| HB1130 | Engross
Sine Die | Protections for student journalists. Provides freedom of speech and freedom of press protections for grades 9 through 12 and state educational institution student journalists. Requires each school corporation and charter school to adopt a policy conc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Senator Leising removed as cosponsor |
| HB1494 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulation of confined feeding operations. Amends the law on confined feeding operations (CFOs, which include any confined feeding of at least 300 cattle, 600 swine or sheep, 30,000 fowl, or 500 horses). Repeals the statute requiring a person to obta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Senator Glick removed as second sponsor |
| HB1317 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicle inspection and maintenance program. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on roads and transportation for study during the 2017 interim the topic of the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program in Lake...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| HB1578 | Engross
Sine Die | Tobacco use. Repeals employment protections for individuals who smoke cigarettes or use other tobacco products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| HB1128 | Engross
Sine Die | Abortion matters. Requires that a pregnant woman be informed orally and in writing before an abortion obtained through an abortion inducing drug that the abortion may be possibly reversed. Requires certain Internet websites, referral telephone number...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Judiciary 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 |
