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Committee approves technical fixes and partisan-composition change to bill on court-appointed attorneys
Summary
The Corrections and Criminal Law Committee approved technical amendments to a bill on court-appointed attorneys and related boards, including a change that adjusts political-party representation on a prosecutorial commission to a 4-to-1 majority limit; the committee voted to send the amended bill to appropriations.
The Corrections and Criminal Law Committee on Tuesday approved three amendments to the bill commonly cited as H.B. 1006, including a technical cleanup and a change to the political-party composition of a commission that oversees court-appointed attorneys.
The chair, Senator Greg Freeman, led the committee through Amendment 14, which adds two judges to the commission on court-appointed attorneys and clarifies that counties may be reimbursed up to 27.5% for the salary of a deputy prosecutor — not for support staff pay, as could be read under the prior language.
“Amendment 14 … clarifies that the…
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