The Florida Senate

SJR 904: Impeachment and Suspension of State Attorneys and Public Defenders

JOINT RESOLUTION by Steube

Impeachment and Suspension of State Attorneys and Public Defenders; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to authorize the House of Representatives to impeach state attorneys and public defenders for misdemeanors in office and subject them to trial by the Senate, if impeached; preserve the Governor’s existing authority to suspend state attorneys and public defenders from office; and to provide that state attorneys and public defenders who hold office on or after the amendment’s effective date are subject to impeachment, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  2/13/2017	Senate	• Filed
  2/23/2017	Senate	• Referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Criminal Justice; Rules -SJ 105
  3/7/2017	Senate	• Introduced -SJ 105
  5/5/2017	Senate	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration • Died in Ethics and Elections

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• SJR 904, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 2/13/2017 at 2:17 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  H 999	Impeachment and Suspension of State Attorneys and Public Defenders	Toledo	Similar	Last Action: 5/5/2017 H Died in Judiciary Committee

  Citations - Constitution (3)

  Article	Section	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  III	Section 17	Page 1 (pdf)
  IV	Section 7	Page 2 (pdf) , Page 3 (pdf)
  XII		Page 3 (pdf)

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