The committee’s grumblings about the court proposals — and its willingness to temporarily shelve the measure on judicial elections — seemed to slow momentum for the kind of broad revamp of the judiciary sought by House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park. And the Senate still has no companion bill for a House measure that would split the Florida Supreme Court in two, by far the most ambitious part of Cannon’s judicial reform agenda.
“This is an issue that’s important to the speaker of the House, and so we want to be sensitive to his priorities,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairwoman Anitere Flores, R-Miami, after a meeting where several of the bills were considered. “But, at the same time, we’ve taken our own Senate approach to several of these issues. So I imagine this is something that’s going to continue to be negotiated until Day 60.”
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