| SB0498 | Engross
Sine Die | DNR sale of nursery stock and wildflower seeds. Authorizes the department of natural resources (department) to sell or distribute nursery stock (botanically classified hardy perennial or biennial trees, shrubs, vines, fruit pits, and other plants or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0287 | Engross
Sine Die | Expungement. Provides that expungement provisions concerning an arrest that does not lead to a conviction also apply to criminal charges or juvenile delinquency allegations that do not lead to a conviction or juvenile delinquency adjudication. Provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0099 | Engross
Sine Die | Jury service review. Permits a nursing mother who is denied permission to defer jury service to request the trial judge to reconsider her request for deferral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0350 | Engross
Sine Die | East Chicago school board. Reduces the number of members of the governing body of the School City of East Chicago from nine to five, beginning January 1, 2017. Provides that if a vacancy occurs on the governing body before January 1, 2017, the vacanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Education Committee |
| SB0127 | Engross
Sine Die | Religious exemption in state and local contracts. Provides that a contract entered into, modified, or renewed by the state or any of its political or civil subdivisions after June 30, 2015, with a religious corporation, an association, an educational...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
Representative Karickhoff removed as cosponsor |
| SB0427 | Engross
Sine Die | Distributions of public safety income tax revenue. Provides for mandatory distributions of public safety local option income tax (LOIT) revenue to the eligible civil taxing units of an adopting county, which includes the adopting county, the cities a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0359 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales tax exemption for data warehouse equipment. Provides a state sales tax exemption for the sale or lease of certain enterprise information technology equipment. Requires that the investment in the equipment must be at least $100,000,000. Specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0388 | Engross
Sine Die | Reporting of property forfeiture. Requires the Indiana prosecuting attorneys council to make an annual report to the legislative council concerning civil forfeitures conducted in Indiana, and requires the state police department to annually report to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0495 | Engross
Sine Die | Study of ethnic history. Requires the study of ethnic and racial groups to be included as part of each school corporation's high school United States history course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Education Committee |
| SB0470 | Engross
Sine Die | Study of issues related to student assessments. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of studying issues related to the development by the state board of education of acceptable tests from which all scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0128 | Engross
Sine Die | Sewage and waste management districts. Provides that the county executive of a county in which a regional sewage district was formed in response to an agreed order entered into after August 31, 2005, may elect to transform the regional sewage distric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB0446 | Engross
Sine Die | Local government financial reporting. Provides that certain political subdivisions may not issue bonds unless: (1) the political subdivision has filed required annual financial reports with the state board of accounts or (in the case of a school corp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0385 | Engross
Sine Die | Murder sentencing; aggravating circumstance. Permits the state to seek the death penalty or a sentence of life without parole for a murder committed in a building primarily used for educational purposes if the murder is committed: (1) on school prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0125 | Engross
Sine Die | Property or casualty insurance coverage for innocent coinsured. Urges the legislative council to assign the topic of property or casualty insurance coverage for an innocent coinsured to an interim study committee during the 2015 interim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
Representative Lehman added as cosponsor |
| SB0334 | Engross
Sine Die | Abortion prohibition based on sex or disability. Prohibits a person from performing an abortion if the person knows that the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion solely because of: (1) the sex of the fetus; or (2) a diagnosis or potential diagnosis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0321 | Engross
Sine Die | Study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to a study committee during the 2015 legislative interim the following topics with regard to counties, cities, towns, townships, fire territories and fire protection districts: (1) Contracting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0421 | Engross
Sine Die | Autocycles. Defines "autocycle" for purposes of motor vehicle law, and provides that an autocycle is a motorcycle. Makes conforming changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0536 | Engross
Sine Die | Methamphetamine. Defines "drug related felony" and requires courts to report drug related felonies to the state police department. Requires the state police department to report drug related felonies to NPLEx so that NPLEx can generate a stop sale al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0491 | Engross
Sine Die | School emergency response systems. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate interim study committee the topic of school emergency response systems for study during the 2015 interim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0538 | Engross
Sine Die | Teacher collective bargaining. Adds a definition of "professional employee organization". Provides that a school employer shall submit a copy of the affidavit submitted by the exclusive representative indicating the number of teachers who are members...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0539 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulation of e-liquids. Defines "e-liquid" as a substance that is intended to be vaporized and inhaled using a vapor pen. Requires a manufacturer of e-liquid to obtain a permit from the alcohol and tobacco commission before bottling e-liquid or sell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Public Policy Committee |
| SB0411 | Engross
Sine Die | Liability of a real estate licensee. Provides that a licensed real estate broker is not liable for certain real estate related reports, statements, or information except in certain circumstances. Adds a reference to the list of statutes that grant im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0409 | Engross
Sine Die | Court fees. Extends the mortgage foreclosure counseling and education court fee until July 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0379 | Engross
Sine Die | Public transportation corporations. Allows the legislative body of Monroe County and the Bloomington public transportation corporation (corporation) to expand the corporation's service area to include the entire county by adopting substantially ident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0443 | Engross
Sine Die | Various education matters. Allows grants from the safe schools fund to provide schoolwide programs to improve school climate and professional development and training in alternatives to suspension and expulsion and evidence based practices that contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Education Committee |
| SB0456 | Engross
