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Relating to access to confidential records of the commission on judicial qualifications by standing committees of the general assembly
Sponsored by the House Judiciary Committee
Topics:Courts & civil lawState government
Same legislation: HSB 676
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 8, 2022
- Done: House committeeFebruary 16, 2022
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 9, 202257–39
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary State lawmakers could ask to see private records from the group that investigates judges and judicial employees. If a lawmaker is allowed to see these files, they are not allowed to share the information with anyone else. However, a lawmaker cannot look at records about a judge who is currently overseeing a legal case involving that lawmaker.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to confidential records of the commission on judicial qualifications. The commission on judicial qualifications was created to hear charges made against judicial officers and employees of the judicial branch and determine whether to make an application to the supreme court to retire, discipline, or remove a judicial officer or remove a judicial branch employee. The records made to the commission are confidential unless the commission decides to apply to the supreme court to take action against the judicial officer or employee in which case the records become public documents. The bill provides that a member of the general assembly may request access to the commission on judicial qualifications’ records. A member of the general assembly that is granted access is not able to disclose any of the records provided. A member of the general assembly that is party to an action shall not be allowed to request records relating to the judicial officer presiding over the action the member of the general assembly is involved in until the action is final and may not be appealed.
Changed since by amendment H-8139; see Amendments.
Senate subcommittee
Named March 14, 2022. On March 15, 2022 it recommended indefinite postponement.
- Sen. J. Taylor
- Sen. Nate Boulton D
- Sen. Tom Shipley REmail
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