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Committee considers bill to bar judges from serving as presiding officer of Judicial Standards Commission
Summary
House Bill 36 would change the Judicial Standards Commission’s rules so a sitting judge could not serve as the commission’s presiding officer; sponsors said the change reduces supervisory conflicts, opponents said it unnecessarily restricts qualified members and undermines judicial independence.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard House Bill 36, which would prevent a judge from serving as the presiding officer of the Judicial Standards Commission while leaving judges eligible to serve as commission members. Representative Fiona Nave, sponsor of the bill, said the change would “remove potential conflicts between the members of the JSC who are charged with investigating complaints against judges and having some of those same members supervised by those judges.”
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