Prepared by: David Bottorff
Report created on March 29, 2024
 
HB1033RAILROAD CROSSINGS. (JACKSON C) Requires a railroad corporation to inform the local law enforcement authority of a blocked railroad-highway grade crossing in certain instances.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1033
 
HB1035REMOVAL OF A COUNTY ELECTED OFFICER. (AYLESWORTH M) Allows the county executive and county fiscal body to remove the auditor, treasurer, recorder, surveyor, coroner, or assessor (county officer) for failing to be physically present in the county officer's office for at least one work day each month, unless the county officer takes leave to which the officer is entitled by law or county personnel policy. Provides that the county officer's removal is initiated by adoption of a resolution by the county executive (in Marion County) or the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the members of the county executive (in a county other than Marion County). Provides that the county officer's removal is effective upon the county fiscal body adopting a resolution by an affirmative vote of at least: (1) 17 members, in the case of the 25 member Marion County fiscal body; (2) seven members, in the case of the nine member St. Joseph County fiscal body; or (3) five members, in the case of the seven member county fiscal body of any other county. Requires the resolutions of the county executive and county fiscal body to state identical findings and facts supporting the county officer's removal. Allows a county officer who has been removed from office to petition a court for judicial review. Provides that, if the court determines that the resolutions' findings are not supported by substantial evidence, the county officer is reinstated for any unexpired term and entitled to any salary withheld pending judicial review.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1035
 
HB1061SUBDIVIDING LAND. (ELLINGTON J) Allows a property owner to subdivide a parcel by deed, if the parcel is being subdivided to build or expand a residential structure or home, the use is a permitted use, the deed is recorded, a plat drawing is submitted to the political subdivision, and the lot is served by a permitted septic system, sewer system, or package plant for sewage treatment. Provides that the subdivision of a parcel is not subject to any requirements or approvals of the political subdivision with regard to zoning the property with certain exceptions.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1061
 
HB1095CONTRACTS FOR EMERGENCY ROAD REPAIRS. (SULLIVAN H) Authorizes the Indiana department of transportation (INDOT) commissioner to declare an emergency when a part of the state highway system has been damaged to the extent it is unusable by the traveling public or unsafe to use. (Under current law, the governor must declare such an emergency. Current law permits INDOT to award a contract for repairs by soliciting bids from at least three prequalified persons without use of the formal bidding process.) Repeals a provision that permits a contract to be awarded under such circumstances only if three bids are received and the lowest bid does not exceed the engineer's estimate to repair by more than 10%.
 Current Status:   3/30/2020 - Public Law 16
 State Bill Page:   HB1095
 
HB1108STATE BOARD OF ACCOUNTS. (LEHMAN M) Makes various changes to statutes concerning the state board of accounts (board). Adds a definition of a "responsible officer of an audited entity". Allows the audit committee to determine the amount of the bond for the state examiner, deputy examiners, and field examiners based on applicable risk considerations. Repeals a statute that addresses duties required by law on April 5, 1909. Provides that, for purposes of the risk based examination criteria, the board may perform examinations of certain audited entities more frequently than once every four years if required by a ratings agency that rates debt maintained by such an audited entity. Provides that the board may issue management letters based on professional auditing standards to certain audited entities. Provides that the state examiner, deputy examiner, or field examiner may issue subpoenas to enforce the filing of certain reports. Establishes a procedure governing the examination of certain bodies corporate and politic. Provides that the procedure applies only to a body corporate and politic whose enabling statute does not provide for an audit, examination, or other engagement by the state board of accounts or an independent public accounting firm concerning financial or compliance related matters of the body corporate and politic. Makes changes to statutes establishing the forfeiture of office for the failure to file certain reports, interference with an examiner, and the failure to adopt or use the system of accounting and reporting adopted by the board. Provides that, as an alternative to an order to forfeit office, a court may impose a civil penalty that does not exceed $500 for each day that the public officer or responsible officer continues to violate an obligation with respect to an audit, examination, or other engagement by the board. Specifies that the individual is personally liable for a civil penalty imposed on the individual for such a violation. Provides that the board may collect the expenses from the audited entity that the board incurs in carrying out the audit, examination, or other engagement.
 Current Status:   3/30/2020 - Public Law 157
 State Bill Page:   HB1108
 
