| SB0238 | Pass | Soil and water conservation funding. Specifies that a certain part of the cigarette tax fund money annually appropriated to the department of natural resources under current law shall be appropriated to and used by the division of soil conservation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 95 |
| HB1231 | Pass | Deer hunting. Provides that certain rifles may be used to hunt deer on privately owned land during the firearms seasons beginning after June 30, 2016, and ending before January 1, 2020. Requires the department of natural resources (DNR) to report on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 110 |
| HB1089 | Pass | Veteran service officers. 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 the mayor of a city to employ a service officer t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 108 |
| SB0304 | Pass | Property tax matters. For the January 1, 2017, assessment date, increases the assessed value limit for the property tax deduction for certain veterans with a disability from $143,160 to $175,000. Provides that an individual may claim a deduction from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 100 |
| HB1246 | Pass | Various natural resources matters. Removes from the natural resources commission duties to administer parts of the flood control program and the flood control revolving fund. (Current law provides that the Indiana finance authority (authority) admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 111 |
| SB0255 | Pass | Underground petroleum storage tanks. Provides for the underground petroleum storage tank excess liability trust fund to be referred to as the "ELTF". Eliminates a provision stating that fees and penalties paid in connection with underground petroleum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 96 |
| HB1075 | Pass | Sewage fees and municipal sanitary sewer. Provides that if a wastewater utility charges different rates for different classes of property based at least partially on consumption, the utility must charge a rental unit community a rate based at least p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 107 |
| SB0109 | Pass | Regulation of wild animals and hunting preserves. Excludes the wild animal permit from the law requiring notice and hearing on an application for certain permits. Provides that certain fish and wildlife laws do not apply to certain legally owned capt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 89 |
| HB1005 | Pass | Various education matters. Provides that the department of education (department) shall make random visits to at least 5% of schools that are eligible to receive choice scholarships during a particular school year. (Current law provides that the depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 106 |
| SB0145 | Pass | Unclaimed remains of veterans. Requires the Indiana department of veterans' affairs to: (1) establish standards for approval of veterans' service organizations; (2) maintain a list of approved veterans' service organizations; and (3) publish the list...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 90 |
| HB1300 | Pass | Environmental management matters. Eliminates references to certain administrative rules that have been repealed. Revises the definition of the term "land application". Provides that the terms "land application operation" and "solid waste" apply to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 112 |
| HB1002 | Pass | Next generation Hoosier educators scholarship. Requires the commission for higher education (commission) to prepare a report concerning scholarship programs and other incentives for high achieving students who intend to enter the teaching profession ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 105 |
| HB1313 | Pass | Hoosier veterans. Establishes a definition for "Hoosier veteran" that is applicable throughout the Indiana Code when used in reference to state programs for veterans. Amends the definition of Hoosier veteran to include an individual who: (1) is a res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 114 |
| HB1187 | Pass | Stolen valor. Makes it committing stolen valor, a Class A misdemeanor, for a person to knowingly or intentionally, with the intent to obtain money, property, or another benefit: (1) fraudulently represent himself or herself to be an active member or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 109 |
| SB0151 | Pass | Excluded city military base reuse authority. Provides absent an agreement in effect, the Fort Harrison reuse authority (authority) shall pay the city of Lawrence for: (1) police and fire protection at the same tax rate; and (2) utility services at th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 91 |
| SB0295 | Pass | Requires that state income tax forms be modified to enable a taxpayer to donate all or part of the taxpayer's tax refund to the military family relief fund (fund). Requires the Indiana veterans' affairs commission to submit an annual report to the go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 99 |
| SB0154 | Pass | Indiana national guardsmen funeral allowance. Increases from $4,000 to $8,800 the funeral allowance for a member of the Indiana national guard who dies in the active service of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 92 |
| SB0362 | Pass | National guard members and veterans. Extends employment protections under the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act and extends the rights, benefits, and protections under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to members of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 103 |
| HB1373 | Pass | Veterans matters. Extends employment protections under the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act and extends the rights, benefits, and protections under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to members of the national guard ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 116 |
| SB0257 | Pass | Distressed water and wastewater utilities. Specifies that for purposes of the statute governing the acquisition of distressed water or wastewater utilities, a "utility company" includes, in addition to a regional sewer or water district, a: (1) publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 98 |
| SB0347 | Pass | Water resources. Repeals the law requiring all water utilities to annually report to the utility regulatory commission on the utilities' operations and maintenance costs in providing water service to their customers. Requires the Indiana finance auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 102 |
| SB0256 | Pass | Legitimate use of solid waste and waste tires. Defines "legitimate use" of a material as the use or reuse of a material, otherwise defined as a solid or hazardous waste, under which: (1) the material is used or reused in a manufacturing process or as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 97 |
| HB1395 | Pass | ISTEP matters. Provides that provisions relating to high ability students apply to performance qualified school districts. Requires that scores of student responses under an ISTEP program test must be reported to the state board of education (state b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 117 |
| HB1312 | Pass | Veteran business enterprises. Defines "veteran", for the purpose of qualifying as a veteran owned small business by the Indiana department of administration, as an individual who previously: (1) served on active duty in any branch of the armed forces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 113 |
