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Committee advances substitute to create $80 surcharge and new state accounts for public defense and interpreters
Summary
The committee reported out a substitute to HB 1207 that reduces a proposed new filing-fee surcharge to $80, designates $60 of the surcharge to state purposes including new public defense and court interpreter accounts, and requires counties to create clerk administrative assistance funds; the substitute passed 8-4.
A substitute to House Bill 1207 that would create a new statewide surcharge on certain superior court filing fees and direct portions of the fee to new state accounts and local clerk funds was reported out of the Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee on Feb. 21.
Under the proposed substitute, the additional filing-fee surcharge was reduced from $100 to $80. Of the $80 surcharge, the state’s portion was increased from $35 to $60; the substitute directs $20 to a new Public Defense Support Account, $20 to a new Court Interpreter Support…
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