The Florida Senate

SB 78: Judicial Nominating Commissions

GENERAL BILL by Rossin

Judicial Nominating Commissions; requires appointing authorities to attempt to ensure that commissions' membership is representative of racial, ethnic, & gender diversity & geographic distribution of population within territorial jurisdiction of court; requires appointing authorities to attempt to ensure adequacy of representation of counties within judicial circuits. Amends 43.29.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  9/8/1999	Senate	• Prefiled
  9/23/1999	Senate	• Referred to Judiciary; Governmental Oversight and Productivity
  3/2/2000	Senate	• On Committee agenda Judiciary, 03/07/00, 3:45 pm, 110S
  3/7/2000	Senate	• Introduced, referred to Judiciary; Governmental Oversight and Productivity SJ 00015; On Committee agenda Judiciary, 03/07/00, 3:45 pm, 110S Temporarily postponed
  3/23/2000	Senate	• On Committee agenda Judiciary, 03/28/00, 3:30 pm, 110S Temporarily postponed
  5/5/2000	Senate	• Died in Committee on Judiciary

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• SB 78, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 8/25/2000 at 4:11 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (3)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  S 826 (c2)	Judicial Nominating Commissions	Cowin	Identical	Last Action: 5/5/2000 S Died in Committee on Fiscal Policy Location:
  H 1035 (c1)	Judicial Nominating Commissions	Brummer	Compare	Last Action: 5/5/2000 H Died on Calendar Location:
  S 398	Judicial Nominating Commissions	Cowin	Compare	Last Action: 3/28/2000 S CS combines this bill with 826; Comm. Action: CS by Judiciary; YEAS 4 NAYS 1 -SJ 00351; Original bill laid on Table, refer to combined CS/CS/SB 826 (Died in Senate Fiscal Policy Committee) Location:

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  43.29	Judicial nominating commissions.

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