HB1113LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE. (LEONARD D) Changes the deadline for reporting bonds issued or leases executed after September 30. Requires budget committee review of an agreement: (1) in which the Indiana finance authority or the state is a party; and (2) that would increase revenue as a result of a sale or lease of a state asset, or a grant of a license to operate a state asset, if the increase in revenue as a result is at least $100,000,000. Changes the defined term "assessed value growth quotient" to the term "maximum levy growth quotient" without changing the definition. Allows the department of local government finance (department) to amend certain rules to conform with statutory changes. Requires counties to provide data related to property taxation to the department. (Current law requires counties to provide the data to the department and the legislative services agency.) Amends and adds provisions regarding the assessment of a golf course. Eliminates unnecessary information from the sales disclosure form. Changes the term "industrial facility" in the statutes concerned with the assessment of industrial facilities. Prohibits township assessors and vendors who contract with county assessors or townships from assessing industrial facilities in Lake County. Provides that, for purposes of determining the assessed value of real property for an individual who has received an over 65 deduction, a disabled veteran deduction, or an over 65 circuit breaker credit, subsequent increases in assessed value are not considered unless the increase is attributable to physical improvements to the property. Provides that a taxpayer may appeal a change in the assessed value of personal property made by a township assessor or county assessor by filing a written notice of review with the county property tax assessment board of appeals (PTABOA). Provides that a taxpayer may appeal a change in the assessed value of personal property made by a PTABOA by filing a written notice of review with the Indiana board of tax review. Removes existing language that provides that, if a PTABOA fails to change an assessed value claimed by a taxpayer on a personal property return and give notice of the change within the time prescribed, the assessor may file a petition for review of the assessment by the Indiana board. Changes the debt service obligation reporting date. Provides that a political subdivision shall submit the date, time, and place of the final adoption of the budget, tax rate, and levy through the department's computer gateway. Requires a political subdivision to indicate on its budget ordinance whether the political subdivision intends to issue debt after December 1 or file a shortfall appeal. Requires a political subdivision that makes an additional unbudgeted appropriation to submit the additional appropriation to the department within 15 days after the additional appropriation is adopted. Provides procedures for increases for the maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levies for Sullivan County, the city of Wabash, and the Wabash city school corporation. Specifies that the county treasurer's property tax comparison statement, issued annually, must include: (1) information stating how a taxpayer can obtain information regarding the taxpayer's notice of assessment or reassessment; and (2) a remittance coupon indicating payment amount due at each payment due date. Eliminates the use of the state address confidentiality form to submit a request to restrict access to a covered person's address maintained in a public property data base. Provides that, if a taxpayer is owed a refund that exceeds $500,000 for excessive property taxes paid on real property, a county auditor may pay the property tax refund in equal installments of property tax credits for at least five and not more than 10 years, depending on the amount owed to the taxpayer. Requires the department to provide certain assessment and tax data to the legislative services agency within one business day of receipt. Eliminates the requirement that a candidate for an assessor-appraiser examination be an Indiana resident. Provides that if an adopting body under the local income tax law wishes to submit a proposed notice, ordinance, or resolution to the department for preliminary review, the adopting body shall submit the notice, ordinance, or resolution on the prescribed forms. Modifies the standard formula for the calculation of certified shares of local income tax revenue in Hamilton County after 2020 and before 2024 to calculate adjusted amounts of certified shares for the city of Carmel and the city of Fishers. Eliminates the requirement in the context of teacher collective bargaining for the department to certify the amount of an operating referendum tax levy or a school safety referendum tax levy. Provides an exception to the maximum term or repayment period for bonds issued by a school corporation for a school building construction project if a loan is made or guaranteed by a federal agency. Changes from $1.50 to $3 the amount of the fee that a lessor in a rental purchase agreement may impose for accepting rental payments by telephone. Transfers responsibility for reporting by political subdivisions of other post-employment benefits from the department to the state board of accounts. Provides that money in the fund of a flood control improvement district established after December 31, 2019, may be used for a flood control works project in a location outside the boundaries of the district. Expires this provision on March 1, 2022. Allows a unit of local government to establish a public safety officer survivors' health coverage cumulative fund to discharge its obligation to pay for health coverage for the survivors of a member of the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund who was employed by the unit and died in the line of duty. Aligns the deadline for public libraries to adopt a budget with the general deadline to adopt a budget. Removes a provision in current law requiring the state board of accounts to approve the form of a record for stating certain unpaid costs on unsafe premises. Removes a provision in current law requiring a township to treat a transfer of money as part of the township's ad valorem property tax levy for the year. Provides that, if a township board member (in a county other than Marion County) is a member of the immediate family of the township trustee, the township board member may not participate in a vote on the adoption of the township's budget and tax levies; and if a majority of the members of the township board are so precluded from voting on the township's budget and tax levies, then the township's most recent annual appropriations are continued for the ensuing budget year. Provides that a person that has certain business relationships with another person that owes delinquent taxes, special assessments, penalties, interest, or costs attributable to a prior tax sale is prohibited from bidding on or purchasing real property at a tax sale or from bidding on, purchasing, receiving, or leasing a tract under the law governing the disposal of property by local governments. Requires the county treasurer to require each person bidding at a tax sale to sign a form affirming that the person is not bidding on or purchasing tracts or items of real property on behalf of or as an agent for a person who is prohibited from purchasing at a tax sale. Allows certain nonprofit entities that failed to comply with the e
 Current Status:   3/30/2020 - Public Law 159
 State Bill Page:   HB1113
 
