Senate Bill sb2270

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2270

    By Senator Crist





    12-1210-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the state judicial system;

  3         revising the maximum annual budget amount for

  4         the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Hillsborough

  5         County; providing retroactive applicability;

  6         providing an effective date.

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  8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         Section 1.  (1)(a)  The Legislature finds that the use

11  of estimates of prior year expenditures to establish maximum

12  annual budgets for the 2004-2005 county fiscal year resulted

13  in maximum annual budgets for some clerks of court which were

14  less than the amounts they would have been if actual

15  prior-year expenditures had been used.

16         (b)  The Legislature further finds that the clerks of

17  court perform duties critical to the operation of the judicial

18  branch and that future maximum annual budgets for the clerks

19  of court are based in part on their prior-year budgets.

20         (c)  The Legislature further finds that the difference

21  between establishing the maximum annual budget using estimated

22  prior-year expenditures and using actual prior-year

23  expenditures is significant for the Clerk of the Circuit

24  Court, Hillsborough County.

25         (d)  The Legislature further finds that basing, in

26  part, future maximum annual budgets for the clerks of court on

27  their prior-year budgets does not allow a clerk of court to

28  take into account the costs resulting from independent pay and

29  classification studies resulting from civil service action.

30  The difference in expenditures between the approved maximum

31  annual budget expenditures and the increase in fixed costs

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2270
    12-1210-06




 1  that resulted from a civil service study of positions and

 2  salaries was significant for the Clerk of the Circuit Court,

 3  Hillsborough County.

 4         (2)  Therefore, the maximum annual budget for the Clerk

 5  of the Circuit Court, Hillsborough County, is permanently

 6  increased by $269,378 based upon the findings in paragraph

 7  (1)(c) and $639,000 based upon the findings in paragraph

 8  (1)(d) for the 2004-2005 county fiscal year and all county

 9  fiscal years thereafter.

10         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

11  law.

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15    Increases the maximum annual budget amount for the Clerk
      of the Circuit Court, Hillsborough County, by $908,378.
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