SB 465

Bill Subjects

Budgets And Appropriations Circuit Courts And Court Officers Indigent Persons

Abstract

Allows a county or multicounty public defender's office to submit a request for reimbursement from the public defense fund for an amount equal to 60% of the expenditures for indigent defense services provided in all cases except misdemeanors. (The current reimbursement rate is 40% for noncapital cases except misdemeanors and 50% for services provided to a defendant against whom the death sentence is sought under IC 35-50-2-9.)