| IN | SB0016 | Pass | Guardians ad litem in adoption pilot program. Establishes a guardian ad litem pilot program in LaPorte County, Marshall County, and Starke County. Requires a court to appoint a guardian ad litem in an adoption proceeding if a parent of the child has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 97 |
| IN | SB0015 | Pass | Military benefits and services poster. Requires that the Indiana department of labor consult with the Indiana department of veterans' affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services poster. Provides that the veterans' benefits and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 96 |
| IN | SB0179 | Pass | Commission on court appointed attorneys. Requires the justice reinvestment advisory council (council) to conduct a study on criminal indigency determinations by all Indiana trial courts. Requires the council to submit a report containing recommendati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 111 |
| IN | SB0037 | Pass | Oversight of convention and visitor bureau. Provides that, in making appointments to the convention and visitor bureau, the appointing authority shall give sole consideration to individuals who are employed as executives or managers in certain busine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 102 |
| IN | SB0150 | Pass | Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Creates the artificial intelligence task force (task force) to study and assess use of artificial intelligence technology by state agencies. Provides that political subdivisions, state agencies, school corpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 108 |
| IN | SB0002 | Pass | Child care. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation to annually report to the general assembly regarding funds dedicated to supporting child care under specified state and federal programs. Defines an "out-of-school-time program". Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 92 |
| IN | SB0256 | Pass | Fiscal matters. Provides that money in the attorney general contingency fee fund is continuously appropriated and is not subject to allotment. Reinstates provisions concerning meetings of the budget committee. Provides that money in the high tech cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 123 |
| IN | SB0148 | Pass | Workforce data collection. Requires the division of disability and rehabilitative services (division), beginning 12 months after the direct support professional registry is implemented, to post monthly on the division's website the total number of in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 106 |
| IN | SB0212 | Pass | Various education matters. Provides that the Indiana school for the blind and visually impaired board shall give preference to a candidate for the chief executive officer position who meets the qualifications for an Indiana teacher's certificate in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 115 |
| IN | SB0033 | Pass | Distributions of public safety income tax revenue. Defines"courtroom costs". Provides that a county fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to impose a tax rate for: (1) in the case of a tax rate adopted before January 1, 2024, county staff expenses of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 101 |
| IN | SB0190 | Pass | State disaster relief fund. Makes changes to the permissible uses for the state disaster relief fund (fund). Makes changes to the requirements for an eligible entity to receive financial assistance from the fund. Makes changes to the calculations use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 112 |
| IN | SB0260 | Pass | Neighborhood and individual development incentives. Defines a "community based organization" as a private, nonprofit corporation whose board of directors is comprised of business, civic, and community leaders, and whose principal purpose includes the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 124 |
| IN | SB0228 | Pass | Various tax matters. Amends the economic threshold for sales tax nexus to remove the number of sales transactions in the state as one of the two current triggers that require retail merchants to collect and remit sales tax. Allows a retail merchant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Public Law 118 |
| IN | SB0020 | Pass | Municipal riverfront development district permits. Specifies that the alcohol and tobacco commission may issue restaurant permits for a municipal riverfront development district established by a town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Public Law 73 |
| IN | SB0221 | Pass | State board of accounts. Limits the authority of the director of the special investigations department to investigations involving public monies that are the subject of financial examinations undertaken by the state board. Provides that an internal a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Public Law 78 |
| IN | SB0182 | Pass | Regulation of drones near correctional facilities. Provides that the crime of trafficking with an inmate includes the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) to deliver contraband, and that the crime of public safety remote aerial interference incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 22 |
| IN | SB0058 | Pass | Restaurant carryout sales. Exempts a specialty or gourmet market holding a retailer's permit with carryout privileges that was initially issued in September 2019 from the gross retail income requirements to sell alcoholic beverages for carryout.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 13 |
| IN | SB0109 | Pass | Adult protective services. Allows the division of aging to contract with a person qualified to provide adult protective services. Removes language that allowed the division to contract with a governmental entity if a prosecuting attorney decides not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 16 |
| IN | SB0006 | Pass | Reading proficiency. Requires the department of education (department) to develop a method to identify students in grade 4 through grade 8 who: (1) did not pass the determinant evaluation of reading skills approved by the state board of education; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 7 |
| IN | SB0215 | Pass | Medicare supplement insurance. Provides that after December 31, 2024, an issuer that makes a Medicare supplement policy or certificate available to persons at least 65 years of age must make the equivalent policy or certificate available to an indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 28 |
| IN | SB0171 | Pass | Reunification plan for a child in need of services. Amends the circumstances under which reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian or preserve a child's family are not required.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 19 |
| IN | SB0034 | Pass | Occupational licensing. Requires the professional licensing agency (agency) to study universal occupational licensing laws enacted in other states. Requires the agency to submit a report with findings and recommendations to the general assembly not l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 8 |
| IN | SB0253 | Pass | Lake Michigan rescue equipment. Requires the owner of a pier or public access site on Lake Michigan to install public rescue equipment, including at least one ring life buoy, on the pier or public access site. Establishes requirements concerning ring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 35 |
| IN | SB0185 | Pass | Student use of wireless communication device. Requires each school corporation and charter school to: (1) adopt and implement a wireless communication device policy that governs student use of a wireless communication device; and (2) publish the poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 24 |
| IN | SB0183 | Pass | County option property tax exemption. Provides that a county fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to exempt mobile homes and manufactured homes located in the county from property taxation (exemption ordinance). Provides that for an annual assessment d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 23 |
