| SB0225 | Engross
Sine Die | Property tax exemption for affordable housing. Establishes standards for affordable rental housing property to be exempt from property taxation when the property does not otherwise qualify for a property tax exemption. Specifies that the exemption ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0076 | Engross
Sine Die | Military service and Medicaid eligibility. Allows an individual (and the individual's dependent) who is: (1) an active member of the armed services of the United States or the national guard; (2) a legal Indiana resident; (3) assigned for duty or dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0197 | Engross
Sine Die | Internet crimes investigation fund and fee. Establishes the Internet crimes investigation fund (fund). Requires the state police department (department) to administer the fund and use money in the fund to: (1) pay for costs incurred by the department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0198 | Engross
Sine Die | Domestic battery. Removes the sentencing enhancement for battery committed against a family or household member in the presence of a child from the battery statute and places it in the domestic battery statute. Specifies that numerous provisions in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0128 | Engross
Sine Die | Monroe County public transit funding. Allows the fiscal body of Monroe County to adopt an ordinance to impose an additional local income tax rate to fund one or more county transit projects. Provides that the rate must be at least 0.1% but not more t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0178 | Engross
Sine Die | Battery and neglect of a dependent. Increases the penalty for neglect of a dependent and battery if the crime is committed against an endangered adult or a person with a serious physical or mental disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0063 | Engross
Sine Die | ISTEP panel. Establishes a panel to study alternatives to the ISTEP program tests and to make recommendations for replacing the ISTEP program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB0171 | Engross
Sine Die | Study of electronic health care claim payments. Urges the legislative council to assign to a 2016 interim study committee the issue of use of electronic methods of health care claim payment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1118 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage permits and redevelopment. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission to issue a total of 10 new three-way permits for on-premises consumption to the owner or proprietor of a restaurant in a municipality in Hamilton County. Allows t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HB1299 | Engross
Sine Die | Voluntary remediation plans. Revises the law concerning the voluntary remediation of hazardous substances and petroleum. Authorizes the department of environmental management (department) to reject an application for participation in the voluntary re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0012 | Engross
Sine Die | Financial crimes against the elderly. Permits a financial institution to release certain financial records to a law enforcement agency or adult protective services unit if the financial institution reasonably suspects illegal activity in connection w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0073 | Engross
Sine Die | School curriculum. Requires each school corporation and accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum. Requires each school corporation and accredited nonpublic school to include reading in its curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB0132 | Engross
Sine Die | Food stamp assistance after drug conviction. Allows certain individuals who were convicted of a drug offense but: (1) have been released from any incarceration at least five years before applying for food stamps; and (2) have not been convicted of an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| HB1390 | Engross
Sine Die | Ephedrine or pseudoephedrine. Requires the Indiana board of pharmacy (board) to adopt emergency rules that are effective July 1, 2016, concerning: (1) professional determinations made; and (2) a relationship on record with the pharmacy; concerning th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0226 | Engross
Sine Die | Correctional officers and possession of handguns. Allows an employee of a penal facility: (1) who is a correctional officer; and (2) whose duties include the daily or ongoing supervision and care of persons who are lawfully detained in the penal faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1247 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage issues. Provides that the department of natural resources (department) may apply for a three-way permit for a state park. Provides that the alcohol and tobacco commission shall issue a permit to the department for a state park with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HB1024 | Engross
Sine Die | Political subdivision risk management. Requires the Indiana Public Employer's Plan, Inc. (IPEP), which was established as a domestic nonprofit corporation, to apply for a certificate of authority to transact business as a domestic mutual insurance co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Transborder groundwater authority. Establishes the Indiana-Kentucky transborder groundwater authority (authority). Requires the authority to study ownership rights in the groundwater resources shared by Indiana and Kentucky and to explore the desirab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
Representative Hamm added as coauthor |
| HB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | DNA samples from felony arrestees. Requires every person arrested for a felony after June 30, 2016, to submit a DNA sample, and specifies that the sample may be obtained only by buccal swab. Provides for the expungement of a DNA sample taken from a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
Representative Cox added as coauthor |
| HB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | Cancers associated with human papillomavirus. Requires the state department of health (department) to develop a strategic plan to identify and significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancers associated with human papillomavirus. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
Representative Sullivan added as coauthor |
| HB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana housing first program. Establishes the Indiana housing first program (program) to provide housing and support services for eligible homeless persons. Provides that the housing and community development authority (authority) shall administer t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0088 | Intro
Sine Die | Solid waste management districts. Authorizes the legislative body of a county to do one, but not both, of the following: (1) Adopt an ordinance specifying that a district may not levy within the county a property tax that is first due and payable in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Healthy food financing program. Establishes the healthy food financing fund (fund) and healthy food financing program (program) under the administration of the Indiana housing and community development authority (IHCDA). Provides that the purpose of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1407 | Intro
Sine Die | ABLE authority and board. Creates the achieving a better life experience (ABLE) authority (authority) and the ABLE board (board) of the authority. Requires the authority to establish a qualified ABLE program under which a person may make contribution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Hancock County food and beverage tax. Authorizes Hancock County to adopt a county food and beverage tax. Provides that the tax rate may not exceed 1%. Specifies the uses to which receipts from the food and beverage tax may be applied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1232 | Intro
