| SB0505 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government finance. Appropriates $100,000,000 in 2016 and each year thereafter from the state general fund to be used to reduce school corporation transportation fund levies. Authorizes counties, cities, and towns to impose a separate property ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0482 | Intro
Sine Die | Performance and payment bonds. Requires that public-private agreements must contain performance bond and payment bond requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0542 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid payments for dialysis treatment. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for a Medicaid state plan amendment or demonstration waiver to provide kidney dialysis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0314 | Intro
Sine Die | Child exploitation and child pornography. Provides that for purposes of the elements of the crimes of: (1) child exploitation; and (2) possession of child pornography; sexual conduct includes the exhibition of the female breast with less than a fully...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
Withdrawn |
| SB0490 | Intro
Sine Die | Recounts and contests. Requires that, after December 31, 2015, the words "absentee ballot" be printed in prominent type with uniform capital letters at the top of every absentee ballot prepared and printed by a county election board. Eliminates the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0503 | Intro
Sine Die | Net metering for electric utility customers. Requires the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to adopt, not later than August 1, 2015, emergency rules amending the IURC's net metering and interconnection rules for electric utilities. Provides that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0512 | Intro
Sine Die | Coverage for spinal adjustments. Provides that the Indiana check-up plan must include chiropractic services, including spinal adjustments. Provides that implementation of the state plan to cover individuals eligible for Medicaid resulting from passag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0548 | Intro
Sine Die | Designated wild areas. Provides that 13 specified areas within certain state forests are designated wild areas. Specifies certain activities that are prohibited or allowed within a designated wild area. Establishes responsibilities for the department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0471 | Intro
Sine Die | Straight ticket voting pilot program. Establishes a straight ticket voting pilot program for the 2016 and 2018 general elections. Requires the secretary of state to designate three counties as straight ticket voting pilot counties based on county pop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Elections Committee |
| SB0493 | Intro
Sine Die | Redevelopment commission transfers. Provides that in the case of a tax increment financing allocation area established or reestablished after June 30, 2015, the governing body of a school corporation containing territory within the allocation area ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0486 | Intro
Sine Die | Punitive damages. Provides that when an award in a civil action includes a punitive damage award: (1) the court shall send a written copy of the punitive damage award to the office of the attorney general; (2) the state's interest in the punitive dam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Civil Law Committee |
| SB0529 | Intro
Sine Die | Septic tank inspections and fees. Provides that a regional sewage district (district) may not: (1) inspect a septic tank soil absorption system (system); or (2) impose a fee for an inspection of a system. Provides that a property owner may bring a ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0518 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual review of unpaid restitution orders. 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 with the court and with the state board of accounts a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0544 | Intro
Sine Die | School corporation annual reports. Requires that student information in a school corporation's annual performance report must be disaggregated by grade, gender, race, free and reduced price lunch status, and eligibility for special education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0452 | Intro
Sine Die | State board of education governance. Makes changes to the composition of the state board of education (state board). Provides that the state board may hire staff and administrative support. Provides that the state board shall meet once every six mont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0209 | Intro
Sine Die | Diabetes assessment report. Requires the state department of health, the state personnel department, and the office of the secretary of family and social services to: (1) collaborate to identify plans to reduce the incidence of diabetes and diabetes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0453 | Intro
Sine Die | State board of education. Makes changes to the composition of the state board of education (state board). Provides that the state board may hire staff and administrative support. Provides that the state board shall meet once every six months and at t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee |
| SB0389 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit for toll road charges. Provides an income tax credit to individuals who pay tolls to drive on the Indiana toll road for a nonbusiness purpose. Provides that the amount of the tax credit may not exceed the lesser of $300 or 50% of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-13
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0401 | Intro
Sine Die | Protected taxes and school corporations. Makes permanent the fund allocation of property tax reductions resulting from the granting of property tax circuit breaker credits for some school corporations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0428 | Intro
Sine Die | Supplemental county levy; Lake County. Provides that the supplemental county property tax levy in Lake County that is distributed to school corporations in Lake County expires on July 1, 2018. Provides that a school corporation that receives a share ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0430 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensing of electrical contractors. Establishes the electrical licensing board. Requires electrical contractors to be licensed. Establishes licensing requirements for electrical contractors. Adds references to electrical licensing to the laws that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee |
| SB0367 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditions of probation for certain sex offenders. Provides that as a condition of probation for a sex offender who is a sexually violent predator or an offender against children, the court shall prohibit contact with juveniles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0414 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of state general fund investment earnings. Provides that beginning after the 2016 state fiscal year, the investment earnings on the state general fund for the preceding state fiscal year shall be distributed to counties if the combined balances o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0392 | Intro
Sine Die | Patronizing a prostitute. Increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute from a Class A misdemeanor to a Level 6 felony when the prostitute is less than 18 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0410 | Intro
Sine Die | Water resources institute. Establishes a water resources institute. Provides that the water resources institute is a nonpartisan body corporate and politic consisting of an executive director and other staff members who have expertise in disciplines ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0279 | Intro
