| SR0032 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION congratulating Isabella Errington on being named one of the Distinguished Finalists for Indiana's Top Youth Volunteers of 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| SCR0015 | Engross
Sine Die | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION memorializing Sergeant Benton "Ben" Bertram and urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to name a mile of State Road 3 near Scottsburg the "Sgt. Ben Bertram Memorial Mile".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SCR0027 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating Judge Thomas Newman, Jr. upon his retirement from the Madison County Court as the longest-serving jurist in Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-20
Returned to the Senate |
| SCR0030 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the Indiana School Boards Association on the 70th anniversary of its founding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-20
Returned to the Senate |
| SCR0002 | Engross
Sine Die | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to designate the pathway along the U.S. Highway 150 connector between Terre Haute and West Terre Haute as the Max Miller Memorial Pathway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0556 | Intro
Sine Die | Annexation. With regard to an annexation ordinance adopted after June 30, 2019, allows a county executive to review and deny an annexation if, for the assessment date in the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the annexation ordinance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
Third reading: failed for lack of constitutional majority; Roll Call 164: yeas 20, nays 19 |
| SR0022 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of medical reimbursement under worker's compensation for ambulatory surgical centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
Second reading: adopted voice vote |
| SB0587 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer credit. Repeals provisions specifying indexing of and changes of dollar amounts for purposes of consumer loans. Provides for a credit service charge not to exceed 36%. (Current law provides for variation in amount of a credit service charge ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SCR0028 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing Indiana Arts Education Day at the Statehouse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0398 | Intro
Sine Die | Adoption subsidy payments. Requires, with exceptions, the department of child services (department) to: (1) enter into an agreement with each adoptive parent of a child with special needs who is eligible for an adoption subsidy to provide an adoption...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0399 | Intro
Sine Die | Educator salary increase grant. Provides an annual grant to school corporations to provide a 2.5% salary increase to licensed teachers, school counselors, social workers with at least a master's degree, and school psychologists. Appropriates $315,000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0217 | Intro
Sine Die | Behavioral health and addiction services. Makes an appropriation to the integrated behavioral health and addiction treatment development program account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SR0028 | Intro
Sine Die | A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the issue of carbon capture through forest preservation and carbon farming in Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0638 | Intro
Sine Die | Collective bargaining matters. Provides that increases or increments in a local teacher salary range are not required to be equal for all teachers even if the salary increases or increments are based on the same combination of weighted factors. Provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0492 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans cemetery funding. Makes an appropriation from the state general fund to the Indiana department of veterans' affairs to be used for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of a veterans cemetery at Oak Hill Cemetery in Evansville.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0242 | Intro
Sine Die | Telemedicine and medical devices. Removes the restriction on the prescribing of ophthalmic devices through telemedicine and sets conditions on when a provider may, through telemedicine, prescribe medical devices. Prohibits the Indiana optometry board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0055 | Intro
Sine Die | Choice scholarships. Provides that the department of education shall accept applications for choice scholarship students from November 1 through January 15 for the spring semester of the current school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0571 | Intro
Sine Die | Political parties and 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 0.5% of the votes cast at the most recent election for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 131: yeas 16, nays 31 |
| SB0530 | Intro
Sine Die | Raw or unprocessed honey. Exempts raw honey and unprocessed honey from food establishment regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
Withdrawn |
| SB0389 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposition hearing evidence. Requires a court to: (1) provide that a foster parent or other caretaker with whom a child has been placed for temporary care for at least six months has standing; and (2) allow the foster parent or other caretaker to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SCR0026 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the University of Southern Indiana women's softball team on winning the 2018 National Collegiate Athletic Association ("NCAA") Division II championship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
Returned to the Senate |
| SCR0029 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the Indiana Legislative Youth Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
Returned to the Senate |
| SCR0025 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION memorializing Judith Ripley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0374 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans education benefits. Provides that a student who is eligible to receive a tuition and fee exemption because the student is a child of a veteran must maintain at least a cumulative grade point average that the eligible institution determines i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0229 | Intro
Sine Die | Psychotropic medication in foster care. Requires Medicaid restrictions on mental health drugs if: (1) federal financial participation is not available for reimbursement for the prescription; or (2) the child is under the care and supervision of the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0377 | Intro
