| HB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | Work sharing unemployment benefit. Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program. Requires an employer to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce development. Establishes the work sharing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Withdrawal of candidacy. Provides that an individual who wishes to withdraw as a candidate must withdraw not later than noon September 1 before the election. (Under current law, a candidate must withdraw not later than noon July 15 before the electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0079 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| HB1034 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbying expenses of political subdivisions. Requires each Indiana political subdivision to file with the lobby registration commission an annual report of certain expenses paid by the political subdivision relating to lobbying the general assembly. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0149 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0083 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0096 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0144 | 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] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0204 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of telecommunications devices while driving. Requires a person to use hands free or voice operated technology to place or receive a telephone call while operating a moving motor vehicle, unless the device is used to call 911 to report a bona fide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0178 | Intro
Sine Die | Nuclear energy projects. Provides that projects involving the construction of nuclear energy production or generating facilities qualify for the financial incentives available for clean energy projects. (Current law provides that only projects involv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| HB1074 | Intro
Sine Die | Fantasy sports. Authorizes racinos to conduct fantasy sports leagues. Establishes certain standards for conducting fantasy sports leagues. Provides that the gambling crime statutes do not apply to a fantasy sports league conducted at a racino.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0222 | Intro
Sine Die | Annexation. Provides the following for annexations initiated on or after May 15, 2015: (1) Changes the annexation remonstrance process to make it similar to the remonstrance process found in property tax statutes. (2) Provides that if at least 60% of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0061 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanent disability sentencing enhancement. Defines "permanent disabling harm" and permits imposition of a nonsuspendible sentencing enhancement of five to 10 years if the state proves that a person committed a felony that caused a person to suffer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0154 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| HB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Common construction wage. Changes the composition of a committee that determines a scale of wages for a public work project. Changes from three months to 12 months the period during which the scale may be used. Provides that after December 31, 2015, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0119 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual physical examination for interscholastic sports. Provides that a school corporation may participate in an interscholastic athletic association or association event only if the association meets certain requirements regarding annual physical ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1075 | Intro
Sine Die | Mortgage recording fee. Increases from $3 to $8 the fee to be collected for each mortgage on real estate that is recorded. Requires the $5 increase to be deposited in the county surveyor's corner perpetuation fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0248 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's license reciprocity with Germany. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles to begin negotiating with Germany not later than July 1, 2015, a reciprocal agreement for the exchange of driver's licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0011 | Intro
Sine Die | Estimated utility bills. Establishes requirements for estimated bills issued by a utility to an Indiana customer for retail: (1) electric; (2) gas; (3) water; or (4) wastewater; utility service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| HB1035 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of proceeds from forfeited property. Provides that: (1) money; or (2) proceeds from the sale of property; that has been seized and forfeited because of its connection to the violation of certain criminal statutes may not be used to purchase a pas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0135 | Intro
Sine Die | Health facility employee criminal background check. Requires a health facility to obtain a national criminal history background check or an expanded criminal history check for the health facility's employees. Provides immunity to persons: (1) for den...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| HB1097 | Intro
Sine Die | Large scale discharges into state waters. Makes it a Class C infraction for a person to discharge more than 20 million gallons of water per day into any waters of the state without the approval of the director of the department of natural resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0159 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0097 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0070 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0146 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| HB1038 | Intro
Sine Die | Municipal elections. Municipal elections. Moves elections of city and town officers to even-numbered years. Repeals superseded statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0170 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher performance assessment. Requires, before April 1, 2016, the department of education to develop, and the state board of education to approve, a method for measuring student growth throughout the school year to be used to evaluate a certificate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0214 | Intro
Sine Die | Public salary limitations. Provides that the salary paid from state or local appropriations to a public officer, employee, or contractor of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government, state educational institutions, political ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0161 | Intro
Sine Die | Vote fraud and public employment. Provides that a person who is convicted of any of certain offenses relating to voting is prohibited from being employed by the state or a county, municipality, or township for three years, unless the sentencing court...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0073 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0194 | Intro
Sine Die | Records requests by city legislative body. Requires a city agency (agency) to provide a public record to a member of the city legislative body (member) that requests the record for a legislative purpose either: (1) on the member's own initiative; or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0176 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail sales of Tannerite. Regulates the retail sale of Tannerite, a patented ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder based binary explosive used primarily as a target for firearms practice. Provides that a retailer: (1) must secure Tannerite behind a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0139 | Intro
Sine Die | Parole eligibility for certain offenders. Provides that a person is eligible for consideration for release on parole if, before the criminal code was enacted in 1976: (1) the person was sentenced to more than one term of life imprisonment without par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0184 | Intro
Sine Die | Choice scholarships. Limits the number of choice scholarships that may be awarded per year to 20,000. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0087 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| HB1095 | Intro
Sine Die | Small school grants. Reestablishes a small school grant for school corporations having a current ADM (average daily membership) of less than 2,400 and a complexity index of at least 0.1. Appropriates from the state general fund an amount sufficient t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0218 | Intro
Sine Die | Charity gaming proceeds. Specifies that a qualified organization under the charity gaming law may use money deposited into its separate charity gaming account to pay wages, salaries, and wage and salary related expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Public testimony at INDOT hearings. Amends the definition of "public hearing" for purposes of meetings by the Indiana department of transportation to mean providing or receiving information concerning proposed construction or improvement projects. (T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0162 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic development incentive accountability. Adds various job and employee definitions to the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) laws. Requires that all records related to taxpayer funded economic development incentives must be disclos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1070 | Intro
Sine Die | Utility facility relocation. Makes changes to the statutes concerning: (1) emergency repairs to the state highway system by the department of transportation; and (2) utility facility relocations necessitated by projects on the state highway system; t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| SB0225 | Intro
Sine Die | Underground utility facilities. Provides that the statute concerning the locating and marking of underground utility facilities (Indiana's 811 law) does not apply to the practice of surveying, except with respect to certain specified activities. Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0086 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0131 | Intro
Sine Die | Volunteer firefighters holding elected office. Removes provisions that prohibit volunteer firefighters from assuming or holding certain elected offices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0196 | Intro
Sine Die | Proprietary educational institutions. Provides that a postsecondary proprietary educational institution that: (1) is domiciled and has its principal offices and the majority of its operations in Indiana; (2) provides an organized two year or longer p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition on labor peace agreements. Provides that a statute or rule of the state, or an ordinance or regulation of a political subdivision, may not: (1) impose a contract, zoning, permitting, licensing, or other condition that requires an employer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0078 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0003 | Intro
Sine Die | Home improvement contracts. Amends the statute concerning home improvement contracts to specify that residential property, for purposes of the statute, includes real property that: (1) will contain one to four units; and (2) is intended to be used as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1024 | Intro
Sine Die | Assessment of agricultural land. Requires that agricultural land must be assessed using the soil productivity factors used in 2011 for assessment dates occurring after December 31, 2014, unless and until new soil productivity factors are approved in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0136 | Intro
Sine Die | Death sentence elimination and life imprisonment. Abolishes the death penalty. Repeals the law concerning the imposition and execution of death sentences and makes conforming amendments. Specifies that if a person was sentenced to death and is awaiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
