Volume 7 Issue 40

Indicates featured legislation

Jurisdiction: Newly Introduced

Kentucky HB 43 (2014) Provides that the rights of an individual afforded under the Constitutions of Kentucky and the United States take precedence over the application of any foreign law in any judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding. Prefiled.

Jurisdiction: Floor and Committee Activity

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Qualifications and Terms: Newly Introduced

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Qualifications and Terms: Floor and Committee Activity

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Rule Making Authority: Newly Introduced

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Rule Making Authority: Floor and Committee Activity

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Salary and Budget: Newly Introduced

Pennsylvania HB 1791 Reauthorizes the collection of a surcharge for the Judicial Computer Augmentation fund on almost all criminal and civil cases set to expire in 2014. In House Judiciary Committee.

Wyoming D. 166 (2014) Creates court security assistance fund under the control of the Supreme Court & its court security commission to disburse funds to localities as a supplement but not a replacement for county funding of court security. Draft requested.

Salary and Budget: Floor and Committee Activity

Michigan HB 4704 Provides chief judge of a court funded by a county has standing to bring suit in the Court of Appeals against a legislative body or chief administrative office of that county concerning a general appropriations act, including any challenge to serviceable levels of funding for that court or the administration, execution, and enforcement of a general appropriations act as it relates to the court. Provides before the chief judge brings a suit a mediator would have to certify in writing that the parties were unable to resolve the issues by mediation. Approved with Senate amendment by Senate Government Operations Committee 10/22/13.

Selection: Newly Introduced

Wisconsin AJR 67 (Constitutional Amendment) Ends practice where chief justice is most senior justice of the supreme court. Directs the supreme court to elect a chief justice as the first order of business each time a justice is elected or reelected. In Assembly Judiciary Committee.

Wisconsin SJR 57 (Constitutional Amendment) Ends practice where chief justice is most senior justice of the supreme court. Directs the supreme court to elect a chief justice as the first order of business each time a justice is elected or reelected. In Senate Judiciary Committee.

Selection: Floor and Committee Activity

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Structure Changes: Newly Introduced

Michigan SB 652 Revises state's court of claims. Ends practice where Court of Claims is a judge of the 30th Judicial Circuit. Provides Court of Claims to consist of 4 Court of Appeals judges from at least two Court of Appeals districts chosen by the Supreme Court. Provides Court of Appeals clerk to serve as Clerk of the Court of Claims.  In Senate Judiciary Committee.

Structure Changes: Floor and Committee Activity

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Other: Newly Introduced

Colorado D. 17 (2014) Requests that the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court issue a directive to assign juvenile delinquency petitions, to the extent practicable, to a single courtroom within each judicial district and to allow judges with juvenile dockets to remain in that rotation so they may develop expertise in the handling of juvenile cases. Draft requested.

Other: Floor and Committee Activity

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