The Elections and Apportionment Committee heard SB 37 on population parameters sponsored by Rep. Wesco and authored by Sen. J. Ford. The bill amends various statutes to update population parameters for political subdivisions based on the 2020 decennial census, updates multipliers that are based on a county’s population and used in determining distributions made by the Department of Correction to county misdemeanant funds and removes language providing that changes to boundaries of certain political subdivisions may not take effect during the year immediately before the year a federal decennial census is conducted.
The bill was amended by consent to add a missed section on parameters for St. Joseph County. The amended bill passed 10-1.
Read the bill at: http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/37