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HB 227                                                                                            
The Judiciary Committee has considered:                                                             
                                                                                                    
    HOUSE BILL NO. 227                                                                              
    "An Act increasing the jurisdictional limit for small claims and for                            
    magistrates from $7,500 to $10,000; increasing the jurisdictional                               
    limit of district courts in certain civil cases from $50,000 to                                 

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    $75,000; and amending Rule 11(a)(4), Alaska District Court Rules                                
    of Civil Procedure, relating to service of process for small claims."                           
                                                                                                    
and recommends it be replaced with:                                                                 
                                                                                                    
    CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 227(JUD)                                                                  
    "An Act increasing the jurisdictional limit for small claims and for                            
    magistrates from $7,500 to $10,000; increasing the jurisdictional                               
    limit of district courts in certain civil cases from $50,000 to                                 
    $100,000; expanding the jurisdiction of district courts; limiting                               
    magistrates from hearing certain small claims cases; and                                        
    amending Rule 11(a)(4), Alaska District Court Rules of Civil                                    
    Procedure, relating to service of process for small claims."                                    
                                                                                                    
The report was signed by Representative McGuire, Chair, with the                                    
following individual recommendations:                                                               
                                                                                                    
Do pass (1):  McGuire                                                                               
                                                                                                    
No recommendation (4):  Samuels, Holm, Gara, Ogg                                                    
                                                                                                    
The following fiscal note(s) apply to CSHB 227(JUD):                                                
                                                                                                    
1.  Indeterminate, Alaska Court System                                                              
                                                                                                    
HB 227 was referred to the Finance Committee.