The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard SB 71 on parole sponsored by Rep. O’Brien. Author Sen. Bohacek presented the bill. The Department of Correction explained that this bill cleans up current language regarding the length of parole for specified crimes of violence and clarifies that time served while incarcerated does not count toward the term of parole. The bill p … [Read more...] about Parole
Conviction data
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard SB 136 on conviction data sponsored by Rep. Bartels. The bill defines a person prohibited from possessing or carrying a handgun. The bill also creates a new conviction database that is a repository for several other databases, allowing law enforcement to check one database, not multiple databases, to determine if a person is … [Read more...] about Conviction data
Domestic violence
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard SB 158 on domestic violence sponsored by Rep. McNamara. The bill extends the cooling off period for an alleged perpetrator of domestic violence from 8 hours to 24 hours. An amendment was adopted by consent specifying that the list of specified offenses must involve a family or household member victim. The Indiana Prosecuting … [Read more...] about Domestic violence
Credit time
The House Courts and Criminal Code heard SB 286 on credit time sponsored by Rep. Steuerwald. Author Sen. Freeman presented the bill testifying for the need to keep habitual offenders incarcerated for longer periods of time. The bill also permits pretrial defendants to earn accrued time and good time credit time while on home detention, removes Class P credit provision, adds a … [Read more...] about Credit time
Various probate and trust matters
The House Judiciary Committee heard SB 287 on various probate and trust matters sponsored by Rep. Torr. A representative of the Indiana State Bar Association Probate, Trust and Real Property Section explained the proposed changes in each section of the bill stating that the bill is intended to clean up and address several practical matters in this practice area, including provisions … [Read more...] about Various probate and trust matters