| HB1322 | Pass | Trial court jurisdiction. Specifies that circuit courts, superior courts, and probate courts have original and concurrent jurisdiction under certain provisions of the Indiana Code. Requires the public defender commission (rather than the division of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 84 |
| HB1211 | Pass | Methamphetamine and criminal mischief. Includes the attempted manufacture of methamphetamine in the statutory definition of "methamphetamine abuse". Requires law enforcement agencies to report fires related to methamphetamine abuse to the Indiana cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 76 |
| HB1130 | Pass | Ignition interlock devices. Requires the criminal justice institute (institute) to establish standards for: (1) service centers; (2) inspections; and (3) ignition interlock device technicians. Specifies that certain fees relating to ignition interloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 71 |
| HB1110 | Enroll
Sine Die | Supplemental distributions of local income tax. Requires the budget agency, before May 1, 2016, to make supplemental distributions from a county's adjusted gross income tax trust account, county option income tax trust account, or county economic dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
Senate advisors appointed: Miller Pete, Randolph Lonnie M and Eckerty |
| HB1029 | 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] | 2016-02-23
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1004 | Engross
Sine Die | School pension plans and other education matters. Establishes the teachers' defined contribution plan (plan) as an account within the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (fund). Provides that an individual who begins employment with a school corp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-22
Amendment #3 (Tallian) failed; Roll Call 188: yeas 13, nays 37 |
| HB1274 | Engross
Sine Die | Sunday sales at artisan distilleries. Allows the holder of an artisan distiller's permit to sell liquor for carryout on Sunday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
Senator Randolph added as cosponsor |
| HB1228 | Engross
Sine Die | Hemp. Allows the state seed commissioner to adopt rules ti implement laws concerning industrial hemp. Encourages Indiana University School of Medicine and other state educational institutions to research the use of cannabidiol oil (CBD) from a hemp p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
Senator Head removed as second sponsor |
| HB1224 | Engross
Sine Die | Beef market development. Requires that a state assessment of $1 per head of cattle must be collected on the sale of cattle in Indiana. Provides that the Indiana Beef Council (council) is responsible for the collection and use of the assessment collec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1213 | Engross
Sine Die | Enterprise zones. Provides that the fiscal body of a municipality may adopt a resolution renewing an enterprise zone for an additional five years after the date on which the enterprise zone is set to expire. Provides that new municipal enterprise zon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-15
Senator Randolph added as cosponsor |
| HB1249 | Engross
Sine Die | Driving privileges suspensions. Provides that when judgment has been imposed for committing two worksite speed limit violations within one year, an additional penalty of the suspension of the person's driving privileges for 60 days may be imposed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1118 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage permits and redevelopment. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission to issue a total of 10 new three-way permits for on-premises consumption to the owner or proprietor of a restaurant in a municipality in Hamilton County. Allows t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HB1299 | Engross
Sine Die | Voluntary remediation plans. Revises the law concerning the voluntary remediation of hazardous substances and petroleum. Authorizes the department of environmental management (department) to reject an application for participation in the voluntary re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1390 | Engross
Sine Die | Ephedrine or pseudoephedrine. Requires the Indiana board of pharmacy (board) to adopt emergency rules that are effective July 1, 2016, concerning: (1) professional determinations made; and (2) a relationship on record with the pharmacy; concerning th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1247 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage issues. Provides that the department of natural resources (department) may apply for a three-way permit for a state park. Provides that the alcohol and tobacco commission shall issue a permit to the department for a state park with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HB1024 | 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 co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-03
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Transborder groundwater authority. Establishes the Indiana-Kentucky transborder groundwater authority (authority). Requires the authority to study ownership rights in the groundwater resources shared by Indiana and Kentucky and to explore the desirab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
Representative Hamm added as coauthor |
| HB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | DNA samples from felony arrestees. Requires every person arrested for a felony after June 30, 2016, to submit a DNA sample, and specifies that the sample may be obtained only by buccal swab. Provides for the expungement of a DNA sample taken from a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
Representative Cox added as coauthor |
| HB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | Cancers associated with human papillomavirus. Requires the state department of health (department) to develop a strategic plan to identify and significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancers associated with human papillomavirus. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
Representative Sullivan added as coauthor |
| HB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana housing first program. Establishes the Indiana housing first program (program) to provide housing and support services for eligible homeless persons. Provides that the housing and community development authority (authority) shall administer t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Healthy food financing program. Establishes the healthy food financing fund (fund) and healthy food financing program (program) under the administration of the Indiana housing and community development authority (IHCDA). Provides that the purpose of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1407 | Intro
Sine Die | ABLE authority and board. Creates the achieving a better life experience (ABLE) authority (authority) and the ABLE board (board) of the authority. Requires the authority to establish a qualified ABLE program under which a person may make contribution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Hancock County food and beverage tax. Authorizes Hancock County to adopt a county food and beverage tax. Provides that the tax rate may not exceed 1%. Specifies the uses to which receipts from the food and beverage tax may be applied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1232 | Intro
