Florida Statute 27.425 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH

Chapter 27
STATE ATTORNEYS; PUBLIC DEFENDERS; RELATED OFFICES

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27.425 Due process service rates; expenditure limitation; approval of uniform contract forms and procedures.—

(1) The maximum compensation rates for state-funded due process service providers in cases in which the court has appointed private counsel or declared a person indigent for costs shall be specified annually in the General Appropriations Act. For purposes of this section, due process compensation rates do not include attorney’s fees for legal representation of the client.

(2) The total amount expended for providers of due process services in eligible cases may not exceed the amount budgeted in the General Appropriations Act for the particular due process service.

(3) The Justice Administrative Commission shall approve uniform contract forms for use in procuring due process services and uniform procedures for use by a due process provider, or a private attorney on behalf of a due process provider, in support of billing for due process services to demonstrate completion of the specified services.

History.—s. 3, ch. 2007-62; s. 6, ch. 2010-162.

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Dale Glenn Middleton v. State of Florida, 220 So. 3d 1152 (Fla. 2017).

Cited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 42 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 624, 2017 WL 930925, 2017 Fla. LEXIS 1210

2011-69, § 4, at 126, Laws of Fla,; see also § 27.425, Fla. Stat. (indicating that the rate specified

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Dale Glenn Middleton v. State of Florida (Fla. 2015).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...Since at least 2011, mitigation specialists have been recognized as a part of capital cases, when the General Appropriations Act of 2011 set the maximum hourly rate for mitigation specialists at $75. See ch. 2011-69, § 4, at 126, Laws of Fla; see also § 27.425, Fla....

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Just. Admin. Comm'n v. Off. Reporters, Inc., 61 So. 3d 1269 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 7746, 2011 WL 2091137

Laws of Fla. (eliminating the language in section 27.425 authorizing the chief judge to recommend compensation

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Dale Glenn Middleton v. State of Florida – Revised Opinion (Fla. 2017).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

ch. 2011-69, § 4, at 126, Laws of Fla; see also § 27.425, Fla. Stat. (indicating that the rate specified

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