Sentence modification.Indiana · HB 1301 · Last action Jan 6, 2026Requires the department of correction to issue a certificate of eligibility for rehabilitative release (certificate) to certain convicted persons.Latest action: First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal CodeReferred
Reimbursement for public defender services.Indiana · SB 308 · Last action Apr 11, 2022Provides that the public defender commission may reimburse a county up to 40% of the county's expenditures for indigent defense services provided in misdemeanor cases, up to 80% of a multicounty public defender's office's expenditures for indigent defense services in noncapital cases, and up to 80% of expenditures for indigent defense services provided for…Latest action: Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on AppropriationsSession ended
Commission on court appointed attorneys.Indiana · SB 179 · Last action Mar 13, 2024Requires the justice reinvestment advisory council (council) to conduct a study on criminal indigency determinations by all Indiana trial courts.Latest action: Public Law 111Enacted law
Representation of qualified foster children.Indiana · HB 1056 · Last action Jan 16, 2024Provides that a child in a child in need of services (CHINS) proceeding who meets certain requirements is entitled to be represented by counsel.Latest action: Representative Goss-Reaves added as coauthorSession ended
Court appointed counsel for certain minors.Indiana · HB 1485 · Last action Feb 13, 2025Provides that courts are required to appoint counsel for eligible children with certain exceptions.Latest action: Representative Harris added as coauthorSession ended
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