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Senate adopts amendment resetting court filing fees after bar objects to proposed per‑motion charge
Summary
Senators adopted Amendment No. 3 to Senate Bill 184, replacing a proposed $10 per‑motion fee with higher one‑time filing fees (including $360 for larger cases and $310 for divorce applications); the body passed the amended bill and sent it to the House.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate on March 5 amended and passed first substitute Senate Bill 184 to change how filing fees are set in the district courts.
Senator McCoy, who offered Amendment No. 3 (dated 03/05/2009), told colleagues the amendment replaces an earlier floor‑proposed $10 fee per motion with structured filing fees intended to produce comparable revenue. “The means that we have come to a proposal on is what is in the amendment and that is to set the filing fees for … cases over $10,000 at $360 and to set the filing fee for divorce applications at $310,” McCoy said on the floor (floor remarks).
McCoy said the Utah State Bar opposed the originally proposed per‑motion $10 charge but had not yet taken a formal position on the specific fee levels in the amendment. Senators voted to adopt Amendment No. 3 and then passed the first substitute as amended; the clerk recorded the passage with 22 yea, 2 nay, 5 absent. The bill will be forwarded to the House for its action.
