| HCR0018 | Engross | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to rename a portion of State Road 930 in honor of service members who fought and served during Operation Enduring Freedom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Second reading: adopted standing vote |
| SB0241 | Engross | Pharmacy benefit managers. Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to obtain a license from the department of insurance. Establishes requirements for pharmacy benefit managers. Provides for the insurance commissioner to adopt rules establishing licensure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1043 | Engross | Firefighters and police officers. Provides that a political subdivision served by a volunteer fire department may make contributions to the public employees' defined contribution plan for the members of the volunteer fire department in an amount dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor |
| SB0194 | Engross | Drug scheduling. Adds new scheduled drugs (including emergency scheduled drugs) to the statutory drug schedules. Defines "isomer". Defines "narcotic" to include opium esters, ethers, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers. Makes other changes and c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 218: yeas 90, nays 0 |
| HB1244 | Engross | Unemployment hearings and appeals. Provides that, in unemployment appeals, the proceedings before an administrative law judge are de novo. Provides that an administrative law judge, review board member, or other individual who adjudicates claims can ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0178 | Engross | Various election matters. Requires the election division instead of the Indiana election commission to prescribe a uniform generic seal for use on certain ballots when the circuit court clerk is a candidate on the ballot. Requires certification by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0078 | Engross | Shovel ready site development center. Defines "office" as the office of community and rural affairs for purposes of the law governing the shovel ready site development center (center). Provides that the office shall, in cooperation with the Indiana e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| HB1108 | Engross | State board of accounts. Makes various changes to statutes concerning the state board of accounts (board). Adds a definition of a "responsible officer of an audited entity". Allows the audit committee to determine the amount of the bond for the state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Amendment #4 (Stoops) failed; voice vote |
| SB0346 | Engross | Students with disabilities. Provides that the department of education (department) must submit any guidance or recommendation to a school corporation or school that attempts to affect in any manner based on statewide assessment accommodations which i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Amendment #1 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote |
| HB1176 | Engross | First steps program. Provides that: (1) a health benefits plan; or (2) an employee health plan; may not require authorization for services specified in a covered individual's individualized family service plan once the individualized family service p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Senator Stoops added as cosponsor |
| SB0021 | Engross | Out-of-state prescriptions. Provides that a pharmacist has a duty to honor all prescriptions issued by: (1) an advanced practice registered nurse; or (2) a physician assistant; licensed under the laws of another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HCR0043 | Engross | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing and honoring volunteer firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
First reading: adopted voice vote |
| HB1063 | Engross | Public safety officer death benefits. Increases, from $150,000 to $225,000, the special death benefit for certain public safety officers, certain motor carrier inspectors, certain special police employees, members of the 1925 police pension fund, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor |
| SB0367 | Engross | Natural resources; regional development authorities. Provides that if: (1) an abode or residence was constructed before January 1, 2020; (2) the owner has taken necessary measures to elevate the lowest floor at least two feet above the 100 year flood...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0179 | Engross | Election cybersecurity. Requires counties to enter into an agreement with the secretary of state to use a threat intelligence and enterprise security company designated by the secretary of state for specified security purposes. Provides that this req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Amendment #1 (Hamilton) failed; Roll Call 225: yeas 29, nays 63 |
| HB1131 | Engross | Utility matters. Provides, for purposes of a statute that subjects a water or wastewater utility organized after June 30, 2018, to the jurisdiction of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) with regard to certain aspects of the water or was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Senator Doriot added as second sponsor |
| HB1002 | Engross | Teacher evaluations. Removes the requirement that a school corporation's annual performance evaluation plan must be based, in part, on objective measures of student achievement. Authorizes the state board of education to adopt emergency rules. Makes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| SB0005 | Engross | Health provider contracts. Requires hospitals, ambulatory surgical outpatient centers, and urgent care facilities to post certain health care services pricing information on their Internet web sites and sets forth requirements. Requires an insurance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0184 | Engross | Nonprofit agricultural organization coverage. Authorizes a nonprofit agricultural organization to provide health benefit coverage that is: (1) sponsored by the nonprofit agricultural organization or its affiliate; (2) offered only to members of the n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0177 | Engross | Administration of the broadband ready program. Provides that the office of community and rural affairs, rather than the Indiana economic development corporation, administers the broadband ready communities development center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Representative Soliday added as cosponsor |
| HB1157 | Engross | Driving privileges. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles to remove any record of a suspension from a defendant charged with operating while intoxicated if the case ends in favor of the defendant and the defendant's driving privileges were suspended ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0132 | Engross | Department of homeland security. Renames the "safety first" license plate as the "first responder" license plate. Provides that the department of homeland security may require a person to submit information, a document, or an application electronical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| SB0230 | Engross | Leasing of local unit property. Provides that a political subdivision may lease real property of the political subdivision that is located between the curb of a street and the front of commercial property, including a parkway strip, tree row, verge, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| SB0229 | Engross | Maintenance of regulated drains. Provides that a permit is not required from the Indiana department of environmental management for the reconstruction or maintenance of a regulated drain for purposes of the law concerning state regulated wetlands, if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1165 | Engross | Municipally owned utilities. Specifies that the statute concerning the payment for utility services (other than sewer services) provided by a municipally owned utility to rental property does not allow a municipal legislative body to impose a require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 254: yeas 28, nays 18 |
