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Bush budget provides for lots of judges: would provide $1 million for Civil Legal Assistance Act.

By Blankenship, Gary
Publication: Florida Bar News
Date: Wednesday, March 1 2006

All 66 new judges certified by the Supreme Court this year are in Gov. Jeb Bush's proposed 2006-07 budget, as are some staff increases for state attorneys and public defenders to accompany those new judges who are assigned to criminal courts.

Bush also proposed restoring $1 million to the Civil Legal Assistance Act. Last year, Bush vetoed a $5 million appropriation for that program, saying that amount was too fast a growth from the previous year's $500,000 budget.

But the governor offered no new money for other programs in the trial courts, and state attorne

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