Bills Pending Indiana House Judiciary Committee

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INHB1483Intro
25%
The attorney general and amicus curiae briefs. Provides that the attorney general may file an amicus curiae brief only if the governor gives written approval to file the amicus curiae brief. Makes a conforming change.
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1526Intro
25%
Children in need of services. Provides that when the department of child services (department) enters into a contract with a provider to provide services under the department's community partners for child safety program, the contract must require th...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1626Intro
25%
Written findings in child custody orders. Requires a court to include in: (1) a custody order; or (2) an appellate decision affirming or reversing a custody order; the court's findings of fact and conclusions of law on which the custody order or appe...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 10:30 am]
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1531Intro
25%
Various immigration matters. Clarifies that the enforcement of federal immigration laws may be carried out by federal, state, or local law enforcement. Removes the mens rea standard in the statute concerning governmental entities or postsecondary ins...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHJR0004Intro
25%
Health care rights. Provides patients certain health care rights. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHJR0005Intro
25%
Suspension of prosecuting attorney. Authorizes the governor to suspend a prosecuting attorney from office for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, incompetence, permanent inability to perform official duties, or commission of a felony, and allo...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1569Intro
25%
Tax sale deeds. Provides that a tax sale purchaser may file a petition with the court not later than 30 days after the date of the sale to seek a determination that the real property is vacant or abandoned. Specifies that the effect of a court's dete...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1623Intro
25%
Juvenile court matters. Provides that, when a petition is filed for the appointment of a guardian for two or more minors or incapacitated persons who are children of a common parent, parent and child, or husband and wife, a separate petition must be ...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1495Intro
25%
Review of administrative and judicial rules. Establishes the administrative rules review committee. Requires: (1) an agency to submit a rule and the latest version of the regulatory analysis with any supporting documents; and (2) the supreme court to...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1485Intro
25%
Court appointed counsel for certain minors. Provides that courts are required to appoint counsel for eligible children with certain exceptions. Provides that a county may seek reimbursement up to 100% for expenditures related to attorney services for...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1450Intro
25%
False or fraudulent deeds and affidavits. Provides that it is a deceptive act enforceable by the attorney general for a person to: (1) convey or attempt to convey; or (2) conspire to convey or attempt to convey; title to real property by recording a ...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1684Intro
25%
Irretrievable breakdown of marriage. Provides that if the parties to a petition for dissolution of marriage are the parents of one or more minor children for whom the parties have legal and physical custody, and the sole ground for dissolution of the...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1678Intro
25%
Qualified immunity for elected state officers. Provides qualified immunity for elected state officer.
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1478Intro
25%
Pro bono legal services fee. Removes the sunset provision for pro bono legal services fees.
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1682Intro
25%
General legislative matters. Eliminates certain duplicate section headings.
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1032Intro
25%
Foreign interests. Prohibits a prohibited person from entering into a contract for the provision of goods or services with the state, a state agency, and a political subdivision. Requires agents acting on behalf of certain countries of concern to reg...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 10:30 am]
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1466Intro
25%
Various agency administrative procedures. Provides that the department of natural resources is subject to the jurisdiction of the office of administrative law proceedings. Provides that the office of administrative law proceedings is not the ultimate...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1529Intro
25%
Various civil law matters. Amends the Uniform Business Organizations Administrative Provisions Act to specify that a foreign entity's registration with the secretary of state, including the appointment of an agent for service of process, does not by ...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1465Intro
25%
Office of administrative law proceedings. Makes technical corrections and conforming amendments required by HEA 1003-2024 concerning the office of administrative law proceedings.
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1605Intro
25%
Juvenile law matters. Requires the family and social services administration to provide address information to the department of child services (department) under specified circumstances. Provides that it is the policy of the state of Indiana and the...
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2025-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1327Intro
25%
Marijuana advertising. Provides that a person may not advertise a product containing marijuana or a marijuana business by any medium within the borders of Indiana. Provides that the attorney general may seek civil penalties, an injunction, and other ...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1328Intro
25%
Landlord-tenant matters. For purposes of a residential rental unit, defines: (1) "essential services" as certain utility services needed for the safe and habitable occupation by a tenant of the tenant's rental unit; and (2) "essential systems" as cer...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1333Intro
25%
Landlord pet policies. Provides that a rental agreement may not require a tenant to declaw a cat as a condition of the rental agreement.
