| SB0369 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum wage for certain Indiana employees. After: (1) June 30, 2016, increases the minimum wage paid to certain employees in Indiana from $7.25 to $12.00; and (2) June 30, 2017, increases the minimum wage paid to certain employees in Indiana from $1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
Veto sustained by the Senate; |
| HB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum crew size. Provides that the crew of a freight train must consist of at least two individuals. Imposes penalties for violations of the minimum crew requirement. Deposits the penalties in the industrial rail service fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-23
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Transborder groundwater authority. Establishes the Indiana-Kentucky transborder groundwater authority (authority). Requires the authority to study ownership rights in the groundwater resources shared by Indiana and Kentucky and to explore the desirab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
Representative Hamm added as coauthor |
| HB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | DNA samples from felony arrestees. Requires every person arrested for a felony after June 30, 2016, to submit a DNA sample, and specifies that the sample may be obtained only by buccal swab. Provides for the expungement of a DNA sample taken from a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
Representative Cox added as coauthor |
| HB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | Cancers associated with human papillomavirus. Requires the state department of health (department) to develop a strategic plan to identify and significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancers associated with human papillomavirus. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
Representative Sullivan added as coauthor |
| HB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana housing first program. Establishes the Indiana housing first program (program) to provide housing and support services for eligible homeless persons. Provides that the housing and community development authority (authority) shall administer t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means 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 |
| HB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Healthy food financing program. Establishes the healthy food financing fund (fund) and healthy food financing program (program) under the administration of the Indiana housing and community development authority (IHCDA). Provides that the purpose of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1407 | Intro
Sine Die | ABLE authority and board. Creates the achieving a better life experience (ABLE) authority (authority) and the ABLE board (board) of the authority. Requires the authority to establish a qualified ABLE program under which a person may make contribution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Hancock County food and beverage tax. Authorizes Hancock County to adopt a county 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] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1232 | Intro
Sine Die | Background checks for real estate brokers. Requires an individual applying for an initial real estate broker's license to submit to a national criminal history background check at the cost of the individual. Requires an individual seeking a renewal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
Amendment #1 (Thompson) prevailed; voice vote |
| 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 |
| HB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Horse racing matters. Imposes a wagering tax on amounts wagered through advance deposit wagering by account holders in Indiana. Provides for the distribution of advance deposit wagering tax revenues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1316 | Intro
Sine Die | Law enforcement matters. Creates a $5 law enforcement body camera fee. Requires that the law enforcement body camera fee must be collected in any action involving the violation of an infraction or an ordinance. Requires the clerk of a circuit court t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1323 | Intro
Sine Die | Reading requirements. Provides that a rule adopted by the state board of education (state board) must allow flexibility for principals and school leaders in scheduling the number and length of reading periods for elementary school students during stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
To House Education Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1339 | Intro
Sine Die | Teachers. Establishes the Indiana teacher retention and recruitment program to improve teacher retention rates, recruitment, and quality. Establishes the Indiana teacher retention and recruitment program fund to be used to fund programs developed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1396 | 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] | 2016-01-26
To House Public Health 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 |
| HB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | Fuel taxes and vehicle fees. Provides that biodiesel fuel that is manufactured in Indiana and shipped out of state is exempt from the special fuel tax and motor carrier fuel tax. (Under current law, a refund must be claimed.) Specifies that the motor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To House Roads and Transportation 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 |
| HB1363 | Intro
Sine Die | School calendar. Requires, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, a school corporation to conduct at least 175 student instructional days in a school year. (Currently, a school corporation is required to conduct at least 180 student instructional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HB1243 | Intro
Sine Die | Say's Firefly designated as state insect. Designates Pyractomena angulata, also known as "Say's Firefly", as the official state insect of Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1362 | Intro
Sine Die | State law enforcement salaries. Provides salary increases of 72% for the police employees of the state police and the gaming agents and gaming control officers of the Indiana gaming commission. (Current law provides that salary increases for police e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1044 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' recovery program. Establishes, for five years, the veterans' recovery program and fund to provide treatment for veterans with traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder and to obtain reimbursement from third parties. Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Ban on ivory and rhino horn sales. Makes the sale or other transfer of ownership of an article consisting of or containing ivory or rhino horn a Class A misdemeanor. Provides exceptions applying: (1) if the article is at least 100 years old and ivory...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1132 | Intro
Sine Die | Nanotechnology incentives. Allows the award of grants or loans from the twenty-first century research and technology fund to support proposals for economic development in nanotechnology. Provides a personal property tax exemption for certain nanotech...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| HB1357 | Intro
Sine Die | Data breaches. Makes the following changes to the statute concerning the breach of the security of data that includes the sensitive personal information of Indiana residents and that is collected and maintained by a person other than a state agency o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1104 | Intro
Sine Die | Harassment. Makes it harassment, a Class B misdemeanor, for a person to, with intent to harass, annoy, defame, ridicule, or alarm another person but with no intent of legitimate communication: (1) make a telephone call, whether or not a conversation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1423 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1291 | Intro
Sine Die | Access to health care cost information. Requires health care providers and health plans to provide to covered individuals and patients certain information concerning the cost of health care services. Requires health care providers to publish a paymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Insurance 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 |
| HB1376 | Intro
Sine Die | Beer and liquor wholesalers. 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 w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Public Policy 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 |
| HB1410 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Disciplinary process for firefighters and police. Establishes minimum rights of a full-time, paid, nonprobationary member of a fire department or a police department (a public safety officer) to be represented in any interaction that may result in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1304 | Intro
Sine Die | Court clerks and paralegals. Requires the clerk of the supreme court to create and maintain a registry of certain paralegals and court clerks. Requires a new clerk for the: (1) court of appeals; (2) superior courts; (3) circuit courts; and (4) city a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-19
To House Courts and Criminal Code 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 |
