| HB1144 | Intro
Sine Die | Scratch off tickets benefiting veterans. Requires the state lottery commission to adopt rules to establish a scratch off game to benefit Indiana veterans. Deposits revenue from sales of tickets for the scratch off game into the military family relief...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1135 | Intro
Sine Die | Excise police transfer to state police department. Establishes the excise enforcement section of the state police department. Transfers certain powers, duties, and functions concerning the enforcement of the alcoholic beverage statutes and the alcoho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1176 | Intro
Sine Die | Diabetes incidence plan and report. 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 reduce the incidence of diabetes and diabetes complicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1208 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher salary scales. Makes changes to factors used to determine increases or increments in a local salary range. Removes an obsolete provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Education Committee |
| HB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy. Requires an electricity supplier to supply a certain percentage of its total electricity supply from renewable energy resources. Establishes the renewable energy resources fund to receive penalties paid by electricity suppliers that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| HB1139 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick and safe leave. Provides that certain employers shall provide paid sick and safe leave to employees, accrued at the rate of one hour of paid sick and safe leave for every 30 hours of employment. Establishes conditions to entitlement to sick...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1122 | 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] | 2016-01-07
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | Disability income insurance. Requires that a policy of disability income insurance must include provisions: (1) allowing for designation of an individual to receive certain notices; and (2) specifying a grace period for premium payment. Specifies tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1114 | Intro
Sine Die | ISTEP. Replaces ISTEP program testing with the Indiana student achievement testing program (ISAT) for school years beginning after June 30, 2017. Provides that the department of education is responsible for the development and implementation of the I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Education Committee |
| HB1162 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of valuable metal transactions. Requires, after December 31, 2016, a valuable metal dealer (dealer) to enter into a registry established and maintained by the state police department certain information concerning a valuable metal purchase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Transparency portal. Requires the department of local government finance to post on the Indiana transparency Internet web site a contract of a political subdivision during each year that the contract amount payable by the political subdivision for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1115 | Intro
Sine Die | Gary charter schools. Provides that the mayor of the city of Gary may authorize charter schools. Establishes the Gary charter school board. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Education Committee |
| HB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | Farm wineries refilling bottles or containers. Exempts an establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold that is owned, in whole or part, by an entity that holds a farm winery permit from the law that makes it a Class B misdemeanor for a person to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1152 | Intro
Sine Die | Study of effects of laws on small municipalities. Establishes a special interim study committee to study the effect of legislation on small municipalities. Requires the committee to study: (1) the effect of property tax caps on small municipalities; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1182 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax deduction. Provides a method for determining the amount of a retail merchant's state sales and use tax deduction or refund when it is bad debt related to a private label credit of the retail merchant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1195 | Intro
Sine Die | 2015 school performance grades. Provides that a school's performance grade ("category of performance") for the 2014-2015 school year is the higher of the grades assigned to the school by the state board of education for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Education Committee |
| HB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | Violations of wildlife protection laws. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a person to knowingly or intentionally kill a wild bird or wild mammal that is on the endangered species list. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a person to illegally take a deer or a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1188 | Intro
Sine Die | Battery on a utility worker. Makes battery a Level 6 felony instead of a Class B misdemeanor if the battery is committed against a utility worker engaged in the ordinary course of the utility worker's employment. Makes the offense a Level 5 felony if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Garnishment of wages. Provides that if: (1) a judgment debtor leaves employment with an employer who is garnishing the wages of the judgment debtor subject to a judgment obtained by a judgment creditor; (2) the judgment debtor subsequently returns to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | Cancellation of property taxes. Provides that the department of local government finance may under certain circumstances cancel any property taxes assessed against real property owned by certain local governmental entities or the state, regardless of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Underage prostitution. Increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute to a Level 6 felony if the prostitute is less than 18 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Private gun sales and transfers. Requires a person who is not a firearms dealer or a holder of a federal firearms license who sells or transfers a firearm to another person to create and electronically transmit a receipt of sale or transfer to the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1142 | Intro
Sine Die | Sentence enhancement for use of a firearm. Requires the state to seek to have a person who allegedly committed a felony sentenced to an additional fixed term of imprisonment of 15 years if the state can show beyond a reasonable doubt that the person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | Continuously flashing light systems on vehicles. Provides that only a motor vehicle, pole trailer, semitrailer, and trailer may be equipped with a continuously flashing light system. Defines "continuously flashing light system".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1126 | 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 House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1117 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher salaries. Provides that a school corporation may offer a teacher who on June 30, 2011: (1) was employed with the school corporation; and (2) had at least 10 years of teaching experience; a one time annual salary increase. Provides that compen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Education Committee |
