| SB0341 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal Child Care and Development Fund voucher program: (1) is eligible to participate in the program if the child's family income does not exceed 200% of the federal income po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a tax credit against state tax liability for the amount of a taxpayer's federal medical device excise tax liability apportioned to Indiana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1192 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the clerk of a circuit court and the clerk of a city and town court to collect: (1) a county 911 administration fee of $10; and (2) a law enforcement academy fee of $2; for each criminal, infraction, and ordinance violation that is a traffic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1208 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that all state public works projects must be designed, constructed, operated, and maintained to achieve maximum energy efficiency to the extent that this goal can be accomplished on a cost effective basis, considering construction and operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0360 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a governmental entity that is the beneficiary of a criminal or juvenile restitution order issued by a state or federal court to file annually a payment status report with the court and with the state board of accounts. Provides that the paym...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0371 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that: (1) it is an unlawful employment practice to pay wages that are discriminating based on sex, race, or national origin for the same or equivalent jobs; and (2) the civil rights commission has jurisdiction for investigation and resolutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| HB1252 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an agreement to settle a disputed assessment of a riverboat that results in an annual property tax reduction of more than $1,000,000 for property taxes due and payable in at least two calendar years is contrary to public policy and is i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0372 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain information to be included on the outside envelope of mailings sent to Medicaid recipients by the office of Medicaid policy and planning or by a contractor of the office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| HB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a tax credit against state tax liability to a small business for hiring a sufficient number of new employees after December 31, 2013, and before January 1, 2017: (1) who are receiving unemployment benefits or have exhausted their unemploymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1232 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person that engages in unlawful picketing may be enjoined and may be subject to actual and consequential damage to business sales, business opportunities, or property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1272 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that art therapy services provided to an individual in a community mental health center are reimbursable under Medicaid. Provides for the licensure of professional art therapists by an art therapy board through the professional licensing age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1185 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a defense to prosecution for marijuana possession if the person who possessed the marijuana did so under a valid prescription or order of a practitioner who acted in the scope of the practitioner's professional practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0417 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a law enforcement agency from retaining license plate data captured by an automated license plate reader unless: (1) a comparison of the plate data with a data base shows that the data is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation, the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| HB1195 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an assessed value deduction to offset the effects of the 30% minimum personal property tax depreciation floor for depreciable personal property or utility distributable property for property newly acquired or installed after the 2014 assessm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0381 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the statute concerning electricity suppliers' service area assignments to provide new procedures by which a municipally owned electric utility may petition the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to change the municipally owned electric utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0407 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that certain duties imposed on the Lake Michigan marina and shoreline development commission under current law are discretionary powers rather than duties. Provides that, instead of being required to report on its activities to the governor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0414 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a health facility to obtain a national criminal history background check or an expanded criminal history check for the health facility's employees. Provides immunity to persons: (1) for denying or terminating employment because of another pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| SB0301 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits political subdivisions from: (1) regulating the possession, carrying, transportation, sale, purchase, transfer, licensing, registration, or use of a knife or the components used to make a knife; and (2) adopting an ordinance, a rule, or a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| HB1188 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the soil productivity factors used for the March 1, 2011, assessment of agricultural land must be used for the March 1, 2014, assessment date. Specifies that new soil productivity factors must be used for assessment dates occurring afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1281 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that county income tax revenue deposited in a county's account within the state general fund is held by the state in trust for the county. Requires the department of state revenue to record and track the amount of county income tax that is r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0373 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a court may admit a defendant to bail by establishing the bail amount and requiring the defendant to execute a bail bond by selecting one of the following options: (1) Executing a cash bond by depositing cash or securities or by making ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares the state policy on agriculture and farmers' rights. Prohibits the impairment of traditional or modern farming and livestock production practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee |
| SB0374 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the traumatic brain injury task force within the office of the secretary of family and social services. Requires the task force to establish a comprehensive statewide plan to address the needs of individuals with brain injuries and the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0314 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the licensed cultivation and production of industrial hemp in accordance with rules adopted by the department of agriculture. Makes possession of less than two ounces of marijuana a Class C infraction. Makes possession of more than two oun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| HB1275 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for probate court review of the executive compensation provided by a charitable trust engaged in the business of providing utility service. Authorizes certain local officials to petition for the court's review. Provides for annual reporting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0379 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the income tax credit for small employers who provide a qualified wellness program for their employees. Provides that the credit may be claimed for costs in 2012 through 2015. (Current law provides that costs incurred after 2011 are not eligi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0323 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the law under which the director of the department of natural resources may recover damages from a person for causing the death of wild animals through a release of waste materials or chemicals to provide that the director may not recover dama...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1182 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits an enforcement authority to file a praecipe for a sheriff's sale if a person files a praecipe for sale, cancels the sale, and a sale does not take place within 180 days after the later of: (1) the filing of the judgment and decree; or (2) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0324 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that items consisting entirely or primarily of paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum, or plastic may not be disposed of or incinerated in a final disposal facility. Authorizes the environmental rules board to adopt rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that each school corporation and accredited nonpublic school shall include in the school corporation's or accredited nonpublic school's high school health education curriculum instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use of an automa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB0410 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an annual cost of living adjustment for members (and the survivors or beneficiaries of a member) of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) and the teachers' retirement fund (TRF) equal to the quotient of: (1) the product of the tot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0416 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals a provision allowing a school employer to deduct union dues from a teacher's salary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| HB1173 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain high schools to provide insurance coverage for catastrophic accidents of student athletes. Allows public elementary schools to purchase insurance coverage for accidents of students participating in athletic events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB1201 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit each year for Indiana residents who graduate in 2014, and each year thereafter, from an Indiana college or university with a baccalaureate or more advanced degree as one of the top 1,000 graduates in Indiana in science, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1194 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes an additional tax rate under the county adjusted gross income tax or the county option income tax to offset circuit breaker losses sustained by the political subdivisions in a county. Provides that the tax rate may not exceed 1%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a redistricting commission to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts. Requires the legislative services agency (agency) to provide staff an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Elections and Apportionment 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 |
| HB1197 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets requirements for security features for employees of convenience businesses that are open between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., and makes the failure to follow the requirements a Class B misdemeanor. Requires the commissioner of labor to issue safety order...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| HB1265 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes restrictions on how the state police department may use certain appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Ways and Means 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 |
| HB1220 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the definition of "criminal gang" to include a group with at least three members that collectively engages in a pattern of criminal gang activity and is a covert or overt organization that has a command structure. Specifies that criminal gan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Courts and Criminal Code 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 |
| HB1189 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person that seeks to establish additional commercial ports on Lake Michigan or the Ohio River must submit to the commission of the ports of Indiana (ports commission) a market study concerning the economic costs and benefits of additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-14
To House Roads and Transportation 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 |
