HB 1543 Indiana House · 2025 Regular Session

Vigo County courts.

HB 1543 allows judges of Vigo County's circuit and superior courts to jointly appoint a single magistrate to serve all Vigo County courts. This bill directly affects Vigo County court operations by streamlining magistrate appointments for those specific courts. The key provision replaces separate magistrate appointments with a shared position decided jointly by the circuit and superior court judges. The bill passed the Courts Committee and is now pending further review by the Committee on Ways and Means.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Last action Jan 27, 2025

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Introduced House Bill (H) → House Bill (H) · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill has progressed from introduction to committee action, with the House Committee on Courts and Criminal Code recommending it do pass. The committee also referred the bill to the Committee on Ways and Means per a specific rule, indicating potential budgetary or fiscal review is needed. The document includes updated dates reflecting this procedural movement.

TIMELINE

Added a committee report stating the bill was reported to do pass on January 27, 2025, and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

TECHNICAL

Updated document header and digest information to reflect the bill status as HB 1543 rather than Introduced House Bill, with updated dates and committee reference numbers.

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Committee

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report: do pass, adopted

lower

1 primary · 1 co-sponsor