Florida Statute 29.004 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH

Chapter 29
COURT SYSTEM FUNDING

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29.004 State courts system.—For purposes of implementing s. 14, Art. V of the State Constitution, the elements of the state courts system to be provided from state revenues appropriated by general law are as follows:

(1) Judges appointed or elected pursuant to chapters 25, 26, 34, and 35.

(2) Juror compensation and expenses.

(3) Reasonable court reporting and transcription services necessary to meet constitutional requirements.

(4) Construction or lease of facilities, maintenance, utilities, and security for the district courts of appeal and the Supreme Court.

(5) Court foreign language and sign-language interpreters and translators essential to comply with constitutional requirements.

(6) Expert witnesses who are appointed by the court pursuant to an express grant of statutory authority.

(7) Judicial assistants, law clerks, and resource materials.

(8) General magistrates, special magistrates, and hearing officers.

(9) Court administration.

(10) Case management. Case management includes:

(a) Initial review and evaluation of cases, including assignment of cases to court divisions or dockets.

(b) Case monitoring, tracking, and coordination.

(d) Service referral, coordination, monitoring, and tracking for treatment-based drug court programs under s. 397.334.

(e) Service referral, coordination, monitoring, and tracking for treatment-based mental health court programs under chapter 394.

Case management may not include costs associated with the application of therapeutic jurisprudence principles by the courts. Case management also may not include case intake and records management conducted by the clerk of court.

(11) Mediation and arbitration, limited to trial court referral of a pending judicial case to a mediator or a court-related mediation program, or to an arbitrator or a court-related arbitration program, for the limited purpose of encouraging and assisting the litigants in partially or completely settling the case prior to adjudication on the merits by the court. This does not include citizen dispute settlement centers under s. 44.201 and community arbitration programs under s. 985.16.

(12) Basic legal materials reasonably accessible to the public other than a public law library. These materials may be provided in a courthouse facility or any library facility.

(13) The Judicial Qualifications Commission.

(14) Offices of the appellate clerks and marshals and appellate law libraries.

History.—s. 4, ch. 2000-237; s. 40, ch. 2003-402; s. 3, ch. 2004-11; s. 14, ch. 2005-236; s. 104, ch. 2006-120; s. 1, ch. 2016-241.

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Cases Citing Statute 29.004

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In Re May, 12 B.R. 618 (N.D. Fla. 1980).

Cited 51 times | Published | District Court, N.D. Florida | 1980 Bankr. LEXIS 4287

425 F.2d 984, 986 (9th Cir. 1970); 2A Collier § 29.04[2]. The bulk of the criminal provisions are devoted

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Off. of State Attorney v. Polites, 904 So. 2d 527 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005).

Cited 8 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...3d DCA 1983) (common law certiorari held as the appropriate vehicle for appellate court to review a trial court's order requiring the State Attorney's Office to pay for half of a defense exhibit ordered by the Public Defender's Office). The relevant statutes and rules are sections 29.004(6), 29.005(3) and (4), [2] 916.115, Florida Statutes (2004), and Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure 3.210(b) and 3.218(c). Section 29.004 covers the Circuit Courts by stating, in pertinent part: For purposes of implementing s....

...The Florida Legislature also provided for the application of state revenues to the courts' system to cover the costs of expert witnesses not requested by any party that are appointed by the court pursuant to an express grant of statutory authority. See § 29.004(6), Fla....

...ppointed counsel to pay for the costs of the mental health expert. In addition, recognizing that there would be circumstances under Rule 3.218(c) in which the trial court on its own motion appointed mental health experts, the Legislature provided in section 29.004(6) that in those circumstances, the trial court was responsible to pay for the costs of those evaluations....

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Coral Imaging Servs. v. Geico Indem. Ins., 955 So. 2d 11 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2006 Fla. App. LEXIS 16469, 2006 WL 2819614

...Thousands of analogous examples can be found throughout Florida's constitutional and statutory provisions. See, e.g., Art. III, § 8(a), Fla. Const.; Fla. Stat. § 11.062(2)(a); § 11.066(4); § 11.70(3)(d); § 14.29(3)(b), (12); § 20.04(7)(a); § 20.19(6)(f); § 20.23(2)(a)3; § 27.34(2); § 27.711(3); § 28.241(3),(4); § 29.004(10)(d); § 39.012; § 39.013(2); § 44.06(2); § 63.0423(5) and (6); § 90.604....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2008).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

elements of the state courts system identified in section 29.004, Florida Statutes, 1 and innovations to supplement

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Buffalo Tank Corp. v. Env't Control Equip., Inc., 544 So. 2d 1037 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 14 Fla. L. Weekly 1179, 1989 Fla. App. LEXIS 2596, 1989 WL 49590

3 S. Rakusin, Florida Mechanics’ Lien Manual § 29.04(D)(1) (1974). Section 255.05(2) does not require

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Steiner v. Guardianship of Steiner, 159 So. 3d 253 (Fla. 2d DCA 2015).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 2968, 2015 WL 894259

s. 29.004(6).” S.B. 366; C.S./C.S./H.B. 5. Section 29.004(6), Florida Statutes (2014), provides that

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Williams v. State, Dep't of Mgmt. Servs., Div. of Ret., 647 So. 2d 317 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 12533, 1994 WL 704800

She was paid an annual salary pursuant to Section 29.04, Florida Statutes, she received “compensation

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Williams v. Dep't of Mgmt. Servs., Div. of Ret., 678 So. 2d 1282 (Fla. 1996).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 21 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 344, 1996 Fla. LEXIS 1426, 1996 WL 490183

Williams summarized the effect of these statutes: Section 29.04, Florida Statutes (1991), provides for salary

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Advisory Opinion to the Attorney Gen. Re: Adult Use of Marijuana (Fla. 2021).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

have the same meaning as defined in Article X, Section 29. (4) “Marijuana accessories” means any equipment

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Advisory Opinion to the Attorney Gen. Re: Adult Use of Marijuana (Fla. 2021).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

have the same meaning as defined in Article X, Section 29. (4) “Marijuana accessories” means any equipment

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