| IN | HB1429 | Intro
25% | Ethics training for local officials. Requires an elected county, city, town, or township officer (officer) to complete a two hour ethics training course (training course) every two years. Specifies training course requirements. Requires the office of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1641 | Intro
25% | County government matters. Excludes meetings of the governing body of a police or fire merit system from the definition of a "meeting" under the open door law. Allows an executive session to be held to: (1) review, receive, and discuss the terms and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1156 | Intro
25% | Digital asset mining. Prohibits a county, municipality, or township (unit) from adopting or enforcing an ordinance that would have the effect of prohibiting, restricting, or impairing an individual's or a business's ability to: (1) use digital assets...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1482 | Intro
25% | Entertainment zones. Establishes entertainment zones within a consolidated city. Provides that the city-county council may establish a public safety plan for all or a designated part of an entertainment zone. Provides that a public safety plan for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1472 | Intro
25% | Annexation of residential development. Allows the town of Plainfield in Hendricks County to annex: (1) a noncontiguous residential development; and (2) the right-of-way of a public highway connecting the development to the town. Provides that the ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1477 | Intro
25% | Mobile home community matters. Provides that, for purposes of the Indiana department of health's enforcement of statutes governing mobile home communities, if the owner of a mobile home community receives written notice from a water utility that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1452 | Intro
25% | Audits of township governments. Requires the state board of accounts to conduct examinations of townships not less than once every two years (rather than not less than once every four years under current law).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1473 | Intro
25% | Pocket annexations. Allows a municipality to annex unincorporated property that is completely surrounded by the municipality. Requires the municipality to: (1) adopt an annexation fiscal plan; (2) provide notice to landowners in the territory; and (3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1362 | Intro
25% | Annexation. With certain exceptions, requires a municipality that initiates an annexation to file with the court an annexation petition approved by the signatures of: (1) at least 65% of the owners of land not exempt from property taxes in the annexa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1369 | Intro
25% | Battery charged fences. Prohibits a county, city, or town from adopting or enforcing an ordinance or resolution that prohibits or imposes requirements on certain battery charged fences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 8:30 am]
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1153 | Intro
25% | Project Lifesaver program requirement for counties. Requires each county to establish and maintain a Project Lifesaver program. Tasks the division of disability and rehabilitative services with ensuring compliance, and requires the division to report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1227 | Intro
25% | Jail commissary fund reporting. Requires a sheriff to provide a copy of a jail commissary fund's receipts and disbursements to the county fiscal body on a monthly basis, due not later than the fifth day of the following month. (Under current law, a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1233 | Intro
25% | Local government reorganization. Provides that on January 1, 2027, in all counties except Marion County, the following occur: (1) Township government is dissolved. (2) The county executive assumes the powers and duties of township trustees with regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1140 | Intro
25% | Eviction assistance grant program. Establishes a grant program to provide grants to counties, cities, towns, or townships (local units) for the funding of eviction related services for tenants facing an eviction action. Authorizes local units to appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1194 | Intro
25% | County coroners. Makes the following changes to the law concerning the responsibility for the costs of an autopsy performed on an Indiana resident who dies in an Indiana county as the result of an incident occurring in another Indiana county: (1) Add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1208 | Intro
25% | Administration of sheriff's commissary fund. Requires the state board of accounts to establish annual or biennial training requirements for a sheriff and the sheriff's designee responsible for the oversight or administration of a jail commissary fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 8:30 am]
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1131 | Intro
25% | Town of Cumberland. Provides that on January 1, 2027, the town of Cumberland is an excluded city and no longer part of the consolidated city. Requires the town legislative body and the legislative body of the consolidated city and county to take any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 8:30 am]
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1158 | Intro
25% | Participation in the 287(g) program. Requires each sheriff with regard to a county jail to: (1) enter into a written agreement with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to participate in the immigration program established under Sect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 8:30 am]
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1157 | Intro
25% | Appointed members of city or town boards. Establishes minimum requirements for members appointed or reappointed to a city or town board, committee, or other body (board) after June 30, 2025. Allows a member serving on a board on June 30, 2025, who do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1027 | Intro
25% | County treasurer fees. Provides that the fee approved by a county fiscal body to be charged by a county treasurer for providing a receipt of a property tax payment made to the county treasurer may not exceed the greater of: (1) $1; or (2) the actual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1193 | Intro
25% | Township assessors. Abolishes the office of township assessor, effective January 1, 2028. 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] | 2025-01-08
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | HB1216 | Intro
25% | Land banks. Allows a county to adopt an ordinance requiring a person who wishes to participate in a tax sale as a bidder to pay a neighborhood investment fee of not more than $150 and specifies the manner in which neighborhood investment fees collect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Local Government Committee |
