Committee Agenda

Committee: House Judiciary
Room: 464
Friday, January 22, 1999
Time: 7:45 A.M.



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HB 1003      to provide for the recovery of certain expenses in an action brought to court by any governmental subdivision relative to the assessment of property.
          Representatives McNenny, Broderick, Chicoine, Cutler, Diedrich (Larry), Monroe, Napoli, Pummel, Smidt, and Waltman and Senators Dennert, Brosz, Madden, and Olson at the request of the Interim Taxation Committee

HB 1019      to provide for a statewide public defender program for indigents charged with certain high-grade felonies.
          Representatives Brown (Jarvis), Apa, Duniphan, and Fitzgerald and Senators Albers, Moore, and Whiting at the request of the Interim Judiciary Committee

HB 1026      to require a permanency hearing to be held if the court has determined that reasonable efforts are not appropriate, to require that the court determine a compelling reason exists when long-term foster care is proposed as a permanent plan, and to clarify what circumstances constitute long-term foster care for children adjudicated as abused or neglected.
          The Committee on Health and Human Services at the request of the Department of Social Services

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 the next meeting of the committee. 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 1021      to provide a diversion program within the office of the state's attorney for restitution on insufficient funds checks.
          Representatives Brown (Jarvis), Apa, Duniphan, and Fitzgerald and Senators Albers, Moore, and Whiting at the request of the Interim Judiciary Committee

HB 1025      to revise confidentiality provisions regarding Department of Social Services record information concerning abuse or neglect resulting in the fatality or near fatality of a child.
          The Committee on Health and Human Services at the request of the Department of Social Services


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ROGER HUNT, Vice-Chair