Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SPB 7222
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/05/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Simmons) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 14 - 56
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 43.291, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         43.291 Judicial nominating commissions.—
    8         (1) Each judicial nominating commission shall be composed
    9  of the following members:
   10         (a) Four members of The Florida Bar, appointed by the
   11  Governor, who are engaged in the practice of law, each of whom
   12  is a resident of the territorial jurisdiction served by the
   13  commission to which the member is appointed. The Attorney
   14  General and the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar shall
   15  submit to the Governor three recommended nominees for each
   16  position. The Governor shall select the appointee from the list
   17  of nominees recommended for that position, but the Governor may
   18  reject all of the nominees recommended for a position and
   19  request that the Attorney General and the Board of Governors
   20  submit a new list of three different recommended nominees for
   21  that position who have not been previously recommended by the
   22  Attorney General and the Board of Governors.
   23         (b) Five members appointed by the Governor, each of whom is
   24  a resident of the territorial jurisdiction served by the
   25  commission to which the member is appointed, of which at least
   26  two are members of The Florida Bar engaged in the practice of
   27  law.
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   30         And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Delete lines 4 - 9
   32  and insert:
   33         General and the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar
   34         to submit nominees for certain positions on judicial
   35         nominating commissions; providing