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The committee on JUDICIARY shall have cognizance of all matters relating to courts,
judicial procedures, criminal law, probate courts, probation, parole, wills, estates,
adoption, divorce, bankruptcy, escheat, law libraries, deeds, mortgages, conveyancing,
preservation of land records and other public documents, the law of business organizations,
uniform laws, validations, authorizations to sue and to appeal, claims against the state,
all judicial nominations, all nominations of workers' compensation commissioners,
and all matters relating to the Judicial Department, the Department of Correction
and to the commission on Human Rights and Opportunities;
all bills carrying civil penalties which exceed the sum of, or which may exceed in the aggregate,
five thousand dollars; and all bills carrying criminal penalties, other than infractions,
favorably reported by any other committee shall be referred to said committee,
provided the committee's consideration shall be limited to the criminal penalties established in such bills
and shall not extend to their substantive provisions or purpose.
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