| SB0373 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the state board of education may not adopt as standards for the state any common core standards developed by the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Voids any action taken to adopt common core standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-12
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1373 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that certain individuals may file a motion for judicial review of a financing statement to determine if the document is fraudulent. Allows a court to order certain actions if a financing statement is fraudulent. Makes it a Class A misdemeano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1374 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a municipal legislative body to impose by ordinance a municipal food and beverage tax. Provides that the tax may not exceed 1% of the gross retail income received from retail food and beverage transactions. Provides that the tax does not a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1340 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the motor vehicle review board (board) to assist the secretary of state in matters related to motor vehicle dealers, manufacturers, and distributors, including the adjudication of unfair practices. Provides that proceedings of the board a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1320 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that at least one psychiatrist or psychologist must be appointed by a court to examine a defendant who raises the defense of insanity. (Current law requires that at least one psychiatrist must be appointed.) Provides a court appointed psychi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1281 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person assisting a voter in filling out an absentee ballot application may not assist the voter in completing the part of the application that states the reason the voter is entitled to vote an absentee ballot unless the voter is a vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1300 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the population threshold at which a city qualifies to become a first class city to 1,500,000. Establishes a process for deconsolidation of a consolidated city if the population of the consolidated city becomes less than the number that defines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Local Government Committee |
| HB1351 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a provider to collect a Medicaid spend down balance from a Medicaid recipient at the time services are rendered. Requires the provider to report the amount of the spend down collected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1364 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts military retirement pension income from the adjusted gross income tax. Makes technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the number of student instructional days from 180 to 183. Provides that the definition of student instructional time includes up to three student instructional days each school year for use as professional development time. Provides that a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1345 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the department of local government finance under certain circumstances to cancel property taxes imposed on: (1) a nonprofit corporation organized for educational, literary, scientific, religious, or charitable purposes; or (2) any other entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1357 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that sales of textbooks are exempt from the state sales tax if: (1) the textbooks are required for an undergraduate course at an accredited college or university; and (2) the purchaser is a student enrolled in an accredited college or univer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1306 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a property owner (an owner of real property, a mobile home assessed as personal property, or a manufactured home assessed as personal property) of property located in a political subdivision may vote in a referendum on whether the polit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Local Government Committee |
| HB1274 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that petitions for candidates for the offices of United States Senator, governor, or President of the United States precede the declarations of candidacy for those offices. (Under current law, the petitions must accompany the declarations of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1338 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a law enforcement officer who demands to see the certificate of registration for a motor vehicle to permit the person to whom the motor vehicle is registered to sign the certificate of registration if the certificate is unsigned and the pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1319 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to determine and fix just, affordable, and reasonable utility rates if the IURC finds utility rates are unjust, unaffordable, or unreasonable. (Current law requires the IURC to determine and f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Utilities and Energy Committee |
| HB1293 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum Vigo County innkeeper's tax rate that may be imposed by the county council from 5% to 8%. Phases in the increase over six years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1370 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive board of the state department of health to adopt rules to regulate registered medicinal marijuana cardholders, medicinal marijuana dispensaries, and registered medicinal marijuana dispensary employees. Provides that marijuana c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1363 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a property tax deduction, not to exceed $25,000 in assessed value per year, relating to secure storage of fertilizers and pesticides that could be used for terrorism or illegal drug manufacturing. Specifies that the deduction is available fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1350 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the department of education shall develop the rewarding innovation, technology, and excellence program (RITE) to provide grants rewarding schools that have exhibited improvement toward benchmarks established by the state board of educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1331 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Indiana companion animal sterilization fund (fund) and the Indiana companion animal sterilization program (program) under the administration of the board of veterinary medical examiners to reimburse veterinary services providers who p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| HB1356 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of transportation (INDOT) and the board of a regional transportation authority to develop a pilot program to explore alternative highway funding methods. Provides that money in the state highway fund may be used to pay for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1286 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusts the maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levy limit of a civil taxing unit to restore the amount of unused maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levy that the civil tax unit would have if no changes in the definition of "max...