| SB0365 | Engross | Town of Griffith. Changes the definition of "eligible municipality". Provides that if at least 2/3 of the voters voting in a special election held in the town of Griffith (town) on the public question of whether the territory of the town should be tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1419 | Engross | Governor's workforce cabinet. Makes changes to the membership of the governor's workforce cabinet. Requires the governor's workforce cabinet to work with stakeholders from early learning through the workforce to establish alignment and coordination b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Senator Koch added as cosponsor |
| HB1209 | Engross | Reimbursement for emergency medical services. Requires the state employee health plan, Medicaid, policies of accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organization contracts that provide coverage for emergency medical services to reimbu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0408 | Engross | Various tax matters. Provides that if payments for loans or advances from the common school fund are suspended, a school corporation must establish a school improvement fund (fund) and transfer an amount equal to the suspended payments to the fund. P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1313 | Engross | Courts and family law matters. Provides that a magistrate has the same powers as a judge, except the power of judicial mandate. Repeals certain sections that enumerate the powers for magistrates. Repeals the judicial technology oversight committee. I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1148 | Engross | Board of accountancy. Provides that a candidate for the certified public accountant examination (exam) may not apply for or take the exam prior to meeting certain education requirements. Provides an exception to the application restriction if a candi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1006 | Engross | Regulation of tobacco and vaping. Prohibits a person who is less than 21 years of age from buying or possessing: (1) tobacco; (2) e-liquids; or (3) electronic cigarettes. Makes conforming changes regarding enforcement provisions, sales certificates, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1279 | Engross | Local transportation projects. Provides that the board of the northwest Indiana regional development authority (NWIRDA) may establish any nonprofit entity to carry out and further the purposes, plans, and goals of the NWIRDA with regard to projects l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Senator Melton added as cosponsor |
| HB1111 | Engross | Unemployment. Provides a new schedule of rates for calendar years after December 31, 2020. Specifies that Schedule C applies for calendar years 2021 through 2025. Provides new contribution rates for calendar years after 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| SB0340 | Engross | Private property matters. Provides that a legislative body of a municipality may create an ordinance establishing a waiting period for removal of certain abandoned vehicles. Requires a conveyance, a mortgage, or an instrument of writing to be recorde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Representative Manning added as cosponsor |
| HB1283 | Engross | Teacher preparation program curriculum. Requires a teacher preparation program to include content within the curriculum that: (1) prepares teacher candidates to use evidenced based trauma informed classroom instruction and recognition of social, emot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Senator Melton added as cosponsor |
| HB1341 | Engross | Students with disabilities. Requires the state advisory council on the education of children with disabilities (council) to develop a plan to inform: (1) certain former students who received a certificate of completion or another nondiploma certifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Senator Rogers added as cosponsor |
| HB1207 | Engross | Pharmacy matters. Provides that a state employee plan, a health maintenance organization, an insurer, or a pharmacy benefits manager (health plan provider) may not require a pharmacy or pharmacist to collect a higher copayment for a prescription drug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| SB0343 | Engross | Rural communications cooperatives. Changes the rural telephone cooperative act to the rural communications cooperative act, allowing the formation of nonprofit cooperative corporations for the purposes of providing telecommunications service and info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Representative Soliday added as cosponsor |
| SB0345 | Engross | Interim study committee on child services. Establishes the interim study committee on child services (committee). Provides that the committee shall: (1) study and review the progress and improvements made by the department of child services; (2) revi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1052 | Engross | Pulaski County local income tax. Provides that a tax imposed by a fiscal body on the adjusted gross income of local taxpayers at a tax rate that does not exceed three-tenths percent (0.3%) expires December 31, 2020. Provides that for calendar years b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| SB0254 | Engross | Water and wastewater utilities. Amends the law allowing the adjustment of a water or wastewater utility's rates and charges to enable the utility to recover the cost of eligible infrastructure improvements, by providing that the general maximum limit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| SCR0015 | Engross | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the establishment of the Office of Outdoor Recreation Development within the Indiana Destination Development Corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Representative Pfaff added as cosponsor |
| SB0267 | Engross | Administration of 211 services. Transfers responsibility for the 211 human services information dialing code from the Indiana housing and community development authority (authority) to the office of the secretary of family and social services (offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Representative Jackson added as cosponsor |
| SB0025 | Engross | Mental health disability review panels. Establishes mental health disability review panels (review panel) for evaluation of members of the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (1977 fund) who have been determined to hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Representative Moseley added as cosponsor |
| SB0398 | Engross | Various education matters. Provides that, upon request by certain youth membership organizations (organization), a public school shall provide, at least one time each school year, a day and time, which may be during the school day as approved by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Amendment #2 (Thompson) prevailed; Roll Call 231: yeas 62, nays 27 |
| SB0427 | Engross | Provisional occupational license. Allows a person who: (1) is the spouse of an active duty member of the armed forces assigned to Indiana; (2) affirms certain information concerning the person's licensure in the other state; (3) submits verification ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| HB1132 | Engross | Criminal and juvenile law matters. Provides that the alteration or obliteration of certain markings on a firearm is a Level 5 felony. Provides that the possession of a firearm with altered or obliterated markings is a Level 5 felony. Requires a defen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1414 | Engross | Electric generation. Prohibits a public utility from terminating a power agreement with a legacy generation resource in which the public utility has an ownership interest unless the public utility provides the utility regulatory commission (IURC) wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
| HB1066 | Engross | Various education matters. Provides that a school corporation shall accept a transferring student who does not have legal settlement in the school corporation if the school corporation has the capacity to accept the student and the student's parent i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted |
