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Committee debates specialty-court fees and approves $2.50 summons fee for district courts
Summary
Judges and sponsors urged district courts be permitted to run specialty court programs and assess program fees (with indigency waivers); committee pulled one specialty-court bill for language review and approved a separate bill allowing a $2.50 summons fee in district court.
Representatives of the district judges and the Arkansas District Judges Council explained two bills to the Senate Judiciary Committee that would clarify district courts' authority to operate specialty court programs and to allow district courts to charge a $2.50 summons fee analogous to circuit courts.
Judge Keith Cavendish testified specialty courts (DWI/sobriety, drug, mental-health, domestic-violence courts) are…
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