| SB0140 | Engross
Sine Die | Maintaining a common nuisance. Provides a defense to the crime of maintaining a common nuisance if: (1) the location was not primarily used for specified unlawful acts; (2) the charged offense involves less than a specified quantity of marijuana, has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SCR0029 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Pioneer Junior-Senior High School football team on winning the Indiana High School Athletic Association ("IHSAA") Class A state championship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0379 | Engross
Sine Die | Automatic dialing-announcing devices. Provides that the statute prohibiting a caller from using or connecting an automatic dialing-announcing device to a telephone line unless certain conditions are met does not apply with respect to messages made in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0397 | Engross
Sine Die | Community mental health centers. Specifies the funding amounts that must be provided by counties to community mental health centers. Provides that a county's maximum funding amount for a year is equal to the maximum funding amount for the previous ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0161 | Engross
Sine Die | Spay-neuter grant 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 forf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0208 | Engross
Sine Die | Physician maintenance of certification. Prohibits a hospital from denying hospital staff or admitting privileges to a physician or podiatrist based solely on the decision of the physician or podiatrist not to participate in maintenance of certificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0067 | Engross
Sine Die | Funding of 911 call centers. Provides that, after June 30, 2018, a county that contains more than one public safety answering point (PSAP) shall distribute funds to each PSAP in the county on a proportional basis according to the call volume received...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0433 | Engross
Sine Die | Health care cost and value study. Urges the legislative council to assign the issue of health care cost and value to an appropriate interim study committee for study during the 2018 interim of the general assembly. Requires the interim study committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0292 | Engross
Sine Die | Criminal law matters. Repeals the offense of auto theft and receiving stolen auto parts. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally exerts unauthorized control of a motor vehicle or a component part of a motor vehicle, with the intent to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0383 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifications for local public work contracts. Provides that specifications for a local public work contract must be written to encourage competition for each product or system furnished under the contract. Provides that for a local public work proj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0416 | Engross
Sine Die | Consumer credit code. Urges the legislative council to assign to an interim study committee, for study during the 2018 interim, the topic of revisions to the Uniform Consumer Credit Code. Sets forth issues for consideration by an interim study commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0028 | Engross
Sine Die | Nursing faculty loan repayment grant program. Establishes the nursing faculty loan repayment grant program (program) to increase the number of nursing faculty in Indiana. Requires the commission for higher education to administer the program. Establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0398 | Engross
Sine Die | Office based opioid treatment programs. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee for the 2018 interim period the task of studying whether Indiana should impose a license requirement or other regulatory require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0222 | Engross
Sine Die | Misleading or inaccurate caller identification. Provides that the attorney general can collect attorney fees and costs in a civil action for a violation of the law prohibiting misleading or inaccurate caller identification. Makes technical changes to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
Representative Cook added as cosponsor |
| SB0131 | Engross
Sine Die | Crimes involving synthetic drugs. Makes certain offenses involving synthetic drugs an enhancing circumstance. Removes certain misdemeanor prosecutions concerning synthetic drugs and synthetic lookalike drugs from eligibility for conditional discharge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HR0020 | Pass | Congratulating Francis Joseph Reitz High School on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its founding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| SB0171 | Engross
Sine Die | Annexation limits. Provides that a municipality may not annex territory during a calendar year that has a total gross assessed value of more than 15% of the total gross assessed value of the annexing municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-12
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0123 | Engross
Sine Die | Newborn safety devices at fire departments. Specifies under the safe haven law that it is a defense to a claim of neglect of a dependent if the individual left the child in a newborn safety device that is located at a fire department, including a vol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0286 | Engross
Sine Die | SPEA study of Indiana environmental policy. Requires the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) to assess the potential for development of low-carbon and green industries in Indiana and the job creation, economic growth,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0163 | Engross
Sine Die | Distributions from escrow accounts. Repeals a requirement that any funds that: (1) exceed $10,000 and are disbursed from an escrow account in connection with a real estate transaction; and (2) are received from a single party to the transaction; must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SCR0034 | Intro
Sine Die | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to honor and congratulate the State of Israel on the occasion of its seventieth anniversary, and to recognize the deep relationship between the State of Indiana and Israel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
Withdrawn |
| SB0155 | Engross
Sine Die | Deceased voters. Requires that an absentee ballot marked and forwarded by a voter who subsequently dies must be counted if the absentee ballot would otherwise be entitled to be counted if the voter had not died.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0035 | Engross
Sine Die | Vigo County food and beverage tax. Authorizes the county council of Vigo County to adopt a county food and beverage tax (tax). Provides that the tax rate may not exceed 1%. Specifies that the revenue from the tax shall be distributed to the capital i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0250 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting. Permits a voter who is qualified to vote in person to vote by absentee ballot. Removes all other qualifications for a voter to vote by absentee ballot except for a voter with disabilities who is unable to make a voting mark on the ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0211 | Engross
