Sen. Mattie Hunter
Filed: 5/5/2009
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3795 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3795 on page 1, by 
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replacing line 7 with the following:
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    "Sec. 15.  Authorization.
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    (a)  The Chief Judge of each judicial"; and


 
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on page 1, by inserting immediately below line 9 the following:
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    "(b)  Whenever the county boards of 2 or more counties 
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within the same judicial circuit determine that a single drug 
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court program would best serve those counties, the county board 
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of each such county shall adopt a resolution to the effect that 
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there shall be a single drug court program serving those 
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counties, and shall provide a copy of the resolution to the 
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Chief Judge of the judicial circuit.  Upon receipt of those 
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resolutions, the Chief Judge shall establish or, in the case of 
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an existing drug court program, re-organize a single drug court 
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program to serve those counties.".