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The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title IV
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Chapter 20
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
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F.S. 20.03
20.03 Definitions.To provide uniform nomenclature throughout the structure of the executive branch, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Agency,” as the context requires, means an official, officer, commission, authority, council, committee, department, division, bureau, board, section, or another unit or entity of government.
(2) “Board of trustees,” except with reference to the board created in chapter 253, means a board created by specific statutory enactment and appointed to function adjunctively to a department, the Governor, or the Executive Office of the Governor to administer public property or a public program.
(3) “Cabinet” means collectively the Attorney General, the Chief Financial Officer, and the Commissioner of Agriculture, as specified in s. 4, Art. IV of the State Constitution.
(4) “Commission,” unless otherwise required by the State Constitution, means a body created by specific statutory enactment within a department, the office of the Governor, or the Executive Office of the Governor and exercising limited quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial powers, or both, independently of the head of the department or the Governor.
(5) “Committee” or “task force” means an advisory body created without specific statutory enactment for a time not to exceed 1 year or created by specific statutory enactment for a time not to exceed 3 years and appointed to study a specific problem and recommend a solution or policy alternative with respect to that problem. Its existence terminates upon the completion of its assignment.
(6) “Coordinating council” means an interdepartmental advisory body created by law to coordinate programs and activities for which one department has primary responsibility but in which one or more other departments have an interest.
(7) “Council” or “advisory council” means an advisory body created by specific statutory enactment and appointed to function on a continuing basis for the study of the problems arising in a specified functional or program area of state government and to provide recommendations and policy alternatives.
(8) “Department” means the principal administrative unit within the executive branch of state government.
(9) “Examining and licensing board” means a board authorized to grant and revoke licenses to engage in regulated occupations.
(10) “Executive director” means the chief administrative employee or officer of a department headed by a board or by the Governor and the Cabinet.
(11) “Head of the department” means the individual under whom or the board under which direct administration of the department is placed by statute. Where direct administration of a department is placed under an officer or board appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the Governor, that officer or board remains subject to the Governor’s supervision and direction.
(12) “Secretary” means an individual who is appointed by the Governor to head a department and who is not otherwise named in the State Constitution.
(13) “To serve at the pleasure” means the appointee serves in the office until removed by the appointing authority. Consistent with the allotment of executive authority under ss. 1 and 6, Art. IV of the State Constitution, an appointee serving at the pleasure of the appointing authority generally remains subject to the direction and supervision of the appointing authority.
History.s. 3, ch. 69-106; s. 2, ch. 82-46; s. 5, ch. 83-217; s. 2, ch. 94-235; s. 3, ch. 2000-258; s. 5, ch. 2012-116; s. 8, ch. 2023-8.

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In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar - Miscellaneous Petition

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-06-20

Snippet: Completion of Law School Program or Graduation), and 20-3.1 (Requirements for Registration). The Bar also

Added to database: 2025-08-29 19:26:49

In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar - Miscellaneous Petition

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-05-09

Snippet: Completion of Law School Program or Graduation), and 20-3.1 (Requirements for Registration). The Bar also

Added to database: 2025-08-29 19:26:49

In Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar - Bylaws 2-8.1, 2-9.4, and 2-11.1

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2021-05-13

Snippet: the board of governors of a number no more than 20, 3-5 of which are nonlawyers representing the public

Added to database: 2025-08-29 19:26:49

In Re: Amendments to Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 20-3.1 (Requirements For Registration)

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2019-09-19

Snippet: AMENDMENTS TO RULE REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR 20-3.1 (REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION).

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In re Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases—Report No. 2015-01

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2015-09-24

Citation: 175 So. 3d 782, 2015 WL 5601467

Snippet: Committee proposes amending existing instructions 20.3 — Welfare Fraud— Failure to Disclose a Material

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In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report No. 2015-01

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2015-09-24

Snippet: Committee proposes amending existing instructions 20.3 – Welfare Fraud – Failure to Disclose a Material

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In Re Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2011-07-07

Citation: 67 So. 3d 1037, 36 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 409, 2011 Fla. LEXIS 1576, 2011 WL 2637460

Snippet: Indirect Criminal Contempt); 10-8.1 (Confidentiality); 20-3.1 (Requirements for Registration); and 20-7.1 (Generally)

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In re Certification of Need for Additional Judges

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2011-02-17

Citation: 60 So. 3d 955, 36 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 84, 2011 Fla. LEXIS 416, 2011 WL 536433

Snippet: Broward 6 18 1 Brevard 1 Seminole 1 19 2 St. Lucie 1 20 3 Collier 1 Lee 2 Total 26 Total 54 *Page 959

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In re Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar—Florida Registered Paralegal Program

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2007-11-15

Citation: 969 So. 2d 360, 32 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 712, 2007 Fla. LEXIS 2175, 2007 WL 3377120

Snippet: requirements for registration set forth in rules 20-3.1 and 20-4.1. The rule also defines “paralegal work

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Winkler v. Moore

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2002-04-25

Citation: 831 So. 2d 63, 2002 WL 717819

Snippet: 20 03/10/1989 20 03/16/1989

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