| IN | SB0005 | Pass | Lead water line replacement and lead remediation. Specifies that, for purposes of the statute concerning the replacement of customer owned lead service lines by water utilities, a municipally owned utility includes a utility company owned, operated, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 6 |
| IN | SB0247 | Pass | Water and wastewater utility infrastructure. Amends the statute concerning the acquisition by a utility company of a water or wastewater utility to provide that if: (1) the appraised value of the utility property to be acquired does not exceed $3,000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 34 |
| IN | SB0273 | Pass | Biomarker testing coverage. Requires a health plan (which includes a policy of accident and sickness insurance, a health maintenance organization contract, the Medicaid risk based managed care program, and a state employee health plan) to provide cov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Public Law 37 |
| IN | SB0061 | Engross
50% | Tourism improvement districts. Provides that a person may circulate a petition to create a tourism improvement district (district) within the territory of a county, city, or town (local unit). Specifies the contents of the tourism improvement distric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| IN | SB0275 | Engross
50% | Pension matters. Provides that a state employee may affirmatively elect to enroll in the deferred compensation plan prior to the auto enroll date on day 31 of the state employee's employment. Removes a provision that sets a maximum employer surcharge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| IN | SB0010 | Engross
50% | Community cares initiative grant pilot program. Establishes the community cares initiative grant pilot program for the purpose of assisting in the costs of starting or expanding mobile integrated health care programs and mobile crisis teams in Indian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| IN | SB0233 | Engross
50% | Certified community behavioral health clinics. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services and the division of mental health and addiction to include each community mental health center that meets certain requirements in: (1) t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| IN | SB0297 | Engross
50% | Administrative rules. Requires an agency to conduct a regulatory analysis for certain proposed rules, including if the implementation and compliance costs are at least $1,000,000. Requires the office of management and budget to notify the legislative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| IN | SB0200 | Engross
50% | Nonprofit loan center loans for state employees. Provides that not later than: (1) September 1, 2024, in the case of a state agency other than a state educational institution or a school corporation; (2) September 1, 2025, in the case of a state agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Financial Institutions Committee |
| IN | SB0139 | Engross
50% | Psilocybin treatment program. Establishes the therapeutic psilocybin research fund, administered by the Indiana department of health (state department), to provide financial assistance to research institutions in Indiana to study the use of psilocybi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| IN | SB0147 | Engross
50% | Child care property tax exemption and evaluation. Amends the property tax exemption for property used by a for-profit provider of early childhood education, including by requiring the provider to offer age appropriate curriculum and by excluding from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| IN | SB0142 | Engross
50% | Coverage for mobile integrated healthcare services. Provides that: (1) a state employee health plan; (2) a policy of accident and sickness policy; and (3) an individual or group contract; must provide reimbursement beginning July 1, 2024, and ending ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Insurance Committee |
| IN | SB0157 | Engross
50% | Landlocked property. Defines "landlocked property" as real property that has been shut off from all public highways as a result of the vacation of one or more public highways. Provides that if an action of the state, or an agency or political subdivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | SB0129 | Engross
50% | Police officer employment and training cost reimbursement. Allows a county, city, or town (unit) to be reimbursed for some or all of a police officer's employment and training costs from a unit that subsequently employs the police officer less than t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Local Government Committee |
| IN | SB0154 | Engross
50% | Transportation funding. Provides that a school corporation may use the school corporation's operations fund for transportation of school children to certain: (1) apprenticeship programs; (2) career and technical education programs; (3) modern youth a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| IN | SB0284 | Engross
50% | Consumer genetic testing providers. Provides that a person may not discriminate against an individual on the basis of the individual's solicitation and use of consumer genetic testing services or on the basis of the results of genetic testing perform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development Committee |
| IN | SB0272 | Intro
25% | School based health centers and student health. Requires a school corporation to provide certain health services to students. Allows a school corporation to contract with a health care provider, health system, or community partner to establish a scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| IN | SB0145 | Intro
25% | Tax credit for charter school contribution. Authorizes the governing body of a charter school to establish a charter school building fund (fund) for the purpose of accepting charitable contributions to be used to fund one or more capital projects of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee |
| IN | SB0003 | Intro
25% | Prior authorization. Provides that a utilization review entity may only impose prior authorization requirements on less than 1% of any given specialty or health care service and 1% of health care providers overall in a calendar year. Prohibits a util...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| IN | SB0024 | Intro
25% | Minimum age to carry a handgun. Changes the minimum age required to carry a handgun to 21 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| IN | SB0025 | Intro
25% | Election of Lake County superior court judges. Provides that the superior court judges of Lake County are elected as are other superior court judges. Provides that the change to the election of a judge does not occur until the general election that o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-08
To Senate Elections Committee |
| IN | SB0026 | Intro
25% | Prohibition of firearms at polling places. Prohibits a person from carrying a firearm in or near: (1) a chute; (2) polls; (3) certain areas where voters congregate or are likely to congregate; or (4) any room where ballots are being counted. Provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-08
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee |
| IN | SB0027 | Intro
25% | Driver instructions of law enforcement procedures. Requires the driver education advisory board to consult with the commissioner of the bureau of motor vehicles (commissioner) and the state police department, and advise the commissioner in the admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-08
To Senate Homeland Security & Transportation Committee |
| IN | SB0161 | Intro
25% | Education matters. Increases the maximum amount of the income tax credit for an individual employed as a teacher for amounts expended for classroom supplies from $100 to $1,500 per taxable year. Provides that a student may be suspended or expelled on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-08
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee |
| IN | SB0162 | Intro
25% | Air quality. Authorizes a town, city, or county to establish or designate an agency to act for the town, city, or county as a local air pollution control agency (agency). Requires the commissioner of the department of environmental management (depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-08
To Senate Environmental Affairs Committee |
