| SB0220 | Pass | Precinct consolidation. Establishes a small precinct committee (committee) in Lake County to determine if precincts in the county that had fewer than 600 active voters as of November 1, 2016, can be combined with one or more adjoining precincts. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 262 |
| SB0309 | Pass | Distributed generation. Requires: (1) the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to post a summary of the results of the IURC's most recent periodic review of the basic rates and charges of an electricity supplier on the IURC's Internet web site; and (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 264 |
| HB1289 | Pass | Massage therapy. Provides that an individual must be licensed by the state board of massage therapy (board) to practice massage therapy. (Under current law, massage therapists are certified by the board but certification is not required to practice m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 267 |
| HB1350 | Pass | Gaming. Authorizes advance deposit wagering on horse racing. Provides that each permit holder shall pay to the Indiana horse racing commission (IHRC) as an advance deposit wagering fee an amount equal to 60% of the net source market fee received by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 268 |
| SB0213 | Pass | Wireless support structures. Makes the following changes to the statute concerning the local permitting of wireless support structures: (1) Amends the definition of "small cell facility" to: (A) increase the maximum specified antenna volume from thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 261 |
| SB0423 | Pass | Sanctuary policies and postsecondary educational institutions. Prohibits a postsecondary educational institution from enacting or implementing an ordinance, a resolution, a rule, or a policy that prohibits or in any way restricts an employee of the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 265 |
| HB1496 | Pass | Alcohol matters. Provides that after May 14, 2017, a restaurant may not sell carryout unless at least 60% of its gross retail income from alcoholic beverage sales is derived from sales of alcoholic beverages consumed on the premises. Makes the follow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 270 |
| HB1470 | Pass | Government information. Provides standards for the access of the legislative services agency (LSA) to information held by a state or local governmental entity. Establishes the position of state data officer and a management performance hub (MPH) in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 269 |
| SB0246 | Pass | Child neglect defense. Specifies under the safe haven law that it is a defense to a claim of neglect of a dependent if the individual left the child: (1) with a person who is an emergency medical services provider; or (2) in a newborn safety device t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 263 |
| SB0558 | Pass | Leases and sales of real property. Amends the statute concerning landlord and tenant relations to provide that a unit may not regulate rental rates for privately owned real property, through a zoning ordinance or otherwise, unless the regulation is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Public Law 266 |
| HB1592 | Pass | Automobile sales requirements. Provides that a manufacturer may sell directly to the general public only if the manufacturer was granted its initial license to sell new motor vehicles before July 1, 2015, and has established a warranty repair center ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-01
Public Law 260 |
| HB1491 | Pass | Various motor vehicle law amendments. Renames the county motor vehicle excise surtax to be the county vehicle excise tax. Renames the municipal motor vehicle license excise surtax to be the municipal vehicle excise tax. Renames the motor vehicle lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 256 |
| HB1003 | Pass | Student assessments. Replaces the ISTEP test program after June 30, 2018, with a new statewide assessment program to be known as Indiana's Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN). Provides that after June 30, 2018, a student must co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 242 |
| HB1450 | Pass | Property tax matters. Provides that a political subdivision must upload a copy of a contract that the political subdivision enters into after June 30, 2016, to the Indiana transparency Internet web site if the total cost of the contract exceeds $50,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 255 |
| SB0337 | Pass | Study of ethnic and racial groups course. Requires each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic school to offer the study of ethnic and racial groups as a one semester elective course in its high school curriculum at least once e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 231 |
| SB0455 | Pass | Tax administration of mobile homes. Establishes an optional procedure by which a county treasurer may sell a mobile home assessed as personal property at auction to the highest bidder in order to satisfy the amount owed by the owner for delinquent pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 235 |
| SB0059 | Pass | Professional licensing. Requires the behavioral health and human services licensing board to issue a license to a social worker, clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, mental health counselor, licensed addiction counselor, licensed cl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 225 |
| SB0516 | Pass | Power of guardian to request health records. Provides that, even though a guardianship terminates upon the death of the protected person, a guardian is authorized to request the health records of the protected person within 60 days after the protecte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 240 |
| HB1601 | Pass | Certified technology parks. Requires that a certified technology park be recertified every three years beginning January 1, 2018. (Under current law, a certified technology park is required to be recertified every four years.) Requires the Indiana ec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 259 |
| SB0060 | Pass | State executive officer salaries. Establishes the executive officers compensation advisory commission to do the following: (1) For each executive state officer (governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 226 |
| HB1430 | Pass | Suicide awareness and prevention. Provides that, after June 30, 2018, each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic school: (1) shall require all teachers; and (2) may require any other appropriate school employees; who are employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 254 |
| SB0567 | Pass | Distressed and fiscally impaired political subdivisions. Changes the membership of the distressed unit appeal board (DUAB) by replacing the voting member who is appointed by the chairperson of the legislative council with a member appointed by the go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 241 |
| HB1144 | Pass | South Shore rail transit. Establishes a rail transit corridor in northwest Indiana. Specifies that the main line double tracking project and the West Lake corridor improvement project are considered rail projects. Permits the northwest Indiana region...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 248 |
| HB1009 | Pass | School financial management. Provides for the following, effective January 1, 2019: (1) Eliminates the school general fund. (2) Creates an education fund to be used as the exclusive fund to pay expenses allocated to student instruction and learning. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 244 |
| SB0386 | Pass | Property taxation. Makes procedural changes and technical corrections to various property tax provisions in the Indiana Code that relate to property tax assessments, reviews, appeals, and refunds. Provides for the exchange of information before a hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 232 |
