The Senate Judiciary Committee heard Sen. R. Michael Young’s SB 523 on the Marion County Small Claims courts. This bill replaces the existing Marion county township small claims court system with a county-wide small claims court system having nine divisions and only three townships can hear debt collection cases. It also provides that the judges of the small claims court shall be elected in a county-wide election, and that a division of the Marion county small claims court shall be located in each township. The bill passed 9-0.
Read the bill at http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/523.