UPDATE ON LEGISLATION

April 19, 2012 § 2 Comments

I posted here and here about pending legislation that might affect your chancery court practice.

Here is a list of pending bills affecting the judiciary that are still alive (or as the legislators say, “not dead”).

As you can see, most of what has survived has to do with criminal laws and procedure, or domestic violence, with a couple of exceptions.

HB 484. Judicial and DA pay raise, 2012 version passed both houses and was signed into law.

HB 1268. Makes several significant changes to the adoption statutes, including a provision that an attorney representing an adoption agency must complete training, is in conference.

Believe it or not, that is all from the previous lists I posted that has made it this close to the finish line.

WATCHING SAUSAGE BEING MADE

July 13, 2010 § Leave a comment

You’d lose your taste for sausage if you saw what goes into it and how it’s made.  The legislative process can be like that.  Knowing what goes into laws and seeing the process by which they’re made can be stomach-churning.

Rep. Tom Moore was dismayed at how often his colleagues in the Texas House of Representatives passed bills without understanding them. So in April 1971 he sponsored a resolution honoring Albert de Salvo:

This compassionate gentleman’s dedication and devotion to his work has enabled the weak and the lonely throughout the nation to achieve and maintain a new degree of concern for their future. He has been officially recognized by the state of Massachusetts for his noted activities and unconventional techniques involving population control and applied psychology.

That’s true as far as it goes — Albert de Salvo is the Boston Strangler.

The measure passed unanimously.

Thanks to Futility Closet for this delectable morsel.

NEW LEGISLATION THAT MAY AFFECT YOUR CHANCERY PRACTICE

June 25, 2010 § 6 Comments

A number of bills passed in the 2010 Regular Session of the Legislature that you may find will have some effect on your practice in Chancery Court.  Below is a bulleted list with a brief description of the pertinent portions of each bill.  You can read the full text of the bills here.  Thanks to Steve Horne, Representative in District 81 for providing me with the summaries.  I will provide more detailed summaries of some of the bills in later posts.

All laws are effective July 1, 2010, unless noted otherwise.

  • HB 277.  Statutory method for renewing a judgment.
  • HB 704.  DHS may obtain income tax and sales tax information without a subpoena for individuals who are delinquent in child support payments. 
  • HB 886.  Prohibits a deed restriction or other covenant running with the land that requires a transferee or his heirs, successors or assigns to pay a property transfer fee, and any such provision is void and unenforceable.  The prohibition does not apply to certain property owners’ associations.
  • HB 1400.  Increases from $10,000 to $20,000 the amount of money or value of property that may be transferred to a ward without a guardianship, in the discretion of the Chancellor.
  • SB 2413.  Amends § 93-5-34, MCA, to clarify custody and visitation procedures when a parent receives military orders for temporary duty, deployment or mobilization.
  • SB 2929.  Youth Court has exclusive jurisdiction over delinquent acts committed by a child until the child’s 18th birthday.  Circuit Court may assume jurisdiction when transferred to it from Youth Court.
  • SB 2800.  Remedies of lien laws available to suppliers and construction contractors are made available on the same basis to rental and lease equipment suppliers.
  • HB 1479, effective July 1, 2011.  The name of Oakley Training School is changed to Oakley Youth Development Center.
  • HB 1049 and 1525.  Makes many changes in the mental commitment law.  The changes are too numerous to list here, and they will be detailed in a subsequent post.   

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