Courts
Summary
Courts; Revises requirements for storage of DCA & Supreme Court materials; requires specified entities to prepare plan to develop electronic solution for identifying assessments; provides periodic inflationary adjustment of monetary jurisdictional limit for county court actions; requires EDR to calculate & certify jurisdictional limit; requires specified entities to post on their websites such adjusted jurisdictional limit; requires DCA clerks to have office at headquarters; authorizes person summoned for jury service to postpone such service in event of emergency; authorizes electronic fingerprinting for certain offenses; removes requirement defendant's social security number be obtained at time of fingerprinting.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
Apr 2021
House Passage
Apr 2021
Senate Passage
Apr 2021
Signed into Law
Jun 2021
Introduced Mar 23, 2021
Signed Jun 29, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Apr 26, 2021 · House Apr 23, 2021
How they voted
36–0
Passed
Total votes 36
Apr 26, 2021
D
Democratic15
100% Yea
R
Republican21
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
45
Key actions
15
Committee
18
Jun 29, 2021
Signed into law
Approved by Governor
legislature
Apr 26, 2021
Upper · Passed
CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0
upper
Apr 23, 2021
Committee
Referred to Appropriations
upper
Apr 23, 2021
Lower · Passed
CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0
lower
Apr 6, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Judiciary Committee
lower
Apr 6, 2021
Lower · Passed
Favorable by Judiciary Committee
lower
Apr 2, 2021
Lower · Passed
Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
lower
Mar 30, 2021
Lower · Passed
Now in Judiciary Committee
lower
Mar 30, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
lower
Mar 30, 2021
Lower · Passed
Favorable by Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
lower
Mar 26, 2021
Lower · Passed
Added to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
lower
Mar 24, 2021
Lower · Passed
Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
lower
Mar 24, 2021
Committee
Referred to Judiciary Committee
lower
Mar 24, 2021
Committee
Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
lower
Mar 23, 2021
Introduced
CS Filed
lower
Mar 23, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
lower
Mar 23, 2021
Lower · Passed
Favorable with CS by Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
lower
Mar 19, 2021
Lower · Passed
Added to Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee agenda
lower
Feb 28, 2021
Lower · Passed
Now in Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
lower
Feb 28, 2021
Committee
Referred to Judiciary Committee
lower
Feb 28, 2021
Committee
Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
lower
Feb 28, 2021
Committee
Referred to Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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