| SB0089 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the governing body of a school corporation may require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life. Requires the curriculum for the course to include theories from multiple religions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0130 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals certain statutes creating the following boards: (1) Air pollution control. (2) Water pollution control. (3) Solid waste management board (collectively, the repealed boards). Establishes the environmental rules board (consolidated board). Tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Amendment 1 (Wolkins), prevailed; voice vote |
| HB1224 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows patrons to deal the cards in certain poker games conducted at a charity game night. (Current law allows patrons to deal only in euchre games.) Prohibits a patron from playing at a table for which the patron deals the cards. Specifies rules app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Pursuant to Senate Rule 35 (c); Technical Corrections. |
| SB0140 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies when gambling game receipts are considered received by a racetrack casino. Specifies that the general assembly does not acquiesce in any interpretation to the contrary. Provides that a licensee may elect to pay the slot machine wagering tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-29
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| HB1326 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that an "expanded criminal history check," for purposes of education law, requires a national criminal history background check. Eliminates other types of permissible record searches under current law. Provides that prohibitions ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Amendment 3 (Hershman), prevailed; voice vote |
| HB1150 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Indiana family friendly school designation program. Requires the department of education, in consultation with statewide organizations that link family engagement to student achievement, to develop the program. Provides that a school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| SB0327 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes changes concerning registration of vehicles and issuance of license plates. Makes changes concerning the issuance of special group recognition and personalized license plates by the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau). Provides for the bureau to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1365 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes sentencing alternatives for courts with criminal jurisdiction for: (1) offenders who are less than 18 years of age who have been waived from a juvenile court to a court with criminal jurisdiction and who are charged as adult offenders; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-27
Senator Randolph added as cosponsor |
| SB0353 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the commission on state tax and financing policy to study all aspects of the manner in which the state gross retail tax is imposed upon the sale of motor fuel and collected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0344 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies the assessed value for outdoor signs for the 2011 through 2012 assessment dates. Changes the formula for adjusting the maximum permissible capital projects fund levy. Repeals an obsolete adjustment formula. Permits the fiscal body of a city...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0170 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the following are not lucrative offices: (1) Notary public. (2) Membership on a board administered by the professional licensing agency. Provides that an employee of a county, city, town, or township (unit) is considered to have resign...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-21
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| HB1011 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of correction (department) to: (1) determine the average daily marginal cost of incarcerating an offender; (2) determine the average length of stay for certain Class D felony offenders committed to the department; and (3) admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-21
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0321 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit for new expenditures made before January 1, 2018, by a taxpayer for expenditures related to a project that will substantially enhance the logistics industry, create new jobs, preserve existing jobs that otherwise would b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 |
| SB0243 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the law that prohibits the possession or use of a silencer while in the act of hunting. Provides that a person who takes or possesses a deer or wild turkey: (1) unlawfully; (2) by illegal methods; or (3) with illegal devices; while using or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
Representative Eberhart added as cosponsor |
| SB0179 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning with the class of students who enter grade 9 in 2013, requires a student pursuing a Core 40 high school diploma to complete at least one virtual instruction course. Specifies that if the virtual instruction course is provided by the school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-16
Representative Heuer added as cosponsor |
| SB0012 | Engross
Sine Die | Reestablishes the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) and other divisions and offices within FSSA. Removes certain emergency rule making authority previously authorized for the office concerning federal programs administere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-16
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| SB0215 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits a nonprofit corporation serving the homeless that received a property tax exemption for the 2007, 2010, and 2011 assessment dates to file a late property tax exemption application for the 2008 and 2009 assessment dates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-16
Representative Kersey added as cosponsor |
| SB0226 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes until January 1, 2016, the petition and remonstrance process requirements and referendum requirements that under current law must be met before a school corporation with a circuit breaker impact of at least 30% may restructure its debt. Provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-16
Representative Dermody added as cosponsor |
| SB0235 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes until July 1, 2020, a pro bono legal services fee of $1 on parties who file certain civil actions, small claims actions, and probate actions. Requires the pro bono legal services fees to be transferred to the Indiana Bar Foundation as the ent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-16
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 |
| SB0072 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot program in Allen County until July 1, 2015 concerning physical plant requirements for abortion clinics. Requires the state department of health (state department) to: (1) inspect the Allen county abortion clinics at least one time...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-16
Representative Cheatham added as cosponsor |
| SB0355 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a political subdivision may file a petition with the distressed unit appeal board (board) seeking designation of the political subdivision as a distressed political subdivision, based on any one of several failures by the political subd...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-16
Representative Dermody added as cosponsor |
| SB0392 | Engross
Sine Die | Requests the legislative council to assign the issue of state educational grading practices to an appropriate study committee for study.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
Representative Porter added as cosponsor |
