| SB0269 | Intro
Sine Die | Civics test as graduation requirement. Provides that, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, an individual must obtain a satisfactory score on the United States Civics Test, administered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 229: yeas 17, nays 33 |
| SB0109 | Intro
Sine Die | Support for educational needs. Urges the legislative council to study the topic of educational support orders during the 2015 interim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Senator Houchin added as second author |
| SB0056 | Intro
Sine Die | Legacy trust. Provides that a protective provision in a legacy trust prevents a creditor of the settlor from satisfying a claim from the settlor's interest in the trust estate when the settlor is also a beneficiary of the trust. Authorizes the establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 185: yeas 18, nays 31 |
| SB0488 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of special fuel. Eliminates the sales tax on the sale of all special fuel that is subject to the special fuel gallonage tax except for: (1) liquid natural gas or compressed natural gas through 2016; (2) natural gas or an alternative fuel com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0188 | Intro
Sine Die | Eagle Scout trust license plate. Establishes the Eagle Scout trust license plate and the Eagle Scout trust fund. Specifies that $25 from the proceeds of the sale of an Eagle Scout trust license plate shall be distributed to the National Eagle Scout A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
Senator Randolph added as coauthor |
| SB0201 | Intro
Sine Die | Straight ticket voting. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee for study during the 2015 legislative interim the topic of straight ticket voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0322 | Intro
Sine Die | Food desert grant program. Establishes the food desert grant program (program) within the state department of health (ISDH) to assist new and existing retail businesses in offering fresh and unprocessed foods within a "food desert" (an underserved ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0055 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical malpractice actions. Permits a patient to bring an action against a health care provider without submitting the complaint to the medical review board if: (1) the amount of the claim is not more than $15,000; (2) the cause of action is based o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 156: yeas 22, nays 27 |
| SB0526 | Intro
Sine Die | School nutrition. Requires the department of education to promote and assist school corporations in complying with federal guidelines, policies, and rules concerning student nutrition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0310 | Intro
Sine Die | Alternative schools. Makes changes to the requirements as to what information must be reported on a school corporation's annual performance report. Provides that when a student is expelled from school, the department of education shall deposit the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0496 | Intro
Sine Die | Primary care physician loan forgiveness program. Provides that a primary care physician who is eligible for student loan forgiveness under the primary care physician loan forgiveness program may have student loans forgiven up to an amount of $25,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0543 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of health information technology. Creates the office of health information technology within the state department of health to: (1) study and report on certain uses of health information; (2) study and report on incentives for use of electroni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0129 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for child care voucher. Provides that a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal Child Care and Development Fund voucher program: (1) is eligible to participate in the program if the child's family income does not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0271 | Intro
Sine Die | College and career counseling grant. Establishes the college and career readiness certificate grant to assist school school counselors in obtaining a college and career readiness certificate from an approved postsecondary educational institution. Est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0320 | Intro
Sine Die | Jurisdiction of the attorney general. Specifies actions in which a public officer or public servant is accused and for which the attorney general has concurrent jurisdiction with a prosecuting attorney.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0348 | Intro
Sine Die | Advanced technology vehicles. Imposes an annual fee on advanced technology vehicles. Deposits the fees in the motor vehicle highway account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0549 | Intro
Sine Die | Removal of asset limits for SNAP food assistance program. Requires the division of family resources to: (1) implement within the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance program (SNAP) an expanded eligibility category, which does not consider an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0497 | Intro
Sine Die | Health education and sex education curricula. Requires the state department of health and the department of education, working cooperatively, to identify and report to the general assembly appropriate academic standards and curricula concerning healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0472 | Intro
Sine Die | Various veterans' matters. Creates the servicemembers civil relief act. Provides that protections under Indiana's civil relief act supplement protections for servicemembers under the federal servicemembers civil relief act. Sets forth duties for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0547 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans and courts. Provides that a problem solving court that is a veteran's court and the services of the court are available to veterans who are convicted of a misdemeanor or felony in another court in another county. Provides that the Indiana ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0286 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of civil service annuities. Provides that the maximum state income tax deduction for federal civil service annuity income is equal to the lesser of: (1) the amount of federal civil service annuity income received during the taxable year; or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0405 | Intro
Sine Die | Assessment of agricultural land. Provides that the soil productivity factors used for the March 1, 2011, assessment of agricultural land must be used for assessment dates occurring after March 1, 2014, unless and until new soil productivity factors a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0260 | Intro
Sine Die | Small employer wellness program tax credits. Extends the income tax credit for small employers that provide a qualified wellness program for their employees. Provides that the credit may be claimed for costs incurred in 2012 through 2015. (Current la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0535 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter identification number. Requires an application for an absentee ballot to instruct a voter that the voter must provide the voter's voter identification number on the application. Requires that the form must inform the voter that the voter can ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0504 | Intro
Sine Die | Developmental disability pilot program. Requires the division of disability and rehabilitative services (division) to implement a pilot program for the training and implementation of a single point of entry system for individuals who are dually diagn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0236 | Intro