| HB1359 | Pass | Employment of veterans as public safety officers; 1977 fund retirement age. Waives the maximum hiring age restrictions that apply to the appointment and hiring of police officers and firefighters for an individual who is a veteran of the armed forces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 115 |
| SB0189 | Pass | Identifier for military families. Provides that information concerning attendance records and academic progress for a student attending an adult high school who is a member of the military or children in military families must be submitted to the dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 93 |
| SB0336 | Pass | Mine subsidence. Allows the post-1977 abandoned mine reclamation fund to be used for the restoration of land that has been affected by surface coal mining operations. Removes the requirement that mine subsidence be caused by the collapse of inactive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
Public Law 101 |
| SB0213 | Pass | 911 fees. Eliminates the requirements that a communications service provider designated by the utility regulatory commission as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of receiving Lifeline reimbursement from the universal service fund mu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 36 |
| HB1012 | Pass | Developmental disability bracelet and identification card. Requires the state department of health (state department), upon request, to issue a bracelet, an identification card, or both indicating that an individual has been medically diagnosed with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 56 |
| SB0248 | Pass | 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] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 41 |
| HB1157 | Pass | Methamphetamine matters. Requires the division of state court administration to report certain methamphetamine-related felonies to the National Precursor Log Exchange (NPLEx) so that NPLEx can generate a stop sale alert to prevent individuals convict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 9 |
| HB1069 | Pass | No contact and protective orders and battery. Allows a petition to be filed with the juvenile court to order a person to refrain from contact with a member of a foster family home. Makes battery a Class A misdemeanor instead of a Class B misdemeanor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 65 |
| HB1369 | Pass | Juvenile justice. Requires the commission on improving the status of children to: (1) study and evaluate innovative juvenile justice programs, including juvenile community corrections; and (2) consult with the justice reinvestment advisory council co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 88 |
| HB1136 | Pass | Insurance matters. Requires gaming facilities to pay to the state a special worker's compensation fee and removes a requirement for gaming facilities to reimburse the state for certain worker's compensation expenses. Amends the application of the ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 72 |
| HB1235 | Pass | Drug offenses. Specifies that Level 2 controlled substance offenses are nonsuspendible if: (1) the offense involves methamphetamine or heroin; and (2) the person has a prior felony conviction for dealing in certain controlled substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 10 |
| HB1028 | Pass | Human trafficking and common nuisances. Repeals certain provision in current law defining the crimes of visiting and maintaining a common nuisance in connection with the unlawful use of: (1) alcohol; (2) legend drugs; and (3) controlled substances. C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 59 |
| HB1035 | Pass | Code revision corrections. Resolves substantive problems in the Indiana Code. Resolves various nontechnical conflicts and problems not suitable for resolution in the annual technical corrections bill, including: (1) a statute that has been both added...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 60 |
| HB1048 | Pass | Motor vehicle accidents. Makes it a Class C infraction if a motor vehicle involved in an accident comes to a stop in the traveled portion of a highway, and the operator fails (with certain exceptions) to move the motor vehicle off the traveled portio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 63 |
| SB0131 | Pass | Department of child services reporting. Defines "life threatening". 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 is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 23 |
| HB1271 | Pass | Child abuse matters. Requires the department of child services (department) to notify the United States Department of Defense Family Advocacy Program (program) if a child of an active duty member of the military is the subject of a substantiated inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 81 |
| SB0297 | Pass | Opioid dependence treatment. Requires Medicaid coverage for inpatient detoxification for the treatment of opioid or alcohol dependence. Adds requirements for an opioid treatment program to meet in order to operate in Indiana. Requires the division of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 8 |
| SB0372 | Pass | Deficiency judgments and foreclosed property. Provides that the following statutes are not intended to provide the owner of real estate subject to the issuance of process under a judgment or decree of foreclosure any protection or defense against a d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 54 |
| HB1181 | Pass | Department of financial institutions. Makes various changes to the laws concerning: (1) first lien mortgage lenders; (2) persons licensed under the Uniform Consumer Credit Code; (3) financial institutions; and (4) debt management companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 73 |
| SB0272 | Pass | Palliative care and quality of life advisory council. Establishes the palliative care and quality of life advisory council, and sets forth member requirements. Specifies the purpose and duties of the advisory council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 43 |
| HB1199 | Pass | Human trafficking. Adds the crime of promotion of human trafficking of a minor to the definitions of "sex offender" and "sex or violent offender".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 75 |
| SB0014 | Pass | Various criminal law matters. Makes the offense of child exploitation a Level 4 felony instead of a Level 5 felony if the offense involves, depicts, or describes a child less than 18 years of age who: (1) engages in bestiality; (2) is mentally disabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 13 |
| SB0357 | Pass | Registry of convicted child abusers. Defines "crime of child abuse" and requires the division of state court administration (division) to establish an electronic child abuse registry containing information relating to persons convicted of a crime of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 52 |
| SB0080 | Pass | Ephedrine and 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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 4 |
| HB1331 | Pass | Management of institutional funds. Provides that a chapter in the Indiana Code may be cited as the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA). Makes the following changes to the UPMIFA: (1) Allows a donor to give an institution pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 85 |
| SB0325 | Pass | Individual development accounts. Requires that a primary residence or business for which money is withdrawn from an individual development account (account) must be located or based in Indiana. Provides for use of money from an account for purchase o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
Public Law 50 |
