No. HB 421
Filed under Local Government.
Performance Reports of Circuit and County Court Judges; Requires each clerk of circuit court to prepare annual performance report with specified information regarding each circuit & county court judge; authorizes judges to prepare specified explanatory statement; requires such statements to be posted with relevant reports; provides for specified reporting period; defines "final disposition."
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDClerks of court must publish an annual report on every circuit and county judge, showing caseload, how many cases closed, the clearance rate, average case age, and average delay between scheduling and holding a hearing.
Each report must be posted by April 1 on the clerk's website and the relevant court's website, and it stays online for as long as that judge remains on the bench.
A judge may write an explanatory statement about circumstances that affected their numbers, but the circuit's Chief Judge must approve it before it can be posted alongside the report.
The requirement does not really start until the 2028 calendar year, the first period the law covers, even though the underlying act takes effect July 1, 2026.
AIRequires each clerk of the circuit court to prepare an annual report on every circuit and county judge's caseload, disposition rate, case age, and hearing-scheduling delay, broken out by court division.
AIRequires each report to be posted by April 1 on the clerk's website and the relevant court's website, and requires it to remain posted for as long as the judge whose performance it covers remains in office.
AILets a judge write an explanatory statement about extenuating circumstances affecting the reported metrics, but only allows it to be posted alongside the report if the circuit's Chief Judge approves it first.
AIDelays the substance of the requirement: although the law takes effect July 1, 2026, the first calendar year the report must actually cover is 2028, pushing the earliest published report to around April 2029.