Indiana Representative Ben Smaltz [R]

Filter View [Reset All]
Syndicate content
StanceStateBillStatusSummary/TitleLast Actionsort icon
INHB1666Engross
50%
Ownership of health care providers. Requires reporting of certain ownership information by: (1) a health care entity to the Indiana department of health (state department); (2) a physician group practice to the professional licensing agency; and (3) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-03-03
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
INHB1004Engross
50%
Nonprofit hospitals. Establishes a hospital facility fee excise tax imposed when a hospital charges a facility fee that exceeds 265% of the hospital's Medicare facility fee. Excludes a critical access hospital from the excise tax statute. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-21
Referred to the Senate
INHB1032Engross
50%
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. Provides that a local hospital authority or corporation is excluded fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-21
Referred to the Senate
INHCR0026PassRecognizing Tuesday, March 4, 2025, as a day to honor the work and mission of the Indiana Region of the American Red Cross. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing Tuesday, March 4, 2025, as a day to honor the work and mission of the Indiana Region of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-21
Returned to the House
INSB0355Engross
50%
Municipal elections. Moves, as a general rule, elections of town officers to even-numbered years. Allows a town that has a population of more than 10,000 to pass a resolution to opt out of the general rule. Allows a city to pass a resolution to opt i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-21
Referred to the House
INHCR0025PassRecognizing April as Parkinson's Awareness Month and April 11, 2025, as World Parkinson's Day. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing April as Parkinson's Awareness Month and April 11, 2025, as World Parkinson's Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-21
Returned to the House
INHB1687Engross
50%
Probation transfers for sex or violent offenders. Prohibits the transfer of a sex or violent offender's probation jurisdiction to another county in Indiana while the offender is required to register as an offender unless certain conditions are met. P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-19
Referred to the Senate
INHB1471Engross
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]
2025-02-19
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
INHB1007Engross
50%
Energy generation resources. Provides a credit against state tax liability for expenses incurred in the manufacture of a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) in Indiana. Establishes procedures under which certain energy utilities may request approval ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-19
To Senate Utilities Committee
INHB1134Engross
50%
Public meetings. Allows meetings of a state or local agency governing body concerning the following topics to be held in executive session: (1) Employee health care options with respect to special exceptions to coverage. (2) Employee handbook changes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-18
Referred to the Senate
INHB1137Engross
50%
Expungement of red flag law records. Requires a court to expunge certain records related to the red flag law if the court finds that an individual is not dangerous, and permits a court to expunge certain records related to the red flag law if the cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-18
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
INHB1221Engross
50%
Pension matters. Provides for a thirteenth check in certain years for certain members, participants, or beneficiaries of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) Indiana public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-18
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee
INHB1633Engross
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]
2025-02-18
To Senate Elections Committee
INHB1518Engross
50%
Purchase of vehicles by state entities. Provides with certain exceptions, that if a state entity purchases or leases a vehicle, the vehicle: (1) must be a government model, base model, or standard model vehicle; and (2) may not be from a luxury or se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-18
Referred to the Senate
INHCR0019PassHonoring the late State Senator Jean Breaux. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the late State Senator Jean Breaux.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-14
Returned to the House
INHR0012PassCelebrating the cultural and economic ties between Indiana and Ireland. Celebrating the cultural and economic ties between Indiana and Ireland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-10
First reading: adopted voice vote
INHB1434Intro
25%
Alcohol misuse prevention and treatment fund. Changes the name of the addiction services fund to the alcohol misuse prevention and treatment fund (fund) and makes corresponding changes. Provides for the transfer of the first 6% of the excise taxes co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-06
Representative Bartels added as coauthor
INHCR0016PassHonoring Bruce Haines upon his retirement from the Fort Wayne Public Broadcasting Service. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Bruce Haines upon his retirement from the Fort Wayne Public Broadcasting Service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-02-05
Returned to the House
INHR0011PassCelebrating the 90th anniversary of the Professional Fire Fighters Union of Indiana. Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Professional Fire Fighters Union of Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-01-30
First reading: adopted voice vote
INHB1101Intro
25%
Tax deduction and credit for persons 65 or older. Increases, for purposes of the deduction for persons 65 or older: (1) the adjusted gross income threshold for an individual from $30,000 to $40,000; (2) the combined adjusted gross income threshold fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-01-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
INHB1135Intro
25%
Real world and finance curriculum grant funds. Establishes the real world readiness grant program (program) to provide grants to eligible schools to better prepare students for life after graduation with or without the assistance of a partnering orga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-01-27
To House Education Committee
INHB1260Intro
25%
Architect or engineer review of public work. Provides that plans and specifications approved by an architect or engineer are not required for certain public work on a public building.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-01-27
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee
INHB1189Intro
25%
Protection of property rights. Provides that under certain circumstances, a residential property owner may obtain the removal of an unauthorized person from the residential property owner's residential real property. Establishes a cause of action for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-01-21
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
INHB1435Intro
25%
STEM enrollment. Requires the board of trustees of each state educational institution (institution) to adopt a policy that prohibits certain foreign students from enrolling in or receiving instruction in a qualifying STEM program offered by the insti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-01-21
To House Education Committee
INHB1632Intro
25%
Health care entity mergers. Requires a health care entity that is involved in a merger or acquisition to disclose additional information. Allows the office of the attorney general to assess a health care entity with a civil penalty for noncompliance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-01-21
To House Public Health Committee
INHB1306Intro
25%
Tax credit for teacher's classroom supplies. Increases the maximum amount of the income tax credit for an individual employed as a teacher for amounts expended for classroom supplies from $100 to $300 per taxable year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
INHB1252Intro
25%
Limitation on cost sharing. Requires an insurer, an administrator, and a pharmacy benefit manager to apply the annual limitation on cost sharing set forth in the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act under 42 U.S.C. 18022(c)(1). Provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-01-09
To House Insurance 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2025-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee
Syndicate content
feedback