| SB0179 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that a county executive may not submit an application for federal grant funds or grants payable from federal funds allocated to the state unless the application is first approved by resolution of the county council. Provides that this requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0467 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a supplier of a casket or a person who sells or prepares for sale a casket and who removes, covers, alters, or makes unreadable a country of origin marking on the casket commits a deceptive act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| SB0192 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the criminal law and sentencing policy study committee to study issues relating to marijuana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0196 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that unemployment benefits may not be paid to an individual employed by a Head Start or an Early Head Start program for a week during a period between two successive academic years or terms if the individual performs the employment in the fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0482 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the state board of education (state board) to receive, distribute, and account for funds received for career and technical education under federal law. Assigns to the state board responsibility for the planning and implementation of secondar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0202 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds definition of "biomass", "biomass anaerobic digestion facility" (BADF), "fertilizer material" and "biomass gasification facility" (BGF). Requires the approval of the Indiana department of environmental man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0486 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the weight enforcement fund (fund) for funding personnel and equipment necessary for enforcement of laws concerning heavy trucks, to be administered by the state police department. Provides for the collection of a $10 fee from certain per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0208 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that, for purposes of the public intoxication statute, a person is not in a public place or place of public resort if the person is a passenger in a motor vehicle that is traveling on a highway. Specifies that the offense of being intoxicate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0212 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that all circuit courts, superior courts, and probate courts have: (1) original and concurrent jurisdiction in all civil cases and in all criminal cases; (2) de novo appellate jurisdiction of appeals from city and town courts; and (3) in Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0543 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a new procedure for partitioning real and personal property that: (1) requires a court to refer the matter to mediation; and (2) requires the court to order the property sold at auction if the parties are not able to reach an agreement du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0498 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a person to be licensed to grow or harvest ginseng. Establishes separate licenses for individuals and business entities that are ginseng dealers. Requires a ginseng grower to provide the department of natural resources (DNR) with an annual s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Select Committee on Government Reduction |
| SB0499 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the four judges of the Lake superior court county division to be: (1) nominated by the Lake County superior court judicial nominating commission and appointed by the governor; and (2) subject to the question of retention or rejection by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0218 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the definition of "developmental disabilities" to conform to the federal definition. Repeals the community residential council and gives the duties of the council to the division of disability and rehabilitative services (division)....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0500 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that an individual must be licensed by the state board of massage therapy to engage in the practice of massage therapy. (Under current law, massage therapists are certified by the board but certification is not required for the practice of m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0552 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that, beginning January 1, 2012, infants must be given a pulse oximetry screening examination to detect for low oxygen levels. Requires the state department of health to: (1) develop procedures and protocols for the testing; and (2) report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0228 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the statute that establishes the public officers compensation advisory commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Select Committee on Government Reduction |
| SB0561 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of correction to: (1) determine the average daily marginal cost of incarcerating an offender; (2) determine the average length of stay for a Class D felony offender in the department; and (3) administer an incentive and disinc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0240 | Engross
Sine Die | Recognizes speech-language pathologists who: (1) before September 1, 1990, completed all the course work and obtained all the experience required to receive a life license from the department of education; and (2) was issued a life license by the dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0245 | Engross
Sine Die | . Creates the prenatal substance abuse commission and requires the commission to develop and recommend a coordinated plan to improve early intervention and treatment for pregnant women who abuse alcohol or drugs or use tobacco. (The commission was or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| SB0584 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a price preference to local Indiana businesses bidding on purchasing and public works contracts awarded by political subdivisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0002 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the governor, the lieutenant governor, and members of the general assembly to solemnize marriages, and specifies that they may not accept money for solemnizing a marriage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0260 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the legislative body of a unit (other than a township) to establish a clean energy improvement financing program to fund clean energy improvements for voluntary participants in the program. Requires financing to come from private equity or fed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0009 | Engross
Sine Die | For purposes of the statute authorizing the attorney general to take certain actions with respect to abandoned health records and other records containing personal information, provides that a "health care provider" includes a person licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0013 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that beginning in 2012, an individual may elect to have state income tax and local income tax withheld from unemployment compensation received by the individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0018 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that it is a Class C infraction for a person to use a telecommunications device to type, transmit, or read a text message or electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle, with certain exceptions. Allows a person to use hand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0023 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the Hoosier commission for communities for a lifetime. Requires the commission to submit certain reports to the general assembly. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the health finance commission.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Select Committee on Government Reduction |
