| SB0380 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the aggregate damages that may be obtained for the death of an adult person from $300,000 to $1,250,000. Requires the health finance commission to study during the 2014 legislative interim: (1) whether additional training for health facility e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0337 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of management and budget to develop a teacher innovation grant program that provides grants to teachers for the development of innovative ideas that are designed to improve student outcomes and that are scalable and replicable wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0411 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds various job and employee definitions to the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) laws. Requires that all records related to taxpayer funded economic development incentives must be disclosed under the open records law. Requires that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Commerce, Economic Development & Technology Committee |
| SB0298 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the fee on the disposal or incineration of solid waste in a final disposal facility in Indiana: (1) from 50 cents per ton to $1 per ton, in the case of solid waste delivered to the final disposal facility by a motor vehicle having a registe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0302 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that projects involving the construction of nuclear energy production or generating facilities qualify for the financial incentives available for clean energy projects. (Current law provides that only projects involving the life cycle manage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0401 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a redevelopment commission, a department of redevelopment, and a redevelopment authority are subject to audit by the state board of accounts and covered by the public meeting, public records, and public works laws. Prohibits a redevelo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0398 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of natural resources (DNR) to undertake a comprehensive review of all state public lands and to recommend tracts of land that meet certain conditions for designation by the general assembly as state wilderness areas. Permits I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0303 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the following changes to the Indiana statute governing pipeline safety to reflect similar provisions in federal law: (1) Increases the amount of the civil penalty for a violation of the statute from $25,000 per violation per day that the violat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0316 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "serious sex offender". Makes entry on school property by a serious sex offender a Level 6 felony. Provides that a serious sex offender is entitled to vote by mail. Requires a circuit court clerk to, before an election, notify a serious sex o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0295 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that standards of care and certain other requirements applicable to commercial dog breeders and brokers also apply to private animal rescue operations. Requires registration of private animal rescue operations with the board of animal health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0423 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the issuance of driving privileges permits, probationary driving privileges permits, and driving privileges learner's permits to residents of Indiana who cannot provide proof of identity and lawful status in the United States, and provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| SB0378 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a floral products supplier from misrepresenting the geographic location of the floral products supplier's business by listing or including: (1) a local telephone number; or (2) a fictitious business name or an assumed business name; in any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| SB0297 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that individuals who have been convicted of a substance abuse offense and have successfully completed a certified substance abuse program or are successfully participating in a reentry court program, a problem solving court program, a commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0390 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a sentencing court shall require a person: (1) convicted of a crime of domestic violence; and (2) placed on probation or parole; to wear a GPS tracking device for at least the first six months of the person's probation or parole. Specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0317 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person who is convicted of any of certain offenses relating to voting is prohibited from being employed by the state or a county, municipality, or township for three years, unless the sentencing court finds that the person committed t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0006 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes attending an animal fighting contest a Level 6 felony. Repeals the law that makes it cruelty to an animal, a Class A misdemeanor, for a person to attend a fighting contest involving animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0007 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a law enforcement agency that possesses certain confiscated firearms to retain the firearms for the purpose of training law enforcement officers in the proper use of the firearms or for other law enforcement duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0296 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes changes to the membership and responsibilities of the Indiana Native American Indian affairs commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0342 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal Child Care and Development Fund voucher program may continue to participate in the program unless the child's family income exceeds 250% of the federal income poverty le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0348 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an individual must be licensed by the state board of massage therapy (board) to engage in the practice of massage therapy. (Under current law, massage therapists are certified by the board but certification is not required for the pract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Commerce, Economic Development & Technology Committee |
| SB0403 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the membership of the commission for a drug free Indiana (commission) with members of the board of trustees of the criminal justice institute (trustees), as appointed by the chairman of the trustees. Eliminates the requirement of the commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0345 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the state board of dentistry to: (1) require a dentist to submit information concerning the dentist's working relationship with a person that impacts the dentist's practice of dentistry; and (2) set standards of practice concerning that relati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0286 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person who is otherwise eligible for benefits and has had certain drug convictions expunged is eligible to receive benefits under the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and under the Temporary Assistance for Need...