| SB0448 | Intro
Sine Die | School corporation financial management. Establishes the financially distressed school corporation appeals board to evaluate and authorize emergency relief to school corporations that the board determines are unable to carry out their public educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0376 | Intro
Sine Die | Land reclassification. Provides that if a taxpayer's land is classified as agricultural land at the time of the taxpayer's acquisition of the land, the land is presumed to be agricultural land as long as the taxpayer uses the land in the same manner ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0402 | Intro
Sine Die | Military veteran public safety officer hiring age. Increases the maximum age for appointment as a police officer or firefighter from 36 to 40 years of age, if the applicant is a veteran of the armed forces of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0378 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy standards. Requires an electricity supplier to supply a certain percentage of its total electricity supply from renewable energy resources. Establishes the renewable energy resources fund to receive penalties paid by electricity supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0432 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of taxes based on tax levies. Provides that after 2015 if a distribution of excise taxes or local option income taxes to a taxing unit is based on the amount of a taxing unit's property tax levy, the calculation of the distribution is to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0371 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting and fishing licenses. Defines "qualified veteran" as an individual: (1) who is a resident of Indiana; (2) who has served in the armed forces of the United States; and (3) who: (A) is a Purple Heart recipient; (B) is a former prisoner of war; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0301 | Intro
Sine Die | Age for compulsory school attendance. Provides that, beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, a student shall enroll in a kindergarten program not later than the fall term of the school year in which the student becomes five years of age (rather tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0337 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct wine sales. Removes requirements that before a direct wine seller may sell to a consumer: (1) the consumer must provide information in one face-to-face transaction at the seller's place of business; or (2) under certain circumstances, the cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0338 | Intro
Sine Die | Farm winery sales. Allows a holder of a farm winery permit to sell and ship, by the bottle or by the case, not more than 5,000 gallons of wine that is priced at less than $301 per gallon during a permit year to a holder of a wine retailer's permit or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0340 | Intro
Sine Die | State payments for school textbook costs. Requires public schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost to a student. Establishes the curricular materials fund for the purpose of providing state reimbursements for costs incurred by p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0305 | Intro
Sine Die | Nontrustee fiduciaries. Defines certain categories of nontrustee fiduciaries. Specifies certain powers and duties of nontrustee fiduciaries with respect to the administration of trusts. Provides limitations on the liability that may be imposed upon n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| SB0349 | Intro
Sine Die | State park admission for disabled veterans. Provides that a disabled veteran may not be charged a fee for a Golden Hoosier Passport, which entitles the holder, the holder's vehicle, and passengers in the holder's vehicle to unlimited admission to sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0290 | Intro
Sine Die | Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. Provides that materials, compounds, mixtures, or preparations that contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine are schedule III controlled substances that may be dispensed only by prescription. Repeals: (1) the law allowing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0344 | Intro
Sine Die | Prekindergarten pilot program. Expands the prekindergarten pilot program to include 13 counties that were selected as finalist counties by the office of the secretary of family and social services but were not selected as one of the five initial pilo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0342 | Intro
Sine Die | Examination for driver's licenses. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles to conduct in certain foreign languages the testing and demonstration of ability to operate a motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0360 | Intro
Sine Die | IURC approval of substitute natural gas contracts. Requires the Indiana finance authority (authority) to submit the following to the utility regulatory commission (commission) for approval: (1) A contract for the purchase of substitute natural gas (p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0333 | Intro
Sine Die | Cremation. Amends the definition of cremation to include alkaline hydrolysis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0300 | Intro
Sine Die | Recidivism reduction pilot project. Requires the department of correction to identify the 10 counties, not including Marion County, from which the greatest number of offenders have been admitted to the department, and permits these counties to partic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0341 | Intro
Sine Die | Lost personal property submitted to police. Establishes a method for an individual who comes into possession of tangible personal property, except firearms, or cash that the individual: (1) does not own; and (2) submits to a law enforcement agency; t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0145 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana EITC. Increases the amount of the Indiana earned income tax credit from 9% to 10% of the federal earned income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0319 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of local option income taxes. Requires the department of state revenue to track the amount of county income tax that is received from employers for county taxpayers through withholding for which an income tax return has not been filed. P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0346 | Intro
Sine Die | Expenditure and transfer of CEDIT funds. Provides that the executive of a county or municipality may not transfer money that has been deposited in the county or municipal economic development income tax fund unless the transfer is approved by resolut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0299 | Intro
Sine Die | School discipline. Requires charter schools and nonpublic schools that accept choice scholarships to adopt written discipline rules in the same manner as school corporations. Removes a good faith effort exception to the requirement of giving general ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0295 | Intro
Sine Die | Deduction for small business investor income. Provides an individual income tax deduction for small business investor income received from Indiana small businesses. Specifies that the amount of the deduction is equal to 50% of the total amount of sma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0284 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical marijuana. Establishes a medical marijuana program and permits caregivers and patients who have received a physician recommendation to possess a certain quantity of marijuana for treatment. Creates the department of marijuana enforcement (DOM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0357 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption for disabled veterans. Exempts sales to a person who is a veteran with a 100% disability rating from the state sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0331 | Intro
