| SR0019 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Greg Clark on the occasion of his retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| HB1440 | Intro
Sine Die | Flood control public works projects. Creates the water resource development and flood prevention grant fund (fund). Requires the transfer of $10,000,000 of surplus revenue from the Hoosier Lottery per year, in quarterly installments, to the fund. Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1480 | Intro
Sine Die | Battery on utility employees. 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 i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Professional sports development commission. Establishes the northwest Indiana professional sports development commission. Authorizes the commission to study various plans and recommendations that are proposed with respect to attracting a professional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1549 | Intro
Sine Die | Township flood control and drainage works. Provides that the legislative body of a township, with the concurrence of the executive of the township, may adopt and file with the legislative body of the county in which the township is located a resoluti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1059 | Intro
Sine Die | Coverage for in vitro fertilization. Requires an insurer that issues a group accident and sickness insurance policy, and a health maintenance organization that enters into a group contract, that provides pregnancy related coverage to offer to the gro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1625 | Intro
Sine Die | Appointment of magistrates. Allows the judges of the superior court of Marion County to appoint 20 full-time magistrates after December 31, 2017. (Under current law, 16 magistrates are appointed.) Provides that the magistrates continue in office unti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HR0013 | Pass | Congratulating Tom McSod and Campbell MacDonald.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| HB1236 | Intro
Sine Die | Doing business or marketing as a cooperative. Provides that it is unlawful for a business entity that is not a cooperative or mutual entity to do the following: (1) Use the terms "cooperative", "co-op", or "mutual" or any derivative of those terms in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| HR0014 | Pass | Celebrating Black History Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| SB0097 | Intro
Sine Die | School bus usage. Adds provisions that allow a school bus or special purpose bus to be used for transportation for a Special Olympics event or program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1306 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' recovery program. Establishes, for five years, the veterans' recovery program and fund to provide treatment for veterans with a traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder and to obtain reimbursement from third parties. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1062 | Intro
Sine Die | Monetary awards for exonerated prisoners. Provides that a person whose conviction is vacated on the basis of DNA evidence is entitled to compensation in the amount of $25,000 for each year that the person was wrongfully incarcerated in the department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Representative Porter added as coauthor |
| HB1097 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreclosure counseling and education fee. Extends from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2019, the date for the expiration of the $50 mortgage foreclosure counseling and education fee that must be paid by a party filing an action to foreclose a mortgage. Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HR0015 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the legislative council to assign the topic of loans to Indiana small businesses to the appropriate committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To House Financial Institutions Committee |
| HB1356 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical cannabis. Defines "qualifying patient", and permits a qualifying patient to use medical cannabis under certain circumstances. Requires the state department of health to adopt rules before July 1, 2018, concerning the use, distribution, cultiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Prison management. Prohibits the department of correction from contracting with a private organization for the incarceration of committed persons in a facility owned by the private organization or for the operation by the private organization of a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HR0011 | Pass | Memorializing Barbara Ann Dean.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| HB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Piping materials for public works projects. Provides, for purposes of the law on public works projects of state agencies and political subdivisions, including design-build public works projects, that: (1) the specifications or design criteria package...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1110 | Intro
Sine Die | Marriage licenses. Allows the clerk of a circuit court to issue a marriage license to an individual who: (1) is unable to appear in person before the clerk due to physical illness or infirmity; or (2) is being treated with a narcotic drug due to phys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SCR0010 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Liberty Christian Lions on winning the Indiana Class 1A 2016 Basketball Championship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
Returned to the Senate |
| HCR0013 | Pass | Honoring Marlee Hobbs, Mackenzie Riddle, and Morgan Riddle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
Returned to the House |
| HCR0014 | Pass | Congratulating the Daleville High School baseball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
Returned to the House |
| HCR0015 | Pass | Congratulating the Yorktown High School volleyball team on an outstanding season.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
Returned to the House |
| HR0010 | Pass | Honoring Mike Lightfoot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| HB1534 | Intro
Sine Die | Orders of protection and firearms. Requires a court to prohibit a person who is subject to an order for protection from using or possessing firearms or ammunition if the domestic or family violence giving rise to the order of protection involved the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | Engineered lumber. Requires an individual applying for a building permit after June 30, 2017, to disclose the use of engineered lumber in structural assemblies on the building permit application. Directs that a building commissioner shall not: (1) ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Placed back on second reading |
