| SB0226 | Engross
Sine Die | Correctional officers and possession of handguns. Allows an employee of a penal facility: (1) who is a correctional officer; and (2) whose duties include the daily or ongoing supervision and care of persons who are lawfully detained in the penal faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0088 | Intro
Sine Die | Solid waste management districts. Authorizes the legislative body of a county to do one, but not both, of the following: (1) Adopt an ordinance specifying that a district may not levy within the county a property tax that is first due and payable in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0344 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil rights. Prohibits discriminatory practices in acquisition or sale of real estate, housing, education, public accommodations, employment, the extending of credit, and public contracts based on military active duty status, or sexual orientation. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0283 | Intro
Sine Die | Counterterrorism. Defines "terrorist associated person" as a person who: (1) is named on the FBI's terrorist watch list; or (2) is an illegal alien from a state that is occupied by certain terrorist organizations. Provides that a terrorist associated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
Withdrawn |
| SB0097 | Intro
Sine Die | Battery on a sports official. Provides that battery on a certified athletic official is a Class A misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0282 | Intro
Sine Die | Threat assessments and critical infrastructure. Requires the executive director of the department of homeland security (department) to: (1) examine vulnerabilities of and threats to critical infrastructure and other possible targets of criminal or te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
Withdrawn |
| SB0285 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment of unauthorized aliens. Prohibits an employer from knowingly employing, after September 30, 2016, an unauthorized alien. Authorizes the attorney general to: (1) investigate a complaint that an employer knowingly employed an unauthorized al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0377 | Intro
Sine Die | Removal of asset limits for SNAP. Requires the division of family resources to: (1) implement within the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance program (SNAP) an expanded eligibility category, that does not consider an individual's value of asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0240 | Intro
Sine Die | Prosecuting attorneys retirement fund. Provides that the pension received by a participant in the prosecuting attorneys retirement fund (PARF) upon retirement from PARF is reduced by: (1) the actual amount of the pension the participant is receiving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0152 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical malpractice. Increases the maximum amount recoverable for an injury or a death of a patient in a medical malpractice action from $1,250,000 to $1,650,000 after December 31, 2016. Increases the maximum amount recoverable from a health care pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0156 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax on recreational vehicles. Provides that the purchase of a recreational vehicle or cargo trailer that is transported out of Indiana for registration and use in another state or country is exempt from the state gross retail tax regardless of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0083 | Intro
Sine Die | Innocent coinsured. Prohibits certain actions by a property or casualty insurer with respect to an innocent coinsured, including denying payment on a claim for the cost of actual repair or replacement of property and refusing to issue or renew a poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0075 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government liaison. Requires the department of local government finance (DLGF) to designate a staff member to direct inquiries or requests for assistance from local government officials to the appropriate staff person or entity. Requires the DL...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 30: yeas 18, nays 30 |
| SB0365 | Intro
Sine Die | Designation of old forest areas in state forests. Requires the department of natural resources, before January 1, 2017, to designate as an old forest area at least one undivided area comprising at least ten percent (10%) of each state forest. Provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0223 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax assessment. Provides, with limited exceptions, that: (1) the only factor permitted to be used in changing the assessed value of most real property from year to year is the annual adjustment factor; and (2) an assessing official may not c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0200 | Pass | Measuring school and school corporation performance. Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of performance for the 2014-2015 school year may not be lower than the grade assigned to the school or school corporation by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
Public Law 1 |
| SB0278 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment of individuals with disabilities. Provides that the policy (policy) of the state is to promote competitive and integrated employment, including self-employment, as the first and preferred option when providing services to individuals with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0227 | Intro
Sine Die | Robbery of a pharmacy. Makes it robbery of a pharmacy, a Level 4 felony, for a person to knowingly or intentionally take a controlled substance from a pharmacy: (1) by using force against or threatening the use of force against; or (2) by putting in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0337 | 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] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0077 | Intro
Sine Die | Aborted fetal body parts research. Provides that the general assembly declares that research on aborted fetal body parts is against public policy. Provides that the state, a state educational institution, or a political subdivision of the state may n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0245 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug testing of unemployment insurance applicants. Requires an individual to undergo a drug test as a condition of the individual's initial eligibility for unemployment benefits (benefits) if the individual: (1) was discharged from employment by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0314 | Intro
Sine Die | Fetal tissue. Requires that a pregnant woman be informed before an abortion, orally and in writing, that fetal tissue obtained or collected during the abortion may not be collected for the purposes of providing, selling, or transferring the fetal tis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0202 | 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] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0144 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion. Establishes the interim study committee on adoption promotion and support. Makes certain findings. Requires a physician to determine whether an unborn human individual has a detectable heartbeat before performing or inducing an abortion, ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0036 | Intro
Sine Die | Handgun licenses and alcohol. Repeals references to "alcohol abuser" for purposes of determining who is a proper person to receive a license to carry a handgun. Makes conforming amendments. Provides that, during an interview with an applicant concern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
Withdrawn |
| SB0049 | Intro
Sine Die | Wholesale of liquor and beer. 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0066 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil rights. Defines certain provisions of the Constitution of the State of Indiana as "fundamental rights" and prohibits the government from substantially burdening a fundamental right unless the governmental entity demonstrates that the applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0224 | Intro
Sine Die | Tuition and fee exemption. Amends a requirement for tuition and fee exemption eligibility for certain children of veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0386 | Intro
Sine Die | Producer recycling of waste packaging and paper. Requires every producer of a product or material that results in waste packaging or waste printed paper to register with the department of environmental management (department) and, either singly or jo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0385 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee reporting of health facility breaches. Prohibits a person from taking retaliatory action against an employee or contractor who in good faith files an allegation of breach against a health facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| SB0390 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic intimidation of a legislator. Creates a cause of action with the civil rights commission (commission) concerning economic intimidation of a legislator. Provides that the commission may assess a fine of up to $5,000,000 for economic intimidat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0384 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual review of unpaid restitution orders. Requires a governmental entity that is the beneficiary of a criminal or juvenile restitution order issued by a state or federal court to file annually with the court and with the state board of accounts a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0099 | Intro
Sine Die | Small loans. Amends the statute concerning small loans to require a lender to conspicuously disclose, both in the lending area of each of the lender's Indiana business locations and in the loan documents provided to borrowers, the: (1) median number ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0359 | Intro
Sine Die | School corporation tax matters. Provides that if a school corporation or a charter school does not pay taxes due under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act within 30 days after the due date (and any known accrued penalties and interest on those ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0397 | Intro
Sine Die | Special education scholarship accounts. Establishes the special education scholarship account fund (fund) to provide education options for eligible special education students in Indiana. Defines "eligible special education student" as a student who h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0391 | Intro
Sine Die | Straight ticket 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. Repeal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0399 | Intro
Sine Die | White River State Park. Appropriates $15,000,000 from the state general fund to the Indiana White River state park development commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016. Specifies the permissible uses of the money appropriated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0387 | Intro
Sine Die | Off duty and retired law officers and firearms. Provides that off duty law enforcement officers and retired law enforcement officers who meet the requirements of applicable federal and state laws concerning carrying firearms: (1) may possess firearms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0392 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion. Requires that certain information must be provided by the parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated pregnant woman when giving written consent for the unemancipated pregnant woman to have an abortion. Requires a physician who receives wr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0037 | Intro
Sine Die | Applications for marriage licenses. Allows for an application for a marriage license to be gender specific or gender neutral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0389 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax increment financing districts. Provides that if a redevelopment commission outside Marion County wishes to establish a tax increment financing (TIF) area after December 31, 2016, a taxing unit that is located wholly or partly within a proposed TI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0388 | Intro
Sine Die | Vacancies in local offices. Provides that if a caucus has not filled a vacancy in certain local offices before 45 days after the vacancy occurred or, if the vacancy is due to the death of the officeholder, the county chairman has received notice of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0396 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco sales certificate transferability. Provides that a valid tobacco sales certificate held by a retail tobacco store is transferable to subsequent owners of the retail tobacco store.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0398 | Intro
Sine Die | Venture capital tax credit. Provides that "state tax liability", for purposes of the venture capital investment tax credit, includes insurance premiums retaliatory taxes. Provides that a venture capital investment tax credit is assignable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0394 | Intro
Sine Die | Rehabilitation option counseling services. Provides that for certain Medicaid rehabilitation option services a licensed addiction counselor is a licensed professional. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to amend rules ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0393 | Intro
Sine Die | Veteran matters. Provides for tuition and fee exemptions for all children of disabled veterans. (Current law provides that children of veterans who enlisted or otherwise initially served in the armed forces of the United States after June 30, 2011, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0395 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of e-liquid. Removes the requirement that the label on an e-liquid container must include a scannable code, including a quick response code, tied to a batch number.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-12
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0025 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal fighting contests. Makes attending an animal fighting contest a Level 6 felony. Repeals the law that makes it cruelty to an animal, a Class A misdemeanor, for a person to attend a fighting contest involving animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0360 | Intro
Sine Die | High school graduation rate calculation. Changes the definition of "cohort" for purposes of calculating a high school's graduation rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0363 | Intro
Sine Die | State board of education. Provides that the state superintendent of public instruction shall serve as the chairperson for the state board of education (state board). Makes changes to the composition of membership to the state board. Reduces the numbe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-11
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
