| HB1615 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission on county jail standards. Creates the commission on jail standards (commission). Transfers, on July 1, 2019: (1) the powers and duties of the department of correction (department); and (2) the department's liabilities, records, property, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1576 | Intro
Sine Die | Endow Indiana program. Provides that the Indiana economic development corporation shall administer a grant and state income tax credit program that encourages philanthropy in Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1546 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of tax increment financing revenues. Authorizes redevelopment commissions, redevelopment authorities, and military base reuse authorities to use excess tax increment financing revenues to do the following: (1) Provide loans to governmental entiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1573 | Intro
Sine Die | Filling of growlers by package liquor stores. Creates a supplemental package liquor store permit (supplemental permit) that allows a package liquor store to fill or refill a container with beer upon the demand of a consumer, who is present on the pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1672 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1677 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1587 | Intro
Sine Die | Merger of state library and the historical bureau. Merges the Indiana historical bureau into the Indiana state library as a division of the library. (Current law specifies that the Indiana historical bureau and the Indiana state library are separate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HJR0001 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the people of Indiana may propose and adopt amendments to the Constitution of the State of Indiana and propose and enact statutes independent of the General Assembly through initiative. Provides that the people of Indiana may approve or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1355 | Intro
Sine Die | Circuit breaker property tax grants. Provides a grant to school corporations that have their transportation fund levies reduced by more than 40% because of the application of circuit breaker credits. Specifies that the amount of a grant is equal to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1455 | Intro
Sine Die | License plates for disabled Hoosier veterans. Provides for a disabled Hoosier veteran to receive annually one motor vehicle license plate free of charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1583 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for aquaponics systems. Provides for a credit against a taxpayer's state tax liability for expenditures made by the taxpayer during a taxable year for the acquisition, construction, enlargement, or rehabilitation of an aquaponics system fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1606 | Intro
Sine Die | Report on underground natural resources. Requires the department of natural resources (DNR) to prepare a report that: (1) presents a comprehensive inventory of underground natural resources present in property belonging to the state; (2) indicates, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1055 | Intro
Sine Die | Pension cost of living adjustments. Provides for cost of living adjustments for certain members of: (1) the public employees' retirement fund; (2) the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (3) the state police 1987 benefit system; and (4) the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1614 | Intro
Sine Die | Early education grant pilot program. Provides that the early education grant pilot program (program) may include eligible providers in any county. (Current law provides that the program may include eligible providers in not more than five counties.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HB1594 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans service officer funding. Requires the state lottery commission to adopt rules to establish a scratch off game to benefit Indiana veterans. Deposits revenue from the sale of tickets for the scratch off game into the veterans service officer f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1565 | Intro
Sine Die | Interim study of state investment in gold. Urges the legislative council to assign to an interim study committee during the 2017 interim the topic of investment of state surplus funds in tangible gold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1618 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanent disabling harm to first responders. Defines "permanent disabling harm" and permits imposition of a nonsuspendible sentencing enhancement of five to 10 years if the state proves beyond a reasonable doubt that a person committed a felony that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1664 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1588 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms on public property. Repeals statutes prohibiting the carrying or possession of firearms on: (1) school property; and (2) a school bus. Provides that the state of Indiana may not regulate: (1) firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories; (2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1589 | Intro
Sine Die | Reserve and National Guard member benefits. Provides a tax credit against state tax liability each taxable year to an employer who employs a member of the National Guard or a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States (reserves) who i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1364 | Intro
Sine Die | Matching fund for sidewalks and multi-use paths. Establishes the Indiana sidewalk and multi-use path program and matching fund (matching fund) to which eligible applicants may apply for grants to finance the construction of new sidewalks and multi-us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1613 | Intro
Sine Die | Funding for veteran law clinics. Requires the state lottery commission to adopt rules to establish a scratch off game to benefit Indiana veterans. Deposits revenue form sales of tickets for the scratch off game into the veterans disability clinic fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1574 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporal punishment. Prohibits the use of corporal punishment on public school students, including charter school, students. Allows the use of reasonable and necessary force in certain situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HB1561 | Intro
Sine Die | End of life options. Allows individuals with a terminal illness who meet 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 requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1552 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal law matters. Reclassifies the level of the offense for causing the death of another person or a law enforcement animal when operating a vehicle in certain circumstances if: (1) the person has a previous conviction of operating while intoxica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1559 | Intro
