| SB0409 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulated drains and environmental concerns. Authorizes a county surveyor to classify a regulated drain as a drain in need of reconstruction if: (1) the functionality of the drain is compromised; and (2) the drain could, at a reasonable cost, be reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0427 | Intro
Sine Die | Vote by mail. Authorizes a county election board to provide that all municipal primary elections, municipal elections, and special elections for a public question held in the county in odd numbered years be held by all mail voting. Authorizes towns t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0415 | Intro
Sine Die | Reverse transfer agreements and degrees. Requires, not later than January 1, 2019, each four year state educational institution to enter into a reverse transfer agreement with each two year state educational institution. Establishes requirements rega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0256 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of online travel services. Extends the various innkeeper's taxes to cover the rental of a residential unit for fewer than 30 days. Provides that a facilitator who accepts payment on a transaction to which the innkeeper's tax applies is requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0391 | Intro
Sine Die | Township property tax levies. Authorizes a township to appeal to the department of local government finance (DLGF) for an increase in the township's maximum property tax levy to meet the costs of providing township assistance. Specifies that the maxi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0317 | Intro
Sine Die | Public transit funding. Allows counties to impose an additional local income tax rate to fund the operations of a public transportation corporation and the operations of a rural transportation assistance program. Provides that the rate must be adopte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0220 | Intro
Sine Die | Reading assessments. Requires, after June 30, 2019, that the state superintendent of public instruction's reading deficiency remediation plan (IREAD) must include a reading evaluation for students by grade 2. Provides that a student who requires reme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-09
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0267 | Intro
Sine Die | School administrator contracts. Provides that, unless a provision in a contract entered into or renewed between the governing body of a school corporation and a principal or an assistant principal before July 1, 2018, provides otherwise, the governin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-09
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0214 | Intro
Sine Die | CBD oil. Defines "CBD oil" as a product that contains: (1) not more than 0.3% THC; (2) at least 5% cannabidiol; and (3) no other controlled substances. Legalizes CBD oil. Repeals superseded provisions relating to cannabidiol registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-09
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0120 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of telecommunications devices while driving. Makes it a Level 5 felony if a person uses hands free or voice operated technology while operating a moving motor vehicle unless the device is used to call 911 to report a bona fide emergency. Revises ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
Withdrawn |
| SB0216 | Intro
Sine Die | Storage of firearms at public venues. Provides that a person in possession of: (1) a valid Indiana handgun permit; or (2) a valid handgun permit from a state sharing a reciprocity agreement with Indiana; may carry or possess a handgun on the grounds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0113 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid employee leave. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee during the 2018 legislative interim the task of studying paid personal leave from employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0073 | Intro
Sine Die | Public order offense enhancement. Allows the court to sentence a person to an additional fixed term of imprisonment between six months and two and one-half years if a person is found guilty of committing a public order offense and the person conceale...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0401 | Intro
Sine Die | Health facility employee criminal background check. Requires a health facility to obtain a national criminal history background check or an expanded criminal history check for the health facility's employees. Provides immunity to persons for: (1) den...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0385 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government budget notices. Reinstates certain expired and repealed statutes concerning local government budget notices. Reinstates the requirement that a political subdivision must give notice by publication to taxpayers of the estimated budget...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0175 | Intro
Sine Die | Practice and licensure of naturopathic medicine study. Urges the legislative council to assign to an interim study committee the task of studying issues related to the creation of a license to practice naturopathic medicine in Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0407 | 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] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0019 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of off-road vehicles. Exempts the following individuals from the requirement of wearing a helmet while operating or riding on an off-road vehicle if the off-road vehicle is equipped with a roll cage: (1) An individual at least eight years o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0403 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency rules for veterans' programs. Requires that, by July 1, 2018, each state agency must review veterans' programs the agency is required to administer by state law and adopt emergency rules for any programs that have not yet been implemented.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0412 | Intro
Sine Die | Coverage for pediatric neuropsychiatric disorders. Requires a policy of accident and sickness insurance and a health maintenance organization contract to provide coverage for treatment of certain pediatric neuropsychiatric illnesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0115 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for teachers' classroom supplies. Increases the income tax credit for an individual employed as a teacher for amounts expended on classroom supplies from $100 to $500 per taxable year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0388 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition on certain state agency contracts. Provides that a state agency may not contract with or make a grant to abortion educators. Provides that an appropriation to pay for a contract with or a grant made to an abortion educator is canceled. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0374 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual development accounts. For purposes of the statute concerning individual development accounts (accounts), provides that, in addition to a community development corporation (as provided under current law), a municipality may administer accou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0413 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana criminal justice institute. Expands the possible recipients of grants from the Indiana criminal justice institute (institute) beyond a county government or the state government. Changes the institute's responsibility from administering sexual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0051 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of addiction related convictions. Establishes a procedure to permit a person: (1) with an addiction disorder related conviction; and (2) who has completed a high intensity residential treatment program; to expunge the person's addiction d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0384 | Intro
