| SB0560 | Intro
Sine Die | Property taxes and sales and use taxes. Eliminates property taxes on primary residences (homesteads) and business personal property. Decreases the state sales and use tax rate from 7% to 5.5%. Provides that the sales and use tax applies to transactio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0396 | Intro
Sine Die | Child exploitation. Increases the criminal penalty for: (1) the offense of child exploitation from a Level 5 felony to a Level 4 felony; (2) child exploitation involving a child less than 12 years of age from a Level 5 felony to a Level 3 felony; (3)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0554 | Intro
Sine Die | Retirement plan proceed loans. Defines a "retirement plan proceed loan" as a loan or an extension of credit that is: (1) offered to an Indiana consumer; and (2) secured by the consumer's interest in, or right to, all or part of the proceeds of any pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0021 | Intro
Sine Die | Media production expenditure tax credit. Media production expenditure tax credit. Reestablishes the media production expenditure tax credit (which expired in 2012), with certain changes. Provides a refundable tax credit to taxpayers that make qualifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0563 | Intro
Sine Die | Open-market PACE programs. Authorizes the legislative body of a local governmental unit to designate an area as a clean energy improvement financing district and authorize financing of certain qualified clean energy improvements, including reduced wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0262 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax deduction for military retirement income. Increases the income tax deduction for military retirement or survivor's benefits from $5,000 to $25,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0545 | Intro
Sine Die | Law enforcement data. Requires school corporations, charter schools, and accredited nonpublic schools to create, store, and maintain records for all emergency dispatch requests and arrests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0565 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of DNA evidence. Requires: (1) every individual arrested after June 30, 2015, for burglary, residential entry, a crime of violence, or a sex offense; and (2) a child found to be a delinquent child for the commission of an act that, if committed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0116 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax refunds. Requires a county auditor to pay a property tax refund on February 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the refund is allowed. Requires the county auditor to provide notice to the fiscal officer of each ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0066 | Intro
Sine Die | Investigational treatments for terminal illnesses. Permits use of investigational treatments for certain individuals with terminal illnesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0569 | Intro
Sine Die | The Reliable, Affordable, and Safe Power Act. Provides that, in response to the federal Environmental Protection Agency Clean Power Plan regulatory activity: (1) the governor and attorney general shall take appropriate steps to protect the state's so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0557 | Intro
Sine Die | Solitary confinement standards. Requires the department of correction to abide by the provisions of the: (1) United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; and (2) United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0558 | Intro
Sine Die | Land classification for tax purposes. Specifies the criteria for classifying land as agricultural land for property tax assessment purposes. Provides that certain undeveloped lands must be assessed as agricultural land regardless of the motives of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0541 | Intro
Sine Die | Sentence modification. Provides that a court may not modify the sentence of a person convicted of a crime of violence, and specifies that a person seeking to modify the sentence of a crime committed before July 1, 2014, may only do so by using the ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0192 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal fighting contests. 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] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0570 | Intro
Sine Die | Chronic disease reporting and funding. Requires the state department of health to report annually to the general assembly concerning the status of the state chronic disease registry and specifies information to be included. Establishes the kidney ear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0562 | Intro
Sine Die | Teaching methods. Requires the state board of education, the department of education, governing bodies of school corporations, superintendents, principals, and other public school administrators to: (1) endeavor to create an environment within public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0561 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle remarketers. Creates the Indiana vehicle remarketer commission (commission) to license and register persons engaged in the remarketing of motor vehicles. Sets standards and responsibilities for persons in the professions of vehicle remarketer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0555 | Intro
Sine Die | HERO plan. Establishes the Hoosier Employee Retirement Option plan (plan) to encourage Indiana residents to increase their rate of saving and to build assets for the use of participants and their survivors and beneficiaries after a participant's reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0122 | Intro
Sine Die | Vanderburgh circuit court magistrate. Allows the judge of the Vanderburgh circuit court to appoint a second full-time magistrate. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on courts and the judiciary.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0018 | Intro
Sine Die | Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation. Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation. Allows great-grandparents to seek visitation rights with their great-grandchildren in certain circumstances. Allows a grandparent or great-grandparent to seek...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0187 | Intro
Sine Die | Donations to educational foundations. Reenacts a provision (which expired in 2012) that authorizes a school corporation to donate up to $25,000 per year from any fund of the school corporation from which the donation may be legally made to a public s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0445 | Intro
Sine Die | Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. Provides that materials, compounds, mixtures, or preparations that contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine are schedule IV controlled substances that may be dispensed only by prescription, except for a product that is dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-15
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0527 | Intro
Sine Die | School performance measures. Provides that an accredited nonpublic school or freeway school may administer, instead of the ISTEP program, another nationally recognized and norm referenced assessment. Corrects obsolete cross-references.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0223 | Intro
Sine Die | Rape penalty. Increases the penalty for rape without an enhancement to a Level 2 felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Withdrawn |
| SB0553 | Intro
