| HB1172 | Intro
Sine Die | Competitive procurement by electric utilities. Requires an electric utility that applies to the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to: (1) construct, purchase, or lease a generating facility with a generating capacity of more than 50 megawa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| SB0250 | Intro
Sine Die | Report on student progress toward graduation. Requires each school corporation to submit an annual report to the department of education (department) containing the: (1) number of students of the school corporation that transfer out of the school cor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0290 | Intro
Sine Die | Student loan assistance. Provides an annual grant award of $2,500 to assist an individual with student loan debt for each consecutive year the individual is employed full time in social work, nursing, or teaching in Indiana, not to exceed five years....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1025 | 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] | 2017-01-09
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0178 | Intro
Sine Die | Payment of trial expenses. Establishes the public safety official capital prosecution fund, and permits a county to seek reimbursement from the fund for 50% of the expenses incurred in prosecuting a capital case against a defendant charged with the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0273 | Intro
Sine Die | End of life options. Allows an individual with a terminal illness who meets certain requirements to make a written request to an attending physician for medication that the individual may self administer to end the individual's life. Specifies requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1158 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax. Provides that if a purchaser is physically present at a retail merchant's location when a product is purchased and the purchaser requests delivery of the product to a location outside Indiana, the sale is considered to be made at t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1169 | Intro
Sine Die | Collective bargaining. Changes the start date for collective bargaining between a school corporation and a representative from August 1 to July 1. Requires the department of education to provide an estimate of general fund revenue available for colle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB0257 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration and other voting matters. Provides that a county election board (board) may adopt a resolution by a vote of a majority of the members of the board to provide that the polls close at any time after 6 p.m. and not later than 8 p.m. o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Elections Committee |
| HB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Police transparency and community trust. Not later than January 1, 2018, requires the law enforcement training board to adopt minimum standards for training of law enforcement officers (officers) regarding: (1) racial equity and bias-free policing; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| SB0259 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax deduction for public school expenses. Provides that the income tax deduction for education expenses for a dependent child is allowable for expenses made in connection with attendance at a public school. (Under current law, the tax deductio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0292 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax exemption. Allows a church that meets certain conditions and that missed the applicable deadline to claim a property tax exemption for the 2011 assessment date to file an application to claim the exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0291 | Intro
Sine Die | Right to work out. Provides that after June 30, 2017, a health spa may not require an individual to: (1) become or remain a member of a health spa; (2) enter into a contract with the health spa; or (3) pay dues, fees, assessments, or other charges of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| HB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Roadside vegetation management. Requires the Indiana department of transportation to mow roadside vegetation a minimum number of times a year. Requires the first mowing of roadside vegetation in a calendar year to be performed when 50% of the vegetat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1153 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of restraints in health facilities. Provides that if a patient has had at least one injury as a result of the patient's diagnosed Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or a related disorder and if the injury would have been prevented if the patient had ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0311 | Intro
Sine Die | School performance and evaluations. Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of performance for the 2015-2016 school year, 2016-2017 school year, and 2017-2018 school year may not be lower than the grade assigned to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0288 | Intro
Sine Die | Farm to glass beer excise tax. Lowers the beer excise tax rates to: (1) $0.035 for the first 500,000 gallons of beer or flavored malt beverage sold in Indiana; and (2) $0.075 for the next 14.5 million gallons of beer or malt beverage sold in Indiana;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HB1173 | Intro
Sine Die | Shelbyville food and beverage tax. Authorizes the city of Shelbyville to adopt a municipal 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] | 2017-01-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0271 | Intro
Sine Die | Disclosure of exculpatory evidence. Creates the crime of criminal concealment of evidence. Provides that a prosecuting attorney who knowingly or intentionally: (1) withholds; (2) destroys; or (3) fails to disclose the existence of; new, material, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1179 | Intro
Sine Die | Same day registration; close of the polls. Provides that the polls close at 8 p.m. (Under current law, the polls must close at 6 p.m.) Permits a voter to register at the polls by completing a voter registration form and an affirmation that the person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0245 | Intro
Sine Die | Long term small loans. Provides that a lender that is licensed by the department of financial institutions to engage in small loans may enter into a transaction for a long term small loan with a borrower. Defines a long term small loan as a loan that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0247 | Intro
Sine Die | INSPECT program certification. Requires that a practitioner who issues a prescription for a controlled substance must be certified to receive information from the INSPECT program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0258 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of civil forfeiture records. Permits the expungement of civil forfeiture records if a related arrest or conviction is expunged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Marriage. Eliminates the requirements that: (1) individuals obtain a marriage license before being married; (2) a marriage be solemnized by an individual specified by state law; and (3) a marriage license be filed with a circuit court clerk and the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | School efficiency grants. Establishes the school efficiency grant program for the purpose of providing grants to school corporations for costs associated with implementing efficiency and cost effective measures. Establishes the school efficiency gran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0173 | Intro
