Sec. 11. (a) This section applies after December 31, 2015, and before January 1, 2017.
(b) The Indiana judicial center shall review the workload and backlog of cases in the Indiana tax court and submit a report to the legislative council based on the center's review by December 1, 2016. The report must contain the following information:
(1) A review and analysis of the methods and procedures for case disposition in the Indiana tax court, including:
(A) findings concerning efficiencies of the methods and procedures in the Indiana tax court; and
(B) recommendations (if any) for necessary improvement of case dispositions in the Indiana tax court.
(2) Consideration of any reports and recommendations concerning the Indiana tax court prepared and published by the division of court administration under IC 33-24-6-3.
(c) The tax court judge and tax court personnel under IC 33-26-4-2 shall furnish to the Indiana judicial center or the center's employees all requested tax court information necessary for purposes of this section and that is not otherwise confidential.
(d) The Indiana judicial center may employ contract services for purposes of this section.
(e) The report submitted to the legislative council must be in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6.
As added by P.L.248-2015, SEC.8.