Sine Die | Threats and gun violence. Provides that a juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over an individual: (1) at least 14 years of age who carries a handgun without a license; or (2) who uses a firearm in the commission of an offense. Makes communicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0366 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance and firearms. Prohibits a personal lines property or casualty insurer from taking certain actions in connection with the ownership, possession, or use of a firearm by an insurance applicant, insured, or household member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0407 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana War Memorials. Provides for the Indiana War Memorials Commission (commission) to adopt rules that allow for the consumption and possession of alcoholic beverages in or on memorial facility property under certain circumstances. Allows the comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Veterans Affairs & The Military Committee |
| SB0431 | Intro
Sine Die | DNR director authority over dewatering wells. Amends the law concerning the emergency regulation of ground water rights to: (1) include within the definition of "dewatering well" a water well or pump system that is used as part of a mining project to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0444 | Intro
Sine Die | Driving while intoxicated and child endangerment. Provides that a court must order the installation of a certified ignition interlock device on a motor vehicle that is owned or expected to be operated by a person convicted of operating a motor vehicl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0397 | Intro
Sine Die | Liquor sales. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) to issue a liquor dealer's permit only to a package liquor store. (Current law allows the commission to issue a liquor dealer's permit to a drug store or a package liquor store.) Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Public Policy Committee |
| SB0399 | Intro
Sine Die | Levees. Provides that a county may pay the costs incurred by a committee in charge of a levee for maintenance or repairs on a levee and later be reimbursed through the assessment of the land benefited by the maintenance or repairs. (Current law requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0435 | Intro
Sine Die | Public depositories. Provides that a financial institution is ineligible to become a depository and receive public funds of the state if the financial institution has been found by: (1) the department of financial institutions (department); or (2) th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee |
| SB0417 | Intro
Sine Die | Indiana health exchange. Establishes the Indiana health exchange. Requires the commissioner of the department of insurance to design, implement, and administer the Indiana health exchange in accordance with federal law. Specifies certain exchange rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB0258 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax deduction for Ohio River bridge tolls. Provides an income tax deduction to qualified individuals who pay tolls to cross certain Ohio River bridges. Provides that a qualified individual is an individual who resides in Clark County or Floyd County ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0278 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug dealing and violent crimes. Increases the penalty for dealing certain drugs by one level, and raises the minimum amount for sentence enhancement from one gram to three grams. Removes the requirement that possession with intent to deliver be base...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0391 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare supplement insurance. Prohibits certain actions by an insurer that issues Medicare supplement policies in Indiana with respect to an applicant who: (1) is less than 65 years of age; (2) becomes eligible for Medicare because of disability; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0384 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxation of electronic cigarettes. Imposes a tax on electronic cigarettes at a rate of $0.0083 per milligram of nicotine per one milliliter of consumable product. Deposits the revenue from the tax in the state general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0454 | Intro
Sine Die | Public records requests for police video. Urges the legislative council to assign to a study committee during the 2015 legislative interim the topic of public records requests for police body camera video.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0416 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee's right to scheduled employment. Requires an employer to post a schedule of hours and days to be worked by certain employees not less than seven days prior to the first day that the employee is scheduled to work during that pay period. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Pensions and Labor Committee |
| SB0440 | Intro
Sine Die | Assessed value growth quotient for tax purposes. Provides that a county based assessed value growth quotient may be determined for each civil taxing unit. Provides that the assessed value growth quotient for a civil taxing unit is the lesser of: (1) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| SB0451 | Intro
Sine Die | Volunteer firefighters holding township office. Permits an individual to serve as a member of a township's volunteer fire department and also on the township's legislative body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB0274 | Intro
Sine Die | Crimes of violence and surety bonds. Provides that if a person charged with a crime of violence is admitted to bail, the person: (1) shall be admitted to bail by executing a bail bond with sufficient solvent sureties, depositing cash or securities in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0377 | Intro
Sine Die | Elimination of grand juries. Abolishes the grand jury. Makes conforming amendments, and repeals superseded provisions. Makes technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0386 | Intro
Sine Die | Utility facility relocation. Makes changes to the statutes concerning: (1) emergency repairs to the state highway system by the department of transportation; and (2) utility facility relocations necessitated by projects on the state highway system; t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| SB0400 | Intro
Sine Die | Biliteracy. Establishes the state seal of biliteracy to recognize public school graduates who demonstrate a high level of proficiency in English and at least one other language. Requires the state board of education to adopt rules and to direct the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| SB0418 | Intro
Sine Die | Inmates and Medicaid applications. Makes: (1) the department of correction, for an inmate; and (2) the sheriff, for a person who is subject to lawful detention; the authorized representative for applying for Medicaid for an inmate or lawfully detaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| SB0442 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting wildlife. Removes exotic mammals from the animals that may be propagated or offered for hunting at a shooting preserve. Makes it a Class C misdemeanor to: (1) engage in computer assisted remote hunting or provide or operate a computer assiste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0404 | Intro
Sine Die | Manure structure approval disclosure requirements. Provides that an application to the department of environmental management for approval of the construction or expansion of a satellite manure storage structure must include a disclosure statement pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0200 | Intro
Sine Die | Candidates for state and federal office. Provides that a person who holds the office of governor or a legislative office may: (1) file a declaration of candidacy for nomination to: (A) the same office the person holds; and (B) a federal office; and (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12
Withdrawn |