| SB0269 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes it a Class A misdemeanor to require an individual to: (1) become or remain a member of a labor organization; (2) pay dues, fees, or other charges to a labor organization; or (3) pay to a charity or another third party an amount that represents ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0277 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines "communities for a lifetime", and specifies characteristics and requirements for communities for a lifetime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0031 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the period during which a qualified service member or dependent may be eligible to receive assistance from the military family relief fund from one year to three years. Provides that a member of the Indiana national guard may be eligible to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Representative Riecken added as cosponsor |
| SB0413 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of educational service center. Repeals provisions relating to the establishment and administration of an educational service agency by the Indiana state board of education (state board). Replaces the definition of textbook with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| SB0312 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Indiana safe schools fund to be used to provide educational outreach and training to school personnel concerning the identification and prevention of and intervention in criminal gang activity. Requires the Indiana department of education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Representatives Porter and Truitt added as cosponsors |
| SB0376 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the parole board from making a clemency recommendation concerning certain inmates convicted of certain serious crimes, and prohibits the parole board from conducting an investigation or holding a hearing concerning these inmates unless requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0361 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that after March 31, 2012, the I- Light network may not be used to offer or provide, directly or indirectly, communications service to the public or to any private or governmental entity. Provides exceptions to this prohibition to allow for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
To House Utilities and Energy Committee |
| SB0350 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals provisions concerning deductions to retail merchants under the E85 reimbursement program. Provides that a motor fuel retail dealer is immune from civil liability for property damages that result from the use in a motor of a motor fuel that wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| SB0083 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each school corporation to include cursive writing in the curriculum of the school corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB0258 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) to establish an alcohol server trainer program. Requires the commission to approve alcohol server trainer programs by third parties. (Current law allows the commission to approve alcohol server t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0337 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a legal entity whose ownership is limited to the parents of an employed child or persons standing in place of the parent of an employed child is not subject to certain provisions of child labor law. Allows a person other than a parent t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0088 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a county auditor may require an individual to provide evidence proving that the individual's residence is the individual's principal place of residence for purposes of the homestead standard deduction. Provides that the county auditor m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0174 | Engross
Sine Die | Effective January 1, 2013, eliminates the requirement that a reorganization committee must be appointed to prepare the reorganization plan as part of a proposed local government reorganization. Provides that the legislative bodies of the reorganizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0334 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a pharmacist, upon request of the patient, to dispense a 90 day supply of a prescription without notifying the prescriber if the prescription, including refills, allows a pharmacist to dispense at least a 90 day supply. Does not allow the addi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0265 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that information on the number and percentage of students meeting academic standards on certain tests be reported on the annual school performance report in the following categories: (1) All students. (2) All students except students who fal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB0010 | 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] | 2012-02-09
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0025 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a redevelopment commission may not enter into any obligation payable from public funds without first obtaining the approval of the legislative or fiscal body of the unit. Provides an exception if the obligation is for the acquisition of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0285 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all civil taxing units subject to nonbinding review to file the information required for the nonbinding review with the county fiscal body on or before September 1 of each year. Requires a county fiscal body to complete the reviews and issue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0303 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits dental insurers and health maintenance organizations from requiring dentists to accept certain payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Insurance Committee |
| SB0308 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends references to federal telecommunications law made obsolete by amendments to the federal law. Repeals the statute that requires the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to determine, under certain circumstances, a successor local telephone exch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Utilities and Energy Committee |
| SB0230 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the worker's compensation board (board) to certify one or more data bases to be used to determine pecuniary liability of an employer or an employer's insurance carrier for a specific service or product covered under worker's compensation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0061 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the sale of alcoholic beverages on the premises of an inn or dining room owned or leased by the department of natural resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1199 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for a phase-out of the inheritance tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
Senator Miller added as cosponsor |
| SB0155 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the board of trustees of a state educational institution may not impose or allow any mandatory or presumptive age limits in the hiring, the retention in a position, or continuation of employment of any officers, faculty, or counsel of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
Representative GiaQuinta added as cosponsor |
| SB0351 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a license for nonresident roe harvesters and dealers. Allows the natural resources commission to establish the minimum application fees for nonresident roe harvester and dealer licenses. Gives residents of Indiana priority in receiving roe ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0248 | Engross
Sine Die | Urges the legislative council to assign to an interim study committee during the 2012 legislative interim the topics of: (1) the use of balanced school calendars by school corporations; and (2) procedures for the implementation or discontinuance of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB0165 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the fiscal body of a county may adopt an ordinance authorizing the county treasurer to accept a minimum bid on real property subject to sale for delinquent taxes equal to the lesser of: (1) the delinquent taxes, penalties, and other rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1241 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits a venture capital investment tax credit that has been certified by the economic development corporation to be applied against tax liability when the qualified investment capital is provided regardless of whether the total amount of tax credit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-07
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
