IN Legislation | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB1441	Intro Sine Die	Jury duty deferrals for postsecondary students. Provides that a prospective juror who is a full-time student enrolled in and attending an approved postsecondary educational institution during an academic year shall be exempted from jury service until... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Judiciary Committee
HB1400	Intro Sine Die	Asbestos litigation. Provides special proceedings for asbestos claims. Requires a plaintiff who files a personal injury action involving an asbestos claim to provide information to all parties in the action regarding each asbestos claim the plaintiff... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Judiciary Committee
HB1391	Intro Sine Die	Credit for income taxes paid to another state. Provides that the maximum income tax credit that an Indiana resident may take for income taxes paid to another state includes the Indiana local option income tax rate in addition to the Indiana state adj... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
SB0480	Intro Sine Die	Nomination of candidates for U. Senate. Provides that a political party with a certain threshold number of members of the general assembly is required to nominate its candidate for United States Senate by a caucus consisting of all the members of tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Elections Committee
HB1020	Intro Sine Die	Removal of obstructions from streams. Amends the law providing for the removal of obstructions from mutual drains and natural surface watercourses to make the law apply also to the removal of obstructions from streams. Provides that the owner of a tr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Local Government Committee
SB0477	Intro Sine Die	Business development closing fund. Establishes the business development closing fund (fund) to provide incentives in the form of forgivable loans to be used to attract new business and economic development to Indiana and encourage expansion of existi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
HB1484	Intro Sine Die	Local government fees and funds. Provides that the maximum property tax rates for county cumulative capital development funds, municipal cumulative capital development funds, and fire protection territory equipment replacement funds will no longer be... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
HB1392	Intro Sine Die	Tax credit for literacy programs. Provides an income tax credit for charitable contributions to certain literacy programs. Provides that the credit is equal to 50% of the charitable contribution, but may not exceed: (1) $100 for a single individual r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
HB1376	Intro Sine Die	Professional sports development commission. Establishes the northwest Indiana professional sports development commission. Authorizes the commission to study various plans and recommendations that are proposed with respect to attracting a professional... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
HB1411	Intro Sine Die	Foreclosure prevention and post-foreclosure leases. Requires a court, in a mortgage foreclosure action with respect to an occupied dwelling, to consider evidence concerning the effect of the foreclosure. Requires the court to withhold entry of judgme... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Judiciary Committee
HB1380	Intro Sine Die	Special employment and training services fund. Provides that the annual amount released from the special employment and training services fund for training and counseling assistance provided by Hometown Plans is increased from $400,000 to $575,000, $... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
SB0537	Intro Sine Die	Lights and lamps on vehicles. Provides that certain vehicles may not be equipped with lamps or lights other than those specified. Makes technical corrections. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
HB1382	Intro Sine Die	Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. Provides that materials, compounds, mixtures, or preparations that contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine are schedule III controlled substances that may be dispensed only by prescription. Repeals: (1) the law concerning ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Public Health Committee
HB1355	Intro Sine Die	Local service fees on tax exempt property. Allows a county fiscal body to impose a local service fee on tax exempt property within the county (other than a building used for religious worship and the parcel of land on which such a building is located... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
HB1423	Intro Sine Die	Qualified organizations. Specifies that a qualified organization under the charity gaming law may use not more than 50% of the money deposited into its separate charity gaming account to pay wages, salaries, and wage and salary related expenses. Incr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Public Policy Committee
HB1431	Intro Sine Die	Funding community corrections. Increases the photocopying fee for sheriffs' departments from $0.10 per page to $0.20 per page. Appropriates $64,893,128 to the department of correction for the purpose of funding community corrections programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
SB0499	Intro Sine Die	Home rule powers of certain units. Gives Indianapolis-Marion County and second class cities (units) additional home rule powers. Provides that a unit may reject statutory restrictions otherwise applicable to the unit and adopt ordinances for governan... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0540	Intro Sine Die	Various gaming matters. Authorizes riverboats to move inland to adjacent properties. Replaces the riverboat admissions tax with a supplemental wagering tax. Eliminates the supplemental distribution from the existing wagering tax. Authorizes table gam... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Public Policy Committee
HB1426	Intro Sine Die	IURC fining authority. Allows the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 on a public utility providing energy services if the public utility violates or fails to comply with any: (1) utility law; or (2)... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee
HB1364	Intro Sine Die	Funeral directors. Requires a funeral director or funeral director intern to inquire of an immediate family member as to whether a decedent had authorized an anatomical gift on the decedent's driver's license or identification card, and if so, to inf... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Public Health Committee
HB1477	Intro Sine Die	Hunting and fishing licenses. Provides that an individual may purchase and request that the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) place a notation on the individual's driver's license or identification card that indicates that the individual has a fishin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Natural Resources Committee
HB1377	Intro Sine Die	Lap and shoulder safety belts on school buses. Provides that a school bus or special purpose bus placed into operation after June 30, 2016, that is used to transport elementary school or high school students must be equipped with a 3-point lap and sh... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Education Committee
SB0525	Intro Sine Die	Property tax assessment. Provides the following if the application of an annual adjustment factor derived by an assessing official would result in an increase of more than 10% in the assessed value of one or more homesteads: (1) The assessing officia... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0502	Intro Sine Die	State gross retail tax. Specifies that the double direct test for the gross retail tax exemption for agricultural machinery, tools, and equipment applies to agricultural machinery, tools, and equipment acquired for the direct use in the direct produc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
