IN Legislation | 2017 | Regular Session | Senate | Bills

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB0136	Intro Sine Die	Redistricting. Establishes a redistricting commission (commission) to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts. Requires the legislative services agency ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-24 To Senate Elections Committee
SB0550	Intro Sine Die	Eligibility to purchase property at a tax sale. Restates the qualifications for bidders at a tax sale. Provides that if the county treasurer determines or is notified that a disqualified person has bid on or attempted to purchase real property at a t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-24 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB0140	Intro Sine Die	Matching grant fund for local police departments. Establishes the law enforcement emergency response equipment matching grant fund to be administered by the department of homeland security. Allows local law enforcement agencies to apply for matching ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-24 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0074	Intro Sine Die	Investigation of overdose deaths. Requires a coroner as part of an investigation into the death of a decedent who is at least 13 years of age, to: (1) have a drugs of abuse panel performed to detect the presence of schedule I and schedule II controll... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-23 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0039	Intro Sine Die	Small estates. Increases, from five days to 10 days, the time that must elapse after a decedent's death before title to a vehicle or watercraft may be transferred to a small estate from a person in possession of the assets of the decedent (obligor). ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-23 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0493	Intro Sine Die	Overdose intervention drug report. Requires that information reported to the Indiana emergency medical services commission concerning the administration of an overdose intervention drug: (1) include the county in which the drug was administered; and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-23 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0568	Intro Sine Die	Marion County judicial selection. Provides for the selection of Marion superior court (court) judges. Establishes the 13 member Marion County judicial selection committee (committee). Provides that, when the committee learns of a vacancy or open judi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0313	Intro Sine Die	Symbol to signify accessible parking. Requires that parking signs for accessible parking spaces for an individual with a physical disability must bear, instead of the international symbol of accessibility (also known as the international wheelchair s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee
SB0563	Intro Sine Die	Moratorium on privately operated facilities. Prohibits the department of correction from contracting with a private organization for the incarceration of committed persons or immigration detainees in a facility owned by the private organization, and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
SB0561	Intro Sine Die	Stillbirth protocols and reporting. Requires the state department of health to develop and implement policies to advance the goal of preventing and reducing the incidences of stillbirth in Indiana. Adds stillbirth as a reportable birth problem for pu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0569	Intro Sine Die	Labor matters. Makes a technical correction. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee
SB0562	Intro Sine Die	Recognition of veterans of the Gulf Wars. Provides for the soldiers and sailors of the Gulf Wars to be entitled to the same rights and privileges provided by law and held by the soldiers and sailors of other wars and their surviving spouses and orpha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0014	Intro Sine Die	Handguns and professional staff. Permits certain employees of the general assembly to carry a handgun within the state capitol building and on the property of the state capitol complex if the employee: (1) possesses a valid Indiana license to carry a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0035	Intro Sine Die	Teacher evaluations. Provides that a school corporation may use objective measures of student achievement as part of a teacher evaluation plan. (Current law provides that the use of an objective measure of student achievement is required as part of a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0556	Intro Sine Die	Lap and shoulder safety belts on school buses. Provides that a school bus or special purpose bus that is placed into operation after June 30, 2018, and that is used to transport elementary school or high school students must be equipped with a 3-poin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee
SB0012	Intro Sine Die	Residency requirements for police and firefighters. Allows a member of a city police or fire department to reside within a county located outside Indiana that is contiguous to the county in which the city is located. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB0557	Intro Sine Die	Charter schools in Gary. Prohibits, beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2022, an authorizer from granting to an organizer a charter to operate a charter school that is or will be located in the city of Gary unless the Gary Community School Co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0566	Intro Sine Die	Prohibition on certain state agency contracts. Provides that an agency of the state may not contract with or make a grant to an entity that trains or supervises health care providers to perform abortions. Provides that an appropriation to pay for a c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0570	Intro Sine Die	CDC Youth Risk Behaviors Survey. Requires each school corporation and charter school to annually administer to students in grades 6 through 12 the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Youth Risk Behaviors Survey. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0477	Intro Sine Die	Conveyances to agricultural land trusts. Provides that a contract that is entered into after June 30, 2017, for the conveyance of an interest in real property located in Indiana to an agricultural land trust must contain a provision providing that if... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Civil Law Committee
SB0571	Intro Sine Die	Property tax exemptions. Provides that a taxpayer may submit a property tax exemption application before July 1, 2017, for certain property owned or used by a church or religious society that would have qualified for an exemption for the 2014 assessm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0565	Intro Sine Die	Military income tax deduction. Increases to $7,500 the amount of the military income tax deduction, including retirement or survivor's benefits received during the taxable year by an individual, or the individual's surviving spouse, for the individua... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0560	Intro Sine Die	Work opportunity grant program. Creates the work opportunity grant program (program) to provide grants to employers that continue to employ certain eligible employees into a second year of employment. Provides that the department of workforce develop... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-18 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0543	Intro Sine Die	Administrative law judges. Requires each agency to provide a list to the clerk of the supreme court of the administrative law judges, including environmental law judges, employed or otherwise appointed by the agency to preside over administrative mat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0487	Intro Sine Die	Prohibited discrimination in civil rights statutes. Amends civil rights enforcement statutes to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and ancestry. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0551	Intro Sine Die	Seatbelts on school buses. Provides that, after June 30, 2017, if a school corporation or an accredited nonpublic school enters into a lease for, purchases, or otherwise acquires a school bus or special purpose bus that is used to transport elementar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee
