| SB0358 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverages. Permits a minor to be on the premises of a farm winery if the minor is in the company of a parent, legal guardian or custodian, or family member who is at least 21 years of age. Allows a farm winery and a small brewer to employ a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Amendment #7 (Forestal) failed; voice vote |
| SB0199 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits and certain expenses related to alcoholic beverages. Defines "entertainment", "gift", and "professional and educational expenses", and specifies that certain prohibitions that apply to alcoholic beverage permittees concerning gifts do not app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| SB0062 | Engross
Sine Die | School substance abuse prevention pilot program and fund. Provides the department of education (department), in collaboration with organizations that have expertise in school based substance abuse prevention, shall develop: (1) materials to assist sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0532 | Engross
Sine Die | Service of process fees. Makes the clerk responsible for collecting service of process fees. Raises the service of process fee from $13 to $28. Reinstates the prohibition on collection of service of process fees more than one time in a case. Specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0545 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales tax collection by remote sellers. Provides that a retail merchant that does not have a physical presence in Indiana shall, as an agent for the state, collect sales tax on a retail transaction made in Indiana, remit the sales tax, and comply wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
Representative DeLaney added as cosponsor |
| SB0396 | Engross
Sine Die | Guardian reimbursement and Medicaid eligibility. Specifies that an amount not to exceed $175 a month in court ordered guardianship fees for an individual who is: (1) in an institution; or (2) applying for or participating in the Medicaid aged and dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
Representative Klinker added as cosponsor |
| SB0256 | Engross
Sine Die | Benjamin Harrison conservation trust. Makes nonvoting members of the Indiana Heritage Trust project committee voting members. Makes conforming changes. Makes nonvoting members of the Indiana White River State Park Development Commission voting member...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Representative Kersey added as cosponsor |
| SB0282 | Engross
Sine Die | Spay-neuter program. Provides for the state board of animal health (board) to administer forfeited deposits held by animal care facilities for spay-neuter procedures. (Current law provides for the bureau of motor vehicles to administer the forfeited ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0019 | Engross
Sine Die | Sheriff's commissary fund. Specifies information that must be contained in a county jail commissary report. Provides that the sheriff's commissary fund may be used for professional services provided to the sheriff's department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Placed back on second reading |
| SB0435 | Engross
Sine Die | Mental health education and screenings. Requires a school corporation's health education curriculum to include mental health wellness education. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation may provide mental health screenings to students...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Education Committee |
| SB0476 | Engross
Sine Die | Grain buyers and warehouse licensing. Makes numerous changes to the operations and procedures of the grain indemnity fund board (board) and the grain indemnity fund. Requires that a person applying for or renewing a license who does not conduct busin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
Representative DeLaney added as cosponsor |
| SB0228 | Engross
Sine Die | Bail. Provides that the supreme court should adopt rules to establish the Indiana pretrial risk assessment system before January 1, 2020, to assist courts in assessing an arrestee's likelihood of: (1) committing a new criminal offense; or (2) failing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0126 | Engross
Sine Die | Government ethics and procurement of certain services. Requires a political subdivision to comply with certain procedures when acquiring the services of architects, engineers, and land surveyors. (Under current law, the procedures are not mandatory.)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0276 | Engross
Sine Die | Prekindergarten education. Provides that, after June 30, 2017, the early education grant pilot program (pilot program) includes eligible providers in any county in Indiana. Adds additional requirements for an eligible provider to participate in the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
Representatives Lehman, Siegrist, Schaibley added as cosponsors |
| SB0559 | Engross
Sine Die | Property tax exemption for affordable housing. Provides a property tax exemption for affordable rental housing property when the property does not otherwise qualify for a property tax exemption. Provides that, in order to qualify for the exemption, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0166 | Engross
Sine Die | Vacating convictions of trafficked persons. Provides that a child who was: (1) the victim of human trafficking; and (2) adjudicated a delinquent child for a nonviolent act performed while a victim of human trafficking; is entitled to have the adjudic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
Representative Hamilton added as cosponsor |
| SB0429 | Engross
Sine Die | Cultural district development. Provides that an arts and cultural district (district) certified by the Indiana arts commission (commission) is subject to annual review by the commission and must be recertified every four years. Specifies certain requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0467 | Engross
