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2024 SESSION
HB 1396 Clerks' offices; days of operation, clerks' authority to close office.
Introduced by: Patrick A. Hope | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Days of operation of clerks' offices; clerks' authority to close office. Allows the clerk of the circuit court of any county or city to close the clerk's office on (i) Christmas Eve; (ii) any day or portion of a day that the Governor declares as a holiday for state employees; and (iii) any day or portion of a day on which the Governor, Supreme Court, or Judicial Council authorizes state offices to be closed. Under current law, the clerk may only close the clerk's office once a judge authorizes such clerk to do so in these circumstances. This bill is identical to SB 736.
FULL TEXT
- 01/16/24 House: Presented and ordered printed 24105197D pdf
- 02/21/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24108024D-S1 pdf
- 03/05/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1396ER) pdf
- 04/04/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/16/24 House: Presented and ordered printed 24105197D
- 01/16/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/02/24 House: Assigned Courts sub: Judicial
- 02/05/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/09/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 9-N)
- 02/11/24 House: Read first time
- 02/12/24 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/13/24 House: Read third time and passed House (72-Y 26-N)
- 02/13/24 House: VOTE: Passage (72-Y 26-N)
- 02/14/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/21/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/21/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24108024D-S1
- 02/23/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/26/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/26/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24108024D-S1
- 02/26/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1396S1
- 02/26/24 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (37-Y 2-N 1-A)
- 02/28/24 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 24108024D-S1 (88-Y 12-N)
- 02/28/24 House: VOTE: Adoption (88-Y 12-N)
- 03/05/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/05/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1396ER)
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/04/24 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 482 (effective 7/1/24)
- 04/04/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482)