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