| SB0251 | Pass | Defines a "compliance project" as a project undertaken by an energy utility to comply with certain specified federally mandated requirements. Requires an energy utility that seeks to recover federally mandated costs incurred in connection w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
SECTIONS 16 through 18 effective 05/10/2011 |
| SB0255 | Pass | Allows the holder of a three-way permit issued for a premises within a city market to sell beer and wine for carryout. Excludes certain establishments from the application of a provision that: (1) makes it unlawful to sell beer in this state at retai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0590 | Pass | Makes various changes concerning enforcement of federal immigration laws, illegal immigration, and related criminal matters, including the following: (1) Requiring the office of management and budget to calculate the costs of illegal aliens to Indian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0004 | Pass | Allows a governing body to adjourn its schools to allow teachers to participate in a basic or inservice course of education and training on suicide prevention and the recognition of signs that a student may be considering suicide. Requires the divisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0006 | Pass | Authorizes the state and local units of government to enter into agreements to provide interstate mutual aid for emergency responses that do not rise to the level requiring a state or local declaration of a state of emergency or disaster. Recognizes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 05/09/2011 |
| SB0262 | Pass | Permits a physician to examine a defendant who raises an incompetency claim. Requires that a psychologist, psychiatrist, or physician appointed to examine a defendant have expertise in determining competency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0266 | Pass | Deletes certain references to obsolete entities in codified noncode transitional provisions relating to the creation of the Indiana finance authority. Repeals a codified noncode statute relating to enforcement of child support orders that was held un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0267 | Pass | Establishes the following categories for local travel advisories: (1) "Advisory". (2) "Watch". (3) "Warning". Provides that the "warning" travel advisory may be used only if a local disaster emergency is declar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0012 | Pass | Removes a provision requiring the teachers' retirement fund (TRF) to maintain separate accounts for each employer within the retirement allowance account of the 1996 account. Permits a member of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) or TRF who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
SECTION 22 effective 04/15/2011 |
| SB0503 | Pass | Defines "retailer" and provides that the duties relating to the electronic tracking of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine (PSE) apply only to retailers. Requires a retailer to submit information relating to the purchase of nonprescription PSE to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0019 | Pass | Makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to peep at the private area of an individual and record an image by means of a camera. Increases the penalty to a Class D felony if the person has a prior conviction or: (1) publishes the image; (2) makes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0506 | Pass | Allows a person to carry a handgun without being licensed to carry a handgun if: (1) the person is in or on property, or in a vehicle, that is owned, leased, rented, or otherwise legally controlled by the person; (2) the person is lawfully present in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0026 | Pass | Requires the department of local government finance (DLGF) to develop criteria for making an adjustment to allow a political subdivision to retain a part of its levy and budget that would otherwise be reduced because of savings: (1) from a government...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0032 | Pass | Establishes the use of vote centers as an option for all counties. Requires the county election board (board) to adopt an order designating a county a vote center county, adopt a plan to administer the vote centers, and file the order and the plan wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective retroactive to 12/31/2010 |
| SB0034 | Pass | Adopts the interstate compact for juveniles. Creates a national interstate commission for juveniles made up of the compact administrators from states that join the interstate compact. Delegates to the interstate compact the authority to adopt rules c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0036 | Pass | Provides that the horse racing commission is not required to deny a permit to a person, an association, a trust, a limited liability company, or a corporation that owns, or has one or more members or stockholders who own, an interest in any other per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 04/15/2011 |
| SB0292 | Pass | Prohibits, with certain exceptions, a political subdivision from regulating: (1) firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories; (2) the ownership, possession, carrying, transportation, registration, transfer, and storage of firearms, ammunition, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0521 | Pass | Provides that if an employee does not choose another amount, the state shall, in each pay period during the first year the employee is automatically enrolled in the state's deferred compensation plan (plan), deduct from the employee's compensation th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0293 | Pass | Limits the liability insurance coverage requirement for a partial service license branch contractor to $2 million and requires indemnification of the bureau of motor vehicles commission for additional liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0523 | Pass | Provides that a commuter transportation district may use money deposited in the commuter rail fund that is revenue derived from the taxation of indefinite-situs distributable property of railroad car companies to: (1) satisfy any debt service; and (2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0039 | Pass | Requires the commission on state tax and financing policy to study how the Indiana income tax structure, including existing and potentially new income tax credits and deductions, may influence a senior's decision on residency in Indiana after retirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 05/09/2011 |
| SB0295 | Pass | Resolves: (1) technical conflicts between differing 2010 amendments to Indiana Code sections; and (2) other technical problems in the Indiana Code, including incorrect statutory references, nonstandard tabulation, grammatical problems, and misspellin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 04/20/2011 |
| SB0524 | Pass | Establishes a defined contribution plan (plan) as an option for new state employees. A state employee who does not elect to become a member of the plan becomes a member of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF). Requires the PERF board of trust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0525 | Pass | Requires submission of certain information to the insurance commissioner at the time a bail agent's license is renewed. Specifies certain qualifications for a provider of bail agent and recovery agent education courses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0528 | Pass | Reduces from 10% to 8.33% the prorated excise tax credit due to a boat owner upon the sale of the boat. (The 10% rate was based on a ten month registration cycle; the current cycle is twelve months.) Provides that employees at full or partial servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 01/01/2012 |