Sine Die | Dental and optometry service coverage. Prohibits dental and vision insurers and health maintenance organizations from requiring dentists and optometrists to accept certain payments unless the health care services are covered services. Prohibits denti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0342 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax increment financing. Provides that in the case of a tax increment financing allocation area established or reestablished after June 30, 2017, the property taxes for a year that are attributable to a property tax rate of a school corporation for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0225 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of signage at polling locations. Provides that the county executive shall require that the owner, lessee, or manager or any other individual or entity that controls a public building used as a polling place shall permit a candidate or an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Elections Committee |
| HR0002 | Intro
Sine Die | Concerning the Motor Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Programs in Lake and Porter Counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1164 | Intro
Sine Die | E-liquids and minors. Requires the alcohol and tobacco commission to ensure that a minor cannot purchase e-liquid. Makes it a Class C infraction if a retailer knowingly or intentionally allows a minor access to e-liquids. Enhances this penalty to a C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0280 | Intro
Sine Die | Acts of prostitution committed by children. Provides that prostitution is a criminal offense only if committed by a person who is at least 18 years of age. Defines "juvenile prostitution". Provides that a person less than 18 years of age who is engag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0234 | Intro
Sine Die | Exploitation of vulnerable individuals. Increases the penalties for exploitation of a dependent or an endangered adult and financial exploitation of an endangered adult.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Flight restrictions on unmanned aerial vehicles. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally flies an unmanned aerial vehicle within 400 feet of a critical infrastructure facility commits a Class A misdemeanor. Defines "critical infrastruct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0254 | Intro
Sine Die | Specialized driving privileges. Provides that the duration of certain court ordered specialized driving privileges may not exceed 2.5 years in length.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| HB1109 | 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] | 2017-01-05
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1121 | Intro
Sine Die | Protection of private property. Allows an owner of real property or a person with a vested right to a specific use of real property to seek compensation from a governmental entity if a specific action taken by the governmental entity inordinately bur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | Nullification of EPA regulations in Indiana. Nullifies all regulations imposed in Indiana by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Provides that the department of environmental management shall provide environmental protection for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1113 | Intro
Sine Die | Notary public fees. Increases the maximum notary public fee from $2 to $5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1108 | Intro
Sine Die | Jury study. Requires the Indiana judicial center to conduct a study of the manner in which prospective jurors: (1) are notified that they have been selected as a prospective juror; and (2) may communicate with the court concerning jury service. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1147 | Intro
Sine Die | Precinct 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 October 12, 2016, can be combined with one or more adjoining precincts. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1118 | Intro
Sine Die | Oversight of redevelopment commission spending. Requires a city council to approve all expenditures of a city redevelopment commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1114 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher salary scales. Provides that a school corporation may provide an increase or increment in a local salary range for a teacher who attains a master's or doctorate degree or attains the credit hours necessary to obtain a master's or doctorate de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Motorsports development. Provides for a grant from the motorsports improvement fund to the city of Winchester for additional seating capacity at the Winchester Speedway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Pension thirteenth checks. Provides for a thirteenth check in 2017 for certain members of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1105 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax exemption. Allows a nonprofit corporation that meets certain conditions and that missed the applicable deadline to claim a property tax exemption for the 2014 and 2015 assessment dates to file an application to claim the exemption for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | Straight ticket voting. Provides that if a voter votes a straight party ticket, individual votes for candidates may not be counted. Provides procedures by which a voter who votes a straight party ticket may change the straight party vote to vote for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Fuel taxes and vehicle fees. Specifies that the motor carrier fuel surcharge tax must be paid on all special fuel at the same time the special fuel tax is paid instead of being paid on taxable special fuel using a quarterly return. (The surcharge tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher salaries. Makes changes to factors used to determine increases or increments in a local salary range. Removes an obsolete provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB1099 | Intro
Sine Die | Industrial recovery tax credit. Provides that a taxpayer is entitled each taxable year to an industrial recovery tax credit against the taxpayer's state tax liability in an amount equal to 25% of the taxpayer's qualified investment in a qualified com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1092 | Intro
Sine Die | Enforcement of ALJ code of conduct. Provides that: (1) the state ethics commission shall receive complaints concerning an alleged violation of the statewide code of judicial conduct for administrative law judges (ALJ code); (2) an action taken based ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