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0274 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Indiana state dairy association trust license plate and the Indiana state dairy association trust fund. Specifies that $25 from the proceeds of the sale of an Indiana state dairy association trust license plate shall be distributed to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| SB0289 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the elected members of the governing body of certain school corporations are elected on a partisan basis, beginning after December 31, 2014. Makes conforming changes to related sections. Makes a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0048 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies requirements that must be met by a child care provider as a condition of eligibility to receive a federal Child Care and Development Fund voucher payment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0275 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, requires a student to enroll in a full-day kindergarten program if the student is at least five years of age on August 1. Provides that a kindergarten pupil is counted as one pupil (rather than 1/2 pupil) for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0287 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows certain individuals who were convicted of a drug offense but have not been convicted of another drug offense in the previous five years before applying for food stamps to receive food stamps. Permits individuals who have had a conviction in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0281 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolishes the grand jury. Makes conforming amendments, and repeals superseded provisions. Makes technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0263 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the issuance of driving authority permits, probationary driving authority permits, and driving authority learner's permits to residents of Indiana who cannot provide proof of identity and lawful status in the United States. Provides that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| SB0089 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a state educational institution to adopt a policy to award educational credit to a veteran or an individual serving in the armed forces of the United States or the Indiana National Guard who completes courses: (1) at a postsecondary educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0270 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the commission for higher education to study and make recommendations concerning the issue of the high cost of dental education. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the health finance commission.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0268 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of child services (department) to: (1) enter into an agreement, with each adoptive parent of a child with special needs who is eligible for an adoption subsidy, to provide an adoption subsidy for the child; and (2) allocate fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0267 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a public utility that provides water or wastewater service may petition the utility regulatory commission for an adjustment of its basic rates and charges to allow for recovery of eligible infrastructure improvement costs. (Current law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0259 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that money in certain county funds may be paid from those funds only upon appropriation by the county fiscal body. (Current law governing those funds allows money to be paid or distributed from the funds without appropriation.) Provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0258 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the county income tax council with the county council, or city-county council in the case of Marion County, for purposes of the county option income tax, the county motor vehicle excise surtax, and the county wheel tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0157 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the membership of the commission for a drug free Indiana (commission) with members of the board of trustees of the criminal justice institute (trustees), as appointed by the chairman of the trustees. Eliminates the requirement of the commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
Withdraw SB 157 |
| SB0055 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person who is an inmate assigned to a correctional facility operated by: (1) the state; or (2) a political subdivision of the state; may not file a petition for waiver of a fee for reinstatement of the person's driver's license if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
Withdraw SB 55 |
| SB0193 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "meeting" for purposes of the open door law to include a gathering that occurs by electronic means, including by electronic mail. Provides that communications between members of a governing body by electronic mail qualify as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0288 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a lobbyist may not engage in lobbying that is paid for, in whole or in part, from money derived from the revenues of a political subdivision. Provides that a political subdivision may not pay any money received by the political subdivis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0269 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds to the definition of a retail merchant engaged in business in Indiana to include arrangements with any person, other than a common carrier, to facilitate the retail merchant's delivery of property to customers in Indiana. Specifies that a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-13
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0239 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Indiana department of administration to establish, maintain, and operate a souvenir shop in the state house not later than July 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
To Senate Commerce, Economic Development & Technology Committee |
| SB0250 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that if a court finds that an annexation remonstrance petition is sufficient, the court shall order the annexation not to take place. Provides that the only issue addressed in a remonstrance hearing is the sufficiency of the annexation remon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0257 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the attorney general owes the same obligations to the state or any other party he or she represents in a judicial or administrative proceeding that any other attorney owes to a client under rules prescribed by the supreme court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0252 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a thirteenth check for certain members of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0224 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that before July 1, 2015, the state board of education (state board) shall adopt Indiana college and career readiness educational standards. Provides that before July 1, 2015, the state board shall authorize the department of education (depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0240 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sales and use tax exemption for aircraft repair and maintenance to all retail merchants. (Under current law, the exemption applies only if the retail merchant possesses a valid repair station certificate issued by the Federal Aviation Adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0194 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an individual seeking licensure in a health care profession to complete cultural competency training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0230 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a licensed commercial animal dealer is not exempt from the law requiring certain persons to obtain a state wild animal permit. Allows the director of the department of natural resources to adopt rules that: (1) require a permit for each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0203 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a: (1) Level 6 felony for a person to operate a motor vehicle carrying a child who is not properly restrained if the motor vehicle is involved in an accident that causes serious bodily injury to the child; and (2) Level 5 felony if the accid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-09
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
