Committee Agenda

Committee:    House Judiciary
Room:     464
Date:    Monday, January 29, 2007
Time:    7:45 AM



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NOTE: The above bills will be taken up in this order for a hearing on the date noted. If circumstances do not permit a hearing on this date then a hearing will be held at a future meeting of the committee to be determined by the chair. Action on a bill may come at any time after it has had a hearing.

BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

         HB 1068*     revise the criminal penalty for perjury.
             The Committee on Judiciary at the request of the Office of the Attorney General

         HB 1069*     increase liquidated court costs and revise how they are allocated.
             The Committee on Appropriations at the request of the Office of the Attorney General

         HB 1070     create a cold case reward fund, to provide a continuous appropriation thereof, and provide certain provisions regarding the confidentiality of persons supplying information to a cold case.
             The Committee on Judiciary at the request of the Office of the Attorney General

         HB 1108*     revise certain provisions regarding when and by whom chemical dependency evaluations occur after a conviction of driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
             Representatives Van Etten, Buckingham, Dreyer, Elliott, Faehn, Gilson, Glenski, Halverson, Hanks, Haverly, Hills, Howie, Kirkeby, Lust, McLaughlin, Miles, Moore, Novstrup (Al), Novstrup (David), Nygaard, Olson (Ryan), Pederson (Gordon), Peters, Rausch, Rhoden, Steele, Street, Thompson, Turbiville, Vehle, and Weems and Senators McCracken, Gant, Hanson (Gary), Hundstad, Napoli, Schmidt, and Smidt

         HB 1158*     provide immunity for school districts in facilitating computer usage.
             Representatives Cutler, Deadrick, DeVries, Dykstra, Elliott, Gillespie, Halverson, Hargens, Lust, Moore, Pederson (Gordon), Rave, Weems, and Willadsen and Senators Gant, Abdallah, Bartling, Gray, and Nesselhuf

         HB 1161*     revise the elements of the crime of first degree robbery.


             Representatives Cutler, Brunner, Gilson, Hills, Jerke, Krebs, Noem, Olson (Russell), Pederson (Gordon), Peters, Pitts, Rounds, Vanneman, and Vehle and Senators Gant, Albers, Dempster, Gray, Koetzle, Nesselhuf, Schmidt (Dennis), and Turbak

         HB 1173     allow the distribution of newly discovered property of a dissolved corporation.
             Representatives Cutler, Gillespie, Gilson, Hanks, Hunt, Lust, McLaughlin, Novstrup (David), Olson (Russell), Rave, Rounds, and Vehle and Senators Knudson, Dempster, Heidepriem, McCracken, and Turbak

         HB 1098*     revise the jurisdiction of certain magistrate courts and to declare an emergency.
             The Committee on Judiciary at the request of the Chief Justice

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JONI M. CUTLER, Chair