| HB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Main street downtown redevelopment districts. Provides that a city or town having a population that does not exceed 20,000 (eligible municipality) may establish a main street downtown redevelopment district (district) within the eligible municipality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1604 | Intro
Sine Die | Increased penalties for certain crimes. Increases the offense level for certain animal cruelty crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0463 | Intro
Sine Die | Worker misclassification issues. Requires the department of labor (DOL), the department of workforce development (DWD), the department of state revenue (DOR), and the worker's compensation board (WCB) to share information concerning instances in whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| HB1167 | Intro
Sine Die | Artisan distillers. Removes a requirement that an artisan distiller's permit applicant hold a farm winery, brewer's, or distiller's permit (qualifying permit) for the three year period before the date of the application. Repeals an exception to the q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0364 | Intro
Sine Die | Child care tax credit. Provides a 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 amount rangin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1073 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy efficiency audits of state property. Requires the department of administration (department) to annually conduct energy efficiency audits of state owned real property that the department considers to be the least energy efficient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0438 | Intro
Sine Die | Bias motivated crimes. Makes it an aggravating circumstance (for purposes of imposing a criminal sentence) that the crime was committed with the intent to harm or intimidate an individual because of certain perceived or actual characteristics of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1542 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency medication in schools. Defines "emergency medication" as albuterol, epinephrine, or naloxone. Allows a school or school corporation to: (1) fill a prescription for an emergency medication; and (2) store the emergency medication. (Current la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1341 | Intro
Sine Die | Rural economic development. Provides that one or more rural counties may develop a rural strategic development plan (plan) that may be submitted to the office of community and rural affairs (office) and the Indiana economic development corporation (I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| SB0027 | Intro
Sine Die | Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation. Allows great-grandparents to seek visitation rights with their great-grandchildren in certain circumstances. Allows a grandparent or great-grandparent to seek visitation if the grandparent or great-grandp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| SB0031 | Intro
Sine Die | Recreational trail maintenance fund. Appropriates two million dollars annually from the state general fund to the recreational trail maintenance fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| HR0009 | Pass | Recognizing the Walker Career Center Advanced Finance Academy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| SB0087 | Intro
Sine Die | Report cards. Requires that each public school and accredited nonpublic school issue letter grades on report cards for students in grades 3 through 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
Senator Randolph added as coauthor |
| HB1484 | Intro
Sine Die | Tourism task force. Establishes the Indiana tourism task force to study the tourism departments of other states for the purposes of learning: (1) the structure of state tourism departments; (2) the level of funding provided to state tourism departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1399 | Intro
Sine Die | Low cost food plan. Requires the division of family resources to calculate Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for and distribute SNAP benefits to eligible recipients using the low cost food plan developed by the United States D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| HB1556 | Intro
Sine Die | Enterprise zones. Eliminates the 30% minimum personal property tax depreciation floor for depreciable personal property that is located within an enterprise zone on an assessment date beginning after December 31, 2017. Amends the definition of "quali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0541 | Intro
Sine Die | Employer training expense tax credit. Establishes a tax credit against state tax liability for expenditures and donations made on behalf of an employee or student to meet the requirements for portable workforce credentials that are required or benefi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0502 | Intro
Sine Die | Storm water fee exemptions. Provides that a municipality or county may not assess storm water fees with respect to: (1) property where religious services are held regularly; (2) property that belongs to a school corporation and is used for educationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| HB1111 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption for college books. Provides a sales tax exemption for books purchased by a college student for a college course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SCR0005 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION celebrating Indiana's "Jobs for American Graduates" (JAG) program on the occasion of its 10th Anniversary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-27
Returned to the Senate |
| SCR0006 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the life and accomplishments of the late Francis Marion "Frank" Hendley II.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-27
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0564 | Intro
Sine Die | Gary schools. Provides that the following apply to the Gary Community School Corporation: (1) The governing body of the Gary Community School Corporation shall appoint a superintendent for academics and a chief operating officer. Specifies the powers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-26
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1596 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicinal use of hemp oil. Exempts caregivers and individuals with intractable epilepsy from prosecution for possession of hemp oil if the oil is being used to treat intractable epilepsy in a child (or an adult if the individual began using hemp oil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-26
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
