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U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee
on Administrative Oversight
and the Courts
 

2013: 

New Senate Subcommittee to Focus on Federal Courts and Bankruptcy System

The Senate Judiciary Committee created a new subcommittee this year to specifically oversee the federal courts and the nation's bankruptcy system, including administration and management, judicial rules, and the creation of new judgeships.

Last session's Administrative Oversight and the Courts Subcommittee has been split into two separate subcommittees for this session. Senator Richard Blumenthal will chair the new Oversight, Federal Rights and Agency Action Subcommittee, while Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) will become the chairman of the new Bankruptcy and the Courts Subcommittee.

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who was chair last year of the now defunct oversight and the courts subcommittee, will now be the chair of the Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee. Klobuchar takes over that subcommittee from the retired Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)

Oversight, Federal Rights and Agency Action

Jurisdiction:
1) Administrative practices and procedures including agency rulemaking and adjudication;
(2) Judicial review of agency action;
(3) Third party enforcement of federal rights;
(4) Oversight of the Department of Justice grant programs, as well as government waste and abuse;
(5) private relief bills other than immigration; and
(6) Oversight of the Foreign Claims Settlement Act.

 

Members of the Committee
3:2

Democratic Members
Phone: 202-224-7703
 
Richard  Blumenthal,
Connecticut (Chairman)
  Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont
  Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
Republican Members
Phone: 202-224-7703
 
Orrin Hatch,
Utah (Ranking Member)
  Jeff Flake, Arizona
   
 
 
 

2011:

“Protecting Seniors
and Persons with Disabilities -
An Examination
of
Court - Appointed Guardians”

DATE: September 22, 2011
TIME: 02:30 PM
ROOM: Dirksen 226

LISTEN!

Witness List:

Kay Brown
Director, Education Workforce and Income Security
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC
Read Kay Brown's Testimony

Deb Holtz
State Ombudsman for Long-Term Care
Minnesota Board on Aging
St. Paul, MN
Read Deb Holtz's Testimony

Naomi Karp
Strategic Policy Advisor
AARP Public Policy Institute
Washington, DC
Read Naomi Karp's Testimony

Robert Baldwin
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
National Center for State Courts
Williamsburg, VA
Read Robert Baldwin's Testimony

Michelle Hollister
Managing Partner
Solkoff Legal, P.A.
Delray Beach, FL
Read Michelle Hollister's Testimony

 


"The Guardianship Accountability and Senior Protection Act"
S-1744

Sponsored by Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

 

Official Summary

(The following summary was written by the Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress, which serves Congress. GovTrack did not write and has no control over these summaries.)

10/20/2011--Introduced.

Guardian Accountability and Senior Protection Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize the Assistant Secretary of Aging to make grants to and enter into contracts with states and other specified public and private recipients for:

(1) assessing the fairness, effectiveness, timeliness, and accessibility of adult guardianship and conservatorship proceedings;

(2) implementing necessary changes as a result of the assessments; and

(3) collecting necessary data regarding those proceedings and the impact of the necessary changes.

Requires the Assistant Secretary of Aging to make grants to enable the highest court of a state to:

(1) conduct its own assessments of the role, responsibilities, and effectiveness of state courts in carrying out state laws requiring proceedings with respect to guardianship and conservatorship; and

(2) implement necessary changes in light of them.

Directs the Attorney General to establish a pilot program to identify efficient, effective, and economical procedures for state courts to conduct background checks on prospective guardians and conservators.

Authorizes the State Justice Institute to award grants to eligible highest state courts to assist in improving conservator monitoring efforts through electronic filing.

Follow "The Guardianship Accountability and Senior Protection Act" - S1744

 

 



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