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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Local Public Campaign Financing - Expansion to Additional Offices [HB-550] [Elections ] [Funding ] [Ethics ]
Authorizing the governing body of a county to establish a system of public campaign financing after the governing body of the county has implemented a system of public campaign financing for elective offices in the executive or legislative branches of county government for at least one complete election cycle for the offices of State's Attorney, sheriff, register of wills, judge of the circuit court, clerk of the circuit court judge of the orphans' court, or an elected member of the county board of education.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jessica Feldmark First Reading Ways And Means on 01/22/2025

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Relating To Government. [SB-935] [Retirement ] [Pensions ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Budget and Spending ]
Amends the retirement allowance for a member who first earns credited service as a judge after 6/30/2031 to 1.75 per cent of the judge's average final compensation for each year of credited service as a judge. Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to study the impacts and benefits of reducing, from 10 years to 5 years, the minimum number of years of credited service that qualified Class H, Tier 2 members of the Employees' Retirement System must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Dru Kanuha Act 290, 07/03/2025 (gov. Msg. No. 1393). on 07/03/2025

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Relating To Bail. [HB-675] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
Requires judges to make certain findings regarding a defendant's ability to afford bail.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Gregg Takayama Introduced And Pass First Reading. on 01/21/2025

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State (Alaska)
Alaska 34th Legislature

Workplace Violence Protective Orders [SB-49] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ]
An Act relating to workplace violence protective orders; relating to the crime of violating a protective order; relating to the powers of district judges and magistrates; amending Rules 4 and 65, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure, and Rule 9, Alaska Rules of Administration; and providing for an effective date.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Claman Fin Referral Added on 05/09/2025

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Relating To Bail. [SB-725] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
Requires judges to make certain findings regarding a defendant's ability to afford bail.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy A. San Buenaventura The Committee On Jdc Deferred The Measure. on 01/31/2025

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State (Alaska)
Alaska 34th Legislature

Generated Obscene Chld Sex Abuse Material [HB-47] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Children and Youth ] [Education ] [Law Enforcement ]
An Act relating to crime and criminal procedure; relating to generated obscene child sexual abuse material; relating to the powers of district judges and magistrates; relating to teaching certificates; and relating to licensing of school bus drivers.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mia C. Costello Cra Rpt Recd W/cs Await Transmittal Nxt on 04/30/2025

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State (Utah)
Utah 2025 General Session

Summons Modifications [SB-110] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ]
Summons Modifications

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Stephanie Pitcher Governor Signed In Lieutenant Governor's Office For Filing on 03/25/2025

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State (Utah)
Utah 2025 General Session

Judicial Officer Amendments [SB-109] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
Judicial Officer Amendments

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Todd D. Weiler Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar To Rules In Senate Rules Committee on 03/07/2025

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Proposing An Amendment To Article Vi, Section 3, Of The Hawaii State Constitution To Increase The Mandatory Retirement Age For State Justices And Judges. [SB-175] [Retirement ] [Senior Citizens ]
Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from seventy to seventy-five years of age. (SD1)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy A. San Buenaventura Reported From Jdc (stand. Com. Rep. No. 64) With Recommendation Of Passage On Second Reading, As Amended (sd 1) And Referral To Wam. on 02/06/2025

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State (Alaska)
Alaska 34th Legislature

Dui Diversion Program [HB-2] [Alcoholic Beverages ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Law Enforcement ]
An Act establishing the driving while under the influence diversion program for eligible persons charged with driving while under the influence or refusal to submit to a chemical test; relating to judgment for restitution; relating to suspended imposition of sentence; relating to records kept by the Department of Administration; relating to operating a vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage, inhalant, or controlled substance; relating to refusal to submit to a chemical test; amending Rule 9, Alaska Rules (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Prax Cosponsor(s): Carrick on 03/21/2025

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State (Alaska)
Alaska 34th Legislature

