IN RE: AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 9.800. (2018)

This matter is before the Court for consideration of proposed amendments to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.800 (Uniform Citation System). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.

The Florida Bar's Appellate Court Rules Committee (Committee) proposes amendments to rule 9.800 to substantially update the uniform citation formats provided in that rule. The Committee's proposal to amend the rule was first presented to the Court in the Committee's regular-cycle report of proposed rule amendments in In re Amendments to the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure—2017 Regular-Cycle Report, No. SC17-152 (Fla. report filed Jan. 31, 2017).¹ The Court, on its own motion, entered an order directing that the proposed amendments to rule 9.800 be severed and addressed in the instant case. See In re Amends. to Fla. Rules of App. Pro.—2017 Regular-Cycle Report, No. SC17-152 (Fla. order filed May 31, 2017).

We have fully considered the Committee's proposed amendments. We adopt many of the Committee's proposed amendments. However, we have revised a number of the Committee's proposals.

Accordingly, we amend Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.800 as set forth in the appendix to this opinion. New language is indicated by underscoring; deletions are indicated by struck-through type. The amendments shall become effective January 1, 2019, at 12:01 a.m.

It is so ordered.

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FOOTNOTES

1.   The Board of Governors of The Florida Bar unanimously approved the proposed amendments. The Court published the amendments to rule 9.800 along with the other proposals in Case No. SC17-152. No comments were filed addressing rule 9.800.

PER CURIAM.

CANADY, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, POLSTON, LABARGA, and LAWSON, JJ., concur.