HB 0061 Legal Services Funding

Thursday, February 18, 2010

HB 0061 Legal Services Funding

HB 0061 Legal Services Funding

AN ACT relating to indigent civil legal services; providing for additional fees to fund indigent civil legal services; providing for additional fees to fund indigent civil legal services; establishing and indigent civil legal services account; creating and providing for administration of an indigent legal services program; authorizing rulemaking/ authorizing the expenditure of funds for the program as specified; providing for reports; and providing for an effective date.

WE ARE MONITORING THIS BILL IN THE HOPES THAT WYOMING WILL FUND LEGAL SERVICES FOR THE POOR AS IT IS ONE OF ONLY TWO STATES THAT DOES NOT DO SO.

Updates:
2/18 - This bill has passed introduction and passed out of the Judiciary Committee and will now go to the Senate for introduction.
3/9 - This bill passed in the Senate version.

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