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SB0220PassPrecinct consolidation. Establishes a small precinct committee (committee) in Lake County to determine if precincts in the county that had fewer than 600 active voters as of November 1, 2016, can be combined with one or more adjoining precincts. Requ...
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2017-05-02
Public Law 262
SB0309PassDistributed generation. Requires: (1) the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to post a summary of the results of the IURC's most recent periodic review of the basic rates and charges of an electricity supplier on the IURC's Internet web site; and (...
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2017-05-02
Public Law 264
SB0213PassWireless support structures. Makes the following changes to the statute concerning the local permitting of wireless support structures: (1) Amends the definition of "small cell facility" to: (A) increase the maximum specified antenna volume from thre...
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2017-05-02
Public Law 261
SB0423PassSanctuary policies and postsecondary educational institutions. Prohibits a postsecondary educational institution from enacting or implementing an ordinance, a resolution, a rule, or a policy that prohibits or in any way restricts an employee of the p...
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2017-05-02
Public Law 265
SB0246PassChild neglect defense. Specifies under the safe haven law that it is a defense to a claim of neglect of a dependent if the individual left the child: (1) with a person who is an emergency medical services provider; or (2) in a newborn safety device t...
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2017-05-02
Public Law 263
SB0558PassLeases and sales of real property. Amends the statute concerning landlord and tenant relations to provide that a unit may not regulate rental rates for privately owned real property, through a zoning ordinance or otherwise, unless the regulation is a...
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2017-05-02
Public Law 266
SB0337PassStudy of ethnic and racial groups course. Requires each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic school to offer the study of ethnic and racial groups as a one semester elective course in its high school curriculum at least once e...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 231
SB0455PassTax administration of mobile homes. Establishes an optional procedure by which a county treasurer may sell a mobile home assessed as personal property at auction to the highest bidder in order to satisfy the amount owed by the owner for delinquent pe...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 235
SB0059PassProfessional licensing. Requires the behavioral health and human services licensing board to issue a license to a social worker, clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, mental health counselor, licensed addiction counselor, licensed cl...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 225
SB0516PassPower of guardian to request health records. Provides that, even though a guardianship terminates upon the death of the protected person, a guardian is authorized to request the health records of the protected person within 60 days after the protecte...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 240
SB0060PassState executive officer salaries. Establishes the executive officers compensation advisory commission to do the following: (1) For each executive state officer (governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, ...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 226
SB0567PassDistressed and fiscally impaired political subdivisions. Changes the membership of the distressed unit appeal board (DUAB) by replacing the voting member who is appointed by the chairperson of the legislative council with a member appointed by the go...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 241
SB0386PassProperty taxation. Makes procedural changes and technical corrections to various property tax provisions in the Indiana Code that relate to property tax assessments, reviews, appeals, and refunds. Provides for the exchange of information before a hea...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 232
SB0416PassInfrastructure assistance fund. Requires the Indiana finance authority to study the ability of utilities to provide clean and safe drinking water in Indiana for the foreseeable future. Requires the utility regulatory commission (IURC), in its deliber...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 233
SB0478PassUtility easements. Establishes a framework for resolving disputes between electricity suppliers and property owners regarding the attachment or installation of communications infrastructure within an electric easement. Provides that the procedures ap...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 236
SB0061PassCommission on seclusion and restraint. Requires the commission on seclusion and restraint in schools (commission) to adopt rules concerning reporting requirements for the use of seclusion and restraint by school resource officers. Requires that the c...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 227
SB0425PassLow level offenses. Makes the penalty for crimes concerning certain election filings a Class A misdemeanor. (Under current law, the offenses are Level 6 felonies.) Reduces several crimes concerning elections from Level 6 felonies to Class C infractio...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 234
SB0515PassVarious tax matters. Provides and modifies sales and use tax exemptions. Provides an income tax deduction for certain amounts a taxpayer included as an item of income in a prior tax year. Specifies that, in determining an Indiana net operating loss d...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 239
SB0128PassRegional infrastructure improvement projects. Provides that the Indiana finance authority (IFA), rather than the budget agency, administers the local infrastructure revolving loan funds (loan funds). Expands the types of entities that may participate...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 229
SB0108PassEducation matters. Provides that when a school corporation authorizes an absence to permit a student to attend any educationally related nonclassroom activity, the student may not be recorded as being absent on any date for which the excuse is operat...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 228
SB0198PassCareer and technical education. Requires the state board of education to use data from the department of workforce development (DWD) in developing and implementing certain plans, recommendations, and other matters relating to career and technical edu...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 230
SB0514PassEntrepreneur and enterprise districts. Establishes the entrepreneur and enterprise district pilot program (program). Provides that an entrepreneur and enterprise district (district) may be established in: (1) the city of Lafayette; and (2) the city o...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 238
SB0507PassEconomic development. Repeals the statute establishing the emerging technology grant fund. Repeals the statute that authorized the Indiana finance authority to issue bonds before July 1, 2011, for the Indiana twenty-first century research and technol...
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2017-04-28
Public Law 237
SB0408PassINSPECT program. Adds a definition of the Indiana board of pharmacy (board) for purposes of the INSPECT program. Requires the board to report, before December 1, 2017, to the legislative council concerning grants or funding received and applied for b...
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2017-04-27
Public Law 213
SB0348PassRegulation of signs. Provides that an ordinance or a regulation of a political subdivision relating to the number or size of signs is unenforceable beginning 60 days before an election and ending at the beginning of the sixth day after the election. ...
