Volume 7 Issue 41

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Jurisdiction: Newly Introduced

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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

Kentucky HB 48 (2014) Requires Kentucky Judicial Form Retirement System to disclose names, status, projected or actual benefit payments, and other retirement information of each member or recipient of a retirement allowance of the systems. Requires systems to also make the information available on a searchable database on the systems' Web site or on a Web site established by the judicial branch to provide government expenditure and salary data to the public. Prefiled.

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 full Senate 10/31/13. To House to concur with amendment.

Michigan SB 519 Requires State Court Administrator create database listing all people in state that have outstanding court fees, fines, or costs. Provides database to be used by lottery bureau before releasing lottery winnings. Provides winning litigants in civil cases to have their civil judgment withheld to pay off outstanding fess, fines, or costs owed the courts. Requires attorneys in such civil cases to check list before release of funds in civil cases. Approved by Senate Families, Seniors, and Human Services Committee 10/29/13

Selection: Newly Introduced

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Selection: Floor and Committee Activity

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. Approved by Assembly Judiciary Committee 10/31/13.

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. Approved by Senate Judiciary Committee 10/29/13.

Structure Changes: Newly Introduced

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Structure Changes: Floor and Committee Activity

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. Approved by full Senate 10/30/13.

Other: Newly Introduced

Ohio SB 219 Eliminates the procedure for filing an affidavit of disqualification for a judge of a municipal or county court and instead include the disqualification of a judge of a municipal or county court and a judge of the court of claims within the procedure for filing an affidavit of disqualification for a probate judge, a judge of a court of appeals, and a judge of the court of common pleas. In Senate (no committee).

Other: Floor and Committee Activity

Wisconsin SB 275 Eliminates a provision that requires municipal judges to file oath and bond with the clerk of the circuit court that the municipal judge serves. Eliminates requirement that the clerks of the circuit courts annually send a certified list of all municipal court judges who filed their official bonds.  Approved by House Judiciary Committee 10/31/13.