Sine Die | Unemployment insurance. Provides that any part of an unemployment insurance surcharge not used to pay interest on the advances made to the state from the federal unemployment trust fund must be credited against the total amount of benefits charged to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0439 | Engross
Sine Die | Controlled substances. Limits Medicaid reimbursement for Subutex and Suboxone or an similar trade name or generic of the drug when the drug was prescribed for the treatment of pain management to only if the drug was prescribed by a physician who meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0419 | Engross
Sine Die | Town marshals. Provides that, after December 31, 2015, a town law enforcement officer who: (1) is not a member of the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund and does not participate in another pension or retirement plan o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee |
| SB0387 | Engross
Sine Die | PTABOA matters. Provides that, if a taxpayer's representative fails to appear at a scheduled hearing for review before a county property tax assessment board of appeals (PTABOA), then the taxpayer's representative waives the right to represent the ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0382 | Engross
Sine Die | Statewide 911 system. Repeals a provision that: (1) required the budget committee to conduct a review of the statewide 911 system for years 2013 and 2014; and (2) provided for the July 1, 2015, expiration of the statewide 911 fee if the budget commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0469 | Engross
Sine Die | Rural broadband. Urges the legislative council (council) to assign to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications (committee) the topic of the provision of affordable broadband services in unserved areas in Indiana. Provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0403 | Engross
Sine Die | Student athletes and head injuries. Provides that the law concerning concussions and head injuries applies to student athletes in grades 5 through 12 who participate in interscholastic or intramural sports. (Current law provides that the law concerni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Education Committee |
| SB0462 | Engross
Sine Die | Advertising by health care practitioners. Specifies certain information to be included beginning January 1, 2016, in health care advertisements by a health care practitioner. Sets forth requirements that must be met in order for a physician to use th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0398 | Engross
Sine Die | School bus stop arm violations. Provides that a law enforcement officer may arrest a person when the officer has probable cause to believe that the person has committed a misdemeanor by recklessly passing a school bus when the arm signal device of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0057 | Engross
Sine Die | Accounts under a power of attorney. Provides that an attorney in fact is entitled to judicial review and settlement of an account. Provides that absent fraud, misrepresentation, inadequate disclosure, or failure to provide proper notice, an attorney ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0005 | Engross
Sine Die | Uniform Powers of Appointment Act. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on courts and the judiciary or another appropriate interim study committee the topic of the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act, as approved and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| SB0259 | Engross
Sine Die | STEM education. Establishes an early learning STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) associate degree model program. Provides for the selection of 10 high schools from around Indiana to participate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Education Committee |
| SB0339 | Engross
Sine Die | School bus monitors. Provides that the visual acuity required of a school bus driver is not required of a school bus monitor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Education Committee |
| SB0291 | Engross
Sine Die | Probate code study commission. Establishes the probate code study commission (commission). Allows the commission to meet only during interim periods. Requires the commission to study and recommend to the general assembly changes that are needed in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee |
| HB1548 | Engross
Sine Die | Midwives. Removes the requirement that a direct entry midwife (midwife) have a collaborative agreement with a physician requiring that the midwife's client have a consulting physician. Requires a client to be examined by a physician who is qualified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee |
| SB0120 | Engross
Sine Die | Invasive species council. Postpones the expiration of the law establishing the invasive species council from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2023. Changes references to the entity within which the invasive species council is established to reflect the chang...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB0347 | Engross
Sine Die | Transportation network companies. Requires a transportation network company (TNC) to have a permit issued by the Indiana department of transportation to provide TNC services in Indiana. Establishes requirements that a TNC must satisfy in order to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Roads and Transportation Committee |
| SB0326 | Engross
Sine Die | State board of accounts examinations. Permits the state board of accounts to determine the frequency with which the state board of accounts conducts financial examinations based on risk based criteria approved by the audit and financial reporting sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee |
| SB0211 | Engross
Sine Die | Debt collection. Amends the statute concerning deceptive consumer sales as follows: (1) Defines the term "debt buyer". (2) Specifies that a debt buyer is a debt collector for purposes of the statute. (3) Requires a debt collector to make certain disc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0025 | Engross
Sine Die | Aircraft license excise tax. Eliminates the provision in current law that automatically reclassifies an aircraft in an aircraft dealer's inventory from the status of "aircraft inventory" to the status of "property of a nondealer" after the aircraft d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0212 | Engross
Sine Die | Inmates and Medicaid. Makes the department of correction (department) an inmate's authorized representative for applying for Medicaid for inmates who are potentially eligible for Medicaid and who incur medical care expenses that are not otherwise rei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Public Health Committee |
| SB0354 | Engross
Sine Die | Judgments. Provides that a judgment creditor may require a judgment debtor to appear in court to provide information concerning the judgment debtor's income and assets: (1) at any time, if the judgment debtor's circumstances have changed; or (2) not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB0037 | Engross
Sine Die | Possession of paraphernalia. Excludes possession of rolling papers and raw materials from the crime of possession of paraphernalia, and removes possession of paraphernalia as an infraction. Makes the knowing or intentional possession of paraphernalia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Courts and Criminal Code Committee |
| SB0316 | Engross
Sine Die | Clark County study commission. Establishes the Clark County tax leadership commission (commission). Requires the commission to: (1) study the structure and operation of each existing tax increment financing district in Clark County; (2) study the imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0352 | Engross
Sine Die | Identifying information for adoptions. Repeals, effective July 1, 2016, provisions applicable to adoptions finalized before January 1, 1994, that prohibit the release of identifying adoption information unless a consent to release the information is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
