| SB0473 | Engross
Sine Die | Voluntary monitoring of water resources. Requires the department of natural resources (department) to establish a program under which volunteers may monitor the water resource (which, as defined in IC 14-25-7, includes both ground water and surface w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
Representative Errington added as cosponsor |
| SB0492 | Engross
Sine Die | Various pension matters. Establishes a procedure by which a political subdivision may participate in the defined contribution only plan (the plan) and choose whether the political subdivision's employees participate in the public employees' retiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
Representative Niezgodski added as cosponsor |
| SB0288 | Engross
Sine Die | Local government budget notices; public records. Reinstates the following expired statutes concerning local government budget notices through 2020: (1) A provision that if the budget notice is not timely published due to the fault of a newspaper, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0242 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle title fraud. Defines "motor vehicle", for purposes of the financial responsibility laws, to include a motor vehicle titled by an individual using a federal identification number issued to a business entity. Provides that a court may sus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0413 | Engross
Sine Die | Disclosures of security breaches. Makes the following changes to the statute concerning the breach of the security of data that includes the sensitive personal information of Indiana residents and that is collected and maintained by a person other th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Representative Smith, M. added as cosponsor |
| SB0551 | Engross
Sine Die | Crime fighting pilot project. Establishes a crime fighting pilot project in Marion County, Lake County, and Allen County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Representative Macer added as cosponsor |
| SB0507 | Engross
Sine Die | Attorney and judicial discipline complaints. Permits a prosecuting attorney and a county public defender (including a contract public defender) to seek reimbursement from the state for reasonable attorney's fees incurred in defending against a charge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0517 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax increment financing in Marion County. Requires the Indianapolis metropolitan development commission to establish a new base assessed value beginning in 2016 for purposes of determining the incremental tax revenue for the Marion County airport eco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0093 | Engross
Sine Die | Synthetic drugs. Requires the publisher of the Indiana administrative code to publish a list of substances declared by the board of pharmacy to be synthetic drugs in a specific location in the Indiana administrative code, and requires the board of ph...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Representatives Davisson and Clere added as cosponsors |
| SB0424 | Engross
Sine Die | Women veterans' issues. Requires the director of veterans' affairs to designate a coordinator for the Hoosier women veterans program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative Macer added as cosponsor |
| SB0325 | Engross
Sine Die | Beer, wine, liquor prizes/charity auction sales. Allows a nonprofit corporation that is a qualified organization under the charity gaming law (qualified organization) to give sealed bottles or cases of alcoholic beverages as prizes in a charity gamin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative Harman added as cosponsor |
| SB0296 | Engross
Sine Die | Adult entertainment performers. Requires a holder of a retailer's permit that provides adult entertainment on the licensed premises to: (1) require adult entertainment performers to provide proof of age and proof of legal residency; (2) take a photog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative Hale added as cosponsor |
| SB0126 | Engross
Sine Die | Property tax deduction for veterans with a disability. Provides that the $12,480 property tax deduction for certain veterans with a disability is phased out if the assessed value of the individual's property is more than $143,160 but not more than $1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative Moseley added as cosponsor |
| SB0375 | Engross
Sine Die | Human trafficking, promoting prostitution, and asset forfeiture. Allows a law enforcement agency to seize real or personal property, including a vehicle, that is used by a person to: (1) commit, attempt to commit, or conspire to commit; (2) facilitat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative Lawson added as cosponsor |
| SB0478 | Engross
Sine Die | Transportation funding. Provides that a redevelopment commission of a municipality may provide revenue to a public transportation corporation from property tax proceeds allocated to the redevelopment commission in a tax increment financing area. Limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Representative GiaQuinta added as cosponsor |
| SB0058 | Engross
Sine Die | Pulaski superior court and Sullivan magistrate. Removes the authority of the Sullivan circuit and superior court judges to jointly appoint a full-time magistrate as of July 1, 2015. Provides that the term of a full-time magistrate appointed before Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0481 | Engross
Sine Die | Stormwater drain maintenance. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate study committee the topic of the maintenance of stormwater drains in subdivisions not located within a municipality. Provides that if the topic is assigned to a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0422 | Engross
Sine Die | Court security fees and funds. Provides that a county, city, or town may adopted an ordinance to establish a local court security fee. Provides that the revenue provided to a county, city, or town from a local court security fee may be used only for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0071 | Engross
Sine Die | St. Joseph circuit court magistrate. Joseph circuit court magistrate. Provides that when the judge of the St. Joseph circuit court or probate court appoints a full-time magistrate, the judge may not consider the political affiliation of a candidate f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0564 | Engross
Sine Die | Status of marriage study. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate study committee the topic of the status of marriage in Indiana. Specifies issues that may be considered in studying the topic and requires the committee to seek testi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0130 | Engross
Sine Die | School curriculum. Requires each school corporation and accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum. Requires each school corporation and accredited nonpublic school to include reading in its curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Education Committee |
| SB0498 | Engross
Sine Die | DNR sale of nursery stock and wildflower seeds. Authorizes the department of natural resources (department) to sell or distribute nursery stock (botanically classified hardy perennial or biennial trees, shrubs, vines, fruit pits, and other plants or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0287 | Engross
Sine Die | Expungement. Provides that expungement provisions concerning an arrest that does not lead to a conviction also apply to criminal charges or juvenile delinquency allegations that do not lead to a conviction or juvenile delinquency adjudication. Provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0099 | Engross
Sine Die | Jury service review. Permits a nursing mother who is denied permission to defer jury service to request the trial judge to reconsider her request for deferral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0350 | Engross
