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The Joint Committee on Judiciary has 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, all nominations of members of the
Board of Pardons and Paroles and all matters relating to the
Judicial Department, the Department of Correction and 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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