| SB0075 | Intro
Sine Die | Bias motivated crimes. Makes it an aggravating circumstance (for purposes of imposing a criminal sentence) that the crime was committed with the intent to harm or intimidate an individual because of certain perceived or actual characteristics of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0502 | Intro
Sine Die | Child support and restricted driving. Provides that if a court finds that a person is delinquent as a result of an intentional violation of a child support order, the court may restrict the person's driving privileges to going to or returning from la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0573 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospital facility certificate of need. Establishes a hospital certificate of need administered by the state department of health. Sets forth requirements of the program and requirements for owners of hospital construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SR0020 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION congratulating Keely Jones on her high school golfing career.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| SB0409 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair pay in employment. Provides that: (1) it is an unlawful employment practice to pay wages that discriminate based on sex, race, or national origin for the same or equivalent jobs; and (2) the civil rights commission has jurisdiction for investiga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0241 | Intro
Sine Die | School choice scholarships. Provides that, if an eligible choice scholarship student leaves an eligible school during the school year and transfers during the same school year to a different eligible school that has a choice scholarship available for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0388 | Intro
Sine Die | Salaries of state enforcement officers. Requires, beginning July 1, 2019, that the salaries of the following be adjusted annually to incorporate any increase in the Consumer Price Index: (1) Police employees of the state police department. (2) Gaming...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0180 | Intro
Sine Die | Disabled veteran renter's deduction. Provides an income tax deduction, in addition to the current renter's deduction, to a disabled veteran who rents a dwelling as a principal place of residence. Provides that the additional deduction is equal to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0367 | Intro
Sine Die | Election signs. Provides that the county executive shall require the owner, lessee, manager, or any other individual or entity that controls a nonpublic building used as a polling place to permit a candidate or an individual designated as a candidate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0500 | Intro
Sine Die | Incentives for an inclusive workforce. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation to review and evaluate the terms and conditions of job creation incentives to encourage and ensure an inclusive workforce that offers opportunities for peopl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0160 | Intro
Sine Die | Residency of police officers and firefighters. Allows a member of a police or fire department to reside within a county that is noncontiguous to the county where the police or fire department is located but is not more than 50 miles from the closest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0574 | Intro
Sine Die | Hoosiers with disabilities business enterprise. Adds "Hoosiers with disabilities business enterprise" to the governor's commission on minority and women's business enterprises. Adds "Hoosiers with disabilities business enterprise" to the list of favo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SR0015 | Intro
Sine Die | A SENATE RESOLUTION remembering the life of Pamela A. Gemmer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
First reading: adopted standing vote |
| SR0016 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring the Indianapolis Thunder beep baseball team on an exemplary season and their Beep Baseball World Series championship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| SB0326 | Intro
Sine Die | Integrated school based mental health. Establishes the integrated school based mental health and substance use disorder services grant program (program) to provide grants to school corporations for the development, implementation, and maintenance of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0614 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial services. Makes the following change to the Uniform Consumer Credit Code (UCCC): (1) Amends the provisions authorizing specified additional charges for consumer credit sales and consumer loans to: (A) permit a seller or a lender, as applica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0253 | Intro
Sine Die | State agency grant administration. Provides that after June 30, 2019, a state executive branch agency may not apply for or renew a grant from a public or private entity unless the following occurs: (1) The office of state based initiatives (office) a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SCR0003 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Indiana Wesleyan University Wildcats on winning the 2018 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ("NAIA") Division II Men's Basketball National Championship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0600 | Intro
Sine Die | Tippecanoe County food and beverage tax. Authorizes Tippecanoe County to adopt an ordinance to impose a food and beverage tax. Provides that the county food and beverage tax may not exceed 2%. Specifies that food and beverage tax revenue must be used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SR0014 | Intro
Sine Die | A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to establish a study committee to study issues related to the regulation of railroad crossings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SR0013 | Intro
Sine Die | A SENATE RESOLUTION recognizing the 40th anniversary of the Indiana-Taiwan sister-state relationship and the United States Congress's enacting of the Taiwan Relations Act, supporting Taiwan's signing of a Bilateral Trade Agreement with the United Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0601 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional development tax credit. Establishes the regional development tax credit (credit). Allows a taxpayer to apply to the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) for the credit. Provides that a taxpayer is entitled to a credit against stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0618 | Intro
Sine Die | White County innkeeper's tax. Permits the fiscal body of White County to levy the county innkeeper's tax on resorts and any other buildings or structures in the county in which lodging is regularly furnished for consideration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0591 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter schools. Provides that certain charter school authorizers that issued a charter for a charter school before July 1, 2015, are required to be approved for chartering authority by the state board of education (state board) before the authorizer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0628 | Intro
