Santa Rosa......................................2 8 (58) Sarasota........................................4 9 (59) Seminole........................................5 10 (60) Sumter..........................................1 11 (61) Suwannee........................................1 12 (62) Taylor..........................................1 13 (63) Union...........................................1 14 (64) Volusia.........................................9 15 (65) Wakulla.........................................1 16 (66) Walton..........................................1 17 (67) Washington......................................1 18 Section 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 1997. 19 20 ***************************************** 21 HOUSE SUMMARY 22 Increases the number of judges in specified judicial 23 circuits and county courts. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 4