Indiana Senate Bill 395 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 4 2014 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-10 - First Reading: Referred to Courts and Criminal Code
Pending: House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Provides that, if a court admits a defendant to bail, the court may require the defendant to do one of the following as selected by the defendant: (1) Execute a bail bond with sufficient solvent sureties. (2) Deposit cash or securities in an amount equal to the bail. (3) Execute a bond secured by real estate in the county, where thirty-three hundredths of the true tax value less encumbrances is at least equal to the amount of the bail. (4) Execute a bail bond by depositing cash with the clerk of the court in an amount not less than 15% of the bail. Provides that, if a defendant: (1) was admitted to bail by depositing cash or securities; and (2) has failed to appear before the court as ordered; the court shall declare the bond forfeited 120 days after the defendant's failure to appear and issue a warrant for the defendant's arrest. Specifies that, under the law concerning bail and bail procedure, a court: (1) may only declare a bond forfeited if a defendant fails to appear before the court as ordered; and (2) may not declare a bond forfeited because the defendant fails to perform any other condition of bail. Makes conforming amendments.

Bail.

Sen. Brent Steele [R]

Sen. Carlin Yoder [R]

Sen. James Buck [R]

Sen. Eric Koch [R]

2014-02-04 - Senate - Senate Floor - (Y: 34 N: 14 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2014-01-29 - Senate - Senate Committee on Judiciary - Roll Call 039501 (Y: 5 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-10	House	First Reading: Referred to Courts and Criminal Code
2014-02-04	Senate	Representative Koch added as cosponsor.
2014-02-04	Senate	Representative McMillin added as sponsor.
2014-02-04	Senate	Referred to the House
2014-02-04	Senate	Senator Yoder added as second author.
2014-02-04	Senate	Third reading: Passed: Roll Call 191: yeas 34 and nays 14
2014-02-04	Senate	Senator Buck added as third author.
2014-02-03	Senate	Second reading: engrossed
2014-02-03	Senate	SB 395 Amendment #2 (Broden), failed.
2014-01-30	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted.
2014-01-14	Senate	First Reading: Referred to Judiciary
2014-01-14	Senate	Authored by Senator Steele.

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/bills/senate/395/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/0/d/8/00d80207/SB0395.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/e/1/7/8e177b66/SB0395.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/3/d/a/03dae66f/SB0395.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/0/9/6/b0968f16/SB0395.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/4/3/a/a43a6e40/SB0395.02.COMS.191.pdf