Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 11.031 (2025)
Official census.
✓ 2025 Florida Statutes — current through the 2025 Regular Session
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
FL-LEGleg.state.fl.us
JustiaFla. Statutes
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
11.031 Official census.—
(1) All acts of the Florida Legislature based upon population and all constitutional apportionments shall be based upon the last federal decennial statewide census.
(2) No special county or district census shall be effective for any purposes other than to ascertain the population for the purpose of interpreting an existing law relating to additional judges of the circuit court and additional county court judges, but no existing population or apportionment act shall be affected by a special census.
(3) The last federal decennial statewide census shall not be effective for the purpose of affecting acts of the Legislature enacted prior thereto which apply only to counties of the state within a stated population bracket until July 1 of the year following the taking of such census.
History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 57-126; ss. 1, 2, ch. 59-28; s. 1, ch. 59-264; s. 1, ch. 59-410; s. 2, ch. 63-572; s. 3, ch. 73-333.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1961–2023 · leading case: Dep't of Com. v. United States House of Representatives, 525 U.S. 316 (1999).
Dep't of Com. v. United States House of Representatives, 525 U.S. 316 (1999). “, Fla. Stat. § 11.031 (1) (1998) ("All acts of the Florida Legislature based upon population and all constitutional apportionments shall be based upon the last federal decennial statewide census"); Ga.”
In Re Advisory Opinion to the Governor, 132 So. 2d 163 (Fla. 1961). “*168 Section 11.031(3), Florida Statutes, F.S.”
Kravitz v. U.S. Dep't of Com., 366 F. Supp. 3d 681 (D. Maryland 2019). “15, § 13 ; Fla. Stat. § 11.031 (1) ; Md. Code Ann., Elec.”
Jackson v. Consol. Gov't of City of Jacksonville, 225 So. 2d 497 (Fla. 1969). “' Section 11.031, Florida Statutes, provides that no `special city, county or district census shall be effective for any purpose * * *'.”
Byrd, The Florida Senate v. Black Voters Matter Capacity Bldg. Inst., Inc., Equal Ground Educ. Fund, Inc. (Fla. 1st DCA 2023). “§ 11.031(1), Fla. Stat. (2023). In furtherance of its duty, during the last regular session the Legislature passed CS/SB 102, which would have amended section 8.”
Jackson v. Consol. Gov't, 31 Fla. Supp. 151 (Fla. Cir. Ct., Duval Cty. 1968). “The new provision provides that the legislature is no longer required to do this and that the last preceding federal census shall be the state census and “shall control in all population acts and constitutional opportionments, unless otherwise ordered by the legislature ”…”
Newell v. Carlisle, 298 So. 2d 568 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974). “On the effective date of the 1970 Federal Decennial Census, viz; July 1, 1971 (F. S. 11.031(3)) Clay County moved into the next higher bracket (F.”
— 11.031(1) — 1 case
Byrd, The Florida Senate v. Black Voters Matter Capacity Bldg. Inst., Inc., Equal Ground Educ. Fund, Inc. (Fla. 1st DCA 2023). “§ 11.031(1), Fla. Stat. (2023). In furtherance of its duty, during the last regular session the Legislature passed CS/SB 102, which would have amended section 8.”
— 11.031(3) — 2 cases
In Re Advisory Opinion to the Governor, 132 So. 2d 163 (Fla. 1961). “*168 Section 11.031(3), Florida Statutes, F.S.”
Newell v. Carlisle, 298 So. 2d 568 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974). “On the effective date of the 1970 Federal Decennial Census, viz; July 1, 1971 (F. S. 11.031(3)) Clay County moved into the next higher bracket (F.”
— 11.031(4) — 1 case
In Re Advisory Opinion to the Governor, 132 So. 2d 163 (Fla. 1961). “*168 Section 11.031(3), Florida Statutes, F.S.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.