| HB1561 | Intro
Sine Die | Annexation and service agreements. Provides the following for annexations for which an annexation ordinance is adopted after June 30, 2015: (1) Provides that the annexation fiscal plan is similar to plans required for local government mergers and reo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
Third Reading: call withdrawn |
| HB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | Various education matters. Provides that the department of education (department) shall provide any data to the state board of education (state board) that the state board determines is necessary to perform the state board's duties under law. Makes c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 235: yeas 42, nays 51 |
| HB1359 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunizations. Requires the state department of health (department) to establish a program to provide information about the human papillomavirus (HPV) to parents, health care providers, and other individuals approved to administer the HPV vaccine and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 244: yeas 44, nays 51 |
| HB1404 | Intro
Sine Die | Traffic violations. Provides that certain governmental entities may enter into agreements to use photographically recorded images to enforce certain traffic violations, and prohibits certain governmental entities to use photographically recorded imag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Third reading: call withdrawn |
| HB1639 | Intro
Sine Die | Various education matters. Requires the department of education (department), with the approval of the state board of education (state board) to establish: (1) formulas and other parameters; and (2) procedures; to be used by the department to determi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Amendment #1 (Smith V) prevailed; Roll Call 228: yeas 94, nays 0 |
| HB1069 | Intro
Sine Die | Dissolution of human remains. Requires a crematory that is registered after July 1, 2015 to be supervised by a funeral director. Requires that a person who operates a cremation chamber to receive training and be certified as a crematory operator. Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 234: yeas 34, nays 59 |
| HB1624 | Intro
Sine Die | Sale of alcoholic beverages. 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 from 7 a.m., prevailing local time, until 3 a.m....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Amendment #1 (McMillin) failed; Roll Call 185: yeas 45, nays 47 |
| HB1043 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical malpractice caps. Increases the medical malpractice cap from $1,250,000 to $1,650,000 for claims arising after June 30, 2015. Provides that payments from the patient's compensation fund are to be disbursed not later than 60 days after the iss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Representative Dvorak added as coauthor |
| HB1320 | Intro
Sine Die | Distributed generation. Amends provisions related to cogeneration facilities to include certain host operations. Provides that the utility regulatory commission may authorize an electricity supplier to establish certain tariffs, rates and charges, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1615 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' recovery program. Establishes, for five years, the veterans' recovery program and fund to provide treatment for veterans with traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder and to obtain reimbursement from third parties. Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
Representative Judy added as coauthor |
| HB1329 | Intro
Sine Die | Sickle cell disease grant program. Adds specific requirements to the sickle cell program of the state department of health (department). Requires the department to establish sickle cell disease centers in various regions of Indiana. Requires the depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1457 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher education. Permits the board of trustees of a state educational institution that has a research intensive campus to directly hold equity in a private entity under certain conditions. Permits a public benefit corporation to merge with a state e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1605 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for medical device manufacturers. Provides a tax credit against adjusted gross income tax liability for taxpayers who: (1) are subject to the federal medical device excise tax; and (2) receive certification of a credit amount from the Indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1514 | Intro
Sine Die | School board membership in Gary. Reduces the number of members of the governing body of the Gary Community School Corporation from seven to five, beginning January 1, 2017. Provides that if a vacancy occurs on the governing body before January 1, 201...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1627 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne as a metropolitan campus. Defines "metropolitan campus". Requires the commission for higher education to designate Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne as a metropolitan campus. Requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| HB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Return and complete grant. Requires the commission for higher education (commission), in consultation with postsecondary educational institutions, to adopt, not later than August 1, 2015, guidelines for postsecondary educational institutions concerni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1606 | Intro
Sine Die | Rural entrepreneurship area incentives. Permits the office of community and rural affairs (office) to designate an applicant rural county as a rural entrepreneurship area development incentives area (READI area). Provides for the distribution of adju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1486 | Intro
Sine Die | Education issues. Requires the state board of education (state board) to adopt voluntary prekindergarten standards that align with the kindergarten through grade 12 standards. Provides that records of the state board shall be kept by the state board....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
Second Reading: recommitted to Committee on Education |
| HB1206 | Intro
Sine Die | Wyandotte Cave. Requires that Wyandotte Cave be open to the general public during the summer months of 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1222 | Intro
Sine Die | STEM pathway network. Establishes the STEM pathways program to: (1) establish education support networks; (2) provide curricular material and support to schools; (3) provide professional development to educators; (4) evaluate schools and teachers; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | HERO plan. Establishes the Hoosier Employee Retirement Option plan (plan) to encourage Indiana residents to increase their rate of saving and to build assets for the use of participants and their survivors and beneficiaries after a participant's reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Domestic violence prevention and treatment and sexual assault assistance. Prohibits a cap on a grant or contract amount under the domestic violence prevention and treatment program administered by the criminal justice institute. Makes a state general...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1385 | Intro
Sine Die | Industrial rail service fund. Increases the amount of state gross and retail and use taxes deposited into the industrial rail service fund (IRSF) from 0.029% to 0.099% of the taxes collected each year. Authorizes the Indiana department of transportat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | Land classification for tax purposes. Specifies the criteria for classifying land as agricultural land for property tax assessment purposes. Provides that certain undeveloped lands must be assessed as agricultural land regardless of the motives of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1620 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax replacement fee. Establishes an annual property tax replacement fee on any parcel receiving assessed value deductions or property tax credits that reduce the annual property tax liability on the parcel to less than $100. Provides that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1090 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanded criminal history checks for drivers for hire. Requires a transportation network company, a taxicab company, or a taxicab service (company) to request and receive an expanded criminal history check and a certified copy of the driving record (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-03
