| HB1564 | Intro
Sine Die | Various military matters. Provides for the rights, benefits, and protections of the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (Act) to apply to members of the armed forces on active duty or, if applicable, the spouse or dependent of a member of the arm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1640 | Intro
Sine Die | Various education issues. Allows grants from the safe schools fund to provide school wide programs to improve school climate and professional development and training in alternatives to suspension and expulsion and evidence based practices that contr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Education Committee |
| HB1443 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' property tax deductions. Provides that after December 31, 2015, the assessed value of an individual's tangible property may not be considered when determining whether the individual is eligible for the property tax deduction for: (1) totall... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Vanderburgh circuit court magistrate. Allows the judge of the Vanderburgh circuit court to appoint a second full-time magistrate. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on courts and the judiciary.) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1667 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1437 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher education. Provides that an individual who seeks to obtain a teaching license must demonstrate proficiency in knowledge of best practices in providing classroom instruction to a student who is a child with a disability. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Education Committee |
| HB1663 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1651 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1195 | Intro
Sine Die | Treatment of opioid and alcohol abuse. Provides that addictions counseling, inpatient detoxification, and the administration of Vivitrol or a similar substance may be required to treat opioid or alcohol addiction as a condition of parole, probation, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0169 | Intro
Sine Die | Reading assessments. Requires, after June 30, 2016, that the state superintendent of public instruction's reading deficiency remediation plan (IREAD) provide a reading evaluation for students by grade 2. Provides that a student who requires remediati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1665 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1290 | Intro
Sine Die | Nullification of EPA regulations in Indiana. Nullifies all regulations imposed in Indiana by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Provides that the department of environmental management shall provide environmental protection for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1583 | Intro
Sine Die | National board certification of teachers. Establishes the goal that by 2025, there will be at least one teacher who is certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (national board) in every public school. Establishes the teache... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Education Committee |
| HB1612 | Intro
Sine Die | Study of former offender employment barriers. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate study committee for study during the 2015 legislative interim the topic of the problems faced by offenders when the offenders are: (1) released fr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1614 | Intro
Sine Die | Opioid prescriptions for pain management treatment. Requires the Indiana board of pharmacy or any licensing board, commission, or agency that controls, authorizes, or oversees controlled substance registrations to adopt rules to establish standards a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1586 | Intro
Sine Die | Methamphetamine decontamination grant program. Establishes a program under which the department of environmental management (department) may award matching grants to property owners for the decontamination of property contaminated by the manufacture ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1632 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious freedom restoration act. Provides that a state or local government action may not substantially burden a person's right to the exercise of religion unless it is demonstrated that applying the burden to the person's exercise of religion is: ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1653 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1039 | Intro
Sine Die | Court staff attorney pilot program. Creates the circuit and superior court staff attorney pilot program (pilot program) to provide assistance to courts with preparing orders for complex motions. Requires the judicial center to administer the pilot pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0205 | Intro
Sine Die | Soil productivity factors. Provides that the soil productivity factors used for the March 1, 2011, assessment of agricultural land must be used for the March 1, 2015, assessment date. Specifies that new soil productivity factors shall be used for ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1500 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious liberties for students. Provides that a public school shall not discriminate against the school's students or parents of the school's students on the basis of a religious viewpoint or religious expression. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1625 | Intro
Sine Die | Lease of state facilities to business entities. Requires the department of administration (department) to establish uniform standards for leasing state facilities under the control of the department and used by business entities. Authorizes the depar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1450 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical use of hemp extract and compassionate use registry. Requires the state seed commissioner to apply to the federal government to select an area in Indiana in which to grow hemp for the production of medical hemp oil. Allows the possession of he... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1296 | Intro
Sine Die | Civics test as graduation requirement. Provides that, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, an individual must obtain a satisfactory score on the United States Civics Test, administered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Education Committee |
| HB1447 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment or training priority for military. Requires the department of workforce development (under certain circumstances) to give: (1) a member of the armed forces of the United States, reserves, or National Guard; or (2) the spouse of a member of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1630 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment of veterans as public safety officers. Waives the maximum hiring age restrictions that apply to the appointment and hiring of police officers and firefighters for an individual who is a veteran of the armed forces and who meets certain req... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1646 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0277 | Intro
Sine Die | School counselors. Requires a school corporation to employ at least one school counselor at each elementary school, not including private or charter schools, maintained by the school corporation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1650 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1621 | Intro
Sine Die | Blue emergency vehicles. Requires authorized emergency vehicles to be equipped with signal lamps that are capable of displaying flashing, rotating, or oscillating beams of red or red and white light; red and blue light; or red, white, and blue light. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1214 | Intro
Sine Die | Pharmacy benefits managers. Specifies requirements that apply to a pharmacy benefits manager, including fiduciary duties owed a covered entity and contractual requirements for contracts with pharmacies. Provides that a pharmacy benefits manager who k... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1519 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax exemption. Provides that certain tangible property is exempt from property taxation if the tangible property is owned by an agricultural organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(c)(5) of the Internal Rev... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1235 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco and smoking. Imposes a tax on electronic cigarettes. Deposits the tax into the tobacco use prevention and cessation trust fund. Prohibits a tobacco sales certificate if the premises contains a pharmacy. Increases the fee for a tobacco sales c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1662 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1659 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1619 | Intro
Sine Die | South Shore sales tax increment district. Provides for a Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend Railway sales tax increment financing corridor that exists through 2045. Provides that 75% of the sales and use taxes collected within the corridor above th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1634 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of knives by political subdivisions. Prohibits political subdivisions, with certain exceptions, from: (1) regulating the possession, carrying, transportation, sale, purchase, transfer, licensing, registration, or use of a knife or the comp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1641 | Intro
Sine Die | Principal endorsement program. Requires Western Governors University Indiana to establish and maintain a program of study to provide principal endorsements to individuals who successfully complete the program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Education Committee |
| HB1664 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1537 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' matters. Requires the state lottery commission to adopt rules to establish a scratch off game to benefit Indiana veterans. Deposits revenue from sales of tickets for the scratch off game into the veterans' affairs trust fund. Provides that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1623 | Intro
Sine Die | School start and end dates. Prohibits public schools from beginning student instructional days for the school year before the fourth Monday in August and from ending student instructional days after June 10 of the following year, beginning with the 2... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Education Committee |
| HB1654 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1633 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana firearms freedom act. Provides that a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that: (1) is manufactured commercially or privately in Indiana from basic materials; (2) can be manufactured without the inclusion of any significant parts impo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1656 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1321 | Intro
Sine Die | Oil and natural gas regulation. Amends the statute concerning home rule for units of local government to specify that such units do not have the power to regulate or prohibit oil and gas exploration, development, or production activities, including a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1661 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1655 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1247 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher tax credit. Provides that an individual employed as a teacher is entitled to a credit against the individual's adjusted gross income tax liability for amounts expended on classroom supplies up to a maximum of $200 per taxable year. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1233 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle clearance when overtaking bicycle. Provides that it is a Class C infraction for the operator of a vehicle overtaking a bicycle to not: (1) allow at least three feet of clearance between the vehicle and the bicycle; and (2) return to the origi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1652 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |