Court Opinion

ID: 9731941
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:02:21.776568+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:22.103072
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SULLIVAN, Judge,
concurring.
At the outset I would note that Denney makes no claim under the provision enacted in 1999 for the currently allowable cred*303it of six months for completion of one or more substance abuse programs. The completion of the substance abuse program by Denney was in 1994.
More importantly, however, as the author of this court’s opinion in Moshenek v. Anderson, 718 N.E.2d 811 (Ind.Ct.App.1999), I feel compelled to acknowledge that our opinion in that case was issued October 29, 1999, subsequent to the July 1, 1999 amendments to I.C. § 35-50-6-3.3 which placed the six month maximum upon the total credit allowable for completion of one or more vocational educational programs. Our opinion stated that “[i]f the legislature prefers to prohibit a person from receiving credit for multiple degrees of the same educational level, then it is free to do so by amending the statute.” Moshenek, 718 N.E.2d at 814. Inadvertently, however, we failed to acknowledge that the amendment was a fait accompli as of July 1,1999.
With these observations, I fully concur in the majority opinion.