Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.
Del. Wren Williams
Sponsored bills
Public utilities; rate increases during certainmonths prohibited. Prohibits the regulated operating revenuesof certain public utilities from being increased in the months ofNovember, December, January, or February. The bill's limitation doesnot apply to certain increases, which are the same exceptions as allowed for the existing prohibition on multiple rate increases duringa 12-month period.
Magistrates; appointment and supervision.
Special justice fees; emergency custody andvoluntary and involuntary civil admissions. Increases the fee that a special justice receives for presiding over emergency custodyand voluntary and involuntary civil admissions hearings from $86.25to $143.75 for each commitment hearing and from $43.25 to $70 for each certification hearing.
Removal of boundary or survey stake; penalty.Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who intentionallyor knowingly injures, removes, displaces, or destroys any boundaryor survey stake, or any part thereof, erected to designate, locate,survey, or map any land boundary.
Department of Criminal Justice Services; certificationand regulation of charitable bail organizations. Provides forcertification and regulation by the Department of Criminal JusticeServices of charitable bail organizations, defined in the bill asany entity or nonprofit organization that exists for the purposeof providing or posting bond for another person and does not includea person that pays bail for (i) three or fewer defendants in any180-day period or (ii) a defendant's family or household member.
Funding for deputy sheriffs. Provides thatthe minimum number of deputies funded by the Compensation Board shallbe one deputy per 1,500 persons or one deputy for every 25 squaremiles, whichever is greater. Under current law, the funding is fixedat one deputy per 1,500 persons only. The provisions of the billapply to counties and cities without a police force.
Ignition interlock systems; penalty.
Action establishing boundaries to land; attorneyfees. Provides that in an action to establish boundary lines the court may award attorney fees to any prevailing party when the needto ascertain the true boundary lines arose from the action of anotherparty, and where such action was in willful disregard of the rightsof another. The bill also provides that a claim of damages may bejoined with any proceeding to establish boundary lines. This billis a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
Retail licenses.