Sine Die | Fire and building safety. Provides that for purposes of the building code, a Class 2 structure townhouse may be separated from an adjoining unit by a one hour fire-resistance rated wall combined with a National Fire Protection Association 13D complia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0520 | Intro
Sine Die | School buses. Provides that when a school bus is operated on a highway, the driver shall load and unload a student as close as practical to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway. Makes changes to prerequisites for bidders to receive school trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0511 | Intro
Sine Die | Massage therapists. Provides that massage therapists are governed by the health professions standards of practice. (Under current law, massage therapists are governed by the professional licensing standards of practice.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0483 | Intro
Sine Die | Advanced technology vehicle fee. Imposes an annual fee on advanced technology vehicles. Deposits the fees in the motor vehicle highway account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| SB0480 | Intro
Sine Die | Nomination of candidates for U. Senate. Provides that a political party with a certain threshold number of members of the general assembly is required to nominate its candidate for United States Senate by a caucus consisting of all the members of tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0477 | Intro
Sine Die | Business development closing fund. Establishes the business development closing fund (fund) to provide incentives in the form of forgivable loans to be used to attract new business and economic development to Indiana and encourage expansion of existi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0537 | Intro
Sine Die | Lights and lamps on vehicles. Provides that certain vehicles may not be equipped with lamps or lights other than those specified. Makes technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0499 | Intro
Sine Die | Home rule powers of certain units. Gives Indianapolis-Marion County and second class cities (units) additional home rule powers. Provides that a unit may reject statutory restrictions otherwise applicable to the unit and adopt ordinances for governan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0540 | Intro
Sine Die | Various gaming matters. Authorizes riverboats to move inland to adjacent properties. Replaces the riverboat admissions tax with a supplemental wagering tax. Eliminates the supplemental distribution from the existing wagering tax. Authorizes table gam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0525 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax assessment. Provides the following if the application of an annual adjustment factor derived by an assessing official would result in an increase of more than 10% in the assessed value of one or more homesteads: (1) The assessing officia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0502 | Intro
Sine Die | State gross retail tax. Specifies that the double direct test for the gross retail tax exemption for agricultural machinery, tools, and equipment applies to agricultural machinery, tools, and equipment acquired for the direct use in the direct produc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0521 | Intro
Sine Die | Restroom access for certain retail customers. Provides that if a retail establishment has a toilet facility on its premises for the use of the retail establishment's employees, a customer, upon request, must be allowed to use the toilet facility duri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| SB0459 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair credit reporting. Provides that a violation of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (act), or any regulations issued under the act, in connection with a consumer transaction involving an Indiana consumer, is a deceptive act that is subject to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0552 | Intro
Sine Die | Tuition exemption for children of veterans. Removes the requirement that a veteran served during a time of war or performed hazardous duty recognized by an award or campaign medal in order for the veteran's child to receive a tuition and fee exemptio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0458 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic communications. Provides that the definition of "electronic communication" includes metadata that relates to an electronic communication. Requires that the search or seizure of an electronic communication be specifically authorized by stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0457 | Intro
Sine Die | Education funding. Increases the amounts used in determining performance grant awards. Appropriates $20,000,000 each state fiscal year of the biennium for performance grant awards that is in addition to the appropriation made by the budget act. Provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0468 | Intro
Sine Die | Property tax assessment. Provides that an assessor has the burden of proving that an increase in an assessment is correct, in any review or appeal before the county property tax assessment board of appeals and in any appeals taken to the Indiana boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0475 | Intro
Sine Die | Hemp oil registry for the treatment of epilepsy. Establishes a hemp oil registry for certain physicians, individuals, and caregivers for the use of hemp oil in the treatment of a child with intractable epilepsy. Establishes a pilot study registry for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0501 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana academic standards. Requires the state board of education (state board), before July 1, 2016, to readopt the Indiana academic standards that were in effect before January 1, 2009. Prohibits the state board, the department of education, and sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0550 | Intro
Sine Die | Professional development for school counselors. Requires the state board of education to develop professional development requirements or standards for school counselors, who hold a professional or accomplished teaching license, that emphasize improv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0494 | Intro
Sine Die | Alternative schools and expelled students. Provides that a student who is expelled is in violation of Indiana's compulsory school attendance law unless the student attends another school, an alternative school, or an alternative education program. Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0510 | Intro
Sine Die | School grades and teacher evaluations. Provides that statewide assessment (ISTEP) results may not be used as an objective measure in teacher evaluations during the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 school years. Provides that student assessment results may not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0519 | Intro
Sine Die | Statute of limitations on rape. Eliminates the statute of limitations for rape.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0455 | Intro
Sine Die | Video gaming terminals. Authorizes wagering on video gaming terminals in certain establishments. Establishes a licensing structure for participants in video gaming. Imposes a video gaming wagering tax of 30% of adjusted gross receipts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0513 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana promise scholarship program. Establishes the Indiana promise scholarship program and fund for students attending postsecondary educational institutions to earn associate degrees immediately after high school. Sets forth qualification requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
