CS/SB 412--Service of process.

This bill increases fees charged by a sheriff in connection with docketing and service of process in civil cases, from $20 to $40. The bill also deletes the provision of law that prohibits additional fees to be charged by the sheriff for successive attempts at service. The State of Florida or its agencies are exempted from the increase and additional fees. In addition, this bill: adds criminal witness subpoenas and criminal summons to the types of process that can be served by a special process server; revises the process for carrying out executions by amending how the priority of liens will be determined and the information that must be included in the affidavit required in connection with a personal property levy and a real property levy; allows the clerk of court to send the county sheriff a certified facsimile copy of an injunction for protection against domestic or sexual violence, which can be served by the sheriff in the same manner as a certified copy; provides that a law enforcement officer may arrest a person when probable cause exists that the person violated a condition of pretrial release, where the original arrest was for an act of dating violence; and requires the clerk of court to record a certified copy of an order imposing certain additional court costs in the public records, which constitutes a lien on any real or personal property owned by the person against whom the court costs are imposed. Subject to the Governor's veto powers, the effective date of this bill is July 1, 2009.