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Approp, SAPD, orig
APPROPRIATIONS – STATE APPELLATE PUBLIC DEFENDER – Relates to the appropriation to the State Appellate Public Defender for fiscal years 2023 and 2024.

RS30749 / S1199

This is the FY 2024 original appropriation bill for the State Appellate Public Defender. It appropriates a total of $3,951,000 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 26.00. The bill funds three line items, which provides additional funds for a Capital Litigation Attorney, a parity salary increase for state appellate public defenders, and funds for an agency-wide 7.5% CEC. Also included in this bill is a onetime FY 2023 supplemental, which provides $67,500 for additional electronic records storage capacity. A supplemental for capital cases was approved earlier this session and sent out as a separate bill.

Bill Events
Date Description
03/23 Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for Printing
03/24 Reported Printed; referred to Finance
Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading
03/27 Read second time; filed for Third Reading
Rules Suspended (2/3 Vote - Read in full as required) – PASSED - 24-10-1
AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bernt, Bjerke, Burtenshaw, Cook, Den Hartog, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hartgen, Just, Lakey, Lee, Lent, Rabe, Ricks, Schroeder, Semmelroth, Taylor, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Winder, Wintrow
NAYS – Carlson, Foreman, Hart, Herndon, Lenney, Nichols, Okuniewicz, Toews, Trakel, Zuiderveld
Absent and excused – Ruchti
Floor Sponsor - Burtenshaw
Title apvd - to House
03/28 Received from the Senate, Filed for First Reading
Read First Time, Filed for Second Reading
Rules Suspended: Ayes 70 Nays 0 Abs/Excd 0, read in full as required – PASSED - 55-14-1
AYES – Allgood, Andrus, Barbieri, Berch, Blanksma, Boyle, Bundy, Burns, Cannon, Cheatum, Chew, Clow, Cornilles, Dixon(24), Durrant, Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson, Furniss, Galaviz, Gannon, Garner, Green, Handy, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw, Horman, Lanting, Manwaring, Mathias, McCann, Mendive, Mickelsen, Miller, Mitchell, Monks, Nash, Necochea, Nelsen, Palmer, Petzke, Pickett, Raybould, Raymond, Roberts, Rubel, Sauter, Shepherd, Vander Woude, Weber, Wheeler, Wroten, Yamamoto, Mr. Speaker
NAYS – Alfieri, Crane(13), Dixon(1), Gallagher, Hawkins, Kingsley, Lambert, Price, Redman, Scott, Skaug, Tanner, Wisniewski, Young
Absent – Crane(12)
Floor Sponsor - Nash
Title apvd - to Senate
03/29 Returned From House Passed; referred to enrolling
03/30 Reported enrolled; signed by President; to House for signature of Speaker
Received from Senate; Signed by Speaker; Returned to Senate
Reported signed by the Speaker & ordered delivered to Governor
Reported delivered to Governor at 1:50 p.m. on 03/30/23
03/31 Signed by Governor on 04/03/23
Session Law Chapter 259
Effective: 04/03/2023 SECTION 5-7;
07/01/2023 all other SECTIONS
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