Bills › 88th General Assembly
SSB 3039
Topics:Courts & civil law
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2020
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 5, 2020
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 2182
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 2182 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 2182 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill permits the state public defender to establish a pilot project beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2024, to implement innovative models of parental and child legal representation in order to assist families involved in the child welfare system. The bill specifies that the state public defender shall have sole discretion to establish the pilot project in no more than six counties throughout the state. The bill allows the state public defender to coordinate with other agencies and organizations in order to implement the pilot project, seek grant funding, and measure the results.
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The bill also allows the state public defender to appoint an attorney to represent an indigent person prior to initiation of formal proceedings, without court order, if such representation is deemed appropriate by the state public defender and relates to the purposes of the pilot project. The bill allows attorneys appointed through the pilot project to be paid from the indigent defense fund.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 15, 2020. On January 28, 2020 it recommended passage.
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