| SB0442 | Pass | Underground storage of carbon dioxide. Declares the underground storage of carbon dioxide to be a public use and service, in the public interest, and a benefit to the welfare and people of Indiana. Authorizes the establishment of a carbon sequestrati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08 Public Law 291 |
| SB0079 | Pass | Rights of police officers. Adds provisions establishing minimum due process and personnel rights of a full-time, paid, nonprobationary member of a police department (member) who is the subject of: (1) an internal investigation; or (2) an investigatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-06 Public Law 271 |
| SB0471 | Pass | Offenses involving critical infrastructure. Repeals the term "key facility" and replaces it with "critical infrastructure facility". Defines "critical infrastructure facility". Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the prop... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-06 Public Law 276 |
| SB0235 | Pass | Expungements. Defines "collateral action" as an action that is factually or legally related to an arrest, a criminal charge, a delinquency allegation, a criminal conviction, or a delinquency adjudication. Specifies that certain information relating t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-06 Signed by the Governor |
| SB0535 | Pass | Extraterritorial powers of municipalities. Repeals the general authority of a city or town (municipality) to regulate conduct or property use endangering public health, safety, and welfare within four miles outside of its municipal boundaries and pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-06 Public Law 277 |
| SB0390 | Pass | Education matters. Provides that if: (1) a school employee files a complaint that alleges that an exclusive representative or school employer has engaged in certain unfair practices; and (2) the Indiana education employment relations board determines... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-06 Public Law 274 |
| SB0233 | Pass | Business personal property tax exemption. Provides that not later than 30 days prior to the filing date, the appropriate assessor shall provide notification to each person whose personal property is subject to assessment. Increases, from $20,000 to $... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-06 Public Law 273 |
| SB0609 | Pass | Alcohol matters. For purposes of the law regarding farm wineries, specifies that: (1) "bottle" means a standard wine container that meets the design, fill, and headspace requirements under federal law; and (2) "bulk", with regard to bulk wine purchas... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-06 Public Law 279 |
| SB0560 | Pass | Various election law matters. Makes the following changes in election law: (1) Removes provisions relating to candidates for President of the United States filing ballot placement requests with the secretary of state. (2) Provides that the election d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-06 Public Law 278 |
| SB0127 | Pass | Referendum for school safety levy. Allows a school corporation to adopt a resolution to place a referendum on the ballot to impose a school safety referendum tax levy to improve school safety.
Allows a school corporation to impose a school safety ref... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-06 Public Law 272 |
| SB0438 | Pass | Various education matters. Amends requirements to be eligible for a career specialist permit. Establishes requirements to be eligible for a workplace specialist license. (The current requirements to be eligible for a workplace specialist license are ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-06 Public Law 275 |
| SB0265 | Pass | Various trust matters. Defines "designated representative", "judicial proceeding", and "nonjudicial matter" for purposes of the trust code. Authorizes the establishment of legacy trusts. Prescribes the procedures for establishing a legacy trust and r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 221 |
| SB0392 | Pass | Medicare supplement and Medicaid study. Requires an insurer that makes a Medicare supplement policy available to an individual eligible for Medicare based on age to make at least one "Plan A" Medicare supplement policy available to an individual elig... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 227 |
| SB0228 | Pass | Department of health matters. Allows the state health commissioner to issue standing orders (current law allows for statewide standing orders) and sets forth requirements of a standing order. Removes the requirement that the state department of healt... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 218 |
| SB0333 | Pass | Body cavity searches and blood draws. Establishes a procedure authorizing licensed medical personnel to obtain a body fluid sample or to retrieve contraband from the body cavity of an individual as part of a criminal investigation, and, grants, with ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 224 |
| SB0565 | Pass | Various tax matters. Provides that the department of state revenue (department) may deny an application for a registered retail merchant's certificate in certain circumstances. Specifies the requirements necessary for a taxpayer to discontinue filing... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 234 |
| SB0373 | Pass | Academic credits for religious instruction. Provides that a public secondary school student may receive not more than two elective academic credits for released time religious instruction classes if certain conditions are met. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 226 |
| SB0171 | Pass | State and local administration. Makes the filing deadlines for property tax deductions applicable to mobile homes and manufactured homes that are not assessed as real property the same as the filing deadlines for property tax deductions applicable to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 214 |
| SB0080 | Pass | Code revision corrections. Addresses problems in the Indiana Code not suitable for resolution in the annual Technical Corrections bill, including corresponding amendment to certain percentages and overly broad or ambiguous language. Resolves technica... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 211 |
| SB0485 | Pass | Building standards. Removes language that relates to the temporary rules and regulation of sanitary conditions and sanitary facilities of Class I structures. Adds certain elevator standards to the list of national codes, or their equivalent, that the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 230 |
| SB0603 | Pass | Annexation. Provides that property added to a fire protection district (district) is considered part of the district as of the date that the district was originally established. Provides that provisions of the existing law regarding the following app... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 236 |
| SB0001 | Pass | Department of child services. Specifies that all decisions made by the department of child services (department) in specified statutes shall be made in consideration of the best interests of the child. Provides that a petition for adoption of an adul... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 210 |
| SB0258 | Pass | Sex offender employment and residence. Allows a court to prohibit, as a condition of probation, a sexually violent predator or an offender against children from having: (1) unsupervised contact; or (2) contact; with a child less than 16 years of age.... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 220 |
| SB0323 | Pass | Parenting time. Authorizes a court to require a parent to submit to drug testing as a condition of exercising parenting time rights if the court finds that: (1) the parent has a history of unlawful drug use within the previous five years; or (2) ther... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 223 |
| SB0359 | Pass | Individualized mental health safety plans. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to establish a standard format for individualized mental health safety plans. Requires psychiatric crisis centers, psychiatric inpatient units, and psychi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 225 |
