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type: "Bill"
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title: "Civil legal aid fund."
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description: "Limits how a legal services provider may use funds from the civil legal aid fund. Relocates a provision concerning fund distribution. Repeals the distribution formula of the civil legal aid fund statute. Requires the office of judicial administration to annually report certain information regarding the civil legal aid fund to the state budget committee."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 222"
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citation: "Indiana SB 222 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Budget Committee", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Generally", "COURTS; Attorneys", "COURTS; Judges", "COURTS; Supreme Court", "STATE GOVERNMENT; State and Local Funding"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Chris Jeter", "Cyndi Carrasco"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-01-08"
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last_action: "2025-03-31"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e0ec7bf-73fd-4d6d-98f5-6b317dcd255b"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0222"
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source_hash: "8a563d4ae1d2be3f4a6839c3fe16e8f2f65f0f7d3efc886eb686a2eb03c92e4a"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana SB 222 (2025) — Civil legal aid fund.
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Limits how a legal services provider may use funds from the civil legal aid fund. Relocates a provision concerning fund distribution. Repeals the distribution formula of the civil legal aid fund statute. Requires the office of judicial administration to annually report certain information regarding the civil legal aid fund to the state budget committee.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0222/SB0222.05.ENRH.pdf)
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2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0222/SB0222.01.INTR.pdf)
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3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0222/SB0222.03.COMS.pdf)
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4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0222/SB0222.04.COMH.pdf)
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## Votes
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- SB 222 - Carrasco - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · upper
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- SB 222 - Jeter - 3rd Reading — **94–2** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
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- Chris Jeter — primary (person)
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- Cyndi Carrasco — primary (person)
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- Alex Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)
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- Scott Alexander — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Carrasco
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- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-16** Senator Freeman added as second author
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- **2025-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-06** Senator Alexander added as coauthor
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- **2025-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 149: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-18** House sponsor: Representative Jeter
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- **2025-02-19** Referred to the House `referral`
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- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-13** Representative Zimmerman added as cosponsor
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- **2025-03-19** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-03-17** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
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- **2025-03-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 272: yeas 94, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2025-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2025-03-31** Public Law 8 `became-law`
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- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e0ec7bf-73fd-4d6d-98f5-6b317dcd255b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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