Subjects

Public defender

57 bills across 7 sessions, from the Legislature's subject index.

• AB 50 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 45 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Became law 2025
• AB 514 Relating to: authorizing additional circuit court and criminal justice system positions. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 939 Relating to: eliminating obsolete provisions regarding the term of a state public defender and the removal of the state public defender (suggested as remedial language by the State Public Defender). Became law 2025
• SB 546 Relating to: authorizing additional circuit court and criminal justice system positions. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 918 Relating to: eliminating obsolete provisions regarding the term of a state public defender and the removal of the state public defender (suggested as remedial language by the State Public Defender). Died at session end 2025
• AB 43 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 70 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Became law 2023
• AB 460 Relating to: index of discovery for district attorneys and public defenders. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 698 Relating to: a residential tenant's right to counsel in an eviction action and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 458 Relating to: index of discovery for district attorneys and public defenders. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 658 Relating to: a residential tenant's right to counsel in an eviction action and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 33 Relating to: merit pay raises for state public defenders. Died at session end 2021
• AB 68 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Became law 2021
• SB 62 Relating to: merit pay raises for state public defenders. Became law 2021
• AB 522 Relating to: Public Defender Board regulation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 111 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 523 Relating to: Public Defender Board regulation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• AB 56 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Became law 2019
• SB 59 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Died at session end 2019
• AB 145 Relating to: creation of a prosecutor board and a state prosecutors office; funding for the department of justice, assistant district attorneys, the public defender, and the courts; Public Defender Board regulation, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 501 Relating to: funding the public defender pay progression and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 512 Relating to: a Public Defender Board student loan payment pilot program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 514 Relating to: Public Defender Board regulation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• SB 127 Relating to: creation of a prosecutor board and a state prosecutors office; funding for the department of justice, assistant district attorneys, the public defender, and the courts; Public Defender Board regulation, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• SB 461 Relating to: a Public Defender Board student loan payment pilot program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• SB 462 Relating to: Public Defender Board regulation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• SB 468 Relating to: funding the public defender pay progression and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 21 Relating to: description of defendant indigency for public defender fees (suggested as remedial legislation by the State Public Defender). Died at session end 2017
• AB 23 Relating to: the determination of indigency prior to the state public defender appointing an attorney to represent a parent in a proceeding under chapters 48 and 938 (suggested as remedial legislation by the State Public Defender). (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 37 Relating to: increasing the rate paid to private attorneys for representing indigent clients. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 64 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Became law 2017
• SB 30 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Died at session end 2017
• AB 539 Relating to: plans for supervised release of sexually violent persons, representation of sexually violent persons by the state public defender, and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2017
• AB 567 Relating to: a Public Defender Board student loan payment pilot program and making an appropriation. Died at session end 2017
• AB 784 Relating to: a parent's right to counsel in a child in need of protection or services proceeding, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2017
• AB 828 Relating to: Public Defender Board regulation and pay of private bar attorneys and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 839 Relating to: the determination of indigency prior to the state public defender appointing an attorney to represent a parent in a proceeding under chapters 48 and 938, the description of defendant indigency for public defender fees, and recusal from juvenile justice proceedings (suggested as remedial legislation by the State Public Defender). (FE) Became law 2017
• SB 283 Relating to: increasing the rate paid to private attorneys for representing indigent clients. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 446 Relating to: plans for supervised release of sexually violent persons, representation of sexually violent persons by the state public defender, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 467 Relating to: a Public Defender Board student loan payment pilot program and making an appropriation. Died at session end 2017
• SB 657 Relating to: a parent's right to counsel in a child in need of protection or services proceeding, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 722 Relating to: the determination of indigency prior to the state public defender appointing an attorney to represent a parent in a proceeding under chapters 48 and 938, the description of defendant indigency for public defender fees, and recusal from juvenile justice proceedings (suggested as remedial legislation by the State Public Defender). (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Died at session end 2015
• SB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Became law 2015
• AB 275 Relating to: increasing the rate paid to private attorneys for representing indigent clients. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 347 Relating to: battery and threats to a judge, a prosecutor, a public defender, or a law enforcement officer and providing a criminal penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 1012 Relating to: the right of a parent to have counsel in a proceeding for a child alleged to be in need of protection or services; the power of the juvenile court to appoint counsel in such a proceeding; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 40 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2013 legislature. (FE) Became law 2013
• AB 151 Relating to: the right of a parent to have counsel in a proceeding for a child alleged to be in need of protection or services; the power of the juvenile court to appoint counsel in such a proceeding; and elimination of the right to a jury trial in such a proceeding or in a proceeding for termination of parental rights; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 243 Relating to: increasing the rate paid to private attorneys for representing indigent clients. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 263 Relating to: the state civil service. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 759 Relating to: accessing and obtaining patient health records by public defenders. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AJR 70 Relating to: the 50th anniversary of the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision and the right to counsel. Died at session end 2013
• SB 224 Relating to: the state civil service. (FE) Became law 2013
• SB 235 Relating to: increasing the rate paid to private attorneys for representing indigent clients. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 599 Relating to: accessing and obtaining patient health records by public defenders. (FE) Became law 2013