Art. V, § 14, Fla. Const. · Article V. JUDICIARY
Funding.
Text — As revised in 1968 and subsequently amended (Online Sunshine, retrieved 2026-10-04)
(a) All justices and judges shall be compensated only by state salaries fixed by general law. Funding for the state courts system, state attorneys’ offices, public defenders’ offices, and court-appointed counsel, except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), shall be provided from state revenues appropriated by general law.
(b) All funding for the offices of the clerks of the circuit and county courts performing court-related functions, except as otherwise provided in this subsection and subsection (c), shall be provided by adequate and appropriate filing fees for judicial proceedings and service charges and costs for performing court-related functions as required by general law. Selected salaries, costs, and expenses of the state courts system may be funded from appropriate filing fees for judicial proceedings and service charges and costs for performing court-related functions, as provided by general law. Where the requirements of either the United States Constitution or the Constitution of the State of Florida preclude the imposition of filing fees for judicial proceedings and service charges and costs for performing court-related functions sufficient to fund the court-related functions of the offices of the clerks of the circuit and county courts, the state shall provide, as determined by the legislature, adequate and appropriate supplemental funding from state revenues appropriated by general law.
(c) No county or municipality, except as provided in this subsection, shall be required to provide any funding for the state courts system, state attorneys’ offices, public defenders’ offices, court-appointed counsel or the offices of the clerks of the circuit and county courts performing court-related functions. Counties shall be required to fund the cost of communications services, existing radio systems, existing multi-agency criminal justice information systems, and the cost of construction or lease, maintenance, utilities, and security of facilities for the trial courts, public defenders’ offices, state attorneys’ offices, and the offices of the clerks of the circuit and county courts performing court-related functions. Counties shall also pay reasonable and necessary salaries, costs, and expenses of the state courts system to meet local requirements as determined by general law.
(d) The judiciary shall have no power to fix appropriations.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
S.J.R. 52-D, 1971; adopted 1972; Am. proposed by Constitution Revision Commission, Revision No. 7, 1998, filed with the Secretary of State May 5, 1998; adopted 1998.
Source of truth
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Cited by 12 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Art. V, § 14, Fla. Const.. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
The Florida Statutes
- § 27.34, Fla. Stat.Limitations on payment of salaries and other related costs of state attorneys’ offices other than by the state.Printed as s. 14, Art. V of the State Constitution
- § 27.54, Fla. Stat.Limitation on payment of expenditures other than by the state.Printed as s. 14, Art. V of the State Constitution
- § 28.37, Fla. Stat.Fines, fees, service charges, and costs remitted to the state.Printed as s. 14(b), Art. V of the State Constitution
- § 29.001, Fla. Stat.State courts system elements and definitions.Printed as s. 14, Art. V of the State Constitution
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