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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1226 & CS for SB 734

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 924596

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11  Senators Burt and Peaden moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 6, lines 25-31 through page 9, lines 1-18,

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18         Section 1.  Legislative Commission on Family Law and

19  Children; membership; advisory committee; staff; duties.--

20         (1)  There is created a Commission on Family Law and

21  Children, to be composed of six members as follows:  three

22  members of the Senate appointed by the President of the

23  Senate, to include the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee

24  or its successor and the chair of the Senate Children and

25  Families Committee or its successor, and three members of the

26  House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the

27  House, to include the chair of the Judicial Oversight

28  Committee or its successor and the chair of the Child and

29  Family Security Committee or its successor.  The terms of

30  members shall be for 2 years and shall run from the

31  organization of the one Legislature to the organization of the

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    Bill No. CS for SB 1226 & CS for SB 734

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 924596





  1  next Legislature.  Vacancies occurring during the interim

  2  period shall be filled in the same manner as the original

  3  appointment.  The President of the Senate shall appoint the

  4  chair in odd-numbered years and the Speaker of the House of

  5  Representatives shall appoint the chair in even-numbered

  6  years.  The Commission will be jointly staffed by the

  7  substantive committees of the House of Representatives and the

  8  Senate.

  9         (2)  The Commission on Family Law and Children is

10  authorized and directed to establish an advisory committee to

11  assist in carrying out the work of the commission.  Membership

12  of the advisory committee shall be determined by the

13  commission.

14         (3)  The commission shall meet at least quarterly and

15  more frequently at the direction of the presiding officers or

16  upon call of the chair.  The commission may conduct its

17  meetings through teleconferences or other similar means.

18         (4)  It is intended that the commission shall develop a

19  true family code, including, but not limited to, chapters 39,

20  61, 63, 88, 409, 741, 742, 743, 751, 752, 753, 984, and 985,

21  Florida Statutes.  Such a code shall be an internally

22  consistent body of law that would enable any individual to

23  locate the statutory requirements for any proceeding within

24  the unified family court's jurisdiction.

25         (5)  The commission shall stand repealed on June 30,

26  2007, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through

27  reenactment by the Legislature.

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    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 924596





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  2  And the title is amended as follows:

  3         On page 1, lines 3-11, delete those lines

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  6         creating the Commission on Family Law and

  7         Children to develop a family code; providing

  8         for membership and staffing commission;

  9         providing for repeal of the commission;

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