Indiana Senate Bill 279 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 23 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-03-23 - Public Law 138
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Referendum and petition and remonstrance process. Provides that at least 500 or 5% of the property owners or registered voters of a political subdivision are necessary to initiate either a debt service remonstrance or debt service referendum. (Current law provides that at least 100 or 5% of the property owners or registered voters of a political subdivision are necessary to initiate either a debt service remonstrance or debt service referendum.) Specifies that a resolution to extend a referendum levy must be adopted by the governing body of a school corporation and approved by the voters before December 31 of the

Referendum and petition and remonstrance process. Provides that at least 500 or 5% of the property owners or registered voters of a political subdivision are necessary to initiate either a debt service remonstrance or debt service referendum. (Current law provides that at least 100 or 5% of the property owners or registered voters of a political subdivision are necessary to initiate either a debt service remonstrance or debt service referendum.) Specifies that a resolution to extend a referendum levy must be adopted by the governing body of a school corporation and approved by the voters before December 31 of the

Sen. Mark Stoops [D]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Randy Truitt [R]
Rep. Matt Pierce [D]	Rep. Anthony Cook [R]	Rep. Kathy Richardson [R]

2016-03-10 - Senate - Senate - Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 50 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-03-09 - House - House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2016-02-29 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 97 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2016-02-18 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2016-02-01 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 50 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-26 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-20 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-23	Senate	Public Law 138
2016-03-23	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2016-03-16	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2016-03-10	House	Signed by the Speaker
2016-03-10	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2016-03-10	Senate	Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 387: yeas 50, nays 0
2016-03-09	House	CCR # 1 filed in the House
2016-03-09	House	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 430: yeas 94, nays 0
2016-03-09	Senate	CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
2016-03-03	House	House advisors appointed: Thompson, Cook and DeLaney
2016-03-03	House	House conferees appointed: Truitt and Pierce
2016-03-02	Senate	Senate advisors appointed: Walker, Randolph Lonnie M and Buck
2016-03-02	Senate	Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Stoops
2016-03-02	Senate	Senate dissented from House amendments
2016-03-02	Senate	Motion to dissent filed
2016-03-02	Senate	Concurrence withdrawn
2016-03-02	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2016-02-29	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2016-02-29	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 258: yeas 97, nays 0
2016-02-25	House	Amendment #1 (Cook) prevailed; voice vote
2016-02-25	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2016-02-22	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2016-02-16	House	Representative Richardson added as cosponsor
2016-02-09	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Education
2016-02-02	Senate	Referred to the House
2016-02-01	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Pierce and Cook
2016-02-01	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Truitt
2016-02-01	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 100: yeas 50, nays 0
2016-01-28	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2016-01-26	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2016-01-26	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2016-01-21	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax & Fiscal Policy
2016-01-19	Senate	Senator Kruse added as second author
2016-01-07	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Education & Career Development
2016-01-07	Senate	Authored by Senator Stoops

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2016/bills/senate/279/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/6/9/f/d69fb93f/SB0279.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/b/b/7/fbb7540a/SB0279.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/c/7/c/5c7c719d/SB0279.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/6/6/7/e667d28d/SB0279.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/0/8/0/90807366/SB0279.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/e/3/d/ee3dce7a/SB0279.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/5/4/5/3545851f/SB0279.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/6/0/3/060315a4/SB0279.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/0/5/0/8050cb1c/SB0279.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/2/0/5/7205a245/SB0279.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/a/d/a/5adad448/SB0279.06.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/4/0/9/f4098b6f/SB0279.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/2/1/7/a21718ba/SB0279.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/5/1/5/451509d5/SB0279.100.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/1/4/3/b143322c/SB0279.03.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/a/3/9/8a395d4d/SB0279.258.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/3/2/9/c329b8a4/SB0279.430.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/2/c/8/52c84db4/SB0279.387.pdf