| SB0476 | Pass | School capital projects fund tax rate. Provides that when calculating the maximum rate for a school corporation's capital projects fund for taxes due and payable in calendar year 2016, the first step in the calculation (the previous year's maximum ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-13
Public Law 232 |
| SB0500 | Pass | Education deregulation. Makes comprehensive revisions to the Indiana Code relating to all aspects of the administration of schools and school corporations and the education of students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. Repeals various obsolete ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-13
Public Law 233 |
| SB0174 | Pass | Sentence modification. Makes a person who commits an offense before July 1, 2014, eligible for sentence modification on the same terms as a person sentenced on or after that date. Provides that a violent criminal, as defined, may file one petition fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-13
Public Law 164 |
| SB0423 | Pass | Property tax issues. Provides that, following a petition for review contesting the assessed value of tangible property, a taxpayer and a township or county official may enter into an agreement in which both parties: (1) agree to waive a determination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-13
Public Law 248 |
| SB0027 | Pass | Obstructions at railroad-highway grade crossings. Imposes a minimum judgment of $200 for blocking a railroad-highway grade crossing. Deposits funds collected as judgments in the industrial rail service fund. Urges the legislative council to assign to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-13
Public Law 162 |
| SB0508 | Pass | Animals and agriculture. Defines "equine massage therapy". Provides that equine massage therapy is not included in the practice of veterinary medicine. Provides that an individual may not immunize an animal for a fee unless the individual is a vetera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-13
Public Law 211 |
| SB0460 | Pass | Comprehensive care health facilities. Prohibits the state department of health from approving: (1) the licensure of comprehensive care health facilities; (2) new or converted comprehensive care beds; or (3) the certification of new or converted compr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Public Law 257 |
| SB0098 | Pass | Lawsuits against gun manufacturers. Prohibits a person from bringing certain actions against a firearms manufacturer, ammunition manufacturer, trade association, or seller, and makes the prohibition effective upon passage. Prohibits awards for attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Public Law 106 |
| SB0252 | Pass | Horse racing matters. Requires the Indiana horse racing commission (IHRC) to promote the horse racing industry in Indiana, including its simulcast product. Provides that promotional costs may be paid from the breed development funds. Increases the am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Public Law 256 |
| SB0327 | Pass | Charity gaming. Provides that the prize for a progressive bingo game may not exceed $2,000. Provides that the total prizes for one pull tab, punchboard, or tip board game may not exceed $10,000. (Current law provides that the total prizes may not exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-08
Public Law 253 |
| SB0566 | Pass | Education. Requires the attorney general in consultation with the Indiana education employment relations board (IEERB) to draft and disseminate a letter by first class mail to teachers providing a summary of the teacher's rights and protections under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 239 |
| SB0267 | Pass | Dual language immersion; biliteracy. Establishes the dual language immersion pilot program to provide grants to school corporations and charter schools that establish dual language immersion programs in certain foreign languages. Creates the state ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 226 |
| SB0522 | Pass | Serious sex offenders. Defines "serious sex offender". Makes entry on school property by a serious sex offender a Level 6 felony. Provides that a serious sex offender is entitled to vote by mail. Requires the department of correction to inform a seri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 235 |
| SB0524 | Pass | Tax deeds and conveyance documents. Provides that when a county auditor sends out certain notices for a tax sale by certified mail, the notices must be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested. Requires that a verified petition for a tax deed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 236 |
| SB0370 | Pass | State emblems. Designates the Republic Aviation P-47 Thunderbolt as the official state aircraft of Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 229 |
| SB0532 | Pass | Human trafficking, promoting prostitution, and adult entertainment performers. Provides that, for purposes of the law concerning actions for indecent nuisances, an indecent nuisance includes a public place in or upon which human trafficking is conduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 237 |
| SB0509 | Pass | Scholarships and grants. Provides that at the end of each state fiscal year, the commission for higher education (commission) may order the auditor of state to transfer money among certain funds if the commission determines that the remaining appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 234 |
| SB0330 | Pass | Annexation. Provides the following for annexations for which an annexation ordinance is adopted after June 30, 2015: (1) Remonstrance petitions are filed with the county auditor (instead of a court). (2) An annexation ordinance does not proceed if at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 228 |
| SB0393 | Pass | Public official surety bonds. Requires that copies of political subdivision personnel bonds must be filed with the county auditor or fiscal officer of the political subdivision and with the state board of accounts. Requires the state board of account...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 230 |
| SB0001 | Pass | State board of education governance. Adds a statement of legislative intent regarding the roles of the general assembly, the state board of education (state board), and the department of education (department) relating to education. Makes changes, be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Signed by the Governor |
| SB0033 | Pass | Worker's compensation. Allows an officer of a corporation who is also an owner of any interest in the corporation to elect not to be an employee of the corporation under worker's compensation. Urges the legislative council to assign to an interim stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 225 |
| SB0559 | Pass | Various criminal law matters. Adds unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon to the definition of "crimes of violence". Establishes new caps for consecutive sentences that result from a single episode of criminal conduct. Defines "e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 238 |
| SB0307 | Pass | Consumer protection. Amends the statute concerning telephone solicitations of consumers (Indiana's "do not call" law) to provide that a person may not provide substantial assistance or support to a telephone solicitor, a supplier, or a caller if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 227 |
| SB0463 | Pass | Cigarettes and tobacco sales. Prohibits the sale at retail of an electronic cigarette without a valid tobacco sales certificate issued by the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) and includes electronic cigarettes in the certification regulati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-07
Public Law 231 |
| SB0374 | Pass | Property tax assessment date trailer. Corrects references to the property tax assessment date to make the law consistent with the change of the assessment date from March 1 to January 1. Makes corresponding changes in certain filing dates. Specifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-06
