| SB0043 | Engross
Sine Die | Fraud consolidation. Repeals and consolidates various fraud, deception, and mischief offenses. Defines "financial institution" for purposes of crimes involving financial institutions. Defines "item of sentimental value" and enhances the penalties for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0202 | Engross
Sine Die | Worker's compensation. Increases benefits for injuries and disablements by 2% each year for three years, beginning on July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0356 | Engross
Sine Die | Healthy food finance. Establishes the healthy food financing fund (fund) and healthy food financing program (program) under the administration of the Indiana housing and community development authority (IHCDA). Provides that the purpose of the fund i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1317 | Engross
Sine Die | Health care advance directive. Allows an individual to make a health care advance directive that gives instructions or expresses preferences or desires concerning any aspect of the individual's health care or health information and to designate a hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0192 | Engross
Sine Die | Inpatient mental health care for Medicaid children. Requires a managed care organization to allow a child Medicaid recipient who has been certified for admission to a psychiatric hospital to be provided certain services that are determined by a treat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0170 | Engross
Sine Die | Mine reclamation tax credit. Provides a tax credit for a taxpayer that enters into an agreement with the Indiana economic development corporation (corporation) for a qualified investment for development of property located on reclaimed coal mining la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0384 | Engross
Sine Die | Filling vacancies. 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 entitled ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0046 | Engross
Sine Die | Interim study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying storm water fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0266 | Engross
Sine Die | Teacher training. Requires the department of education to do the following: (1) Evaluate teacher training requirements in Indiana. (2) Prepare a report that includes recommendations for: (A) streamlining, combining, and reducing, as applicable, the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Education Committee |
| SB0244 | Engross
Sine Die | Teacher supplemental pay. Establishes additional circumstances for which a school corporation may provide supplemental payments to teachers in excess of the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan. Provides that a teacher rated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Education Committee |
| SB0214 | Engross
Sine Die | Testing of school drinking water for lead. Requires testing of the drinking water in every school building in Lake County at least once in each period of two calendar years to determine whether the drinking water exceeds the lead action level for dri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0208 | Engross
Sine Die | Compliance with coverage parity requirements. Requires an insurer that issues a policy of accident and sickness insurance or a health maintenance organization contract that provides coverage of services for treatment of a mental illness or substance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Insurance Committee |
| SB0205 | Engross
Sine Die | Medical payment coverage. Specifies that medical payment coverage is supplemental to coverage under a health plan, but does not require a health plan to provide greater benefits to an individual with medical payment coverage than an individual withou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Insurance Committee |
| HB1145 | Engross
Sine Die | Gibson and Hamilton County courts. Allows the judges of the Gibson superior court and Gibson circuit court to appoint a magistrate. Allows the appointed magistrate for Gibson County to serve both the Gibson superior court and the Gibson circuit court...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1204 | Engross
Sine Die | Education matters. Requires that the February count of a school corporation's average daily membership (ADM) must be increased by the number of students who, during the students' expected graduation year: (1) were enrolled in the school corporation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1027 | Engross
Sine Die | Township assessors. Abolishes the office of township assessor, effective January 1, 2023. Transfers the duties of the township assessor to the county assessor of the county in which the township is located. Provides that if the office of township ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| HB1119 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulation of pesticide use and application. Makes changes to the statute governing the state chemist's authority to impose civil penalties for purposes of the law concerning pesticides, pesticide use, and pesticide application. Provides that the cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| HB1076 | Engross
Sine Die | Summons to appear for a misdemeanor. Provides that in lieu of arresting a person who has allegedly committed a misdemeanor (other than a traffic misdemeanor) in a law enforcement officer's presence, the officer may issue a summons and promise to appe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0268 | Intro
Sine Die | Automated traffic control in construction zones. Authorizes the Indiana department of transportation to establish an automated traffic control system pilot program to enforce highway worksite speed limits. Provides that a worksite speed limit violati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor |
| SB0083 | Engross
Sine Die | Various property tax matters. Provides that an individual who is certified as a level one or level two assessor-appraiser, may serve as a tax representative of a taxpayer before the county property tax assessment board of appeals, if authorized by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0016 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile delinquents and firearms. Prohibits a person who has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act while armed with a firearm that would be a serious violent felony if committed by an adult (serious delinquent) from possessing a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0115 | Engross
Sine Die | Deduction for certain residential property. Provides a property tax deduction to the owner of real property, a mobile home not assessed as real property, or a manufactured home not assessed as real property if: (1) the property is occupied by relativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0369 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional transit expansion. Allows counties to impose an additional local income tax rate to fund the operations of a public transportation corporation and the operations of a rural transportation assistance program if the: (1) voters of the county a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 175: yeas 22, nays 27 |
| SB0064 | Engross
Sine Die | Indiana youth service program. Provides that the Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning at the University of Indianapolis shall develop a proposal to establish the Indiana youth service program (program) to provide high school students with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Education Committee |
| SB0068 | Engross
Sine Die | Whistleblower reports. Allows for an employee who is reporting misconduct concerning the execution of a public contract to make an oral report or a report by electronic mail. (Current law requires that such a report be in writing.) Requires that, if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0009 | Engross