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1359Intro
25%
Bed bug remediation in rental units. Requires the tenant of a dwelling unit to notify the tenant's landlord if the tenant knows or reasonably suspects that the tenant's dwelling unit contains bed bugs. Requires the landlord, upon receiving the tenant...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1372Intro
25%
Prohibited discriminatory practices. Prohibits discrimination based upon an individual's status as an active member of the armed forces, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Expands nondiscriminatory public policies of the state to include sex, ge...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1424Intro
25%
Causes of action. Limits a civil cause of action concerning a public nuisance. Prohibits certain causes of action against a property owner, a business owner, or a third party business operator for a criminal act committed by another person: (1) on th...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1373Intro
25%
Rent escrow. Establishes a procedure permitting a tenant to withhold rent from a landlord and deposit it with a court if the landlord does not fulfill the landlord's obligations or fails to remedy a violation of an ordinance, rule, code, or other law...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHJR0002Intro
25%
Initiatives and referendums. Provides that the people of Indiana may propose and adopt amendments to the Constitution of the State of Indiana and propose and enact statutes independent of the general assembly through initiative. Provides that the peo...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1403Intro
25%
Juvenile justice matters. Amends the duties of the statewide juvenile justice oversight body established by the commission on improving the status of children in Indiana (oversight body). Requires the Indiana criminal justice institute (institute) to...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1387Intro
25%
Uniform recognition of Canadian protection orders. Codifies the Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act. Provides procedures for enforcement of a Canadian domestic violence protection order (protection ...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1107Intro
25%
Funding for family recovery courts. Establishes the family recovery court fund and provides that money in the fund is continuously appropriated for the purpose of funding family recovery courts. Provides that family recovery courts: (1) target cases ...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1287Intro
25%
Display of political signs on certain properties. Amends as follows the statute governing the display of political signs on property subject to restrictive covenants or homeowners association rules: (1) Expands the scope of the statute to include add...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1067Intro
25%
Joint custody. Provides that a biological mother and biological father have joint legal custody unless otherwise provided by law. Requires a court to award joint legal custody unless it is in the child's best interests that sole legal custody be awar...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1409Intro
25%
Anatomical gifts. Requires a person who makes certain anatomical gifts to: (1) designate on a form prescribed by the state board of funeral and cemetery service the funeral home licensee to whom custodial care of the decedent's body will be granted f...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1401Intro
25%
Homeowners association governance. Amends as follows the statute governing homeowners associations: (1) Provides that for each meeting of the homeowners association (HOA) board, the board must provide at least four days advance written notice of the ...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1311Intro
25%
Adoption for abandoned infants. Provides that when the department of child services (department) or a licensed child placing agency takes custody of a child who is voluntarily left with an emergency services provider or in a newborn safety device, th...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1321Intro
25%
Social media use by minors. Provides that a social media service may not allow an Indiana resident who is a minor to hold an account with the social media service unless the social media service receives written consent to the minor's use of the soci...
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2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1225Intro
25%
Pension garnishment for restitution. Provides that when a court issues a restitution order against an employee beneficiary of the state police benefit system (system), the prosecuting attorney must bring an action requesting garnishment of amounts th...
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2025-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1026Intro
25%
Marijuana advertising. Provides that a person may not advertise: (1) a product containing marijuana; or (2) a marijuana business; on a sign within 1,000 feet of certain places. Provides that the attorney general may seek civil penalties, an injunctio...
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2025-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1175Intro
25%
Repair of residential rental properties. Requires a landlord to repair or replace an essential item not later than 24 hours after being notified by a tenant that the tenant's rental unit is without certain essential services. Provides that a tenant m...
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2025-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1115Intro
25%
Emergency possessory orders. Provides that under certain circumstances a landlord may file a petition for an emergency possessory order. Requires a court to order a tenant to return possession of a dwelling unit to the landlord if the court finds pro...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 10:30 am]
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1162Intro
25%
Rental rate increase control. Prohibits a landlord from increasing the gross rental rate for certain rental units more than the lesser of: (1) 5%, plus the percentage cost of living increase; or (2) 10%; of the lowest gross rental rate charged for th...
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2025-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1079Intro
25%
Property matters. Provides that if a tenant does not claim the tenant's property within 30 days after receiving a certain notice, a warehouseman or storage facility may sell the tenant's property (current law requires a warehouseman or storage facili...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 10:30 am]
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1083Intro
25%
Protection of property rights. Defines "squatter" as an individual who occupies the residential real property of another and who does not have and has never had: (1) a rental agreement; (2) permission of the owner; or (3) another legal interest in th...
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2025-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1084Intro
25%
Real estate land contracts. Defines "principal dwelling land contract" (contract) as a land contract for the sale of real property: (1) designed for the occupancy of one to two families; and (2) that is or will be occupied by the buyer as the buyer's...
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2025-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1015Intro
25%
Qualified real property orders. Defines a "qualified real property order". Allows certain parties to file an affidavit or petition the court for a qualified real property order if a previous court order to divide or transfer the real property is miss...
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2025-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1090Intro
25%
Joint child custody. Provides that a court shall order: (1) joint physical custody of a child unless the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that joint physical custody is not in the child's best interests; and (2) joint legal custody of a c...
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2025-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1017Intro
25%
Tax sale procedures. Provides immunity from civil liability and civil and criminal trespass to a person who is a tax sale certificate holder or an applicant for a tax deed who enters an abandoned or vacant property during the statutory redemption per...
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2025-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1022Intro
25%
Antisemitism. Provides that "antisemitism" has the meaning set forth in the May 26, 2016, working definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Provides that an act of antisemitism constitutes a discriminator...
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2025-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee
INHB1100Intro
25%
Limited liability for obstacle course operators. Provides that a governmental entity operating an activity on land leased by the governmental entity from the federal government is entitled to certain immunities from a tort claim. Expands the definiti...
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2025-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee
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