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2017-04-27
Public Law 211
SB0182PassSuperintendent contracts. Provides that a contract entered into or renewed after June 30, 2017, between a governing body and its superintendent is subject to the following conditions: (1) The contract must, with an exception for an extension, be for ...
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2017-04-27
Public Law 208
SB0312PassUse of criminal history information in hiring. Provides that a political subdivision may not prohibit an employer from obtaining or using criminal history information during the hiring process to the extent allowed by federal or state law, rules, or ...
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2017-04-27
Public Law 210
SB0154PassAsset limitation for SNAP eligibility. Requires the division of family resources to: (1) beginning January 1, 2018, implement within the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) an expanded eligibility category and specifies a count...
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2017-04-27
Public Law 207
SB0409PassCollective bargaining. Provides that formal collective bargaining between a school corporation and an exclusive representative may not begin before September 15. Provides that before September 15 of the first year of the state budget biennium, the de...
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2017-04-27
Public Law 214
SB0413PassOpportunity to correct violation. Imposes a duty on certain state agencies under certain circumstances to give a person an opportunity to correct an alleged violation of a state rule or state statute that is discovered in an inspection.
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2017-04-27
Public Law 215
SB0001PassE-liquids. Limits the applicability of e-liquids statutes for a manufacturer of a closed system vapor product. Removes date restrictions in the e-liquids statutes. Removes the following requirements for an initial e-liquids manufacturing permit: (1) ...
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2017-04-27
Public Law 206
SB0498PassTeacher compensation. Provides that certain factors may account for not more than 33.33% (instead of 33%) of the calculation used to determine a teacher's increase or increment in salary. Amends the factor concerning additional content area degrees a...
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2017-04-27
Public Law 216
SB0222PassConstitutional amendment ballot language. Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning the state budget.
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2017-04-27
Public Law 209
SB0407PassEducation matters. Requires a school employer to submit a copy of the affidavit submitted by the exclusive representative indicating the number of teachers who are members of the exclusive representative to the Indiana education employment relations ...
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2017-04-27
Public Law 212
SB0447PassChild services. Requires child abuse and neglect training for school employees. Allows the department of child services (department) to share costs incurred in maintaining the new hire directory in accordance with federal law with the department of w...
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2017-04-26
Public Law 183
SB0226PassPrescribing and dispensing of opioids. Limits the amount of an opioid prescription a prescriber may issue for: (1) an adult who is being prescribed an opioid for the first time; and (2) a child; unless the prescription is for the treatment of specifi...
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2017-04-26
Public Law 182
SB0043PassFirearms matters. Removes penal facilities from the list of locations where employer ordinances, resolutions, policies, or rules prohibiting the keeping of firearms on employer property may be enforced. Provides that a penal facility shall require an...
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2017-04-26
Public Law 181
SB0190PassValue of property. Provides that, with respect to an offense with a penalty that may be enhanced due to the value of the property involved in the offense: (1) if the offense is committed within a 30 day period all offenses may be charged in a single ...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 166
SB0196PassSchool debt service obligations. Provides the following for purposes of the school bond payment intercept statute: (1) The term "debt service obligations" also includes principal and interest payable to a school corporation's designated paying agent ...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 167
SB0248PassConsolidation of school administrative functions. Allows two or more school corporations situated in the same or adjoining counties to consolidate in a manner in which debts or obligations paid by a debt service levy incurred by a school corporation ...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 169
SB0156PassDrug and alcohol treatment reporting. Adds additional reporting requirements for opioid treatment programs. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services, with the assistance of the state department of health and the department o...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 165
SB0376PassRural electric membership corporation governance. Amends the statute governing rural electric membership corporations (corporations) as follows: (1) Specifies that for purposes of the statute: (A) a "law" includes the statute itself; and (B) a "membe...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 171
SB0404PassAbortion, child abuse, and human trafficking. Defines "parent or legal guardian or custodian". Prohibits the state or an agency of the state from consenting to the abortion of a pregnant minor unless the life or health of the pregnant minor is endang...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 173
SB0129PassConstruction and construction permits. Amends the law requiring the state department of health to approve or disapprove a construction permit application in not more than 30 days to specify that the law applies to applications for permits for the con...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 163
SB0029PassSchool curriculum. Requires each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic school to offer Indiana studies as a one semester elective course in its high school curriculum at least once every school year. Provides that the course ma...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 162
SB0446PassResidential substance abuse treatment. Establishes, subject to the approval of the Indiana commission to combat drug abuse (commission), an opioid addiction recovery pilot program (program) to assist pregnant women and women with newborns, with an op...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 174
SB0402PassRecovery residences and county homes. Requires the secretary of family and social services to provide that the standards provided by recovery residences for residential care and supported housing for chronic addiction, when used as a recovery residen...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 172
SB0243PassSubstance abuse programs. Subject to the approval of the Indiana commission to combat drug abuse (commission), establishes the physician medication assisted treatment training reimbursement pilot program (pilot program) to reimburse qualified physici...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 168
SJR0007PassProvides that the total amount of expense appropriations enacted by the general assembly for a biennial budget may not exceed the estimated revenue of the state in the biennial budget period. Defines "revenue" as all income received by the state gene...
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2017-04-25
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SB0151PassInformation in INSPECT prescription drug data base. Requires the ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and controlled substance prescription monitoring program to include an entry for a dispenser to indicate, when applicable, if a patient has entered into a pa...
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2017-04-25
Public Law 164
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