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This bill makes several changes to the Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission, which is responsible for assessing judges' performance for retention elections. It clarifies definitions within the chapter, establishes new sections for the commission's quorum, voting requirements, and meetings, and outlines specific timelines for judicial performance evaluations for Supreme Court justices and Court of Appeals judges, including standards for timely distribution of opinions. The bill also revises the categories for judicial performance surveys to include a judge's legal competence, impartiality, communication ability, judicial temperament and integrity, and administrative capacity, and specifies how survey responses should be collected and reported. Additionally, it amends existing law to ensure that certain records of the Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission, specifically individual commissioner votes and disclosed conflicts of interest, are protected records, and it mandates a study on whether the frequency of judges being overturned on appeal should be included in their evaluations.

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