| SB0371 | Intro
Sine Die | Local regulation of packaging preemption repeal. Repeals a provision in the home rule statute that prohibits a unit of local government from: (1) regulating: (A) certain activities with respect to reusable or disposable auxiliary containers designed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0323 | Intro
Sine Die | Education studies. Removes the topic of high ability students (including high ability curriculum) from the list of statutes that the legislative council is urged to assign to a study committee during the 2021 legislative interim. Removes an expired p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Road funding. Provides that the amounts currently distributed from the motor vehicle highway account and the local road and street account to counties, cities, and towns based upon the proportionate share of road and street mileage shall instead be d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1033 | Intro
Sine Die | Railroad crossings. Requires a railroad corporation to inform the local law enforcement authority of a blocked railroad-highway grade crossing in certain instances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| HB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Marion County housing trust fund. Requires the Marion County treasurer to deposit the amount of revenue received as a result of $0.01 of the certified tax rate for the county general fund for the prior year to the county housing trust fund not later ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0326 | Intro
Sine Die | Civics test passage rate report. Beginning in 2022, requires that the department of education (department) annually report to the general assembly the number of students who pass the naturalization exam by at least 60% on their first attempt. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1223 | Intro
Sine Die | Local 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, but only if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| HB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Public safety officer benefits. Increases, from $150,000 to $225,000, the special death benefit for certain public safety officers and members of the 1925 police pension fund, the 1937 firefighters' pension fund, the 1953 police pension fund, or the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1258 | Intro
Sine Die | Green alert for at-risk veterans. Defines "veteran at risk". Creates the green alert program. Changes the name of the Indiana clearinghouse for information on missing children and missing endangered adults to the Indiana clearinghouse for information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee |
| HB1253 | Intro
Sine Die | Violations of wildlife protection laws. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a person to knowingly or intentionally take a wild bird or wild mammal that is on the endangered species list. Requires a court to notify the director of the division of fish and w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0218 | Intro
Sine Die | Chicken hens. Provides that a chicken hen is considered a pet when determining the types and number of animals allowed as pets under the governing documents of a homeowners association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB0378 | 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] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0361 | Intro
Sine Die | Municipal electric utilities. Provides that a contract for the procurement of electricity or purchased power capacity that is entered into after June 30, 2020, by a municipally owned electric utility must, to the extent practicable, be the result of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0318 | Intro
Sine Die | Computer science curriculum reporting. Requires the department of education (department) to prepare, submit, and present an annual report to the state board of education, general assembly, and commission for higher education regarding certain compute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0374 | Intro
Sine Die | E-liquid and electronic cigarette crimes. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally sells an e-liquid or an electronic cigarette that contains: (1) a concentration of nicotine that is more than 20 milligrams per milliliter; or (2) contain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0404 | Intro
Sine Die | Clark County circuit court. Establishes the Clark circuit courts No. 5 and No. 6, beginning January 1, 2025. Provides for the election of the judges of each of these circuit courts at the November 2024 general election. Establishes the Clark superior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Children in need of services. Allows a foster parent, long-term foster parent, relative of a child, or defacto custodian to file a petition to terminate the parent-child relationship in a termination of parental rights or child in need of services pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0347 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug testing of recipients of assistance. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to administer a drug testing program (program) for individuals who are receiving TANF assistance or receiving TANF assistance on beh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| HB1208 | Intro
Sine Die | Elimination of lower speed limit for trucks. Provides that the maximum speed limit for a vehicle having a declared gross weight greater than 26,000 pounds operated on a highway that is: (1) on the national system of interstate and defense highways lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0313 | Intro
Sine Die | Eligibility for public programs. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to disregard for six months the income of a recipient of the following programs: (1) Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). (2) Temporary Assistance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0393 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious exemption from worker's compensation. Provides 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 obtains a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| HB1247 | Intro
Sine Die | Business residency requirements. Repeals and amends various provisions under current law that restrict or prohibit certain business activities based on Indiana residency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Public Policy Committee |
| HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Parents with a disability. Specifies that it is the policy of the state to recognize the importance of family and children, including the parenting rights of a parent, regardless of whether the parent has a disability. Provides that the right of a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee |
| SB0362 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal of youth offender boot camp program. Repeals the boot camp for youthful offenders article.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0372 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxes for public safety in allocation areas. Provides that property tax proceeds in a tax increment financing allocation area established after April 30, 2020, that are attributable to the portion of the assessed value that represents the percentage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1216 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabis regulation. Establishes a medical marijuana program (program), and permits caregivers and patients who have received a physician recommendation to possess a certain quantity of marijuana for treatment of certain medical conditions. Establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0349 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadband grant program. Amends the statutory priorities for the funding of projects from the rural broadband fund to provide that the office of community and rural affairs (office) shall establish as a priority the funding of projects to extend the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| HB1183 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental health diagnosis. Provides a definition of "mental health diagnosis" that is applicable to licensed clinical addiction counselors, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors. Provides that if a clinic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0332 | Intro
Sine Die | Education matters. Makes changes to the professional growth experience points requirements for a person renewing a practitioner license or accomplished practitioner license. Establishes a committee to study school accountability, school assessments, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0352 | Intro
Sine Die | Age for compulsory school attendance. Provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1237 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid reimbursement for schools. Specifies services for which a school corporation may seek Medicaid reimbursement. Adds physical therapy to the list of services to which a school psychologist may refer a student. Allows school psychologists to ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1254 | Intro
Sine Die | Flood control improvement district projects. Provides that, in the period beginning March 1, 2020, and ending March 1, 2022: (1) money in the fund of a flood control improvement district (district) established after December 31, 2019, may be used for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0377 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary exception to residency requirements. Provides that a student meets the residency requirements for enrollment at a public school if the parent of the student: (1) is transferred to or is pending transfer to a military installation within Ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0373 | Intro
Sine Die | Vaping and tobacco. Prohibits a person who is less than 21 years of age from buying or possessing: (1) cigarettes; (2) tobacco products; (3) e-liquid; or (4) electronic cigarettes. Makes conforming changes regarding enforcement provisions, sales cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0360 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking. Provides that if a petition alleges that a child is a child in need of services as a victim of human or sexual trafficking, the juvenile court shall make a determination on the petition. Requires that before or at the initial heari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1214 | Intro
Sine Die | Assistance for the payment of property tax refunds. Authorizes loans from the state rainy day fund to eligible cities and school corporations in Lake County whose revenues are affected by at least $1,000,000 by an Indiana court judgment issued after ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SJR0011 | Intro
Sine Die | This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0251 | Intro
Sine Die | Standby guardians. Provides that a parent or guardian may designate a standby guardian if the parent or guardian is subject to an adverse immigration action. Requires that the office of judicial administration: (1) create standardized forms for decla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1144 | Intro
Sine Die | Hold harmless payments. Provides that a hold harmless agreement or an agreement to offset a financial loss between a casino, riverboat, or unit of government and another unit of government concerning potential losses of revenue by the other unit of g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0234 | Intro
Sine Die | High school equivalency pilot program. Establishes the high school equivalency pilot program (program) for Richmond Community Schools, MSD Washington Township Schools, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation, and MSD Warren Township Schools. Allows...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0248 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual inspections of CAFOs. Requires the department of environmental management, at least once per year, to conduct an onsite inspection of every concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), which, under federal regulations, is: (1) a large CAFO, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0240 | Intro
Sine Die | Cybersecurity requirements for insurers. Requires an insurer to: (1) develop, maintain, and update an information security program for the purpose of protecting consumers' nonpublic information; (2) conduct a risk assessment of its information system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0300 | Intro
Sine Die | Conscience protection for mental health providers. Provides that a behavioral health or human services professional (professional) may be not required to: (1) perform; (2) participate in; or (3) provide; a service that violates any sincerely held eth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0077 | Intro
Sine Die | Gibson County magistrate. Allows the judge of the Gibson superior court to appoint a magistrate to serve the Gibson superior court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
Withdrawn |
| SB0253 | Intro
Sine Die | Principal dwelling land contracts. Defines "principal dwelling land contract" (contract) as a land contract for the sale of real property: (1) designed for the occupancy of one to two families; and (2) that is or will be occupied by the buyer as the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0278 | Intro
Sine Die | Representation of the indigent at initial hearing. Provides that an indigent defendant has the right to consult with and be represented by counsel at the initial hearing. Provides that prior to conducting the initial hearing, if the judicial officer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0271 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle weight. Adds masonry products to the list of commodities hauled that are within the definition of "overweight divisible load" and that, after complying with all applicable requirements, including weight restrictions imposed by the Indiana dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0048 | Intro
Sine Die | Cruelty to a law enforcement animal. Increases the penalties for cruelty to a law enforcement animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SR0005 | Intro
Sine Die | A SENATE RESOLUTION urging Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill to withdraw Indiana from a lawsuit which is attempting to nullify the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and end federal funding for the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) 2.0.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0247 | Intro
Sine Die | Distributions of public safety income tax revenue. Provides that, subject to the approval of a county adopting body, a fire protection district or a qualified fire protection territory may apply for distributions of public safety local income tax rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
