| SB0213 | Engross
Sine Die | Certified technology parks. Specifies additional information that a certified technology park (park) is required to provide to the Indiana economic development corporation (corporation) in the course of a review. Provides that if a park has reached t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0078 | Engross
Sine Die | Hospital police departments. Provides that a police officer of a hospital police department (department) has county wide territorial jurisdiction only while the hospital police officer is on duty and in the performance of or engaged in the officer's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-16
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0324 | Engross
Sine Die | Credit card payments for charity gaming. Provides that a qualified organization may accept credit cards for the purchase of: (1) a chance to play any game of chance offered at an allowable activity; or (2) licensed supplies. Provides that certain cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-16
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1003 | Engross
Sine Die | Tuition support. Establishes a definition of "virtual instruction" for purposes of determining a school corporation's basic tuition support using the average daily membership (ADM).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-16
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0215 | Engross
Sine Die | Redevelopment projects. Provides for an expiration date of an allocation area of not more than 50 years in the case of an allocation area established by the redevelopment commission of a qualified city for the purpose of financing a mixed use develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0257 | Engross
Sine Die | Employee misclassification. Requires the department of state revenue, the state department of labor, the worker's compensation board of Indiana, and the department of workforce development to report before November 1 of each year for three years, beg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-16
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1357 | Engross
Sine Die | Straight ticket voting. Provides that the rules in existence for counting straight ticket votes apply to ballots cast on electronic voting systems and that the current rules apply to paper ballots and optical scan ballots. Requires the county electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-15
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| HB1467 | Engross
Sine Die | Community mental health center matters. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to apply for a Medicaid state plan amendment or Medicaid waiver for the following: (1) Reimbursement of Medicaid rehabilitation option...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-15
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0380 | Engross
Sine Die | Court matters. Adds a superior court in Hamilton County. Allows the judges of the Decatur circuit and superior courts to jointly appoint a magistrate to serve the Decatur County courts. Allows the judges of the Hancock circuit and superior courts to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0047 | Engross
Sine Die | Coronavirus disease immunizations. Allows a: (1) pharmacist; and (2) pharmacy technician under direct supervision; to administer an immunization for coronavirus disease. (Current law allows a pharmacist intern and pharmacist student who meets certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1268 | Engross
Sine Die | Return of lost pets to owners. Requires an animal care facility to adopt policies and procedures that govern the return of lost or stray dogs and cats to the dog's or cat's owner. Provides animal care policies and procedures that an animal care facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| HB1527 | Engross
Sine Die | Eminent domain. Makes changes to condemnation proceedings in which appraisers are appointed after December 31, 2021. Requires a city or town (municipality) condemning property within the unincorporated area of the county to obtain the county legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0198 | Engross
Sine Die | Rioting. Grants, until January 1, 2025, the attorney general concurrent jurisdiction with the prosecuting attorney to prosecute an action in which a person is accused of committing a criminal offense while a member of an unlawful assembly. Permits th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0019 | Engross
Sine Die | Required information on student ID cards. Requires a public school that issues, after June 30, 2022, a student identification card to a student in grade 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12 to include on the student identification card a local, state, or nation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB0043 | Engross
Sine Die | Jumbo boats. Modifies the definition of "jumbo boat" by removing the requirement that the vessel be approved by the United States Coast Guard. Provides that a holder of a: (1) boat beer permit who operates a jumbo boat may sell beer for carryout; (2)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1224 | Engross
Sine Die | Craft hemp flower and hemp production. Excludes craft hemp flower from the definition of "hemp product". Removes references to smokable hemp. Provides that the state seed commissioner may not adopt or enforce a rule that is more strict than required ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| HB1260 | Engross
Sine Die | Gift certificates and store gift cards. Provides that a person shall not sell or issue to an Indiana consumer any gift certificate or store gift card with an expiration date unless certain conditions are met. Provides that, with respect to a gift cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| HB1005 | Engross
Sine Die | School choice matters. Establishes the Indiana education scholarship account program (program). Provides that, after June 30, 2022, a parent of an eligible student or an emancipated eligible student may establish an account in the program. Defines an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1515 | Engross
Sine Die | Exposure risk diseases. Adds any variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to the list of diseases considered an exposure risk disease for purposes of emergency and public safety employee death and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0261 | Engross
Sine Die | Long term care insurance partnership program. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply before December 31, 2021, for a Medicaid state plan amendment to effectuate the federal long term care insurance partnership pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee |
| SB0200 | Engross
Sine Die | Noncompliant prosecuting attorney. Permits the attorney general to request the appointment of a special prosecuting attorney if a prosecuting attorney is categorically refusing to prosecute certain crimes, and establishes a procedure for the appointm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0141 | Engross
Sine Die | Central Indiana public transportation projects. Requires the budget agency to withhold local income tax revenue from an eligible county if the eligible county fails to raise certain revenues for a public transportation project. (Current law requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0357 | Engross
Sine Die | Cemeteries. Changes a township trustee's duty to remove certain weeds from a cemetery it maintains from "noxious" weeds to "rampant" weeds. Amends the duties of a township trustee to care for and maintain a public cemetery in the township to include:...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0030 | Engross
Sine Die | Various property tax matters. Provides that an individual who is certified as a level one or level two assessor-appraiser may serve as a tax representative of a taxpayer before the county property tax assessment board of appeals, if authorized by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0366 | Engross
