CRC - 2017                                   COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Proposal No. P 38
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/16/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Judicial (Coxe) recommended the following:
       
    1         CRC Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5                              ARTICLE V                            
    6                              JUDICIARY                            
    7         SECTION 8. Eligibility.—
    8         No person shall be eligible for office of justice or judge
    9  of any court unless the person is an elector of the state and
   10  resides in the territorial jurisdiction of the court. No justice
   11  or judge shall serve after attaining the age of seventy years
   12  except upon temporary assignment or to complete a term, one-half
   13  of which has been served. No person is eligible for the office
   14  of justice of the supreme court or judge of a district court of
   15  appeal unless the person is, and has been for the preceding ten
   16  years, a member of the bar of Florida. No person is eligible for
   17  the office of circuit judge unless the person is, and has been
   18  for the preceding five years, a member of the bar of Florida.
   19  Unless otherwise provided by general law, no person is eligible
   20  for the office of county court judge unless the person is, and
   21  has been for the preceding five years, a member of the bar of
   22  Florida. Unless otherwise provided by general law, a person
   23  shall be eligible for election or appointment to the office of
   24  county court judge in a county having a population of 40,000 or
   25  less if the person is a member in good standing of the bar of
   26  Florida.
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   29  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   30  And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   32  and insert:
   33                          A proposal amend                         
   34         Section 8 of Article V of the State Constitution to
   35         revise the date on which the term of office ends for
   36         judicial offices in order to avoid the ambiguity and
   37         litigation that may result by having the terms of
   38         judicial officers and the Governor end and begin on
   39         the same day.