HB1114LOCAL INCOME TAXES. (THOMPSON J) Expires the existing local income tax law on December 31, 2021, and adds a new local income tax law effective in 2022 and thereafter. Does the following under the new local income tax law: (1) Authorizes counties, municipalities, and school corporations to each enact a property tax relief rate of not more than 0.5% in the case of counties and municipalities and not more than 0.25% in the case of school corporations. Provides that in Marion County, municipalities may not enact a property tax relief rate, but the Marion County city-county council may adopt a 1% property tax relief rate. (2) Authorizes counties, municipalities (other than municipalities in Marion County), and school corporations to each enact an expenditure rate. (3) Provides that an expenditure rate may not exceed: (A) 1.25% in the case of counties other than Marion County or 2% in the case of Marion County; (B) 1.25% in the case of municipalities (other than municipalities in Marion County); and (C) 0.25% in the case of school corporations. (4) Provides that, if an expenditure rate is imposed by a municipality, the municipality shall receive the revenue from the tax, and specifies that the revenue may be used for any legal purpose of the municipality (including providing additional property tax credits). (5) Specifies that a school corporation may not adopt an expenditure rate unless: (A) the expenditure rate is approved by the voters of the school corporation in a local public question; or (B) the revenue from the expenditure rate is used to provide additional property tax credits. Provides that, if a school corporation's expenditure rate is approved by the voters, the revenue may be used for any legal purpose of the school corporation (including providing additional property tax credits). Provides that the maximum period for an expenditure rate approved by the voters of a school corporation is eight years, but that the expenditure rate may be reimposed by the school corporation if approved by the voters. (6) Provides for a distribution formula for certified shares using a weighted combination of property tax levies and residential assessed value for qualified civil taxing units. Phases in the weights over five years beginning in 2022. Provides that, if an expenditure rate is imposed by a county other than Marion County, the revenue shall be distributed as certified shares to civil taxing units in the county (other than municipalities and school corporations) based on the allocation factor. Specifies that, in counties other than Marion County, the revenue from the county's expenditure rate may be allocated to a public safety answering point or used to provide additional property tax credits before the remaining revenue is distributed as certified shares. (7) Provides that the 2% maximum expenditure rate in Marion County consists of: (A) an expenditure rate of not more than 1%, to be distributed as certified shares to the county and to excluded cities in the county based on the allocation factor; and (B) an expenditure rate of not more than 1%, to be distributed as certified shares to the county and to townships in the county based on the allocation factor. (8) Specifies that in Marion County: (A) the revenue from the county's expenditure rate may be allocated to a public communications systems and computer facilities district, a public library, or a public transportation corporation, or for additional property tax credits before the remaining revenue is distributed as certified shares; and (B) revenue distributed as certified shares may be used for any legal purpose of the unit receiving the certified shares. (9) Provides that, after May 31, 2020, a political subdivision may not pledge for the payment of bonds, leases, or other obligations any tax revenue received under the current local income tax law (other than a special purpose rate). (10) Maintains the existing special purpose rates. (11) Provides that, after December 31, 2021, a local income tax rate imposed for transit purposes after approval in a local public question: (A) is a separate special purpose rate; and (B) is not part of the county's expenditure rate or considered in determining whether the county is imposing its maximum expenditure rate. (12) For property taxes due and payable in 2022 and thereafter, requires the department of local government finance to adjust each maximum property tax levy for which a levy freeze amount was applied under the existing local income tax law in 2021. (13) Authorizes a political subdivision to appeal to the department of local government finance for the authority to impose an additional local income tax rate if the political subdivision's expected local income tax distributions will be insufficient to pay obligations for which a pledge of revenue was made under the prior local income tax laws. (14) Specifies that the legislative council shall provide for the preparation and introduction of legislation in the 2021 session of the general assembly to correct cross references and make other changes to the Indiana Code, as necessary, to bring other provisions of the Indiana Code into conformity with this act.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1114
 
HB1117EMINENT DOMAIN. (SHACKLEFORD R) Allows a business owner, including a lessee, that operates a business located on property subject to an eminent domain action to seek business damages. Provides for the assessment of business damages in an eminent domain matter. Expands the right to an award of attorney's fees in an eminent domain matter.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1117
 
