IN Legislation | 2016 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB0370	Intro Sine Die	Coverage for pharmacist care. Requires an accident and sickness insurer that enters into a preferred provider agreement to: (1) reimburse for health care service provided by a pharmacist within the scope of practice to the same extent and in the same... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0343	Intro Sine Die	Pet protective orders. Allows a court to grant an order of protection to: (1) grant possession and care of an animal to a petitioner; (2) prohibit a respondent from taking action against the animal; and (3) direct a law enforcement officer to accompa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0354	Intro Sine Die	Sex crimes that involve children. Makes child exploitation a Level 4 felony instead of a Level 5 felony. Makes possession of child pornography a Level 5 felony instead of a Level 6 felony. Removes a defense to the crime of prostitution that the perso... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0376	Intro Sine Die	Property tax exemption for affordable housing. Establishes standards for affordable housing property to be exempt from property taxation when the property does not otherwise qualify for a property tax exemption. Specifies application requirements. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0237	Intro Sine Die	Pseudoephedrine and ephedrine. Provides that materials, compounds, mixtures, or preparations that contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine are schedule III controlled substances that may be dispensed only by prescription. Repeals: (1) the statute allowin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0374	Intro Sine Die	Abortion. Makes certain findings. Extends the waiting period for an abortion from 18 to 48 hours. Imposes additional disclosure requirements relating to the informed consent to an abortion. Increases the penalties for abortion related violations as f... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0356	Intro Sine Die	Referendum levies. Provides that a referendum on a controlled project may be held only at a general election, if the preliminary determination to issue bonds or enter into a lease for the controlled project is made after June 30, 2016. Requires a pol... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Elections Committee
SB0358	Intro Sine Die	Accountants. Removes the authority of the Indiana board of accountancy to use an additional fee collected from accountants for the purpose of administering accountancy laws. (Current law allows the fee to be used for both the administration and enfor... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee
SB0042	Intro Sine Die	Juvenile delinquency. Prohibits the detention in certain facilities of a child alleged to be a delinquent child. Prohibits the placement in certain facilities of a delinquent child unless the delinquent child: (1) violates probation; or (2) has three... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0379	Intro Sine Die	Teacher shortage. Establishes a beginning teacher residency program. Provides that the department of education may not add additional requirements to obtain a teacher's license for an individual who is a graduate of an accredited teacher training pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0368	Intro Sine Die	Student discipline; students with disabilities. Provides that if a student with a disability is suspended or expelled for an incident in which the student caused a classroom disturbance, the student's case conference committee shall be convened not l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0311	Intro Sine Die	Distributions of public safety income tax revenue. Provides for distributions of public safety local income tax (LIT) revenue to townships and other taxing units of an adopting county that operate or contract with a fire department, a volunteer fire ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0382	Intro Sine Die	Beginning teacher residency and master's degree. Requires a state educational institution that has a teacher preparation program to establish a beginning teacher residency and master's degree program (program). Provides that a private teacher prepara... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-11 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0265	Intro Sine Die	Sales tax district for healthy food programs. Allows the fiscal body of a county to designate a special food desert district (district) if the district is located in a census tract with low median income and low access to the nearest supermarket as d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0340	Intro Sine Die	TIF district base assessed value. Provides that, in the case of assessed value increases attributable to the application of an abatement schedule that was adopted before the allocation area was established, the assessed value increases attributable t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0230	Intro Sine Die	Transportation planning. Requires the Indiana department of transportation to report to the general assembly on plans to establish, and funding mechanisms for, additional traffic lanes on part of Interstate Highway 65. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee
SB0269	Intro Sine Die	School discipline. Requires charter schools and nonpublic schools that accept choice scholarships to adopt written discipline rules in the same manner as school corporations. Removes a good faith effort exception to the requirement of giving general ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0276	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]	2016-01-07 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0264	Intro Sine Die	Solitary confinement standards. Requires the department of correction to abide by the provisions of the: (1) United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; and (2) United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0254	Intro Sine Die	Property tax assessment. Provides the following if the application of an annual adjustment factor derived by an assessing official would result in an increase of more than 10% in the assessed value of one or more homesteads: (1) The assessing officia... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0247	Intro Sine Die	Reports to governmental entities used as evidence. Provides that if: (1) a person is directly or indirectly involved in an act that involves the use or threatened use of deadly force; and (2) the person promptly reports the act to an appropriate gove... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0298	Intro Sine Die	Annexation involving an economic development project. Repeals a provision that allows an annexation involving an economic development project to proceed to a court hearing, even if a remonstrance is filed that would otherwise result in voiding the an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB0244	Intro Sine Die	Distribution of tobacco products licensure. Requires an applicant for a license to distribute tobacco products to submit a letter from the manufacturer that will be supplying the applicant with tobacco products that states the manufacturer's intent t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee
SB0035	Intro Sine Die	Single sex facilities. Provides that student facilities in school buildings must be designated for use by female students or male students, and may be used only by the students of the biological gender for which the facility is designated. Makes it a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Public Policy Committee
SB0181	Intro Sine Die	2015 ISTEP results. Provides that the state board of education (state board) may not place a school or school corporation in a category or designation of school improvement for the 2014-2015 school year. Provides that the state board may not publish ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee
