Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Judiciary
Room:     413
Date:     Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Time:     7:45 AM



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         HB 1079 *     revise certain provisions regarding the sex offender registry.
             The Committee on Judiciary at the request of the Office of the Attorney General

         HB 1203 *     limit asbestos-related liabilities for certain successor corporations.
             Representatives Hunt, Bolin, Brunner, Cronin, Deadrick, Faehn, Gosch, Krebs, Novstrup (David), Peters, Rausch, Rave, Russell, and Steele and Senators Rhoden, Bartling, Fryslie, Gant, and Howie

         HB 1101      allow affidavits for change of judge in habeas corpus actions.
             Representatives Gosch, Bolin, Boomgarden, Deadrick, Greenfield, Jensen, Kirkeby, Kopp, Lederman, Olson (Ryan), Romkema, Solum, Verchio, and Wink and Senators Abdallah, Ahlers, Brown, Gant, Maher, and Schmidt

         HB 1163 *     excuse certain elderly persons from jury duty upon request and to revise certain provisions relating to the minimum age for jury service.
             Representatives Van Gerpen, Boomgarden, Carson, Feickert, Gibson, Hunhoff (Bernie), Jensen, Juhnke, Moser, Novstrup (David), Putnam, Sly, Steele, Thompson, Vanderlinde, and Verchio and Senators Hanson (Gary), Bartling, Fryslie, and Miles

         HB 1207      provide for the reduction of certain sentences upon provision of substantial assistance from the recipient.
             Representatives Engels, Blake, Feinstein, Gibson, Gosch, Hamiel, Hoffman, Hunt, Killer, Lust, Moser, Nygaard, Schlekeway, Turbiville, and Vanderlinde and Senators Vehle, Abdallah, Gant, Gillespie, Heidepriem, and Turbak Berry

         HB 1246 *     revise certain provisions relating to service of garnishee summons, affidavit, and garnishment disclosure.
             Representatives Gosch, Cutler, Hunt, and Schlekeway and Senators Hansen (Tom), Nesselhuf, Turbak Berry, and Vehle

         HB 1153      revise the elements of the crime of indecent exposure involving a child and to revise the elements of the crime of indecent exposure.
             Representatives Cutler, Bolin, Fargen, Frerichs, Krebs, Lust, Peters, Steele, Thompson, and Turbiville and Senators Gillespie, Dempster, Gray, and Novstrup (Al)

         HB 1166 *     provide for DNA testing for certain inmates for the purposes of determining whether they may have been wrongfully convicted.
             Representatives Deadrick, Cutler, Gosch, and Lust and Senators Heidepriem, Abdallah, and Vehle

         HB 1287      permit evidence of the defendant's commission of other acts of child molestation to be admissible in certain child molestation cases.
             Representatives Russell, Greenfield, Hunt, Moser, and Schlekeway and Senators Jerstad, Howie, Maher, and Tieszen

         BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

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         GENE G. ABDALLAH, Chair