Title: In Re: Amendment To Rule Of Judicial Administration 2.050(H)
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC06-3
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: March 31, 2006

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC06-3 
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IN RE:  AMENDMENT TO RULE OF JUDICIAL  
ADMINISTRATION 2.050(h). 
 
[March 2, 2006] 
  
PER CURIAM. 
 
The Court on its own motion1 amends Florida Rule of Judicial 
Administration 2.050(h), Neglect of Duty, to clarify that it is the chief judge who 
shall report a neglect of duty under the rule to the Chief Justice of this Court.  See 
Amendment to Fla. Rules of Practice & Procedure for Traffic Courts—Rule 6.156, 
608 So. 2d 469, 470 (Fla. 1992) (recognizing in dicta that rule 2.050(g), now 
2.050(h), provides that “the chief judge of the circuit court shall report any neglect 
of duty to the chief justice of this Court”).      
 
The amendment is intended to reduce the number of unauthorized “reports 
of neglect of duty” submitted to the Court by pro se litigants.  Accordingly, Florida 
                                          
 
 
1.  We have jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.; Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 
2.130(a). 
 
 
 
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Rule of Judicial Administration 2.050 is amended as reflected in the appendix to 
this opinion.  New language is indicated by underscoring.  The amendment shall 
become effective immediately upon the release of this opinion.  However, because 
the Court did not publish the amendment for comment prior to its adoption, 
interested persons shall have sixty days from the date of this opinion in which to 
file comments with the Court.2 
 
It is so ordered. 
PARIENTE, C.J., and WELLS, ANSTEAD, LEWIS, QUINCE, CANTERO, and 
BELL, JJ., concur. 
 
 
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND 
IF FILED, DETERMINED. 
 
 
Original Proceeding – Rule of Judicial Administration 2.050(H) 
 
Honorable Winifred J. Sharp, Chair, Committee on Rules of Judicial 
Administration, Daytona Beach, Florida, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director 
and Craig Shaw, Bar Liaison, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
                                          
 
 
2.  An original and nine paper copies of all comments must be filed with the 
Court on or before May 1, 2006, along with a separate request for oral argument if 
the person filing the comment wishes to participate in oral argument, which may 
be scheduled in this case.  Electronic copies of all comments also must be filed in 
accordance with In re Mandatory Submission of Electronic Copies of Documents, 
Fla. Admin. Order No. AOSC04-84 (Sept. 13, 2004) (on file with Clerk, Fla. Sup. 
Ct.). 
 
 
 
 
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APPENDIX 
 
Rule 2.050.  Trial Court Administration 
 
 
(a) – (g) 
[No Change]  
 
 
(h) Neglect of Duty.  The failure of any judge, clerk, prosecutor, public 
defender, attorney, court reporter, or other officer of the court to comply with an 
order or directive of the chief judge shall be considered neglect of duty and shall be 
reported by the chief judge to the chief justice of the supreme court. The chief 
justice may report the neglect of duty by a judge to the Judicial Qualifications 
Commission, and neglect of duty by other officials to the governor of Florida or 
other appropriate person or body. 
 
 
(i) 
[No Change]