Sine Die | Target shooting. Provides that a person who goes to a shooting range that is, or whose instructors and range safety officers are, certified by a nationally recognized shooting organization, and that posts and maintains signage concerning liability fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0071 | Engross
Sine Die | Adverse possession statute of limitations. Amends the statute concerning the statute of limitations for actions for the recovery of the possession of real estate to provide that such an action that: (1) involves a line located and established by a pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0008 | Engross
Sine Die | 911 dispatchers. Provides that an emergency medical dispatcher who has successfully completed certain training shall be considered an emergency responder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| SB0236 | Intro
Sine Die | THC. Establishes a defense to operating with a controlled substance in the person's body if the substance is THC and the sample was taken under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 148: yeas 19, nays 30 |
| SB0072 | Engross
Sine Die | Hyperbaric oxygen treatment pilot program. Removes the requirement that rules adopted by the state department of health, in consultation with the department of veterans' affairs, include patient health improvement as a condition for approval of payme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0101 | Engross
Sine Die | Wrongful death damages. Increases the aggregate damages cap for a wrongful death action from $300,000 to $700,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0142 | Engross
Sine Die | Medicaid reimbursement for schools. Allows the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid state plan amendment to allow school corporations to seek Medicaid reimbursement for medically necessary, school-based Medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0023 | Engross
Sine Die | Annexation. Provides, with certain exceptions, that the following apply to annexations for which an annexation ordinance is adopted after March 31, 2020: (1) A municipality initiating an annexation must file a petition with the court signed by at lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0012 | Engross
Sine Die | Resident tuition rate for active duty personnel. Makes the following changes to provisions concerning resident tuition rate eligibility for active duty armed forces personnel and dependents of active duty armed forces personnel: (1) Defines "dependen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Education Committee |
| SB0207 | Intro
Sine Die | Syringe exchange program. Repeals the expiration date of the syringe exchange program. (Under current law, the expiration date is July 1, 2021.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 144: yeas 22, nays 27 |
| SB0325 | Intro
Sine Die | Public trust ownership of Lake Michigan. Declares that, absent any authorized legislative conveyance before February 14, 2018, the state of Indiana owns all of Lake Michigan within the boundaries of Indiana in trust for the use and enjoyment of all c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
Senator Melton added as coauthor |
| HB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Subdividing land. Allows a property owner to subdivide a parcel by deed, if the parcel is being subdivided to build or expand a residential structure or home, the use is a permitted use, the deed is recorded, a plat drawing is submitted to the politi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
Representative Jackson added as coauthor |
| SB0436 | Intro
Sine Die | Authority of the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor. Grants the attorney general authority to appoint a special prosecutor to prosecute certain crimes if the county prosecuting attorney refuses as a matter of policy to prosecute those c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Senator Sandlin added as second author |
| HB1429 | Intro
Sine Die | Work sharing. Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program. Requires an employer to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce development. Establishes the work sharing benefit as equal to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0097 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance drug coverage. Prohibits a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, or a health maintenance organization from modifying an enrollee's coverage of a drug during the current plan year. Specifies prohibited modi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | The Lake Michigan shore. Provides that: (1) the natural resources commission (commission) has exclusive authority to establish standards for approval of; and (2) the department of natural resources has exclusive authority to determine whether to appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Amendment #1 (Torr) prevailed; voice vote |
| SB0353 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition on risk based managed care programs. Extends the prohibition against the inclusion of certain Medicaid recipients in: (1) risk based managed care programs; or (2) capitated managed care programs; from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2021. Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1005 | Intro
Sine Die | Health and insurance matters. Establishes the importation of prescription drugs program (program) for the importation of prescription drugs to be administered by the state department of health (state department). Requires the state department to appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Amendment #1 (Hatfield) prevailed; Roll Call 115: yeas 49, nays 44 |
| HB1293 | Intro
Sine Die | Hemp. Provides that the law that prohibits the manufacture, delivery, possession, or financing of the manufacture or delivery of smokable hemp does not apply to smokable hemp that is engaged in interstate commerce, if the smokable hemp is not intende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1418 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum age to marry. Amends the definition of "adult" for purposes of the Indiana Code to include: (1) a married minor who is at least 16 years of age; and (2) a minor who has been completely emancipated by a court; subject to specific constitutiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Representative Schaibley added as coauthor |
| HB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of building materials. Provides that a state agency or political subdivision may not adopt or enforce a law in certain instances as it relates to building products, materials, and aesthetic methods for Class 1 and Class 2 structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Representatives Clere and May added as coauthors |
| HB1013 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposal of property acquired by tax default. Requires a political subdivision to offer to sell or transfer real property acquired by tax default to an abutting landowner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Local Government Committee |
| SB0421 | Intro
Sine Die | Restrictions on copayments. Requires a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract to provide coverage without cost sharing for auto-injectable epinephrine that is prescribed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| HB1331 | Intro
Sine Die | Ticket sales. Provides that a ticket issuer shall not issue a ticket exclusively through a delivery method that substantially prevents the ticket purchaser from lawfully transferring or reselling the ticket through certain methods. Provides that a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
Representatives Morris and Moed added as coauthors |
| HB1294 | Intro
Sine Die | Pregnancy and childbirth discrimination. Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a pregnant employee. Requires an employer to provide reasonable employment accommodations for a pregnant employee. Requires the civil rights commission to inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