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax increment financing. Provides that if a redevelopment commission adopts a declaratory resolution or amendment after June 30, 2015, that establishes, renews, or expands an allocation provision or area, the base assessed value used to determine the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1261 | Intro
Sine Die | Terminating the parent-child relationship. Allows a parent who is the victim of an act of rape from which a child was conceived to file a petition to terminate the parent-child relationship between the child and the alleged perpetrator of the act of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1490 | Intro
Sine Die | Police reserve officers. Provides that town police reserve officers are eligible for a line of duty death benefit from the special death benefit fund. Provides that a county, city, or town shall furnish without charge to a police reserve officer (off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-02
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1604 | Intro
Sine Die | Venture capital tax credits. Increases the maximum amount of tax credits available under the venture capital investment tax credit for the provision of qualified investment capital to a particular qualified Indiana business to be the lesser of: (1) t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1067 | Intro
Sine Die | Charity gaming. Allows a full-time employee of a qualified organization, an operator of a charity gaming event, or a worker at a charity gaming event to receive remuneration for conducting or assisting in conducting the event. Provides that meals, re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-02
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1579 | Intro
Sine Die | School accounting. Requires, not later than January 1, 2018, that a school corporation use consistently applied United States generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the school corporation's accounting, budgeting, and reporting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-02
To House Education Committee |
| HB1511 | Intro
Sine Die | Nursing facility restrictions. Prohibits the state department of health from approving: (1) the licensure of comprehensive care health facilities; (2) new or converted comprehensive care beds; or (3) the certification of new or converted comprehensiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1258 | Intro
Sine Die | Grant program for hiring ex-offenders. Requires the Indiana housing and community development authority to establish a grant program to encourage the hiring of certain qualified individuals. Specifies that the amount of the grant is $3,000 for each q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1552 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental health services loan forgiveness program. Provides that the purpose of the mental health and addiction services loan forgiveness program is to increase the availability of mental health services (including addiction health services) in underse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1257 | Intro
Sine Die | High crime district loan fund. Requires the Indiana housing and community development authority to establish a loan program to encourage investment in high crime districts. Provides that the authority may designate an area as a high crime district if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1173 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration. Provides that a person who is at least 16 years of age but not more than 18 years of age may register to vote but may not vote until the person will be at least 18 years of age at the next general, municipal, or special election. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Small business and grocer investment program. Establishes the small business and grocer investment fund (fund) and healthy food access program (program) under the administration of the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) to provide fundin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| HB1395 | Intro
Sine Die | Statewide 911 services. Provides that a majority of members of a local public safety communications commission that collects and processes criminal justice information must represent criminal justice agencies. Provides that the executive director of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1215 | Intro
Sine Die | Public mass transportation. Makes a state general fund appropriation to the department of transportation for promoting and developing public mass transportation in Indiana as permitted by the public mass transportation fund. Specifies that the approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | Refunds after correction of assessment errors. Provides that if a property owner has a reduction in an assessment or taxes due when a county auditor corrects an error found in the tax duplicate, the owner is entitled to a credit on the next tax insta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1217 | Intro
Sine Die | Railroad funding. Annually appropriates $3 million from the state general fund to the department of transportation to carry out an agreement with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK) to provide intercity railroad passenger service in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1553 | Intro
Sine Die | Reporting ephedrine to INSPECT drug monitoring program. Requires that when a prescription for ephedrine or pseudoephedrine products is dispensed, a dispenser transmit specified information to the Indiana scheduled prescription electronic collection a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1367 | Intro
Sine Die | Greene County courts magistrate. Allows the judge of the Greene circuit court and the judge of the Greene superior court to jointly appoint one full-time magistrate. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1176 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher compensation. Provides that for the first two school years after a teacher initially receives a teaching license the teacher is not prohibited from receiving a raise or increment for the following year if the teacher receives a rating of inef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HB1268 | Intro
Sine Die | Annexation. Provides the following for annexation ordinances adopted on or after January 1, 2015: (1) Changes the annexation remonstrance process to be similar to the remonstrance process found in property tax statutes. (2) Removes certain judicial i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1076 | Intro
Sine Die | Microbreweries. Provides that the alcohol and tobacco commission may not require a microbrewery that sells beer by the glass to furnish food.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1272 | Intro
Sine Die | Football and head injuries. Requires each individual responsible for equipment fitting and heat emergency preparedness for interscholastic or intramural football or any other organized football league or group for individuals who are less than 20 yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HB1420 | Intro
Sine Die | School nutrition. Provides that a governing body must ensure that each student has at least: (1) 15 minutes to consume breakfast; and (2) 20 minutes to consume lunch; not including time spent acquiring the meal. Sets forth nutrition guidelines for sn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HB1480 | Intro
Sine Die | Small school grant. Provides a small school grant in state fiscal years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 to school corporations, other than charter schools, that have a current average daily membership (ADM) that is greater than 450 and less than 1,100. Appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Education Committee |