HB1131UTILITY MATTERS. (PRESSEL J) Makes the following changes for purposes of a statute that subjects a water or wastewater utility organized after June 30, 2018, to the jurisdiction of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) with regard to certain aspects of the water or wastewater utility's operations for a period of 10 years: (1) Provides that the term "water or wastewater utility" includes a municipally owned utility that provides water service to less than 8,000 customers. (2) Deletes references to organization of a water or wastewater utility as a legal entity. Requires the IURC, in a rate case for a water or wastewater utility that extends service to an infrastructure development zone at the request of the governmental entity that established the infrastructure development zone, to approve inclusion in the water or wastewater utility's rate schedule of a surcharge payable only within the geographic area of the infrastructure development zone. (Under current law, such a surcharge must apply within the entire jurisdiction of the governmental entity.) Provides that, with respect to any water main extension or wastewater main extension, a utility shall comply with the IURC's rules governing water main extensions or wastewater main extensions, regardless of whether the utility is subject to the IURC's jurisdiction for the approval of rates and charges. Provides that a dispute arising over a water main extension or wastewater main extension may be submitted as an informal complaint to the IURC's consumer affairs division, regardless of whether the person requesting the extension is a customer of the utility involved. Provides that, if the IURC determines that it requires additional staff to handle the volume of informal complaints submitted, the IURC may impose a fee on a party against whom a decision is rendered. Provides that the fee may not exceed: (1) the IURC's actual costs in administering the informal complaint; or (2) $750. Provides that certain procedures for acquisition by a municipal utility of property of another utility apply to acquisition by a nonmunicipal utility of property of another utility, and prescribes requirements regarding appraisal of the value of utility property acquired by a nonmunicipal utility. Provides, for purposes of the factors the IURC must consider in determining whether a utility that acquires property of an offered utility may include the cost differential of the offered utility's property as part of the acquiring utility's rate base, that an offered utility is too small to capture economies of scale or is not furnishing or maintaining adequate, efficient, safe, and reasonable service and facilities if the IURC finds that the offered utility serves fewer than 8,000 customers (rather than 5,000 customers under current law). Provides: (1) that a city meeting certain population parameters may annex territory: (A) that is not contiguous to the city; (B) that is south of the southernmost boundary of the city; (C) the entire area of which is not more than four miles from the city's boundary; and (D) that does not extend more than one mile to the east of a state highway; (2) that the annexed territory is not considered a part of the city for purposes of annexation of additional territory; and (3) that the city may not require connection to a sewer installed to provide service to the annexed territory. Provides that certain provisions regarding approval of sewage disposal and treatment fees apply to a sanitation district that: (1) is located in a county that meets specified population parameters; and (2) is under an order or party to an agreement with one or more state or federal agencies to remediate environmental conditions.
 Current Status:   3/30/2020 - Public Law 160
 State Bill Page:   HB1131
 
HB1144HOLD HARMLESS PAYMENTS. (MORRISON A) Provides that a hold harmless agreement or an agreement to offset a financial loss between a casino, riverboat, or unit of government and another unit of government concerning potential losses of revenue by the other unit of government is prohibited and unenforceable. Repeals the requirement that the licensed owner of a riverboat operating in Vigo County pay certain payments to the city of Evansville. Repeals language concerning a supplemental payment to East Chicago, Hammond, and Michigan City under certain circumstances. Repeals the historic hotel district community support fee.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1144
 
HB1169HIGHWAY WORKSITE SAFETY. (PRESSEL J) Authorizes the Indiana state police and the Indiana department of transportation to establish a pilot program for the deployment of an automated worksite speed control system to enforce highway worksite speed limits. Provides that a worksite speed limit violation recorded by an automated worksite speed control system may not be enforced unless the violation is at least 12 miles per hour above the established worksite speed limit. Replaces the term "work zone" with "worksite" throughout the relevant statutes.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1169
 
HB1170HISTORIC BRIDGES. (PRESCOTT J) Provides that a county executive may submit a notice to remove a historic bridge from the register of Indiana historic sites and historic structures and that the division of historic preservation and archeology must remove the bridge from the register upon receipt of the notice.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1170
 
HB1194RAILROAD TRACK CROSSINGS. (YOUNG J) Provides that a railroad company must make, maintain, and repair certain of its crossings at its expense.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1194
 
HB1208ELIMINATION OF LOWER SPEED LIMIT FOR TRUCKS. (AYLESWORTH M) Provides that the maximum speed limit for a vehicle having a declared gross weight greater than 26,000 pounds operated on a highway that is: (1) on the national system of interstate and defense highways located outside an urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000; or (2) the responsibility of the Indiana finance authority; is 70 miles per hour. (Current law provides that the maximum speed limit for those vehicles (other than a bus) is 65 miles per hour.)
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1208
 
HB1218LOCATING UNDERGROUND UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE. (MANNING E) Amends the statute concerning the location of underground utility facilities (state 811 law) to provide that for any new or replacement underground facility that an operator installs or causes to be installed after June 30, 2020, the operator shall ensure that: (1) the materials from which the facility is constructed are capable of being detected from above ground level using standard equipment and technologies used by the utility locating industry; or (2) if the materials from which the facility is constructed are not capable of being detected from above ground level using standard locating techniques, the facility is encased by conductive material or is equipped with an electrically conducting wire or other means of locating the facility while it is underground.
 Current Status:   3/30/2020 - Public Law 46
 State Bill Page:   HB1218
 
HB1227SUPPLEMENTAL FEE ON ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLES. (HAMILTON C) Repeals the supplemental fee to register an electric or hybrid vehicle. Makes conforming changes.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1227
 