Sine Die | Fire department reimbursement. Requires payment under a property insurance policy that provides coverage for reimbursement for fire protection services (policy) to pay the fire department's charges, subject to certain limitations, in response to a cl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Insurance Committee |
| SB0517 | Engross
Sine Die | Distribution of lottery revenue for veterans' purposes. Provides that from January 1, 2018, through June 30, 2020, the state lottery commission shall, before the last business day of January, April, July, and October of each year, transfer $125,000 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0277 | Engross
Sine Die | Healthy food initiative program. Establishes the healthy food initiative program (program) to be administered by the Indiana housing and community development authority (authority) to assist new businesses, existing businesses, and other legal entiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0285 | Engross
Sine Die | Study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate interim study committee the topic of a unit's use of law enforcement to respond to a mass traffic obstruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0009 | Engross
Sine Die | Supplemental nutrition assistance program and drug convictions. Removes 12 month limitation on certain individuals receiving supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefits. Specifies that, beginning January 1, 2018, Indiana elects to opt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| SB0295 | Engross
Sine Die | Enforcement of vehicle weight restrictions. Prohibits the bureau of motor vehicles from assessing points under the point system for violations after December 31, 2015, of commercial weight limitations. Provides that points assessed after December 31,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0008 | Engross
Sine Die | Forfeiture. Establishes a new procedure for civil forfeiture, and treats seized property in which a person asserts an ownership interest differently from seized property that is abandoned or unclaimed. Permits seized property that is not abandoned or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0227 | Engross
Sine Die | Foreclosure counseling and education fee. Extends the expiration of the $50 mortgage foreclosure counseling and education fee to July 1, 2018. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0131 | Engross
Sine Die | Study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate committee a study of public policy issues relating to liability shifting provisions contained in contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0262 | Engross
Sine Die | Bonding for transportation projects. Provides that the Indiana finance authority (authority) may issue bonds or notes after April 30, 2017, for the construction of transportation projects. Provides that the total amount of all such bonds and notes is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Representative Huston added as cosponsor |
| SB0506 | Engross
Sine Die | Suicide prevention programming. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to: (1) develop a statewide program for suicide prevention; and (2) employ a coordinator of the statewide program for suicide prevention. Requires the coordinator to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0159 | Engross
Sine Die | State examiner findings. Specifies requirements for corrective action when audited entities fail to comply with certain guidelines or laws. Requires an audited entity to file a corrective action plan following findings of noncompliance in two consecu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0315 | Engross
Sine Die | Access to employee restrooms. Provides that if a retail establishment has a restroom facility on its premises for the use of the retail establishment's employees, a customer, upon request, must be allowed to use the restroom facility during normal bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| SB0367 | Engross
Sine Die | Revocation of teaching licenses. Prohibits a school from hiring persons who have been convicted of certain crimes. Adds human trafficking to the list of offenses requiring license revocation. Permits the department of education to reinstate the licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| SB0170 | Engross
Sine Die | Pharmacy robbery. Provides that a juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over certain juveniles who commit robbery of a pharmacy, if: (1) the juvenile committed the robbery with the intent to obtain a prescription drug; and (2) the juvenile stated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0153 | Engross
Sine Die | Drug and alcohol treatment report. Requires the state department of health, with the assistance of the department of administration and the secretary of family and social services, to report to the legislative council concerning the: (1) number of ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0085 | Engross
Sine Die | Funding school transportation and public transit. Permits a redevelopment commission outside Marion County to provide revenue on an annual basis to a school corporation or public transportation corporation from property taxes allocated to the redevel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0117 | Engross
Sine Die | United States history courses. Requires that each high school United States history course must include the study of the structure of state and federal governments. Moves existing language concerning the study of the Holocaust. Requires that all stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| 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 |
