IN Legislation | 2014 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB0388	Intro Sine Die	Authorizes the Gary based riverboats to move inland within the city of Gary. Requires an inland casino to comply with all applicable building codes and any safety requirements imposed by the gaming commission. Provides that a licensed owner may not s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Public Policy Committee
SB0299	Intro Sine Die	Establishes the Hoosier military women and women veterans program to provide information and services to Indiana's military women and women veterans. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee
SB0400	Intro Sine Die	Provides that a bias motivated crime is an offense in which the person who committed the offense intentionally: (1) selected the person who was injured; or (2) damaged or otherwise affected property; by the offense because of the actual or perceived ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0315	Intro Sine Die	After June 30, 2014, increases the state minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50. After June 30, 2015, increases the state minimum wage from $8.50 to $10. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0369	Intro Sine Die	Expands Medicaid coverage for specified individuals. Requires the department of insurance to create a state health benefit exchange in Indiana. Requires the legislative services agency to prepare legislation for introduction in the 2015 legislative s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0325	Intro Sine Die	Adds certain visual impairments to the definition of birth problems for purposes of reporting to the birth problems registry. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0318	Intro Sine Die	Increases the penalties imposed on an employer whose violation of the state common construction wage law or minimum wage law involves an employee who is an illegal alien. Provides that a determination by a federal immigration agency that an alien has... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0383	Intro Sine Die	Changes the definition of income for purposes of the income tax credit for property taxes paid on homesteads in Lake County from employee and self-employment earned income to Indiana adjusted gross income. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0361	Intro Sine Die	Provides that a game breeder's license may be issued to permit: (1) the training of hunting dogs; and (2) the conducting of field trials; within a game breeder enclosure for certain game birds, game mammals, and furbearing mammals protected by Indian... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB0336	Intro Sine Die	Requires the division of preparedness and training within the Indiana department of homeland security to develop and administer a program to license persons who operate unmanned aerial systems. Provides that a person who operates an unmanned aerial s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee
SB0319	Intro Sine Die	Allows a caller who: (1) is legitimately engaged in the gathering of information; (2) contacts a subscriber only for the purpose of conducting a survey to gather information; (3) is registered with the attorney general on forms prescribed by the offi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Commerce, Economic Development & Technology Committee
SB0413	Intro Sine Die	Prohibits the county office of the division of family resources from considering the value of any assets when determining an individual's eligibility for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Requires the division of family resources t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0389	Intro Sine Die	Requires public schools, including charter schools, to offer a preschool education program, or to contract with a provider to provide a preschool education program, for children who are at least four years of age but less than five years of age. Prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0358	Intro Sine Die	Provides that where: (1) a municipal utility is providing service to properties located outside the municipality under contracts requiring the owners of the properties to make payments in lieu of annexation; and (2) the contracts expire; the municipa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0320	Intro Sine Die	Establishes the interim study committee on juvenile justice to review and study certain issues relating to juvenile justice during the 2014 legislative interim. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0418	Intro Sine Die	Provides that a redevelopment commission (commission) may not enter into any obligation payable from public funds without first obtaining the approval of the fiscal body of the unit that established the commission. Provides an exception if the obliga... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0355	Intro Sine Die	After December 31, 2016, reestablishes the state board of education (state board) consisting of: (1) the state superintendent of public instruction; (2) one member elected from each Indiana congressional district; and (3) a teacher, principal, and sc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0333	Intro Sine Die	Amends the statute concerning the location and protection of underground utility facilities (facilities) during excavation or demolition activities to change a reference to "hydroexcavators" to "hydraulic excavators" to more accurately describe equip... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Utilities Committee
SB0399	Intro Sine Die	Requires the environmental rules board to adopt rules requiring each county, city, or town that collects solid waste for disposal to charge households for solid waste collection service on a "pay as you throw basis" under which the fee is higher for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0283	Intro Sine Die	Increases the assessed value cap (from $143,160 to $195,600) that applies to the property tax deduction for a veteran who: (1) has a total disability; or (2) has at least a 10% disability and is at least 62 years of age. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 Withdraw SB 283
SB0347	Intro Sine Die	Provides that business personal property acquired after June 30, 2014, is exempt from property assessment and taxation. Provides a state income tax credit for property taxes paid on business personal property. Specifies that the credit percentage is ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0370	Intro Sine Die	Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid state plan amendment or a demonstration waiver to allow the office of the secretary to purchase for certain individuals coverage by a qualified health plan thr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0391	Intro Sine Die	Divides Indiana into nine hydrological regions, each of which contains certain specified counties. Establishes for each hydrological region: (1) a regional water management council consisting of the chairpersons of the drainage board and the soil and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0307	Intro Sine Die	Provides that the Indiana department of transportation (rather than the Indiana economic development corporation): (1) is responsible for approving tax credits for qualified logistics investments under the Hoosier business investment tax credit; and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0280	Intro Sine Die	Provides that in certain circumstances, a tenant in a residential rental agreement may provide for repairs to be made to the dwelling unit and deduct the cost of the repairs from the tenant's rent. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Civil Law Committee
