| SB0194 | Engross
Sine Die | Obstruction of traffic. Increases the penalty for obstruction of traffic under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0124 | Engross
Sine Die | First day of school and school calendar study. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate study committee the task of studying requirements regarding the first day of school dates and school calendars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1337 | Engross
Sine Die | Planning and zoning. Provides that the legislative body (instead of the area board of zoning appeals) has final approval or disapproval of petitions for special exceptions or special uses (petitions) in a county that has an area plan commission. Prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HB1367 | Engross
Sine Die | School corporation disannexation. Establishes a two year pilot program whereby the John Glenn School Corporation may initiate a process to disannex certain territory from an existing school corporation and annex the territory.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0130 | Engross
Sine Die | Renaming cities. Provides that the statute that permits a city to change its name does not apply to a city if the city is named in the Constitution of the State of Indiana or in the Indiana Code. Provides the following with regard to a petition to ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0203 | Engross
Sine Die | High ability students and education studies. Removes the topic of the department of education's responsibility for licensing teachers from the list of statutes that the legislative council is urged to assign to a study committee during the 2021 legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0199 | Engross
Sine Die | Self-defense. Specifies that "reasonable force" includes the pointing of a loaded or unloaded firearm for purposes of arrest or to prevent an escape, or for self-defense when used to
prevent or terminate the an unlawful entry of or attack on a dwelli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1286 | Engross
Sine Die | Telehealth matters. Provides for a standard definition of telehealth in titles 12, 16, 25, and 27. Prohibits the Medicaid program from specifying originating sites and distant sites for purposes of Medicaid reimbursement. Changes the use of the term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| HB1095 | Engross
Sine Die | Trespassing and aggressive harassment. Establishes the low barrier homeless task force. Provides that a person commits the offense of criminal trespass if: (1) the person, who does not have a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1028 | Engross
Sine Die | Operating while intoxicated. Provides a defense to prosecution for a person who operates a vehicle with marijuana or its metabolite in the person's blood under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0099 | Engross
Sine Die | Property taxes. Authorizes a county fiscal body to adopt an ordinance to provide a credit against property tax liability for qualified individuals. Defines a "qualified individual" for purposes of the credit. Provides that the ordinance may designate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0134 | Engross
Sine Die | License suspension and transport of passengers during probationary period. Increases the penalty for operating a motor vehicle containing passengers during the initial 180 day probationary period after issuance of a driver's license and permits licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1562 | Engross
Sine Die | Adoption petitions in any county. Permits a resident of Indiana who seeks to adopt a child less than 18 years of age to file a petition for adoption in any county in Indiana if either of the following is filed with the petition: (1) A written consent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1103 | Engross
Sine Die | Home based vendors. Beginning January 1, 2022, allows a home based vendor's food products to be: (1) sold in person or by telephone or the Internet; and (2) delivered by the vendor or a third party carrier to the end consumer. Requires the state depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| HB1176 | Engross
Sine Die | Elements of rape. Provides that a person commits rape if: (1) the person engages in sexual activity with another person and the other person submits to the sexual activity under the belief that the person committing the act is someone the victim know...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0129 | Engross
Sine Die | Whistleblower reports. Allows an employee who is reporting misconduct concerning the execution of a public contract to make an oral report or a report by electronic mail. (Current law requires that such a report be in writing.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1077 | Engross
Sine Die | Child operated refreshment stands. Provides that a local health department, the health and hospital corporation, a county, a municipality, or a township may not adopt or enforce a law, rule, ordinance, or resolution that prohibits or regulates, inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0390 | Intro
Sine Die | Gaming operations. Provides that certain planned reductions in graduated tax imposed on the adjusted gross receipts received from riverboat gambling games take effect in state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2023 (instead of June 30, 2021). Mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Senator Randolph added as coauthor |
| SB0116 | Intro
Sine Die | Landlord tenant settlement conference program. Provides, for a two year period and contingent upon the availability of specified funds, that: (1) the jurisdictional amount in small claims court is $20,000 in residential landlord tenant cases (under c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Amendment #3 (Taylor G) failed; Roll Call 142: yeas 22, nays 26 |
| SB0110 | Intro
Sine Die | Law enforcement officer employment. Requires an agency hiring a law enforcement officer to request the officer's employment record and certain other information from previous employing agencies, requires the previous employing agency to provide certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0062 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription drug rebates and pricing. Provides that the defined cost sharing for a prescription drug under a policy of accident and sickness insurance or a health maintenance organization contract must be calculated at the point of sale and based on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Senator Randolph added as coauthor |
| SB0266 | Intro
Sine Die | Boating. Establishes an annual user fee of $30 for watercrafts registered outside of Indiana to operate, use, store, or dock a watercraft in Indiana for a combined total of not more than 60 consecutive days during the calendar year. Provides that a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Senator Randolph added as coauthor |
| SB0179 | Intro
Sine Die | County commissioner districts. Requires all county commissioner districts to contain, as nearly as possible, equal population and compact boundaries (currently, equal population and compactness requirements apply to only Lake County and St. Joseph Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Amendment #2 (Gaskill) prevailed; voice vote |
| HB1328 | Intro
Sine Die | Subdividing land. Requires a unit to allow a property owner to subdivide the owner's property by deed if: (1) the owner requests a subdivision exemption; and (2) certain requirements are met. Requires the property owner to file an application with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Third reading: failed for lack of constitutional majority; Roll Call 220: yeas 44, nays 47 |
| SB0288 | Intro