SB0239	Intro Sine Die	Pump disclosures by automotive fuel retailers. Requires a retailer that markets automotive fuel to the general public and that has at least one retail location in Indiana from which the retailer dispenses automotive fuel for sale to do the following:... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee
SB0289	Intro Sine Die	Property tax benefits for veterans. Specifies that a county fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to authorize a total or partial property tax exemption for any of the following: (1) A homestead in the county that is owned by: (A) an individual (or surv... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0346	Intro Sine Die	Prevailing wage. Requires that, whenever the actual costs for the construction of a public improvement are at least $150,000, a contractor or subcontractor shall pay the workers employed in the performance of work for the construction of the public i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee
SB0252	Intro Sine Die	Enforcement of federal immigration laws. Provides that a person lawfully domiciled within Indiana may file a complaint with the attorney general, if the person believes that a county, city, town, or township (unit) is violating the law regarding the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Public Policy Committee
SB0316	Intro Sine Die	Nursing home complaint registry. Establishes the health facility investigation disclosure registry (registry) to be implemented and maintained by the state department of health (state department). Sets forth requirements of the registry. Requires cer... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0235	Intro Sine Die	Military veteran public safety officer hiring age. Increases the maximum age for appointment as a police officer or firefighter from less than 36 years of age to less than 40 years of age if the applicant is a veteran of the armed forces of the Unite... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB0243	Intro Sine Die	Failure to remit wage withholdings. Increases the penalties for failing to remit to the department of state revenue amounts withheld from employees' wages that are held in trust for the state. Requires the department of state revenue to report to var... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0150	Intro Sine Die	Senior prosecuting attorneys. Provides that a deputy prosecuting attorney who was employed as a Title IV-D prosecutor may be appointed as a senior prosecuting attorney to charge and prosecute nonsupport of a child cases. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0158	Intro Sine Die	Various veterans' matters. Requires the Indiana veterans' affairs commission to submit an annual report to the governor and the legislative council on matters concerning the welfare of veterans. Allows for the mayor of a city to employ a service offi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee
SB0317	Intro Sine Die	Funeral directors. Changes the "funeral director intern license" to the "funeral director intern permit" for purposes of the laws governing funeral director interns beginning July 1, 2018. Establishes requirements to qualify for a funeral director in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee
SB0263	Intro Sine Die	Bias motivated crimes. Defines "bias motivated crime" as the crime of battery, aggravated battery, strangulation, kidnapping, criminal confinement, robbery, arson, criminal mischief, burglary, residential entry, criminal trespass, theft, criminal con... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0349	Intro Sine Die	Juvenile detention matters. Allows an intake officer to impose conditions upon the release of a child who was not taken into custody under an order of the court. Includes weekends and holidays in the 48 hour calculation for detention hearings or prob... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0319	Intro Sine Die	Local government common construction wage. Allows the legislative body of a political subdivision to adopt an ordinance requiring the political subdivision to establish a common construction wage for public work projects awarded by the political subd... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee
SB0236	Intro Sine Die	Child in need of services matters. Provides that if a child is a victim of human or sexual trafficking, vicarious sexual gratification, child solicitation, patronizing a prostitute, or promoting prostitution, the child may be a child in need of servi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Family & Children Services Committee
SB0273	Intro Sine Die	Study of drug pricing and access. Urges the legislative council to assign to an interim study committee a study of prescription drug pricing and access to specialty prescription drugs. Requires submission of a report and recommendations to the legisl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0022	Intro Sine Die	GPS tracking. Specifies that "victim notification capabilities", with respect to a GPS tracking device, includes the ability of the device to notify a victim if the device comes within a specified distance of a receiver possessed by the victim. Autho... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0274	Intro Sine Die	Annual customer reports by energy utilities. Requires a public or municipally owned electric or natural gas utility to annually report to the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) certain data concerning customer accounts and low income custom... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Utilities Committee
SB0149	Intro Sine Die	Unmanned aerial vehicles. Allows the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle by a law enforcement officer or governmental entity without obtaining a search warrant if the law enforcement officer determines that the use of the unmanned aerial vehicle is req... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee
SB0351	Intro Sine Die	Testing opioid treatment program patients. Requires that an opioid treatment program periodically and randomly test a patient for certain drugs at least 16 times during each 12 month period during the patient's treatment by the program. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0341	Intro Sine Die	Removal of asset limits for SNAP eligibility. 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 individual's ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Family & Children Services Committee
SB0320	Intro Sine Die	Work ethic certification and grants. Establishes the work ethic certification program under which a student who develops skills necessary for success in higher education or employment receives a work ethic certificate upon graduation. Provides a gran... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0318	Intro Sine Die	Developmental delay. Requires the state board of education to amend its rule establishing developmental delay as a disability category to provide that, beginning July 1, 2017, developmental delay is a disability category solely for students who are a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0078	Intro Sine Die	Transmission of overseas and other ballots. Requires each circuit court clerk to certify either of the following on the forty-third day before a primary, general, or special election: (1) The county election board has sent an absentee ballot to each ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Elections Committee
SB0261	Intro Sine Die	Bias crimes. Requires law enforcement officers to receive training in identifying, responding to, and reporting bias motivated crimes in which the person who committed a criminal offense selected the victim who was injured or whose property was damag... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0299	Intro Sine Die	Forfeiture. Permits seized property to be forfeited to the state only if the owner of the property has been convicted of a criminal offense. Repeals a provision permitting the state to turn over seized property to the federal government. Makes confor... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2016-01-07 To Senate Civil Law Committee