| SB0289 | Engross
50% | Nondiscrimination in employment and education. Establishes prohibitions and requirements on state agencies, state educational institutions, and health profession licensing boards regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Provides that certain civil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the House |
| HB1643 | Engross
50% | Campaign finance. Modifies the definition of "auxiliary party organization". Specifies that the definition of "contribution" includes certain donations of property through a payment platform that acts as a conduit. Repeals a provision that allows the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the Senate |
| HB1670 | Engross
50% | Assistance in obtaining veteran benefits. Establishes the veteran empowerment act. Provides that a person may not represent a veteran regarding a veterans' benefits matter unless the person meets certain requirements. Provides that a person that advi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the Senate |
| SB0004 | Engross
50% | Water matters. Prohibits a water utility from constructing, purchasing, selling, or leasing a long haul water pipeline unless the water utility first obtains a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) from the Indiana utility regulatory...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the House |
| SCR0012 | Engross
50% | Urging INDOT to rename a section of SR 114 the "Captain Matthew Tomkiewicz Memorial Mile". A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to rename a section of SR 114 the "Captain Matthew Tomkiewicz Memorial Mile".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the House |
| SCR0013 | Engross
50% | Urging INDOT to rename the portion of I-65 between mile marker 137 and 138 the "Deputy Jacob M. Pickett Memorial Mile". A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to rename the portion of I-65 between mile marker 137 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the House |
| HB1515 | Engross
50% | Education and higher education matters. Provides that accredited nonpublic schools are eligible to participate in the following: (1) The establishment of police departments. (2) The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teacher recruitmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the Senate |
| HB1633 | Engross
50% | Study of election issues. Requires the secretary of state to do the following: (1) Study scheduling of local elections and requiring all counties to use vote centers. (2) Conduct at least three public meetings on the topics studied. (3) Report the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the Senate |
| HB1033 | Engross
50% | Retainage requirements. Changes the maximum amount of retainage for certain state and local public works projects from: (1) 10% to 6% of the dollar value of all work satisfactorily completed until the public work is 50% complete; and (2) 5% to 3% of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the Senate |
| HB1044 | Engross
50% | Dissolution of human remains. Amends the definition of cremation to include alkaline hydrolysis as a means for the dissolution of human remains. Requires the state board of funeral and cemetery service to adopt rules governing the operation of alkali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the Senate |
| HB1052 | Engross
50% | Onsite sewage systems. Requires the Indiana department of health (state department) or the executive board of the state department to adopt, revise, update, or repeal rules concerning residential and nonresidential onsite sewage systems. Alters who m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the Senate |
| HCR0018 | Engross
50% | Recognizing and honoring volunteer firefighters with 50 years or more of service. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing and honoring volunteer firefighters with 50 years or more of service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the Senate |
| HB1460 | Engross
50% | Drainage systems. Requires a unit to use data from the most recent: (1) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Maps; and (2) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Atlas; to calculate and regulate storm water runoff ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the Senate |
| HB1471 | Engross
50% | Law enforcement officer criminal convictions. Establishes the procedure for placing a law enforcement officer's name on a Giglio list. Provides notice and reconsideration procedures. Provides requirements for prosecuting attorneys and law enforcement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Referred to the Senate |
| HB1125 | Intro
25% | Earned wage access services. Establishes within the Indiana Code a new chapter, to be known as the Indiana Earned Wage Access Act (Act), governing the offering and provision of earned wage access services to Indiana consumers. Provides that the Act i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| HB1503 | Intro
25% | Adoption incentive programs. Creates the Indiana adoption services authority (authority) and establishes the board of directors of the authority. Sets forth the duties and powers of the authority and the board. Establishes the zero cost adoption fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3 |
| SB0497 | Intro
25% | Tax credit for newborn children. Amends the definition of adjusted gross income to remove the additional dependent child exemption of $1,500 in the first taxable year in which an allowed child is claimed. Establishes a refundable tax credit for newbo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1521 | Intro
25% | Consumer genetic testing providers and human remains. Requires a provider of consumer genetic testing services (provider) to disclose specified information to an individual who submits biological material to the provider for genetic testing. Prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0371 | Intro
25% | Workforce matters. Amends the definitions of "discharge for just cause", "employment", and "gross misconduct" for purposes of unemployment insurance. Provides that an unemployment claimant: (1) is required to verify their identity before a claim can ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1579 | Intro
25% | Carbon sequestration. Amends the Indiana Code chapter governing eminent domain for the pipeline transportation or underground storage of carbon dioxide as follows: (1) Defines a "carbon dioxide transmission pipeline company" (company) for purposes of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1390 | Intro
25% | Bureau of motor vehicles. Provides the records of the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau), for purposes of showing the last registered owner of a vehicle when obtaining a certificate of title for a repossessed vehicle, mean records related to certifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| SB0213 | Intro
25% | K-12 education funding. Requires each school corporation to establish a minimum salary of $65,000 for each full-time teacher not later than July 1, 2027. Increases the income cap of a family that may participate in the On My Way prekindergarten progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1114 | Intro
25% | Driving without a license. Adds the following criminal offenses for an individual who knowingly or intentionally operates a motor vehicle on a highway and has never received a valid driver's license: (1) A Class A misdemeanor if the operation of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1220 | Intro
25% | Office of the attorney general. Requires a teacher's electronic mail address to be used for sending the annual summary of a teacher's rights and protections. Removes the requirement that the attorney general publish an annual newspaper notice regardi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| SB0516 | Intro
25% | Economic development. Establishes the office of entrepreneurship and innovation (office). Specifies the duties of the office. Provide for the submission of an annual report of the activities of an innovation development district as to financial infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1602 | Intro
