IN FORCE · YOUR SIGNATURE CERTIFIES IT

Florida Rule 2.515(d)(2): your signature certifies your citations exist. What proves you checked?

Q: Florida Rule 2.515(d)(2): your signature certifies your citations exist. What proves you checked?

Florida runs on one statewide rule . Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.515(d)(2), in force since June 15, 2026, makes every signature a representation that the legal authorities you cite exist and are accurately cited. Sanctions sit in the rule itself: reprimand, contempt, striking the document, dismissal, costs, attorneys' fees. Circuit courts are now prohibited from adding AI disclosure requirements of their own, so the old Miami-Dade and Broward orders no longer apply. You already make this representation on every filing, whether or not AI came near it. Your receipt records which authorities you checked, that you checked them, and your signed statement, sealed at the moment you finished, evidence instead of memory.

Where this stands today

Adopted on an expedited basis in SC2026-0673. The post-adoption comment period closed 11 August 2026 and the rule remains open to revision. In force as adopted.

Florida runs on one statewide rule. Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.515(d)(2), in force since June 15, 2026, makes every signature a representation that the legal authorities you cite exist and are accurately cited. Sanctions sit in the rule itself: reprimand, contempt, striking the document, dismissal, costs, attorneys' fees. Circuit courts are now prohibited from adding AI disclosure requirements of their own, so the old Miami-Dade and Broward orders no longer apply.

The words that matter

“…the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited.”

What a record gives you

You already make this representation on every filing, whether or not AI came near it. Your receipt records which authorities you checked, that you checked them, and your signed statement, sealed at the moment you finished, evidence instead of memory.

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Sources

In re Amendments to Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.515, No. SC2026-0673 (Fla. 28 May 2026)
Administrative Order AOSC26-12, In re Representations by Signers of Filings (Fla. 28 May 2026)
Effective 15 June 2026 at 12:01 a.m. Not previously published for comment, so comments were due on or before 11 August 2026.

Checked 2 September 2026. Rules change: the authority itself governs, and this page is not legal advice.

When it is challenged

Opposing counsel looks at a sealed record and says: so what. What you say back →, in evidence-law terms, with the certification template.