LD 1032

132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
  FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document  No. 1032
H.P. 661  House of Representatives, March 14, 2025
  An Act Regarding Court Security
   Received by the Clerk of the House on March 12, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Judiciary pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
  ROBERT B. HUNT
  Clerk
Presented by Representative WHITE of Guilford.
Cosponsored by Senator STEWART of Aroostook and
Representatives: CHAPMAN of Auburn, COLLINS of Sidney, DOUDERA of Camden,
DRINKWATER of Milford, NUTTING of Oakland, PARRY of Arundel, PERKINS of Dover-
Foxcroft, WOOD of Norway.
  Printed on recycled paper
1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2     Sec. 1. 4 MRSA §17, sub-§15, ¶A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 380, Pt. TT, §1, is
3 further amended by enacting at the end a new first blocked paragraph to read:
4     The State Court Administrator shall contract for the services of qualified individuals to
5     perform court security-related functions and services at a court if court operations at
6     that court have been adversely affected by a lack of available court security for more
7     than 2% of scheduled court time in a month at that court.
8     Sec. 2. 4 MRSA §17, sub-§15, ¶A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 380, Pt. TT, §1, is
9 further amended by enacting at the end a new last blocked paragraph to read:
10     When the State Court Administrator contracts for the services of qualified individuals
11     to perform court security-related functions and services, the State Court Administrator
12     shall first offer the contract to the appropriate sheriff's office before the contract is
13     offered to another party.
14SUMMARY
15     This bill requires the State Court Administrator to contract for the services of qualified
16 individuals to perform court security-related functions and services at a court if court
17 operations at that court have been adversely affected by a lack of available court security
18 for more than 2% of scheduled court time in a month at that court. It provides that, when
19 the State Court Administrator contracts for the services of qualified individuals to perform
20 court security-related functions and services, the State Court Administrator must first offer
21 the contract to the appropriate sheriff's office before the contract is offered to another party.
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