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House panel backs bill letting magistrate courts authorize local technology fees and fixes drafting error
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee unanimously reported a bill to let local legislatures authorize magistrate-court technology fees that would be paid by court users rather than county taxpayers, and to correct a drafting error tied to last year’s nonpartisan-election change for magistrate and probate courts.
Chairman Leverett presented House Bill 999 on behalf of its sponsor as a measure to allow magistrate courts, by local act, to authorize additional fees such as a technology fee to be charged to court users rather than imposed on county taxpayers. He said the change responds to a request from a magistrate court in his district seeking a sustainable way to cover…
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