Sine Die | East Chicago school board. Reduces the number of members of the governing body of the School City of East Chicago from nine to five, beginning January 1, 2017. Provides that if a vacancy occurs on the governing body before January 1, 2017, the vacanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Education Committee |
| SB0127 | Engross
Sine Die | Religious exemption in state and local contracts. Provides that a contract entered into, modified, or renewed by the state or any of its political or civil subdivisions after June 30, 2015, with a religious corporation, an association, an educational...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
Representative Karickhoff removed as cosponsor |
| SB0427 | Engross
Sine Die | Distributions of public safety income tax revenue. Provides for mandatory distributions of public safety local option income tax (LOIT) revenue to the eligible civil taxing units of an adopting county, which includes the adopting county, the cities a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0359 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption for data warehouse equipment. Provides a state sales tax exemption for the sale or lease of certain enterprise information technology equipment. Requires that the investment in the equipment must be at least $100,000,000. Specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0388 | Engross
Sine Die | Reporting of property forfeiture. Requires the Indiana prosecuting attorneys council to make an annual report to the legislative council concerning civil forfeitures conducted in Indiana, and requires the state police department to annually report to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0495 | Engross
Sine Die | Study of ethnic history. Requires the study of ethnic and racial groups to be included as part of each school corporation's high school United States history course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Education Committee |
| SB0470 | Engross
Sine Die | Study of issues related to student assessments. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of studying issues related to the development by the state board of education of acceptable tests from which all scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0128 | Engross
Sine Die | Sewage and waste management districts. Provides that the county executive of a county in which a regional sewage district was formed in response to an agreed order entered into after August 31, 2005, may elect to transform the regional sewage distric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0446 | Engross
Sine Die | Local government financial reporting. Provides that certain political subdivisions may not issue bonds unless: (1) the political subdivision has filed required annual financial reports with the state board of accounts or (in the case of a school corp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0385 | Engross
Sine Die | Murder sentencing; aggravating circumstance. Permits the state to seek the death penalty or a sentence of life without parole for a murder committed in a building primarily used for educational purposes if the murder is committed: (1) on school prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0125 | Engross
Sine Die | Property or casualty insurance coverage for innocent coinsured. Urges the legislative council to assign the topic of property or casualty insurance coverage for an innocent coinsured to an interim study committee during the 2015 interim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
Representative Lehman added as cosponsor |
| SB0334 | Engross
Sine Die | Abortion prohibition based on sex or disability. Prohibits a person from performing an abortion if the person knows that the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion solely because of: (1) the sex of the fetus; or (2) a diagnosis or potential diagnosis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0321 | Engross
Sine Die | Study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to a study committee during the 2015 legislative interim the following topics with regard to counties, cities, towns, townships, fire territories and fire protection districts: (1) Contracting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0421 | Engross
Sine Die | Autocycles. Defines "autocycle" for purposes of motor vehicle law, and provides that an autocycle is a motorcycle. Makes conforming changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0536 | Engross
Sine Die | Methamphetamine. Defines "drug related felony" and requires courts to report drug related felonies to the state police department. Requires the state police department to report drug related felonies to NPLEx so that NPLEx can generate a stop sale al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0491 | Engross
Sine Die | School emergency response systems. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate interim study committee the topic of school emergency response systems for study during the 2015 interim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0538 | Engross
Sine Die | Teacher collective bargaining. Adds a definition of "professional employee organization". Provides that a school employer shall submit a copy of the affidavit submitted by the exclusive representative indicating the number of teachers who are members...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0539 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulation of e-liquids. Defines "e-liquid" as a substance that is intended to be vaporized and inhaled using a vapor pen. Requires a manufacturer of e-liquid to obtain a permit from the alcohol and tobacco commission before bottling e-liquid or sell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0411 | Engross
Sine Die | Liability of a real estate licensee. Provides that a licensed real estate broker is not liable for certain real estate related reports, statements, or information except in certain circumstances. Adds a reference to the list of statutes that grant im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0409 | Engross
Sine Die | Court fees. Extends the mortgage foreclosure counseling and education court fee until July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0379 | Engross
Sine Die | Public transportation corporations. Allows the legislative body of Monroe County and the Bloomington public transportation corporation (corporation) to expand the corporation's service area to include the entire county by adopting substantially ident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0443 | Engross
Sine Die | Various education matters. Allows grants from the safe schools fund to provide schoolwide programs to improve school climate and professional development and training in alternatives to suspension and expulsion and evidence based practices that contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Education Committee |
| SB0456 | Engross
Sine Die | Unemployment insurance. Provides that any part of an unemployment insurance surcharge not used to pay interest on the advances made to the state from the federal unemployment trust fund must be credited against the total amount of benefits charged to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0439 | Engross
Sine Die | Controlled substances. Limits Medicaid reimbursement for Subutex and Suboxone or an similar trade name or generic of the drug when the drug was prescribed for the treatment of pain management to only if the drug was prescribed by a physician who meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0419 | Engross
Sine Die | Town marshals. Provides that, after December 31, 2015, a town law enforcement officer who: (1) is not a member of the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund and does not participate in another pension or retirement plan o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0387 | Engross
Sine Die | PTABOA matters. Provides that, if a taxpayer's representative fails to appear at a scheduled hearing for review before a county property tax assessment board of appeals (PTABOA), then the taxpayer's representative waives the right to represent the ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
