SB 345-1_ Filed 04/27/2009, 18:47
Adopted 4/28/2009

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT

DIGEST FOR ESB 345



Citations Affected: IC 33-24-6-3.

Synopsis: Domestic violence programs and Indiana protective order registry. Conference committee report for ESB 345. Transfers the administration of sexual offense services, domestic violence programs, the assistance to victims of human and sexual trafficking, the domestic violence prevention and treatment council, the domestic violence prevention and treatment fund, and the family violence and victim assistance fund to the criminal justice institute. Establishes the Indiana protective order registry (registry) and requires the division of state court administration to create, manage, and maintain the registry. Requires the division of state court administration to: (1) make the protective order registry available so that county case management systems may interface with the protective order registry by not later than December 31, 2009; (2) submit information concerning a standard protocol for county case management systems to each prosecuting attorney and court; and (3) develop standard protocols for the exchange of information by not later than December 31, 2009, between the protective order registry and county court case management systems, for certain case management systems to interface with electronic traffic tickets, and between county case management systems and the case management system developed and operated by the division of state court administration. Requires a law enforcement agency that perfects service of a protective order to enter certain information into the registry. Requires a clerk of the circuit court to enter: (1) a case concerning a petition for an order for protection; and (2) a foreign protective order that is registered; into the registry. Makes conforming changes. Repeals the current law concerning the domestic violence prevention and treatment council, the domestic violence prevention and treatment fund, and the family violence and victim assistance fund. (This conference committee report requires the division of state court administration to: (1) make the protective order registry available so that county case management systems may interface with the protective order registry by not later than December 31, 2009; (2) submit information concerning a standard protocol for county case management systems to each prosecuting attorney and court; and (3) develop standard protocols for the exchange of information by not later than December 31, 2009, between the protective order registry and county court case management systems, for certain case management systems to interface with electronic traffic tickets, and between county case management systems and the case management system developed and

operated by the division of state court administration.)

Effective: July 1, 2009.



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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT

MR. SPEAKER:
    Your Conference Committee appointed to confer with a like committee from the Senate upon Engrossed House Amendments to Engrossed Senate Bill No. 345 respectfully reports that said two committees have conferred and agreed as follows to wit:

    that the Senate recede from its dissent from all House amendments and that the Senate now concur in all House amendments to the bill and that the bill be further amended as follows:

SOURCE: Page 9, line 33; (09)CC034503.9. -->     Page 9, between lines 33 and 34, begin a new paragraph and insert:
    " (f) The division of state court administration shall make the protective order registry, established by IC 5-2-9-5.5, available so that county case management systems may interface with the protective order registry by not later than December 31, 2009.
    (g) The division of state court administration shall submit information concerning a standard protocol for county case management systems to interface with the protective order registry to each:
        (1) prosecuting attorney; and
        (2) court.
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    Page 16, between lines 6 and 7, begin a new paragraph and insert:
SOURCE: IC 33-24-6-3; (09)CC034503.19. -->     "SECTION 19. IC 33-24-6-3 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2009]: Sec. 3. (a) The division of state court administration shall do the following:
        (1) Examine the administrative and business methods and systems employed in the offices of the clerks of court and other offices related to and serving the courts and make recommendations for necessary improvement.
        (2) Collect and compile statistical data and other information on the judicial work of the courts in Indiana. All justices of the supreme court, judges of the court of appeals, judges of all trial

courts, and any city or town courts, whether having general or special jurisdiction, court clerks, court reporters, and other officers and employees of the courts shall, upon notice by the executive director and in compliance with procedures prescribed by the executive director, furnish the executive director the information as is requested concerning the nature and volume of judicial business. The information must include the following:
            (A) The volume, condition, and type of business conducted by the courts.
            (B) The methods of procedure in the courts.
            (C) The work accomplished by the courts.
            (D) The receipt and expenditure of public money by and for the operation of the courts.
            (E) The methods of disposition or termination of cases.
        (3) Prepare and publish reports, not less than one (1) or more than two (2) times per year, on the nature and volume of judicial work performed by the courts as determined by the information required in subdivision (2).
        (4) Serve the judicial nominating commission and the judicial qualifications commission in the performance by the commissions of their statutory and constitutional functions.
        (5) Administer the civil legal aid fund as required by IC 33-24-12.
        (6) Administer the judicial technology and automation project fund established by section 12 of this chapter.
        (7) Develop a standard protocol for the exchange of information, by not later than December 31, 2009:
            (A) between the protective order registry, established by IC 5-2-9-5.5, and county court case management systems;

            (B) at the option of the county prosecuting attorney, for:
                (1) a prosecuting attorney's case management system;
                (2) a county court case management system; and
                (3) a county court case management system developed and operated by the division of state court administration;
            to interface with the electronic traffic tickets, as defined by IC 9-30-3-2.5; and
            (C) between county court case management systems and the case management system developed and operated by the division of state court administration.

    (b) All forms to be used in gathering data must be approved by the supreme court and shall be distributed to all judges and clerks before the start of each period for which reports are required.".
    Renumber all SECTIONS consecutively.
    (Reference is to ESB 345 as reprinted March 31, 2009.)




Conference Committee Report

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Engrossed Senate Bill 345



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igned by:

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    Senator BeckerRepresentative Lawson L
    Chairperson

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    Senator HumeRepresentative Crouch

    Senate Conferees    House Conferees


CC034503/DI 107
2009