Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2542
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11  The Committee on Judiciary (Webster) recommended the following
12  amendment to amendment (742998):
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 43, between lines 11 and 12,
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17  insert:  Section 18.  Section 29.0081, Florida Statutes, is
18  created to read:
19         29.0081  County funding of additional court
20  personnel.--
21         (1)  A county and the chief judge of a judicial circuit
22  that includes that county may enter into an agreement under
23  which the county funds personnel positions to assist in the
24  operation of the circuit.
25         (2)  The agreement shall, at a minimum, provide that:
26         (a)  Funding for the positions is provided on at least
27  a court fiscal-year basis;
28         (b)  The personnel whose employment is funded under the
29  agreement are employees of the judicial circuit and are hired,
30  supervised, managed, and fired by personnel of the judicial
31  circuit; and
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Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 2542 Barcode 253196 1 (c) The positions terminate upon the expiration of, or 2 substantial breach of, the agreement or upon the expiration of 3 county funding for the positions. 4 (3) Positions funded under this section shall be 5 full-time equivalent positions of the judicial circuit but 6 shall not count against any formula or similar process used by 7 the Office of the State Courts Administrator to determine 8 personnel needs or levels of a judicial circuit. 9 (4) Nothing in this section obligates the state to 10 fund any personnel positions. 11 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 12 13 14 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 15 And the title is amended as follows: 16 On page 92, line 14, after the semicolon, 17 18 insert: creating s. 29.0081, F.S.; authorizing counties and 19 judicial circuits to agree to the funding of personnel 20 positions for the circuit; providing requirements for such 21 agreements; providing for the effect and limitation of such 22 agreements; 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 8:05 AM 04/22/05 s2542.ju09.p01