Florida Statute 120.655 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title X
PUBLIC OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND RECORDS

Chapter 120
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT

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120.655 Withholding funds to pay for administrative law judge services to school boards.—If a district school board fails to make a timely payment for the services provided by an administrative law judge of the Division of Administrative Hearings as provided annually in the General Appropriations Act, the Commissioner of Education shall withhold, from any general revenue funds the district is eligible to receive, an amount sufficient to pay for the administrative law judge’s services. The commissioner shall transfer the amount withheld to the Division of Administrative Hearings in payment of such services.

History.—s. 1, ch. 92-121; s. 32, ch. 96-159.

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Biscayne Bay Pilots, Inc. v. Florida Caribbean-Cruise Ass'n, 177 So. 3d 1043 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2015 WL 6852195

...of prohibition and quash the orders denying the motion. FCCA, a not-for-profit organization comprised of fifteen member cruise lines, filed an application with the Committee seeking a reduction in pilotage rates for PortMiami. Pursuant to section 120.655, Florida Statutes, BBP filed a motion to disqualify Commissioners Burke and Miguez from serving on the Committee because Burke and Miguez are senior executives of Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean, which are members of FCCA....

...Miguez filed written orders denying the motion for disqualification. BBP, by way of a writ of prohibition, seeks review of those orders. A petition for writ of prohibition seeking review of an order denying a motion for disqualification pursuant to section 120.655 is reviewed de novo....

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