Danelle Bernten-Garine

Danelle Bernten-Garine is a Tallahassee attorney listed with the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee in the Florida Bar directory. The directory also gives her name as Danelle Bernten and lists her as eligible to practice law in Florida, with membership in good standing. Her listed office is in the Pepper Building at 111 West Madison Street.

Bernten-Garine was addressed as the committee’s senior attorney in an April 7, 2026 letter from the Florida Department of Corrections. The correspondence concerned proposed rules 33-404.106, 201, and 2095-2098. It described committee comments received on February 9, after the department published its notice of proposed rule on January 26. The department reported that the matters raised had been resolved. It also stated that no public hearing had been requested or held and that no substantive changes had been made after publication. A separate rule, 33-404.210, was expressly excluded from the statement.

The letter asked Bernten-Garine to provide the Department of State with certification that the rulemaking requirements had been met; the department hoped to file for adoption on April 14. This correspondence sits within the committee’s stated remit: oversight of executive-branch actions taken under powers delegated by the legislature. The committee checks those actions for statutory authority and procedural compliance, with a mandate to prevent illegal rules from being imposed on Florida residents.