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IN SB0110

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/4/2012

Primary Sponsor

Travis Holdman

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Origin

Senate

2012 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Allows county executives in non-Marion County counties to adopt an ordinance placing a public question on the ballot to restructure county government from a three-member board of commissioners to a single elected county commissioner serving as executive, with the county council assuming all legislative and fiscal powers

  • Establishes that if voters approve the restructuring, the single county commissioner is elected at the second general election following approval, serves a four-year term with a maximum of eight years in any twelve-year period, and the board of commissioners is abolished when the single commissioner takes office

  • Requires counties adopting the single commissioner structure (except Lake and St. Joseph counties) to redraw county council districts from four single-member districts plus three at-large seats to seven single-member districts

  • Provides a process for counties with a single commissioner to revert to the previous three-member board structure through county council ordinance and voter approval via public question

  • Updates county drainage board composition in single commissioner counties to consist of the single commissioner plus two or four council-appointed freeholders, and specifies appointment procedures for county hospital governing boards in these counties

Legislative Description

Local government issues.

Last Action

Amendment 4 (Holdman), prevailed; voice vote

1/31/2012

Full Bill Text

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