HB1240CYBERSECURITY TRAINING PROGRAM. (CHYUNG C) Provides that the department of homeland security division of preparedness and training, with the assistance of other certain entities, shall create and implement mandatory cybersecurity training courses for all: (1) individuals elected to a county office; and (2) newly elected individuals to a county office. Provides that a training course shall include activities, case studies, hypothetical situations, and other methods that: (1) focus on forming information security habits and procedures that protect information resources; and (2) teach best practices for detecting, assessing, reporting, and addressing information security threats. Encourages the office of judicial administration to provide cybersecurity training courses for all elected judges and newly elected judges holding a county office. Provides that the mandatory cybersecurity training program for county elected officials shall be funded from the county elected officials training fund.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1240
 
HB1255ROAD FUNDING. (MOED J) Provides that the amounts currently distributed from the motor vehicle highway account and the local road and street account to counties, cities, and towns based upon the proportionate share of road and street mileage shall instead be distributed based on the proportionate share of road and street vehicle miles traveled.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1255
 
HB1280OVERWEIGHT TRUCK PERMITS. (SOLIDAY E) Provides that the Indiana department of transportation may issue an overweight permit for transporting overweight vehicles and loads carrying resources to and from an industry that is critical to Indiana's economy on certain highways in the state highway system. Makes a conforming amendment.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1280
 
HB1286AUTOMATED TRAFFIC CONTROL IN CONSTRUCTION ZONES. (MOSELEY C) Authorizes the state police department to establish an automated traffic control system pilot program to enforce highway worksite speed limits. Provides that a worksite speed limit violation recorded by an automated traffic control system may not be enforced unless the violation exceeds 11 miles per hour above the established worksite speed limit. Replaces the term "work zone" with "worksite" throughout the relevant statutes.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1286
 
HB1304BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT. (PRESCOTT J) Provides that the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) may adopt rules necessary to administer the Indiana universal service fund (IUSF), including rules to: (1) adjust the amount of the surcharge percentage required to be collected by communications service providers and remitted to the IUSF; and (2) establish the types of communications service providers that are required to assess a surcharge for remittance to the IUSF. Provides that the IURC may, to the extent not prohibited by federal law, require a provider of interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) service to collect and remit to the IUSF a surcharge on the provider's revenue from intrastate use of the provider's interconnected VOIP service. Provides that a communications service provider, including a provider of broadband service through fiber optic cable, has access to public rights-of-way as a public utility for purposes of federal law exempting public utilities from payment of fair market value for use of public rights-of-way acquired with federal mass transportation funds. Allows use of the I-Light network for provision of communications service to unserved areas, subject to rules adopted by the office of community and rural affairs to: (1) define unserved areas for purposes of the rules; and (2) establish an application process to receive and evaluate proposals by communications service providers for use of I-Light to provide communications service to unserved areas. Provides that a fee owner of a right-of-way or a possessor of an easement: (1) is not entitled to compensation; (2) may not charge a fee of any kind; and (3) may not unreasonably deny authorization; for construction, operation, or maintenance of infrastructure by public and municipally owned utilities, including communications service providers, to the extent that the construction, operation, or maintenance does not interfere with the ordinary and normal use of the right-of-way or easement. Provides that the department of transportation, when issuing a permit for excavation or obstruction of a street, highway, or right-of-way: (1) may not require provision of a bond or cash deposit in an amount greater than $10,000 for each area designated in the permit; and (2) must accept a blanket bond in satisfaction of the bond requirement. Makes a technical correction.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1304
 
HB1307MOTOR VEHICLE HIGHWAY ACCOUNT. (WOLKINS D) Provides that of the net amount in the motor vehicle highway account, the auditor of state shall set aside for cities and towns 13.41% (current law provides that the auditor shall set aside 12.13%), and the auditor shall set aside for counties 28.59% (current law provides that the auditor shall set aside 25.87%). (The changes have the effect of decreasing the distribution amount from the motor vehicle highway account to the state highway fund from 62% to 58% and increasing the distribution amount for local distribution purposes from the motor vehicle highway account from 38% to 42%.)
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1307
 
HB1319PUBLIC UTILITY USE OF OFF-ROAD VEHICLES. (LINDAUER S) Provides that an employee of a public utility may operate an off-road vehicle on a highway under certain conditions.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1319
 
HB1379EMINENT DOMAIN. (MILLER D) Permits a person to require an entity with eminent domain powers to use its eminent domain powers to acquire property not owned by the person if the property is needed for a public use that is required to carry out an approved development plan, planned unit development, or other zoning change. Requires the requesting person to pay the direct costs and expenses incurred in the exercise of eminent domain.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1379
 
HB1408GOVERNMENT FRAUD HOTLINE. (FORESTAL D) Requires (rather than allows) the executive or fiscal officer of a county, city, town, or township (unit) to establish a hotline telephone number for the public to report suspected fraudulent activity concerning officers and employees of the unit.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1408
 
HB1424FLASHING LIGHTS FOR LANE PAINTING VEHICLES. (WRIGHT M) Provides that a vehicle being used to apply road or lane markings may display flashing lights.
 Current Status:   2/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
 State Bill Page:   HB1424
 
