When is a Florida final administrative appeal notice due?

Establish that the agency action is final and reviewable under Rule 9.190(b)(1).

Obtain the actual final order and its rendition record, resolving any applicable postponement.

Identify both the lower administrative clerk and the reviewing court clerk.

1. Establish that the agency action is final and reviewable under Rule 9.190(b)(1).
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.

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. A qualifying final agency order has actual rendition under the established final-action procedure. The independently established event is August 2, 2027. No additional holiday, mail-only addition, tolling or different order applies.

Fictitious facts. Establish the stated procedure and actual event separately. No mail-only addition, further clerk holiday, tolling motion, chief-justice extension or different actual court order is assumed.

Rendition is the signed written order’s filing, not its announcement

Rule 9.020(h) ordinarily defines rendition when a signed, written order is filed with the lower tribunal’s clerk. Establish that actual filing and any authorized, timely motion that postpones rendition. A judge’s oral announcement, signature date or later delivery is not automatically the operative event.

The final-action route depends on the governing administrative regime

Rule 9.190(b)(1) directs final agency action under chapter 120, including its stated immediate final orders, and other administrative action with statutory judicial review to Rule 9.110(c). Establish the actual final action and governing law.

Nonfinal and non-APA action use different routes

Rule 9.190(b)(2) directs the stated nonfinal agency action to Rules 9.100(b),(c). Paragraph (b)(3) directs non-APA quasi-judicial decisions to certiorari unless general law supplies appeal. Do not classify every agency act as a final administrative appeal.

One filing does not complete both required destinations

Rule 9.110(c) expressly requires the lower administrative notice and the court copy accompanied by any legally prescribed filing fees. A portal receipt for one destination does not prove filing at the other.

• 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 that the agency action is final and reviewable under Rule 9.190(b)(1).
• Obtain the actual final order and its rendition record, resolving any applicable postponement.
• Identify both the lower administrative clerk and the reviewing court clerk.
• Rule 9.020(h) ordinarily defines rendition when a signed, written order is filed with the lower tribunal’s clerk. Establish that actual filing and any authorized, timely motion that postpones rendition. A judge’s oral announcement, signature date or later delivery is not automatically the operative event.
• Rule 9.190(b)(1) directs final agency action under chapter 120, including its stated immediate final orders, and other administrative action with statutory judicial review to Rule 9.110(c). Establish the actual final action and governing law.
• Rule 9.190(b)(2) directs the stated nonfinal agency action to Rules 9.100(b),(c). Paragraph (b)(3) directs non-APA quasi-judicial decisions to certiorari unless general law supplies appeal. Do not classify every agency act as a final administrative appeal.
• Rule 9.110(c) expressly requires the lower administrative notice and the court copy accompanied by any legally prescribed filing fees. A portal receipt for one destination does not prove filing at the other.
• File the notice with the lower administrative tribunal clerk and the required copy with the reviewing court clerk, accompanied by prescribed fees or applicable indigency treatment. Preserve each receipt. 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. Rule 9.420(b)–(d) incorporates Rule 2.516 service and proof. Portal service is complete on filing for listed recipients, subject to promptly serving a recipient known not to have received the document. Email service is complete when sent. Permitted paper mail service is complete on mailing; delivery is complete on delivery. Rule 2.514(b) adds five days after the otherwise computed expiration only when the act is measured after service and service was made only by mail. Email or portal service does not automatically add five days. A filing-based or rendition-based period does not gain five days because another document was mailed. Establish the actual applicable service before choosing a service-based period.