| SB0518 | Pass | Probate matters. Repeals the probate study subcommittee. Creates the probate code study commission. Allows a person to contest two or more wills if there is prima facie evidence that: (1) the decedent suffered from an irreversible medical or psychiat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 231 |
| SB0472 | Pass | Utility matters. Provides that an order affecting rates of service may be entered by the utility regulatory commission (IURC) without a formal public hearing in the case of any public or municipally owned utility that either: (1) serves less than 8,0... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 229 |
| SB0562 | Pass | Education matters. Requires each teacher preparation program to report the following to the department of education (department): (1) The number of teacher candidates in each content area who complete the teacher education program during the year, di... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 233 |
| SB0546 | Pass | Interim study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on education the topic of studying: (1) the feasibility of integrating the membership of and merging the responsibilities of the Indiana state board of ed... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 232 |
| SB0141 | Pass | Office based opioid treatment providers. Specifies requirements that a health care provider that prescribes for a patient in an office based opioid treatment setting must meet in the treatment of the patient. Requires the medical licensing board of I... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 213 |
| SB0174 | Pass | Fertility fraud and deception. Establishes a cause of action for civil fertility fraud and provides that a prevailing plaintiff may be awarded: (1) compensatory and punitive damages; or (2) liquidated damages of $10,000. Specifies the statute of limi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 215 |
| SB0197 | Pass | Copies of identifying adoption information. Provides that a person releasing identifying adoption information must, upon request by the individual requesting the identifying information, provide copies of the identifying information to the individual... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 217 |
| SB0179 | Pass | Alcohol regulation. Amends the definition of "entertainment" for purposes of alcohol regulation to include meals, beverages, and ground transportation provided in connection with entertainment. Amends the definition of "entertainment complex" to appl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 216 |
| SB0094 | Pass | Interim study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign the topic of municipal annexation to the appropriate interim study committee during the 2019 interim. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 212 |
| SB0459 | Pass | Indiana defense task force. Repeals the military base planning council and reenacts it as the Indiana defense task force (task force). Makes changes to the membership of the task force. Repeals the requirement that the Indiana office of defense devel... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 228 |
| SB0607 | Pass | Workforce diploma reimbursement program. Provides that the governor's workforce cabinet (cabinet), in coordination with the department of workforce development (department), shall administer the program. Provides that the purpose of the fund is to pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 237 |
| SB0566 | Pass | Residential tax increment financing. Permits a redevelopment commission to establish a program for residential housing development and a tax increment funding allocation area for the program if the average of new, residential houses constructed in th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 235 |
| SB0276 | Pass | Opioid treatment pilot program. Extends the opioid treatment pilot program until 2022. (Under current law the pilot program will expire in 2020.) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-05 Public Law 222 |
| SB0110 | Pass | Drug dealing. Adds an item to the existing list of enhancing circumstances for offenses relating to controlled substances. Provides that an enhancing circumstance means that the person knowingly committed the offense in, on, or within 100 feet of a d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 182 |
| SB0460 | Pass | Broadband development. Establishes the rural broadband fund for the purpose of awarding grants: (1) before August 1, 2019, under the existing statute governing grants for qualified broadband projects for unserved areas in Indiana; and (2) after July ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 189 |
| SB0604 | Pass | Voiding and releasing claims in land interests. Adds a provision to the statute concerning marketable title for real property to provide that, after a person has filed a claim for an interest in land, the claim is void if: (1) the owner of the proper... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 196 |
| SB0119 | Pass | Machine guns. Defines "machine gun". Provides that a person may not sell, give, or in any other manner transfer ownership or possession of a machine gun to any person under 18 years of age. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally sells,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 183 |
| SB0516 | Pass | Regulation of hemp. Establishes the Indiana hemp advisory committee (committee) to provide advice to the office of the state seed commissioner (commissioner) regarding Indiana's hemp laws. Sunsets the committee on July 1, 2021. Prohibits the commissi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 190 |
| SB0365 | Pass | Funding for child welfare programming. Provides that the department of child services (department) may collaborate with other entities to implement or participate in programs designed to connect the department and local offices with supportive local ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 187 |
| SB0554 | Pass | Economic development. Provides that the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) may renew an enterprise zone that is established in an inactive or closed military base (enterprise zone) for not more than 10 years subject to certain criteria. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 194 |
| SB0529 | Pass | Agricultural matters. Provides that a county, city, town, or township may not adopt or continue in effect any ordinance, rule, regulation, or resolution prohibiting the establishment or maintenance of beekeeping on property that the person owns, rent... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 193 |
| SB0393 | Pass | Charity gaming. Allows the Indiana gaming commission (commission) to issue annual casino night licenses to certain bona fide civic organizations. Limits the number of bona fide civic organizations that may hold an annual casino night license to one i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 188 |
| SB0582 | Pass | Claims concerning user fees. Defines the term "user fee" as a fee, rate, or charge imposed by a political subdivision: (1) that represents a just, reasonable, and proportionate approximation of the use or privilege for use of a service, the benefit c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 195 |
| SB0243 | Pass | Nonconsensual pornography. Defines "intimate image" and provides that a person who: (1) knows that an individual does not consent to the distribution of an intimate image of the individual; and (2) distributes the intimate image on the Internet; comm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 185 |
| SB0527 | Pass | Licensed professionals and child service agencies. Provides for the behavioral health and human services licensing board to issue a temporary permit to practice bachelor's degree social work to an individual who meets the educational requirements for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02 Public Law 192 |