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IN HB1137
Bill
Status
1/7/2016
Primary Sponsor
Steven Stemler
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AI Summary
HB 1039 Summary
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Repeals the requirement effective July 1, 2015, that all city court judges and town court judges must be attorneys in good standing admitted to practice law in Indiana.
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Requires only those city court judges and town court judges who were required to be attorneys before July 1, 2015, to maintain attorney status after June 30, 2016.
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Applies the attorney requirement to judges of 10 specific courts: Anderson, Avon, Brownsburg, Carmel, Lake County, Muncie, Noblesville, Plainfield, Greenwood, and Martinsville courts.
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Repeals section 7.5 of IC 33-35-5, which allowed non-attorney judges serving on June 30, 2015, to complete their terms and serve consecutive elected terms.
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Effective July 1, 2016.
Legislative Description
Transborder groundwater authority. Establishes the Indiana-Kentucky transborder groundwater authority (authority). Requires the authority to study ownership rights in the groundwater resources shared by Indiana and Kentucky and to explore the desirability of entering into an interstate compact with Kentucky concerning the use of the groundwater underlying southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. Authorizes a county that borders the Ohio River or that borders another county that borders the Ohio River to elect to participate in the authority. Provides for the authority to include elected officials from municipal and county government in the participating counties, county health officers of the participating counties,
Last Action
Representative Hamm added as coauthor
2/1/2016