Sine Die | Jail commissary fund. Requires a sheriff to maintain a record of the jail commissary fund's (fund) activities. Requires the state board of accounts to prescribe commissary forms to record fund activities. Requires a sheriff to provide certain informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SR0017 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION recognizing the Lake County Parks Board on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| SB0010 | Engross
Sine Die | Town employees holding elected office. Provides with regard to a town that has a population of less than 2,500, that a town employee may: (1) serve on the town board; and (2) may not participate in a vote on the town's budget and tax levies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0008 | Engross
Sine Die | School curriculum. Requires each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| SB0195 | Engross
Sine Die | 1977 pension and disability fund study. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on pension management oversight or another appropriate interim study committee the task of studying: (1) an increase in the monthly benefit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0005 | Engross
Sine Die | Profiting from an adoption. Adds an exemption for the transfer or receipt of reasonable charges and fees for adoption services provided by an attorney licensed in Indiana from a profiting from an adoption offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0417 | Engross
Sine Die | Distance between water well and septic system. Requires the natural resources commission and the state board of health to adopt joint rules establishing a minimum distance that must exist between a residential septic system and the location in which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0237 | Engross
Sine Die | Handgun licensing. Replaces the dual license system (having "qualified" and "unlimited" licenses) with the single handgun license. Increases the duration of a four year handgun license to five years. Requires a law enforcement officer to whom an appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0173 | Engross
Sine Die | Audit examinations and disclosure requirements. Provides that the uniform compliance guidelines for audit examinations of state and local units conducted by the state board of accounts must include a requirement that the unit disclose any pledge, cov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0002 | Engross
Sine Die | Code revision correction. Corrects a word processing error by restoring two provisions concerning the distribution of money for standardbred purposes that were inadvertently omitted from IC 4-35-7-12 when that statute was last amended in 2016. (The i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1276 | Engross
Sine Die | Veterans recovery pilot program. Extends the Indiana veteran recovery pilot program (program) to 2020. (Under current law, the program expires June 30, 2019.) Requires the state department of health (state department) to adopt rules by August 1, 2018...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0152 | Engross
Sine Die | Survivor health coverage. Provides that, if the employer of a public safety officer who dies in the line of duty after June 30, 2018, offers health coverage for active employees, the employer shall offer to provide and pay for health coverage under t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Insurance Committee |
| SB0011 | Engross
Sine Die | Eligibility for supplemental nutrition assistance. Beginning July 1, 2019, removes the 12 month limitation on receipt by certain individuals of supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefits. Specifies that, beginning January 1, 2020, Indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| SB0328 | Intro
Sine Die | Ballot access. Reduces the minimum number of votes cast at an election required for certain purposes from 2% of the votes cast in the last election for secretary of state to: (1) 0.5% of the votes cast at the last election for secretary of state; or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
Senator Delph added as coauthor |
| SB0020 | Engross
Sine Die | Deer hunting. Authorizes the use of a rifle to hunt deer on privately owned land during: (1) the youth deer season; (2) the firearms season; (3) the special antlerless season where authorized by the department; and (4) the deer reduction season where...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0166 | Engross
Sine Die | Reporting on worker misclassification. Requires the state department of revenue (DOR), the state department of labor (DOL), the worker's compensation board of Indiana (WCB), and the department of workforce development (DWD) to report before November ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0425 | Engross
Sine Die | Unemployment insurance matters. Excludes from the definition of "employment", for purposes of the unemployment compensation system, service performed by a driver who provides drive away operations when: (1) the vehicle being driven is the commodity b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0143 | Engross
Sine Die | Study of student performance grades. Requires the department of education (department) and the commission for higher education (commission) to study and submit a report describing as to whether there is any disparity in determining enrollment eligibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| SB0157 | Intro
Sine Die | Real world career readiness program. Establishes the real world career readiness program (program). Provides that the state board of education (state board) shall establish the program to provide a real world career readiness student with career and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SCR0003 | Engross
Sine Die | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to rename the bridge at State Road 28 (Walnut Avenue) in Frankfort the "Staff Sergeant Jamie Jarboe Bridge".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HR0017 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of allocating up to $4,000,000 from the Indiana state lottery revenues to benefit veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SR0016 | Intro
Sine Die | A SENATE RESOLUTION urging legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the issue of the economic revitalization of Buffington Harbor in Gary, Indiana and its impact on existing industries and the surrounding community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
Withdrawn |
| HR0016 | Pass | Recognizing the Indianapolis Section of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| HR0014 | Pass | Memorializing Donnie M. Thomas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| HB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | Student journalism. Provides freedom of speech and freedom of press protections for grades 7 through 12 and state educational institution student journalists. Requires each school corporation and charter school to adopt a policy concerning student jo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
Third reading: failed for lack of constitutional majority; Roll Call 173: yeas 47, nays 46 |
| HR0018 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the legislative council to assign to the appropriate committee the topic of designating November 9 of each year as "Gold Star Family Day".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To House Public Policy Committee |
