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Article: CS/CS/SB 2108--clerk of court funding.(Judicial Administration Law)
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- Florida Bar News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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This legislation revises the method for setting the budgets of the clerks of court. Under the bill, the court-related revenue collected by each clerk is remitted to the state to the Clerks of Court Trust Fund within the Justice Administrative Commission. The Clerks of Court Operations Corporation would be administratively housed in the Justice Administrative Commission and funding for the corporation and the clerks will be appropriated to this entity in the General Appropriations Act. The clerks' budgets would no longer be based on the projected revenue increase for each clerk and set by the Clerks of Court Operations Corporation. Instead, the Corporation would prepare a ...