| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to the state judicial system; revising the |
| 3 | maximum annual budget amount for the Clerk of the Circuit |
| 4 | Court, Hillsborough County; providing retroactive |
| 5 | applicability; providing an effective date. |
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| 7 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 9 | Section 1. (1)(a) The Legislature finds that the use of |
| 10 | estimates of prior year expenditures to establish maximum annual |
| 11 | budgets for the 2004-2005 county fiscal year resulted in maximum |
| 12 | annual budgets for some clerks of court which were less than the |
| 13 | amounts they would have been if actual prior-year expenditures |
| 14 | had been used. |
| 15 | (b) The Legislature further finds that the clerks of court |
| 16 | perform duties critical to the operation of the judicial branch |
| 17 | and that future maximum annual budgets for the clerks of court |
| 18 | are based in part on their prior-year budgets. |
| 19 | (c) The Legislature further finds that the difference |
| 20 | between establishing the maximum annual budget using estimated |
| 21 | prior-year expenditures and using actual prior-year expenditures |
| 22 | is significant for the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Hillsborough |
| 23 | County. |
| 24 | (d) The Legislature further finds that basing, in part, |
| 25 | future maximum annual budgets for the clerks of court on their |
| 26 | prior-year budgets does not allow a clerk of court to take into |
| 27 | account the costs resulting from independent pay and |
| 28 | classification studies resulting from civil service action. The |
| 29 | difference in expenditures between the approved maximum annual |
| 30 | budget expenditures and the increase in fixed costs that |
| 31 | resulted from a civil service study of positions and salaries |
| 32 | was significant for the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Hillsborough |
| 33 | County. |
| 34 | (2) Therefore, the maximum annual budget for the Clerk of |
| 35 | the Circuit Court, Hillsborough County, is increased by $269,378 |
| 36 | based upon the findings in paragraph (1)(c) and $639,000 based |
| 37 | upon the findings in paragraph (1)(d) for the 2004-2005 county |
| 38 | fiscal year and all county fiscal years thereafter. |
| 39 | Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |