IN RE: AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA EVIDENCE CODE. (2025)

Supreme Court of Florida.

IN RE: AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA EVIDENCE CODE.

No. SC2025-0659

Decided: November 06, 2025

Judge Joseph A. Bulone, Chair, Criminal Court Steering Committee, Clearwater, Florida, and Bart Schneider, Staff Liaison, Office of the State Courts Administrator, Tallahassee, Florida, for Petitioner Daniel Eisinger, Public Defender, and Benjamin Nathaniel Paley, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, West Palm Beach, Florida, Responding with comments

The Criminal Court Steering Committee has filed a report concerning legislative changes to the Florida Evidence Code. See ch. 2011-220, § 2, Laws of Fla. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const. The amendments at issue were to section 90.404(2)(c), Florida Statutes, and were enacted by the Florida Legislature effective July 1, 2011. It appears these legislative changes were not previously addressed by this Court.

We adopt chapter 2011-220, section 2, Laws of Florida, to the extent it is procedural. The specific provisions appear in the appendix to this opinion with the new language indicated by underscoring. We express no opinion on the substance of the amendments, and they are effective on the date they became law.

It is so ordered.

APPENDIX

PER CURIAM.

MUÑIZ, C.J., and CANADY, LABARGA, COURIEL, GROSSHANS, FRANCIS, and SASSO, JJ., concur.

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