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Proposed Bill Would Allow Local Governments, Attorney General to Put Unsafe, Dangerous Properties Under Third-Party Control

A bill that would expand on the warrant of habitability passed in the previous year’s legislative session was held following its first hearing to give time for amendment drafting.

Bill Prohibiting Jail Time for Failures to Appear in Municipal Court Advances to Third Reading

A group of Democrats in the General Assembly are working to ban municipal courts from using a failure to appear charge as the basis for a criminal sentence.