HB1320

The amendment substantially narrows the bill by removing the amendment to the broader service of process rules in § 15-6-4(d) and instead focuses solely on revising § 7-8-29 to specify that appeals of county board decisions can be served on a county administrator, commissioner, executive, treasurer, or registered agent rather than following the general civil procedure rules. This shifts the bill from comprehensively revising statewide service of process procedures to addressing only the specific procedural requirement for county board appeals.

The amendment revised who can be served with notice of appeal from county board decisions, replacing service on a county administrator, executive, treasurer, or registered agent with service on a county auditor, a commissioner, the state's attorney, or a person designated by the board through resolution—NARROWING and clarifying the list of acceptable parties for legal service while also correcting technical language about fee standards.

The enrolled version cleaned up the bill's language by removing archaic phrasing (like "a written notice on one of the members" and "his fees"), replacing it with more modern, gender-neutral terms (such as "are equal to those imposed" instead of "shall be the same as allowed"), and clarifying that transcripts should go "to the clerk of courts" rather than using the vague term "the same." These changes STRENGTHEN the bill by making the service of process procedures clearer and more precise without altering the substantive legal requirements.