Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1682
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 1-1-1; IC 2-2.1-1.
Synopsis: General legislative matters. Eliminates certain duplicate
section headings.
Effective: November 19, 2024 (retroactive).
Engleman
January 21, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary.
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First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1682
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning the
general assembly.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 1-1-1-3 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
2 [EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 19, 2024 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 3.
3 Procedural Statutes. Notwithstanding the inclusion in the Indiana Code
4 of provisions relating to process, practice, procedure, or appeals that
5 have been superseded by rules of court, those provisions have only
6 such force as they had before the enactment of the Indiana Code.
7 SECTION 2. IC 1-1-1-4 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
8 [EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 19, 2024 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 4.
9 Invalid Statutes. Notwithstanding the inclusion in the Indiana Code of
10 statutory provisions declared impliedly repealed, unconstitutional, or
11 otherwise invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, those provisions
12 have only such force as they had before the enactment of the Indiana
13 Code.
14 SECTION 3. IC 1-1-1-6 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
15 [EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 19, 2024 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 6.
16 Preservation of Penalties, Offenses, Rights, Liabilities. All felonies and
17 misdemeanors committed under acts in force before the effectiveness
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1 of the Indiana Code may be prosecuted and remain punishable as
2 provided in those acts. This Code does not affect rights, privileges, or
3 liabilities accrued, remedies provided, duties imposed, penalties
4 incurred, or proceedings begun before the effectiveness of this Code.
5 Punishments, penalties, or forfeitures may be imposed and enforced as
6 if this Code had not been enacted.
7 SECTION 4. IC 1-1-1-7 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
8 [EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 19, 2024 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 7.
9 Periods of Limitation and Requirements of Notice. The running of any
10 period of limitation or any requirement of notice contained in any
11 provisions of law repealed and replaced by provisions of the Indiana
12 Code are not affected by the enactment of the Code. All actions,
13 proceedings, and prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes
14 arising or acts committed before the effectiveness of this Code, may be
15 commenced and prosecuted as if this Code had not been enacted.
16 SECTION 5. IC 1-1-1-8, AS AMENDED BY P.L.220-2011,
17 SECTION 1, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
18 NOVEMBER 19, 2024 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 8. Severability (a) If
19 any provision of this Code as now or later amended or its application
20 to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not
21 affect other provisions that can be given effect without the invalid
22 provision or application.
23 (b) Except in the case of a statute containing a nonseverability
24 provision, each part and application of every statute is severable. If any
25 provision or application of a statute is held invalid, the invalidity does
26 not affect the remainder of the statute unless:
27 (1) the remainder is so essentially and inseparably connected
28 with, and so dependent upon, the invalid provision or application
29 that it cannot be presumed that the remainder would have been
30 enacted without the invalid provision or application; or
31 (2) the remainder is incomplete and incapable of being executed
32 in accordance with the legislative intent without the invalid
33 provision or application.
34 This subsection applies to every statute, regardless of whether enacted
35 before or after the passage of this subsection. The general assembly
36 may preserve the legislative history of this subsection by adoption of
37 a concurrent resolution and publication of the resolution in the
38 legislative journals.
39 (c) The repeal of a statute stating that the provisions of an act are
40 severable as provided in subsection (b) does not affect the operation of
41 subsection (b) with respect to that act.
42 SECTION 6. IC 2-2.1-1-4 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
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1 FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 19, 2024 (RETROACTIVE)]:
2 Sec. 4. Length and Frequency of Sessions: Special Session. A special
3 session of the general assembly, called by the governor as provided in
4 Article 4, Section 9 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, shall
5 continue for not more than thirty (30) session days nor more than forty
6 (40) calendar days following the day upon which it is commenced.
7 SECTION 7. IC 2-2.1-1-6 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
8 FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 19, 2024 (RETROACTIVE)]:
9 Sec. 6. Procedures: Organization of the Senate. (a) The president of the
10 senate shall preside at the organizational meeting during the election
11 of the president pro tempore and other officers of the senate.
12 (b) The oath of office shall be administered to senators-elect by the
13 chief justice of the supreme court of Indiana, or an associate justice
14 designated by the chief justice.
15 (c) The president pro tempore and such other officers as may be
16 determined by the standing rules and orders of the senate shall be
17 elected. The oath of office shall be administered to the president pro
18 tempore by the chief justice, and to the other officers by the president
19 of the senate.
20 (d) In the event there is no president or he is absent or unable to
21 serve, the chief justice of the supreme court or an associate justice
22 designated by the chief justice shall preside during the election of the
23 president pro tempore and, upon being elected and sworn, the president
24 pro tempore shall take the chair and conduct the further business of the
25 senate until the vacancy in the office of president is filled, if there is no
26 president, or until the president is able to serve, if he is absent or
27 unable to serve.
28 SECTION 8. IC 2-2.1-1-8 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
29 FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 19, 2024 (RETROACTIVE)]:
30 Sec. 8. Procedures for Each House at the Organizational Meeting. (a)
31 Upon the election of the officers in each house, the membership of each
32 house shall adopt standing rules and orders for their respective houses,
33 and joint rules for conducting the business in the two houses.
34 (b) Each house, by rule, shall determine such other business as the
35 respective houses may perform at the organizational meeting.
36 (c) The rules, as adopted, shall govern the respective houses for that
37 term of the general assembly, unless amended or suspended.
38 (d) The officers elected at the organizational meeting shall serve for
39 that entire term of the general assembly, unless removed, suspended,
40 or unable to serve.
41 SECTION 9. IC 2-2.1-1-9 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
42 FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 19, 2024 (RETROACTIVE)]:
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1 Sec. 9. Procedures: Standing Committee Appointments. (a) By not later
2 than ten (10) days after the election of officers as provided in sections
3 6 and 7 of this chapter the appointments to the standing committees of
4 the two houses of the general assembly shall be made and announced
5 by the speaker and the president pro tempore, respectively.
6 (b) At the reconvening in January of the first session of the term, the
7 lists of appointments to the standing committees shall be read in their
8 respective houses and recorded in the journals thereof.
9 (c) The members of the standing committees shall serve for the term
10 of the general assembly in which they are appointed, unless removed,
11 suspended or unable to serve.
12 SECTION 10. An emergency is declared for this act.
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