Senate Bill 2224
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Florida Senate - 2000 SJR 2224
By Senator Burt
16-1269-00 See HJR 1031
1 Senate Joint Resolution No.
2 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to
3 Section 2 of Article V of the State
4 Constitution relating to administration of the
5 Supreme Court.
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7 Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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9 That the following amendment to Section 2 of Article V of the
10 State Constitution is agreed to and shall be submitted to the
11 electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next
12 general election or at an earlier special election
13 specifically authorized by law for that purpose:
14 ARTICLE V
15 JUDICIARY
16 SECTION 2. Administration; practice and procedure.--
17 (a) The supreme court shall adopt rules for the
18 practice and procedure in all courts including the time for
19 seeking appellate review, the administrative supervision of
20 all courts, the transfer to the court having jurisdiction of
21 any proceeding when the jurisdiction of another court has been
22 improvidently invoked, and a requirement that no cause shall
23 be dismissed because an improper remedy has been sought.
24 Nothing in this section shall limit the authority of the
25 legislature to enact by general law limitations on actions or
26 requirements for expediting particular classes of cases.
27 Nothing in this constitution shall be construed to limit the
28 authority of the legislature to limit by general law the time
29 within which persons sentenced to death may challenge their
30 convictions and sentences in state courts. Rules adopted by
31 the supreme court shall be consistent with general law. The
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1 supreme court shall adopt rules to allow the court and the
2 district courts of appeal to submit questions relating to
3 military law to the federal Court of Appeals for the Armed
4 Forces for an advisory opinion. Rules of court may be
5 repealed or modified by general law enacted by two-thirds vote
6 of the membership of each house of the legislature.
7 (b) The chief justice of the supreme court shall be
8 chosen by a majority of the members of the court; shall be the
9 chief administrative officer of the judicial system; and shall
10 have the power to assign justices or judges, including
11 consenting retired justices or judges, to temporary duty in
12 any court for which the judge is qualified and to delegate to
13 a chief judge of a judicial circuit the power to assign judges
14 for duty in that circuit.
15 (c) A chief judge for each district court of appeal
16 shall be chosen by a majority of the judges thereof or, if
17 there is no majority, by the chief justice. The chief judge
18 shall be responsible for the administrative supervision of the
19 court.
20 (d) A chief judge in each circuit shall be chosen from
21 among the circuit judges as provided by supreme court rule.
22 The chief judge shall be responsible for the administrative
23 supervision of the circuit courts and county courts in his
24 circuit.
25 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
26 placed on the ballot:
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28 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
29 ARTICLE V, SECTION 2
30 RULES OF COURT SUBJECT TO GENERAL LAW.--Proposing an
31 amendment to the State Constitution to allow the Legislature
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1 to enact limitations on actions or requirements for expediting
2 particular classes of cases and limit the time within which
3 persons sentenced to death may challenge their convictions and
4 sentences; to require court rules to be consistent with, and
5 allow them to be repealed or modified by, general law; and to
6 eliminate the two-thirds-vote requirement for the Legislature
7 to repeal court rules.
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