Sine Die | Auto repair claims settlement. Includes, in the requirement that an insurer provide notice of an insured's right to approve the type of body parts used to repair a motor vehicle, a third party to whom an insured is obligated for damage to the third p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1590 | Intro
Sine Die | Education matters. Provides a $1,000 state income tax credit for an individual who is a licensed K-12 classroom teacher with respect to state income taxes on the income earned from the individual's employment as a classroom teacher. Replaces the ISTE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HB1582 | Intro
Sine Die | Unlawfully holding a public office. Establishes a cause of action to remove from elected office a person who assumes the office in violation of the statute that prohibits a person who has been convicted of a felony from being a candidate for or assum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1487 | Intro
Sine Die | Vanderburgh County local income tax. Authorizes the county council of Vanderburgh County to impose an additional local income tax rate of not more than 0.25% to be used to: (1) pay the costs of a county jail and juvenile detention facilities, and rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1533 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking. Provides that a child who was: (1) the victim of human trafficking; and (2) adjudicated a delinquent child for an act performed while a victim of human trafficking; is entitled to have the adjudication vacated if certain conditions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Courts and Criminal Code 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 |
| HB1514 | Intro
Sine Die | Law enforcement matters. Creates a $5 law enforcement body camera fee. Requires that the law enforcement body camera fee must be collected in any action involving the violation of an infraction or an ordinance. Requires the clerk of a circuit court t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Courts and Criminal Code 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 |
| HB1435 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensed clinical social workers. Allows applicants for licensure as a clinical social worker (LCSW) to obtain required clinical social work experience by working at a community mental health center or other qualified facility or program and under th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HCR0006 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the Governor to proclaim May 6 as Moyamoya Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Public Health 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 |
| HR0007 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the Legislative Council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of a Fair Tax at the state level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1486 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance coverage and cost information. Requires health care providers and health plans to provide to covered individuals and patients certain information concerning the cost of health care services. Requires health care providers to publish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1452 | Intro
Sine Die | Service of process fee. Eliminates the ability of the legislative body of a county to adopt by ordinance a separate schedule of document fees. Provides that the service of process fee is $38. (Under current law the fee is $25.) Allows a sheriff to ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1503 | Intro
Sine Die | Venture capital tax credits. Provides that the venture capital investment tax credit may be applied against any retaliatory premium tax liability imposed on out-of-state insurance companies. (A retaliatory tax is added in determining Indiana insuranc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SR0011 | Intro
Sine Die | A SENATE RESOLUTION memorializing the life of Ron Bonham, a basketball legend and Muncie public servant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
First reading: adopted standing vote |
| HB1499 | Intro
Sine Die | Visitation for former foster parents. Provides that a foster parent may file a petition seeking visitation rights with a child if the child was placed under the care and supervision of the foster parent for at least 12 months. Requires the court to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Judiciary 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 |
| HB1477 | Intro
Sine Die | Filling city and town court vacancies. Provides that a person selected to fill a city office not held by a major party shall immediately hold the office upon appointment. Removes language allowing a city or town court in existence on January 1, 1986,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1478 | Intro
Sine Die | Safety rest areas. Requires the office of management and budget to investigate the appropriateness of transferring maintenance responsibilities for safety rest areas from the Indiana department of transportation to the office of tourism development a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1532 | Intro
Sine Die | Lakefront or riverfront project alcohol permit. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission to issue not more than 10 new three-way permits (permits to sell beer, wine, and liquor) to a restaurant located: (1) within or near a lakefront or riverfront d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1465 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile courts and facilities. Grants immunity under the Indiana tort claims act for the adoption or enforcement, or the failure to adopt or enforce, a security policy in a building used by a governmental entity, unless the enforcement constitutes f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1509 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental health and addiction services pilot program. Authorizes the division of mental health and addiction (division), beginning January 1, 2018, and ending June 30, 2019, to operate a pilot program under which mental health and addiction forensic tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0569 | Intro
Sine Die | Labor matters. Makes a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| HB1481 | Intro
Sine Die | Forfeiture. Permits seized property to be forfeited to the state only if the owner of the property has been convicted of a criminal offense. Authorizes forfeiture of a vehicle operated by a person with a lifetime driver's license suspension. Repeals ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
