| SB0010 | Engross
Sine Die | Teacher salary supplemental payments. Adds factors for which a teacher may receive supplemental payments. Provides that not more than 50% of a supplemental payment may be added to the teacher's base salary, based upon school corporation policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
Amendment #6 (Smith V) failed; Roll Call 324: yeas 27, nays 68 |
| HB1004 | Engross
Sine Die | School pension plans and other education matters. Establishes the teachers' defined contribution plan (plan) as an account within the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (fund). Provides that an individual who begins employment with a school corp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Amendment #3 (Tallian) failed; Roll Call 188: yeas 13, nays 37 |
| SB0313 | Engross
Sine Die | Abortion matters. Requires the state department of health to develop certain information concerning perinatal hospice care. Requires physicians to provide information about perinatal hospice care to a pregnant woman who is considering an abortion bec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Representative Rhoads added as cosponsor |
| HB1274 | Engross
Sine Die | Sunday sales at artisan distilleries. Allows the holder of an artisan distiller's permit to sell liquor for carryout on Sunday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Senator Randolph added as cosponsor |
| SB0302 | Engross
Sine Die | State and local finance. Specifies the manner in which certain excise taxes and local taxes collected under the tax amnesty program shall be distributed. Provides that after making the distributions required under the tax amnesty program, the next $4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
Representative GiaQuinta added as cosponsor |
| HB1228 | Engross
Sine Die | Hemp. Allows the state seed commissioner to adopt rules ti implement laws concerning industrial hemp. Encourages Indiana University School of Medicine and other state educational institutions to research the use of cannabidiol oil (CBD) from a hemp p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
Senator Head removed as second sponsor |
| HB1224 | Engross
Sine Die | Beef market development. Requires that a state assessment of $1 per head of cattle must be collected on the sale of cattle in Indiana. Provides that the Indiana Beef Council (council) is responsible for the collection and use of the assessment collec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0329 | Engross
Sine Die | Allocation of circuit breaker credits by schools. Extends for three additional years the statute allowing a school corporation to allocate circuit breaker credits proportionately under certain circumstances (without taking protected taxes into accoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Representative Thompson added as cosponsor |
| HB1213 | Engross
Sine Die | Enterprise zones. Provides that the fiscal body of a municipality may adopt a resolution renewing an enterprise zone for an additional five years after the date on which the enterprise zone is set to expire. Provides that new municipal enterprise zon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Senator Randolph added as cosponsor |
| SB0159 | Engross
Sine Die | Notification of abuse or neglect assessment. Requires the department of child services to notify the United States Department of Defense family advocacy program (program) if a child of an active duty member of the military is the subject of a substan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Representative Frye added as cosponsor |
| SB0367 | Engross
Sine Die | Local government contracts. Provides that an offeror, a contractor, and certain persons affiliated with an offeror or a contractor for contracts solicited by certain purchasing methods by a political subdivision may not make political contributions t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0268 | Engross
Sine Die | Study of ethnic history in high schools. Requires the study of ethnic and racial groups to be included as part of each school corporation's high school United States history course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB0090 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile release by intake officers. Allows an intake officer to impose conditions upon the release of a child who was not taken into custody under an order of the court. If an intake officer imposes conditions of release upon a child, requires the j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Representative DeVon added as cosponsor |
| SB0280 | Engross
Sine Die | Public transportation and school transportation funding. Permits a redevelopment commission outside Marion County to provide revenue on an annual basis to a public transportation corporation from property taxes allocated to the redevelopment commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0307 | Engross
Sine Die | Consolidation of school administrative functions. Provides that the governing body of each school corporation situated in the same county may consolidate administrative functions while continuing the historical legacy of their respective school corpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB0259 | Engross
Sine Die | Carrying of handguns by members and employees of the general assembly. Permits members and certain employees of the general assembly to carry a handgun within the state capitol building and on the property of the state capitol complex if the member o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0204 | Engross
Sine Die | Foreclosed and abandoned property. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally damages, defaces, or permanently removes an object from property that is the subject of a mortgage foreclosure proceeding commits foreclosure mischief, a Class B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0400 | Engross
Sine Die | Employee misclassification. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on employment and labor or another appropriate interim study committee during the 2016 legislative interim the topics of employee misclassification, pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0331 | Engross
Sine Die | Adult permanent guardianship cases. Provides that, in a proceeding on a petition for adult permanent guardianship, if the court finds that the appointment of a guardian is necessary and the person subject to the guardianship is a "mental defective" u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0361 | Engross
Sine Die | Access to employee restrooms. Provides that if a retail establishment has a restroom facility on its premises for the use of the retail establishment's employees, a customer, upon request, must be allowed to use the toilet facility during normal busi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| SB0233 | Engross
Sine Die | State tax return check off for military family relief fund. Provides for space on state income tax forms to enable a taxpayer to donate all or part of the taxpayer's tax refund to the military family relief fund. Provides that if a taxpayer is not en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0353 | Engross
