| SB0354 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental health education and screenings. Requires a school corporation's health education curriculum to include mental health wellness education. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation may provide mental health screenings to students...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1193 | 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] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1287 | Intro
Sine Die | Seat belts on school buses. Provides that a school bus or special purpose bus that is placed into operation after June 30, 2020, and that is used to transport elementary school or high school students must be equipped with a 3-point lap and shoulder ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| SB0369 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy drinks. Provides that a person may not sell, give, or distribute an energy drink to an individual who is less than 18 years of age. Establishes a penalty for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0353 | Intro
Sine Die | Bump stock prohibition. Defines the term "multiburst trigger activator". Creates the crime of "unlawful possession of a multiburst trigger activator". Provides that the possession or sale of a multiburst trigger activator is a Class A misdemeanor. Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1265 | Intro
Sine Die | Study of low head dams and riparian rights. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying: (1) low head dams; and (2) riparian rights; during the 2019 interim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1218 | Intro
Sine Die | Health workforce student loan repayment program. Establishes the following: (1) The health workforce student loan repayment program (program). (2) The health workforce student loan repayment program commission (commission). (3) The health workforce s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0372 | Intro
Sine Die | Grandparent visitation rights. Provides that a grandparent's right to seek visitation with a grandchild survives the grandchild's adoption by certain family members. (Current law requires a grandparent to file a petition to establish visitation right...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0252 | Intro
Sine Die | State university and foundation information. Requires each state educational institution to prepare a report annually that includes certain graduation and student debt information. Provides that, before July 1, 2020, and before July 1 of each year th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1274 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher licensure. Requires the department of education to grant an initial practitioner license to an individual who: (1) holds at least a bachelor's degree or the equivalent from a postsecondary educational institution; (2) submits fingerprints and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB1244 | Intro
Sine Die | Workforce diploma reimbursement program. Establishes the: (1) workforce diploma reimbursement program (program); and (2) workforce diploma reimbursement program fund (fund). Provides that the governor's workforce cabinet (cabinet), in coordination wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1263 | Intro
Sine Die | Workforce housing development. Establishes the workforce housing development revolving loan fund (fund) to provide funding for loans to counties, cities, or towns for workforce housing development projects. Appropriates $1,000,000 to the fund for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0360 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the attorney general. Specifies that the attorney general may conduct an independent investigation concerning human trafficking. Defines "multiple county offense" and authorizes the attorney general to: (1) access and maintain certain infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1293 | Intro
Sine Die | Tanning facilities. Exempts from tanning facility regulation medical phototherapy treatment that meets certain requirements. Prohibits an individual less than 18 years of age from using a tanning device in a tanning facility. Requires the operator or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1178 | Intro
Sine Die | Township cemetery ownership and maintenance. Transfers from townships to counties the current provisions concerning cemetery establishment, ownership, and maintenance. Requires townships to transfer to the county in which the township is located ceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0364 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer students. Allows the governing body of a school corporation to implement a policy to require and collect a transfer fee from the parents of a student or a student if: (1) the student does not have legal settlement in the school corporation; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0368 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for education donations. Provides for an adjusted gross income tax credit for donations to a public school foundation or school corporation. Provides that the maximum individual taxpayer credit is $1,000 in the case of a single return and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1229 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical residency programs. Requires that the medical education board and the graduate medical education board study the medical residency programs in northwest Indiana and prepare a report that provides recommendations to increase the number of medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1206 | Intro
Sine Die | Wage study. Urges the legislative council to commission Ball State University to conduct a study to be submitted to the legislative council concerning the effects of the enactment of the Indiana right to work law in 2012 on overall wages in tradition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1261 | Intro
Sine Die | Septic inspections before transfer of property. Provides that if a dwelling is connected to a residential onsite sewage system: (1) the residential onsite sewage system must be inspected by a qualified inspector; and (2) if the dwelling is also conne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1194 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credits. 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 state tax liability if: ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Same day registration; close of the polls. Provides that the polls close at 8 p.m. (Under current law, the polls must close at 6 p.m.) Permits a voter to register at the polls by completing a voter registration form and an affirmation that the person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1273 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit for the elderly. Increases the Indiana income tax unified tax credit for the elderly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0371 | Intro
Sine Die | Presumption of worker status. Establishes a presumption that a worker performing work at a licensed premises is an independent contractor if certain conditions are met. Provides that the presumption applies for purposes of construing statutes concern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| HB1203 | Intro
Sine Die | Bias motivated crimes. Establishes a sentencing procedure that requires a court, when sentencing an individual who has committed a crime that is motivated by a bias against another individual's actual or perceived age, ancestry, color, creed, disabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0366 | Intro
