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Committee adopts amendment limiting published judge-evaluation comments; majority report follows
Judiciary Committee · February 9, 2026
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Summary
Committee voted to adopt an amendment barring publication of questionnaire comments while releasing evaluation scores, and later voted OTPA (ought to pass with amendment) on HB1130; debate centered on transparency versus judicial independence.
The Judiciary Committee took executive-session action on HB1130, a measure revising judicial evaluations, and adopted an amendment that removes evaluative comments from any published report while allowing summary scores and other evaluation components to remain in the public record.
The amendment prompted…
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