SB311: Bill Text

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1997 - 1998 LEGISLATURE

1997 Senate BILL 311

October 1, 1997 - Introduced by Senator Adelman, cosponsored by Representative Walker. Referred to Committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.

SB311,1,2 An Act to amend 753.075 (2) (a) and (b); and to create 753.075 (2m) of the statutes; relating to: reserve judge qualifications.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, former judges and justices serve at the request of the chief justice of the supreme court as temporary reserve judges on a day-by-day basis or as permanent reserve judges for a period of 6 months. To be eligible to serve as a reserve judge under current law, the person has to have served for 6 or more years as a supreme court justice, court of appeals judge or circuit judge. In addition under current law, any person who was eligible to serve as a reserve judge before May 1, 1992, may serve as a reserve judge.

Under this bill, in addition to the current restrictions, a person is not eligible to serve as a reserve judge if he or she was defeated at the most recent time that he or she sought election to a circuit court judgeship. The bill also provides that a person eligible to serve as a reserve judge on the effective date of the bill will continue to be eligible to serve as a reserve judge. This provision "grandfathers" in persons currently eligible to serve as a reserve judge.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SB311, s. 1 Section 1. 753.075 (2) (a) and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:

SB311,1,7 753.075 (2) (a) Any person who has served a total of 6 or more years as a supreme court justice, a court of appeals judge or a circuit judge and who was not defeated at the most recent time that he or she sought election to a circuit court judgeship.

SB311,2,3 (b) Any person who was eligible to serve as a reserve judge before May 1, 1992, and who was not defeated at the most recent time that he or she sought election to a circuit court judgeship.

SB311, s. 2 Section 2. 753.075 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:

SB311,2,7 753.075 (2m) Eligibility exception. A person who is eligible to serve as a reserve judge on the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], continues to be eligible to serve as a reserve judge notwithstanding sub. (2).

SB311,2,8 (End)