Sine Die | Interim committee on township consolidation. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying the reduction of township government where economic efficiencies can be obtained. Requires the county ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax matters. Provides refundable credits against the individual income tax in the following amounts: (1) $200 for individuals filing a single return. (2) $400 for married couples filing joint returns. Provides that the credits apply to taxable years ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1233 | Intro
Sine Die | Legislative sessions. Changes the legislative session cycle beginning in 2021 to require: (1) the first regular session of the general assembly to reconvene in May after organization day and to adjourn sine die not later than September 1; and (2) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1230 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal of statutes preempting local action. Repeals statutes that prohibit a unit of local government from doing the following: (1) Mandating employee benefits, scheduling, or leave policy that exceed federal or state requirements. (2) Regulating fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1215 | Intro
Sine Die | Small school grants. Reestablishes a small school grant for school corporations having a current ADM (average daily membership) of less than 2,400. Appropriates from the state general fund an amount sufficient to make the grants for the 2019-2021 bie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1291 | Intro
Sine Die | Background check for firearms sales. Requires a person wishing to: (1) sell; (2) trade; or (3) transfer; a firearm to conduct the transaction through a licensed Indiana firearms dealer. Requires a licensed Indiana firearms dealer to perform a NICS ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1254 | Intro
Sine Die | Education matters. Provides that the following statutes are repealed and rules are voided: (1) Any statute or rule established to meet the requirements of federal law for the purpose of obtaining federal funds for kindergarten through grade 12 educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB1247 | Intro
Sine Die | Reporting of child abuse or neglect information. Provides that a child's school principal or teacher may access confidential records and other material related to a report or investigation of child abuse or neglect concerning the child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| HB1283 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana. Decriminalizes the possession of: (1) 30 grams or less of marijuana; or (2) five grams or less of hash oil or hashish; by making the violation a Class D infraction. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally possesses an instrum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1276 | Intro
Sine Die | Placement priority for foster parents. Provides that if a child in need of services is: (1) returned from an out-of-home placement to an in-home placement; and (2) subsequently removed from the in-home placement; the court and the department of child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| HB1228 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription drug importation study. Requires the state department of health to conduct a study and report to the legislative council concerning a state prescription drug importation program through which the state would import certain prescription d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Public Health Committee |
| HCR0004 | Pass | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to convene a Joint Session of the One Hundred Twenty-First General Assembly of the State of Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
Returned to the House |
| HB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | Right to work. Repeals the chapter prohibiting an employer from requiring: (1) labor organization membership; (2) payment of dues or fees to a labor organization; or (3) payment to a charity or other third party an amount equivalent to fees required ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0395 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair pay in employment. Provides that it is an unlawful employment practice to: (1) pay wages that discriminate on the basis of sex for substantially similar work; (2) provide less favorable employment opportunities to an employee on the basis of sex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SR0011 | Pass | A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Michael Bertram for his accomplishments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| SB0361 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric bicycles. Defines the term "electric bicycle" as a bicycle equipped with: (1) operable pedals; and (2) an electric motor with a power output not greater than 750 watts. Provides that an electric bicycle is not a motor vehicle. Provides that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| HB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | School start times. Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, prohibits public schools and accredited nonpublic schools from doing the following: (1) Beginning a student instructional day before 8 a.m. (2) Beginning a student instructional day for st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB1267 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for employing guard and reserve members. Provides a tax credit against state tax liability each taxable year to an employer that employs a member of the National Guard or a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States who is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1162 | Intro
Sine Die | Cursive writing. Requires each school corporation, elementary charter school, and accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB0340 | Intro
Sine Die | Moratorium on privately operated facilities. Prohibits the department of correction from contracting with a private organization for the incarceration of committed persons or immigration detainees in a facility owned by the private organization, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0341 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter schools in Gary. Prohibits, beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2024, an authorizer from granting to an organizer a charter to operate a charter school that is or will be located in the city of Gary unless the Gary Community School Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0347 | Intro
Sine Die | Implicit bias training. Requires members of the general assembly to complete not less than one hour of implicit bias training. Specifies that the training must be comparable to the implicit bias training provided to law enforcement officers employed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HCR0002 | Intro
Sine Die | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging INDOT to honor Deputy David Morgan of the Madison County Sheriff's Department by renaming a portion of State Road 37 the Deputy David Morgan Memorial Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Healthy Indiana plan. Removes the requirement from the healthy Indiana plan (HIP) that if an individual who has an annual income of more than 100% of the federal poverty income level has not made payment to HIP within 60 days, the individual shall be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1164 | Intro
Sine Die | Surrender of firearms for domestic violence crimes. Provides that a person who: (1) has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence; and (2) knowingly or intentionally possesses a firearm; commits possession of a firearm by a domestic batterer, a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
