| HB1324 | Intro
Sine Die | Agricultural land assessments. Provides that for purposes of the March 1, 2015, assessment date, the statewide agricultural land base rate value per acre used to determine the value of agricultural land is $2,050 per acre (the base rate used for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1291 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle license excise surtax. Deletes the requirement in current law that a county may only impose the motor vehicle license excise surtax at the same rate or amount on each motor vehicle. Authorizes counties to: (1) impose the surtax at the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1205 | Intro
Sine Die | State gross retail tax. Specifies that the double direct test for the gross retail tax exemption for agricultural machinery, tools, and equipment applies to agricultural machinery, tools, and equipment that is acquired for the direct use in the direc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1306 | Intro
Sine Die | Township assistance. Urges the legislative council to assign to a study committee, in the 2015 interim, certain study topics related to the funding and delivery of township assistance in a township for which the township assistance property tax rate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1345 | Intro
Sine Die | Administration of standardized tests in schools. Provides that the department of education (department) may not require the students in a school corporation, a charter school, a school, or a grade or class in a school to complete a required statewide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1252 | Intro
Sine Die | Sentencing for habitual drug dealers. Provides that a person who is convicted of dealing certain drugs may be sentenced as a habitual drug dealer if the person has two prior unrelated convictions for dealing certain drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1267 | Intro
Sine Die | Aviation taxes. Provides that: (1) aviation fuel excise tax revenue; and (2) sales and use tax revenue attributable to the sale of aircraft; are to be deposited in the airport development grant fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1129 | Intro
Sine Die | Prekindergarten education. Expands the prekindergarten pilot program to include 13 counties that were selected as finalist counties by the office of the secretary of family and social services but were not selected as one of the five initial pilot co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Private certifying organizations. Establishes a procedure for individuals to apply to the professional licensing agency (agency) to allow qualified individuals to become state certified and be placed on the electronic registry of professions. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Study of Medicaid payments to out-of-state providers. Urges the legislative council to require the public health, behavioral health, and human services interim study committee to study during the 2015 legislative interim the topic of appropriate Medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Merger of public benefit corporations. Allows a public benefit corporation to merge with a state educational institution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| HB1292 | Intro
Sine Die | DNR director authority over dewatering wells. Amends the law concerning the emergency regulation of ground water rights to: (1) include within the definition of "dewatering well" a water well or pump system that is used as part of a mining project to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1309 | Intro
Sine Die | Dissolution of township government. Provides that on January 1, 2019, in all counties (except Marion County) the following occur: (1) All township governments are dissolved and all township powers and duties are transferred to the county (including t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1241 | Intro
Sine Die | Publication of health care charges. Requires physicians and health facilities to make health care charge information available to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax deductions. Provides an income tax deduction for all retirement or survivor's benefits that are received by a resident individual taxpayer for service in an active or reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1105 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax refunds in disaster areas. Provides that a person who is the owner of a building that is located in a county declared a disaster area under federal law and that is damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster occurring after December 31, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1347 | Intro
Sine Die | Definition of adjusted gross income. Eliminates the adjustment based on the federal deduction for amounts spent on certain depreciable property under Section 179 of the Internal Revenue Code in the definition of "adjusted gross income" for purposes o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1218 | Intro
Sine Die | Various education matters. Makes comprehensive revisions to the Indiana Code relating to all aspects of the administration of schools and school corporations and the education of students from prekindergarten through grade 12. Repeals various obsolet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1343 | Intro
Sine Die | Restorative justice. Specifies that a juvenile court may require, as part of: (1) a program of informal adjustment; or (2) a dispositional decree; that a delinquent child who has committed an act that would be a crime if committed by an adult partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1244 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms on business premises. Permits a person to bring an action for damages against a business entity having a policy of barring possession of a firearm on the entity's property, if: (1) the person suffers a loss due to criminal activity on the en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1246 | Intro
Sine Die | Police pension exemption. Provides that an individual's Indiana adjusted gross income excludes income that is attributable to a pension or other benefit received from the 1925 police pension fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1344 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' issues. Requires the county executive of Marion County to employ a county service officer. Changes the definition of "qualified service member" for purposes of the military family relief fund law to mean an individual who: (1) is: (A) an In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1330 | Intro
Sine Die | Bias motivated crimes. Defines "bias motivated crime" as the crime of battery, aggravated battery, strangulation, kidnapping, criminal confinement, robbery, arson, criminal mischief, burglary, residential entry, criminal trespass, theft, criminal con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1201 | Intro
Sine Die | State board of education. Provides that the state board of education has 13 members. (Currently, the board has 11 members.) Sets forth qualifications for members appointed by the governor. Makes transitional provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1322 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for school curricular materials. Provides a refundable income tax credit for an unreimbursed curricular materials expenditure made by a taxpayer for an eligible dependent who is enrolled in a public school or a private school or who receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1245 | Intro
Sine Die | Election audit procedures. Requires that in a precinct using an electronic voting system, the number of votes cast must be reconciled with the number of voters who have received a ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1277 | Intro
Sine Die | Wagering taxes. Provides that a riverboat located in a historic hotel district is subject to a wagering tax of 5% of the riverboat's adjusted gross receipts rather than the graduated tax imposed under current law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1227 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway funding and motor fuel taxation. Increases the amount of sales tax collections to be deposited in the motor vehicle highway account from 1% to 2%. Decreases the amount deposited in the state general fund by 1%. Indexes the gasoline and specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | State board of accounts. Specifies that the state board of accounts shall hold an exit conference that includes the officer or chief executive officer of the state office, municipality, or entity examined, any employees or agents of the state office,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1331 | Intro
Sine Die | Pharmacy dispensing coverage. A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning insurance
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1260 | Intro
Sine Die | Tourism. Appropriates $4,000,000 annually to the office of tourism development (office). Requires the office to prepare a report that summarizes the economic impact of the appropriation. Creates the partnership council and the partnership council fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1229 | Intro
Sine Die | Anatomical gifts. Requires an individual who harvests human bone, skin, tissue, heart valves, ligaments, or tendons to register with the medical licensing board. Provides that if a person authorized to make an anatomical gift objects to the making of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Redistricting commission. 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 servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Real estate brokers and broker companies. Defines "broker company" as a partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or individual acting as a sole proprietorship that is licensed as a broker and, for consideration, undertakes or offers to un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| HB1328 | Intro
Sine Die | Liens on real property. Provides that if: (1) a person intends to acquire a lien on real property after June 30, 2015; and (2) there is no requirement under any other state law that the person or another person must notify the owner of the real prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1325 | Intro
Sine Die | Resident tuition rate. Provides that an individual authorized by the United States Department of Homeland Security to be present in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is eligible to pay the resident tuition rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1238 | Intro
Sine Die | RITE program grants. Provides that the education roundtable, with approval by the state board of education, shall develop the rewarding innovation, technology, and excellence (RITE) program to award grants to school corporations whose schools have ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB1339 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional Tipton County CAGIT rate. Authorizes Tipton County to impose an additional county adjusted gross income tax (CAGIT) rate of not more than 0.4%. Provides that revenue from the additional tax rate may be used only to: (1) pay the costs of fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1190 | Intro
Sine Die | Minority student teaching stipend. 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 minorit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| HB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | Charity gaming operations. Allows an operator of or a worker at a charity gaming event (other than a full-time employee of the qualified organization conducting the event) to receive remuneration for conducting or assisting in conducting the event. P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1167 | Intro
Sine Die | Targeted business personal property tax exemption. Provides that a county income tax council may designate a geographic territory within a county in which the 100% exemption for new business personal property tax applies. Requires the taxpayer to app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1160 | Intro
Sine Die | Internet media. Prohibits a person doing business in Indiana as an Internet media service from entering into a contract with an individual who is less than 18 years of age. Provides for an individual who is damaged as a result of a violation to file ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | State agency purchases. Requires a minimum of 35% of an executive branch state agency's annual nonpayroll expenditures to be made on purchases from Indiana businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1187 | Intro
Sine Die | Identification cards for discharged offenders. Provides that, when a committed offender is released on parole or discharged from the department of correction, the department shall provide the offender with an Indiana identification card issued by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1172 | Intro
Sine Die | Women's occupational opportunity. Adds to the state workforce innovation council an advisory member who possesses expertise in assisting women to obtain certain employment. Establishes equal pay certification for businesses contracting with state age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1155 | Intro
Sine Die | Battery on a utility worker. Makes battery on a utility worker engaged in the execution of the utility worker's official duty a Level 6 felony instead of a Class B misdemeanor if the battery results in bodily injury to the utility worker and the util...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1091 | Intro
Sine Die | Statute of limitations for rape. Increases the statute of limitations to ten years for: (1) rape as a Level 3 felony (for an offense committed after June 30, 2014); (2) rape as a Class B felony (for an offense committed before July 1, 2014); and crim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1178 | Intro
Sine Die | Superintendent compensation. Provides that a school corporation is not required to have a public hearing relating to a school superintendent's employment contract if the superintendent receives an annual salary increase that is not specified in the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| HB1153 | Intro
Sine Die | High pressure boiler operators. Establishes certification requirements for high pressure boiler operators. Requires that a high pressure boiler operator must hold a license issued by the National Institute for the Uniform Licensing of Power Engineers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1154 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic development and wind turbines. Establishes the Hoosier heritage innovative industry loan fund. Authorizes interest free loans, reduced income tax rates, and enhanced economic development for a growing economy (EDGE) tax credits to encourage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