Sine Die | Material harmful to minors. Removes schools and certain public libraries from the list of entities eligible for a specified defense to criminal prosecutions alleging: (1) the dissemination of material harmful to minors; or (2) a performance harmful t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| HB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | Hamilton County superior court. Adds a superior court in Hamilton County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0001 | Pass | Civil immunity related to COVID-19. Provides civil tort immunity for damages arising from COVID-19 on the premises owned or operated by a person, on any premises on which the person or an employee or agent of the person provided property or services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
Public Law 1 |
| HB1056 | Pass | Recording requirements. Amends the requirements for instruments and conveyances to be recorded. Adds instances in which an instrument is considered validly recorded for purposes of providing constructive notice. Defines certain terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
Public Law 2 |
| SB0126 | Intro
Sine Die | Worker classification and accountability. Establishes a presumption that individuals providing labor for certain government supported projects are employees. Specifies that the general contractor for these projects is jointly liable with any subcontr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0168 | Intro
Sine Die | IMPD study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to an interim study committee the topic of the administration of the Indianapolis Marion County police department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1465 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway work zone safety. Authorizes the Indiana state police and the Indiana department of transportation to establish a pilot program for the deployment of an automated work zone speed control system to enforce highway work zone speed limits. Provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
Amendment #1 (Nisly) failed; Roll Call 160: yeas 10, nays 88 |
| HB1377 | Intro
Sine Die | Bureau of motor vehicles. Requires the bureau to include procedures for: (1) approaching and driving through a roundabout; and (2) yielding the right-of-way to certain vehicles; with standards for classroom and in-car driver education curriculum. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| SB0354 | Intro
Sine Die | State police officer compensation. Provides an annual salary increase for Indiana state police employees (peace officers), motor carrier inspectors, and capitol police officers. Provides that the increases are equal to 50% of the average annual salar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-16
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0044 | Intro
Sine Die | Work sharing unemployment benefits program. Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program (program). Requires an employer that desires to participate in the program to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-16
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0024 | Intro
Sine Die | Forfeiture. Establishes a new procedure for civil forfeiture, and treats seized property in which a person asserts an ownership interest differently from seized property that is abandoned or unclaimed. Permits seized property that is not abandoned or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1221 | Intro
Sine Die | Wholesale pricing of nonalcoholic beverages. With certain exceptions, prohibits a supplier of nonalcoholic packaged beverages (supplier) from discriminating among retailers as to sales price, discounts, allowances, or service charges. Provides that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-16
Amendment #2 (Austin) motion withdrawn |
| SB0089 | Intro
Sine Die | Artisan distillery liquor distribution. Provides that an artisan distiller may sell liquor to a retailer or dealer that is located within 30 miles of the artisan distiller's distillery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0182 | Intro
Sine Die | Filling vacancies. Provides that in order for a precinct committeeman or a precinct vice committeeman (exercising the precinct committeeman's proxy) to participate in a caucus to fill a vacancy, the committeeman or vice committeeman must be entitled ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0206 | Intro
Sine Die | Attorney and next of kin access to patients. Requires hospitals, health facilities, and residential care facilities to develop and maintain protocols concerning the visitation of admitted patients by certain individuals. Specifies certain requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0412 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana education scholarship account program. 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0042 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government budgets. Prohibits a county, city, town, or townships (unit) from reducing its annual public safety budget for the ensuing fiscal year by an amount that is more than the percentage by which the anticipated revenue for the ensuing bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 105: yeas 9, nays 37 |
| SB0181 | Intro
Sine Die | State disaster emergencies. Establishes a procedure for the general assembly to call itself into session at times not specifically scheduled in statute. Provides that: (1) the initial state of disaster emergency may not continue longer than 30 days f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| HB1398 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct contact with specified animals. Provides for the definitions of the terms "proximity" and "trained". Provides that the definition of "direct contact" includes proximity between the public and the specified animal creating the likelihood of phy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0253 | Intro
Sine Die | Pro bono legal services fee. Increases the pro bono legal services fee from $1 to $3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1387 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited expenditures and investments. Prohibits the use of public funds to subsidize or otherwise incentivize direct flights from international and regional airports in Indiana to or from China. Prohibits the Indiana public retirement system from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0367 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposal of coal combustion residuals. Provides that the rules of the environmental rules board may not allow coal combustion residuals produced by the burning of coal to generate electric power (CCR) to be disposed of if, after the disposal: (1) any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0142 | Intro
Sine Die | Age verification for tobacco and vaping sales. Makes it a Class C infraction if a person or retail establishment sells or distributes tobacco, an e-liquid, or an electronic cigarette without performing age verification of the purchaser with scanning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Withdrawn |
| SB0246 | Intro
Sine Die | Pregnancy and childbirth accommodation. Requires an employer to provide reasonable employment accommodations for a pregnant employee. Requires the department of labor to investigate complaints and attempt to resolve complaints through the use of an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| HB1519 | Intro
Sine Die | Government limitations on hours of operation. Limits the authority of state agencies and political subdivisions to restrict the hours of operation of a private business or other nongovernmental entity. Provides for the revision of statutes to bring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0319 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving cards. Provides for the issuance of driving cards and driving card learner's permits (cards) to residents of Indiana who cannot provide proof of identity and lawful status in the United States. Provides that the cards may not be used for fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
