Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 214

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Relating to: municipal ordinance enforcement and court procedures. (FE)

Court — Municipal Judge Ordinance

Introduced, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill makes various changes to municipal ordinance enforcement and

municipal court procedures, including the following: the bill outlines the procedure

for the formation or dissolution of joint municipal courts; the bill specifies that

municipal court budgets must be separate from, or appear on a separate line item

from municipal prosecuting attorneys and municipal law enforcement agencies; the

bill allows for non-OWI municipal citations from an OWI offense to be tried with the

OWI offense in circuit court; the bill outlines when proceedings in municipal court

may be held by audiovisual means; the bill clarifies the procedure and fees required

for an appeal from a municipal court judgment; the bill requires each municipal court

to have an armed guard unless the judge orders otherwise; and the bill specifies that

no municipal court clerk may appear in attire that suggests he or she is a law

enforcement officer or employee of a law enforcement agency.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From CTS

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Government Oversight and Courts, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Oct 4, 2019 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Government Oversight and Courts, Ayes 5, Noes 0