| HB1384 | Pass | Various education matters. Provides that before July 1, 2018, the state board of education (state board) shall establish a definition of a high mobility school for schools with a high concentration of mobile students. Provides that for each school ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 251 |
| SB0416 | Pass | Infrastructure assistance fund. Requires the Indiana finance authority to study the ability of utilities to provide clean and safe drinking water in Indiana for the foreseeable future. Requires the utility regulatory commission (IURC), in its deliber...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 233 |
| HB1129 | Pass | Local income tax and state sales tax matters. Provides that a retail merchant that does not have a physical presence in Indiana shall, as an agent for the state, collect sales tax on a retail transaction made in Indiana, remit the sales tax, and comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 247 |
| SB0478 | Pass | Utility easements. Establishes a framework for resolving disputes between electricity suppliers and property owners regarding the attachment or installation of communications infrastructure within an electric easement. Provides that the procedures ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 236 |
| HB1492 | Pass | Title 9 technical corrections. Makes technical and other corrections to statutes amended or affected by HEA 1087-2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 257 |
| SB0061 | Pass | Commission on seclusion and restraint. Requires the commission on seclusion and restraint in schools (commission) to adopt rules concerning reporting requirements for the use of seclusion and restraint by school resource officers. Requires that the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 227 |
| HB1421 | Pass | Zoning and construction permits. Provides that in the case of a zoning proposal for property within close proximity to a county line, notice to the property owners in the adjacent county to a certain depth is required if the proposal: (1) references ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 253 |
| HB1516 | Pass | Domestic violence fatality review committee. Removes the limit on the authority of a local domestic violence review team (local review team) to the review of fatalities when the person who commits domestic violence resulting in death is charged with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 258 |
| HB1043 | Pass | Referendum and remonstrance process. Increases the threshold used for purposes of determining whether a capital project is a controlled project as follows: (1) In the case of an ordinance or resolution adopted after December 31, 2017, and before Janu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 246 |
| HB1406 | Pass | Criminal offenses. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally manufactures or finances the manufacture of methamphetamine commits manufacturing methamphetamine, a Level 4 felony. Specifies circumstances under which the crime is a Level 3 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 252 |
| HB1006 | Pass | Mental health matters. Requires the secretary of family and social services to provide that residences for residential care and supported housing for chronic addiction that receive reimbursement when used as a recovery residence to be certified and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 243 |
| HB1382 | Pass | Charter schools. Changes the definition of a charter school organizer. Requires each authorizer to establish a charter school Internet web page. Makes changes to the minimum standards for renewing a charter. Makes changes to the procedure for suspend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 250 |
| HB1342 | Pass | Child in need of services. Removes a rebuttable presumption that a child is a child in need of services if a child is born with: (1) fetal alcohol syndrome; (2) neonatal abstinence syndrome; or (3) any amount of a controlled substance or legend drug ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 249 |
| HB1036 | Pass | Marion County judicial selection. Provides for the selection of Marion superior court (court) judges. Establishes the 14 member Marion County judicial selection committee (committee). Provides that, when the committee learns of a vacancy on the court...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 245 |
| SB0425 | Pass | Low level offenses. Makes the penalty for crimes concerning certain election filings a Class A misdemeanor. (Under current law, the offenses are Level 6 felonies.) Reduces several crimes concerning elections from Level 6 felonies to Class C infractio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 234 |
| SB0515 | Pass | Various tax matters. Provides and modifies sales and use tax exemptions. Provides an income tax deduction for certain amounts a taxpayer included as an item of income in a prior tax year. Specifies that, in determining an Indiana net operating loss d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 239 |
| SB0128 | Pass | Regional infrastructure improvement projects. Provides that the Indiana finance authority (IFA), rather than the budget agency, administers the local infrastructure revolving loan funds (loan funds). Expands the types of entities that may participate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 229 |
| SB0108 | Pass | Education matters. Provides that when a school corporation authorizes an absence to permit a student to attend any educationally related nonclassroom activity, the student may not be recorded as being absent on any date for which the excuse is operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 228 |
| SB0198 | Pass | Career and technical education. Requires the state board of education to use data from the department of workforce development (DWD) in developing and implementing certain plans, recommendations, and other matters relating to career and technical edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 230 |
| SB0514 | Pass | Entrepreneur and enterprise districts. Establishes the entrepreneur and enterprise district pilot program (program). Provides that an entrepreneur and enterprise district (district) may be established in: (1) the city of Lafayette; and (2) the city o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 238 |
| SB0507 | Pass | Economic development. Repeals the statute establishing the emerging technology grant fund. Repeals the statute that authorized the Indiana finance authority to issue bonds before July 1, 2011, for the Indiana twenty-first century research and technol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Public Law 237 |
| HB1024 | Pass | Prayer in schools. Provides that a school corporation or charter school shall not discriminate against a student or a student's parent on the basis of a religious viewpoint or religious expression. Provides that students may express their beliefs abo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 220 |
| HB1394 | Pass | Waiver of local occupational license fees. Requires a unit (county, city, town, or township) to waive as applicable all or part of the occupational and professional license fees and taxes imposed by the unit for the initial issuance and reinstatement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 223 |
| SB0408 | Pass | INSPECT program. Adds a definition of the Indiana board of pharmacy (board) for purposes of the INSPECT program. Requires the board to report, before December 1, 2017, to the legislative council concerning grants or funding received and applied for b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 213 |
| SB0348 | Pass | Regulation of signs. Provides that an ordinance or a regulation of a political subdivision relating to the number or size of signs is unenforceable beginning 60 days before an election and ending at the beginning of the sixth day after the election. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Public Law 211 |