Sine Die | Allen County substance abuse pilot program. Removes a requirement that the administrator of the Allen County substance abuse pilot program (pilot program) expend $1 of local funds for every $1 of state funds expended. Provides that the Allen County b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SR0009 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the Legislative Council to assign to an appropriate study committee the task of considering the enactment of the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act or other virtual currency regulation in the State of Ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Second reading: adopted voice vote |
| SB0605 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana-Michigan boundary line commission. Establishes the Indiana-Michigan boundary line commission (commission). Provides that the commission consists of five members appointed by the governor, all of whom must be registered surveyors and one of wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0506 | Intro
Sine Die | James Whitcomb Riley Home. Authorizes the Indiana state museum and historic sites corporation (corporation) to enter into negotiations with the owner of the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home (real property) for the conveyance of the real property to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Senator Bohacek added as coauthor |
| SCR0024 | Intro
Sine Die | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to study veterans issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SCR0021 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the Indiana Region of the American Red Cross and the organization's contributions to Hoosier health and safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0338 | Intro
Sine Die | Prekindergarten pilot program eligibility. Amends requirements for eligibility for the prekindergarten pilot program (program) to include an eligible child who resides with: (1) a parent or guardian who is: (A) disabled and unable, as a result of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0129 | Intro
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] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0425 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum age to purchase tobacco and e-liquids. With certain exceptions, raises from 18 to 21 years the age at which a person may: (1) sell or buy tobacco products or e-liquids and electronic cigarettes containing nicotine; and (2) enter designated sm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SCR0008 | Engross
Sine Die | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to honor First Lieutenant Clayton Robert Cullen by naming a portion of State Road 67 the "Lt. Clayton Robert Cullen Memorial Highway".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SCR0007 | Engross
Sine Die | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to name the bridge crossing Doans Creek on Highway 45/58 the "Major Emerson Y. Barker Memorial Bridge".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0113 | Intro
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] | 2019-02-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0249 | Intro
Sine Die | Psychiatrist student loan forgiveness program. Establishes a psychiatrist student loan forgiveness program to be used to provide student loan forgiveness payments to qualified psychiatrists who are residents of Indiana and practice psychiatric medici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SR0027 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION congratulating Keely Jones on her high school golfing career.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| SCR0023 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to memorialize Dr. Alice Swenson Bennett and her contributions to her community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0352 | Intro
Sine Die | Consent to pregnancy services of a minor. Allows a minor who is at least 16 years of age and: (1) pregnant; (2) in labor; or (3) postpartum; to consent to health care concerning the pregnancy, delivery, and pospartum care. Makes technical corrections...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Senator Bohacek added as coauthor |
| SB0121 | Intro
Sine Die | Volunteer firefighter allowances. Increases the minimum volunteer firefighter clothing and automobile allowance (allowance) that a city, town, or township (unit) is required to pay to active and participating members of a volunteer fire department fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Withdrawn |
| SCR0017 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the 10th anniversary of Indiana's Statewide Cultural District Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Returned to the Senate |
| SCR0018 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the students and teachers of Project Lead the Way.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0329 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax exemption for military pay. Exempts military pay earned by members of an active component of the United States armed forces from the individual income tax. (Current law exempts from the individual income tax the military pay earned by memb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0501 | Intro
Sine Die | Supervised visitation. Provides that if a court grants parenting time rights to a person who has been convicted of: (1) child molesting; or (2) child exploitation; within the previous five years, the court shall order that the parenting time must be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0103 | Intro
Sine Die | School City of East Chicago loan. Transfers, not later than July 1, 2019, to the school disaster loan fund from the state general fund an amount sufficient to pay off the loan that was made to the School City of East Chicago school corporation from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0610 | Intro
Sine Die | State forest commission and management plan. Establishes a state forest commission. Specifies the membership of the commission. Requires the commission to meet in 2019, 2020, and 2021 and to issue a written report establishing a plan for the manageme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0030 | Intro
Sine Die | Rental of curricular materials. Clarifies provisions concerning the rental of curricular materials to students by a governing body of a school corporation (governing body). Provides the following: (1) For curricular materials that are computer hardwa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0204 | Intro
Sine Die | Health status related requirements. Specifies that a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract must provide for availability, renewability, premium rating, and coverage wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
