| SB0063 | Engross
Sine Die | Community mental health center telemedicine pilot. Establishes a two year community mental health center telemedicine pilot program (program) to be administered by the division of mental health and addiction (division). Provides that the purpose of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0500 | Engross
Sine Die | Homeowner associations and solar power. Prohibits a homeowners association from adopting or enforcing certain rules, covenants, declarations of restrictions, and other governing documents, after June 30, 2017, concerning solar energy systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0233 | Engross
Sine Die | Innocent coinsured. Defines "innocent coinsured". Prohibits certain actions by a property or casualty insurer with respect to property loss to the primary residence of an innocent coinsured unless those actions are otherwise allowed by law and applie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Insurance Committee |
| SB0034 | Engross
Sine Die | Background checks for school employees. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school shall require an expanded criminal history check and expanded child protection index check on each employee every five years. Provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0351 | Engross
Sine Die | Disability and accessible parking placards and symbols. Provides that a veteran who qualifies for the disabled Hoosier veteran license plate is entitled to receive a disability parking placard. Requires that parking signs for accessible parking space...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0424 | Engross
Sine Die | Various crimes. Provides that the crime of strangulation includes application of pressure to a victim's torso, and increases the penalty to a Level 5 felony if it is knowingly committed against a pregnant woman. Creates an enhancement to obstruction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0405 | Engross
Sine Die | Offenses committed by incarcerated individuals. Provides that the knowing or intentional possession of: (1) a cellular telephone; (2) storage media; (3) a subscriber identity module or SIM card; or (4) any other cellular or wireless communications de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0554 | Engross
Sine Die | Precinct committeemen. Provides that in order for a precinct committeeman or a precinct vice committeeman (exercising the precinct committeeman's proxy) to participate in a caucus to fill a vacancy, the committeeman or vice committeeman must be entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0169 | Engross
Sine Die | Expungement. Prohibits a sex or violent offender from expunging a misdemeanor conviction. Provides that arrest records may be expunged if a related conviction is expunged or if the person has completed a diversion program. Permits the expungement of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0224 | Engross
Sine Die | Prekindergarten status report. Requires the department of education (department), in consultation with the family and social services administration, to conduct a survey to determine the number of children who were four years of age and enrolled in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0501 | Engross
Sine Die | Property taxes. 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 that Jennings Township in Fayette County may in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0496 | Engross
Sine Die | Psychotropic medication and the commission to combat drug abuse. Provides that the chairperson of the Indiana commission to combat drug abuse (commission) is a member appointed by the governor who is either the executive director for drug prevention,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0189 | Engross
Sine Die | Contributing to delinquency. Provides that the penalty for the crime of contributing to delinquency is a felony one level higher than that of the delinquent act committed by the child, except that: (1) the penalty for inducing a child to commit a Lev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0086 | Engross
Sine Die | School curriculum. Requires each school corporation and accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0350 | Engross
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] | 2017-02-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0229 | Engross
Sine Die | Catastrophic injury. Defines "catastrophic injury", and permits a court to impose an additional fixed term of five to 10 years if a person commits certain offenses that cause the victim to suffer catastrophic injury. Prohibits imposing an additional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0383 | Engross
Sine Die | Public safety officer survivor health coverage. Urges the legislative council to assign to the pension management oversight committee or another appropriate interim study committee the topic of whether the employer of a public safety officer who dies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Insurance Committee |
| SB0076 | Engross
Sine Die | Appraisal management practices. Provides that an appraisal management company that engages a real estate appraiser to perform an appraisal shall pay the real estate appraiser for the appraisal to be performed not later than: (1) the: (A) payment date...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| SB0345 | Engross
Sine Die | Financial crimes against the elderly. Permits a financial institution to release certain financial records to a law enforcement agency or adult protective services unit if the financial institution reasonably suspects illegal activity in connection w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0084 | Engross
Sine Die | Indemnification from legal malpractice claims. Provides that any provision in an agreement between an attorney and a client that purports to prospectively release the attorney from liability for malpractice is against public policy, void, and unenfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0544 | Engross
Sine Die | Agency settlement fund. Requires the attorney general to include certain language concerning settlement funds in proposed court order language. Establishes the agency settlement fund (fund) for purposes of receiving certain funds paid to the state as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0448 | Engross
Sine Die | Taxpayer representatives. Requires the department of local government finance (DLGF) to prepare and make available to taxpayers a power of attorney form that allows the owner of property that is the subject of an appeal to appoint a spouse, child, si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0298 | Engross
Sine Die | School employee background checks. Amends the time period by which a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school must conduct expanded criminal history checks for applicants for noncertificated employment or certificated employment. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0314 | Engross