SB0328	Intro Sine Die	Provides that a minority student who participates in a school administration internship as part of the student's graduate degree program is eligible to receive a stipend from the student teaching stipend for minorities. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0356	Intro Sine Die	Establishes the water management authority as an agency of state government. Requires the governor to appoint an administrator of the authority (administrator). Provides for the adoption and implementation of a statewide water management plan. Provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0412	Intro Sine Die	Authorizes the department of state revenue, the department of labor, the worker's compensation board, and the department of workforce development to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of records and to question witness... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee
SB0309	Intro Sine Die	Makes materials, compounds, mixtures, and preparations that contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine schedule III controlled substances subject to being dispensed only by a prescription. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0365	Intro Sine Die	Provides that a school is subject to certain consequences after the first and second years in which the school remains in the lowest accountability category or designation following the school's initial placement in the lowest accountability category... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0402	Intro Sine Die	Provides that a person who is an inmate assigned to a correctional facility operated by: (1) the state; or (2) a political subdivision of the state; may not file a petition for waiver of a fee for reinstatement of the person's driver's license if the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0253	Intro Sine Die	Designates the northwest Indiana law enforcement academy as a criminal justice agency, and specifies that it is a board certified training center. Defines the powers and duties of the board. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0392	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]	2014-01-14 To Senate Elections Committee
SB0341	Intro Sine Die	Provides that a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal Child Care and Development Fund voucher program: (1) is eligible to participate in the program if the child's family income does not exceed 200% of the federal income po... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0360	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 file annually a payment status report with the court and with the state board of accounts. Provides that the paym... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0371	Intro Sine Die	Provides that: (1) it is an unlawful employment practice to pay wages that are discriminating based on sex, race, or national origin for the same or equivalent jobs; and (2) the civil rights commission has jurisdiction for investigation and resolutio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee
SB0372	Intro Sine Die	Requires certain information to be included on the outside envelope of mailings sent to Medicaid recipients by the office of Medicaid policy and planning or by a contractor of the office. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0417	Intro Sine Die	Prohibits a law enforcement agency from retaining license plate data captured by an automated license plate reader unless: (1) a comparison of the plate data with a data base shows that the data is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation, the l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee
SB0381	Intro Sine Die	Amends the statute concerning electricity suppliers' service area assignments to provide new procedures by which a municipally owned electric utility may petition the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to change the municipally owned electric utili... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Utilities Committee
SB0407	Intro Sine Die	Provides that certain duties imposed on the Lake Michigan marina and shoreline development commission under current law are discretionary powers rather than duties. Provides that, instead of being required to report on its activities to the governor ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB0414	Intro Sine Die	Requires a health facility to obtain a national criminal history background check or an expanded criminal history check for the health facility's employees. Provides immunity to persons: (1) for denying or terminating employment because of another pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Civil Law Committee
SB0301	Intro Sine Die	Prohibits political subdivisions from: (1) regulating the possession, carrying, transportation, sale, purchase, transfer, licensing, registration, or use of a knife or the components used to make a knife; and (2) adopting an ordinance, a rule, or a p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Public Policy Committee
SB0373	Intro Sine Die	Provides that a court may admit a defendant to bail by establishing the bail amount and requiring the defendant to execute a bail bond by selecting one of the following options: (1) Executing a cash bond by depositing cash or securities or by making ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0374	Intro Sine Die	Establishes the traumatic brain injury task force within the office of the secretary of family and social services. Requires the task force to establish a comprehensive statewide plan to address the needs of individuals with brain injuries and the in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0314	Intro Sine Die	Authorizes the licensed cultivation and production of industrial hemp in accordance with rules adopted by the department of agriculture. Makes possession of less than two ounces of marijuana a Class C infraction. Makes possession of more than two oun... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0379	Intro Sine Die	Extends the income tax credit for small employers who provide a qualified wellness program for their employees. Provides that the credit may be claimed for costs in 2012 through 2015. (Current law provides that costs incurred after 2011 are not eligi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0323	Intro Sine Die	Amends the law under which the director of the department of natural resources may recover damages from a person for causing the death of wild animals through a release of waste materials or chemicals to provide that the director may not recover dama... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
SB0324	Intro Sine Die	Provides that items consisting entirely or primarily of paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum, or plastic may not be disposed of or incinerated in a final disposal facility. Authorizes the environmental rules board to adopt rules. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0410	Intro Sine Die	Provides for an annual cost of living adjustment for members (and the survivors or beneficiaries of a member) of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) and the teachers' retirement fund (TRF) equal to the quotient of: (1) the product of the tot... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0416	Intro Sine Die	Repeals a provision allowing a school employer to deduct union dues from a teacher's salary. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-01-14 To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee