Indiana House Bill 1121 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-01-12 - Representatives McMillin and Dobis added as coauthors
Pending: House Ways and Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Allows a county to submit a request to the public defender commission to be reimbursed from the public defense fund for an amount equal to 80% of the county's expenditures for indigent defense services provided to a defendant against whom the death sentence is sought. Requires the public defender commission to authorize an amount of reimbursement due the county that is equal to at least 50% but not more than 80% of the county's expenditures for indigent defense services provided for a defendant against whom the death sentence is sought as determined by the public defender commission. Requires the treasurer of state to transfer $8,000,000 from the state general fund to the public defense fund each year instead of $7,400,000. Requires a person to pay a public defense administration fee of $6 instead of $5 to be deposited in the state general fund if the person is: (1) convicted of an offense; (2) required to pay a pretrial diversion fee; (3) found to have committed an infraction; or (4) found to have violated an ordinance.

County reimbursement for death penalty cases.

Rep. Chester Dobis [D]

Rep. Judson McMillin [R]

Rep. Wendy McNamara [R]

Rep. Gregory Steuerwald [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-12		Representatives McMillin and Dobis added as coauthors
2012-01-09		First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means
2012-01-09		Coauthored by Representative Steuerwald
2012-01-09		Authored by Representative McNamara

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2012&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=HB&docno=1121
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/IN/IN1121.1.html