SB6ELECTRIC VEHICLE SUPPLEMENTAL FEE. (BOHACEK M) Requires an electric vehicle or hybrid vehicle that is a motorcycle or motor driven cycle to pay a $25 supplemental fee to register.
 Current Status:   3/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
 State Bill Page:   SB6
 
SB20PLAN COMMISSIONS. (GASKILL M) Allows a county agricultural extension educator (educator) serving on a county plan commission or an area plan commission who is not a resident of the county to continue to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission until: (1) October 1, 2020; or (2) the date set forth in a county legislative body ordinance that is after October 1, 2020, and not later than October 1, 2021. Provides that an educator who is not a resident of the county shall serve the county plan commission or area plan commission in a nonvoting advisory capacity. Provides that the county surveyor's designee must be a resident of the county to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission. Requires a person appointed to a plan commission to fill a vacancy or to serve as an alternate member to meet the same requirements as the member the person is appointed to replace.
 Current Status:   3/18/2020 - Public Law 53
 State Bill Page:   SB20
 
SB24OVERWEIGHT DIVISIBLE LOADS. (BOOTS P) Adds scrap metal to the list of commodities hauled within the definition of "overweight divisible load". Specifies that a tractor-semitrailer hauling scrap metal must have a gross vehicle weight of more than 80,000 pounds but not more than 120,000 pounds to meet the requirements of the definition.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB24
 
SB46INTERIM STUDY COMMITTEE. (FREEMAN A) Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying storm water fees.
 Current Status:   3/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
 State Bill Page:   SB46
 
SB54RAILROAD CROSSINGS. (DORIOT B) Subject to available funding, requires the department of transportation to construct, in locations where practical and necessary, lanes and signs at railroad crossings on state highways.
 Current Status:   3/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
 State Bill Page:   SB54
 
SB55PIPING MATERIALS FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (DORIOT B) Defines "acceptable piping material" as piping material that: (1) meets certain recognized standards; and (2) meets the performance specifications for the public works contract. Provides, for purposes of the law on public works projects of state agencies and political subdivisions, including design-build public works projects, that the specifications or design criteria package must allow bidding in open competition for acquisition of acceptable piping materials for use in the public works project. Provides, however, that a public works project's engineer is not limited in selecting any acceptable piping materials that meet the requirements of the public works project.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB55
 
SB68WHISTLEBLOWER REPORTS. (SANDLIN J) Allows for an employee who is reporting misconduct concerning the execution of a public contract to make an oral report or a report by electronic mail. (Current law requires that such a report be in writing.) Requires that, if an employee makes an oral report, the person to whom the report is made must memorialize the oral report to written form not less than 30 days after the date the person receives the oral report and shall send a copy of the written report to the employee making the oral report if the employee's identity is known.
 Current Status:   3/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
 State Bill Page:   SB68
 
SB71ADVERSE POSSESSION STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. (DORIOT B) Amends the statute concerning the statute of limitations for actions for the recovery of the possession of real estate to provide that such an action that: (1) involves a line located and established by a professional surveyor; and (2) accrues before the lines are located and established by the surveyor; must be commenced before the expiration of the appeal period set forth in the statute governing county surveyors. Amends the Indiana Code provision concerning the establishment of property lines by means of a legal survey to specify that the lines established are binding on all affected landowners, including a landowner who claims title under a claim of adverse possession. Provides that certain information must be contained in a notice of survey sent to adjoining landowners, and that a legible copy of the plat of the legal survey must be enclosed with the notice.
 Current Status:   3/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
 State Bill Page:   SB71
 
SB84COUNTY VEHICLE EXCISE AND WHEEL TAX EXEMPTION. (NIEMEYER R) Provides that the fiscal body of a city or town may adopt an ordinance declaring that a vehicle registered in the city or town is exempt from the county vehicle excise tax and the county wheel tax (nonparticipating municipality). Provides that a nonparticipating municipality does not receive a distribution of county vehicle excise tax revenue or county wheel tax revenue.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB84
 
SB189GOLF CARTS. (HOLDMAN T) Allows a golf cart to operate on certain state highways under certain conditions.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB189
 
SB190CONTROLLED PROJECTS. (HOLDMAN T) Amends the definition of a "controlled project" to exclude projects exclusively for engineering, land and right-of-way acquisition, construction, resurfacing, maintenance, restoration, and rehabilitation of: (1) local road and street systems; (2) arterial road and street systems; and (3) any combination of local and arterial road and street systems; including bridges that are designated as being in a road and street system. Provides that the restrictions on supporting a position on a controlled project apply to any political subdivision that has assessed value within the same taxing district as the political subdivision proposing the project. Provides that nothing shall prevent another political subdivision that has assessed value within the same taxing district as the political subdivision from adopting a resolution or taking a position on a local public question.
 Current Status:   3/18/2020 - Public Law 60
 State Bill Page:   SB190
 
