| SB0386 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires every person arrested after June 30, 2014, for burglary, residential entry, a crime of violence, or a sex offense to submit a DNA sample, and specifies that the sample may be taken only by buccal swab. Provides for the expungement of a DNA s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0310 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a deed or other instrument of conveyance that transfers an ownership interest in real property from one person to another person shall be recorded by the other person: (1) in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| SB0388 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Gary based riverboats to move inland within the city of Gary. Requires an inland casino to comply with all applicable building codes and any safety requirements imposed by the gaming commission. Provides that a licensed owner may not s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0299 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hoosier military women and women veterans program to provide information and services to Indiana's military women and women veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| SB0400 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a bias motivated crime is an offense in which the person who committed the offense intentionally: (1) selected the person who was injured; or (2) damaged or otherwise affected property; by the offense because of the actual or perceived ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0315 | Intro
Sine Die | After June 30, 2014, increases the state minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50. After June 30, 2015, increases the state minimum wage from $8.50 to $10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1261 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a refundable tax credit for certain education expenses incurred by a qualified employee. Provides that the credit is equal to the lesser of 1/3 of the education expenses incurred or $10,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a county that sells a county asset for more than $50,000,000 to establish a major county asset sale fund as a trust fund for the deposit of the proceeds of the sale. Provides that the principal of the fund may not be diminished. Specifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the department of education, a school corporation, or school may not require a student to use a computer to complete a required statewide, national, or international test if the student's parent or the student, if the student is at leas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB0369 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands Medicaid coverage for specified individuals. Requires the department of insurance to create a state health benefit exchange in Indiana. Requires the legislative services agency to prepare legislation for introduction in the 2015 legislative s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0325 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds certain visual impairments to the definition of birth problems for purposes of reporting to the birth problems registry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| HB1259 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the diabetes educators board, and provides for the licensure of diabetes educators. Makes a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Public Health Committee |
| HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of natural resources (department) to: (1) identify, study, and gather information about the aquifers directly connected with the Wabash River, the White River, and the Ohio River; (2) establish and maintain a common data base ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0318 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the penalties imposed on an employer whose violation of the state common construction wage law or minimum wage law involves an employee who is an illegal alien. Provides that a determination by a federal immigration agency that an alien has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1264 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the definition of "government employee" to "taxpayer-funded employee" and "government employer" to "taxpayer-funded employer" in the law governing election campaign violations. Adds an employee of a nonpublic school that accepts choice schola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Elections and Apportionment Committee |
| SB0383 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the definition of income for purposes of the income tax credit for property taxes paid on homesteads in Lake County from employee and self-employment earned income to Indiana adjusted gross income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0361 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a game breeder's license may be issued to permit: (1) the training of hunting dogs; and (2) the conducting of field trials; within a game breeder enclosure for certain game birds, game mammals, and furbearing mammals protected by Indian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1283 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a public works contract for the construction, reconstruction, repair, alteration, or retrofitting of a building that is or will be owned by or leased to a school corporation must require that the building be designed with the goal of ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1239 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an individual to subtract investment interest payments in the calculation of the individual's Indiana adjusted gross income if the investment interest payments are: (1) made with respect to tangible property held for investment in Indiana; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0336 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the division of preparedness and training within the Indiana department of homeland security to develop and administer a program to license persons who operate unmanned aerial systems. Provides that a person who operates an unmanned aerial s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| HB1243 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that in a county having a population of more than 300,000 but less than 400,000, a public question shall be held in the county at the 2014 general election on whether the executive and legislative structure of county government should be cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| HB1244 | Intro
Sine Die | Reenacts a provision (which expired in 2012) that authorizes a school corporation to donate up to $25,000 per year from the general fund of the school corporation to a public school endowment corporation or community foundation if the donation is mat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB0319 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a caller who: (1) is legitimately engaged in the gathering of information; (2) contacts a subscriber only for the purpose of conducting a survey to gather information; (3) is registered with the attorney general on forms prescribed by the offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Commerce, Economic Development & Technology Committee |
