The House Committee on Courts and Criminal Code heard HB 1025 by Rep. Zimmerman on residency of prosecutors and public defenders. The bill provides that a public defender and an employee of a public defender agency may not be subject to a county residency requirement, unless the residency requirement includes all counties contiguous to the county in which the individual … [Read more...] about Residency of prosecutors and public defenders
Criminal
Battery against vulnerable workers
The House Committee on Courts and Criminal Code heard HB 1040 authored by Rep. McNamara on battery against vulnerable workers. The bill increases the penalty for battery on certain health care employees and school employees. The bill specifies that the enhancement for battery committed against a department of child services (DCS) employee applies only to those DCS … [Read more...] about Battery against vulnerable workers
Resisting law enforcement conflict resolution
The House Committee on Courts and Criminal Code heard HB 1056 by Rep. Meltzer on resisting law enforcement conflict resolution. The bill resolves a conflict between amendments to the resisting law enforcement statute in HEA 1014-2025 and HEA 1637-2025. Specifically, the bill codifies the intent of the General Assembly to increase the penalties for certain resisting … [Read more...] about Resisting law enforcement conflict resolution
Immigration matters
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard SB 76 authored by Sen. Brown and Sen. Alexander on immigration matters. The bill in relevant part, provides: The bill was amended by consent in relevant part to specify when representation by the attorney general for certain legal actions is required and when representation may be requested and removes language that provided the attorney … [Read more...] about Immigration matters
2025 Legislative Session Digest
This is the final installment of the Legislative Update for the 2025 legislative session. This installment contains summaries of selected bills of interest or portions of bills that were signed into law. Civil Criminal Law Family Law Judicial Administration Juvenile Law Probate Law Traffic Law … [Read more...] about 2025 Legislative Session Digest