Indiana Code Title 1. General Provisions § 1-1-5.5-15

Sec. 15. (a) P.L.2-1996 is intended to resolve technical conflicts among acts enacted by the general assembly and to correct other technical errors.P.L.2-1996 is not intended to change the intended effective date of any statute or otherwise result in any substantive change in the law.

(b) A SECTION of P.L.2-1996 does not affect any:

before the effective date of that SECTION of P.L.2-1996. Those rights, liabilities, penalties, offenses, and proceedings continue and shall be imposed and enforced under prior law as if that SECTION of P.L.2-1996 had not been enacted.

(c) Any reference in any statute or rule to a statute that is repealed and replaced in the same or a different form in P.L.2-1996 shall be treated after the effective date of the new provision as a reference to the new provision.