| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB0433 | Intro
Sine Die | Dispensing drugs for medication assisted treatment. Amends the exception to the definition of "dispense" in the Indiana scheduled prescription electronic collection and tracking (INSPECT) program to provide that a practitioner who administers or disp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0010 | Intro
Sine Die | Public questions. Provides that, except as otherwise specifically provided by a statute, a local public question may be placed on the ballot only at the following elections: (1) A general election. (2) A municipal general election. (3) A special elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0539 | Intro
Sine Die | Session adjournment deadlines. Changes the latest day for the general assembly to adjourn sine die in the first regular session from April 29 to March 31 beginning with the 2021 session. Changes the latest day for the general assembly to adjourn sine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0466 | Intro
Sine Die | Earned income tax credit. Increases the amount of the state earned income tax credit. Requires: (1) the department of state revenue to compile a notice with information concerning the federal and state earned income tax credits; and (2) the office of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0478 | Intro
Sine Die | Precinct committeemen. Provides that in order for a precinct committeeman or a precinct vice committeeman (exercising the precinct committeeman's proxy) to participate in a caucus to fill a vacancy, the committeeman or vice committeeman must be entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0521 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic development. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation (corporation) to study and develop recommendations for economic development tools for local communities in distressed areas. Adds the city of Gary as a qualified municipality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0432 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal abuse registry. Defines "animal-related offense" and requires the Indiana criminal justice institute (institute) to establish an electronic animal abuse registry containing information relating to persons convicted of animal-related offenses. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0404 | Intro
Sine Die | Independent children. Provides that the children in need of services statutes do not apply to the parent of a child: (1) whose basic needs are met; (2) who is of a sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm; and (3) who en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0452 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Bill. None
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0439 | Intro
Sine Die | Wagering on sports. Authorizes sports wagering at riverboats, racinos, and satellite facilities. Provides for the administration and conduct of sports wagering. Imposes initial and annual licensing fees on a licensed owner, operating agent, permit ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0009 | Intro
Sine Die | Worker career enhancement tax credit. Provides a credit against state tax liability to an eligible employer of an employee who earns the federal or state minimum wage, completes a career enhancement training program, receives a wage increase followin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0378 | Intro
Sine Die | Substance use disorders. Requires an addiction treatment team and an office based opioid provider to use one of the three most effective medications as indicated by the federal Food and Drug Administration, unless contraindicated for the patient. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0504 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid managed care matters. Establishes the joint commission on Medicaid oversight with the authority to meet throughout the year. Sets forth responsibilities of the commission. Repeals a statute specifying that Medicaid laws, with respect to mana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0443 | Intro
Sine Die | Police assisted addiction and recovery initiative. Allows a local law enforcement agency to institute a police assisted addiction and recovery initiative or a similar program (program) to connect individuals suffering from a substance use disorder wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0489 | Intro
Sine Die | State board of animal health exclusive authority. Prohibits an individual or entity from inspecting grounds or facilities that are located in Indiana and used for: (1) the production of eggs; (2) the production of milk or other dairy products; (3) th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB0525 | Intro
Sine Die | Alternate diplomas. Provides that an alternate diploma must be considered as an option for a student if all other diploma options have been determined to be inappropriate for the student. Provides that, if: (1) a student is unable to receive an alter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0417 | Intro
Sine Die | Pre-apprenticeship grant program for women. Establishes the pre-apprenticeship grant program for women to provide grants to attract low income women to programs that teach basic technical and job readiness skills for an apprenticeable occupation or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-14
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
