| HB1555 | Intro
Sine Die | Notice of health exchange coverage grace period. Requires a health benefit exchange carrier to provide certain notice to providers, upon request, related to coverage for health care services furnished during a grace period. Specifies requirements for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1607 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of local government finance. Requires the department of local government finance to adopt a rule when the department is establishing an administrative policy or requirement that will apply to all taxing units in the state. Makes a technica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1582 | Intro
Sine Die | Retirement medical benefits account. Extends the period during which a participant in the retirement medical benefits account qualifies for an additional contribution to the participant's subaccount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1530 | Intro
Sine Die | Hiring preferences for veterans. Provides for a voluntary veterans' preference policy for hiring, promoting, or retaining a veteran in private employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1592 | Intro
Sine Die | Early voting; vote centers. Provides that in a county having a consolidated city, the executive of the city and not the county election board determines: (1) whether satellite offices for absentee voting are to be established during an election year;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1587 | Intro
Sine Die | Claim deadlines. Removes provisions barring certain claims filed against a decedent's estate more than nine months after the date of the decedent's death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1554 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospital liens. Amends the law concerning hospital liens to allow a hospital lien to apply to a judgment, cause of action, suit, or claim accruing to a patient under: (1) a policy of disability insurance; or (2) automobile or homeowner's insurance th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1535 | Intro
Sine Die | Harassment. Makes it harassment, a Class B misdemeanor, for a person to, with intent to harass, annoy, defame, ridicule, or alarm another person but with no intent of legitimate communication: (1) make a telephone call, whether or not a conversation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1567 | Intro
Sine Die | Loans for abandoned or foreclosed homes. Establishes the abandoned or foreclosed property rehabilitation financing program (program) to provide rehabilitation loans to finance the purchase and rehabilitation of abandoned or foreclosed property. Provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1573 | Intro
Sine Die | Abandoned structure liens. Provides that a person who repairs, cleans up, or maintains a neighboring abandoned structure is entitled to a lien on the property, not to exceed the lesser of: (1) the fair market value of the work performed; or (2) $10,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1556 | Intro
Sine Die | Translations of intercepted communications. Provides that if the contents of a recorded interception of an electronic communication include language of a person who is speaking in a language other than English, the superintendent of the state police ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1538 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of dams. Provides that in determining the hazard classification of a dam, the department of natural resources (department) may consider only the potential consequences resulting from the uncontrolled release of a dam's contents due to a fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1498 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonphotograph BMV identification documents. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles to issue driver's licenses, permits, and identification cards without a photograph if the applicant for the license, permit, or identification card has a sincerely held...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1569 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit time for behavior management programs. Requires the department of correction to establish, implement, and maintain an offender behavior management program. Provides that an offender who completes the behavior management program may receive cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1591 | Intro
Sine Die | Convenience business employee safety. Sets requirements for security features for employees of convenience businesses that are open between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., and makes the failure to follow the requirements a Class B misdemeanor. Requires the commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1532 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid and members of the military. Allows an individual who is: (1) an active member of the armed services of the United States or the national guard; (2) a legal Indiana resident; and (3) assigned for duty or deployed outside of Indiana; to maint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1600 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of consumer reports by employers. Prohibits an employer from using a consumer report for employment purposes unless certain conditions apply. Allows a consumer to bring a civil action against an employer for a violation of this provision. Provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1523 | Intro
Sine Die | Ordinance enforcement. Permits a city, town, or county (unit) to establish an ordinance violation court to adjudicate ordinance or code violations committed within the unit. Establishes the powers and duties of the court, and provides that the only c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1595 | Intro
Sine Die | Truancy and runaways. Repeals provisions allowing juvenile courts to modify disposition orders concerning truancy and runaways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1515 | Intro
Sine Die | Proof of financial responsibility. Revises requirements for requests by the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) for evidence of financial responsibility following an accident or a judgment or conviction for a violation of a motor vehicle law. Provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1513 | Intro
Sine Die | Auto insurance advertising. Prohibits certain information to be printed in a font that is smaller than the font used for the main text of the advertisement for coverage under a motor vehicle insurance policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1054 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher education co-op and internship programs. Establishes the Indiana cooperative education pilot program. Establishes the Indiana cooperative education pilot program fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1575 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for new small businesses. Provides that a taxpayer that is a qualified small business startup is entitled to a graduated tax credit against adjusted gross income tax liability. Defines a "qualified small business startup" as a business tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1526 | Intro
Sine Die | Historical writings in school curriculum. Provides that a school corporation shall include certain historical writings in the school corporation's American history and social studies curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Education Committee |
| HB1598 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical history forms. Prohibits the medical licensing board of Indiana from requiring a physician to obtain a completed medical history from a patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1572 | Intro
