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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH
Chapter 29
COURT SYSTEM FUNDING
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29.006 Indigent defense costs.—For purposes of implementing s. 14, Art. V of the State Constitution, the elements of the public defenders’ offices and criminal conflict and civil regional counsel offices to be provided from state revenues appropriated by general law are as follows:
(1)(a) The public defender of each judicial circuit and assistant public defenders and other staff as determined by general law.
(b) The regional counsel of each judicial district, the assistant regional counsel, and other staff as determined by general law.
(2) Reasonable court reporting and transcription services necessary to meet constitutional or statutory requirements, including the cost of transcribing and copying depositions of witnesses and the cost of foreign language and sign-language interpreters and translators.
(3) Witnesses, including expert witnesses, summoned to appear for an investigation, preliminary hearing, or trial in a case when the witnesses are summoned on behalf of an indigent defendant, and any other expert witnesses required in a court hearing by law or whomever the public defender or regional counsel deems necessary for the performance of his or her duties.
(4) Mental health professionals appointed pursuant to s. 394.473 and required in a court hearing involving an indigent, and mental health professionals appointed pursuant to s. 916.115(2) and required in a court hearing involving an indigent.
(5) Reasonable transportation services in the performance of constitutional and statutory responsibilities.
(6) Travel expenses reimbursable under s. 112.061 reasonably necessary in the performance of constitutional and statutory responsibilities.
(7) Reasonable library and electronic legal research services, other than a public law library.
(8) Reasonable pretrial consultation fees and costs.
History.—s. 6, ch. 2000-237; s. 42, ch. 2003-402; s. 27, ch. 2004-265; s. 17, ch. 2007-62; s. 8, ch. 2019-3.

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Bennett v. Jacksonville Expressway Auth., 131 So. 2d 740 (Fla. 1961).

Cited 20 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

[5] Constitution State of Florida, art. 16, Section 29. [6] Constitution State of Florida, Dec. Rights
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Carter v. State Road Dep't, 189 So. 2d 793 (Fla. 1966).

Cited 10 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

Declaration of Rights, §§ 3[4] and 12[5] and Article XVI, § 29[6] of the Florida Constitution, F.S.A. We construe
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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

...The respondent contends that the State Attorney's Office is required by section 29.005(3), Florida Statutes (2004), to pay for expert witnesses summoned by a state attorney and any other expert witnesses required in a court hearing by law. Similarly, the Public Defender's Office is required by section 29.006(3), Florida Statutes (2004), to pay for expert witnesses summoned on behalf of the indigent defendant and any other expert witnesses required in a court hearing by law. The respondent further contends that sections 29.005(4) and 29.006(4) require the State Attorney's Office and the Public Defender's Office, respectively, to pay for mental health professionals appointed pursuant to section 916.115(2), Florida Statutes (2004), and required in a court hearing involving an indigent defendant....
...In addition, the Florida Legislature provided for the application of state revenues to the State Attorney's Office, the Public Defender's Office, and court-appointed counsel to cover the costs of mental health experts appointed pursuant to section 916.115(2). See §§ 29.005(4), 29.006(4), 29.007(5), Fla....
...e of three events occur: the trial court on its own moves for the appointment of experts, the defense specifically requests the appointment of experts, or the State specifically requests the appointment of experts. When it passed sections 29.005(4), 29.006(4), and 29.007(5), the Legislature acknowledged that system and allocated money for the Public Defender's Office, the State Attorney's Office or court-appointed counsel to pay for the costs of the mental health expert....
...NOTES [1] In case number 3D04-3207, the Office of the Public Defender seeks a writ of certiorari quashing this order which required the Public Defender to pay for this mental health evaluation. [2] The public defenders and court-appointed counsel have similar statutes: sections 29.006(3) and (4) and 29.007(4) and (5), Florida Statutes (2004), respectively....
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Lawrence v. State, 632 So. 2d 1099 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1994 WL 59777

criminal case in the Circuit Court ... Further, section 29.06, Florida Statutes, provides that the report
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State v. Stang, 41 So. 3d 206 (Fla. 2010).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 35 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 448, 2010 Fla. LEXIS 1117, 2010 WL 2682255

Philip J. Padovano, Florida Appellate Practice § 29.6 (2009). That is, unless habeas corpus was employed

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