SB199RECOVERY OF LITIGATION EXPENSES. (KOCH E) Provides that attorney's fees may be awarded against a governmental entity in a case where a court finds that the claim brought by the governmental entity was frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless, but provides that the application of the law to governmental entities may not be interpreted to waive sovereign immunity. Includes individuals in the list of parties that may seek reasonable fees and expenses in a civil suit against a state agency. Increases the amount of fees and expenses awarded against a state agency from $10,000 to $25,000, and from $30,000 to $75,000, if more than three parties in a case are eligible for an award.
 Current Status:   3/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
 State Bill Page:   SB199
 
SB257AVIATION SAFETY. (KOCH E) Provides that INDOT shall not issue a permit for construction or alteration of an energy facility that will result in a structure that is more than 200 feet above ground level at its site unless the applicant for the permit submits to INDOT documentation of a formal review by the Clearinghouse of the proposed construction or alteration indicating: (1) that the formal review resulted in a determination that the construction or alteration will not have an adverse impact on military operations and readiness; or (2) that: (A) the formal review resulted in a determination that the proposed project will have an adverse impact on military operations and readiness; and (B) the applicant has either resolved the adverse impact to the satisfaction of the United States Department of Defense or entered into a mitigation agreement with the United States Department of Defense to mitigate the adverse impact. Provides that a person that is a public use airport owner or operator has standing to obtain judicial review or to intervene in a proceeding for judicial review of a zoning decision that may have a negative impact on the safety of civilian or military flight operations to or from the airport.
 Current Status:   3/18/2020 - Public Law 71
 State Bill Page:   SB257
 
SB268AUTOMATED TRAFFIC CONTROL IN CONSTRUCTION ZONES. (FORD J) Authorizes the Indiana department of transportation to establish an automated traffic control system pilot program to enforce highway worksite speed limits. Provides that a worksite speed limit violation recorded by an automated traffic control system may not be assessed a civil penalty unless the violation is at least 11 miles per hour above the established worksite speed limit. Replaces the term "work zone" with "worksite" throughout the relevant statutes.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB268
 
SB271VEHICLE WEIGHT. (FORD J) Adds masonry products to the list of commodities hauled that are within the definition of "overweight divisible load" and that, after complying with all applicable requirements, including weight restrictions imposed by the Indiana department of transportation, are eligible for an overweight divisible load permit. Specifies that a tractor-semitrailer hauling masonry products must have a gross vehicle weight of more than 80,000 pounds but not more than 120,000 pounds to meet the requirements of the definition.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB271
 
SB340PRIVATE PROPERTY MATTERS. (SPARTZ V) Requires a conveyance, a mortgage, or an instrument of writing to be recorded to be: (1) acknowledged by the grantor; and (2) proven before certain specified individuals; in certain instances. Requires the summons accompanying a complaint for condemnation to include language regarding the defendant's right to object to the condemnation within 30 days from the date notice is served. Requires a court to award reasonable costs and attorney's fees to a defendant whose objection to a complaint for condemnation is sustained. Caps the amount of attorney's fees a court may award if an objection to a condemnation is sustained at $25,000. Exempts a condemnation action brought by a public utility or by a pipeline company from the bill's provisions requiring a court to award a defendant in a condemnation action the defendant's reasonable costs and attorney's fees if the defendant's objections to the proceedings are sustained in the proceedings or upon appeal. Requires a municipality to provide notice by mail to affected owners, both residents and nonresidents of the municipality, of a condemnation. Permits an affected owner to file an objection that a municipality does not have the right to exercise the power of eminent domain for the use sought. Amends the time for a remonstrance hearing for a municipal condemnation and the defendant's right to judicial review of the decision made at the hearing to 30 days. (Current law requires a remonstrance hearing to be set no less than 10 days after notice and the defendant to appeal the decision within 20 days.) Provides parties the right to appeal a court's judgment in the judicial review of a municipal condemnation. Revises the statute allowing a municipality to condemn property for economic development to require a 3/4 affirmative vote of the municipality's legislative body to exercise the power of eminent domain. (Current law requires a 2/3 affirmative vote of the municipality's legislative body.) Allows a property owner to challenge a condemnation for economic development purposes by providing clear and convincing evidence that the owner's parcel is not necessary for the project.
 Current Status:   3/18/2020 - Public Law 80
 State Bill Page:   SB340
 