Judicial Retention Election Information [SB-25] [Elections ] [Law Enforcement ] [Criminal Justice ]
An Act relating to information on judicial officers seeking retention in office.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert H. Myers Prefile Released 1/10/25 on 01/22/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Judicial and Public Safety for Service Members Act [SB-280] [Veterans ] [Military ] [Family-Related Legislation ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Real Estate ] [Criminal Justice ] [Law Enforcement ]
Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and real property laws to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Anthony Muse Approved By The Governor - Chapter 261 on 05/06/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland [HB-315] [Law Enforcement ]
Establishing the Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland to examine and analyze the efficiency, uniformity, and quality of fiduciary adjudication in Maryland and make recommendations; requiring the orphans' courts, circuit courts, registers of wills, and Administrative Office of the Courts to comply with certain requests of the Task Force; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and make recommendations on or before January 1, 2026.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Frank M Conaway Approved By The Governor - Chapter 220 on 04/22/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Peace Orders and Protective Orders - Military Protection Orders [SB-273] [Crime ] [Family-Related Legislation ] [Law Enforcement ] [Military ] [Public Safety ]
Authorizing a judge to consider whether a military protection order has been issued against a respondent when determining whether to grant a temporary peace order or a temporary protective order; and requiring a law enforcement officer to notify a certain law enforcement agency that an individual may have violated a military protection order under certain circumstances.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Michael A. Jackson Approved By The Governor - Chapter 531 on 05/13/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Police Discipline - Trial Board Composition [HB-186] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Altering the composition of trial boards responsible for adjudicating matters of police discipline to include certain attorneys.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Caylin Allen Young Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/10/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Public Ethics Law - State Officials of and Candidates to be State Officials of the Judicial Branch - Conflicts of Interest and Financial Disclosure Statements [SB-185] [Ethics ]
Requiring the Commission on Judicial Disabilities, the Judicial Ethics Committee, or another body designated by the Supreme Court of Maryland to administer and implement certain provisions of law relating to conflicts of interest and financial disclosure statements for candidates to be State officials of the Judicial Branch and maintain and make available for public inspection the records and financial disclosure statements of State officials of and candidates to be State officials of the Judicial Branch; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Judicial Proceedings First Reading Judicial Proceedings on 01/08/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Safety - Statewide DNA Database System, DNA Collection, and Penalties - Alterations [HB-259] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Requiring a certain DNA sample to be collected in a certain manner from an individual who is required to register as a sex offender; requiring a DNA sample to be collected by a certain individual or at a certain location under certain circumstances; requiring a custodial agency or correctional facility to ensure a DNA sample is collected in a certain manner; prohibiting a DNA sample from being tested and placed in a certain statewide DNA database system until certain conditions are met; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Frank M Conaway Approved By The Governor - Chapter 91 on 04/08/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Safety - Statewide DNA Database System, DNA Collection, and Penalties - Alterations [SB-202] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Requiring a certain DNA sample to be collected in a certain manner from an individual who is required to register as a sex offender; requiring a DNA sample to be collected by a certain individual or at a certain location under certain circumstances; requiring a custodial agency or correctional facility to ensure a DNA sample is collected in a certain manner; prohibiting a DNA sample from being tested and placed in a certain statewide DNA database system until certain conditions are met; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Judicial Proceedings Approved By The Governor - Chapter 92 on 04/08/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Public Ethics Law - State Officials of and Candidates to be State Officials of the Judicial Branch - Conflicts of Interest and Financial Disclosure Statements [HB-166] [Ethics ]
Requiring the Commission on Judicial Disabilities, the Judicial Ethics Committee, or another body designated by the Supreme Court of Maryland to administer and implement certain provisions of law relating to conflicts of interest and financial disclosure statements for candidates to be State officials of the Judicial Branch and maintain and make available for public inspection the records and financial disclosure statements of State officials of and candidates to be State officials of the Judicial Branch; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Environment and Transportation Referred Judicial Proceedings on 02/28/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

No-Knock Warrants [HB-255] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ]
Repealing the authority for the issuance and execution of a no-knock search warrant; establishing that a warrant may not authorize an officer to enter a building, apartment, premises, or place without first announcing the officer's purpose and authority; specifying that a warrant may be executed only between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.; and requiring an officer executing a search warrant, prior to entering certain areas to be searched, to give reasonable notice to alert any occupants of the officer's authority and purpose.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Gabriel Acevero Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025

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