CRC - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Proposal No. P 38
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
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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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.