25% | Various food matters. Requires a food manufacturer to label alternative meat products as "THIS IS AN IMITATION MEAT PRODUCT". Provides that a recipient may appeal to the legislative body an enforcement action issued or taken by a local board of healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Recommitted to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code pursuant to House Rule 126.3 |
| HB1213 | Intro
25% | Insurance and transfer on death deeds. Removes language regarding coverage under a casualty insurance policy or liability insurance policy on property transferred by a transfer on death deed. Specifies that a provision regarding insurance coverage on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Representatives Carbaugh and Shackleford added as coauthors |
| SB0197 | Intro
25% | Unsafe building law. Requires that the instructions for requesting a hearing on an order relating to an unsafe premises: (1) be printed in at least 12 point font; and (2) be placed in a conspicuous location on the order. Requires a hearing to be cond...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0249 | Intro
25% | Teacher compensation. Amends provisions that allow school corporations to provide a supplemental payment to teachers in excess of the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan. Makes corresponding changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0306 | Intro
25% | Film and media production tax credit. Provides that a taxpayer may assign any part of the film and media production tax credit (credit) that the taxpayer may claim. Sets forth the procedure for a taxpayer to make the assignment. Extends the credit's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Senator Raatz added as coauthor |
| SB0242 | Intro
25% | Payment for Medicaid physician services. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning (office) or a managed care organization to promptly cover physician services rendered in a hospital emergency department by a physician who has entered into ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1608 | Intro
25% | E-sports industry development study. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation to study methods and strategies to allow Indiana to become a leader in the development of the e-sports industry and to submit a report on the results of the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Representatives Morris and Dant Chesser added as coauthors |
| HB1413 | Intro
25% | Rape kits. Establishes the rape kit backlog fund to provide funding for assisting law enforcement agencies and testing labs in eliminating the backlog of untested rape kits. Requires the state police department to provide grants to law enforcement ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1253 | Intro
25% | Child care. Provides that a granted waiver or variance expires three years after the date that the waiver or variance becomes effective. Provides that, not later than June 30, 2026, the division of family resources (division) shall establish an organ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| SB0502 | Intro
25% | Attachments to utility poles. Requires a person that seeks an attachment of communications service equipment to an electric distribution pole to report to the Indiana broadband office (office) on a quarterly basis certain information regarding attach...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1634 | Intro
25% | Math education. Requires each school corporation and charter middle school to automatically enroll a student who meets certain conditions in a middle school advanced math course. Allows a parent of a student to opt out of automatic enrollment. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0421 | Intro
25% | IURC matters. Amends within the Indiana Code chapter governing publication procedures for political subdivisions the provision governing the publication of a notice of a hearing by the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to reference the pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Senator Randolph added as coauthor |
| SB0426 | Intro
25% | Water utilities. Includes water utilities within the scope of the statute that subjects wastewater utilities that: (1) are not under the jurisdiction of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) for the approval of rates and charges; and (2) h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1172 | Intro
25% | Office of entrepreneurship and innovation. Establishes the office of entrepreneurship and innovation (office). Requires the office to: (1) develop and administer programs to support the growth of small business, entrepreneurship, and innovation in In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1663 | Intro
25% | Collaborative distilling. Allows the holder of an artisan distiller's permit (artisan distiller) to: (1) manufacture liquor, including blending liquor sourced from another licensed manufacturer with liquor the artisan distiller manufactures; and (2) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| SB0350 | Intro
25% | Automated external defibrillator requirements. Provides that certain funding provided to a local board of health may be used to provide automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to school corporations, charter schools, and state accredited nonpublic s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1679 | Intro
25% | Various elections matters. Modifies the definition of "candidate". Provides that certain documents and material generated for or used by a political party caucus to select a person to fill a vacancy in an elected office are the property of the politi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1354 | Intro
25% | Veterinary medicine. Amends the licensure applicability provision for veterinarians to include registration and permits for veterinary technicians. Requires certain individuals to submit to both a state and national background check. Allows the state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1680 | Intro
25% | Election security and transparency. Requires each county to submit to the secretary of state (secretary) information concerning the county's information technology provider. Permits a pollbook holder, challenger, or watcher to enter, leave, and reent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1681 | Intro
25% | Local public questions. Provides that a local public question or referendum may be placed on the ballot only at a general election. Provides that: (1) a state public question; or (2) an election of delegates to a convention to consider ratifying an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| HB1689 | Intro
25% | Human services matters. Provides that provisions of law concerning the statewide waiver ombudsman apply to an individual who has a developmental disability and receives services administered by the bureau of disabilities services. (Current law specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| SB0327 | Intro
25% | Marion County small claims court jurisdiction, venue, and fees. Eliminates the concurrent jurisdiction of small claims cases between the circuit and superior courts and the Marion County small claims court and specifies that only the Marion County sm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0442 | Intro
25% | Instruction concerning human sexuality. Defines "governing authority" of a school. Defines "school" as a school maintained by a school corporation or a charter school. Provides that, if a school provides any instruction to students concerning human s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0252 | Intro
25% | Local taxes. Authorizes Boone County to impose its innkeeper's tax at a rate of 8% under the uniform innkeeper's tax statute (instead of 5% under current law). Allows the fiscal body of the town of Shipshewana to increase its food and beverage tax. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Senator Ford J.D. added as second author |
| SB0028 | Intro
25% | Ground water emergencies. Allows the owner or operator of a significant ground water withdrawal facility to file a complaint with the director of the department of natural resources (director) that a water well on the property of the owner of the sig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Senators Leising, Doriot, Donato added as coauthors |
