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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator '
DATE: September 5, 1989 '• _ �4
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SUBJECT: LEGISLATION: SB 1137 (Marks)
Specific Request(s) or Recommendations(s) & Background & Justification
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a position of SUPPORT in regard to SB 1137 by Senator Milton Marks which provides a new source of
funding for the small claims advisor program and makes specified changes in the way the program is operated.
BACKGROUND:
Existing law requires each county to provide individual assistance to small claims court litigants and potential
litigants at no additional charge through the implementation of a small claims court advisor program which may
provide advisory service in person,by telephone or by any other means reasonably calculated to provide timely and
appropriate assistance.
Existing law also provides that a$6 fee shall be charged and collected for the filing of each claim in small claims
court and a$12 fee if the number of claims filed by a party in each court in the preceding 12 calendar months is more
than 12.
Senator Marks has introduced SB 1137 which among other things increases the filing fee in small claims court and
dedicates part of the revenue to the support of the small claims advisor program. SB 1137 would increase the$6
fee to $8 and dedicate$6 of the$8 fee to the small claims advisor program. The bill would also increase the $12
fee to $16 and dedicate$14 of the $16 fee to the small claims advisor program.
The Municipal Court Administrator recommends that the Board of Supervisors support SB 1137. As of this writing,
SB 1137 was in the Assembly Judiciary Committee. If it is passed by the Assembly Judiciary Committee the bill
may well be on the Governor's Desk by the time the Board of Supervisors has an opportunity to act on this
recommendation.
Continued on attachment: NO Signature:
X Recommendation of County Administrator _ Recommendation of Board Committee
Approve Other:
Signature(s)•
Action of Board on: September 12 1989 Approved as Recommended X Other
Vote of Supervisors I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
X Unanimous (Absent ) AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE
Ayes: Noes: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON DATE SHOWN.
Absent: Abstain: SEP 12 1989
cc: County Administrator Attested
Municipal Court Administrator Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board
County Counsel
Director,Justice Systems Programs of Supervisors and County Administrator
Senator Milton Marks
Governor George Deukmejian By , Deputy Clerk
Les Sppahnn,SRJ.Jackson,Barish&Associates
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