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Fla. Stat. § 11.111 (2025)
Continuance of certain causes for term of Legislature and period of time prior and subsequent thereto and committee workdays.
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11.111 Continuance of certain causes for term of Legislature and period of time prior and subsequent thereto and committee workdays.—Any proceeding before any court, municipality, or agency of government of this state shall stand continued, without the continuance being charged against any party, during any session of the Legislature and for a period of time 15 days prior to any session of the Legislature and 15 days subsequent to the conclusion of any session of the Legislature, and during any period of required committee work and for a period of time 1 day prior and 1 day subsequent thereto, when either attorney representing the litigants is a legislator or when a member of the Legislature is a party or witness or is scheduled to appear before any municipal government, administrative board, or agency, when notice to that effect is given to the convening authority by such member. The time period for determining the right to a speedy trial shall be tolled during the period of the continuance, but the providing of such a continuance shall not act as a waiver to the right to a speedy trial. The immunity herein granted shall, upon the filing of a notice by the witness, extend to any member not an attorney who is engaged in any proceeding before any court or any state, county, or municipal agency or board in a representative capacity for any individual or group or as a witness in any proceeding. After said notice has been filed by a member of the Legislature called as a witness, the proceeding may proceed notwithstanding such notice if the party calling such member as a witness shall agree.
History.—s. 1, ch. 15995, 1933; CGL 1936 Supp. 4356(1); s. 1, ch. 61-176; s. 1, ch. 67-2(X); s. 1, ch. 70-28; s. 1, ch. 77-119; s. 9, ch. 96-318.
Note.—Former s. 54.08.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1967–2025 · leading case: ABC Bus. Forms, Inc. v. Spaet, 201 So. 2d 890 (Fla. 1967).
ABC Bus. Forms, Inc. v. Spaet, 201 So. 2d 890 (Fla. 1967). “NOTES [1] Fla. Stat. § 11.111 , F.S.A. "[c]ontinuance of certain causes for term of legislature and period of time prior thereto and subsequent thereto.”
Kabick v. Kabick, 485 So. 2d 13 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986). “iage dissolution action is reversed upon a holding that the trial court erred in denying the appellant Susan Kabick’s- motion for continuance filed by her counsel Roberta Fox — who was then and still is a duly elected member of the Florida Senate — and the cause is remanded to…”
Elizabeth Alexander v. President Donald J. Trump (Fla. 4th DCA 2025). “See § 11.111, Fla. Stat. (2024) (providing for the continuance of court proceedings during any session of the Legislature when a member of the Legislature is a party, witness, or attorney representing one of the litigants in the case).”
Ray v. Florida Power & Light Co., 30 Fla. Supp. 2d 81 (Fla. Cir. Ct. 1988). “He contacted opposing counsel to negotiate a setting aside of the Default and subsequently filed the Motion under review when it became apparent that said negotiations would not be successful.”
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