| SB0024 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Indiana brain injury commission (commission). Requires the commission to submit certain reports to the general assembly. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the health finance commission.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0025 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the health finance commission to study during the 2011 legislative interim the following : (1) Whether a pharmacist should be required to notify the prescribing physician and inform the patient if the pharmacist selects a drug other than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0030 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that certain police officers employed by a public or private college or university may exercise the officers' police power in any part of Indiana if the board of trustees of the college or university: (1) adopts a resolution specifically des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| SB0294 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the state superintendent of public instruction to develop a form for a probationary teacher's contract. Provides that a school corporation shall hire a teacher who has not previously taught for the school corporation while holding at least a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0043 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the parole board shall require that certain persons convicted of child molesting be required to wear a GPS tracking device; and permits the parole board to require other sex and violent offenders be required to wear a GPS tracking devi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0530 | Engross
Sine Die | Merges the offense of criminal deviate conduct into the crime of rape, and repeals the statute defining the crime of criminal deviate conduct. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0302 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a relative of an executive, a member of the legislative body, or a member of the fiscal body (public official) of a county, city, town, or township (local unit) from being employed by the local unit. Prohibits an individual who is a relativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0049 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 per communication for a person who makes certain campaign communications that contain a disclaimer that is difficult to read or whose placement is easily overlooked. Specifies the type size and colo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0536 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "active voter". Except for boards of elections and registration in Lake and Tippecanoe counties and the board of registration in Marion County, abolishes all boards of registration on July 1, 2011, and permits a cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0540 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that a period of confinement is consecutive even if an inmate was released on the basis of an erroneous court order, and requires the department of correction to identify an offender to the parole board and provide certain information if th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0315 | Engross
Sine Die | Lists criminal statutes that are codified outside IC 35. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the criminal code evaluation commission.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0061 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that school board members selected by election must be elected at general elections beginning in 2012. Repeals provisions related to the election of school board members at the primary election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0063 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a local elected officeholder may be suspended from office if the officeholder is charged with certain felonies or misdemeanors and a two-thirds majority of the legislative body finds that the offense with which the local elected officia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0323 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the county fiscal body from the school referendum levy process. Provides that the county fiscal body is not required to certify the referendum question. Requires the language of the question for a school referendum tax levy to be approved by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0068 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a town legislative body to adopt a resolution not later than 30 days after a petition is filed for a referendum on changing the town into a city. Provides that the date of the referendum must not be later than the date of the next general or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0328 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies additional information that must be given to a pregnant woman by the physician in order for consent to an abortion to be voluntary and informed. Specifies certain notices that must be given to a pregnant woman in writing at least 18 hours b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0074 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies the notice requirements following court action on a petition to appoint a temporary guardian. Changes the duration of a temporary guardianship from 60 days to 90 days. Authorizes a parent of a minor or a guardian of a protected person to de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0336 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the board of trustees of Purdue University to establish a fire department (Purdue fire department) for the West Lafayette campus, with fire and emergency response and medical services jurisdiction on the West Lafayette campus and streets passi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| SB0082 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a person who will be 18 years old by the date of a general, municipal, or special election is entitled to be a candidate for delegate to a state convention that nominates candidates for offices to be voted on at that general, municipal,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0087 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits dental insurers and health maintenance organizations from requiring dentists to accept certain payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Insurance Committee |
| SB0091 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes: (1) a unified circuit court for Henry County by combining the current judge of the Henry circuit court and the two judges of the Henry superior court into a unified circuit court with three judges; and (2) a unified circuit court for Mad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0354 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a professional preparer that files more than 50 returns in 2012 and more than 10 returns after 2012 for individuals must file the returns electronically in the immediately following calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0361 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the dissemination of specified information as part of: (1) a nursing facility's notification to applicants; (2) the nursing facility preadmission screening program; and (3) the hospital discharge process. Specifies assessments to be complete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0384 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the ballot language for a capital project referendum must first be approved by the department of local government finance (DLGF). (Under current law, the DLGF makes recommendations concerning the ballot language.) Provides that the lang...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
