| HB1538 | Pass | Prohibits a local unit of government (unit) from establishing, mandating, or requiring a minimum wage that exceeds the state or federal minimum wage unless federal or state law provides otherwise. Allows a unit to establish wage rates in a contract t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1539 | Pass | Allows the Marion County city-county council to elect to provide revenue to a public library located in Marion County from the certified distribution of county option income tax (COIT) revenue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1541 | Pass | Defines "transfer fee covenant" as a declaration or covenant that: (1) purports to affect an interest in real property in Indiana; and (2) requires the payment of a transfer fee to a specified person upon a subsequent transfer of the intere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1543 | Pass | Provides that the owner of a rental unit assessed any inspection, registration, or other fee by a political subdivision pertaining to the rental unit may: (1) notify the tenants of the rental unit of the assessment of the fee; and (2) require the ten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 05/10/2011 |
| HB1097 | Pass | Extends the final report date and expiration date of the lake management work group from July 1, 2011, to July 1, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 06/30/2011 |
| HB1098 | Pass | Allows the board of trustees of a regional water, sewage, or solid waste district to adopt an ordinance to authorize the district to do one or both of the following through an electronic funds transfer method of payment: (1) Pay claims owed by the di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
SECTION 4 effective 04/26/2011 |
| HB1548 | Pass | Enacts the uniform foreign country money judgments recognition act. Provides a process for recognizing money judgments obtained in other nations for the purpose of enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1102 | Pass | Defines "synthetic cannabinoid" and "salvia" (salvia divinorum or salvinorin A). Makes possessing, dealing in, manufacturing, or delivering a synthetic cannabinoid, or salvia equivalent to possessing, dealing in, manufacturing, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1107 | Pass | Provides that a juvenile court may create a voluntary preventative program for at-risk children (program). Allows a court to appoint program staff and an early intervention advocate to implement, coordinate, and carry out the purposes of the program....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1109 | Pass | Provides that an identification document issued by the United States Department of Defense, a branch of the uniformed services, the Merchant Marine, or the National Guard that has no expiration date or an indefinite expiration date is an acceptable p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1558 | Pass | Makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to knowingly or intentionally provide, engage in, or facilitate adoption services to a birth parent or prospective adoptive parent who lives in Indiana. (Current law makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 04/15/2011 |
| HB1112 | Pass | Requires the commissioner of the department of environmental management (department) to approve or deny an application for a permit: (1) concerning the land application of a material; or (2) for marketing and distribution of a biosolid or an industri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1117 | Pass | Authorizes the display of a license plate upon the front of a truck with a rear mounted forklift or the mechanism to carry a rear mounted forklift or implement. (Current law requires the display of the license plate upon the rear of the vehicle.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1121 | Pass | Requires the board of pharmacy to adopt rules concerning a returning unused medication program (program). Provides civil liability immunity for an entity or employee of an entity who participates in a program, except for certain intentional misconduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1124 | Pass | Repeals certain provisions of the Indiana Code concerning state oversight of railroads. Repeals provisions concerning local ordinances regulating train speed. Repeals the full crew law. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1128 | Pass | Provides that the following qualify as a renewable energy resources for purposes of the statute that provides financial incentives for clean coal and energy projects: (1) Certain resources that qualify as clean energy resources for purposes of the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1129 | Pass | Provides that it is a Class C infraction if a person uses a telecommunications device to type, transmit, or read a text message or an electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle, but permits a person: (1) to use hands free or voice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1131 | Pass | Directs the regulatory flexibility committee (committee) to study the following not later than November 1, 2011: (1) Whether video service franchise fees paid to local units are used by local units for purposes related to the provision of video servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 04/20/2011 |
| HB1132 | Pass | Farm wineries and direct wine sellers. Requires the alcohol and tobacco commission to submit a report, not later than November 1, 2011, to the general assembly concerning direct wine shipment to consumers in Indiana. Removes provisions concerning cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1133 | Pass | Provides that an agritourism provider is not liable for the injury or death of an agritourism participant if the cause of the injury or death is an inherent risk of the agritourism activity. Establishes exceptions. Requires the agritourism provider t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1137 | Pass | Provides that certain sections of Highway 912 in East Chicago are designated as extra heavy duty highways, and that the total gross weight of a vehicle or combination of vehicles operated with a special weight permit at one intersection on Highway 91...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 05/09/2011 |
| HB1150 | Pass | Provides that the registration of a vehicle registered to a member of the general assembly or to a spouse of a member of the general assembly expires on December 14 of each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1601 | Pass | States legislative policy relating to legal challenges to a redistricting plan. Provides that the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate the legal positions of their respective chambers with regard to a le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
SECTIONS 14 through 15 effective 11/06/2012 |
| HB1153 | Pass | Expands the types of persons that may participate in court established alcohol and drug services programs. Establishes procedures to be used by a problem solving court to terminate an individual's participation in a problem solving court program. Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1602 | Pass | Voids the 2001 congressional district plan adopted by the redistricting commission. Repeals the 1991 congressional district plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1003 | Pass | Provides a tax deduction for a parent who sends a child to a private school or home schools the child. Increases the school scholarship tax credits that may be awarded for donations to a scholarship granting organization. Prohibits a scholarship gran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
