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IN HB1400
Bill
Status
1/17/2017
Primary Sponsor
Linda Lawson
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AI Summary
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Increases the domestic violence prevention and treatment fee from $50 to $100 in criminal actions where a person is convicted of specified offenses (murder, manslaughter, battery, domestic battery, strangulation, or rape) and the victim is a spouse, former spouse, or has a child in common with the defendant.
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Directs that $50 of each $100 fee collected be deposited into the domestic violence prevention and treatment fund established under IC 5-2-6.7-4.
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The remaining $50 of the fee is distributed to the state user fee fund under IC 33-37-9-2.
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Amends sources of funding for the domestic violence prevention and treatment fund to include amounts deposited from the increased fee under IC 33-37-5-13(b).
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Effective date: July 1, 2017.
Legislative Description
Domestic violence prevention fee. Increases the domestic violence prevention and treatment fee from $50 to $100. Directs that $50 of the fee be deposited in the domestic violence prevention and treatment fund.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
1/17/2017