| SB0222 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit for expenditures made by a taxpayer for one or more of the following purposes: (1) Implementing homeland security measures to comply with federal homeland security requirements, as certified by the department of homeland...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-04
Representative Yarde added as cosponsor |
| SB0585 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a certified technology park to capture incremental state income and sales taxes and local income taxes for a business that incubated in the park and then relocates outside the park but within the same county. Phases out the amount of the captu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-04
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 |
| SB0301 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that in all civil, criminal, infraction, and ordinance violation actions, the clerk of the court shall collect an automated record keeping fee in the following amounts: (1) $7 before July 1, 2011; (2) $6 after June 30, 2011, and before July ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-04
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 |
| HB1582 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the interim study committee on insurance to study, during the 2011 interim of the general assembly, certain health care provider and health insurer issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| HB1583 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the credit for excessive residential property taxes and the following property tax deductions are to be allowed in the year of a property transfer if the property is determined to be exempt in the year following the transfer year: (1) H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1142 | Engross
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 may receive assistance under the federal Supplemental Nutrition As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1298 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a one (1) year amnesty program for accountants who failed to renew their licenses and meet certain requirements.Changes the phrase "quality review" to "peer review" for purposes of the laws governing public accountancy beg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| HB1484 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the department of local government finance from approving a budget until a taxing unit files a financial report with the state board of accounts in the immediately preceding year. Corrects a reference to the date of the 2015 general reasses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1485 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the interim study committee (committee) on medical reimbursement of worker's compensation and sets topics of study for the committee. Requires the committee to operate under the policies governing study committees adopted by the legislati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| HB1042 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides defenses to the crimes of disseminating matter that is harmful to minors, child exploitation, and possession of child pornography if a cellular telephone was used and the defendant and recipient of the matter are certain ages and meet other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| HB1507 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Floyd County park district on January 1, 2012, unless certain action is taken by the fiscal body of the city of New Albany or by the fiscal body of Floyd County. Provides that the park district is not established if before July 1, 2011:...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-31
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0073 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a thirteenth check to participants of the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan (plan). Provides that the thirteenth check is to be paid, not later than July 1, 2011...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-30
Representative Gutwein added as cosponsor |
| HB1170 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that for the first two years after a local option income tax for public safety (public safety LOIT) is adopted, a county or municipality that receives revenue from a public safety LOIT may use the public safety LOIT only to increase the tota...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0550 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the legislative body of a unit must approve the budget, the tax levy, spending, bond and debt financing, a lease pertaining to bonds or debt financing, the use of capitalized interest, selling of property, and allocation of excess tax r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0010 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a waiver or release of the right of remonstrance against annexation executed after June 30, 2011, expires ten years after the date the waiver or release is executed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0520 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the enforcement of a foreign law (defined as a law established and used outside the jurisdiction of the United States) if the enforcement would violate a right granted by the Indiana or United States constitution. Provides that a provision ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
Representative Noe added as cosponsor |
| HB1435 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the time for amending a personal property tax return from six months to one year from the date the original return was filed or the extension date, whichever is later. Provides that if an amended personal property tax return is filed between ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1439 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a bill for a service charge by a volunteer fire department must contain: (1) verification that the bill has been approved by the chief of the volunteer fire department; and (2) language indicating that correspondence from the person bei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| HB1457 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the environmental quality service council ("council") to study the topic of clean energy improvement financing districts during the 2011 legislative interim. Requires the council to study and make recommendations concerning subordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To Senate Energy and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0069 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides, with certain exceptions, that when a municipality initiates an annexation, the municipality must file a petition with the court containing the signatures of: (1) at least 60% of the landowners in the territory proposed to be annexed; or (2)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1478 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the collection of a nursing facility quality assessment fee until June 30, 2014, with changes to the amount collected and the amount dispersed, providing the health facilities with 67% of the money and the state with 33% of the money.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1483 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that in order to renew or obtain a license to: (1) operate certain medical facilities; (2) operate a home health agency; (3) operate a health facility; (4) work with radiation or radioactive materials; (5) operate a debt management company; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0097 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a procedure by which a company may provide a loan to the plaintiff in an action in exchange for the contingent right to receive a part of the potential proceeds of the action. Provides that a violation of the conditions under which a loan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1522 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a person who sells a smoking pipe or smoking device at retail: (1) must store the smoking pipe or smoking device behind a counter in an area inaccessible to a customer or in a locked display case that makes the smoking pipe or smoking d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-29
