| 1 | Representative(s) Simmons offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between line(s) 1543 and 1544, insert: |
| 5 | Section 18. Section 29.0081, Florida Statutes, is |
| 6 | created to read: |
| 7 | 29.0081 County funding of additional court |
| 8 | personnel.-- |
| 9 | (1) A county and the chief judge of a judicial circuit |
| 10 | that includes that county may enter into an agreement under |
| 11 | which the county funds personnel positions to assist in the |
| 12 | operation of the circuit. |
| 13 | (2) The agreement shall, at a minimum, provide that: |
| 14 | (a) Funding for the positions is provided on at least |
| 15 | a court fiscal-year basis. |
| 16 | (b) The personnel whose employment is funded under the |
| 17 | agreement are employees of the judicial circuit and are hired, |
| 18 | supervised, managed, and fired by personnel of the judicial |
| 19 | circuit. |
| 20 | (c) The positions terminate upon the expiration of, or |
| 21 | substantial breach of, the agreement or upon the expiration of |
| 22 | county funding for the positions. |
| 23 | (3) Positions funded under this section shall be |
| 24 | full-time equivalent positions of the judicial circuit but |
| 25 | shall not count against any formula or similar process used by |
| 26 | the Office of the State Courts Administrator to determine |
| 27 | personnel needs or levels of a judicial circuit. |
| 28 | (4) Nothing in this section obligates the state to |
| 29 | fund any personnel positions. |
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| 32 | Remove line 133 and insert: |
| 33 | communications services; creating s. 29.0081, F.S.; |
| 34 | authorizing counties and judicial circuits to agree to the |
| 35 | funding of personnel positions for the circuit; providing |
| 36 | requirements for such agreements; providing for the effect |
| 37 | and limitation of such agreements; amending s. 29.015, |
| 38 | F.S.; |