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1318 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes standards for the use of restraint and seclusion in schools. Requires parental notification when restraint or seclusion is imposed on a student. Imposes reporting requirements for school corporations. Requires training for certain school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1337 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires for the electronic transmission of certain governmental information instead of transmitting paper documents. Provides that the local Indiana business preference applies to a contract for a purchase made by a political subdivision only if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1292 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the homestead of a married individual who lives in a separate principal place of residence other than the residence of the individual's spouse is eligible for the standard homestead deduction and other tax reductions for a homestead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1344 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that legislator members of the commission for a drug free Indiana are voting members. (Under current law, the legislator members are nonvoting members.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1369 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the sales tax exemption for research and development equipment to include any tangible personal property used for research and development. Increases the percentage of qualified research conducted in Indiana through a public or private colleg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1362 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to compile and report to the public information received from school corporations concerning student disciplinary actions, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, and discipline categories. Provides that if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1311 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a state educational institution that is a Division 1 member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (division 1 educational institution) to renew an athletic scholarship at an amount that is at least the amount awarded to the student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1330 | Intro
Sine Die | Restates the exception for certain goods and services to the laws governing minority and women's business enterprises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a 100% property tax assessed value deduction for a solar power device used to generate electricity that is installed after December 31, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1355 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for a brewer manufacturing not more than 30,000 barrels of beer in a calendar year to sell and deliver beer to a retailer or a dealer, any barrels sold and shipped outside Indiana are excluded from the 30,000 barrel limit. Provides that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1304 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a licensed owner to submit a plan for the construction of an inland casino in Gary for the gaming commission's approval. Allows only one of the two Gary riverboat gambling operations to be relocated. Imposes a $25,000,000 relocation fee. Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1336 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds prosecuting attorneys to the list of entities that are to be served with a petition to expunge arrest records. Adds requirements for a person to petition to restrict access to conviction records. Changes requirements for a court to grant a petit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1317 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that after December 31, 2012, in each county: (1) the county fiscal body is the fiscal body and legislative body of each township in the county; and (2) the county fiscal body shall exercise the legislative and fiscal powers assigned in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1368 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines military dependent. Provides that a military dependent, whose spouse, parent, or legal guardian: (1) is currently serving on active duty in an active component of the armed forces; (2) designated Indiana as their home of record at the time of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1361 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to develop standards for cultural competency teacher training. Requires that a school corporation's plan for annual performance evaluations must include measures of cultural responsive methods in instructional and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1310 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the commission on improving the status of children in Indiana (commission). Requires certain departments, agencies, and boards to submit an annual report concerning the status of children to the commission by June 30 of each year and to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| HB1278 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to adopt emergency rules amending the IURC's net metering and interconnection rules for electric utilities to: (1) make net metering available to all customer classes; (2) allow a net metering custome...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Utilities and Energy Committee |
| HB1343 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of child services (department) to submit annually a report to the legislative council concerning turnover rates and information relating to the turnover of caseworkers. Requires the department to submit annually: (1) an affida...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| HB1297 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit for new expenditures made before January 1, 2019, 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 b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1348 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an individual who has been convicted of a felony involving a controlled substance and who has completed or is participating in certain substance abuse treatment programs may receive assistance under the federal Supplemental Nutrition As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0305 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that: (1) an average daily membership (ADM) count of students enrolled in a public school in grades K-12 must be taken during the school year in September and January; and (2) state tuition support must be distributed based on the latest cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1354 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows small brewers to participate in a trade show or an exposition at which products of each small brewer participant are displayed, promoted, and sold. Provides that the approval of the alcohol and tobacco commission is required for a small brewer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1284 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a petition of nomination filed with a county voter registration office must contain the original signatures of voters, and not photocopies or other reproductions of signatures. Permits county vote center plans to use other titles to des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1303 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Gary city council to impose a municipal employment opportunity tax upon nonresident individuals who work in Gary. Provides that the tax may not exceed 1% of the individual's adjusted gross income derived from the covered individual's p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1219 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the following parental initiatives for school reorganization: (1) The conversion of an existing public school into a charter school. (2) A petition to have the state board of education consider intervention in the school. Repeals current ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| HB1335 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the medical education board to establish an education program for first year medical students that addresses health disparities and the disproportional access to health care services affecting racial and ethnic minority groups in Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1316 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the adjusted gross income tax deduction for unreimbursed expenditures made in connection with a dependent child's enrollment in a nonpublic school or accredited nonpublic school applies only to a taxable year beginning in 2011. For taxa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
