| SB0404 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the licensing and operation of hunting preserves on which farm raised and released cervidae are hunted. Establishes licensing requirements, inspection requirements, and fees. Exempts licensed hunting preserves from the licensing requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Third reading: Failed for lack of constitutional majority Roll Call 192: yeas 25 and nays 23 |
| SB0272 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a person who holds an alcohol permit for an establishment that provides adult entertainment to: (1) require adult performers to provide proof of age and legal residency; (2) have a policy requiring all employees, including adult performers, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Third reading: Failed for lack of constitutional majority Roll Call 168: yeas 25 and nays 22 |
| SB0109 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires justices of the supreme court and judges of the court of appeals to retire at the age that judges of the circuit and superior courts are required to retire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-04
Senator Zakas removed as coauthor. |
| SB0277 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "agency". Sets forth circumstances under which an agency may release student information to a third party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Second reading: engrossed |
| SB0322 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an eligible school may be accredited by the state board of education or a national or regional accreditation agency that meets the standards adopted by the state board of education. Provides that the department of education may not requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-03
Second reading: engrossed |
| SB0265 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "metropolitan campus". Requires the commission for higher education to designate Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne as a metropolitan campus. Creates an advisory board for a metropolitan campus. Requires a governance agreement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted. |
| SB0353 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the interim study committee on communities to review and study during the 2014 legislative interim certain issues relating to the economic vitality of communities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Senator R. Young added as coauthor. |
| SB0228 | Intro
Sine Die | Urges the legislative council to assign to a study committee during the 2014 legislative interim the topics of whether: (1) it should be illegal to coerce a woman concerning an abortion; (2) an abortion clinic or physician's office that provides abor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted. |
| SB0364 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a riverboat to extend its gambling operations to a riverboat corridor. Requires that a riverboat corridor must be in compliance with all applicable building codes and any safety requirements imposed by the gaming commission. Prohibits the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-30
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0384 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes wagering on video gaming terminals in taverns. Requires the gaming commission to contract with a statewide video gaming operator to conduct video gaming through contracts with licensed taverns. Imposes a video gaming wagering tax of 30% of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0351 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the definition of "qualified service member" for purposes of the military family relief fund law to mean an individual who is: (1) an Indiana resident; (2) a member of the armed forces or the National Guard; and (3) serving on active duty. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| SB0100 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their child is a fundamental right. Prohibits a governmental entity from infringing on that right without demonstrating that the governmental entity's governmental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0232 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to contract for an evaluation of services and support available in Indiana to individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability and a mental illness or addiction, their fam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0279 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an individual, except for certain nonimmigrants, who: (1) attends a high school in Indiana for at least three years; (2) registers as an entering student at or is currently enrolled in a state educational institution not earlier than th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0115 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits dental and vision insurers and health maintenance organizations from requiring dentists and optometrists to accept certain payments unless the health care services are covered services. Prohibits dentists and optometrists from charging for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-24
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0362 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a county to create a county public safety fee, and requires a court to collect the fee from every person convicted of a crime. Requires the court to set the fee based on a person's ability to pay, and provides that the fee must be at least...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Senator Head added as second author. |
| SB0368 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a municipality or county may apply to the budget agency for funding from incremental state sales and income taxes to pay certain costs related to: (1) applying or bidding for selection as the site of a sporting event; (2) planning for o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
Committee report: do pass; reassigned to Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development |
| SB0102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the budget agency to allot the full amount appropriated for Civil War Battle Flags restoration to the war memorials commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0415 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates transactions and agreements between beer wholesalers and suppliers. Requires a beer wholesaler to have a bona fide distribution agreement with each of the beer wholesaler's suppliers. Increases the civil penalty amounts that the alcohol and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-23
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0038 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a nonrefundable tax credit to a small business for employing an individual who is receiving unemployment benefits or returning from military service (qualified new employee). Provides that the small business must employ a greater number of f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0327 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state minimum wage from $7.25 to $10 and the state tipped employee minimum wage from $2.13 to $3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0096 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a public utility that provides water service or wastewater service may establish a utility system improvement program (USIP) to recover costs for eligible utility system improvements. (Current law provides for the establishment of a dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0382 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state department of health to seek authorization from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to administer and enforce, in Indiana, the EPA's program to address lead based paint hazards created by renovation, repair, and painting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0039 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishes the media production expenditure tax credit (which expired in 2012), with certain changes. Provides a refundable tax credit to taxpayers that make qualified production expenditures in Indiana. Provides that the tax credit may be granted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0167 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes provisions that prohibit volunteer firefighters from assuming or holding certain elected offices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0008 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the penalty for battery if it is committed against a person certified as a referee, umpire, or athletic official.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-21
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0020 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a postsecondary proprietary educational institution that: (1) is domiciled and has its principal offices and the majority of its operations in Indiana; (2) provides an organized two year or longer program of collegiate level classes tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Committee report: amended, reassigned to |
| SB0049 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that it is a Class C infraction for a person driving a vehicle overtaking a bicycle to not: (1) allow at least three feet of clearance between the vehicle and the bicycle; and (2) wait to return to the original lane until the vehicle is safe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0068 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides, for purposes of the law on public works projects of state agencies and political subdivisions, including design-build public works projects that: (1) the specifications or design criteria package must specify that all piping materials that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-16
Second reading: engrossed |
| SB0002 | Intro
Sine Die | and Indiana flags. Provides a state sales tax exemption for sales of the flag of the United States or the flag of the state of Indiana. Limits the sales tax exemption to flags that are made in America and: (1) at least three feet by five feet in size...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Senator Broden added as coauthor. |
| SB0184 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a firm permit is required for an accounting practitioner working for a client. Provides that a member of the Indiana board of accountancy may not serve more than three complete consecutive terms. (Current law allows for only two consecu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
To Senate Commerce, Economic Development & Technology Committee |
| SB0191 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a city agency (agency) to provide a public record, without redacting any confidential information in the record, to the city council or to a member of the city council (requestor) for a legislative purpose if the following requirements are m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0066 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a state-assisted retirement plan (plan) for purposes of encouraging Indiana residents to increase their rate of savings and to build assets for the use of a participant or the participant's beneficiaries or survivors after the participant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-15
Senator Grooms added as coauthor. |
| SB0346 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for pharmacist reimbursement for medication therapy management services provided to certain Medicaid recipients beginning July 1, 2015. Sets forth requirements that a pharmacist must meet in order to receive Medicaid reimbursement for medicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0386 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires every person arrested after June 30, 2014, for burglary, residential entry, a crime of violence, or a sex offense to submit a DNA sample, and specifies that the sample may be taken only by buccal swab. Provides for the expungement of a DNA s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0310 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a deed or other instrument of conveyance that transfers an ownership interest in real property from one person to another person shall be recorded by the other person: (1) in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| 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 |
