| SB0093 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes misdemeanor possession of marijuana from the habitual substance offender sentencing enhancement if the offense involved the possession of 30 grams or less. Makes a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0266 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that persons who have contracts with state government, cities, or counties or who bid on contracts with state government, cities, or counties and certain persons affiliated with the contractors and bidders may not make political contribution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0008 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the attorney general to represent a court that has issued an order of mandate for funds for the operation of the court or court related functions. Prohibits the state from reimbursing a judge for expenses incurred in employing a private atto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0094 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person may not be convicted of certain offenses relating to alcohol intoxication unless the person: (1) endangers the person's life or health; (2) endangers the life or health of another person; or (3) breaches the peace. Makes it a C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0180 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes unlawful possession of a firearm: (1) in or on school property; (2) in or on property that is being used by a school for a school function; or (3) on a school bus; a Class A misdemeanor instead of a Class D felony. Provides that the law concern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0009 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission to issue a three- way permit for the sale of alcoholic beverages to proprietors of restaurants and new restaurants if the restaurant or new restaurant: (1) is located in territory annexed by a city or town; (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0095 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a public servant commits official misconduct if the public servant commits an offense while misusing a power possessed by virtue of state law, or if the public servant commits an offense while appearing to be exercising authority grant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0181 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a state agency, including a state supported college or university, from regulating the possession or transportation of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories: (1) on land that is; or (2) in buildings and other structures that are; own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0096 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes theft: (1) a Class A misdemeanor instead of a Class D felony if the fair market value of the property that is the subject of the theft is less than $750; (2) a Class D felony if the fair market value of the property is at least $750 but less th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0184 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful recording of agricultural operations, a Class A misdemeanor, for a person to: (1) enter real property that is owned by another person and on which agricultural operations are being conducted; and (2) take a photograph of or make a v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0099 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a redistricting commission (commission) to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts. Requires the legislative services agency (agency) to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0185 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances the penalty for battery if it is committed against a security officer while the officer is performing the officer's duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0014 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires (rather than allows) the use of a "rejection threshold" in the case of a proposed local government reorganization involving a county and a municipality. (Under current law, the use of a rejection threshold that must be satisfied by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0100 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for purposes of the Indiana sales and use tax law, a "retail merchant engaged in business in Indiana" includes any retail merchant who: (1) makes retail transactions in which a person acquires personal property or taxable serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0186 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an insurer, upon cancellation of a motor vehicle liability policy that covers a motor vehicle registered in Indiana, to provide certain notice to the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) and the policyholder. Requires the policyholder to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0101 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that it is a Class C infraction for a person driving a vehicle overtaking a bicycle to not allow at least three feet of clearance between the vehicle and the bicycle and not return to the original lane until the vehicle is safely clear of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0187 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum fee a notary public may charge for a notarial act from $2 to $4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Commerce & Economic Development Committee |
| SB0016 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a plaintiff or lienholder who: (1) brings a cause of action for the enforcement of a lien concerning a boat, a vessel, or another watercraft; and (2) recovers a judgment in any sum from the defendant; to also recover from the defendant reasona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0102 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows certain individuals who were convicted of a drug offense but have not been convicted of another drug offense in the previous five years before applying for food stamps to receive food stamps. Permits individuals who have a conviction in the la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0188 | Intro
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] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0017 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that at least 15 days after a petition for dissolution of marriage is filed, a court may enter a summary dissolution decree without holding a hearing if certain verified pleadings are filed with the court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0103 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a public agency to: (1) allow inspection or copying; or (2) make copies; of a public record within a reasonable time after the request is received by the agency. Provides that a court may impose a civil penalty against: (1) an officer of a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0189 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces from ten to one the number of qualified employees that a corporation or pass through entity must employ in order to qualify for the new employer tax credit (credit). Excludes an individual hired as a seasonal worker from the definition of &qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0104 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "serious sex offender". Makes entry on school property by a serious sex offender a Class D felony. Provides that a serious sex offender is entitled to vote by mail. Requires a circuit court clerk to, before an election, notify serio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0278 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates emergency rulemaking for the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) and the office of Medicaid policy and planning concerning: (1) federal Medicaid waiver program provisions; and (2) federal programs administered by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0020 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a supplemental dealer's permit. Provides that a supplemental dealer's permit may be issued only to a holder of a beer, wine, or liquor dealer's permit. Allows the holder of a supplemental dealer's permit to sell alcoholic beverages for carryo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SCR0005 | Intro
Sine Die | Health Insurance Exchanges - Federal Funding (ALEC Resolution).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0106 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a holder of a beer dealer's permit issued to a grocery store or drug store to sell and deliver cold beer that was manufactured in Indiana by a microbrewery in a quantity that does not exceed 864 ounces in a single transaction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0279 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a thirteenth check for public employees' retirement fund (PERF) and teachers' retirement fund (TRF) members, survivors, and beneficiaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0021 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a state employee health benefit plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract that provides coverage for prescription drugs to provide coverage for smoking cessation drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SR0002 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercialism in schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SR0004 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Turkey to eliminate discriminating Ecumenical practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0108 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an elector for President and Vice President of the United States to vote for the candidates of the political party, group of petitioners, or write-in candidate that nominated the elector. Provides that an elector's failure or refusal to vote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0194 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the current law concerning insurance proceeds set aside for structures damaged by fire or explosion and does the following: (1) Requires an insurer to notify the state fire marshal of the existence of a policy covering a structure damaged by f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0281 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that an individual who circulates a petition required to place a candidate or a public question on the ballot must sign an affirmation on each petition page that states, under the penalties for perjury, that the individual has no reason to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0023 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that after June 30, 2012, a person may not: (1) apply manure; or (2) start construction of a confined feeding operation; within two miles of the boundary of a state park or reservoir operated, maintained, or managed by the department of natu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Energy and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0282 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that only a physician who meets certain conditions may administer to a pregnant woman an abortion inducing drug, and sets forth the procedure the physician must follow. Requires a physician who learns of an adverse event following the use o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0196 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a police officer from extracting or otherwise downloading information from a telecommunications device and retaining it as evidence pending trial for a violation of the law concerning typing, transmitting, or reading a text message while op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0197 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that contracts for public works projects may not be awarded to a contractor that does not: (1) employ residents of Indiana as at least 80% of the employees working on the contract; and (2) enter into subcontracts only with subcontractors tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Commerce & Economic Development Committee |
| SB0284 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes definition of "teacher" to remove the requirement that the primary responsibility of a teacher must be instruction of students. Modifies teacher contract cancellation provisions. Changes definition of "evaluator", and prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0112 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that if the tracts of land included as part of one homeowners association are not all subject to the same homeowners association covenants, all the tracts may be made subject to the same covenants if the homeowners association: (1) distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0027 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Indiana department of transportation, before letting a contract for a proposed project that would construct or improve a state highway and require the closure of the state highway for at least five consecutive days, is required to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0199 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the evaluation and termination of all state agencies and programs on a ten year cycle. Requires the school of public and environmental affairs or business schools of Indiana University, Purdue University, Ball State Univers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0028 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a governmental entity that is the beneficiary of a criminal or juvenile restitution order issued by a state or federal court to annually file a payment status report with the court and with the state board of accounts. Provides that the paym...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0200 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a tax credit for homestead property that limits property tax increases to 5% per year (excluding the part of an increase attributable to an improvement or expansion of the homestead property).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0029 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an employee's written consent to an employer's purchase of life or disability insurance covering the employee. Limits the amount payable under the life or disability insurance to the amount of the employee's annual salary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0030 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that after May 1, 2012, a state agency may not adopt a rule that will have a total estimated economic impact of any amount on the state, an instrumentality of the state, or a political subdivision unless the rule is required to comply with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0116 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the exclusive method for removing the designation of a historic district. Provides that a petition requesting the removal of a designation of a historic district may be filed with the legislative body of the unit by the owners of: (1) a buil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0202 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a person from: (1) owning or operating a vehicle equipped with a hidden compartment if the person has the intent to conceal a controlled substance within the hidden compartment; or (2) constructing or installing a hidden compartment in a mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters Committee |
| SB0117 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all nominees for each municipal office must be on the ballot if there is an election for any office of the municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-04
To Senate Elections Committee |
