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Committee advances bill to shift civil legal aid fund from formula to grant-making model
Summary
Sen. Carrasco presented Senate Bill 222 to replace the civil legal aid fund's county-formula with a grants-based distribution intended to improve accountability and statewide coordination.
Sen. Carrasco presented Senate Bill 222, describing it as a change to the civil legal aid fund created in 1997 that supports 12 legal aid entities across Indiana. She told the committee the bill "removes [the] grant based approach to ensure that these dollars are being used to their maximum potential," explaining the proposal would replace the existing statutory distribution formula with a grants process intended to improve accountability, outcomes and statewide coordination.
Chuck Dunlap of the Indiana Bar Foundation testified in support, describing the foundation's existing…
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