Sine Die | Funding of lawsuits. Establishes a procedure by which a company may provide funding to the plaintiff in an action in exchange for the contingent right to receive a part of the potential proceeds of the action. Requires a company that offers funding t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0267 | Engross
Sine Die | Employers and expungement. Specifies that the prohibition against questioning a person applying for: (1) employment; (2) a license; or (3) another right or privilege; concerning an expunged arrest or conviction also applies during an interview. Provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0220 | Engross
Sine Die | Bias crimes. Makes it an aggravating circumstance (for purposes of imposing a criminal sentence) that the crime was committed with the intent to harm or intimidate an individual because of certain perceived or actual characteristics of the individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Representative Klinker added as cosponsor |
| SB0328 | Engross
Sine Die | Teacher assistance. Provides that individuals in a speech-language program are eligible to receive grants. Provides that grants are made subject to available resources. Provides that repayment of a grant shall be deferred if the commission for higher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB0195 | Engross
Sine Die | Ownership of wild animals. Excludes the wild animal permit from the law requiring notice and hearing on an application for certain permits. Removes language that exempts wild animals that are being held in captivity under a license or permit from bei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0013 | Engross
Sine Die | Native American Indian affairs commission. Provides that a member of a historical tribe of Indiana is a Native American Indian for purposes of the Native American Indian affairs commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1249 | Engross
Sine Die | Driving privileges suspensions. Provides that when judgment has been imposed for committing two worksite speed limit violations within one year, an additional penalty of the suspension of the person's driving privileges for 60 days may be imposed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0225 | Engross
Sine Die | Property tax exemption for affordable housing. Establishes standards for affordable rental housing property to be exempt from property taxation when the property does not otherwise qualify for a property tax exemption. Specifies that the exemption ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0076 | Engross
Sine Die | Military service and Medicaid eligibility. Allows an individual (and the individual's dependent) who is: (1) an active member of the armed services of the United States or the national guard; (2) a legal Indiana resident; (3) assigned for duty or dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0197 | Engross
Sine Die | Internet crimes investigation fund and fee. Establishes the Internet crimes investigation fund (fund). Requires the state police department (department) to administer the fund and use money in the fund to: (1) pay for costs incurred by the department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0198 | Engross
Sine Die | Domestic battery. Removes the sentencing enhancement for battery committed against a family or household member in the presence of a child from the battery statute and places it in the domestic battery statute. Specifies that numerous provisions in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0128 | Engross
Sine Die | Monroe County public transit funding. Allows the fiscal body of Monroe County to adopt an ordinance to impose an additional local income tax rate to fund one or more county transit projects. Provides that the rate must be at least 0.1% but not more t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0178 | Engross
Sine Die | Battery and neglect of a dependent. Increases the penalty for neglect of a dependent and battery if the crime is committed against an endangered adult or a person with a serious physical or mental disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0063 | Engross
Sine Die | ISTEP panel. Establishes a panel to study alternatives to the ISTEP program tests and to make recommendations for replacing the ISTEP program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB0171 | Engross
Sine Die | Study of electronic health care claim payments. Urges the legislative council to assign to a 2016 interim study committee the issue of use of electronic methods of health care claim payment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1118 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage permits and redevelopment. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission to issue a total of 10 new three-way permits for on-premises consumption to the owner or proprietor of a restaurant in a municipality in Hamilton County. Allows t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HB1299 | Engross
Sine Die | Voluntary remediation plans. Revises the law concerning the voluntary remediation of hazardous substances and petroleum. Authorizes the department of environmental management (department) to reject an application for participation in the voluntary re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0012 | Engross
Sine Die | Financial crimes against the elderly. Permits a financial institution to release certain financial records to a law enforcement agency or adult protective services unit if the financial institution reasonably suspects illegal activity in connection w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0073 | 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] | 2016-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB0132 | Engross
Sine Die | Food stamp assistance after drug conviction. Allows certain individuals who were convicted of a drug offense but: (1) have been released from any incarceration at least five years before applying for food stamps; and (2) have not been convicted of an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| HB1390 | Engross
Sine Die | Ephedrine or pseudoephedrine. Requires the Indiana board of pharmacy (board) to adopt emergency rules that are effective July 1, 2016, concerning: (1) professional determinations made; and (2) a relationship on record with the pharmacy; concerning th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0226 | Engross
Sine Die | Correctional officers and possession of handguns. Allows an employee of a penal facility: (1) who is a correctional officer; and (2) whose duties include the daily or ongoing supervision and care of persons who are lawfully detained in the penal faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1247 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage issues. Provides that the department of natural resources (department) may apply for a three-way permit for a state park. Provides that the alcohol and tobacco commission shall issue a permit to the department for a state park with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HB1024 | 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 co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
