Senate Bill 257 Summary

• Amends IC 4-6-1-6 to establish that the attorney general owes the same obligations to represented parties that any other attorney owes to a client under Indiana Supreme Court rules.

• Applies when the attorney general represents the state, a state agency, a political subdivision, or any other party in a judicial or administrative proceeding.

• Removes language referring to "several prosecuting attorneys" and updates pronouns from "his" to "the attorney general" for clarity.

• Effective date: July 1, 2014.