Sine Die | THC analysis of CBD products. Requires a person who distributes low THC hemp extract to provide a copy of the certificate of analysis to each retailer in Indiana that purchases the extract. Requires a person who sells low THC hemp extract to display ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0017 | 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] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0592 | Intro
Sine Die | Excess liability trust fund claims. Provides that, if certain conditions are met, a person who was not an owner or operator of an underground storage tank (UST) at the time of a release from the UST may assume liability for corrective action in respo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0599 | Intro
Sine Die | Bias motivated crimes. Enhances the sentence for a crime committed: (1) due to a real or perceived immutable characteristic or religious belief of the victim; and (2) with intent to cause bodily injury, or to cause the victim to feel terrorized, frig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0477 | Intro
Sine Die | Storm water fee exemptions. Provides that the board of a municipal department of storm water management, the board of a county department of storm water management, or the board of public works of a consolidated city may not assess or collect user fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0615 | Intro
Sine Die | Lead poisoning of children. Requires the state department of health to develop and distribute to primary health care providers a one page informational form that sets forth a series of questions for a child's family concerning the child's exposure to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0595 | Intro
Sine Die | Improper worker classification. Authorizes the department of state revenue, the department of labor, the worker's compensation board, and the department of workforce development to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0630 | Intro
Sine Die | Statutory references to certain municipalities. Replaces population parameters referring to the city of Lawrenceburg and the town of Danville with the names of the respective municipalities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SCR0013 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Tabernacle Christian High School boys basketball team on winning the 2018 Indiana Association of Christian Schools ("IACS") Division I state championship title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0629 | Intro
Sine Die | Cause of action for employer retaliation. Establishes a cause of action for an employee who is affected by an employer's action in retaliation for the employee making a report of child abuse or neglect in good faith. Provides that a prevailing plaint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0616 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil immunity for child advocates. Provides that any guardian ad litem (GAL) or court appointed special advocate (CASA) appointed for a child in a juvenile court proceeding is immune from civil liability resulting from the child being placed on a wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0620 | Intro
Sine Die | Public safety funding. Makes an appropriation from the state general fund to the department of homeland security for a first responder regional training pilot program used to expand regional training capabilities for firefighters, law enforcement per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SCR0011 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating Robert Greer on setting a new Indiana bench press record of 446 pounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0612 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensure of behavior analysts. Provides for licensure of behavior analysts and assistant behavior analysts. (Current law provides for certification of behavior analysts and assistant behavior analysts.) Sets forth exemptions. Makes conforming change...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0639 | Intro
Sine Die | Towing rights. Specifies requirements for a towing service or a person that owns private property that tows a vehicle from private property, including a notice of requirements that apply to the towing service's actions. Makes a violation by a towing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0569 | Intro
Sine Die | Entrepreneur and enterprise district grants. Provides that the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) shall award a grant from the twenty-first century research and technology fund (fund) to a district board established in Lafayette or Fort ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0588 | Intro
Sine Die | Voting systems. Requires all voting systems to rely on the retention of paper ballots as a redundant means of verifying or auditing election results. Requires that a voting system permit a voter to examine the paper record of the voter's votes to ver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0611 | Intro
Sine Die | School safety and mental health education. Establishes the governor's student advisory council to provide to the governor information concerning education issues that are important to students in Indiana. Requires the department of education (departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0590 | Intro
Sine Die | Pregnancy and childbirth discrimination. Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a pregnant job applicant or employee. Requires an employer to provide reasonable employment accommodations for a pregnant employee. Requires the civil rights c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SCR0012 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating Julia Miller on achieving a perfect ACT score and her other academic accomplishments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0622 | 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] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0619 | Intro
Sine Die | Producer recycling of waste packaging and paper. Requires every producer of a product or material that results in waste packaging or waste printed paper to register with the department of environmental management (department) and, either singly or jo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0634 | Intro
Sine Die | Golf carts. Allows a golf cart to operate on certain state highways under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SCR0014 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Tabernacle Christian High School boys soccer team on winning the 2018 Indiana Association of Christian Schools ("IACS") state championship title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
Returned to the Senate |
| SB0597 | Intro
Sine Die | Home health care. Repeals expired law concerning the review and development of programs for home health agencies. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to increase the reimbursement rates that were in place on June 30, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0598 | Intro
Sine Die | Bail. Permits a defendant admitted to bail to select, from certain options, the manner in which the defendant will post bail. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