| SB0047 | Pass | Permits a licensed owner to convert a riverboat into a permanently moored craft without propulsion or navigation equipment. Provides for submission of plans and commission approval of the construction of a permanently moored craft to replace a licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0532 | Pass | Makes certain changes to the implied consent law while operating a motorboat. Requires that a portable breath test must be offered to a person who operates a motorboat that was involved in a fatal accident or an accident involving serious bodily inju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0533 | Pass | Provides that a public agency may not require an offeror to appear in person more than three times before the technical review committee for a design-build contract. Requires a public agency that proposes a public project for which a referendum is to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0306 | Pass | Provides that, for purposes of applying for a grant from the counties with special boat patrol needs fund, a fiscal body of a county may submit an estimated budget request to the department of natural resources (department) if the county sheriff does...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0537 | Pass | Establishes the Indiana state museum and historic sites corporation (corporation) as a public body corporate and politic to govern the state museum and historic sites. Establishes the corporation's board of trustees to oversee and govern the corporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0054 | Pass | Provides that a local unit of government may not: (1) regulate a holder of a certificate to provide, or a provider of, video service in Indiana; and (2) establish or fund an entity to regulate a holder or provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0057 | 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] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0059 | Pass | Specifies that for purposes of the law governing credit agreements, a credit agreement includes an agreement to: (1) amend or modify a credit agreement; (2) enter into a new credit agreement; (3) forbear from exercising rights under a credit agreemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0060 | Pass | Provides that one executive session per calendar year may be held under the open door law to train members of a board of aviation commissioners or an airport authority board with an outside consultant about the performance of the role of the members ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
SECTIONS 4 through 7 effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0062 | Pass | Conforms references to ordinance adoption dates in the local income tax laws to the dates specified in P.L.113-2010, SECTIONS 61, 63, and 66 (HEA 1086-2010). (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the code revision commission.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
SECTIONS 23 through 32 effective 04/28/2011 |
| SB0066 | 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) Low temperature, oxygen starved gasification of municipal solid waste. (2) Meth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0067 | Pass | Establishes additional grounds for disqualification of an administrative law judge and replacement procedures. Provides that the proceedings before an administrative law judge are de novo. Conforms summary judgment procedures and electronic service p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0325 | Pass | Provides for the Indiana gaming commission's regulation of local development agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 04/28/2011 |
| SB0071 | Pass | Allows the department of natural resources to adopt emergency rules for most aspects of oil and gas and other petroleum regulation. Provides that oil and gas statutes do not apply to methane ventilation governed under an approved federal Mine Safety ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0327 | Pass | Requires that the holder of an inactive dentist license meet competency standards determined by the state board of dentistry (board) before obtaining an active license. Specifies that an entity approved by the board is to conduct the examination of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0331 | Pass | Authorizes the division of aging, the bureau of aging services, the division of disability and rehabilitative services, and the bureau of developmental disabilities services to issue certain notice orders and citations against a provider that violate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0076 | Pass | Requires that the board of trustees of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) specify by rule the interest rate credited to a participant's contributions for: (1) the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0078 | Pass | Makes it a Class B misdemeanor for an alcoholic beverage permittee or an employee or agent of the permittee to recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally sell, barter, exchange, provide, or furnish another person who is or reasonably appears to be less ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0334 | Pass | Requires the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) to: (1) add the name of a person against whom the bureau has taken administrative action for operating a motor vehicle without financial responsibility (person) to the registry of previously uninsured mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0079 | Pass | Provides that if motor fuel (fuel) from a retailer is pumped into a vehicle and proper payment is not made to the retailer, the owner of the vehicle is liable to the retailer for the total pump price of the fuel pumped plus a service charge of $50. P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0080 | Pass | Requires that election material related to provisional ballots (excluding the provisional ballots themselves) be made available for copying and inspection under the access to public records law in the same manner as other election material. Provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0337 | Pass | Provides that: (1) a person operating a vehicle entering an intersection or crosswalk facing a pedestrian hybrid beacon (beacon) may proceed without stopping if no indication is displayed on the beacon; and (2) in that instance the operator is not re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0338 | Pass | Requires a worksite speed limit to be at least ten miles per hour below the maximum established speed limit for the location on the road or highway on which the worksite is located. Provides that a driver who, in a highway work zone, engages in certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0340 | Pass | Establishes the charity gaming study committee for the 2011 interim. Authorizes a qualified organization to use volunteer ticket agents (VTA). Requires a qualified organization to provide to the gaming commission a list containing: (1) the name, addr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
| SB0085 | Pass | Creates the education issues study committee to study the causes of low graduation rates in Indiana high schools and to identify and highlight certain ways of improving graduation rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-18
Effective 07/01/2011 |
