Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SJR 140
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/18/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Simmons) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Substitute Amendment (291874) (with
    2  ballot and title amendments)
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    4         Delete line 17
    5  and insert:
    6  the age of seventy-five seventy years except upon temporary
    7  assignment or to
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    9  ====== B A L L O T  S T A T E M E N T  A M E N D M E N T ======
   10         And the ballot statement is amended as follows:
   11         Delete lines 298 - 299
   12  and insert:
   13         INCREASING THE AGE AT WHICH JUSTICES AND JUDGES MAY NO
   14  LONGER SERVE IN A JUDICIAL OFFICE AND INCREASING THE
   15  QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE OFFICES OF CIRCUIT COURT AND COUNTY COURT
   16  JUDGES.—The State Constitution currently prohibits a justice or
   17  judge from serving in a judicial office after attaining the age
   18  of seventy years except upon temporary assignment or to complete
   19  a judicial term, if one-half of the term has been served. This
   20  proposed amendment increases the age after which a justice or
   21  judge may no longer serve to seventy-five years of age. However,
   22  a justice or judge who has attained the age of seventy-five
   23  years may continue to serve upon temporary assignment or to
   24  complete a judicial term. In addition, the State Constitution
   25  currently  
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   27  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   28         And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete line 323
   30  and insert:
   31         increase the age after which a justice or judge may no
   32         longer serve in a judicial office and to increase the
   33         period of time that a person must be a