Sine Die | Background checks for real estate brokers. Requires an individual applying for an initial real estate broker's license to submit to a national criminal history background check at the cost of the individual. Requires an individual seeking a renewal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
Amendment #1 (Thompson) prevailed; voice vote |
| HB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Horse racing matters. Imposes a wagering tax on amounts wagered through advance deposit wagering by account holders in Indiana. Provides for the distribution of advance deposit wagering tax revenues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1316 | Intro
Sine Die | Law enforcement matters. Creates a $5 law enforcement body camera fee. Requires that the law enforcement body camera fee must be collected in any action involving the violation of an infraction or an ordinance. Requires the clerk of a circuit court t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1323 | Intro
Sine Die | Reading requirements. Provides that a rule adopted by the state board of education (state board) must allow flexibility for principals and school leaders in scheduling the number and length of reading periods for elementary school students during stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Education Committee |
| HB1339 | Intro
Sine Die | Teachers. Establishes the Indiana teacher retention and recruitment program to improve teacher retention rates, recruitment, and quality. Establishes the Indiana teacher retention and recruitment program fund to be used to fund programs developed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1396 | Intro
Sine Die | Massage therapists. Provides that an individual must be licensed by the state board of massage therapy (board) to practice massage therapy. (Under current law, massage therapists are certified by the board but certification is not required to practic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | Fuel taxes and vehicle fees. Provides that biodiesel fuel that is manufactured in Indiana and shipped out of state is exempt from the special fuel tax and motor carrier fuel tax. (Under current law, a refund must be claimed.) Specifies that the motor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1003 | Pass | Teacher evaluations. Provides that, for a state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016, the amount that a school corporation may receive as part of a performance grant relating to test results shall be calculated using the highe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
Public Law 2 |
| HB1363 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Requires, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, a school corporation to conduct at least 175 student instructional days in a school year. (Currently, a school corporation is required to conduct at least 180 student instructional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HB1243 | Intro
Sine Die | Say's Firefly designated as state insect. Designates Pyractomena angulata, also known as "Say's Firefly", as the official state insect of Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1362 | Intro
Sine Die | State law enforcement salaries. Provides salary increases of 72% for the police employees of the state police and the gaming agents and gaming control officers of the Indiana gaming commission. (Current law provides that salary increases for police e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1044 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' recovery program. Establishes, for five years, the veterans' recovery program and fund to provide treatment for veterans with traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder and to obtain reimbursement from third parties. Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Ban on ivory and rhino horn sales. Makes the sale or other transfer of ownership of an article consisting of or containing ivory or rhino horn a Class A misdemeanor. Provides exceptions applying: (1) if the article is at least 100 years old and ivory...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1132 | Intro
Sine Die | Nanotechnology incentives. Allows the award of grants or loans from the twenty-first century research and technology fund to support proposals for economic development in nanotechnology. Provides a personal property tax exemption for certain nanotech...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| HB1357 | Intro
Sine Die | Data 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 than a state agency o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| HB1104 | Intro
Sine Die | Harassment. Makes it harassment, a Class B misdemeanor, for a person to, with intent to harass, annoy, defame, ridicule, or alarm another person but with no intent of legitimate communication: (1) make a telephone call, whether or not a conversation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1423 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1291 | Intro
Sine Die | Access to health care cost information. Requires health care providers and health plans to provide to covered individuals and patients certain information concerning the cost of health care services. Requires health care providers to publish a paymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1376 | Intro
Sine Die | Beer and liquor wholesalers. Allows a beer and wine wholesaler to wholesale liquor if: (1) the wholesaler pays a $4,000 fee; and (2) the wholesaler's primary source of supply for liquor has been the wholesaler's primary source of supply for beer or w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1410 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Disciplinary process for firefighters and police. Establishes minimum rights of a full-time, paid, nonprobationary member of a fire department or a police department (a public safety officer) to be represented in any interaction that may result in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1304 | Intro
Sine Die | Court clerks and paralegals. Requires the clerk of the supreme court to create and maintain a registry of certain paralegals and court clerks. Requires a new clerk for the: (1) court of appeals; (2) superior courts; (3) circuit courts; and (4) city a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1409 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1419 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1319 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional insured in construction projects. Declares void and unenforceable a contractual or insurance provision requiring insurance coverage for an additional insured with respect to certain construction projects to the extent the additional insure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1418 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1417 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
