Bill Text: MN HF873 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Rice County; pilot program authorized to fund a mediation program through a surcharge on district court filing fees, funding provided, and money appropriated.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-25 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Judiciary Finance and Policy [HF873 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-HF873-Introduced.html
1.2relating to courts; authorizing a pilot program to fund a mediation program in Rice
1.3County through a surcharge on district court filing fees; appropriating money.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. PILOT PROGRAM FOR RICE COUNTY MEDIATION.
1.6(a) Rice County may expand its dispute resolution program to include a pilot
1.7program to provide mediation for low-income parties in dissolution of marriage
1.8proceedings and use the funds under paragraph (b) for that purpose.
1.9(b) If the Rice County Board of Commissioners authorizes expansion of the dispute
1.10resolution program and imposition of the surcharges, the district court in Rice County
1.11shall impose, and the court administrator shall collect, a $3 surcharge on each party that
1.12pays a civil filing fee and a $2 surcharge on every person convicted of a misdemeanor or
1.13petty misdemeanor on the state payables list.
1.14(c) The court administrator shall transmit the surcharges collected under paragraph
1.15(b) to the commissioner of management and budget. The surcharges are deposited in a
1.16Rice County surcharge account in the special revenue fund and the amounts collected are
1.17appropriated to the state court administrator for a grant to Rice County for the mediation
1.18program for use until expended. Amounts received under this paragraph are in addition to
1.19any other funds received for the Rice County mediation program.
1.20(d) By March 15, 2017, the district court administrator and mediation program
1.21director in Rice County shall submit a report to the state court administrator, and the house
1.22of representatives and senate committees having jurisdiction over judiciary, describing
1.23and analyzing the results of the county's program, including party satisfaction with the
1.24process of alternative dispute resolution and the number of cases mediated.
2.1(e) This section expires June 30, 2017.
2.2EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective July 1, 2013.
1.3County through a surcharge on district court filing fees; appropriating money.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. PILOT PROGRAM FOR RICE COUNTY MEDIATION.
1.6(a) Rice County may expand its dispute resolution program to include a pilot
1.7program to provide mediation for low-income parties in dissolution of marriage
1.8proceedings and use the funds under paragraph (b) for that purpose.
1.9(b) If the Rice County Board of Commissioners authorizes expansion of the dispute
1.10resolution program and imposition of the surcharges, the district court in Rice County
1.11shall impose, and the court administrator shall collect, a $3 surcharge on each party that
1.12pays a civil filing fee and a $2 surcharge on every person convicted of a misdemeanor or
1.13petty misdemeanor on the state payables list.
1.14(c) The court administrator shall transmit the surcharges collected under paragraph
1.15(b) to the commissioner of management and budget. The surcharges are deposited in a
1.16Rice County surcharge account in the special revenue fund and the amounts collected are
1.17appropriated to the state court administrator for a grant to Rice County for the mediation
1.18program for use until expended. Amounts received under this paragraph are in addition to
1.19any other funds received for the Rice County mediation program.
1.20(d) By March 15, 2017, the district court administrator and mediation program
1.21director in Rice County shall submit a report to the state court administrator, and the house
1.22of representatives and senate committees having jurisdiction over judiciary, describing
1.23and analyzing the results of the county's program, including party satisfaction with the
1.24process of alternative dispute resolution and the number of cases mediated.
2.1(e) This section expires June 30, 2017.
2.2EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective July 1, 2013.
