| SB0534 | Intro
Sine Die | Children in need of services. Requires a court to: (1) provide that a foster parent or other caretaker with whom the child has been placed for temporary care has standing; and (2) allow a foster parent or other caretaker with whom the child has been ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0413 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration. Requires a county voter registration office (office) to send an address confirmation notice to the Indiana address of a voter whenever the office determines that an individual identified in a report of potentially duplicate voter ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0511 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving cards. Provides for the issuance of driving cards and driving card learner's permits (cards) to residents of Indiana who cannot provide proof of identity and lawful status in the United States. Provides that cards may not be used for federal ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0387 | Intro
Sine Die | Unsafe building hearing notifications. Clarifies the procedure for notice by publication under the unsafe building law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0520 | Intro
Sine Die | College grant pilot program. Establishes the higher education grant pilot program (pilot program) for the purpose of defraying the cost of attending Indiana state postsecondary institutions. Provides that the commission for higher education (commissi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0576 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of certain professions and occupations. Eliminates the professional licensing agency (PLA). Establishes the health professions licensing agency (HPLA) within the state department of health to license health professions. Requires the state ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0537 | Intro
Sine Die | Various alcoholic beverage provisions. Allows the following to sell alcoholic beverages for carryout on Sunday from 7 a.m. until 3 a.m. the following day: (1) A package liquor store, grocery store, convenience store, or drug store. (2) A restaurant t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0431 | Intro
Sine Die | Child placement. Provides that the best interests of the child must be considered in determining placement of an alleged child in need of services who has been taken into custody. Provides that a court shall grant a petition to request intervention a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0544 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial aid for military reservists. Provides that a student may apply to participate in the twenty-first century scholars program before or during enrollment in grade 12 without meeting family income requirements if the student agrees to enlist in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0408 | Intro
Sine Die | Childhood obesity report. Requires the state department of health (state department) and the department of education to: (1) before August 1, 2019, provide specified information concerning childhood obesity to the management performance hub; and (2) ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SR0012 | Intro
Sine Die | A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of occupational regulations covering addiction counselors, community health workers, and telemedicine providers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0493 | Intro
Sine Die | Employer firearms policies. Provides that a person who: (1) discovers, as a result of an illegal entry into a motor vehicle owned or possessed by the person, that a firearm legally owned or possessed by the person was stolen from the motor vehicle; a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0397 | Intro
Sine Die | Lead poisoning. Requires the Indiana state department of health (state department) to take action to reduce lead poisoning. (Under current law, the state department may take action to reduce lead poisoning.) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0585 | Intro
Sine Die | Continuous prescription drug coverage. Prohibits state employee health plans, Medicaid programs, accident and sickness insurers, and health maintenance organizations from changing coverage of a prescribed drug during the continuous enrollment of a co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0462 | Intro
Sine Die | Funding of NAS pilot project. Extends the expiration date of the maternal neonatal opioid addiction project to January 1, 2022. Makes an appropriation from the state general fund to the project. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0006 | Intro
Sine Die | Dropout recovery programs. Provides that a school corporation is eligible to receive a dropout prevention grant if the school corporation establishes a dropout prevention program. Establishes requirements for school corporation dropout prevention pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0499 | Intro
Sine Die | Feed-in tariff for renewable energy facilities. Requires the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to adopt rules to establish an electric utility feed-in tariff (FIT) program. Provides that the rules adopted must do the following: (1) Require all jur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0415 | Intro
Sine Die | Essential off-patent or generic drugs. Prohibits a manufacturer or a wholesale distributor from engaging in price gouging in the sale of an essential off-patent or generic drug. Provides that the office of the secretary of family and social services ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0468 | Intro
Sine Die | Universal background checks for firearms. Requires a person wishing to sell, trade, or transfer a firearm to another person to transact the sale, trade, or transfer through a firearms dealer (dealer). Specifies certain exemptions. Requires a dealer t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0577 | Intro
Sine Die | Addiction counselors. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying the need to have additional addiction counselors in Indiana by allowing certain qualified individuals to be able to practice ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0536 | Intro
Sine Die | Incentives for attracting and hiring veterans. Establishes the regional veterans hiring initiative fund (fund). Provides that the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) shall administer the fund. Allows the IEDC to enter into a regional vete... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0465 | Intro
Sine Die | Law enforcement training. Requires law enforcement officers to receive training in identifying, responding to, and reporting bias motivated crimes in which the person who committed a criminal offense selected the victim who was injured or whose prope... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0379 | Intro
Sine Die | Maximum age for foster youth after care services. Provides that an individual who receives foster care until the individual is 18 years of age is eligible to receive collaborative care services until the individual is 21 years of age (rather than 20 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0538 | Intro