Sine Die | Student testing. Provides that after June 30, 2016, a public school may not require a student to take a qualified standardized test. Removes the requirement that a school is required to administer a college and career readiness exam to identify stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0328 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare supplement for state employees. Requires the state department of personnel to make available to certain state employees a group Medicare supplement insurance policy. Requires the state to pay a percentage of the group Medicare supplement pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0343 | Intro
Sine Die | Motorcycle equipment. Provides that a motorcycle may be equipped with a steering wheel. (Current law provides that a motorcycle may be equipped only with handlebars for purposes of steering and control.) Makes a corresponding change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0362 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving authority permits and learner's permits. 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0308 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. Enacts the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Vests fiduciaries with the authority to access, control, or copy dig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0353 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voter proof of identification. Requires an individual submitting an absentee ballot application, except an individual voting in the office of the circuit court clerk or at a satellite office, an absent uniformed services voter, or an oversea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0335 | Intro
Sine Die | Utility easements. Defines "utility" for purposes of IC 14-18-10 (the law concerning utility easements) to include a communications service provider. Provides that the director of the department of natural resources may not impose a charge to issue a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0351 | Intro
Sine Die | Adoption subsidy payments. 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Family & Children Services Committee |
| SB0189 | Intro
Sine Die | Election of members of the county executive. Provides that each member of the county executive is elected only by the voters of the respective county commissioner districts instead of by all the voters of the county if the county executive adopts an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0224 | Intro
Sine Die | Disguised firearms. Defines "safety indicator" as a device or coloration designed to indicate that a toy firearm or realistic imitation firearm is not a genuine firearm. Makes it a Class C infraction to remove a safety indicator and openly carry a to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0303 | Intro
Sine Die | Large scale discharges into state waters. Makes it a Class C infraction for a person to discharge more than 20 million gallons of water per day into any waters of the state without the approval of the director of the department of natural resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0276 | Intro
Sine Die | Microbreweries. Increases the number of barrels of beer that a small brewer may manufacture to not more than 90,000 (instead of not more than 30,000) barrels of beer in a calendar year for sale or distribution within Indiana. Makes conforming changes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0264 | Intro
Sine Die | Genetically engineered food. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2016, any food that is offered for retail sale is misbranded if it is not disclosed that the food is or may have been entirely or partially produced with genetic engineering. Provides that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0268 | Intro
Sine Die | Food and beverage taxes. Provides that a fiscal officer of a municipality in which a food and beverage tax is imposed and collected may request from the department of state revenue a statement of the percentage amount of food and beverage tax collect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0107 | Intro
Sine Die | Immunity for not prohibiting firearms. Provides that a person who does not prohibit: (1) an individual from possessing a firearm on the person's property; or (2) the person's employees from possessing a firearm while the employees are acting within t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0273 | Intro
Sine Die | Three-way permits in unincorporated towns. Provides that a three-way permit issued to a restaurant in an area within an unincorporated town and the area that extends 1/2 mile outside the unincorporated town is considered a permit issued in an unincor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0263 | Intro
Sine Die | Physical education. Requires each public school and charter school to conduct at least 30 minutes of physical education each day for students, which may be done as part of a class activity. Lengthens the minimum school day by 30 minutes. Requires eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0255 | Intro
Sine Die | Bail. Provides that, if a court admits a defendant to bail, the court may require the defendant to do one of the following as selected by the defendant: (1) Execute a bail bond with sufficient solvent sureties. (2) Deposit cash or securities in an am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0253 | Intro
Sine Die | Lifetime hunting and fishing licenses. Establishes a reduced fee lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping license for disabled veterans who are Indiana residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0275 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalties for controlled substance offenses. Increases the penalties for the following controlled substance offenses: (1) Dealing in cocaine or a narcotic drug. (2) Dealing in methamphetamine. (3) Dealing in a schedule I, II, III, IV, or V controlled...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0254 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits on terms of legislative leadership. Provides that a member of the general assembly may not serve for more than six years in any particular office during the member's tenure in the general assembly. Defines office to refer to the president pro ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0266 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic communications with students. Requires: (1) an employee of or a volunteer for a school corporation or nonpublic school who transmits an electronic communication to a student; and (2) a student who transmits an electronic communication to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0272 | Intro
Sine Die | Midwife certification. Transfers the responsibility for certifying direct entry midwives from the medical licensing board to the midwifery committee (committee). Removes the requirements that the committee establish: (1) continuing education requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0257 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of active duty military pay. Exempts from the individual income tax any wages that are paid to an individual who is: (1) an Indiana resident; and (2) a member of an active component of the armed forces; for the individual's active duty servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
