| HB1216 | Pass | Missing children and trafficked children. Requires the superintendent of the state police department to: (1) provide a written informational pamphlet that includes information concerning the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 23 |
| SB0265 | Pass | Purchase of service credit. Permits a member of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) to purchase at full actuarial cost the member's prior service in the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (1977 fund). Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 8 |
| HB1283 | Pass | Standard deduction eligibility. Specifies that, to be eligible for a homestead deduction for property that an individual is buying under contract, the contract must obligate the owner to convey title to the individual upon completion of all of the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 25 |
| SB0171 | Pass | Update of federal law citations. Makes technical corrections to federal law citations throughout the Indiana Code. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the code revision commission.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 7 |
| HB1042 | Pass | Education loan information. Requires a postsecondary educational institution that enrolls students who receive state financial aid to annually provide each student with certain information concerning the student's education loans. Provides that an el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 15 |
| SB0434 | Pass | Financial aid and tuition. Provides that a person who: (1) is a nonresident; (2) is a member of the Indiana National Guard; and (3) attends a state educational institution; is eligible to pay the resident tuition rate for undergraduate and graduate c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 11 |
| HB1185 | Pass | Synthetic plastic microbeads. Defines "synthetic plastic microbead" as a solid plastic particle that is: (1) less than five millimeters in its largest dimension; (2) not biodegradable; and (3) intentionally added to a personal care product that is us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 21 |
| HB1263 | Pass | Township trustee sale of cemetery plots. Provides that if a township trustee is maintaining a cemetery that dates back at least to 1939, has no maintenance funds of its own, and is operated by a nonprofit organization or not managed by any viable org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 24 |
| HB1101 | Pass | Broadband ready communities. Establishes the broadband ready communities development center (center) within the Indiana economic development corporation to facilitate certain communications projects. Provides that the center may designate a unit of l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 18 |
| HB1164 | Pass | Northwest Indiana regional planning commission. Requires the most recent federal decennial census to be used (instead of the 2000 decennial census), in determining the weighted vote of a member of the northwestern Indiana regional planning commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 20 |
| HB1017 | Pass | Motor vehicle matters. Defines: (1) "commercial motor vehicle", "gross combination weight rating", "gross combination weight", and "gross vehicle weight rating" for purposes of commercial motor vehicles to comply with federal standards; and (2) "gros...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 13 |
| SB0289 | Pass | Confidential victim services requests. Permits, for purposes of the public records law, a law enforcement agency to share certain information with a crime victim advocate without the agency losing the discretion to keep this information confidential ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 9 |
| HB1208 | Pass | Additional antlered deer licenses. Allows the department of natural resources to establish a lottery system to allow an individual to purchase a license to take more than one antlered deer within a one year period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 22 |
| HB1453 | Engross
Sine Die | Hunting preserves. Provides for the initial licensing and operation of hunting preserves: (1) on which Indiana farm raised and released cervidae are hunted; and (2) that operated during the 2014 calendar year. Establishes licensing requirements, insp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-14
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 449: yeas 23, nays 27 |
| HB1008 | Engross
Sine Die | Various election law matters. Provides that a candidate vacancy due to the withdrawal of a candidate that occurs after noon July 15 and before noon August 1 is filled by a caucus of precinct committeemen of the political party and election district h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Amendment #5 (Walker) prevailed; voice vote |
| HB1433 | Engross
Sine Die | Sheriff's merit board. Prohibit a relative of: (1) an active county police officer; or (2) the sheriff; from serving as a member of the sheriff's merit board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0473 | Engross
Sine Die | Voluntary monitoring of water resources. Requires the department of natural resources (department) to establish a program under which volunteers may monitor the water resource (which, as defined in IC 14-25-7, includes both ground water and surface w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
Representative Errington added as cosponsor |
| SB0492 | Engross
Sine Die | Various pension matters. Establishes a procedure by which a political subdivision may participate in the defined contribution only plan (the plan) and choose whether the political subdivision's employees participate in the public employees' retiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
Representative Niezgodski added as cosponsor |
| HB1010 | Engross
Sine Die | 211 dialing code for human services information. Amends the statute concerning the telephone 211 dialing code for human services information to add assistance concerning: (1) domestic violence; (2) infant mortality; (3) veterans; (4) senior citizens;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
Senator Randolph added as cosponsor |
| SB0288 | Engross
Sine Die | Local government budget notices; public records. Reinstates the following expired statutes concerning local government budget notices through 2020: (1) A provision that if the budget notice is not timely published due to the fault of a newspaper, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0050 | Pass | Antidiscrimination safeguards. Indicates that the law related to adjudicating a claim or defense that a state or local law, ordinance, or other action substantially burdens the exercise of religion of a person: (1) does not authorize a provider to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
Public Law 4 |
| HB1358 | Engross
Sine Die | Garnishment of state tax refunds. Provides that if a debt has been reduced to a judgment in Indiana and the judgment has not been satisfied, set aside, or discharged in bankruptcy, the judgment creditor may garnish a state tax refund otherwise due to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-31
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1618 | Engross
Sine Die | South Shore line extension. Creates a program to provide state matching grants to the northwest Indiana regional development authority (RDA) for projects extending the Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend Railway (Railway). Requires the RDA to make c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-31
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0242 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle title fraud. Defines "motor vehicle", for purposes of the financial responsibility laws, to include a motor vehicle titled by an individual using a federal identification number issued to a business entity. Provides that a court may sus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0413 | Engross
