Florida Senate - 2014 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 828
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: WD/2R .
04/24/2014 04:55 PM .
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1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 246 and 247
4 insert:
5 Section 19. Subsection (3) is added to section 454.021,
6 Florida Statutes, to read:
7 454.021 Attorneys; admission to practice law; Supreme Court
8 to govern and regulate.—
9 (3) Upon certification by the Florida Board of Bar
10 Examiners that an applicant who is not lawfully present in the
11 United States has fulfilled all requirements for admission to
12 practice law in this state, the Supreme Court of Florida may
13 admit that applicant as an attorney at law authorized to
14 practice in this state and may direct an order be entered upon
15 the court’s records to that effect.
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18 And the title is amended as follows:
19 Delete lines 2 - 46
20 and insert:
21 An act relating to the courts; repealing s. 25.151,
22 F.S., relating to a prohibition on the practice of law
23 by a retired justice of the Supreme Court; repealing
24 ss. 25.191 and 25.231, F.S., relating to the
25 appointment and duties of a Clerk of the Supreme
26 Court; amending s. 25.241, F.S.; deleting a
27 requirement regarding the salary of the Clerk of the
28 Supreme Court, to conform; repealing s. 25.281, F.S.,
29 relating to compensation of the Marshal of the Supreme
30 Court; repealing s. 25.351, F.S., relating to the
31 acquisition of books by the Supreme Court; repealing
32 s. 26.01, F.S., relating to the number of judicial
33 circuits; amending s. 26.021, F.S.; specifying the
34 number of judicial circuits; deleting certain
35 residency requirements for circuit judges; repealing
36 s. 26.51, F.S., relating to payment of the salaries of
37 circuit judges; amending s. 26.55, F.S.; excluding
38 retired judges practicing law from the Conference of
39 Circuit Judges of Florida; removing a requirement that
40 circuit court judges attend and participate in such
41 conference; requiring that the conference operate
42 according to the Rules of Judicial Administration;
43 revising requirements for such conferences; repealing
44 s. 27.55, F.S., relating to compensation and certain
45 expenditures of public defenders; creating s. 29.23,
46 F.S.; providing for certain judicial branch salaries;
47 repealing ss. 35.12, 35.13, 35.19, and 35.21, F.S.,
48 relating to the chief judge, quorum, compensation of
49 judges, and clerk, respectively, of the district
50 courts of appeal; amending s. 35.22, F.S.; deleting a
51 requirement for the appointment and salary of a clerk
52 for each district court of appeal; repealing ss. 35.25
53 and 35.27, F.S., relating to duties of the clerk and
54 compensation of the marshal, respectively, of the
55 district courts of appeal; repealing s. 38.13, F.S.,
56 relating to replacement of disqualified judges of the
57 district courts of appeal; amending s. 43.20, F.S.;
58 revising the number of members of the Judicial
59 Qualifications Commission to conform to requirements
60 of the State Constitution; repealing s. 57.101, F.S.,
61 relating to the charging of costs against the losing
62 party for certain copies of records in the Supreme
63 Court; repealing s. 92.15, F.S., relating to an
64 evidentiary rule regarding evidence of title to land
65 passing from the United States; amending s. 454.021,
66 F.S.; authorizing the Supreme Court to admit a bar
67 applicant who is not lawfully present in the United
68 States; providing an effective