Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Judiciary
Room:    413
Date:    Saturday, January 26, 2002
Time:    10:00 AM



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         SB 160     expand the definition of domestic abuse to include certain acts or threats for the purpose of denying, hindering, or delaying the provision of emergency or law enforcement services to family or household members.
             Senator Diedrich (Larry)

         SB 47     authorize the Department of Corrections to release juvenile information to the adult corrections system.
             The Committee on State Affairs at the request of the Department of Corrections

         SB 49     authorize inmates to waive parole hearings.
             The Committee on State Affairs at the request of the Department of Corrections

         SB 155     revise the civil liability of foster parents for certain personal injuries sustained by foster children in their care.
             Senators Koskan, Apa, Bogue, de Hueck, Duxbury, and Hutmacher and Representatives Jensen, Bartling, Flowers, Juhnke, Klaudt, Napoli, Van Gerpen, and Wick

         SB 96     limit the damages that may be awarded in a medical malpractice action against an optometrist.
             Senators Bogue, Koetzle, Koskan, Staggers, and Vitter and Representatives Madsen, Brown (Jarvis), Flowers, Juhnke, Kloucek, Michels, and Monroe

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.

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FRED C. WHITING, Chair