| SB0177 | Pass | Water and wastewater infrastructure costs. Amends the law on distribution system improvement charges to allow the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to approve the petition of a public utility providing water or wastewater service for an adjustment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-23
Public Law 45 |
| SB0394 | Pass | Reporting of government malfeasance. Provides for confidentiality and relief for an individual who reports certain suspected violations of law by local public officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-23
Public Law 52 |
| SB0534 | Pass | Rules for prescribing controlled substances. Requires the medical licensing board to adopt standards and protocols for the prescribing of controlled substances, including the use of abuse deterrent formulations. Requires, before March 1, 2016, the fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-23
Public Law 54 |
| SB0026 | Pass | Coverage of prescription eye drops. Requires that, beginning January 1, 2016, certain state employee health plans, policies of accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organization contracts must cover refills of prescription eye drops...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-23
Public Law 43 |
| SB0010 | Pass | Coroner and conflict of interest. Requires a coroner to obtain the services of the coroner of another county if the coroner believes that he or she has a conflict of interest. Provides that the coroner of the other county shall be reimbursed for all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-23
Public Law 42 |
| SB0080 | Pass | Taxation of Internet access. Provides that neither the state nor a political subdivision may impose, assess, collect, or attempt to collect a tax on Internet access or the use of Internet access.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-23
Public Law 44 |
| SB0311 | Pass | Recovery of remedial action oversight costs. Amends the definitions of the terms "remedial action", "removal", and "response" to provide that those definitions apply to the law concerning releases of petroleum. Provides that an agreement that the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-23
Public Law 49 |
| SB0373 | Enroll
Sine Die | Civil proceeding advance payment transactions. Defines a "civil proceeding advance payment transaction", or "CPAP transaction", as a nonrecourse transaction in which a person (CPAP provider) provides to a consumer claimant in a civil proceeding a fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-21
House Advisors appointed: Eberhart, Washburne and DeLaney |
| SB0438 | Enroll
Sine Die | State and local tax issues. Provides that the fiscal body of a municipality may adopt a resolution renewing an enterprise zone for an additional five years and that all enterprise zones expire and must be phased out by December 31, 2030. Provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-21
House Advisors appointed: Friend, Thompson, Smaltz, Klinker and Riecken |
| SB0406 | Pass | Overdose intervention drugs. Requires certain emergency personnel to report to the state department of health the number of times an overdose intervention medication is administered. Allows specified health care professionals with prescriptive author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-17
Public Law 32 |
| SB0309 | Pass | Electricity suppliers' service areas. Provides that after May 19, 2015, a municipality that: (1) owns and operates an electric utility; and (2) annexes an area beyond the assigned service area of its municipally owned electric utility; may not petiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-17
Public Law 31 |
| SB0467 | Pass | Admissibility of appraisal reports. Provides that the Indiana board of tax review shall admit into evidence an appraisal report prepared by an appraiser, unless the appraisal report is ruled inadmissible on grounds other than hearsay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-17
Public Law 33 |
| SB0489 | Pass | State board of accounts issues. Provides that the state board of accounts has access to any periodic statement of condition filed by a depository with the treasurer of state. Provides that a vendor upon request shall allow the state board of accounts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-17
Public Law 34 |
| SB0035 | Pass | Speed limits in school zones. Provides that a city, town, or county may establish a speed limit of not less than 20 miles per hour on a street or highway upon which a school is located if the street or highway is under the jurisdiction of the city, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-17
Public Law 29 |
| SB0216 | Pass | St. Joseph River basin commission. Joseph River basin commission. Allows members of the St. Joseph River basin commission (commission) and the commission's executive board that participate in a meeting by electronic means of communication to be count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-17
Public Law 30 |
| SB0395 | Enroll
Sine Die | Historic hotel preservation and maintenance fund. Provides that $1,000,000 is appropriated from the West Baden Springs historic hotel preservation and maintenance fund (fund) for the period from May 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016, and in each state f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-16
House Advisors appointed: Davisson, Thompson and Riecken |
| SB0429 | Pass | Lake County zoning. Allows Lake County to adopt the area planning law. Makes a provision regarding legislative body approval of special exceptions, special uses, and use variances apply to a city or town in Lake County (instead of Lake County).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 10 |
| SB0506 | Pass | Fleet vehicle registration. Establishes the fleet registration program (program) for Indiana residents who own or lease at least 1,000 passenger motor vehicles or trucks with a declared gross weight of not more than 11,000 pounds. Provides that the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 12 |
| SB0004 | Pass | Technical corrections. Resolves: (1) technical conflicts between differing 2014 amendments to Indiana Code sections; and (2) other technical problems in the Indiana Code, including incorrect statutory references, nonstandard tabulation, and various g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 5 |
| SB0059 | Pass | Eligibility to vote for political party officers. Provides that an individual who will meet the age and residency requirements on the date of the next general, municipal, or special election may vote for precinct committeeman and state convention del...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 6 |
| SB0265 | Pass | Purchase of service credit. Permits a member of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) to purchase at full actuarial cost the member's prior service in the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (1977 fund). Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 8 |
| SB0171 | Pass | Update of federal law citations. Makes technical corrections to federal law citations throughout the Indiana Code. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the code revision commission.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 7 |
| SB0434 | Pass | Financial aid and tuition. Provides that a person who: (1) is a nonresident; (2) is a member of the Indiana National Guard; and (3) attends a state educational institution; is eligible to pay the resident tuition rate for undergraduate and graduate c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 11 |
| SB0289 | Pass | Confidential victim services requests. Permits, for purposes of the public records law, a law enforcement agency to share certain information with a crime victim advocate without the agency losing the discretion to keep this information confidential ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-15
Public Law 9 |
| 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 |
| SB0050 | Pass | Antidiscrimination safeguards. Indicates that the law related to adjudicating a claim or defense that a state or local law, ordinance, or other action substantially burdens the exercise of religion of a person: (1) does not authorize a provider to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
Public Law 4 |
| 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 |
| SB0101 | Pass | Religious freedom restoration. Prohibits a governmental entity from substantially burdening a person's exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, unless the governmental entity can demonstrate that the burd...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Public Law 3 |
| 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 |
