| HB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | Access to financial data for state agencies. Amends the law concerning access to financial data of state agencies to: (1) define "funding entity"; (2) apply the law to a body corporate and politic; (3) include certain state agency and funding entity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1350 | Intro
Sine Die | Connection of certain properties to sewer systems. Amends the law under which a property of at least 10 acres may be exempt from mandatory connection to the sewer system of a not-for-profit utility to provide that: (1) a property owner seeking the ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1276 | Intro
Sine Die | Dispensing without a prescription. Allows a pharmacist who meets certain requirements to furnish specified tobacco cessation products and immunization drugs or devices to individuals who are at least 18 years of age without a prescription or drug ord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1327 | Intro
Sine Die | Members of the Gary school board. Reduces the number of members of the governing body of the Gary Community School Corporation from seven to five, beginning January 1, 2017. Provides that three members of the governing body are elected by districts b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| HB1332 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit for casino patrons. Prohibits casinos and racinos from extending credit to a patron.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1352 | Intro
Sine Die | Standard deductions. Provides that an individual who maintains a separate principal place of residence from the individual's spouse may claim a standard homestead deduction regardless of whether the individual's spouse claims a deduction on a differe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1343 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax deduction for dependents. Provides that a taxpayer may claim the $1,500 additional dependent deduction for a dependent child for whom the taxpayer is the legal guardian. (Current law allows the additional dependent deduction to be claimed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1295 | Intro
Sine Die | Complying with federal immigration enforcement. Prohibits a governmental body from limiting or restricting the enforcement of federal immigration laws, including limiting or restricting another governmental body from: (1) complying with an immigratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1283 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid and members of the military. Allows an individual and the individual's dependent to maintain Medicaid eligibility and remain on Medicaid waiver waiting lists if the individual is: (1) an active member of the armed services of the United Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1348 | Intro
Sine Die | Posting of false business reviews. Provides that a person shall not post or publish, or cause to be posted or published, on a consumer review site a defamatory review concerning an Indiana business. For purposes of this prohibition, defines a: (1) "c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| HB1349 | Intro
Sine Die | Hoosier employee retirement options portal. Establishes the Hoosier employee retirement options portal (portal) for the purpose of connecting eligible employers and their employees with approved retirement plans to increase the employees' retirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1326 | Intro
Sine Die | Innkeeper's tax. Requires county council review and approval of the annual budget of the Lake County convention and visitor bureau (bureau). Provides that the bureau may not expend money from a fund established by the bureau unless the expenditure is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1318 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax sale surplus funds. Provides that the attorney general and the attorney general's homeowner protection unit shall enforce the statute governing an agreement between: (1) a real property owner who is divested of ownership of the property at a tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1341 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption for mining safety property. Provides a sales tax exemption for property acquired for the purpose of complying with mining safety statutes or regulations if the person acquiring the property is engaged in: (1) the business of minin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1346 | Intro
Sine Die | Sentencing enhancements for use of firearms. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally: (1) uses a firearm in the commission of a felony against a person that results in death or serious bodily injury, kidnapping, or criminal confinement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1296 | Intro
Sine Die | Nullification of EPA regulations in Indiana. Nullifies all regulations imposed in Indiana by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Provides that the department of environmental management shall provide environmental protection for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1317 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal fund exchange program. Amends the federal fund exchange program as follows: (1) Requires the department of transportation (department) to make available to eligible entities at least 25% of federal funding received by the department. (2) Allo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1287 | Intro
Sine Die | Local public questions. Provides that, for an election held after December 31, 2017, a local public question may not be placed on the ballot at an election held during the year after a presidential election year. Provides that if another Indiana stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1320 | Intro
Sine Die | Diabetes assessment reports. 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] | 2016-01-12
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1286 | Intro
Sine Die | Bias motivated crimes. Provides that a bias motivated crime is a crime in which the person who commits the crime knowingly or intentionally selects: (1) an individual against whom the crime was committed; or (2) any property damaged or otherwise affe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1368 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal of IOSHA. Repeals, on January 1, 2017, the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Act (IOSHA), except for provisions concerning the INSafe program. Provides that the powers and duties of the department of labor under IOSHA (except for those co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Law enforcement training and education. Repeals certain statutes concerning law enforcement academies and law enforcement training currently located in the state and local administration law (Title 5). Recodifies the repealed statutes in the public s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Circuit court clerk mailings. To resolve a conflict, repeals one version of amendments made to a statute during the 2015 session of the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1334 | Intro
Sine Die | Handgun licenses and law enforcement officers. Provides that police officers, sheriffs or their deputies, and law enforcement officers of the United States government who have 20 or more years of service are entitled to a lifetime license to carry a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1354 | Intro
Sine Die | Delegation of parental powers. Provides that a delegation of powers by a parent or guardian regarding the health care, support, custody, or property of the minor: (1) is not considered placing the minor in foster care; (2) does not subject any party ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1329 | Intro