SB0531	Intro Sine Die	Collective bargaining for teachers. Amends, regarding collective bargaining for teachers, the: (1) timelines for an impasse to be declared and for certain mediation requirements; and (2) agreement deadline (at which time the parties will continue the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee
SB0518	Intro Sine Die	Winter holidays in schools. Provides that a school corporation may: (1) instruct students about the history of traditional winter celebrations, including Christmas; (2) allow the use of traditional greetings concerning the celebrations; and (3) displ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Public Policy Committee
SB0542	Intro Sine Die	Teacher compensation. Provides that a teacher who possesses a master's degree is eligible for supplemental pay and increases or increments in pay. Removes language that prohibits collectively bargaining for supplemental pay and increases or increment... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee
SB0546	Intro Sine Die	Tax court reorganization. Establishes the position of chief tax judge, who serves with two judges of the Indiana court of appeals as the tax panel of the court of appeals (tax panel). Specifies that the tax panel has jurisdiction to hear appeals from... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0520	Intro Sine Die	Government terminology. Prohibits units of government from using the term "free" to describe a payment, good, or service unless the payment, good, or service is privately funded. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee
SB0148	Intro Sine Die	School City of East Chicago fiscal matters. Changes, for the school years beginning after June 30, 2016, June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2018, the manner in which average daily membership is determined for the School City of East Chicago school corporati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0538	Intro Sine Die	Health care provider shortage. Urges the legislative council to assign topics to a study committee concerning the shortage of health care providers in Indiana. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0490	Intro Sine Die	Lead-based paint renovation hazards program. Requires the state department of health to seek authorization from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to administer and enforce, in Indiana, the EPA's program to address lead-based pai... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0005	Intro Sine Die	Fire protection district per diems. Increases, from $20 to $100, the maximum per diem of a member of the board of fire trustees of a fire protection district. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Local Government Committee
SB0007	Intro Sine Die	Media production expenditure tax credit. Reestablishes the media production expenditure tax credit (which expired in 2012), with certain changes. Provides a refundable tax credit to taxpayers that make qualified production expenditures in Indiana. Pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0526	Intro Sine Die	Child care tax credit. Provides a refundable child care tax credit against state income tax liability if the taxpayer's adjusted gross income for the taxable year is not more than $37,000. Provides that the credit is equal to the lesser of: (1) an am... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0057	Intro Sine Die	Graduation rate calculation. Changes the definition of "cohort" for purposes of calculating a high school's graduation rate. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0533	Intro Sine Die	Veterans. Establishes the office of transition recruiting under the lieutenant governor to recruit active military service personnel during the final six months of their military service to live and work in Indiana at the conclusion of their military... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee
SB0527	Intro Sine Die	TANF eligibility. Sets the income eligibility requirements for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program at not more than 50% of the federal income poverty level. Requires the division of family resources to amend the state TANF plan... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Family & Children Services Committee
SB0492	Intro Sine Die	Telemedicine coverage in healthy Indiana plan. Adds coverage to the healthy Indiana plan for covered services provided through the use of telemedicine. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0529	Intro Sine Die	Ranked choice voting. Permits a municipality to implement ranked choice voting for all of the municipality's elected offices. Permits a county to implement ranked choice voting for all offices elected in the county. Establishes the procedure for a vo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Elections Committee
SB0483	Intro Sine Die	Services for children in lead contamination areas. Defines the term "lead contamination area" as an area in which children are exposed to lead through the soil, water, or air in their environment, resulting in the need for the children to receive spe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee
SB0079	Intro Sine Die	Marion County courts. Provides for the selection of Marion superior court (court) judges. Establishes the 14 member Marion County judicial selection committee (committee). Provides that, when the committee learns of a vacancy on the court, the commit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB0495	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]	2017-01-17 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
SB0094	Intro Sine Die	Call center worker and consumer protection. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) to compile a list of all employers that relocate a call center to a foreign country and to disqualify employers on that list from state grants, l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee
SB0534	Intro Sine Die	Special education scholarship account program. Establishes the Indiana special education scholarship account program (program). Requires the treasurer of state to administer the program. Establishes: (1) the special education scholarship account fund... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
SB0530	Intro Sine Die	Collective bargaining and deficit financing. Provides that, for purposes of collective bargaining, a school employer is not considered to be in a position of deficit financing if the school employer's combined general fund cash balance and rainy day ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Appropriations Committee
SB0528	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 under which an individual's value of asse... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Family & Children Services Committee
SB0509	Intro Sine Die	Health care worker registry. Establishes a centralized, computerized health care worker registry (registry), operated and maintained by the state department of health (state department), to organize and access data regarding substantiated reports and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-01-17 To Senate Civil Law Committee