Our fellow NCSC blog, Gavel to Gavel, posted an interesting article today regarding legislatures in Colorado, Tennessee, and Massachusetts to require... yes, require courts to be able to send reminders to court participants.
Three state legislatures consider programs to require courts notify defendants by text of upcoming court hearings
Bills in three states have been filed in the last month to require state courts (in particular the various administrative offices of the courts) to develop text reminder system.