Sine Die | Automated license plate readers. Prohibits a law enforcement agency from retaining license plate data captured by an automated license plate reader unless: (1) a comparison of the captured plate data with a data base shows that the data is relevant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0134 | Intro
Sine Die | Battery on a sports official. Increases the penalty for battery if it is committed against a person certified as a referee, an umpire, or an athletic official.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0381 | Intro
Sine Die | Visually impaired preschool services. Requires the division of disability and rehabilitative services to contract with an entity to provide vision assessments and early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities who are in need o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0533 | Intro
Sine Die | Various veterans matters. Provides that after December 31, 2015, the assessed value of an individual's tangible property may not be considered when determining whether the individual is eligible for the property tax deduction for: (1) totally disable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0150 | Intro
Sine Die | Madison circuit court magistrate. Allows the judges of the Madison circuit court to jointly appoint a second full-time magistrate, and allows the judge of the Porter circuit court to appoint one full-time magistrate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0485 | Intro
Sine Die | Psychiatric crisis intervention. Changes the date by which the office of the secretary of family and social services must provide a report concerning comprehensive psychiatric crisis intervention services. Requires the division of mental health and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0345 | Intro
Sine Die | Resident tuition rate. Provides that an individual, except for certain nonimmigrants, who: (1) attends a high school in Indiana for at least three years; (2) registers as an entering student at or is currently enrolled in a state educational institut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
Senator Randolph added as coauthor |
| SB0292 | Intro
Sine Die | St. Joseph County courts. Joseph County courts. Allows the: (1) judge of the St. Joseph circuit court to appoint one additional full-time magistrate, without considering the political affiliation of a candidate for magistrate, for a total of three fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0568 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious freedom restoration act. Provides that a state or local government action may not substantially burden a person's right to the exercise of religion unless it is demonstrated that applying the burden to the person's exercise of religion is: ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0060 | Intro
Sine Die | Genetically modified food. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2016, any food that is offered for retail sale is misbranded if it is not disclosed that the food is or may have been entirely or partially produced with genetic engineering. Provides that, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB0364 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of child services reporting. Changes the definition of "near fatality" for purposes of the law concerning records relating to a child's death or near fatality to a severe childhood injury or condition that results in the child receiving cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0302 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment contracts for nonunion teachers. Provides that a teacher who is not a member of the exclusive representative (union) may enter into an employment contract with a school corporation that contains terms that differ from the terms set forth i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0230 | Intro
Sine Die | School corporation reports. Requires certain additional information to be reported on a school corporation's annual performance report (report). Requires a school corporation to make the report available on the school corporation's Internet web site....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0051 | Intro
Sine Die | Payment of monthly pension benefits. Provides that members and beneficiaries of any public pension fund administered by the Indiana public retirement system may receive monthly benefits only by direct deposit or another method approved by the board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0190 | Intro
Sine Die | Sale of alcoholic beverages near 4-H club exhibits. Prohibits the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) from issuing a temporary beer permit to a person for the express purpose of selling beer at a place located less than 76 feet from: (1) the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0304 | Intro
Sine Die | Dyslexia. Defines "dyslexia" for purposes of teacher licensing. Requires an individual who seeks to receive an initial practitioner's license as an elementary school teacher to demonstrate proficiency in the recognition of specific learning disabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0036 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle clearance when overtaking a bicycle. Provides that it is a Class C infraction for a person driving a vehicle overtaking a bicycle to not allow at least three feet of clearance between the vehicle and the bicycle and not return to the original...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| SB0449 | Intro
Sine Die | Gaming matters. Authorizes riverboats to move inland to adjacent properties. Extends until July 1, 2018, the availability of the deduction for wagers made by patrons using noncashable vouchers, coupons, electronic credits, or electronic promotions pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0479 | Intro
Sine Die | Evaluation of solid waste management districts. Requires the environmental rules board (board) to adopt rules establishing objective criteria for the evaluation of solid waste management districts and to set quantitative standards by which the numeri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0169 | Intro
Sine Die | Reading assessments. Requires, after June 30, 2016, that the state superintendent of public instruction's reading deficiency remediation plan (IREAD) provide a reading evaluation for students by grade 2. Provides that a student who requires remediati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0205 | Intro
Sine Die | Soil productivity factors. Provides that the soil productivity factors used for the March 1, 2011, assessment of agricultural land must be used for the March 1, 2015, assessment date. Specifies that new soil productivity factors shall be used for ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0277 | Intro
Sine Die | School counselors. Requires a school corporation to employ at least one school counselor at each elementary school, not including private or charter schools, maintained by the school corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0365 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic documents. Defines "electronic document" and provides that an electronic document may be searched, seized, or intercepted only if it is particularly described in a warrant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0185 | Intro
Sine Die | Developmental disability care provider tax credit. Provides a tax credit against adjusted gross income tax liability for donations to a qualified developmental disability care provider. Defines a "qualified developmental disability care provider" as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0281 | Intro
Sine Die | Microbreweries. Changes the amount of the barrels of beer that a microbrewery may manufacture in a calendar year for sale or distribution within Indiana from 30,000 to 60,000. Makes conforming changes to brewery provisions. Requires that, for a brewe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
