Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Court Reporting topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Committee backs bill to raise court-reporter transcript fee to $4 per page
Summary
Senate Bill 2378, described by the chair as sponsored by Senator Wiggins, would raise court-reporter transcript fees from $2.40 to $4 per page; the committee reported the bill out after no substantive questions and no witness present from the court-reporters association.
The Senate committee voted to report Senate Bill 2378 after the chair explained the measure would raise the statutory maximum for court-reporter transcripts from $2.40 per page (a 2004 rate) to $4.00 per page.
The chair said the fee increase would generally be paid by litigants and that local government typically only covers the charge when an indigent criminal defendant appeals. The chair said, “If they were adjusted for inflation, this would be over $5 a page,” and framed the bill as an effort to bring statutory rates closer to private-market levels.
No one from the court reporters’ association appeared in committee; the chair offered to answer questions based on provided information and then moved the bill. With no objections recorded in the transcript, the motion to report the bill out was adopted by voice vote.
The transcript does not include a roll-call tally or an outside fiscal analysis, and it does not record testimony from court reporters or affected litigant-advocates.
