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Lawmakers discuss adding county courthouse capital-reserve review language to S109 with delayed effective date
Summary
Committee members reviewed language in S 109 (section 33) that would require the court administrator to consider county capital reserve funds and annual contributions when evaluating county courthouse capital requests; sponsors proposed delaying the provision's effective date to July 1, 2026, to allow county judges time to adapt.
Senate Judiciary heard testimony proposing statutory language in S 109 that would change how county courthouse capital requests are evaluated and to delay the provision’s effective date to give county officials time to comply.
Representative Evans told the committee section 33 would require the state court administrator to evaluate capital requests from counties against criteria that include whether the project is consistent with the…
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