Sine Die | Physician assistants. Allows advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants to issue written orders for home health services to a home health agency. Eliminates the requirements that a collaborative agreement between a collaborating phy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0072 | Engross
Sine Die | Taxation of farm property. Makes new farm equipment and new agricultural improvements eligible for local tax abatement using the same procedures for tax abatement under current law for new manufacturing equipment, new research and development equipm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0244 | Engross
Sine Die | State and local audit examinations. Provides that after June 30, 2021, a political subdivision may not issue or guarantee a debt obligation until the fiscal officer of the political subdivision has: (1) prepared a debt capacity analysis report (repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0342 | Engross
Sine Die | State tax credit for public school foundation contributions. Provides a 25% state tax credit for contributions made to a public school foundation for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021, and before January 1, 2024. Provides that the amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0131 | Engross
Sine Die | Disclosures related to prescription drugs. Beginning January 1, 2022, requires a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract to provide to a covered individual the maximum al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee |
| SB0364 | Engross
Sine Die | Grain indemnity program. Provides that the director (director) of the Indiana grain buyers and warehouse licensing agency (agency) may share nonidentifying information with board members of the Indiana grain indemnity corporation (corporation) in exe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| SB0333 | Engross
Sine Die | Per diem rates for governing body members. Requires the state board of education to establish a maximum per diem rate for meetings of members of governing bodies of school corporations, including Indianapolis Public Schools. Removes a provision that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| SB0311 | Engross
Sine Die | Use of force and self defense. Prohibits a state or local law enforcement officer (officer) from firing warning shots. Allows a guard, official, or officer in a state or local penal facility to fire warning shots to prevent the escape of a person. Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0281 | Engross
Sine Die | Economic incentives reporting and classroom training. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC), beginning January 1, 2023, to specify in the IEDC's annual economic incentives compliance report whether a recipient of a grant from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1478 | Engross
Sine Die | Battery against emergency room staff. Amends the definition of "emergency medical services provider" for the offense of battery to include a staff member in the emergency department of a hospital.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0407 | Engross
Sine Die | State disaster emergencies. Provides that federal economic stimulus funds (funds) disbursed to the state during a period in which the general assembly is convened in regular or special session are subject to appropriation by the general assembly, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0405 | Engross
Sine Die | Interim study committee topic. Urges the legislative council to assign the interim study committee on fiscal policy the task of studying the creation of wastewater facility improvement districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0323 | Engross
Sine Die | Music production incentive program. Authorizes the Indiana destination development corporation (corporation) to employ a music commissioner. Authorizes the corporation to establish a music production incentive program. Requires the corporation, in co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0415 | Engross
Sine Die | Political activity of employees and contractors. Provides that notwithstanding any ordinance or resolution of a political subdivision, an employee of the political subdivision may serve as the chairman of a county political party while continuing to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0264 | Engross
Sine Die | Broadband capacity infrastructure study. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications (committee) the topic of the installation and leasing of broadband capacity infrastructure by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0279 | Engross
Sine Die | Distribution of revenue for public safety purposes. Provides that, subject to the approval of a county adopting body, a fire protection district or a qualified fire protection territory may apply for distributions of tax revenue. Provides that a town...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0220 | Engross
Sine Die | Worker's compensation. Provides that if, after the occurrence of an accident, compensation is paid for temporary total disability or temporary partial disability, then the two year limitation period to file an application for adjustment of claim begi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0238 | Engross
Sine Die | Designated outdoor refreshment areas. Modifies the term "entertainment complex." Allows a county or municipality to designate an area of the county or municipality as an outdoor refreshment area (refreshment area) with the approval of the alcohol and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0268 | Engross
Sine Die | Expiration of contact preference forms. Allows the contact preference form of a birth parent to expire on the birth parent's death. Eliminates the use of contact preference forms for adoptions finalized after June 30, 2021. Makes conforming changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0233 | Engross
Sine Die | TANF eligibility. Sets the income eligibility requirements for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program at phased-in specified percentages of the federal income poverty level. Requires the division of family resources to amend the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0252 | Engross
Sine Die | Death penalty. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate interim study committee the topics of: (1) death sentences; (2) life imprisonment without the possibility of parole; and (3) circumstances justifying the imposition of: (A) a d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0150 | Engross
Sine Die | Housing matters. Eliminates the general restriction on the authority of a county, city, town, or township concerning regulation of landlord-tenant relationship matters not specifically described by state statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0095 | Engross
Sine Die | Annexation. Provides, with certain exceptions, that the following apply to annexations for which an annexation ordinance is adopted after May 14, 2021: (1) A municipality initiating an annexation must file a petition with the court signed by: (A) at ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0209 | Engross
Sine Die | Foster care program tax credit. Provides a tax credit for a taxpayer that makes a monetary contribution to a qualifying foster care organization. Defines a "qualifying foster care organization" as an organization that (1) is exempt from federal incom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0207 | Engross
Sine Die | Highway finances. Reduces the required percentage amount of the motor vehicle highway account distributions that counties, cities, and towns must use for the construction, reconstruction, and preservation of highways from 50% in current law to 40% in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0051 | Engross
Sine Die | Medicaid reimbursement for schools. Allows the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid state plan amendment to allow school corporations to seek Medicaid reimbursement for medically necessary, school based Medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Ways and Means Committee |
