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Gavel to Gavel
Gavel to Gavel
Find out the latest information and updated legislative tracking at the Gavel to Gavel website:
www.ncsc.org/gaveltogavel
2024 Newsletters
April 19
Hawaii: Bills to address access to and publication of personal information about judges advance in three legislative chambers
April 12
Hawaii: Senate approves its version of a bill that prohibits, upon written request from judges, any government agency, person, or organization from making certain personal information publicly available on the Internet
March 29
Idaho: Legislature sends governor bill to expand protections for street addresses of judges in the state
March 22
Georgia: House approves bill to limit access and publication of information regarding judges and their families
March 15
Georgia: House Judiciary Committee approves bills that prohibit government entities from releasing information regarding judges
March 8
Florida: House and Senate approve bills to exempt from public records personal identifying & location information of circuit court clerks and their staff
March 1
New York: Bills would reclassify court officers and court clerks as police officers
February 23
Hawaii: Senate committee approves creation of a misdemeanor offense for individuals who post personal information of judges and their families on the internet in reckless disregard of the risk of harm to them
February 16
Florida: Legislative committees approve bills to protect personal identifying and location information of current or former clerks of the circuit court
February 9
Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia Judicial Security
February 2
Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, and New Jersey: Judicial Security
January 26
Nebraska, Virginia, and Wisconsin: Judicial Security
January 19
Utah, Missouri, Georgia: Local/Municipal Courts
January 12
Indiana bill would create "baby courts" for children three years of age and younger in need of services.
January 5
Florida and Vermont Bills Focusing on Judicial Selection
December 22
Florida and Wyoming Bills Focusing on Judicial Security
December 8
New Hampshire, Texas, Wisconsin Mandatory Judicial Retirement Ages
2023 Newsletters
May 26
Louisiana and Alabama: Judgeship allocations
May 19
Arizona: Legislature approves bill to transfer licensing of attorneys from state bar to the supreme court and prohibits the court from requiring an attorney to be a member of any organization to become or remain a licensed attorney
May 12
Delaware: House unanimously approves measure that requires at least one supreme court justice to reside in Kent County, one in Sussex County, and two in New Castle County
May 5
Kansas: Under a newly signed law starting in 2025 Kansas judges' salaries will be directly tied to that of federal district court judges; a similar plan was vetoed in New Mexico earlier this year
April 28
Minnesota and Missouri: Legislation to protect the personal information of judges, court staff, and their families advance
April 21
Colorado: House approves a bill requiring all courts to provide remote access for the public to observe any criminal court proceeding conducted in open court
April 14
Colorado, Montana, and Tennessee: Bills focused on judicial disciplinary proceedings and commissions advance
April 7
Montana: House and Senate approve separate plans to require judges to recuse for campaign contributions
March 31
New Hampshire: Constitutional amendment to raise the mandatory judicial retirement age from 70 to 75
March 24
Maine: Bill would shrink the state's Supreme Judicial Court from 7 members down to 5
March 17
Idaho: Senate approves plan to overhaul that state's judicial selection system and give its governor more power
March 10
New Mexico: Plan to tie state judicial salaries to the salary of federal magistrate judges advances
March 2
Montana: Resolution to declare Marbury v. Madison misinterpreted approved by the full Senate
Feb. 24
Utah: Senate approves bill to overhaul state's judicial selection/nominating commissions
Feb. 17
Virginia: Bills to protect the personal information of retired judges advance in House and Senate
Feb. 10
Colorado: Legislation would mandate remote public access to criminal proceedings
Feb. 3
Texas and North Dakota: Considering bills to make leaking draft judicial opinions misdemeanors
Jan. 27
New York: Bill would require judges' financial disclosure statements to be posted online
Jan. 20
Missouri: Bills would require judges to render decisions within specified time frames or face $100-a-day fines
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