Bill Title: Requires counties and/or cities to establish a plan for providing legal counsel to persons who are defendants or respondents in eviction, ejectment and foreclosure proceedings and who are financially unable to obtain counsel; defines eligible person as one whose gross individual income is not in excess of one hundred twenty-five percent of the federal income official poverty line; requires the state to match dollar for dollar the amount counties appropriate for their plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to judiciary [A00162 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-067	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Steven Raga [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	N/A

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