This is the final installment of the Legislative Update for the 2025 legislative session. This installment contains summaries of selected bills of interest or portions of bills that were signed into law. Civil Criminal Law Family Law Judicial Administration Juvenile Law Probate Law Traffic Law … [Read more...] about 2025 Legislative Session Digest
Judicial Administration
Local government finance
S.E.A. 1, P.L. 68-2025 Effective: Sec. 123 effective January 1, 2028 Sec. 123 repeals the local income tax for courtroom costs. Read the bill at: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/senate/1 … [Read more...] about Local government finance
Civil legal aid fund
S.E.A. 222, P.L. 8-2025 Effective: July 1, 2025 Limits how a legal services provider may use funds from the civil legal aid fund. Relocates a provision concerning fund distribution. Repeals the distribution formula of the civil legal aid fund statute. Requires the Office of Judicial Administration to annually report certain information regarding the civil legal aid fund to the … [Read more...] about Civil legal aid fund
Expungement
S.E.A. 281, P.L. 77-2025 Effective: July 1, 2025 Requires the Office of Judicial Administration, before July 1, 2025, to establish an electronic system for transmitting a chronological case summary to the state police department for purposes of expungement. Read the bill at: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/senate/281 … [Read more...] about Expungement
The practice of law
S.E.A. 524, P.L. 43-2025 Effective: July 1, 2025 Allows an Indiana resident of a contiguous county to be appointed the head of the department of law. Read the bill at: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/senate/524 … [Read more...] about The practice of law