| HB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Henry County food and beverage tax. Specifies that subject to the duty to pay amounts pledged to the repayment of existing obligations, the existing uses of the Henry County food and beverage tax are optional rather than mandatory. Adds the construct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1150 | Intro
Sine Die | Study of school accountability legislation. Urges the legislative council to assign the topic of effects of legislation concerning school accountability on schools, school corporations, communities, students, parents, and teachers to an appropriate s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Education Committee |
| HB1121 | Intro
Sine Die | Newborn screenings. Establishes when a blood sample must be taken from a newborn infant for testing for certain disorders. Provides that the time requirement for taking a blood sample does not apply to preterm infants or newborn infants who receive a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1141 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit for volunteer firefighters. Provides that an individual who is a volunteer firefighter is entitled to a credit of $500 against the individual's adjusted gross income tax liability each taxable year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1198 | Intro
Sine Die | County funding. Permits a county to appeal to the department of local government finance (DLGF) to make a determination of whether the county's maximum permissible tax levy is insufficient for the county to adequately carry out its governmental funct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1131 | Intro
Sine Die | Supplemental motor fuel tax. Imposes a supplemental motor fuel tax on the use of gasoline and special fuel in Indiana as long as the base motor fuel price (defined as the total price of the fuel minus state and federal taxes) is under $3.50. Provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1189 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic development and wind turbines. Establishes the Hoosier heritage innovative industry loan fund. Authorizes interest free loans, reduced income tax rates, and enhanced economic development for a growing economy (EDGE) tax credits to encourage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1178 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement. Requires a public agency that operates a public web site displaying records related to an expungement to remove or redact the records after receiving satisfactory proof that the conviction or arrest has been expunged. Provides that: (1) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Redevelopment commissions. Provides that after December 31, 2016, at least one of the members appointed to a redevelopment commission by the municipal executive, county executive, or legislative body (in the case of Marion County) must also be a memb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Ballot language for renewal of a referendum levy. Specifies that a resolution to extend a referendum levy must be adopted by the governing body of a school corporation and approved by the voters before December 31 of the calendar year immediately fol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Education Committee |
| HB1151 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration. Provides that an application to obtain or renew a motor vehicle driver's license or permit or an identification card serves as a voter registration application unless the applicant expressly declines on the application to register...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1191 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform municipal food and beverage tax. Authorizes a municipal legislative body to impose by ordinance a municipal food and beverage tax. Provides that the tax may not exceed 1% of the gross retail income received from retail food and beverage trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1196 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of tobacco by prospective employee. Removes the prohibition against an employer requiring, as a condition of employment, that a prospective employee refrain from using tobacco products outside the course of the prospective employee's employment. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1192 | Intro
Sine Die | Greenwood food and beverage tax. Authorizes the city of Greenwood to adopt a municipal 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] | 2016-01-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1106 | Intro
Sine Die | Consent for engaging in sexual activity. Requires an accredited school, when providing instruction on human sexuality, to emphasize the necessity of obtaining consent from the other individual involved before engaging in any type of sexual activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-07
To House Education Committee |
| HB1055 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearms on state property. Prohibits a state agency, including a state supported college or university, from regulating the possession or transportation of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories: (1) on land that is; or (2) in bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-05
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption for drainage water management. Provides that a component of a drainage water management system intended for use on agricultural land used for crop production is exempt from sales tax if the person acquiring the component is engage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1037 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax incentives and reporting. Authorizes the department of local government finance to incorporate by reference in an administrative rule certain formatting, coding, and transmission requirements for data that must be submitted by counties. Provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | Overtime compensation for certain employees. Provides that certain employees must be paid compensation for employment in certain circumstances at a rate not less than 1.5 times the regular rate at which the employee is employed and, under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-05
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | Qualified terminable interest property trusts. Adds rules for the interpretation of qualified terminable interest property trusts. Provides that, under certain circumstances, an individual who contributes assets to a trust and whose spouse is a benef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1062 | Intro
Sine Die | Safety rest areas. Requires the office of management and budget to investigate the appropriateness of transferring maintenance responsibilities for safety rest areas from the Indiana department of transportation to the office of tourism development a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-05
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1067 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit for college choice 529 plan. Increases the income tax credit to up to $1,500 for contributions to a college choice 529 education savings plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1056 | Intro
Sine Die | Handgun license repeal and reciprocity licenses. Repeals the law that requires a person to obtain a license to carry a handgun in Indiana. Specifies that a person who may otherwise legally carry a handgun is not required to obtain or possess a licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-05
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | Local revenue. Provides that a city or town may impose an expenditure rate of not more than 0.5% on the adjusted gross income of residents of the city or town and certain nonresidents whose principal place of business or employment is in the city or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
