Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 1958
                        Barcode 633086
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11  The Committee on Judiciary (Aronberg) recommended the
12  following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 35, between lines 10 and 11,
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18         Section 23.  Subsection (19) of section 744.474,
19  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20         744.474  Reasons for removal of guardian.--A guardian
21  may be removed for any of the following reasons, and the
22  removal shall be in addition to any other penalties prescribed
23  by law:
24         (19)  Upon a showing by a person who did not receive
25  notice of the petition for adjudication of incapacity, when
26  such notice is required, or who is related to the ward within
27  the relationships specified for nonresident relatives in ss.
28  744.309(2) and 744.312(2) and who has not previously been
29  rejected by the court as a guardian that:
30         (a)  the current guardian is not a family member; and
31  subsection (20) applies.
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 1958
                        Barcode 633086
 1         (20)(b)  Removal of the current guardian is in the best
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 4  the court may remove the current guardian and appoint the
 5  petitioner, or such person as the court deems in the best
 6  interest of the ward, either as guardian of the person or of
 7  the property, or both.
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 9  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)
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13  And the title is amended as follows:
14         On page 5, line 1, after the first semicolon,
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17         amending s. 744.474, F.S.; revising the
18         circumstances under which a guardian may be
19         removed;
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