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.

Terms Used In Florida Statutes 29.004

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
(b) Case monitoring, tracking, and coordination.
(c) Scheduling of judicial events.
(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.