Indiana Senate Bill 285 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on February 27 2019 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-03-04 - First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means
Pending: House Ways and Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

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 approve a local public question; and (2) fiscal body of the county adopts an ordinance to impose the additional tax rate. Provides that the rate must be at least 0.1% but not more than 0.25%. Excludes from this provision any county that is eligible to hold a referendum on funding transportation projects under the central Indiana public transportation projects statute.

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 approve a local public question; and (2) fiscal body of the county adopts an ordinance to impose the additional tax rate. Provides that the rate must be at least 0.1% but not more than 0.25%. Excludes from this provision any county that is eligible to hold a referendum on funding transportation projects under the central Indiana public transportation projects statute.

Sen. Mark Stoops [D]	Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. Travis Holdman [R]	Sen. J.D. Ford [D]
Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Holli Sullivan [R]	Rep. Gerald Torr [R]	Rep. Dan Forestal [D]

2019-02-26 - Senate - Third reading (Y: 28 N: 21 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2019-02-19 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 11 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-04	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means
2019-02-27	Senate	Referred to the House
2019-02-26	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Torr and Forestal
2019-02-26	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Sullivan
2019-02-26	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 225: yeas 28, nays 21
2019-02-25	Senate	Amendment #1 (Stoops) prevailed; voice vote
2019-02-25	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2019-02-21	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2019-02-21	Senate	Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
2019-02-21	Senate	Senator Charbonneau added as second author
2019-02-19	Senate	Senator Holdman added as coauthor
2019-02-19	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2019-01-07	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy
2019-01-07	Senate	Authored by Senator Stoops

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/senate/285/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/8/b/c/d8bc234f/SB0285.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/2/b/3/72b31991/SB0285.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/0/7/9/f0796109/SB0285.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/6/7/5/76756fc5/SB0285.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/9/f/6/99f6455a/SB0285.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/4/7/2/f47249bb/SB0285.01.INTR.01.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/b/2/b/7b2bb57c/SB0285.225.pdf