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Committee advances rewrite of prosecutorial qualifications; transfers some functions, adds subpoena penalties and likeness protections
Summary
House Judiciary advanced Senate Bill 218 after sponsors narrowed the bill’s scope, transferring some prosecutorial-qualification responsibilities, authorizing limited subpoena power with penalties for misuse, and adding protections for voice and visual likeness from House Bill 566.
Senate Bill 218 was debated at length in the House Judiciary committee and advanced after sponsors substantially narrowed the bill’s text and added language from a separate measure addressing misuse of voice and visual likeness.
Sponsors described the bill as a change in where prosecutorial-qualification administrative functions are housed, moving certain responsibilities from the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council (PAC) to the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). Committee discussion, including testimony from Ian Heap, director of the Prosecuting Attorney Qualifications Commission, focused on operational details —…
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