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Committee hears bill to create special prosecutor unit and funding; held for further discussion
Summary
Members heard House Bill 1006, which would create a special prosecutor unit, a public prosecution fund and provisions for a prosecutor review board; committee members and witnesses debated funding, county roles and caseload metrics and the bill was held for further work.
The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee heard House Bill 1006, a bill the chair described as creating a special prosecutor unit, a public prosecution fund and a prosecutor review board, and providing mechanisms to address prosecutor staffing shortages in some circuits.
Chair Freeman said the bill would supplement frontline prosecutors, create a special prosecutor unit to assist in complex, resource-intensive cases, and establish a prosecutor review board and a noncompliant-prosecutor process that would require…
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