Sine Die | Background checks for real estate brokers. Requires an individual applying for an initial real estate broker's license to submit to a national criminal history background check at the cost of the individual. Requires an individual seeking a renewal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
Amendment #1 (Thompson) prevailed; voice vote |
| SB0344 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil rights. Prohibits discriminatory practices in acquisition or sale of real estate, housing, education, public accommodations, employment, the extending of credit, and public contracts based on military active duty status, or sexual orientation. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Horse racing matters. Imposes a wagering tax on amounts wagered through advance deposit wagering by account holders in Indiana. Provides for the distribution of advance deposit wagering tax revenues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1316 | Intro
Sine Die | Law enforcement matters. Creates a $5 law enforcement body camera fee. Requires that the law enforcement body camera fee must be collected in any action involving the violation of an infraction or an ordinance. Requires the clerk of a circuit court t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1323 | Intro
Sine Die | Reading requirements. Provides that a rule adopted by the state board of education (state board) must allow flexibility for principals and school leaders in scheduling the number and length of reading periods for elementary school students during stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0283 | Intro
Sine Die | Counterterrorism. Defines "terrorist associated person" as a person who: (1) is named on the FBI's terrorist watch list; or (2) is an illegal alien from a state that is occupied by certain terrorist organizations. Provides that a terrorist associated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
Withdrawn |
| HB1339 | Intro
Sine Die | Teachers. Establishes the Indiana teacher retention and recruitment program to improve teacher retention rates, recruitment, and quality. Establishes the Indiana teacher retention and recruitment program fund to be used to fund programs developed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0097 | Intro
Sine Die | Battery on a sports official. Provides that battery on a certified athletic official is a Class A misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0282 | Intro
Sine Die | Threat assessments and critical infrastructure. Requires the executive director of the department of homeland security (department) to: (1) examine vulnerabilities of and threats to critical infrastructure and other possible targets of criminal or te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
Withdrawn |
| SB0285 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment of unauthorized aliens. Prohibits an employer from knowingly employing, after September 30, 2016, an unauthorized alien. Authorizes the attorney general to: (1) investigate a complaint that an employer knowingly employed an unauthorized al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| HB1396 | Intro
Sine Die | Massage therapists. Provides that an individual must be licensed by the state board of massage therapy (board) to practice massage therapy. (Under current law, massage therapists are certified by the board but certification is not required to practic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0377 | Intro
Sine Die | Removal of asset limits for SNAP. Requires the division of family resources to: (1) implement within the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance program (SNAP) an expanded eligibility category, that does not consider an individual's value of asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0240 | Intro
Sine Die | Prosecuting attorneys retirement fund. Provides that the pension received by a participant in the prosecuting attorneys retirement fund (PARF) upon retirement from PARF is reduced by: (1) the actual amount of the pension the participant is receiving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0152 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical malpractice. Increases the maximum amount recoverable for an injury or a death of a patient in a medical malpractice action from $1,250,000 to $1,650,000 after December 31, 2016. Increases the maximum amount recoverable from a health care pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0156 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax on recreational vehicles. Provides that the purchase of a recreational vehicle or cargo trailer that is transported out of Indiana for registration and use in another state or country is exempt from the state gross retail tax regardless of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | Fuel taxes and vehicle fees. Provides that biodiesel fuel that is manufactured in Indiana and shipped out of state is exempt from the special fuel tax and motor carrier fuel tax. (Under current law, a refund must be claimed.) Specifies that the motor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0083 | Intro
Sine Die | Innocent coinsured. Prohibits certain actions by a property or casualty insurer with respect to an innocent coinsured, including denying payment on a claim for the cost of actual repair or replacement of property and refusing to issue or renew a poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| HB1003 | Pass | Teacher evaluations. Provides that, for a state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016, the amount that a school corporation may receive as part of a performance grant relating to test results shall be calculated using the highe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
Public Law 2 |
| SB0075 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government liaison. Requires the department of local government finance (DLGF) to designate a staff member to direct inquiries or requests for assistance from local government officials to the appropriate staff person or entity. Requires the DL...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 30: yeas 18, nays 30 |
| SB0365 | Intro
Sine Die | Designation of old forest areas in state forests. Requires the department of natural resources, before January 1, 2017, to designate as an old forest area at least one undivided area comprising at least ten percent (10%) of each state forest. Provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0223 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax assessment. Provides, with limited exceptions, that: (1) the only factor permitted to be used in changing the assessed value of most real property from year to year is the annual adjustment factor; and (2) an assessing official may not c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1363 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Requires, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, a school corporation to conduct at least 175 student instructional days in a school year. (Currently, a school corporation is required to conduct at least 180 student instructional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HB1243 | Intro
Sine Die | Say's Firefly designated as state insect. Designates Pyractomena angulata, also known as "Say's Firefly", as the official state insect of Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1362 | Intro
Sine Die | State law enforcement salaries. Provides salary increases of 72% for the police employees of the state police and the gaming agents and gaming control officers of the Indiana gaming commission. (Current law provides that salary increases for police e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1044 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' recovery program. Establishes, for five years, the veterans' recovery program and fund to provide treatment for veterans with traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder and to obtain reimbursement from third parties. Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
