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SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1188
Amendment No. 1
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11 The Committee on Comprehensive Planning, Local and Military
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 2. Subsection (2) of Section 27.34, Florida
19 Statutes, is amended to read:
20 27.34 Salaries and other related costs of state
21 attorneys' offices; limitations.--
22 (2) The state attorneys shall be provided by the
23 counties within their judicial circuits with such office
24 space, utilities, telephone service, custodial services,
25 library services, transportation services, and communication
26 services as may be necessary for the proper and efficient
27 functioning of these offices, except as otherwise provided in
28 the General Appropriations Act. The state attorney's office
29 shall also be provided with pretrial consultation fees for
30 expert or other potential witnesses consulted before trial by
31 the state attorney; travel expenses incurred in criminal cases
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1 by a state attorney in connection with out-of-jurisdiction
2 depositions; out-of-state travel expenses incurred by
3 assistant state attorneys or by investigators of state
4 attorneys while attempting to locate and interrogate witnesses
5 for the state attorney in the prosecution of a criminal case;
6 court reporter costs incurred by the state attorney during the
7 course of an investigation and criminal prosecution which
8 costs are certified by the state attorney as being useful and
9 necessary in the prosecution, provided that nothing herein
10 shall be construed to prohibit the county from contesting the
11 reasonableness of the expenditure in the court wherein the
12 criminal case is brought; postindictment and postinformation
13 deposition costs incurred by the state attorney during the
14 course of a criminal prosecution of an insolvent defendant
15 when such costs are certified by the state attorney as being
16 useful and necessary in the prosecution, provided that nothing
17 herein shall be construed to prohibit the county from
18 contesting the reasonableness of the expenditure in the court
19 wherein the criminal case is brought; and the cost of copying
20 depositions of state witnesses taken by the public defender,
21 court-appointed counsel, or private retained counsel, when
22 such costs are certified by the state attorney as being useful
23 and necessary in the prosecution, provided that nothing herein
24 shall be construed to prohibit the county from contesting the
25 reasonableness of the expenditure in the court wherein the
26 criminal case is brought. The office space to be provided by
27 the counties shall not be less than the standards for space
28 allotment adopted by the Department of Management Services,
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30 provided in the prior fiscal year. The counties shall not
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1 previous fiscal year, and the office space shall not be less
2 than that provided in the prior fiscal year except in counties
3 which construct courthouses or court complexes after July 1,
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10 And the title is amended as follows:
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14 amending s. 27.34, F.S., clarifying a county's
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