CRC - 2017 COMMISSIONER AMENDMENT Proposal No. CS for P 47 Ì109314ÅÎ109314 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: 1/AD . 03/19/2018 12:51 PM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Commissioner Schifino moved the following: 1 CRC Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Delete everything after the enacting clause 4 and insert: 5 6 SECTION 8. Eligibility.— 7 No person shall be eligible for office of justice or judge 8 of any court unless the person is an elector of the state and 9 resides in the territorial jurisdiction of the court. No justice 10 or judge shall serve after attaining the age of seventy years 11 except upon temporary assignment or to complete a term, one-half 12 of which has been served. No person is eligible for the office 13 of justice of the supreme court or judge of a district court of 14 appeal unless the person is, and has been for the preceding ten 15 years, a member of the bar of Florida. No person is eligible for 16 the office of circuit judge and shall not preside on the circuit 17 bench in any capacity, unless the person is, and has been for 18 the precedingfiveten years, a member of a bar of one of the 19 states or territories of the United States of America, of which 20 the last five years were as a member of the bar of Florida. 21Unless otherwise provided by general law, noNo person is 22 eligible for the office of county court judge unless the person 23 is, and has been for the preceding five years, a member of the 24 bar of Florida. Unless otherwise provided by general law, a 25 person shall be eligible for election or appointment to the 26 office of county court judge in a county having a population of 27 40,000 or less if the person is a member in good standing of the 28 bar of Florida. 29 30 A new section is added to Article XII of the State 31 Constitution to read: 32 ARTICLE XII 33 SCHEDULE 34 Qualifications of circuit judges and county court judges.— 35 The amendment to Section 8 of Article V, which revises the 36 qualifications for a person to be eligible for the office of 37 circuit judge, shall only apply prospectively from January 8, 38 2019. The amendment may not be construed to affect a person who 39 has assumed the office of circuit judge on or before January 8, 40 2019, or any person who has been nominated for a vacancy in the 41 office of circuit judge by a judicial nominating commission, but 42 has not yet assumed office, as of January 8, 2019. 43 44 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 45 And the title is amended as follows: 46 Delete everything before the enacting clause 47 and insert: 48 A proposal to amend 49 Section 8 of Article V of the State Constitution to 50 create a new section in to Article XII of the State 51 Constitution to require a person to have at least ten 52 years membership in a bar in the United States of 53 America, the preceding five of which must be in The 54 Florida Bar, in order to be eligible to serve in the 55 office of circuit judge or preside on the circuit 56 bench.