Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: HF0455

HF 455

THIRD ENGROSSMENT

Public defense provisions updated and clarified,
right to representation modified, public defender system supervision provided,
chief public appellate defender appointment provided, and public defender
co-pays statutory language stricken.

Section 1: Debt definition
modified.

Section 2: Indigent petitioners language modified.

Section 3: Right
to representation by public defender language modified.

Section 4: Standards
for district public defense eligibility language modified.

Section 5:
Reimbursement schedule guidelines language modified.

Section 6: Structure;
memberhsip language modified.

Section 7: Chief administrator language
modified.

Section 8: Office of State Public Defender; Appointment; Salary
language modified.

Section 9: Chief Appellate Public Defender organization of
office; assistants langauge modified.

Section 10: Representation language
modified.

Section 11: Appointment; terms language modified.

Section 12: Other
employment langauge modified.

Section 13: Transcript use langauge
modified.

Section 14: Public defense services; correctional facility inmates
language modified.

Section 15: Costs of transcripts langauge modified.

Section
16: Reimbursement of appointed counsel language modified.

Section 17:
Repealer

JAJ 5/8/7