| HB1169 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of electronic cigarettes. Adds use of an electronic cigarette to the definition of "smoking" for purposes of the laws that prohibit smoking in certain places.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1198 | Intro
Sine Die | Youth Advisory Council. Increases the membership of the youth advisory council (council) from 22 members to 23 members. Provides that the Indiana association of student councils designates the additional member of the council. Provides that the counc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1158 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government accounting. Provides that financial reports prepared for years beginning after December 31, 2016, for municipalities or counties with a population of more than 100,000 must be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Local Government Committee |
| HB1152 | Intro
Sine Die | County asset sale fund. Authorizes a county that sells a county asset for more than $50,000,000 to establish a major county asset sale fund as a trust fund for the deposit of the proceeds of the sale. Provides that the principal of the fund may not b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1156 | Intro
Sine Die | National Guard scholarship awards. Maintains the appropriation for the National Guard tuition supplement program at the 2014-2015 state fiscal year level for the upcoming biennium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | Proof of financial responsibility. Amends requirements of the bureau of motor vehicles concerning requests for evidence of financial responsibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1191 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriation for recreational trail maintenance. Appropriates $2,000,000 from the state general fund for deposit in the recreational trail maintenance fund for distribution in the 2015-2017 biennium to defray the costs of maintaining recreational tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1055 | Intro
Sine Die | Prices charged to retailers by suppliers. Provides that a supplier commits an unconscionable act that is treated the same as a deceptive act under the deceptive consumer sales law if the supplier refuses to sell to a retailer with which the supplier ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Recording of new lots. Provides that if an instrument dividing land requires issuance of a new tax identification number: (1) the county auditor may not endorse the instrument; and (2) the recorder may not record the instrument; unless the plan commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Local Government Committee |
| HB1180 | Intro
Sine Die | Endangering an unborn child. Provides that a person who knows she is pregnant and knowingly or intentionally consumes a controlled substance commits endangering an unborn child, a Level 6 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1086 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory firearms enhancement. Provides a mandatory sentencing enhancement of 20 years for a person who uses a firearm in the commission of an offense against a person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1189 | Intro
Sine Die | Property taxes. Permits the department of local government finance, with the approval of the attorney general, to waive all or part of the property taxes imposed on property owned by a: (1) nonprofit corporation organized for educational, literary, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1174 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax deductions for veterans and spouses. Authorizes the fiscal body of a county to adopt an ordinance to make the property tax deduction available under current law to World War I veterans available instead to veterans of World War II, the K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1193 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of SNAP benefits. Requires the division of family resources to establish a pilot program that allows Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to be used only for food and beverages that have sufficient nutritional value, as deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| HB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Notices relating to vacancies in local offices. Provides that when a vacancy is filled in a local office (other than a local judicial office) previously held by a member of a major political party, the circuit court clerk shall give a copy of the cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1022 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum crew size. Provides that the crew of a freight train must consist of at least two individuals. Imposes penalties for violations of the minimum crew requirement. Deposits the penalties in the industrial rail service fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1113 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit for student loan borrowers. Provides a refundable credit against an individual's adjusted gross income tax liability during the first 10 consecutive years after the individual is first required to begin repayment of a student loan i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1120 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana nanotechnology initiative. Allows the award of grants or loans from the twenty-first century research and technology fund to support proposals for economic development in nanotechnology. Provides a personal property tax exemption for certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| HB1107 | Intro
Sine Die | Handgun training and reciprocity license. Provides that a person who: (1) is at least 21 years of age; and (2) successfully completes a handgun safety and training course that meets certain requirements; may have the superintendent of state police pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1114 | Intro
Sine Die | Student loan assistance. Provides an annual grant award of $2,500 to assist an individual with student loan debt for each consecutive year the individual is employed full time in a qualifying occupation in Indiana, not to exceed five years. Specifies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1151 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensable hours of work. Requires an employer subject to Indiana's minimum wage law to pay an employee for all compensable hours of work, which includes time an employee spends immediately before or after a work shift performing activities that are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1116 | Intro
Sine Die | Marketing of funeral services. Urges the legislative council to study the topic of marketing of funeral services during the 2015 interim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1118 | Intro
Sine Die | Commitment to the department of correction. Provides that, after June 30, 2016, a court may not commit a person convicted of a Level 6 felony to the department of correction if the person's earliest possible release date is less than 366 days from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1115 | Intro
Sine Die | Ban on sale or use of coal tar pavement products. Prohibits the: (1) sale; and (2) application to pavement; of a coal tar pavement product (a tar formed from the distillation of bituminous coal) except as required for purposes of research on the effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1147 | Intro