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0406 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the state school bus committee (committee) to have a regular meeting once each quarter (current law requires a meeting each month). Requires the committee to adopt and enforce rules to require that a person operating a school bus equipped wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0156 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a person may not be convicted of certain offenses relating to intoxication unless the person: (1) endangers the person's life; (2) endangers the life of another person; or (3) breaches the peace or is in imminent danger of breaching the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0440 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a fire department, volunteer fire department, or emergency medical services provider that provides fire protection or emergency medical services within the county and is operated by or serves a political subdivision that is not entitled...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0441 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the cost of projects that the department of natural resources may perform without awarding a public works contract from $75,000 to $150,000. Increases the cost of projects that some political subdivisions may perform without awarding a publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0161 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that local public questions be placed on a primary election ballot after the voting instructions and before the offices with candidates for nomination. Requires that public questions be placed on a general election ballot after the voting in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0446 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a process by which charter schools may lease unused, closed, or unoccupied school buildings that are maintained by school corporations and are not being used for classroom instruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0166 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that an employee of a county, city, town, or township (unit) is considered to have resigned from employment with the unit if the employee assumes the elected executive office of the unit or becomes an elected member of the unit's legislative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0449 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that an identification document issued by the United States Department of Defense, a branch of the uniformed services, the Merchant Marine, or the National Guard that has no expiration date or an indefinite expiration date is an acceptable p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0174 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts accountable care organizations from the corporate practice of medicine limitation. Includes accountable care organizations in application of the laws concerning medical malpractice and peer review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0177 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a county jail or a department of correction facility to return: (1) certain unused medication to the pharmacy that dispensed the medication; and (2) unused medical devices or medical supplies that are used for prescription drug therapy and tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0179 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that a county executive may not submit an application for federal grant funds or grants payable from federal funds allocated to the state unless the application is first approved by resolution of the county council. Provides that this requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0467 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a supplier of a casket or a person who sells or prepares for sale a casket and who removes, covers, alters, or makes unreadable a country of origin marking on the casket commits a deceptive act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| SB0192 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the criminal law and sentencing policy study committee to study issues relating to marijuana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0196 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that unemployment benefits may not be paid to an individual employed by a Head Start or an Early Head Start program for a week during a period between two successive academic years or terms if the individual performs the employment in the fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0482 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the state board of education (state board) to receive, distribute, and account for funds received for career and technical education under federal law. Assigns to the state board responsibility for the planning and implementation of secondar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0202 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds definition of "biomass", "biomass anaerobic digestion facility" (BADF), "fertilizer material" and "biomass gasification facility" (BGF). Requires the approval of the Indiana department of environmental man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0486 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the weight enforcement fund (fund) for funding personnel and equipment necessary for enforcement of laws concerning heavy trucks, to be administered by the state police department. Provides for the collection of a $10 fee from certain per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1158 | Intro
Sine Die | For purposes of determining whether a person has committed criminal recklessness or has recklessly killed another human being, the trier of fact may consider, in addition to other relevant factors, whether the person used a handheld wireless communic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
Third reading: call withdrawn |
| SB0208 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that, for purposes of the public intoxication statute, a person is not in a public place or place of public resort if the person is a passenger in a motor vehicle that is traveling on a highway. Specifies that the offense of being intoxicate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0212 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that all circuit courts, superior courts, and probate courts have: (1) original and concurrent jurisdiction in all civil cases and in all criminal cases; (2) de novo appellate jurisdiction of appeals from city and town courts; and (3) in Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0543 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a new procedure for partitioning real and personal property that: (1) requires a court to refer the matter to mediation; and (2) requires the court to order the property sold at auction if the parties are not able to reach an agreement du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0498 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a person to be licensed to grow or harvest ginseng. Establishes separate licenses for individuals and business entities that are ginseng dealers. Requires a ginseng grower to provide the department of natural resources (DNR) with an annual s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Select Committee on Government Reduction |
| SB0499 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the four judges of the Lake superior court county division to be: (1) nominated by the Lake County superior court judicial nominating commission and appointed by the governor; and (2) subject to the question of retention or rejection by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0218 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the definition of "developmental disabilities" to conform to the federal definition. Repeals the community residential council and gives the duties of the council to the division of disability and rehabilitative services (division)....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0500 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that an individual must be licensed by the state board of massage therapy to engage in the practice of massage therapy. (Under current law, massage therapists are certified by the board but certification is not required for the practice of m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0552 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that, beginning January 1, 2012, infants must be given a pulse oximetry screening examination to detect for low oxygen levels. Requires the state department of health to: (1) develop procedures and protocols for the testing; and (2) report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