Sine Die | Disclosures of security breaches. Makes the following changes to the statute concerning the breach of the security of data that includes the sensitive personal information of Indiana residents and that is collected and maintained by a person other th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Representative Smith, M. added as cosponsor |
| HB1360 | Engross
Sine Die | Massage therapists. Provides that massage therapists are governed by the health professions standards of practice. (Under current law, massage therapists are governed by the professional licensing standards of practice.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Senator Alting added as second sponsor |
| SB0101 | Pass | Religious freedom restoration. Prohibits a governmental entity from substantially burdening a person's exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, unless the governmental entity can demonstrate that the burd...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Public Law 3 |
| HB1065 | Pass | Use of investigational drugs, biological products, and devices. Provides that a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product, or device may make the drug, biological product, or device available to a patient who meets certain requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Public Law 2 |
| SB0551 | Engross
Sine Die | Crime fighting pilot project. Establishes a crime fighting pilot project in Marion County, Lake County, and Allen County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Representative Macer added as cosponsor |
| HB1231 | Engross
Sine Die | Accelerated degree programs. Provides for a higher education award for students who participate in an accelerated degree program. Specifies that a student receiving the award may not receive a Frank O'Bannon award. Appropriates to the commission for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Senator Stoops added as cosponsor |
| HB1338 | Engross
Sine Die | Safe driving practices near stationary solid waste haulers. Defines solid waste hauler as a vehicle in which solid waste or recyclable materials are transported to a transfer station or final disposal facility. Provides that it is a Class A infractio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 290: yeas 17, nays 32 |
| HB1616 | Engross
Sine Die | Eligibility for child care voucher. Provides that beginning October 1, 2015, a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal Child Care and Development Fund voucher program may continue to participate unless the child's family inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1005 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax credit for teachers' classroom supplies. Provides that an individual employed as a teacher is entitled to a credit against the individual's adjusted gross income tax liability for amounts expended on classroom supplies up to a maximum of $200 per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1298 | 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 c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0507 | Engross
Sine Die | Attorney and judicial discipline complaints. Permits a prosecuting attorney and a county public defender (including a contract public defender) to seek reimbursement from the state for reasonable attorney's fees incurred in defending against a charge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1240 | Engross
Sine Die | Levees. Provides that a county may pay the costs incurred by a committee in charge of a levee for maintenance or repairs on a levee and later be reimbursed through the assessment of the land benefited by the maintenance or repairs. (Current law requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0517 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax increment financing in Marion County. Requires the Indianapolis metropolitan development commission to establish a new base assessed value beginning in 2016 for purposes of determining the incremental tax revenue for the Marion County airport eco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0093 | Engross
Sine Die | Synthetic drugs. Requires the publisher of the Indiana administrative code to publish a list of substances declared by the board of pharmacy to be synthetic drugs in a specific location in the Indiana administrative code, and requires the board of ph...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Representatives Davisson and Clere added as cosponsors |
| SB0424 | Engross
Sine Die | Women veterans' issues. Requires the director of veterans' affairs to designate a coordinator for the Hoosier women veterans program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative Macer added as cosponsor |
| SB0325 | Engross
Sine Die | Beer, wine, liquor prizes/charity auction sales. Allows a nonprofit corporation that is a qualified organization under the charity gaming law (qualified organization) to give sealed bottles or cases of alcoholic beverages as prizes in a charity gamin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative Harman added as cosponsor |
| SB0296 | Engross
Sine Die | Adult entertainment performers. Requires a holder of a retailer's permit that provides adult entertainment on the licensed premises to: (1) require adult entertainment performers to provide proof of age and proof of legal residency; (2) take a photog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative Hale added as cosponsor |
| SB0126 | Engross
Sine Die | Property tax deduction for veterans with a disability. Provides that the $12,480 property tax deduction for certain veterans with a disability is phased out if the assessed value of the individual's property is more than $143,160 but not more than $1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative Moseley added as cosponsor |
| SB0375 | Engross
Sine Die | Human trafficking, promoting prostitution, and asset forfeiture. Allows a law enforcement agency to seize real or personal property, including a vehicle, that is used by a person to: (1) commit, attempt to commit, or conspire to commit; (2) facilitat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative Lawson added as cosponsor |
| SB0478 | Engross
Sine Die | Transportation funding. Provides that a redevelopment commission of a municipality may provide revenue to a public transportation corporation from property tax proceeds allocated to the redevelopment commission in a tax increment financing area. Limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative GiaQuinta added as cosponsor |
| SB0058 | Engross
Sine Die | Pulaski superior court and Sullivan magistrate. Removes the authority of the Sullivan circuit and superior court judges to jointly appoint a full-time magistrate as of July 1, 2015. Provides that the term of a full-time magistrate appointed before Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0481 | Engross
Sine Die | Stormwater drain maintenance. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate study committee the topic of the maintenance of stormwater drains in subdivisions not located within a municipality. Provides that if the topic is assigned to a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0422 | Engross
Sine Die | Court security fees and funds. Provides that a county, city, or town may adopted an ordinance to establish a local court security fee. Provides that the revenue provided to a county, city, or town from a local court security fee may be used only for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0071 | Engross
Sine Die | St. Joseph circuit court magistrate. Joseph circuit court magistrate. Provides that when the judge of the St. Joseph circuit court or probate court appoints a full-time magistrate, the judge may not consider the political affiliation of a candidate f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0564 | Engross
Sine Die | Status of marriage study. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate study committee the topic of the status of marriage in Indiana. Specifies issues that may be considered in studying the topic and requires the committee to seek testi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0130 | 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] | 2015-03-05
To House Education Committee |
