Over the course of nearly three decades, the Florida Evidence Code has stood as a success story in the sometimes uneasy relationship
between the courts and the legislature. The Florida Legislature enacted the code in 1976, and since then has passed changes that, until recently, were adopted by the Florida Supreme Court without controversy as rules of procedure. Thus, there was never any need for a court to consider the question of whether a given change was substantive or procedural: so long as the Florida Supreme Court adopted the change, it simply did not matter.