SECTIONS 2 through 10 effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1329 | Pass | Allows a county and a health care provider to enter into a reimbursement agreement for a lower reimbursement rate than the statutory rate for health care services provided to individuals subject to lawful detention. Removes expiration dates of applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 06/29/2011 |
| HB1348 | Pass | Makes the following changes in the statutes governing soil and water conservation districts: (1) Amends the statement of the general assembly's policy on the management of soil and water resources to include the goal of protecting and improving soil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1171 | Pass | Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning (office) and a contractor of the office to operate a single electronic eligibility verification system. Updates claims processing forms under the Medicaid program. Requires the office to use the mos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1174 | Pass | Provides that a local government disposing agent may hire a broker to sell real property directly rather than using the bid process if: (1) the disposing agent publishes a notice of the determination to hire the broker; and (2) the property has been ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1180 | Pass | Specifies that: (1) the statute concerning first lien mortgage lending; and (2) the uniform consumer credit code; do not apply to a bona fide nonprofit entity that does not operate in a commercial context and that meets other specified criteria. Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1365 | Pass | Allows the first responding volunteer fire department to recover attorney's fees and costs incurred by the department in an action to recover unpaid service charges. Prohibits a volunteer fire department funded by taxes imposed by a unit or by a cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1182 | Pass | Establishes the consumer protection assistance fund (fund) to be administered by the office of the attorney general (office). Provides that money in the fund may be used to make payments to qualifying individuals who: (1) are awarded restitution by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 05/09/2011 |
| HB1183 | Pass | Provides an additional preference for purchases made by a state agency for supplies manufactured, assembled, or produced by an Indiana business in Indiana. Provides a price preference for agriculture products grown or produced in Indiana. Deletes a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1187 | Pass | Provides that after June 30, 2011, a person may not start: (1) construction of certain satellite manure storage structures; or (2) expansion of certain satellite manure storage structures that increases manure containment capacity; without obtaining ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1371 | Pass | Establishes the joint study committee on transportation and infrastructure assessment and solutions. Sets forth the membership of the committee. Provides that the committee operates under policies adopted by the legislative council. Provides that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1190 | Pass | Provides that school board offices must be placed on the ballot under a nonpartisan title. Requires that: (1) local public questions be placed on a primary election ballot after the voting instructions and before the offices with candidates for nomin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1192 | Pass | Transfers administration of the microenterprise partnership program from the Indiana economic development corporation to the Indiana housing and community development authority. Renames the "microenterprise partnership program fund" adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
SECTION 9 effective 04/28/2011 |
| HB1197 | Pass | Provides that certain property owners who install new septic tank soil absorption systems are exempt from connecting to a regional sewage or solid waste district's sewer system for 10 years beginning on the date the septic tank system is installed. S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 05/09/2011 |
| HB1200 | Pass | Provides that, subject to certain conditions, a person who: (1) owns or otherwise legally possesses real property that is not more than one acre in size; and (2) only installs pavement or another hard surface or landscaping and other surficial planti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1002 | Pass | Allows charter schools to opt in to the state health insurance plans. Establishes the charter school board as a statewide sponsor of charter schools. Provides that the department of education shall provide staff to the charter school board until the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
SECTIONS 26 through 32 effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1385 | Pass | Provides that certain property and casualty insurance premium rate differences are not unfairly discriminatory, unfair or deceptive acts or practices, or premium rebating.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1201 | Pass | Makes various changes to the adoption laws regarding the release of identifying and nonidentifying information. Establishes requirements regarding requests for information concerning pre-adoptive siblings and conforms those requirements with laws con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1004 | Pass | Raises the maximum amount of public funds that a nonprofit corporation may spend and be subject only to a limited audit of the expenditures of the public funds from $100,000 to $200,000. Requires the auditor of state to work with the office of techno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
SECTIONS 177 through 178 effective 05/10/2011 |
| HB1386 | Pass | Allows the state chemist to inspect, audit, and certify certain commercial feed manufacturers and distributors that export commercial feed. Provides that the rules must include a schedule of fees to cover the cost of the state chemist's inspection ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1005 | Pass | Makes certain changes to the industrial recovery tax credit (credit). Reduces, for purposes of qualifying for the credit: (1) the number of years, from 20 to 15, in which a vacant industrial facility must have been in service; and (2) from two years ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective retroactive to 01/01/2011 |
| HB1387 | Pass | Makes changes to the definition of an agricultural commodity. Transfers the responsibility for certain duties concerning commodity market development from the director of the department of agriculture to the Purdue University dean of agriculture (dea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1203 | Pass | Provides that: (1) an individual's right to vote by secret ballot in; and (2) an employer's right to engage in a campaign in connection with; an election that is required or permitted by Indiana or federal law for the designation, authorization, or r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1006 | Pass | Requires the secretary of state, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and maintain a web site that would allow a person to submit information concerning the person's business to the secretary of state and other state agencies, as ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| HB1007 | Pass | Extends the period of time in which a county, city, or town may provide a tax exemption for enterprise information technology equipment until January 1, 2017. (Current law permits the exemptions until January 1, 2013.) Provides that the property tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-16
SECTION 18 effective 05/10/2011 |
