| SB0453 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an electricity supplier to supply a certain percentage of its total electricity supply from renewable energy resources. Establishes the renewable energy resources fund to receive penalties paid by electricity suppliers that fail to supply el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To Senate Utilities & Technology Committee |
| SB0454 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board for the coordination of programs serving vulnerable individuals to develop: (1) a five year plan for a statewide, coordinated service system to improve services for children; (2) a five year plan for in-home and out-of-home placeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0456 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit to a landlord who offers incentives to tenants for reporting criminal activities that result in the arrest and successful prosecution of an individual for the crime of murder, battery, kidnapping, sexual assault, an offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0457 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds information that a pregnant woman must be informed of orally and in writing (current law requires that the information be given only orally) before an abortion may be performed concerning the physician, risks involved, information concerning the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0462 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the Madison County council to increase the Madison County food and beverage tax from 1% to 2% for two years from July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2013. Provides that 50% of the additional tax revenue amount shall be distributed to the cities an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SJR0015 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Indiana to specify certain rights with respect to health care. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0329 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state and local units of government to enter into agreements to provide interstate mutual aid for emergencies that may or may not initially be at a level requiring a state or local declaration of a state of emergency or disaster. Recog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| SB0417 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an individual income tax deduction for amounts allowed as a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for investment interest paid on indebtedness on real property that is not a qualified residence. Removes outdated individual income tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-12
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0395 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a Class A misdemeanor to require an individual to: (1) become or remain a member of a labor organization; (2) pay dues, fees, or other charges to a labor organization; or (3) pay to a charity or another third party an amount that represents ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0396 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the phrase "quality review" to "peer review" for purposes of the laws governing public accountancy beginning July 1, 2012. Permits a peer review rating of fail to be used in disciplining a certified public accountant or pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Commerce & Economic Development Committee |
| SB0397 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a person who is a nonresident of the jurisdictional area of a board of zoning appeals (board) and owns real property within the jurisdictional area of the board to serve as a member on the board. Provides that when an advisory municipal plan c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0398 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an operator's, a chauffeur's, a motorcycle operator's, or a public passenger chauffeur's license issued to or renewed by a driver who is at least 85 years of age expires at midnight on the birthday of the holder that occurs one (1) year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| SB0400 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies certain notice requirements and restrictions for life insurers with respect to viatical settlement contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0401 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the redistricting study committee. Requires the committee to: (1) study the topic of redistricting and make recommendations on ways to improve the redistricting process; (2) study proposals to amend the Constitution of the State of Indian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0402 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state agencies and political subdivisions to maintain accounts on an accrual basis and to include information in budgets and financial reports on an accrual basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0403 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames the amounts paid to support horse racing from slot machine revenues as racing support fees. Requires the department of state revenue to collect the racing support fee, the county slot machine wagering fee, and the supplemental fee. Establishe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0404 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a Class C infraction to use a handheld wireless communications device to transmit a text message or electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle, and enhances the penalty for repeat offenses or if the offense results in ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0407 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the expungement under certain circumstances of the arrest records of a person whose conviction has been vacated if the state may not or will not refile charges against the person. Allows a person to petition to have access to the person'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0409 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that revenue generated from one cent of the state gasoline tax shall be paid into the supplemental school distribution fund and distributed to school corporations. (This revenue is currently transferred to the state highway fund.) Provides t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0412 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that, beginning July 1, 2012, each oceangoing vessel engaging in port operations in Indiana must obtain a permit from the department of environmental management (IDEM). Allows IDEM to issue a permit only if the applicant can demonstrate that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Energy and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0413 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes: (1) the office of the child advocate; and (2) the duties of the child advocate, which include taking all possible action to ensure the legal, civil, and special rights of children. Requires the governor to appoint the child advocate. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0414 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Lake County fiscal body may: (1) impose a tax of not more than 1% on the sale of gasoline and special fuel; and (2) impose a tax of not more than 1% on the sale of fireworks. Specifies that the tax revenue is distributed to the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0415 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a life insurer to provide written notice to certain policy owners concerning the disposition of a life insurance policy. Makes a violation an unfair and deceptive act in the business of insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0231 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a motor vehicle insurer to provide certain notice and payment with respect to a motor vehicle repair claim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0035 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires every person arrested after June 30, 2011, for burglary, residential entry, a crime of violence, or a sex offense to submit a DNA sample. Provides for the expungement of a DNA sample taken from the person if the person is acquitted of all ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0051 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals a provision that makes it a Class B misdemeanor for an alcoholic beverage permittee or the permittee's employee or agent to recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally sell, barter, exchange, provide, or furnish another person an alcoholic bevera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0317 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a student is required to begin school in the fall term of the school year in which the student becomes six years of age. (Current law requires the student to begin school in the fall term of the school year in which the student becomes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0318 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that information on the number and percentage of students meeting academic standards on certain tests be reported on the annual school performance report in the following categories: (1) All students. (2) Special education students. (3) Limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0324 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a court to award attorney's fees to the prevailing party in all civil actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0326 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that school board members who are selected by election must be nominated as candidates of political parties at primary elections and elected at general elections beginning in 2012. Repeals provisions related to the election of school board m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0332 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides procedures to evaluate and terminate all state agencies and programs on a ten year cycle. Requires the schools of public and environmental affairs or business schools of Indiana University, Purdue University, Ball State University, Indiana S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0335 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a board to enter into a construction management at risk agreement for a public work project for which the cost will be at least $25,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0339 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that if a county or a municipality becomes a member of a regional development authority (other than the northwest Indiana regional development authority) after June 30, 2011, and before July 1, 2013, the amount of money that must be transfer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0341 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes changes to the Uniform Commercial Code pertaining to secured transactions to conform to recommendations made by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Provides clarification regarding how a name of an individual debtor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0342 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the midwifery board (board). Sets qualifications for a certified direct entry midwife (CDEM). Requires the board to: (1) establish continuing education requirements; (2) develop peer review procedures; and (3) adopt rules concerning the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0343 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a health facility to obtain a national criminal history background check or an expanded criminal history check. Provides immunity to persons: (1) for denying or terminating employment because of another person's criminal history; or (2) for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0344 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolishes the death penalty. Specifies that if a person was sentenced to death and is awaiting execution of the death sentence, the person's death sentence is commuted to a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Repeals the law concerning exec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0345 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the issuance of bonds to return advances received from the federal unemployment trust fund before July 1, 2011. Grants the Indiana finance authority the power to issue the bonds and to administer the obligation trust fund. Provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0349 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates property taxes on primary residences (homesteads). Decreases the state sales and use tax rate from 7% to 5.5%. Provides that sales and use tax applies to transactions involving services, except for legal services, health or mental health s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0351 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an individual who has been convicted of a felony involving a controlled substance and who has completed or is participating in certain substance abuse treatment programs or mental health programs may receive assistance under the federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0352 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that certain individuals who are serving a sentence for multiple felonies or multiple life sentences are eligible for parole after serving 30 years. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the criminal law and sentencing policy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0353 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that it is a Class C infraction: (1) for a bicyclist under 18 years of age to fail to wear protective headgear when operating or riding on a bicycle; and (2) for a person driving a vehicle overtaking a bicycle to not allow at least three fee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| SB0355 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits smoking: (1) in public places; (2) in enclosed areas of a place of employment; (3) in certain state vehicles; and (4) within 12 feet of a public entrance to a public place or an enclosed area of a place of employment. Requires the alcohol a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0356 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that in all counties the maximum local option income tax (LOIT) rate for public safety is 0.5%. (Under current law, the maximum rate is 0.5% for Marion County and 0.25% for all other counties.) Provides that in all counties other than Marion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0358 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of child services (department) to use certain funds that become available as a result of a child with special needs becoming eligible to receive federal adoption assistance under the Fostering Connections to Success and Increa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0103 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes materials, compounds, mixtures, or preparations that contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine schedule III controlled substances that may be dispensed only by a prescription.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0359 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that an adoption incentive payment that has been paid or is paid to Indiana after July 1, 2010, under the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act must be used to make adoption subsidy payments for the benefit of a child with special needs und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0362 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a licensed or certified practitioner who reuses a single use medical device is subject to disciplinary action on the practitioner's license and commits a Class B infraction. Provides that the practitioner commits a Class D felony if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0365 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that, in making a quota determination for alcoholic beverage permit purposes, the population of a consolidated city is the population of the county with the exception of excluded cities. (Current law provides that the population of a consoli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0367 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the words "absentee ballot" be printed in prominent type with uniform capital letters at the top of every absentee ballot prepared and printed by a county election board. Eliminates the requirement that the third member of a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-11
To Senate Elections Committee |
