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SB0256Engross

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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...
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2011-04-21
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee
SB0258Engross

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Establishes the 2011 Indiana congressional district plan. Voids the 2001 congressional district plan adopted by the redistricting commission. Repeals the 1991 congressional district plan.
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2011-04-21
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee
SB0101Engross

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Operator's license and learner's permit issues.
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2011-04-12
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 479: yeas 26, nays 64
SB0222Engross

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Provides an income tax credit for expenditures made by a taxpayer for one or more of the following purposes: (1) Implementing homeland security measures to comply with federal homeland security requirements, as certified by the department of homeland...
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2011-04-04
Representative Yarde added as cosponsor
SB0585Engross

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Allows a certified technology park to capture incremental state income and sales taxes and local income taxes for a business that incubated in the park and then relocates outside the park but within the same county. Phases out the amount of the captu...
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2011-04-04
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
SB0301Engross

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Provides that in all civil, criminal, infraction, and ordinance violation actions, the clerk of the court shall collect an automated record keeping fee in the following amounts: (1) $7 before July 1, 2011; (2) $6 after June 30, 2011, and before July ...
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2011-04-04
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
SB0073Engross

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Provides a thirteenth check to participants of the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan (plan). Provides that the thirteenth check is to be paid, not later than July 1, 2011...
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2011-03-30
Representative Gutwein added as cosponsor
SB0550Engross

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Provides that the legislative body of a unit must approve the budget, the tax levy, spending, bond and debt financing, a lease pertaining to bonds or debt financing, the use of capitalized interest, selling of property, and allocation of excess tax r...
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2011-03-29
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee
SB0010Engross

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Provides that a waiver or release of the right of remonstrance against annexation executed after June 30, 2011, expires ten years after the date the waiver or release is executed.
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2011-03-29
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee
SB0520Engross

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Prohibits the enforcement of a foreign law (defined as a law established and used outside the jurisdiction of the United States) if the enforcement would violate a right granted by the Indiana or United States constitution. Provides that a provision ...
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2011-03-29
Representative Noe added as cosponsor
SB0069Engross

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Provides, with certain exceptions, that when a municipality initiates an annexation, the municipality must file a petition with the court containing the signatures of: (1) at least 60% of the landowners in the territory proposed to be annexed; or (2)...
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2011-03-29
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee
SB0097Engross

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Establishes a procedure by which a company may provide a loan to the plaintiff in an action in exchange for the contingent right to receive a part of the potential proceeds of the action. Provides that a violation of the conditions under which a loan...
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2011-03-29
To House Judiciary Committee
SB0406Engross

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Requires the state school bus committee (committee) to have a regular meeting once each quarter (current law requires a meeting each month). Requires the committee to adopt and enforce rules to require that a person operating a school bus equipped wi...
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2011-03-28
To House Education Committee
SB0156Engross

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Provides that a person may not be convicted of certain offenses relating to intoxication unless the person: (1) endangers the person's life; (2) endangers the life of another person; or (3) breaches the peace or is in imminent danger of breaching the...
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2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
SB0440Engross

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Provides that a fire department, volunteer fire department, or emergency medical services provider that provides fire protection or emergency medical services within the county and is operated by or serves a political subdivision that is not entitled...
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2011-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee
SB0441Engross

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Increases the cost of projects that the department of natural resources may perform without awarding a public works contract from $75,000 to $150,000. Increases the cost of projects that some political subdivisions may perform without awarding a publ...
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2011-03-28
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee
SB0161Engross

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Requires that local public questions be placed on a primary election ballot after the voting instructions and before the offices with candidates for nomination. Requires that public questions be placed on a general election ballot after the voting in...
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2011-03-28
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee
SB0446Engross

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Establishes a process by which charter schools may lease unused, closed, or unoccupied school buildings that are maintained by school corporations and are not being used for classroom instruction.
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2011-03-28
To House Education Committee
SB0166Engross

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Provides that an employee of a county, city, town, or township (unit) is considered to have resigned from employment with the unit if the employee assumes the elected executive office of the unit or becomes an elected member of the unit's legislative...
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2011-03-28
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee
SB0449Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee
SJR0010Engross

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Adds a new section to the Constitution of the State of Indiana to provide that if any Indiana or federal law requires or permits an election for any designation or authorization of employee representation, the right of any individual to vote by secre...
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2011-03-28
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee
SB0174Engross

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Exempts accountable care organizations from the corporate practice of medicine limitation. Includes accountable care organizations in application of the laws concerning medical malpractice and peer review.
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2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee
SB0177Engross

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Allows a county jail or a department of correction facility to return: (1) certain unused medication to the pharmacy that dispensed the medication; and (2) unused medical devices or medical supplies that are used for prescription drug therapy and tha...
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2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee
SB0179Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Local Government Committee
SB0467Engross

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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.
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2011-03-28
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee
SB0192Engross

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Requires the criminal law and sentencing policy study committee to study issues relating to marijuana.
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2011-03-28
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee
SB0196Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee
SB0482Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Education Committee
SB0202Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0486Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee
SB0208Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
SB0212Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
SB0543Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee
SB0498Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Select Committee on Government Reduction
SB0499Engross

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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 ...
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2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
SB0218Engross

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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)....
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2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee
SB0500Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee
SB0552Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee
SB0228Engross

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Repeals the statute that establishes the public officers compensation advisory commission.
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2011-03-28
To House Select Committee on Government Reduction
SB0561Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
SB0240Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee
SB0245Engross

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. 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...
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2011-03-28
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee
SB0584Engross

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Provides a price preference to local Indiana businesses bidding on purchasing and public works contracts awarded by political subdivisions.
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2011-03-28
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee
SB0002Engross

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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.
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2011-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee
SB0260Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Local Government Committee
SB0009Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee
SB0013Engross

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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.
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2011-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee
SB0018Engross

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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...
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2011-03-28
To House Roads and Transportation Committee
SB0023Engross

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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.)
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2011-03-28
To House Select Committee on Government Reduction
SB0024Engross

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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.)
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2011-03-28
To House Public Health Committee
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