| HB1453 | Engross
Sine Die | Hunting preserves. Provides for the initial licensing and operation of hunting preserves: (1) on which Indiana farm raised and released cervidae are hunted; and (2) that operated during the 2014 calendar year. Establishes licensing requirements, insp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-14
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 449: yeas 23, nays 27 |
| HB1008 | Engross
Sine Die | Various election law matters. Provides that a candidate vacancy due to the withdrawal of a candidate that occurs after noon July 15 and before noon August 1 is filled by a caucus of precinct committeemen of the political party and election district h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Amendment #5 (Walker) prevailed; voice vote |
| HB1433 | Engross
Sine Die | Sheriff's merit board. Prohibit a relative of: (1) an active county police officer; or (2) the sheriff; from serving as a member of the sheriff's merit board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| 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 |
| HB1010 | Engross
Sine Die | 211 dialing code for human services information. Amends the statute concerning the telephone 211 dialing code for human services information to add assistance concerning: (1) domestic violence; (2) infant mortality; (3) veterans; (4) senior citizens;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
Senator Randolph 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 |
| HB1358 | Engross
Sine Die | Garnishment of state tax refunds. Provides that if a debt has been reduced to a judgment in Indiana and the judgment has not been satisfied, set aside, or discharged in bankruptcy, the judgment creditor may garnish a state tax refund otherwise due to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-31
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1618 | Engross
Sine Die | South Shore line extension. Creates a program to provide state matching grants to the northwest Indiana regional development authority (RDA) for projects extending the Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend Railway (Railway). Requires the RDA to make c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-31
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1360 | Engross
Sine Die | Massage therapists. Provides that massage therapists are governed by the health professions standards of practice. (Under current law, massage therapists are governed by the professional licensing standards of practice.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Senator Alting added as second sponsor |
| 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 |
| HB1231 | Engross
Sine Die | Accelerated degree programs. Provides for a higher education award for students who participate in an accelerated degree program. Specifies that a student receiving the award may not receive a Frank O'Bannon award. Appropriates to the commission for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Senator Stoops added as cosponsor |
| HB1338 | Engross
Sine Die | Safe driving practices near stationary solid waste haulers. Defines solid waste hauler as a vehicle in which solid waste or recyclable materials are transported to a transfer station or final disposal facility. Provides that it is a Class A infractio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 290: yeas 17, nays 32 |
| HB1616 | Engross
Sine Die | Eligibility for child care voucher. Provides that beginning October 1, 2015, a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal Child Care and Development Fund voucher program may continue to participate unless the child's family inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1005 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax credit for teachers' classroom supplies. Provides that an individual employed as a teacher is entitled to a credit against the individual's adjusted gross income tax liability for amounts expended on classroom supplies up to a maximum of $200 per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1298 | Engross
Sine Die | Political subdivision risk management. Requires the Indiana Public Employer's Plan, Inc., (IPEP), which was established as a domestic nonprofit corporation, to apply for a certificate of authority to transact business as a domestic mutual insurance c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1240 | Engross
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] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Natural Resources 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 |
| SB0350 | Engross
Sine Die | East Chicago school board. Reduces the number of members of the governing body of the School City of East Chicago from nine to five, beginning January 1, 2017. Provides that if a vacancy occurs on the governing body before January 1, 2017, the vacanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Education Committee |
| SB0127 | Engross
Sine Die | Religious exemption in state and local contracts. Provides that a contract entered into, modified, or renewed by the state or any of its political or civil subdivisions after June 30, 2015, with a religious corporation, an association, an educational...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
Representative Karickhoff removed as cosponsor |
| SB0427 | Engross
Sine Die | Distributions of public safety income tax revenue. Provides for mandatory distributions of public safety local option income tax (LOIT) revenue to the eligible civil taxing units of an adopting county, which includes the adopting county, the cities a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0359 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption for data warehouse equipment. Provides a state sales tax exemption for the sale or lease of certain enterprise information technology equipment. Requires that the investment in the equipment must be at least $100,000,000. Specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0388 | Engross
Sine Die | Reporting of property forfeiture. Requires the Indiana prosecuting attorneys council to make an annual report to the legislative council concerning civil forfeitures conducted in Indiana, and requires the state police department to annually report to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0495 | Engross
Sine Die | Study of ethnic history. Requires the study of ethnic and racial groups to be included as part of each school corporation's high school United States history course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Education Committee |
| SB0470 | Engross
Sine Die | Study of issues related to student assessments. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of studying issues related to the development by the state board of education of acceptable tests from which all scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0128 | Engross
Sine Die | Sewage and waste management districts. Provides that the county executive of a county in which a regional sewage district was formed in response to an agreed order entered into after August 31, 2005, may elect to transform the regional sewage distric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0446 | Engross
Sine Die | Local government financial reporting. Provides that certain political subdivisions may not issue bonds unless: (1) the political subdivision has filed required annual financial reports with the state board of accounts or (in the case of a school corp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0385 | Engross
Sine Die | Murder sentencing; aggravating circumstance. Permits the state to seek the death penalty or a sentence of life without parole for a murder committed in a building primarily used for educational purposes if the murder is committed: (1) on school prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0125 | Engross
Sine Die | Property or casualty insurance coverage for innocent coinsured. Urges the legislative council to assign the topic of property or casualty insurance coverage for an innocent coinsured to an interim study committee during the 2015 interim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
Representative Lehman added as cosponsor |
| SB0334 | Engross
Sine Die | Abortion prohibition based on sex or disability. Prohibits a person from performing an abortion if the person knows that the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion solely because of: (1) the sex of the fetus; or (2) a diagnosis or potential diagnosis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0321 | Engross
Sine Die | Study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to a study committee during the 2015 legislative interim the following topics with regard to counties, cities, towns, townships, fire territories and fire protection districts: (1) Contracting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
