| SB0150 | Intro
Sine Die | Madison circuit court magistrate. Allows the judges of the Madison circuit court to jointly appoint a second full-time magistrate, and allows the judge of the Porter circuit court to appoint one full-time magistrate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To Senate Appropriations 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 |
| SB0485 | Intro
Sine Die | Psychiatric crisis intervention. Changes the date by which the office of the secretary of family and social services must provide a report concerning comprehensive psychiatric crisis intervention services. Requires the division of mental health and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To Senate Appropriations 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 |
| SB0345 | Intro
Sine Die | Resident tuition rate. Provides that an individual, except for certain nonimmigrants, who: (1) attends a high school in Indiana for at least three years; (2) registers as an entering student at or is currently enrolled in a state educational institut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
Senator Randolph added as coauthor |
| SB0292 | Intro
Sine Die | St. Joseph County courts. Joseph County courts. Allows the: (1) judge of the St. Joseph circuit court to appoint one additional full-time magistrate, without considering the political affiliation of a candidate for magistrate, for a total of three fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0568 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious freedom restoration act. Provides that a state or local government action may not substantially burden a person's right to the exercise of religion unless it is demonstrated that applying the burden to the person's exercise of religion is: ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To Senate Judiciary 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 |
| SB0060 | Intro
Sine Die | Genetically modified food. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2016, any food that is offered for retail sale is misbranded if it is not disclosed that the food is or may have been entirely or partially produced with genetic engineering. Provides that, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
To Senate Agriculture 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 |
| SB0364 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of child services reporting. Changes the definition of "near fatality" for purposes of the law concerning records relating to a child's death or near fatality to a severe childhood injury or condition that results in the child receiving cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
To Senate Family & Children Services 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 |
| SB0302 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment contracts for nonunion teachers. Provides that a teacher who is not a member of the exclusive representative (union) may enter into an employment contract with a school corporation that contains terms that differ from the terms set forth i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0230 | Intro
Sine Die | School corporation reports. Requires certain additional information to be reported on a school corporation's annual performance report (report). Requires a school corporation to make the report available on the school corporation's Internet web site....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Education and Career Development 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 |
| SB0051 | Intro
Sine Die | Payment of monthly pension benefits. Provides that members and beneficiaries of any public pension fund administered by the Indiana public retirement system may receive monthly benefits only by direct deposit or another method approved by the board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Pensions and Labor 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 |
| SB0190 | Intro
Sine Die | Sale of alcoholic beverages near 4-H club exhibits. Prohibits the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) from issuing a temporary beer permit to a person for the express purpose of selling beer at a place located less than 76 feet from: (1) the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Public Policy 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 |
| SB0304 | Intro
Sine Die | Dyslexia. Defines "dyslexia" for purposes of teacher licensing. Requires an individual who seeks to receive an initial practitioner's license as an elementary school teacher to demonstrate proficiency in the recognition of specific learning disabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Education and Career Development 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 |
| SB0036 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle clearance when overtaking a bicycle. Provides that it is a Class C infraction for a person driving a vehicle overtaking a bicycle to not allow at least three feet of clearance between the vehicle and the bicycle and not return to the original...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| HB1179 | 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] | 2015-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1212 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption. Provides for a sales and use tax exemption that applies to construction materials used in the construction and final build out of a building that will be located on a former military base within Indiana. Establishes a pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0449 | Intro
Sine Die | Gaming matters. Authorizes riverboats to move inland to adjacent properties. Extends until July 1, 2018, the availability of the deduction for wagers made by patrons using noncashable vouchers, coupons, electronic credits, or electronic promotions pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HB1628 | Intro
Sine Die | Public safety local option income tax. Provides that for the first two years after a local option income tax for public safety (public safety LOIT) is adopted, a county or municipality that receives revenue from a public safety LOIT may use the publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1649 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1666 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0479 | Intro
Sine Die | Evaluation of solid waste management districts. Requires the environmental rules board (board) to adopt rules establishing objective criteria for the evaluation of solid waste management districts and to set quantitative standards by which the numeri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1658 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
