When must a Florida reporter file and serve the designated transcript?

Establish actual designation service and the qualified reporter’s acknowledgment.

Identify any reasoned extension request and the court’s actual approval or other action.

Preserve the court-notified transcript due date and distinguish the reporter’s service from later party receipt.

1. Establish actual designation service and the qualified reporter’s acknowledgment.
2. Rule 9.420(e) incorporates Rule 2.514(a). Exclude the established event. For seven days or longer, begin with the next day that is not Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday. Count intermediate calendar days. For fewer than seven days, omit intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. Do not treat a seven-day period as seven business days.
3. Check the observed statutory holidays, actual clerk calendar and chief-justice directions.
4. Complete the required act with the proper court or recipient.

Apply the observed New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans’ Day, Thanksgiving Day, Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas Day holidays. Section 110.117 observes Saturday holidays on the preceding Friday and Sunday holidays on the following Monday. Rule 2.514 also includes clerk-observed holidays and days designated by the chief justice or chief judge. An ineligible final day moves in the counting direction. The bundled Florida calendar covers 2026 through 2028. Verify additional closures and chief-justice extensions separately.

Rule 9.200(b)(3) allows the ordinary thirty-day period or the actual additional time provided by paragraph (b)(2). The reporter’s notified date and related party duties require their actual records; the encoded base is not a fixed completed-transcript deadline.

The reporter acknowledgment and extension are separate acts

Rule 9.200(b)(2) requires the reporter’s endorsed acknowledgment, service and filing within five days of designation service. Inability to finish within thirty days requires a reasoned extension request, a five-day party objection or agreement opportunity and the court’s decision identifying the transcript due date. A request alone is not a grant.

The actual court-notified due date governs an approved extension

Rule 9.200(b)(2) requires the court to approve the reasoned request or take other appropriate action and notify the reporter and parties of the transcript due date. Do not infer approval from submission or silence.

The next brief can move with an actual transcript extension

Rule 9.300(b) gives an actual transcript-filing extension the stated automatic effect on the next brief. Preserve the order and linked timetable; a reporter request alone does not establish the changed brief deadline.

The reduced-delivery branch imposes a party’s separate duty

Rule 9.200(b)(3) requires a designating party who requested copies for fewer than all parties to serve designated transcripts on the others within ten days of receipt. Reporter filing and that party service are different acts.

Mail-only additional time expressly addresses party acts

Rule 2.514(b) speaks to a party acting after mail-only service. Do not automatically apply a party-service addition to the reporter’s prescribed duty. Establish the actual applicable actor, rule and court-notified date.

• This page does not establish appealability, jurisdiction, disputed facts, sufficiency or an extension.
• Check the governing historical edition, actual motions, orders, clerk holidays and filing receipts.

• Establish actual designation service and the qualified reporter’s acknowledgment.
• Identify any reasoned extension request and the court’s actual approval or other action.
• Preserve the court-notified transcript due date and distinguish the reporter’s service from later party receipt.
• Rule 9.200(b)(2) requires the reporter’s endorsed acknowledgment, service and filing within five days of designation service. Inability to finish within thirty days requires a reasoned extension request, a five-day party objection or agreement opportunity and the court’s decision identifying the transcript due date. A request alone is not a grant.
• Rule 9.200(b)(2) requires the court to approve the reasoned request or take other appropriate action and notify the reporter and parties of the transcript due date. Do not infer approval from submission or silence.
• Rule 9.300(b) gives an actual transcript-filing extension the stated automatic effect on the next brief. Preserve the order and linked timetable; a reporter request alone does not establish the changed brief deadline.
• Rule 9.200(b)(3) requires a designating party who requested copies for fewer than all parties to serve designated transcripts on the others within ten days of receipt. Reporter filing and that party service are different acts.
• Rule 2.514(b) speaks to a party acting after mail-only service. Do not automatically apply a party-service addition to the reporter’s prescribed duty. Establish the actual applicable actor, rule and court-notified date.
• The qualified reporter transcribes and files the designated proceedings with the lower tribunal clerk and serves requested copies by the actual applicable deadline. Preserve designation service, acknowledgment, any court order, filing and delivery. The designating party separately serves other parties in the stated reduced-delivery branch. Identify the proper clerk and complete filing and service as separate acts. Rule 9.420(a) incorporates Rule 2.525. Attorneys ordinarily file through the portal or designated electronic facility. An eligible unrepresented party may elect electronic filing; prescribed paper exceptions remain. Preserve the successful portal or clerk filing timestamp under Rule 2.525(e). Unless another controlling time applies, Rule 2.514(a)(4) sets 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time for electronic filing or service by any means, and scheduled clerk closing for nonelectronic filing. Rule 9.420(a)(2) separately addresses qualifying unrepresented inmate filings and their proof. This calculator does not establish successful submission, sufficiency, a tolling motion or permission to extend a jurisdictional period.