IN Legislation | 2015 | Regular Session | Senate

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB0499	Intro Sine Die	Home rule powers of certain units. Gives Indianapolis-Marion County and second class cities (units) additional home rule powers. Provides that a unit may reject statutory restrictions otherwise applicable to the unit and adopt ordinances for governan... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0540	Intro Sine Die	Various gaming matters. Authorizes riverboats to move inland to adjacent properties. Replaces the riverboat admissions tax with a supplemental wagering tax. Eliminates the supplemental distribution from the existing wagering tax. Authorizes table gam... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Public Policy Committee
SB0525	Intro Sine Die	Property tax assessment. Provides the following if the application of an annual adjustment factor derived by an assessing official would result in an increase of more than 10% in the assessed value of one or more homesteads: (1) The assessing officia... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0502	Intro Sine Die	State gross retail tax. Specifies that the double direct test for the gross retail tax exemption for agricultural machinery, tools, and equipment applies to agricultural machinery, tools, and equipment acquired for the direct use in the direct produc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0521	Intro Sine Die	Restroom access for certain retail customers. Provides that if a retail establishment has a toilet facility on its premises for the use of the retail establishment's employees, a customer, upon request, must be allowed to use the toilet facility duri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Civil Law Committee
SB0459	Intro Sine Die	Fair credit reporting. Provides that a violation of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (act), or any regulations issued under the act, in connection with a consumer transaction involving an Indiana consumer, is a deceptive act that is subject to t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee
SB0552	Intro Sine Die	Tuition exemption for children of veterans. Removes the requirement that a veteran served during a time of war or performed hazardous duty recognized by an award or campaign medal in order for the veteran's child to receive a tuition and fee exemptio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee
SB0458	Intro Sine Die	Electronic communications. Provides that the definition of "electronic communication" includes metadata that relates to an electronic communication. Requires that the search or seizure of an electronic communication be specifically authorized by stat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0457	Intro Sine Die	Education funding. Increases the amounts used in determining performance grant awards. Appropriates $20,000,000 each state fiscal year of the biennium for performance grant awards that is in addition to the appropriation made by the budget act. Provi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0468	Intro Sine Die	Property tax assessment. Provides that an assessor has the burden of proving that an increase in an assessment is correct, in any review or appeal before the county property tax assessment board of appeals and in any appeals taken to the Indiana boar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0475	Intro Sine Die	Hemp oil registry for the treatment of epilepsy. Establishes a hemp oil registry for certain physicians, individuals, and caregivers for the use of hemp oil in the treatment of a child with intractable epilepsy. Establishes a pilot study registry for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0501	Intro Sine Die	Indiana academic standards. Requires the state board of education (state board), before July 1, 2016, to readopt the Indiana academic standards that were in effect before January 1, 2009. Prohibits the state board, the department of education, and sc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0550	Intro Sine Die	Professional development for school counselors. Requires the state board of education to develop professional development requirements or standards for school counselors, who hold a professional or accomplished teaching license, that emphasize improv... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0494	Intro Sine Die	Alternative schools and expelled students. Provides that a student who is expelled is in violation of Indiana's compulsory school attendance law unless the student attends another school, an alternative school, or an alternative education program. Pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0510	Intro Sine Die	School grades and teacher evaluations. Provides that statewide assessment (ISTEP) results may not be used as an objective measure in teacher evaluations during the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 school years. Provides that student assessment results may not... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0519	Intro Sine Die	Statute of limitations on rape. Eliminates the statute of limitations for rape. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0455	Intro Sine Die	Video gaming terminals. Authorizes wagering on video gaming terminals in certain establishments. Establishes a licensing structure for participants in video gaming. Imposes a video gaming wagering tax of 30% of adjusted gross receipts. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Public Policy Committee
SB0513	Intro Sine Die	Indiana promise scholarship program. Establishes the Indiana promise scholarship program and fund for students attending postsecondary educational institutions to earn associate degrees immediately after high school. Sets forth qualification requirem... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0505	Intro Sine Die	Local government finance. Appropriates $100,000,000 in 2016 and each year thereafter from the state general fund to be used to reduce school corporation transportation fund levies. Authorizes counties, cities, and towns to impose a separate property ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0482	Intro Sine Die	Performance and payment bonds. Requires that public-private agreements must contain performance bond and payment bond requirements. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0542	Intro Sine Die	Medicaid payments for dialysis treatment. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for a Medicaid state plan amendment or demonstration waiver to provide kidney dialysis... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0314	Intro Sine Die	Child exploitation and child pornography. Provides that for purposes of the elements of the crimes of: (1) child exploitation; and (2) possession of child pornography; sexual conduct includes the exhibition of the female breast with less than a fully... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 Withdrawn
SB0490	Intro Sine Die	Recounts and contests. Requires that, after December 31, 2015, the words "absentee ballot" be printed in prominent type with uniform capital letters at the top of every absentee ballot prepared and printed by a county election board. Eliminates the r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Elections Committee
SB0503	Intro Sine Die	Net metering for electric utility customers. Requires the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to adopt, not later than August 1, 2015, emergency rules amending the IURC's net metering and interconnection rules for electric utilities. Provides that t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Utilities Committee
SB0512	Intro Sine Die	Coverage for spinal adjustments. Provides that the Indiana check-up plan must include chiropractic services, including spinal adjustments. Provides that implementation of the state plan to cover individuals eligible for Medicaid resulting from passag... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0548	Intro Sine Die	Designated wild areas. Provides that 13 specified areas within certain state forests are designated wild areas. Specifies certain activities that are prohibited or allowed within a designated wild area. Establishes responsibilities for the department... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Natural Resources Committee
SB0471	Intro Sine Die	Straight ticket voting pilot program. Establishes a straight ticket voting pilot program for the 2016 and 2018 general elections. Requires the secretary of state to designate three counties as straight ticket voting pilot counties based on county pop... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Elections Committee
SB0493	Intro Sine Die	Redevelopment commission transfers. Provides that in the case of a tax increment financing allocation area established or reestablished after June 30, 2015, the governing body of a school corporation containing territory within the allocation area ma... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0486	Intro Sine Die	Punitive damages. Provides that when an award in a civil action includes a punitive damage award: (1) the court shall send a written copy of the punitive damage award to the office of the attorney general; (2) the state's interest in the punitive dam... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Civil Law Committee
SB0529	Intro Sine Die	Septic tank inspections and fees. Provides that a regional sewage district (district) may not: (1) inspect a septic tank soil absorption system (system); or (2) impose a fee for an inspection of a system. Provides that a property owner may bring a ci... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0518	Intro Sine Die	Annual review of unpaid restitution orders. Requires a governmental entity that is the beneficiary of a criminal or juvenile restitution order issued by a state or federal court to file annually with the court and with the state board of accounts a p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0544	Intro Sine Die	School corporation annual reports. Requires that student information in a school corporation's annual performance report must be disaggregated by grade, gender, race, free and reduced price lunch status, and eligibility for special education. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0452	Intro Sine Die	State board of education governance. Makes changes to the composition of the state board of education (state board). Provides that the state board may hire staff and administrative support. Provides that the state board shall meet once every six mont... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-13 To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee
SB0209	Intro Sine Die	Diabetes assessment report. Requires the state department of health, the state personnel department, and the office of the secretary of family and social services to: (1) collaborate to identify plans to reduce the incidence of diabetes and diabetes ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-13 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0453	Intro Sine Die	State board of education. Makes changes to the composition of the state board of education (state board). Provides that the state board may hire staff and administrative support. Provides that the state board shall meet once every six months and at t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-13 To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee
SB0389	Intro Sine Die	Income tax credit for toll road charges. Provides an income tax credit to individuals who pay tolls to drive on the Indiana toll road for a nonbusiness purpose. Provides that the amount of the tax credit may not exceed the lesser of $300 or 50% of th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-13 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0401	Intro Sine Die	Protected taxes and school corporations. Makes permanent the fund allocation of property tax reductions resulting from the granting of property tax circuit breaker credits for some school corporations. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0428	Intro Sine Die	Supplemental county levy; Lake County. Provides that the supplemental county property tax levy in Lake County that is distributed to school corporations in Lake County expires on July 1, 2018. Provides that a school corporation that receives a share ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0430	Intro Sine Die	Licensing of electrical contractors. Establishes the electrical licensing board. Requires electrical contractors to be licensed. Establishes licensing requirements for electrical contractors. Adds references to electrical licensing to the laws that a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee
SB0367	Intro Sine Die	Conditions of probation for certain sex offenders. Provides that as a condition of probation for a sex offender who is a sexually violent predator or an offender against children, the court shall prohibit contact with juveniles. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0414	Intro Sine Die	Use of state general fund investment earnings. Provides that beginning after the 2016 state fiscal year, the investment earnings on the state general fund for the preceding state fiscal year shall be distributed to counties if the combined balances o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0392	Intro Sine Die	Patronizing a prostitute. Increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute from a Class A misdemeanor to a Level 6 felony when the prostitute is less than 18 years of age. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0410	Intro Sine Die	Water resources institute. Establishes a water resources institute. Provides that the water resources institute is a nonpartisan body corporate and politic consisting of an executive director and other staff members who have expertise in disciplines ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0279	Intro Sine Die	Threats and gun violence. Provides that a juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over an individual: (1) at least 14 years of age who carries a handgun without a license; or (2) who uses a firearm in the commission of an offense. Makes communicati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0366	Intro Sine Die	Insurance and firearms. Prohibits a personal lines property or casualty insurer from taking certain actions in connection with the ownership, possession, or use of a firearm by an insurance applicant, insured, or household member. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee
SB0407	Intro Sine Die	Indiana War Memorials. Provides for the Indiana War Memorials Commission (commission) to adopt rules that allow for the consumption and possession of alcoholic beverages in or on memorial facility property under certain circumstances. Allows the comm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee
SB0431	Intro Sine Die	DNR director authority over dewatering wells. Amends the law concerning the emergency regulation of ground water rights to: (1) include within the definition of "dewatering well" a water well or pump system that is used as part of a mining project to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0444	Intro Sine Die	Driving while intoxicated and child endangerment. Provides that a court must order the installation of a certified ignition interlock device on a motor vehicle that is owned or expected to be operated by a person convicted of operating a motor vehicl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0397	Intro Sine Die	Liquor sales. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) to issue a liquor dealer's permit only to a package liquor store. (Current law allows the commission to issue a liquor dealer's permit to a drug store or a package liquor store.) Pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Public Policy Committee
SB0399	Intro Sine Die	Levees. Provides that a county may pay the costs incurred by a committee in charge of a levee for maintenance or repairs on a levee and later be reimbursed through the assessment of the land benefited by the maintenance or repairs. (Current law requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2015-01-12 To Senate Natural Resources Committee