Bill to allow defeated judges to continue to serve dies on last day.Bills that would have allowed judges who lose their bid for re-election re-election n → reelección f re-election n → réélection f re-election n → Wiederwahl f to continue to sit as senior judges died on the last day of the legislative session. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rep (programming) REP - A directive used in IBM object code card decks (and later PTF Tapes) to REPlace fragments of already assembled or compiled object code prior to link edit. . J.C. Planas, D-Miami, the sponsor of HB 295, contended that amending the law to allow defeated judges to continue to serve would have been an excellent way for "individuals who had long and distinguished careers as judges to still be able to sit as senior judges even though they may have not won re-election." The House bill was on the second reading calendar when the session ended. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A similar Senate bill--SB 740--sponsored by Sen. Charlie Dean, R-Ocala, passed the upper chamber 39-1, but died in messages to the House. Dean said removing the prohibition prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages, the extreme of the regulatory liquor laws. The modern movement for prohibition had its main growth in the United States and developed largely as a result of the would have provided an inexpensive way to help clear the courts' dockets. "Since the Florida Florida, state, United States Florida (flôr`ĭdə, flŏr`–), state in the extreme SE United States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia and Supreme Court and the chief judge of the circuit must still approve any senior judge for service, that gate-keeping function would prevent an unqualified senior judge from serving in any case," Dean said in support of his bill. |
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