| 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 |
| HB1455 | Intro
Sine Die | Purdue University board of trustees. Provides that the full-time student appointed as a member of the board of trustees of Purdue University may be a full-time graduate or undergraduate student. Provides that the elected student government representa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education 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 |
| HB1479 | Intro
Sine Die | Application of federal Affordable Care Act. Prohibits certain state actions related to enforcement or implementation of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Requires the attorney general to file a civil action for injunctiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1463 | Intro
Sine Die | Pension thirteenth checks Provides for a thirteenth check in 2015 and 2016 for certain members of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions 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 |
| HB1057 | Intro
Sine Die | Military income tax exemption. Provides a 100% state income tax deduction for all military service income received by an individual or the individual's surviving spouse. Removes the minimum age requirement for an individual to deduct income received ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1444 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher compensation. Provides that the number of years of a teacher's employment and the attainment of additional degrees or credit hours must account for not less than 33% of the increments or increases in a local salary schedule. Makes a correspon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1365 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana penalties. Provides that a person who possesses at least five pounds of marijuana, or at least 150 grams of hash oil, hashish, or salvia, may be convicted of possession with intent to deliver even if the only evidence of intent is the amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1375 | Intro
Sine Die | Hearing aid assistance program. Appropriates $2,250,000 to the hearing aid fund to provide money for the hearing aid assistance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1496 | Intro
Sine Die | Sewer connection matters. Provides that a not-for-profit public sewer utility or a regional sewage district may not require a property owner to connect to the utility's or district's sewer system if certain conditions are met. Requires a not-for-prof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1353 | Intro
Sine Die | Proprietary educational institutions. Provides that a student attending a postsecondary credit bearing proprietary educational institution receives scholarship awards at the same level as a student attending a four year state educational institution....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1407 | Intro
Sine Die | Merger of public benefit corporation. Allows a public benefit corporation to merge with a state educational institution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development 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 |
| HB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | Package liquor store permits. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) to deny an application to renew or transfer ownership of a package liquor store permit in a residential district if: (1) the business unreasonably impairs the comfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1494 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearm ownership and medical records. Prohibits a practitioner or medical records custodian from disclosing certain information relating to a patient's ownership of a firearm. Prohibits a political subdivision or the board regulating a practitioner ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1459 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of state property for political purposes. Provides that the code of ethics adopted by the inspector general may not authorize: (1) a state officer, an employee, or a special state appointee to use state materials, funds, property, personnel, faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1419 | Intro
Sine Die | Deduction for fitness facility expenditures. Provides a deduction from adjusted gross income to an individual for expenditures made to a fitness facility on behalf of the individual, the individual's spouse, and the individual's dependent children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1451 | Intro
Sine Die | Coverage of telemedicine services. Includes, within the health care consent law, telemedicine services. Provides for coverage of telemedicine services under a policy of accident and sickness insurance and a health maintenance organization contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1369 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking. Requires a court to assess a human trafficking victims assistance fee against a person convicted of patronizing a prostitute if the prostitute is a victim of human trafficking. Specifies that the fee is: (1) $1,000 if the prostitut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1461 | Intro
Sine Die | 1977 Fund surviving spouse benefit. Increases from 60% to 100% of the member's monthly benefit the monthly benefit of a surviving spouse of an individual who: (1) is a member of the 1977 Police Officers' and Firefighters' Pension and Disability Fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions 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 |
| HB1436 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal law matters. Allows a county fiscal body to establish a mileage based service of process fee that is reasonably related to the expenses of serving process. Provides that, for the purpose of establishing or modifying the amount of bail, a def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1402 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug crime enhancements. Creates the crime of dealing in a controlled substance by a health care provider. Precludes certain defenses. Lists dealing in a schedule I, II, or III controlled substance as an enhancing circumstance for purposes of sentenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1352 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher compensation. Removes a provision allowing the number of years of a teacher's experience and additional content areas degrees or credit hours beyond the requirements for employment to be used as up to 33% of the calculation used to determine ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1429 | Intro
Sine Die | Township funding of conservation projects. Allows a township board to include in the township budget adequate funds to help support cooperative conservation projects that are designed to monitor and improve watersheds in the township. Requires a town...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Local Government 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 |
| HB1439 | Intro
Sine Die | Wholesale auto dealers, fees, and license plates. Provides that wholesale dealers are dealers subject to the jurisdiction of the dealer services division within the office of the secretary of state. (Jurisdiction over wholesale dealers was set to exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1381 | Intro
Sine Die | Public official bonding. Provides that if an individual elected to an office is required to file a personal surety bond under Indiana law, a candidate for that office must file with the candidate's candidacy document a statement from a surety company...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1378 | Intro
Sine Die | Missing and unidentified persons. Creates the Indiana missing and unidentified persons unit (unit) within the attorney general's office. Repeals the Indiana clearinghouse for information on missing children and missing endangered adults (clearinghous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1464 | Intro
Sine Die | Pension cost of living adjustments. Provides for cost of living adjustments for certain members of the: (1) public employees' retirement fund; (2) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (3) the state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (4) the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1410 | Intro
Sine Die | Telecommunications devices while driving. Provides that a person may not use a telecommunications device while operating a moving motor vehicle, with certain exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1361 | Intro
Sine Die | Performance bonds for state highway contracts. Provides that, after June 30, 2015, the department of transportation (department) shall require the lowest and best bidder for a state highway contract to submit a performance bond payable to the state n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1363 | Intro
Sine Die | Organized retail theft. Makes it organized retail theft, a Level 5 felony, for a person: (1) to knowingly: (A) take, procure, receive, conceal, or otherwise exercise control over the personal property of a retail merchant; or (B) use an artifice, an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1467 | Intro
Sine Die | Performance funding. Requires that, if the commission for higher education includes in the performance based formula a metric for on time graduation rates, the metric for four year state educational institutions must be based on students included in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1366 | Intro
Sine Die | Proceedings supplementary for judgment debtors. Provides that if it is established at a hearing that a judgment debtor is not able to pay a judgment, the judgment creditor may seek a subsequent order from a court to compel the judgment debtor to appe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1492 | Intro
Sine Die | Resident tuition rate for children of veterans. Provides that a person: (1) whose mother or father served in the armed forces of the United States or the Indiana National Guard, received a discharge or separation other than a dishonorable discharge, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1374 | Intro
Sine Die | Replacing a deceased candidate. Provides that if a candidate dies before the date that early absentee voting may begin, the election board must print new ballots either with: (1) the name of the new candidate if a new candidate has been selected befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Elections and Apportionment 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 |
| HB1468 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax deduction for certain bad debt. Provides a method for determining the treatment of bad debt related to a private label credit card.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1126 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax collections on sale of ethanol. Excludes ethanol from the gasoline use tax. Defines "ethanol" as a blended motor fuel consisting of at least 15% (E15) but not more than 85% (E85) agriculturally derived ethyl alcohol, and gasoline as the bal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Ways and Means 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 |
| HB1462 | Intro
Sine Die | Court clerk administrative fee. Allows a clerk of a city or town court to retain a court clerk administrative fee from the excess amounts of bail, fines, civil penalties, and certain fees and court costs collected by the clerk. (Current law allows on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To House Courts and Criminal Code 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 |
