Appellate court rules, civil procedure rules, criminal procedure rules, and judicial rules of administration committees' out-of-cycle report.

The Appellate Court Rules Committee, the Civil Procedure Rules Committee, the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, and the Judicial Rules of Administration Committee invite comments on the proposed rule amendments anticipated to be included in the Committees' joint out-of-cycle report regarding computation of time for documents service via e-mail. The full text of the proposals can be found on The Florida Bar's website at www.FloridaBar.org. Interested persons have until January 15, 2017, to submit any comments, electronically to Kristin A. Norse, Chair of the Appellate Court Rules Committee, at knorse@kmf-law.com; Roger James Haughley, II, Chair of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee, at rhaughey@sbwlegal.com; H. Scott Fingerhut, Chair of the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, at hsfpa@aol.com; Judge Steven Scott Stephens, Chair of the Rules of Judicial Administration Committee, at DivisionL@fljud13.org; and to staff liaisons Krys Godwin at kgodwin@floridabar.org, and Heather Savage Telfer at htelfer@floridabar.org.

Rule /Form Vote Explanation Rule 1.170 29-0-0 Replaces in subdivision (g) the reference to Rule 1.080 with a reference to Rule of Judicial Administration 2.516. Rule 1.260 29-0-0 Replaces in subdivision (a)(1) the reference to Rule 1.080 with a reference to Rule of Judicial Administration 2.516. Rule 1.351 28-0-1 Replaces in subdivision (b) the reference to Rule 1.080 with a reference to Rule of Judicial Administration 2.516 and amends the notice of intent to serve a subpoena time within the rule resulting in 10-days when service by e-mail. Rule 1.410 29-0-0 Replaces in subdivision (c) the reference to Rule 1.080 with a reference to Rule of Judicial Administration 2.516. Rule 1.440 29-0-0 Replaces in subdivision (c) the reference to Rule 1.080 with a reference to Rule of Judicial Administration 2.516. Rule 1.442 22-6-1 Replaces in subdivision (c)(2)(G) the reference to Rule 1.080 with a reference to Rule of Judicial Administration 2.516. Rule 1.510 26-1-1 Replaces in subdivision (c) the reference to Rule 1.080 with a reference to Rule of Judicial Administration 2.516 and provides that service is completed by the sending of e-mail. Rule 2.514 19-5 Amends subdivision (a)(1)(A) to specify that counting begins on the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday. Removes e-mail from subdivision (b) regarding the addition of 5 days for responding to service by mail. Rule 2.516 19-4 Deletes subdivision (b)(1)(D)(iii) that...