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AZ SB1123
Bill
Status
2/25/2021
Primary Sponsor
David Gowan
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AI Summary
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Renames the "Arizona lengthy trial fund" to the "Arizona lengthy trial and digital evidence fund" and expands its purpose to include management and storage of digital evidence for trials.
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Adds digital evidence management as a permissible use of fees collected under section 12-284.01, allowing the document and digital evidence storage and retrieval conversion fund to support digital evidence display at trials.
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Establishes that digital evidence fund monies may be used only after juror earnings replacement payments are satisfied, with priority given to compensating jurors serving more than five days.
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Repeals section 12-284.02 and modifies section 12-284.01 to clarify that additional filing fees support both traditional document storage and digital evidence infrastructure.
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Appropriates $400,000 for fiscal year 2021-2022 and $490,000 for fiscal year 2022-2023 to the Arizona Supreme Court for implementation of a digital evidence storage and display system.
Legislative Description
Digital evidence fund; appropriation
Repeal
Last Action
House APPROP Committee action: Do Pass, voting: (10-2-0-1-0-0)
3/17/2021