Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3206

Relating to judicial vacancies

ARTICLE 1 - CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

Proposing
an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article VI, sections 7 and 8,
requiring a commission on judicial selection to nominate candidates for
appointment to judgeships and a commission of judicial evaluation to evaluate
judges for reappointment

ARTICLE 2 - JUDICIAL SELECTION

Establishing and
modifying procedures for filling judicial vacancies; defining judge and
judgeship; specifying certain duties of the commission on judicial selection to
nominate candidates for appointment to judgeships; establishing the commission
on judicial evaluation to evaluate judges for reappointment according to certain
established criteria developed and published by the commission, specifying
certain membership requirements and duties; subjecting the committee to the open
meeting law; requiring commission implementation of rules; specifying certain
reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes, requiring a revisor
report on the changes to the legislature; repealing certain election provisions
relating to judicial candidate designation on form, notice of judicial election,
ballot forms for judicial candidates and designation of incumbent, nonpartisan
offices uncontested judicial offices and court of appeals selection of judges
and elections
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