Substitute Senate Bill No. 360, Public Act No. 24-72, is an act concerning the transcript fees charged by official court reporters and court reporting monitors. The bill revises the fees that official court reporters and court recording monitors can charge for producing transcripts of court proceedings. For individuals who are not public officials, the fee for each transcript page ordered and transcribed from the original record is increased from three dollars to three dollars and sixty cents. The fee for any subsequent copies of a transcript page previously produced for such individuals is raised from one dollar and seventy-five cents to two dollars and ten cents.
For public officials, other than judicial officers or employees of the Judicial Branch, the fee for each transcript page is increased from two dollars to two dollars and forty cents. The charge for each previously produced transcript page for these officials is raised from seventy-five cents to ninety cents. However, there will be no charge to the state's attorney for transcripts provided under certain conditions, nor to the court for transcripts provided under other specified conditions. The bill also ensures that the fees for transcripts made for the court or the state's attorney, as well as copies provided to the plaintiff and defendant, will be paid as other court expenses. The act is effective from October 1, 2024.
Statutes affected: Raised Bill: 51-63, 51-62
JUD Joint Favorable Substitute: 51-63
File No. 506: 51-63
Public Act No. 24-72: 51-63