Public Law 245 |
| SB0441 | Pass | Various tax matters. Eliminates the World War I veteran property tax deduction for property taxes imposed for an assessment date after 2015. Provides that the equipment eligible for the double direct sales tax exemption includes material handling equ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-06
Public Law 250 |
| SB0436 | Pass | State and local taxation. Provides that if a taxpayer has personal property subject to assessment in more than one township in a county or has personal property that is subject to assessment and that is located in two or more taxing districts within ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-06
Public Law 249 |
| SB0531 | Pass | Various tax sale matters. Makes numerous changes to the tax sale statute, including the following: (1) Provides that a purchaser of real property by an installment land contract may request notice of the tax sale list. (2) Adds an alternative provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-06
Public Law 251 |
| SB0415 | Pass | Vacant and abandoned housing. Provides that a county, city, or town fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to establish a deduction period for rehabilitated property that has also been determined to be abandoned or vacant. Specifies that there must be de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-06
Public Law 247 |
| SB0412 | Pass | Integrated resource plans and energy efficiency. Requires a public utility to submit an integrated resource plan to the utility regulatory commission (IURC). Requires certain electricity suppliers to submit an energy efficiency plan to the IURC at le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-06
Public Law 246 |
| SB0217 | Pass | Service of process fees collected by a sheriff. Requires a sheriff to collect a service of process fee of $25 instead of $13 from a party requesting service of a writ, an order, a process, a notice, a tax warrant, or any other paper completed by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 165 |
| SB0293 | Pass | Medical peer review. Provides for use of a peer review committee by a medical school located in Indiana. Allows sharing of peer review information between a medical school peer review committee and another peer review committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 204 |
| SB0324 | Pass | Various child support matters. Makes various changes to family and juvenile law concerning the following: (1) Parties entitled to file a paternity action. (2) Petitions for child support. (3) Petitions for adoption. (4) Adoption decrees. (5) Duties o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 206 |
| SB0516 | Pass | Utility infrastructure improvements. Amends the law on water and wastewater utility distribution system improvement charges so that the law applies to municipally owned utilities and not-for-profit utilities as well as to public utilities. Allows a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 212 |
| SB0123 | Pass | Higher education. Revises the law setting forth the locations and names for centers for comprehensive medical education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 199 |
| SB0437 | Pass | Compression release engine brakes. Provides that it is a Class C infraction for a person to drive a motor vehicle equipped with compression release engine brakes unless the motor vehicle is equipped with a muffler in good working condition so that ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 168 |
| SB0298 | Pass | Voluntary veterans' preference employment policy. Provides for a voluntary veterans' preference policy for hiring, promoting, or retaining a veteran in private employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 205 |
| SB0464 | Pass | Mental health issues. Specifies limitations for reimbursement for methadone by: (1) the state employee health plan; (2) Medicaid; (3) certain policies of accident and sickness insurance; and (4) certain health maintenance organization contracts; if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 209 |
| SB0465 | Pass | Human services and health matters. Amends the definition of "autism". Makes multiple changes to the administration of the office of the secretary of family and social services. Moves the authority to operate a disability determination bureau from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 210 |
| SB0008 | Pass | Death penalty aggravator. Makes a murder eligible for the death penalty if the murder involved decapitating or attempting to decapitate the victim while the victim was still alive.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 198 |
| SB0166 | Pass | Spinal cord and brain injury fund. Allows the spinal cord and brain injury fund to be used to provide funding for facilities, treatment, and services for spinal cord and brain injuries. Specifies the percent of funds that must be used for treatment a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 200 |
| SB0168 | Pass | Controlled substance data base. Permits physicians who hold a temporary medical license to have access to confidential information in the Indiana scheduled prescription electronic collection and tracking (INSPECT) program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 201 |
| SB0528 | Pass | Preservation of public records. Changes the name of the state commission on public records to the Indiana archives and records administration (administration). Changes the name of the central micrographics laboratory to the state imaging and microfil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 171 |
| SB0249 | Pass | Agricultural matters. Authorizes the department of agriculture (department) to establish a farm commodities and market news service as a pilot program for the 2015-2017 biennium. Authorizes the department to expand the program beginning July 1, 2017....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 202 |
| SB0425 | Pass | Unclaimed life insurance benefits. Requires the department of insurance to develop, post, and maintain on the Internet information concerning life insurance and financial affairs. Specifies that the law concerning unclaimed life insurance benefits: (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 166 |
| SB0372 | Pass | Standard deduction for homesteads. Provides that after December 31, 2015, if more than one individual or entity qualifies property as a homestead for an assessment date, only one standard deduction from the assessed value of the homestead may be appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 207 |
| SB0466 | Pass | Various election matters. Provides that the election division, rather than the Indiana election commission, approves a uniform set of election and registration forms for use throughout Indiana. Provides that a person who is physically present in a pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 169 |
| SB0523 | Pass | Marion County township courts. Makes the township small claims courts in Marion County courts of record as of July 1, 2018. Permits a part-time small claims court to become a full-time court on January 1, 2016, by submitting to the township board a n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 170 |
| SB0065 | Pass | Probate claims study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate study committee the topic of whether a creditor's right to bring a claim against an estate should be extended beyond the current nine month period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 163 |
| SB0461 | Pass | Health matters. Amends the definition of "basic life support" to include blood glucose monitoring. Authorizes the state department of health (state department) to enter into partnerships to encourage best practices in: (1) identification and testing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-05
Public Law 208 |