Sine Die | Class 2 structure fire safety. Provides that for purposes of the building code, a Class 2 structure townhouse may be separated from an adjoining unit by a one hour fire-resistance rated wall combined with a National Fire Protection Association 13D co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | Capital project and referendum levy referenda. 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 after J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearms on state property. Prohibits a state agency, including a state supported college or university, from regulating the possession or transportation of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories: (1) on land that is; or (2) in bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana transparency web site. Transfers, from the department of education to the department of local government finance, responsibilities that relate to posting certain school financial data on the Indiana transparency Internet web site. Makes confo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1099 | Intro
Sine Die | Education standards. Removes the requirement that Indiana's educational standards must comply with federal standards necessary to receive a flexibility waiver under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB1121 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy standards. Requires an electricity supplier to supply a certain percentage of its total electricity supply from renewable energy resources. Establishes the renewable energy resources fund to receive penalties paid by electricity supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| HB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Filling vacancies. Provides that a precinct committeeman is eligible to participate in a caucus to fill an early candidate vacancy or a vacancy in certain offices only if the precinct committeeman is entitled to vote for the office for which a candid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax assessment board of appeals. Requires the Indiana board of tax review to adopt rules applicable to all county boards of tax appeals (county boards) that govern which records of the county boards are confidential and exempt from disclosur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1117 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit time. Defines "accrued credit", "credit time", "educational credit", and "good time credit", and applies these definitions uniformly in the criminal code and the corrections code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1112 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterinarian tax credit. Provides a tax credit against adjusted gross income tax liability of a veterinary services provider that performs a spay/neuter procedure on an animal at no cost to the owner of the animal. Defines "veterinary services provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Interim study on private property rights. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on environmental affairs or another appropriate study committee for study during the 2015 legislative interim the topic of establishing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Farm winery sales. Allows a holder of a farm winery permit to sell and ship, by the bottle or by the case, not more than 5,000 gallons of wine that is priced at less than $301 per gallon during a permit year to a holder of a wine retailer's permit or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | State board of accounts fees and funding. Establishes the state board of accounts audit fee account (account) for the purpose of providing funding for the operations of the state board of accounts. Provides that the state board of accounts shall admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1133 | Intro
Sine Die | Counsel for children charged with delinquent acts. Provides that, unless or until a valid waiver of the right to counsel has been or is made, a court shall appoint counsel for a child charged with a delinquent act if certain circumstances apply. Esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | County fiscal body single member districts. Allows an executive of a county (other than St. Joseph County) to adopt an ordinance during an odd-numbered year to establish single-member districts for the county fiscal body that take effect for the seco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1132 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile justice evaluation commission. Establishes the juvenile justice evaluation commission to: (1) evaluate the juvenile justice laws of Indiana; and (2) make recommendations to the general assembly for modification of the juvenile justice laws, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1135 | Intro
Sine Die | Local option income taxes. Provides that an individual who has a principal place of employment or business in a county other than the individual's county of residence shall pay a county adjusted gross income tax, county option income tax, or county e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1106 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcohol self-service displays. Prohibits a liquor dealer from selling liquor through a self-service display, except for self-service displays in: (1) a package liquor store; or (2) a partitioned or enclosed area of the premises of a liquor dealer tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1130 | Intro
Sine Die | Greenwood food and beverage tax. Authorizes the city of Greenwood to adopt a municipal food and beverage tax. Provides that the tax rate may not exceed 1%. Specifies the uses to which receipts from the food and beverage tax may be applied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1128 | Intro
Sine Die | Lifelong learning accounts. Requires the education savings authority (authority) to establish and administer a lifelong learning account program. Specifies that a lifelong learning account established for a participating individual must: (1) be an ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1111 | Intro
Sine Die | Wabash, White, and Ohio Rivers aquifer study. Requires the department of natural resources (department) to: (1) identify, gather, and study information about the aquifers directly connected with the Wabash River, the White River, and the Ohio River; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1144 | Intro
Sine Die | Handgun license repeal. Repeals the law that requires a person to obtain a license to carry a handgun in Indiana. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1122 | Intro
Sine Die | Personal leave for employees. Provides that certain employees of certain employers are entitled to take: (1) 24 hours of paid leave; and (2) 16 hours of unpaid leave; in a 12 month period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1063 | Intro
Sine Die | Dental and optometry service coverage. 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 denti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages for carryout. Provides that a holder of an alcoholic beverage permit who is authorized by law to sell alcoholic beverages for carryout may sell alcoholic beverages for carryout on Sunday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Illiana Expressway public safety expenses. Requires the operator of the Illiana Expressway to enter into agreements with units of local government concerning public safety and emergency services on the Illiana Expressway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