Sine Die | Postsecondary education awards. Provides that, if an individual: (1) is awarded a state funded scholarship, grant, stipend, or tuition and fee remission; and (2) uses the award to attain a baccalaureate degree or its equivalent; the individual may no... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0454 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0481 | Intro
Sine Die | Micro wine wholesaler's permits. Provides that the holder of a farm winery permit may also hold a micro wine wholesaler's permit without complying with the requirements for holding a beer wholesaler's permit or liquor wholesaler's permit. Moves provi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0463 | Intro
Sine Die | Bicycle, skateboard, skate, and scooter helmet requirement. Requires a person who is less than 18 years of age to wear a protective helmet when operating or riding on a bicycle, a skateboard, roller skates, inline skates, or a scooter while on public... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0470 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid direct primary care services pilot program. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for a Medicaid waiver or Medicaid state plan amendm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0541 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious exemption from worker's compensation. Provides for an exemption from worker's compensation and occupational diseases coverage for a member of certain religious sects or a division of a religious sect who meets certain requirements and obtai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0382 | Intro
Sine Die | Stored value card fraud. Defines the term "stored value card". Provides that a person who, with intent to defraud, obtains property by using a stored value card, knowing that the stored value card: (1) was unlawfully obtained or retained; or (2) is f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0555 | Intro
Sine Die | Hyperbaric oxygen therapy pilot programs. Eliminates the requirement that a veteran pay a 10% co-pay for treatment received under the hyperbaric oxygen treatment pilot program. Eliminates the requirement that treatment plans for a veteran specify the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0482 | Intro
Sine Die | Small breweries. Allows a small brewer to have three additional locations where the brewer may conduct any business that is authorized at the brewery, except for the manufacturing of beer. Provides that if a minor is accompanied by a parent, legal gu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0447 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0528 | Intro
Sine Die | Study of the Holocaust. Requires a school corporation to include a study of the Holocaust in the social studies curriculum for students in grade 6 through grade 8. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0550 | Intro
Sine Die | 529 college savings contribution tax credit. Eliminates the requirement that a taxpayer designate whether a contribution to a college choice 529 education savings plan will be used: (1) for qualified higher education expenses that are not qualified K... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0503 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid rehabilitation option reimbursement. Requires the office of the secretary to reimburse any Medicaid provider that meets specified requirements for the provision of Medicaid rehabilitation option services to an eligible Medicaid recipient. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0396 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax exemption for military pay. Exempts military pay earned by members of an active component of the armed forces of the United States from the individual income tax. (Current law exempts from the individual income tax the military pay earned ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0580 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensed professional geologists. Adds and amends definitions concerning the licensure and practice of geologists. Allows the board of licensure for professional geologists (board) to elect a secretary who is not a member of the board. Requires the b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0455 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0005 | Intro
Sine Die | Military family matters. Allows for a student to have legal settlement in a school corporation if the student's parent is transferred to or is pending transfer to a military installation in Indiana while on active duty. Requires a school corporation ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0384 | Intro
Sine Die | Occupational licensing. Provides that the small business ombudsman (ombudsman) shall review a proposed rule that is an occupational regulation and imposes requirements or costs on persons subject to the occupational regulation. Requires the attorney ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SR0010 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION urging Governor Holcomb to recognize March as Amyloidosis Awareness Month. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 First reading: adopted voice vote |
| SB0578 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for bridge toll expenses. Provides a state tax credit to qualified businesses that pay tolls to cross certain Ohio River bridges. Provides that a qualified business is a business entity that: (1) is authorized to transact business in India... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0510 | Intro
Sine Die | EMS personnel licensure interstate compact. Implements the emergency medical services personnel licensure interstate compact. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0461 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadband development funding. Provides that a state agency that awards a grant to a broadband service provider for purposes of extending broadband service to unserved areas must follow procedures established and guidelines adopted by the office of c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0168 | Intro
Sine Die | Display of child abuse and neglect hotline poster. Requires each public school, including each charter school, to post a sign that contains the toll-free telephone number for the child abuse and neglect hotline established by the department of child ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0446 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0494 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxing area for fire protection services. Authorizes the River Ridge Development Authority (authority) to create a taxing area within the boundaries of the authority to capture incremental sales tax and income tax to be transferred to the River Ridge... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0419 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax exemption for veterans. For taxable years beginning after 2018, phases out the limitation on the deduction from an individual's adjusted gross income for income from retirement or survivor's benefits received by the individual, or the indi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0557 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax deductions for veterans. Provides that a veteran who is classified as individually unemployable is entitled to a property tax deduction. Removes the limit on the gross assessed value of property eligible for the property tax deduction fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14 To Senate Appropriations Committee |