Sine Die | State examiner findings. Specifies requirements for corrective action when audited entities fail to comply with certain guidelines or laws. Requires the department of local government finance to deny the budget or supplemental appropriation of an aud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1311 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana education savings account program. Establishes the Indiana education savings account program (program). Provides that a parent of an eligible student or an emancipated eligible student may establish an account in the program. Provides that an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| HB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Work sharing unemployment benefit. Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program. Requires an employer to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce development. Establishes the work sharing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Water and wastewater utility service territories. Requires the appointment of two additional members to a utility service board serving a municipal water, wastewater, or combined water and wastewater utility not later than 60 days after the effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| HB1260 | Intro
Sine Die | Severe injury to first responders. Defines "permanent disabling harm" and permits imposition of a nonsuspendible sentencing enhancement of five to 10 years if the state proves that a person committed a felony that caused a public safety official to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1050 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax holiday. Provides a sales and use tax exemption each year beginning on the second Friday of August 2016 and August 2017 through the following Sundays (sales tax holiday) for the following items: (1) Clothing, if the sales price does not exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Missing persons information distribution. Requires the Indiana clearinghouse for information on missing children and missing endangered adults to publish the photographs of missing children and missing endangered adults on the clearinghouse's Interne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1214 | Intro
Sine Die | Obstruction of justice. Creates an enhancement to the obstruction of justice crime for intimidation of a witness during the investigation or pendency of a domestic violence or child abuse case. Provides immunity for prosecuting attorneys and deputies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | Duration of first regular session of the Indiana general assembly. Changes the deadline for the general assembly to adjourn sine die in an odd-numbered year from April 29 to April 15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1270 | Intro
Sine Die | Prekindergarten education. Expands the prekindergarten pilot program to include 13 counties that were selected as finalist counties by the office of the secretary of family and social services but were not selected as one of the five initial pilot co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Access to identifying information. Requires the state registrar to search death certificates in the state registrar's possession and the federal limited access death master file if an eligible individual submits a request for the release of identifyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1253 | Intro
Sine Die | Historic rehabilitation credit. Provides that the historic rehabilitation credit continues for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015, without expiration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1030 | Intro
Sine Die | Administration of standardized tests. Provides that the department of education (department) may not require the students in a school corporation, a charter school, a school, or a grade or class in a school to complete a required statewide, national,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1237 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher academy. Allows the commission for higher education (commission) to enter into an academy agreement with one state educational institution for the establishment and operation of a teacher academy. Requires the commission to issue a request fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1221 | Intro
Sine Die | Advisory public question on LGBT civil rights. Requires an advisory public question to be put on the November 2016 general election ballot asking the voters whether members of the general assembly should pass legislation to extend civil rights protec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1265 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana minimum wage. Provides that employers that are subject to the minimum wage provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act are subject to the Indiana minimum wage. (Current law provides that employers that are subject to the minimum wage p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1086 | Intro
Sine Die | Annexation of noncontiguous territory. Allows municipalities in Kosciusko County to annex noncontiguous territory that is to be used as an industrial park.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1225 | Intro
Sine Die | Asbestos litigation. Provides special proceedings for asbestos claims. Requires a plaintiff who files a personal injury action involving an asbestos claim to provide information to all parties in the action regarding each asbestos claim the plaintiff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1217 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit for firearms instruction. Provides a state income tax credit to taxpayers (individuals filing single tax returns or married couples filing joint tax returns) who incur expenses in receiving qualified firearms instruction. Provides t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | 1977 pension fund surviving spouse benefit. Increases from 60% to 75% 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 disabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Syringe exchange program. Allows the state health commissioner to extend a syringe exchange program in a county or municipality where the commissioner has declared a public health emergency if certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Vacancies; voting. Removes a voter's option to vote for all candidates of a political party or an independent ticket at one time (straight ticket voting) in a general or municipal election, except for candidates for presidential electors. Provides th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax relief. Permits a board of county commissioners, a county council, a city-county council, or a city common council to establish a neighborhood enhancement property tax relief program. Specifies that under the program a property tax asses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1269 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher compensation. Requires a school corporation that provides health insurance to the school corporation's employees to establish a cafeteria plan under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code for health insurance plan years beginning after June...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1252 | Intro
Sine Die | Activation of state employees. Provides that a state employee who is a member of the Indiana National Guard is entitled to a leave of absence without loss of time or pay while on active duty and compensation in an amount which is equal to the differe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
