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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.

March 26, 2026

H1952

Establishes Access to Counsel Program for eviction and similar matters, providing full representation to certain tenants and owner occupants

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March 26, 2026

H1809

The court shall appoint counsel to represent decedent's homestead where an additional stay of a creditor's foreclosure action was denied

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March 26, 2026

B26-0399

Provides right to client directed counsel if youth's GAL disagrees with youth's filing of a support family agreement

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March 26, 2026

HB3430

Appears to revoke the provision prohibiting incarceration for the willful failure to pay fees/fines unless the person was represented by counsel

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March 26, 2026

HB1904

Requires counsel for parents and custodians of Indian children in removal, placement and TPR; permits appointment of counsel for Indian kids.

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March 26, 2026

HB4966

Creates a right to counsel for youth in care with special needs

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March 26, 2026

SB729

Expands Access to Counsel in Evictions program to include mobile home park properties

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March 26, 2026

HB762

Would eliminate the ability of the Department of Public Advocacy (i.e. PD) from defending people being held in civil contempt for inability to pay child support.

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March 26, 2026

HB4237

Removes provision that person may not be incarcerated for willful failure to pay fees/fines unless represented by counsel, but also eliminates ability to suspend driver's license or incarcerate for failure to pay, and presumes indigence in a number of scenarios.

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March 26, 2026

SB0485

Requires counsel for parents and custodians of Indian children in removal, placement and TPR; permits appointment of counsel for Indian kids.

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March 25, 2026

HB1053

The court must appoint counsel before revoking the provisional right to vote. Same as SB 1119.

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March 25, 2026

HB2923

Court shall appoint counsel to patient seeking judicial review of court ordered treatment upon request to treatment agency.

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