Sine Die | Liens for agricultural supply dealers. Creates an agricultural supply dealer lien (lien). Establishes conditions concerning the creation of, the priority of, and enforcement of the lien.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| SB0352 | Intro
Sine Die | Privacy of students and families. Provides that computer programs and assessments used in connection with a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey are included in the instructional materials that a school corporation must make available for in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0176 | Intro
Sine Die | Service officer matters. Requires notification from the director of the department of veterans' affairs to county and city executives concerning noncompliance with: (1) designation of service officers; and (2) accreditation requirements. Provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0389 | Intro
Sine Die | INSPECT program report. Requires the Indiana professional licensing agency to prepare an annual report concerning INSPECT information, submit the report to the general assembly, and post the report on the agency's Internet web site.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0378 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid based statewide health plan. Establishes the Indiana statewide health plan within the Medicaid program. Sets forth requirements of the plan. Requires the office of the secretary of the family and social services administration to apply for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0405 | Intro
Sine Die | Wagering on sports. Authorizes sports wagering at riverboats, racinos, and satellite facilities after the Indiana gaming commission determines that current federal prohibitions on sports wagering are no longer applicable. Provides for the administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SJR0013 | 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] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0400 | Intro
Sine Die | Ranked choice voting. Permits a municipality to implement ranked choice voting for all of the municipality's elected offices. Permits a county to implement ranked choice voting for all offices elected in the county. Establishes the procedure for a vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0406 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter school requirements. Requires that the board of a charter school must consist of at least two members who reside within the geographic boundaries of the school corporation in which the charter school is located. Prohibits an authorizer from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SR0007 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION congratulating Saint Wendel Catholic School on achieving the highest ISTEP passing scores in Indiana for Spring 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
Senator Becker added as second author |
| SB0382 | Intro
Sine Die | Preemption of local bans on short term rentals. Provides that a local unit of government (local unit) shall not adopt any ordinance that restricts or prohibits the use of a person's primary residence as a short term rental, except for the following p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0390 | Intro
Sine Die | Reimbursed costs for a child removed from home. Requires the department of child services (department) to determine if a child who: (1) is removed from the home of the child's parent or guardian; and (2) placed in a foster family home or the home of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0174 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax deduction for health care sharing expenses. Provides that an individual who is an Indiana resident and a member of a health care sharing ministry is entitled to an adjusted gross income tax deduction for a taxable year equal to the total amount o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0350 | Intro
Sine Die | Various education matters. Requires the board of a charter school to consist of at least two members who reside within the geographic boundaries of the school corporation in which the charter school is located. Prohibits an authorizer from accepting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0396 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' property tax matters. Provides that a veteran who is classified as individually unemployable is entitled to a property tax deduction. Increases the limit of the gross assessed value below which the veteran's property tax deduction is allowa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0168 | Intro
Sine Die | Ban on sale or use of coal tar pavement products. Prohibits the: (1) sale or offer for sale; and (2) application to pavement; of a coal tar pavement product except as required for purposes of research on the effects of the coal tar pavement product o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0394 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking. Requires manufacturers, sellers, and distributors of Internet enabled devices to install blocking software to prevent the device from accessing: (1) an Internet web site hosting indecent content; and (2) an Internet web site that p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-08
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0278 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical service facility pecuniary liability. Provides that, if another amount is not negotiated, the pecuniary liability of an employer or the employer's insurance carrier for a specific service or product covered under worker's compensation or occu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-04
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0337 | Intro
Sine Die | Controlled substances. Provides that a person who deals carfentanil or fentanyl commits a Level 2 felony. Provides that a person who deals carfentanil or fentanyl that results in the user's death commits murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-04
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0348 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of a handgun in the capitol complex. Requires a member of: (1) the general assembly; and (2) the professional staff of the general assembly; to receive specific handgun training prior to carrying a handgun within the state capitol building...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0280 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabidiol (CBD) and marijuana. Excludes certain substances with a tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of not more than 0.3% from the definition of marijuana. Authorizes the alcohol and tobacco commission to adopt rules concerning: (1) the test...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-04
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0284 | Intro
Sine Die | Treatment of Lyme disease. Requires that, if an individual is diagnosed with Lyme disease or a related tick borne disease, state employee health plans, Medicaid, policies of accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organization contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-04
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0365 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher compensation. Provides that a school corporation may increase a teacher's base salary that exceeds the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan if the teacher possesses a master's degree that is: (1) directly related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-04
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0285 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited discrimination in civil rights statutes. Amends civil rights enforcement statutes to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and ancestry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0272 | Intro
Sine Die | Age for compulsory school attendance. Provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-04
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
