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House amends and advances S.109, an omnibus judiciary procedures bill
Summary
S.109, the annual miscellaneous judiciary bill containing technical corrections, policy changes, and working-group directives, was amended on the floor, the House proposed to the Senate to amend, and third reading was ordered. The bill spans court administration items, victim notification, guardianship studies, and other technical fixes.
The House amended the Judiciary Committee report and proposed to the Senate to amend S.109 as modified, then ordered third reading. S.109 is a multi-section miscellaneous judiciary bill containing mostly technical fixes, some policy changes, and several directed studies and working groups.
Committee sponsors described the bill as a "Whitman's sampler" of mostly noncontroversial items that had accumulated during the session. Substantive elements in the bill and the adopted floor amendment include: remote access for attorneys to non-confidential court records; clarifications to Judicial Bureau procedures and civil penalty language; repeal of an outdated criminal…
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