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Civil RTC News

This page lists all of the most recent developments on civil right to counsel across the country. These could be newly created rights to counsel, significant publications, public events, advocacy efforts, or other things that don’t fit into a neat category.

April 3, 2025

SB1297

Provides right to counsel for unaccompanied minors who are unrepresented in removal proceedings and related matters

April 1, 2025

HB1687

Creates process to determine whether person lacks capacity to make or revoke health care decision / instruction or power of attorney, and requires appointment of counsel for the person.

April 1, 2025

HB1687

Provides right to counsel for unrepresented persons subject to a petition to determine their health care decision making capacity

March 31, 2025

HF373

Requires the appointment of counsel for youth age 10 and older. A child younger than 10 would be appointed counsel and a GAL.

March 27, 2025

HB2038

Creating federal fund to remove barriers to building affordable housing, with one allowable use being providing access to counsel to tenants facing eviction.

March 27, 2025

SF3019

Requires court to appoint attorney adviser or guardian ad litem in cases involving civil settlement agreement where court has reason to believe person has brain injury

March 26, 2025

HB181

Creates fund for representation of tenants in evictions and requires A2J Foundation to contract with LSPs to provide full rep to certain HHs

March 26, 2025

SB0134

Provides right to counsel for persons about whom the court is making a capacity determination in the context of health care decisions

March 25, 2025

SB0117

The arbitrator in a 'family law dispute' may appoint an attorney, GAL, or 'other representative' for a child.

March 25, 2025

SB1102

Purposes of the Act include "to protect the constitutional rights to due process ... under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments..."

March 21, 2025

HB3243

Reinstates parental notification of abortion requirement for minors; they have right to counsel upon request in seeking waiver of requirement.

March 21, 2025

SB493

Creates new process for registration of sex offenders and provides a right to counsel for the offender.

The NCCRC works to advance the right to counsel for low-income people in civil cases involving basic human needs, such as housing, health, domestic violence, civil incarceration, and child custody.

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