Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session
Relating to: an objective standard for the disqualification of a judge or justice.
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires a judge or justice to disqualify himself or herself from
presiding over or deciding a legal proceeding or action if a reasonable person would
question whether the judge or justice could act in an impartial manner.
Under current law, a judge or justice must disqualify himself or herself if
certain circumstances exist that would affect the judge's or justice's impartiality in
the action, if the judge or justice determines that he or she is incapable of acting in
an impartial manner, or if he or she determines that it appears that he or she cannot
act in an impartial manner.
Sponsors
Full history
- Sep 5, 2019 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Hebl, Anderson, Emerson, Kolste, Ohnstad, Pope, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vruwink and Brostoff; cosponsored by Senator Ringhand
- Sep 5, 2019 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1