The Florida Senate

HB 645: Expert Witnesses

GENERAL BILL by Ross

Expert Witnesses; Revises requirements for admission of expert testimony; provides that facts or data that are otherwise inadmissible shall not be disclosed to jury except in specified circumstances; provides for pretrial hearing to determine whether an expert's proposed testimony satisfies specified requirements; provides standard for appellate review of such determination; provides for interlocutory appeal of ruling to admit or exclude expert testimony, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  1/22/2008	House	• Filed
  1/27/2008	House	• Referred to Safety & Security Council
  2/21/2008	House	• Referred to Courts (SS) by Safety & Security Council
  3/4/2008	House	• Introduced, referred to Safety & Security Council -HJ 00052; Referred to Courts (SS) by Safety & Security Council -HJ 00133
  3/10/2008	House	• On Committee agenda-- Courts (SS), 03/12/08, 8:00 am, 212-K --Temporarily deferred
  3/17/2008	House	• On Committee agenda-- Courts (SS), 03/19/08, 8:00 am, 216-C --Not considered
  5/2/2008	House	• Died in Committee on Courts (SS)

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• HB 645, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 1/22/2008 at 11:02 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Committee on Courts (Post-Meeting) (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  S 1448	Expert Witnesses [LPCC]	Wise	Identical	Last Action: 5/2/2008 S Died in Committee on Judiciary Location:

  Citations - Statutes (4)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  90.702	Testimony by experts.
  90.704	Basis of opinion testimony by experts.
  90.705	Disclosure of facts or data underlying expert opinion.
  90.707

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