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Committee advances bill to restore private process servers for evictions after appellate decision

2578354 · March 12, 2025
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Summary

Senators advanced House Bill 270 unanimously; the measure clarifies that certified private process servers may serve dispossessory (eviction) actions after a 2024 appellate decision limited prior practice.

House Bill 270 moved out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by a unanimous voice vote after the sponsor said the measure responds to an appellate decision that affected service in dispossessory proceedings.

Representative Reeves, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee HB 270 “fixes a problem that came up at the appellate level last year in the Mancuso versus Caetals case,” a January 2024 decision that, according to the sponsor, left no statutory basis for private process servers to serve evictions. The sponsor said…

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