Sine Die | Sewer rates for multipurpose buildings. For purposes of thestatute governing sanitation districts in certain municipalities, providesthat in establishing sewer fees, a district must provide for: (1) the apportionment or proration of fees assessed wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Local Government Committee |
| HB1529 | Intro
Sine Die | Statutory construction. Makes the intent element for a criminal act "knowingly or intentionally" if the statute defining the crime does not specify the required intent. Provides that operating while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle while int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1518 | Intro
Sine Die | Support for postsecondary educational expenses. Provides that a child support order or educational support order may not include amounts for a child's educational expenses at a postsecondary educational institution unless the party to whom the order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1596 | Intro
Sine Die | School resource officer training. Requires all law enforcement training academies to include instruction on youth and adolescent development, age appropriate interactions, and deescalation techniques as part of basic training curriculums. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1574 | Intro
Sine Die | Automatic and semiautomatic weapons. Makes the manufacture, importation into Indiana, sale, purchase, possession, or transfer of an automatic weapon or a convertible semiautomatic weapon a Level 5 felony. Makes the manufacture, importation into India...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1580 | Intro
Sine Die | Designated wild areas. Provides that 13 specified areas within certain state forests are designated wild areas. Specifies certain activities that are prohibited or allowed within a designated wild area. Establishes responsibilities for the department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1593 | Intro
Sine Die | Automated record keeping fee. Provides that, with certain exceptions, the $5 automated record keeping fee (fee) collected by the clerk of a circuit court after June 30, 2015, is distributed as follows: (1) 20% of the fee is distributed to the auditor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1522 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile placement. Provides that the department of child services is responsible for payment of expenses for housing or services for the benefit of a child placed by a juvenile court in a home or facility located outside Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| HB1570 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of TIF proceeds for public safety. Provides that a redevelopment commission outside Marion County may use tax increment finance (TIF) proceeds to pay expenses related to public safety or to make transfers of revenue to assist a county or municipa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1571 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium co-owners meetings. Provides that the bylaws of a condominium association must include a requirement that specifies that any co-owners' meeting that is called must be open to all of the co-owners to attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1517 | Intro
Sine Die | Municipal elections. Provides that a voter who resides in a municipality's buffer zone is entitled to vote for the elected officials of that municipality unless the municipality adopts an ordinance that surrenders the municipality's zoning jurisdicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1527 | Intro
Sine Die | Publication of proposed budgets. Provides that a political subdivision shall publish its budgets and related notices both in a newspaper and electronically on the computer gateway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Local Government Committee |
| HB1175 | Intro
Sine Die | Companion animal sterilization program. Requires that a dog or a cat in an animal care facility be spayed or neutered before being adopted. Defines an "animal care facility" as an animal control center, an animal shelter, a humane society, or another...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Referenda for controlled projects and school levies. Provides that a referendum on a controlled project may be held only at a general election, if the preliminary determination to issue bonds or enter into a lease for the controlled project is made a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1550 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway worker death and injury benefits. Provides that the Indiana highway work zone solidarity fund is established to pay benefits under this chapter to or on behalf of highway workers who are injured or killed while on duty in a covered highway wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1559 | Intro
Sine Die | Special prosecutor's office. Establishes the office of the special prosecutor for civilian and police affairs to investigate cases in which a police officer is alleged to have killed or seriously injured an unarmed person. Requires the office to rand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1502 | Intro
Sine Die | Schools as polling sites. Provides that a school that is used as a polling place may not provide instruction to students on the day of the election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1528 | Intro
Sine Die | Right to jury in certain administrative proceedings. Provides that a person seeking judicial review of the final revocation of a professional license has the right to a jury trial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1563 | Intro
Sine Die | Reporting of methamphetamine offenses. Requires courts to report methamphetamine related convictions to the state police department. Requires the state police department to report methamphetamine related convictions to the National Association of Dru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1597 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual misconduct with a minor. Removes the defense to the crime of sexual misconduct with a minor that the accused person reasonably believed that the child was at least 16 years of age at the time of the conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1544 | Intro
Sine Die | High school career and technical programs. Provides that a high school may: (1) offer a career or technical program that is not offered by a career and technical center located in the same county; and (2) allow students from other high schools in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Education Committee |
| HB1560 | Intro
Sine Die | PERF military service credit. Provides that, after June 30, 2015, an active member of the public employees' retirement fund is entitled to receive, under certain conditions, service credit for the member's active duty service in the armed forces of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1533 | Intro
Sine Die | Rape issues. Provides that a person commits rape if the person engages in sexual activity without the affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in the sexual activity. Increases the minimum sentence for rape as a Level 3 felony to six...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1536 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax holiday. Provides a sales and use tax exemption each year beginning on the second Friday of August 2015 and August 2016 through the following Sundays (sales tax holiday) for the following items: (1) Clothing, if the sales price does not exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1608 | Intro
Sine Die | Deduction for investment interest. Allows an individual to subtract investment interest payments in the calculation of the individual's Indiana adjusted gross income if the investment interest payments are: (1) made with respect to tangible property ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
