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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 512

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: a Public Defender Board student loan payment pilot program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Attorney Public defender Public employee Scholarships and loans

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill directs the Public Defender Board to establish a student loan payment

pilot program for private bar attorneys who accept public defender appointments.

The program would provide a payment to use to repay student loans of up to $20,000

per year for attorneys in counties with a population of 25,000 or less or a population

density of 55 or fewer persons per square mile who agree to accept at least 50 state

public defender appointments per year. The bill provides $250,000 GPR in each fiscal

year of the 2019-21 biennium for the program.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Born (R) , Bowen (D) , Dittrich (R) , Edming (R) , Goyke (D) , Kurtz (R) , McGuire (D) , Mursau (R) , Neubauer (D) , Oldenburg (R) , Petryk (R) , Pronschinske (R) , Sinicki (D) , Tittl (R) , Tusler (R) , Vruwink (D) , Zamarripa (D) , Zimmerman (R)

4 cosponsors

Bernier (R) , Summerfield (R) , Testin (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Dec 26, 2019 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Oct 7, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Tusler, McGuire, Born, Bowen, Edming, Goyke, Kurtz, Mursau, Neubauer, Oldenburg, Petryk, Pronschinske, Sinicki, Tittl, Zamarripa, Zimmerman, Vruwink and Dittrich; cosponsored by Senators Testin, Wanggaard and Bernier

  2. Oct 7, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Oct 23, 2019 · Assembly

    Representative Summerfield added as a coauthor

  4. Oct 25, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Nov 21, 2019 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Nov 22, 2019 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  7. Dec 5, 2019 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Dec 26, 2019 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  9. Dec 26, 2019 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1