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Supreme Court proposes wide court‑fee increases; committee pauses for rewrite
Summary
State court administrator presented a broad package (SB 2057) to raise multiple civil and criminal court fees, including filing fees and administrative fees; the Judiciary Committee closed the hearing but did not act pending a reorganization and language clean-up and further review of fiscal impacts.
The State Court Administrator presented Senate Bill 2057, a bill that would increase a wide range of civil and criminal court fees, and the Senate Judiciary Committee closed the hearing without taking action so staff could prepare a clarified, reorganized draft.
Sally Halema, introduced as the state court administrator, told the committee that many filing and administrative fees have not changed since the mid‑1990s and that fee amounts have not kept pace with inflation and rising court-administration costs. "Every service has a cost," Halema said, arguing that some fees should be increased to shift more of the direct service cost from general…
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