| SB0413 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the county office of the division of family resources from considering the value of any assets when determining an individual's eligibility for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Requires the division of family resources t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0389 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public schools, including charter schools, to offer a preschool education program, or to contract with a provider to provide a preschool education program, for children who are at least four years of age but less than five years of age. Prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| HB1247 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "metropolitan campus". Requires the commission for higher education to designate Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne as a metropolitan campus. Requires that a governance agreement or an operational contract for a metropolitan ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a tax credit against state tax liability to an employer that incurs tuition expenses for a course taken by an employee at a state educational institution if the employee achieves a final grade point of at least 2.0 (or its equivalent) for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0358 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that where: (1) a municipal utility is providing service to properties located outside the municipality under contracts requiring the owners of the properties to make payments in lieu of annexation; and (2) the contracts expire; the municipa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1274 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a school bus or special purpose bus: (1) that is first placed into operation after June 30, 2015, and that is used to transport elementary school or high school students must be equipped with a 3-point lap and shoulder safety belt (safe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB0320 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the interim study committee on juvenile justice to review and study certain issues relating to juvenile justice during the 2014 legislative interim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0418 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a redevelopment commission (commission) may not enter into any obligation payable from public funds without first obtaining the approval of the fiscal body of the unit that established the commission. Provides an exception if the obliga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes provisions that prohibit volunteer firefighters from assuming or holding certain elected offices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0355 | Intro
Sine Die | After December 31, 2016, reestablishes the state board of education (state board) consisting of: (1) the state superintendent of public instruction; (2) one member elected from each Indiana congressional district; and (3) a teacher, principal, and sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0333 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the statute concerning the location and protection of underground utility facilities (facilities) during excavation or demolition activities to change a reference to "hydroexcavators" to "hydraulic excavators" to more accurately describe equip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0399 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the environmental rules board to adopt rules requiring each county, city, or town that collects solid waste for disposal to charge households for solid waste collection service on a "pay as you throw basis" under which the fee is higher for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1257 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the penalty for animal cruelty based on neglect or abandonment of an animal to a Level 6 felony if the neglect or abandonment results in serious bodily injury or death to the animal. Requires a court to order an individual convicted of cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| HB1238 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new markets job growth credit against state tax liability for investments made by a taxpayer in a qualified community development entity that then uses the proceeds of the investment to make investments in certain qualified active low i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0283 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the assessed value cap (from $143,160 to $195,600) that applies to the property tax deduction for a veteran who: (1) has a total disability; or (2) has at least a 10% disability and is at least 62 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
Withdraw SB 283 |
| SB0347 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that business personal property acquired after June 30, 2014, is exempt from property assessment and taxation. Provides a state income tax credit for property taxes paid on business personal property. Specifies that the credit percentage is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0370 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid state plan amendment or a demonstration waiver to allow the office of the secretary to purchase for certain individuals coverage by a qualified health plan thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1263 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for assessment dates occurring after February 28, 2015, a parcel's land value may not be increased by more than 5% of the most recently determined land value that applied to the parcel for the preceding assessment date. Provides that in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0391 | Intro
Sine Die | Divides Indiana into nine hydrological regions, each of which contains certain specified counties. Establishes for each hydrological region: (1) a regional water management council consisting of the chairpersons of the drainage board and the soil and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0307 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Indiana department of transportation (rather than the Indiana economic development corporation): (1) is responsible for approving tax credits for qualified logistics investments under the Hoosier business investment tax credit; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| HB1225 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an individual who has a principal place of employment or business in a county other than the individual's county of residence shall pay a county adjusted gross income tax, county option income tax, or county economic development income ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0280 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that in certain circumstances, a tenant in a residential rental agreement may provide for repairs to be made to the dwelling unit and deduct the cost of the repairs from the tenant's rent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| HB1280 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a county, consolidated city, or second class city to which the unsafe building law applies to establish a municipal corporation known as a land bank to manage and improve the marketability of distressed real property in the county or city ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0328 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a minority student who participates in a school administration internship as part of the student's graduate degree program is eligible to receive a stipend from the student teaching stipend for minorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0356 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the water management authority as an agency of state government. Requires the governor to appoint an administrator of the authority (administrator). Provides for the adoption and implementation of a statewide water management plan. Provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0412 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of state revenue, the department of labor, the worker's compensation board, and the department of workforce development to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of records and to question witness...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0309 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes materials, compounds, mixtures, and preparations that contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine schedule III controlled substances subject to being dispensed only by a prescription.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
