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22 verbatim mandatory provisions from 26-06.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • WHEREAS, the total amount expended for providers of due process services in eligible cases may not exceed the amount budgeted in the General Appropriations Act; • When, on written motion by counsel for the defendant, a pro se defendant, the State Attorney, or upon the Court’s own motion, the Court orders an adult competency evaluation pursuant to section 916.115(2), the Court shall select and pay for one expert. • If the Court requests any additional expert evaluation, the Court shall be responsible for the payment. 2. • When, pursuant to section 916.301, the Court orders an adult competency evaluation for a defendant whose suspected mental condition is intellectual disability or autism, the Court shall select and pay for one expert. • When experts are appointed by the Court to evaluate a defendant or prisoner to determine whether the defendant or prisoner is intellectually disabled and barred from execution, pursuant to section 921.137 and Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.203(c)(3), the Court shall select, appoint, and pay for the expert. 2. • When the State Attorney requests an appointment of an expert under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.203(c)(2) and an expert is appointed pursuant to section 921.137, the State Attorney shall select and pay for the expert. 3. • When an expert is otherwise appointed to determine a defendant’s or prisoner’s intellectual disability as a bar to execution, the Court shall select and pay for the expert(s). • When an evaluation of a juvenile defendant is ordered pursuant to section 985.19(1)(e) to determine if the juvenile defendant is incompetent to proceed due to intellectual disability or autism, the Agency for Persons with Disabilities shall examine the juvenile in accordance with Florida Rule of Juvenile Procedure 8.095. • When an expert is appointed or reappointed by the Court pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.212 to perform a periodic evaluation of a defendant who has been found incompetent to proceed, or appointed or reappointed by the Court pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.216 after an adjudication of not guilty by reason of insanity, the Court shall select and pay for one expert. • Experts retained by the Public Defender or Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel (“Regional Counsel”) pursuant to section 29.006, Florida Statutes, or by the State Attorney pursuant to section 29.005, Florida Statutes, shall be paid from the respective budgets of the Public Defender, Regional Counsel, or the State Attorney. • An expert retained by court-appointed counsel, by counsel for a defendant who is indigent for costs, or by a pro se defendant who is indigent for costs shall, pursuant to section 29.007, Florida Statutes, be paid by the Justice Administrative Commission. • Prior court approval is required for such experts retained pursuant to section 29.007. • If the State Attorney needs a court order of appointment to ensure that a State-retained expert has access to the defendant, the State Attorney shall pay for the expert notwithstanding the Court’s order of appointment. • Any expert seeking to provide those services in the above-listed areas shall enter into a contract with Court Administration agreeing to the above rates. • Court Administration shall maintain a registry of all contracted experts from which such experts will be selected. • If no expert from the registry is available for service, Court Administration shall seek experts contracted with other local Judicial Circuits before seeking the services of an uncontracted provider. • The Court shall select experts from the Court Administration registry unless the interests of justice require that a non-registry expert be appointed. • Non-registry experts shall be compensated at the rates set forth herein. • The Chief Judge or his/her designee must approve in advance the payment of any fees or compensation above the standard rates. • Any complaint or grievance regarding a court-approved expert witness shall be in writing and submitted to Court Administration for review by the Chief Judge or his/her designee. • Expert witnesses in disciplines not specifically identified in this Administrative Order shall be paid circuit-determined contractual rates. -- 4 of 5 -- 5 VIII. • These rates shall be incorporated into any contract executed or renewed effective immediately.
WHEREAS, the total amount expended for providers of due process services in eligible cases may not exceed the amount budgeted in the General Appropriations Act;
Reviewer note: Document sha256: cc2946dfe6c30f2c25d72d8e0af278a90ac4d48603d34f62d161969fb00ce788 (104731 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.