HB1320

The amendment NARROWS the bill by removing an entire section that addressed service of process for all public corporations (counties, municipalities, townships, school districts, etc.) and replacing it with language that only modifies how service of process applies specifically to boards of county commissioners. This shifts the bill from a broad revision of service of process procedures to a narrower fix focused solely on county commissioners.

The amendment revises who can be served with notice of appeal from county board decisions, replacing county administrators, executives, and treasurers with county auditors and the state's attorney, and adding an option to serve a person appointed by the board via resolution—NARROWING the bill to focus service of process on specific county officials rather than a broader range of administrative staff.

The amendment made minor grammatical and stylistic corrections to the bill's language about serving notice of appeals to county boards, including changing "a written notice on one of the members" to "written notice upon any county auditor or commissioner," replacing archaic pronouns like "his" and "the same" with modern equivalents, and clarifying that fees "are equal to those imposed by a register of deeds" rather than "shall be the same as allowed registers." These changes NARROW the bill by refining technical language without altering its substantive purpose of clarifying service of process procedures.