HB1399	Intro Sine Die	Sales tax on recreational vehicles. Provides that the purchase of a recreational vehicle or cargo trailer that is transported out of Indiana for registration and use in another state or country is exempt from the state gross retail tax regardless of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
HB1379	Intro Sine Die	Child abuse training. Requires: (1) child care providers that receive reimbursement vouchers; (2) public schools, including charter schools; and (3) nonpublic schools that receive choice scholarship students; to provide training to staff concerning t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee
HB1356	Intro Sine Die	Certified technology parks. Provides that a certified technology park may capture up to $5,000,000 of incremental income tax and sales tax revenue every four years. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
HB1418	Intro Sine Die	INDOT complaint process. Requires the department of transportation (INDOT) to establish a procedure to address complaints related to signs that provide regulations. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Roads and Transportation Committee
HB1421	Intro Sine Die	Mortgage foreclosure. Provides that, at any time after a judgment and decree of sale is entered in an action to foreclose a mortgage on an interest in real property, a purchaser or an omitted lienholder may bring a civil action to: (1) determine the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Judiciary Committee
SB0521	Intro Sine Die	Restroom access for certain retail customers. Provides that if a retail establishment has a toilet facility on its premises for the use of the retail establishment's employees, a customer, upon request, must be allowed to use the toilet facility duri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Civil Law Committee
HB1232	Intro Sine Die	Duration of the second regular session. Provides that the second regular session of each term of the general assembly shall adjourn sine die not later than February 28 in any even-numbered year. Makes conforming changes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee
HB1408	Intro Sine Die	Battery innovation funding. Appropriates $3,350,000 for the upcoming biennium to the Indiana economic development corporation for lease payments for the battery innovation center located in Greene County. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
HB1386	Intro Sine Die	Killing an endangered species and repeat poachers. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a person to knowingly or intentionally kill a wild bird or wild mammal that is on the endangered species list. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a person to illegally take a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
HB1430	Intro Sine Die	Criminal enhancements for using firearms in crimes. Permits a court to impose: (1) an additional fixed term of five to 20 years if a person uses a firearm in the commission of a felony; (2) an additional fixed term of up to 20 years if a person posse... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
SB0459	Intro Sine Die	Fair credit reporting. Provides that a violation of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (act), or any regulations issued under the act, in connection with a consumer transaction involving an Indiana consumer, is a deceptive act that is subject to t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee
SB0552	Intro Sine Die	Tuition exemption for children of veterans. Removes the requirement that a veteran served during a time of war or performed hazardous duty recognized by an award or campaign medal in order for the veteran's child to receive a tuition and fee exemptio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee
HB1460	Intro Sine Die	Genetically engineered food. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2016, any food that is offered for retail sale is misbranded, for purposes of the law prohibiting the misbranding of food, if the food was or may have been entirely or partially produced w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee
SB0458	Intro Sine Die	Electronic communications. Provides that the definition of "electronic communication" includes metadata that relates to an electronic communication. Requires that the search or seizure of an electronic communication be specifically authorized by stat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB1370	Intro Sine Die	Department of child services. Provides that appropriations designated for use by the department of child services do not revert to the state general fund and may not be transferred to other funds. Establishes the department of child services educatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Ways and Means Committee
HB1489	Intro Sine Die	Veterans matters. Establishes a definition for "Hoosier veteran". Provides for Hoosier veterans to receive a preference in hiring for state employment. Provides for an incentive program to be established to promote the enrollment of members of the In... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee
HB1445	Intro Sine Die	LIFE scholarships. Establishes the lifelong learning incentive for excellence (LIFE) scholarship program to provide scholarships to Indiana residents for postsecondary education. Provides for administration of the program by the commission for higher... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Education Committee
HB1474	Intro Sine Die	Access to personal Internet accounts. Provides that an employer may not request an employee or applicant for employment to grant access to, allow observation of, or disclose access information that allows access to or observation of the employee's or... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee
HB1473	Intro Sine Die	Nonprofit facilitators of lending circle loans. Provides that after December 31, 2015, an eligible nonprofit organization may apply to the department of financial institutions (department) for a certificate of registration to facilitate the making of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Financial Institutions Committee
SB0457	Intro Sine Die	Education funding. Increases the amounts used in determining performance grant awards. Appropriates $20,000,000 each state fiscal year of the biennium for performance grant awards that is in addition to the appropriation made by the budget act. Provi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0468	Intro Sine Die	Property tax assessment. Provides that an assessor has the burden of proving that an increase in an assessment is correct, in any review or appeal before the county property tax assessment board of appeals and in any appeals taken to the Indiana boar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0475	Intro Sine Die	Hemp oil registry for the treatment of epilepsy. Establishes a hemp oil registry for certain physicians, individuals, and caregivers for the use of hemp oil in the treatment of a child with intractable epilepsy. Establishes a pilot study registry for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
HB1458	Intro Sine Die	Solemnizing marriages. Provides that a minister of a religious organization may solemnize a marriage. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Judiciary Committee
HB1148	Intro Sine Die	Bail. Provides that, if a court admits a defendant to bail, the court may require the defendant to do one of the following as selected by the defendant: (1) Execute a bail bond with sufficient solvent sureties. (2) Deposit cash or securities in an am... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
HB1384	Intro Sine Die	Fireworks regulation. Provides that a county or municipality may adopt an ordinance to limit the days and hours when consumer fireworks or certain other fireworks may be used, ignited, or discharged within the county or municipality, with certain exc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Public Policy Committee
HB1446	Intro Sine Die	Charity gaming. Allows a qualified organization to accept credit cards for the purchase of: (1) a chance to play any game of chance offered at an allowable event; and (2) a licensed supply. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To House Public Policy Committee