| Chapter 032 |
| 2025 -- S 0354 Enacted 06/10/2025 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT SECRETARIES, COURT REPORTERS, AND ELECTRONIC COURT REPORTERS |
Introduced By: Senators Dimitri, Vargas, DiMario, Appollonio, Tikoian, and Bissaillon |
| Date Introduced: February 21, 2025 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 8-5-5 of the General Laws in Chapter 8-5 entitled "Court Secretaries, |
| Court Reporters, and Electronic Court Reporters" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 8-5-5. Reports of superior, family and district court and traffic tribunal. |
| Court reporters shall report stenographically or electronic court reporters or similar |
| recording personnel shall report electronically the proceedings in the trial of every action or |
| proceeding, civil or criminal, in the superior court, family court, district court, and traffic tribunal. |
| Each court reporter or electronic court reporter or similar recording personnel shall also, upon the |
| order of any justice of the court, transcribe or otherwise reproduce his or hertheir report to be filed |
| with the papers in the case. He or sheThey shall also make a transcript of or otherwise reproduce |
| the whole or any part of the report upon the written request, filed with the clerk, by either party to |
| the action or proceeding, and when completed and within the time limited by the court for filing |
| the transcript, shall immediately deliver the transcript to the party ordering it, or to the attorney of |
| record of the party, and in the case of transcription by court reporters for such service shall be paid |
| a reasonable compensation, not less than five dollars ($5.00) and not exceeding three dollars ($3.00) |
| three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) per page for originals and one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) two |
| dollars ($2.00) per page for copies thereof, to be allowed by the court; and, in case the transcript is |
| used in subsequent proceedings in the cause, the cost of the transcript may be allowed as a part of |
| the costs. In the case of electronic court recordings the person making the recordings or another |
| person so designated by the court may be requested or ordered, in lieu of making a transcript, to |
| reproduce the recording and certify its authenticity, and in such case each party requesting the |
| reproduction shall pay to the court the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) per cassette. |
| SECTION 2. Section 8-10-37 of the General Laws in Chapter 8-10 entitled "Family Court" |
| is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 8-10-37. Report of trials — Transcripts. |
| Subject to the provisions of § 8-10-21, court reporters shall report stenographically, or court |
| recording clerks or similar recording personnel shall report electronically, the proceedings in the |
| trial of every action or proceeding, civil or criminal, in the family court. Each court reporter or |
| court recording clerk or similar recording personnel shall also, upon the order of any justice of the |
| court, transcribe or otherwise reproduce his or hertheir report to be filed with the papers in the |
| case. He or sheThey shall also make a transcript or otherwise reproduce the whole or any part of |
| the report upon the written request, filed with the clerk, by either party to the action or proceeding, |
| and when completed and within the time limited by the court for filing the transcript, shall |
| immediately deliver the same to the party ordering it, or to the attorney of record of the party, and |
| in the case of transcription by court reporters for such service shall be paid a reasonable |
| compensation, not less than five dollars ($5.00) and not exceeding three dollars ($3.00) three dollars |
| and fifty cents ($3.50) per page for originals and one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) two dollars |
| ($2.00) per page for copies thereof to be allowed by the court; and, in case the transcript is used in |
| subsequent proceedings in the cause, the cost of the transcript may be allowed as part of the costs. |
| In the case of electronic court recordings the person making the recordings or another person so |
| designated by the court may be requested or ordered, in lieu of making a transcript, to reproduce |
| the recording and certify its authenticity, and in such case each party requesting the reproduction |
| shall pay to the court the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) per cassette. |
| SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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