Sine Die | Protective orders concerning animals. Allows a court to grant an order of protection to: (1) grant possession and care of an animal to a petitioner; (2) prohibit a respondent from taking action against the animal; and (3) direct a law enforcement off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0494 | Engross
Sine Die | Transportation corridor planning. Repeals on July 1, 2017, the statute concerning transportation corridor planning. Provides that the repeal of the statute does not affect: (1) rights or liabilities accrued; (2) proceedings begun; or (3) project agre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0235 | Engross
Sine Die | Guardianships. Requires a guardian of a protected adult to permit all appropriate contact, communication, and social interaction between the protected adult and individuals with whom the protected adult had significant past family or social relations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0511 | Engross
Sine Die | Water and wastewater utilities. 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| SB0249 | Engross
Sine Die | Teacher hiring. Provides that a school corporation and a charter school shall adopt a policy requiring the school employer of the school corporation or charter school to contact references and, if applicable, the most recent employer provided by a pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| HB1383 | Engross
Sine Die | Elementary school teachers. Provides that, not later than July 1, 2019, the state board of education shall adopt rules to establish one or more elementary school teacher content area licenses that must, at a minimum, include a content area license in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1472 | Engross
Sine Die | Vote centers. Provides that the adoption, rescission, or amendment of a vote center plan may be taken by a majority vote of all members of a county election board. (Current law requires such action to be taken by the unanimous vote of a county electi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
To Senate Elections Committee |
| HB1142 | Engross
Sine Die | Miami County local income tax. Permits Miami County to use its local income tax revenue that is designated for the county jail for operating and maintaining the county jail. (Current law limits the use of revenue to financing, constructing, acquiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1386 | Engross
Sine Die | Competency based education. Establishes the competency based education pilot program (pilot program). Provides that the department of education may award grants under the pilot program for competency based education programs from the innovation netwo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | Nonresidential on-site sewage system permit. Requires the state department of health to grant or deny an application for a permit to construct a nonresidential on-site sewage system within 45 days after the permit application is submitted to the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1577 | Engross
Sine Die | DNA samples of felony arrestees. Requires every person arrested for a felony after June 30, 2017, to submit a DNA sample, and specifies that the sample may be obtained only by buccal swab. Provides that a DNA sample may be obtained from a person arre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1513 | Engross
Sine Die | Crimes involving adoption. Amends the criminal provision concerning unauthorized adoption advertising. Increases, from $3,000 to $4,000, the allowable payment for certain costs and expenses with respect to an adoption. Makes the following crimes a Le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1502 | Engross
Sine Die | Compliance and enforcement. Makes conforming amendments to align certain motor vehicle statutes in the Indiana Code with requirements in the federal Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. Increases the hours of community service required...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| HB1527 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicle excise taxes. Renames the county motor vehicle excise surtax to be the county vehicle excise tax. Renames the municipal motor vehicle license excise surtax to be the municipal vehicle excise tax. Renames the motor vehicle license excise tax t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1209 | Engross
Sine Die | Organized retail theft. Makes it organized retail theft, a Level 6 felony, for a person to knowingly: (1) take, procure, receive, conceal, or otherwise exercise control over merchandise of a retail merchant; or (2) use an artifice, an instrument, a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1284 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales tax facilitator provisions and study. Extends the effective date from July 1, 2017 to July 1, 2018 for provisions in the sales tax code declaring that a person is a retail merchant making a retail transaction if the person furnishes rooms, lodg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1116 | Engross
Sine Die | County, city, and town officer salary waivers. Allows an elected officer of a county, city, or town to waive all or part of the officer's compensation. (Current law allows a town officer to waive all of the officer's compensation.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| HB1351 | Engross
Sine Die | Motorized equipment vehicle rental excise tax. Excludes certain motorized equipment vehicles from the assessment of the personal property tax. Imposes an excise tax on the rental of those motorized equipment vehicles (excise tax). Provides procedures...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1312 | Engross
Sine Die | Pharmacy robbery. Provides that the taking of a controlled substance from: (1) a pharmacist acting in an official capacity; or (2) a pharmacy; is robbery, a Level 4 felony. Provides that: (1) the use of a deadly weapon; or (2) causing bodily injury t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1089 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulation of timber sales. Prohibits a unit (a county, city, town, or township) from regulating the sale or removal of merchantable timber from private property. Prohibits a unit from charging a person who sells or removes merchantable timber from p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1018 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicle operation. Provides that a vehicle may not be driven or moved on a highway unless the vehicle is: (1) constructed; (2) covered; or (3) loaded; in a manner that prevents any of the vehicle's refuse or load, other than water, from dripping, sif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SCR0012 | Engross
Sine Die | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recommending that all school administrators, teachers, parents, and students be educated about the potential health impact of heavy backpacks and take proactive measures to avoid injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-09
To House Public Health Committee |
