Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2048
                        Barcode 740182
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11  The Committee on Judiciary (Villalobos) recommended the
12  following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         Delete everything after the enacting clause
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17  and insert:  
18         Section 1.  Section 26.031, Florida Statutes, is
19  amended to read:
20         26.031  Judicial circuits; number of judges.--The
21  number of circuit judges in each circuit shall be as follows:
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23  JUDICIAL CIRCUIT                                         TOTAL
24         (1)  First........................................23 21
25         (2)  Second.......................................17 15
26         (3)  Third.........................................7  6
27         (4)  Fourth.......................................33 31
28         (5)  Fifth........................................27 25
29         (6)  Sixth........................................43 41
30         (7)  Seventh......................................26 24
31         (8)  Eighth.......................................13 12
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Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 2048 Barcode 740182 1 (9) Ninth........................................40 38 2 (10) Tenth.......................................24 22 3 (11) Eleventh....................................76 74 4 (12) Twelfth........................................19 5 (13) Thirteenth..................................39 37 6 (14) Fourteenth..................................10 9 7 (15) Fifteenth...................................35 34 8 (16) Sixteenth...................................... 4 9 (17) Seventeenth.................................55 53 10 (18) Eighteenth..................................26 24 11 (19) Nineteenth..................................17 15 12 (20) Twentieth...................................25 23 13 Section 2. Effective June 1, 2006, section 26.031, 14 Florida Statutes, as amended by this act, is amended to read: 15 26.031 Judicial circuits; number of judges.--The 16 number of circuit judges in each circuit shall be as follows: 17 18 JUDICIAL CIRCUIT TOTAL 19 (1) First........................................24 23 20 (2) Second..........................................17 21 (3) Third........................................... 7 22 (4) Fourth..........................................33 23 (5) Fifth........................................32 27 24 (6) Sixth........................................46 43 25 (7) Seventh......................................28 26 26 (8) Eighth..........................................13 27 (9) Ninth........................................43 40 28 (10) Tenth.......................................29 24 29 (11) Eleventh....................................81 76 30 (12) Twelfth........................................19 31 (13) Thirteenth..................................43 39 2 2:54 PM 03/21/05 s2048.ju38.001
Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 2048 Barcode 740182 1 (14) Fourteenth.....................................10 2 (15) Fifteenth......................................35 3 (16) Sixteenth...................................... 4 4 (17) Seventeenth.................................59 55 5 (18) Eighteenth.....................................26 6 (19) Nineteenth..................................19 17 7 (20) Twentieth...................................26 25 8 Section 3. Section 34.022, Florida Statutes, is 9 amended to read: 10 34.022 Number of county court judges for each 11 county.--The number of county court judges in each county 12 shall be as follows: 13 14 COUNTY TOTAL 15 (1) Alachua..........................................5 16 (2) Baker............................................1 17 (3) Bay............................................4 3 18 (4) Bradford.........................................1 19 (5) Brevard........................................9 8 20 (6) Broward......................................28 26 21 (7) Calhoun..........................................1 22 (8) Charlotte........................................2 23 (9) Citrus...........................................1 24 (10) Clay............................................2 25 (11) Collier.......................................4 3 26 (12) Columbia........................................1 27 (13) DeSoto..........................................1 28 (14) Dixie...........................................1 29 (15) Duval.......................................16 15 30 (16) Escambia........................................5 31 (17) Flagler.........................................1 3 2:54 PM 03/21/05 s2048.ju38.001
Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 2048 Barcode 740182 1 (18) Franklin........................................1 2 (19) Gadsden.........................................1 3 (20) Gilchrist.......................................1 4 (21) Glades..........................................1 5 (22) Gulf............................................1 6 (23) Hamilton........................................1 7 (24) Hardee..........................................1 8 (25) Hendry..........................................1 9 (26) Hernando......................................2 1 10 (27) Highlands.......................................1 11 (28) Hillsborough................................16 15 12 (29) Holmes..........................................1 13 (30) Indian River....................................2 14 (31) Jackson.........................................1 15 (32) Jefferson.......................................1 16 (33) Lafayette.......................................1 17 (34) Lake..........................................3 2 18 (35) Lee...........................................8 7 19 (36) Leon............................................5 20 (37) Levy............................................1 21 (38) Liberty.........................................1 22 (39) Madison.........................................1 23 (40) Manatee.......................................4 3 24 (41) Marion........................................4 3 25 (42) Martin........................................3 2 26 (43) Miami-Dade..................................42 41 27 (44) Monroe..........................................4 28 (45) Nassau..........................................1 29 (46) Okaloosa........................................3 30 (47) Okeechobee......................................1 31 (48) Orange......................................16 15 4 2:54 PM 03/21/05 s2048.ju38.001
Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 2048 Barcode 740182 1 (49) Osceola.........................................3 2 (50) Palm Beach..................................18 17 3 (51) Pasco.........................................5 4 4 (52) Pinellas....................................15 14 5 (53) Polk............................................9 6 (54) Putnam..........................................2 7 (55) St. Johns.......................................2 8 (56) St. Lucie.....................................4 3 9 (57) Santa Rosa......................................2 10 (58) Sarasota........................................5 11 (59) Seminole......................................6 5 12 (60) Sumter..........................................1 13 (61) Suwannee........................................1 14 (62) Taylor..........................................1 15 (63) Union...........................................1 16 (64) Volusia......................................10 9 17 (65) Wakulla.........................................1 18 (66) Walton..........................................1 19 (67) Washington......................................1 20 Section 4. Effective June 1, 2006, section 34.022, 21 Florida Statutes, as amended by this act, is amended to read: 22 34.022 Number of county court judges for each 23 county.--The number of county court judges in each county 24 shall be as follows: 25 26 COUNTY TOTAL 27 (1) Alachua..........................................5 28 (2) Baker............................................1 29 (3) Bay..............................................4 30 (4) Bradford.........................................1 31 (5) Brevard.......................................12 9 5 2:54 PM 03/21/05 s2048.ju38.001
Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 2048 Barcode 740182 1 (6) Broward......................................32 28 2 (7) Calhoun..........................................1 3 (8) Charlotte........................................2 4 (9) Citrus...........................................1 5 (10) Clay............................................2 6 (11) Collier.......................................5 4 7 (12) Columbia........................................1 8 (13) DeSoto..........................................1 9 (14) Dixie...........................................1 10 (15) Duval..........................................16 11 (16) Escambia........................................5 12 (17) Flagler.........................................1 13 (18) Franklin........................................1 14 (19) Gadsden.........................................1 15 (20) Gilchrist.......................................1 16 (21) Glades..........................................1 17 (22) Gulf............................................1 18 (23) Hamilton........................................1 19 (24) Hardee..........................................1 20 (25) Hendry..........................................1 21 (26) Hernando........................................2 22 (27) Highlands.......................................1 23 (28) Hillsborough................................19 16 24 (29) Holmes..........................................1 25 (30) Indian River....................................2 26 (31) Jackson.........................................1 27 (32) Jefferson.......................................1 28 (33) Lafayette.......................................1 29 (34) Lake............................................3 30 (35) Lee.............................................8 31 (36) Leon............................................5 6 2:54 PM 03/21/05 s2048.ju38.001
Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 2048 Barcode 740182 1 (37) Levy............................................1 2 (38) Liberty.........................................1 3 (39) Madison.........................................1 4 (40) Manatee.........................................4 5 (41) Marion........................................5 4 6 (42) Martin..........................................3 7 (43) Miami-Dade..................................43 42 8 (44) Monroe..........................................4 9 (45) Nassau..........................................1 10 (46) Okaloosa........................................3 11 (47) Okeechobee......................................1 12 (48) Orange......................................18 16 13 (49) Osceola.........................................3 14 (50) Palm Beach..................................19 18 15 (51) Pasco.........................................6 5 16 (52) Pinellas....................................18 15 17 (53) Polk............................................9 18 (54) Putnam..........................................2 19 (55) St. Johns.......................................2 20 (56) St. Lucie.......................................4 21 (57) Santa Rosa......................................2 22 (58) Sarasota........................................5 23 (59) Seminole........................................6 24 (60) Sumter..........................................1 25 (61) Suwannee........................................1 26 (62) Taylor..........................................1 27 (63) Union...........................................1 28 (64) Volusia........................................10 29 (65) Wakulla.........................................1 30 (66) Walton..........................................1 31 (67) Washington......................................1 7 2:54 PM 03/21/05 s2048.ju38.001
Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 2048 Barcode 740182 1 Section 5. Section 35.06, Florida Statutes, is amended 2 to read: 3 35.06 Organization of district courts of appeal.--A 4 district court of appeal shall be organized in each of the 5 five appellate districts to be named District Court of Appeal, 6 .... District. The number of judges of each district court of 7 appeal shall be as follows: 8 (1) In the first district there shall be 15 judges. 9 (2) In the second district there shall be 15 14 10 judges. 11 (3) In the third district there shall be 11 judges. 12 (4) In the fourth district there shall be 12 judges. 13 (5) In the fifth district there shall be 11 10 judges. 14 Section 6. (1) The judicial offices created in 15 sections 1 and 3 of this act shall be filled through 16 appointment by the Governor. Judges appointed as provided in 17 this subsection shall take office for a term beginning on 18 January 2, 2006. 19 (2) The judicial offices created in sections 2 and 4 20 of this act may not be appointed by the Governor but shall be 21 filled by election in 2006 pursuant to chapter 105, Florida 22 Statutes. Candidates for those judicial offices shall qualify 23 as provided in chapter 105, Florida Statutes. 24 Section 7. Except as otherwise expressly provided in 25 this act, this act shall take effect upon becoming a law. 26 27 28 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 29 And the title is amended as follows: 30 Delete everything before the enacting clause 31 8 2:54 PM 03/21/05 s2048.ju38.001
Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 2048 Barcode 740182 1 and insert: An act relating to judges; amending s. 26.031, 2 F.S.; revising the number of circuit court judges in certain 3 circuits; amending s. 34.022, F.S.; revising the number of 4 county court judges in certain counties; amending s. 35.06, 5 F.S.; revising the number of district court judges in certain 6 district courts of appeal; providing for appointment or 7 election of new judges created by the act; providing effective 8 dates. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 9 2:54 PM 03/21/05 s2048.ju38.001