SB341AUDIT AND FRAUD REPORTING MATTERS. (SPARTZ V) Provides that, beginning January 1, 2024: (1) the state examiner is appointed by the audit and financial reporting subcommittee (audit committee) as opposed to the governor; and (2) each deputy examiner is appointed by the audit committee as opposed to the governor. Provides that the state examiner and each deputy examiner are subject to removal by the audit committee as opposed to the governor. Provides that certain laws regarding appropriations management do not apply to money appropriated to the state board of accounts (board). Requires (before November 1, 2020) the audit committee in consultation with the state board of accounts, auditor of state, and office of management and budget to make recommendations to the legislative council regarding the establishment of quality control procedures related to examinations conducted by the board or an independent certified public accountant. Permits the auditor of state to establish a hotline telephone number and whistleblower procedures that the public may use to make an anonymous report of suspected fraudulent activity of the officers or employees of a state agency or political subdivision, including any misuse of public funds. Requires the state examiner to conduct an examination of at least one entity to incorporate an element of unpredictability into the examination procedure. Requires the board to post a link in a prominent place on the board's Internet web site for the public to make an anonymous report of suspected malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance that involves public funds. Requires counties, cities, towns, townships, school corporations, special taxing districts, or other political subdivisions (local audited entity) to provide a link on the local audited entity's Internet web site to the location on the board's Internet web site where an individual may make a report of suspected malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance that involves public funds. Makes conforming changes.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB341
 
SB349BROADBAND GRANT PROGRAM. (HOUCHIN E) Amends the statutory priorities for the funding of projects from the rural broadband fund to provide that the office of community and rural affairs (office) shall establish as a priority the funding of projects to extend the deployment of eligible broadband service to areas in which the only available connections to the Internet are at actual speeds of not more than 25 megabits per second downstream. (Current law prioritizes the funding of projects to deploy eligible broadband service to rural areas based on two different levels of broadband speed available in such areas.) Requires the office to amend, not later than April 15, 2020, the office's guidelines implementing the broadband grant program as necessary to reflect the changes to the funding priorities made by the bill's provisions. Provides that not later than 90 days before the date on which applications for grant funding may first be submitted with respect to a particular round of funding, the office shall issue to any persons providing broadband service in rural areas a request for information soliciting: (1) data identifying each service address for which the person provides broadband service in a rural area, including information on upload and download speeds of the service provided; and (2) information identifying service addresses or other locations in rural areas to which the person will provide eligible broadband service not later than 18 months after the date on which applications for grant funding may first be submitted with respect to the particular round of grant funding. Provides that if the information received by the office in response to a request for information does not indicate that any person is providing broadband service to a particular service address, the office shall consider the service address to be: (1) without broadband service; and (2) eligible for inclusion in any proposed broadband project for which grant funding is sought. Provides that with respect to any service addresses or other locations identified by a person for the deployment of eligible broadband service not later than 18 months after the date on which applications may first be submitted for a particular round of funding, the office shall consider the service addresses or locations identified to be ineligible for inclusion in any proposed broadband project for which funding is sought, subject to the person submitting: (1) a plan for the proposed deployment; and (2) quarterly progress reports on the person's activities in furtherance of the plan. Provides that before each round of grant funding, the office shall publish on the office's Internet web site: (1) data, not identified by provider, as to which service addresses in rural areas receive broadband service at certain specified speeds; (2) data, not identified by provider, as to which service addresses in rural areas are planned for broadband deployment within the 18 month period beginning with the date applications may first be submitted for the particular round of funding; and (3) a map of Indiana showing the general locations of these service addresses or locations. Provides that any information submitted to the office under these provisions: (1) is confidential for purposes of the statute concerning access to public records; (2) is subject to certain protections concerning confidential or proprietary business information; and (3) may not be disclosed by the office, other than in a form that does not identify the person providing the information.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB349
 
SB369REGIONAL TRANSIT EXPANSION. (STOOPS M) Allows counties to impose an additional local income tax rate to fund the operations of a public transportation corporation and the operations of a rural transportation assistance program if the: (1) voters of the county approve a local public question; and (2) fiscal body of the county adopts an ordinance to impose the additional tax rate. Provides that the rate must be at least 0.1% but not more than 0.25%. Excludes from this provision any county that is eligible to hold a referendum on funding transportation projects under the central Indiana public transportation projects statute.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB369
 
SB411LEASING OF BROADBAND CAPACITY INFRASTRUCTURE. (KOCH E) Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications the topic of installation and leasing of broadband capacity infrastructure by investor-owned electric utilities to broadband service providers for the provision of broadband internet service to unserved and underserved areas in Indiana. Specifies issues that must be considered in the study.
 Current Status:   3/3/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
 State Bill Page:   SB411
 
SB447UNDERGROUND UTILITY FACILITIES. (DONATO S) Provides that if an operator owning underground utility facilities and meeting other specified criteria has failed: (1) on more than three occasions in any six month period to provide, in the time prescribed by the state's 811 statute for the locating of underground utility facilities, the information or temporary facility markings required under the statute; or (2) to relocate any facilities as requested by a county executive or other local official in connection with a planned road, highway, or bridge construction project; the utility regulatory commission (IURC) may order the operator to appear before the IURC at a public hearing to present evidence and explain why the operator has failed to take the applicable action. Provides that at the hearing, the operator shall have the opportunity to present evidence and the testimony of witnesses as to why the operator has failed to take the action. Provides that if, after the hearing, the IURC determines that there is not a good faith basis for the operator's failure to take the applicable action, the IURC may issue an order placing the operator on probationary status for a period of six months, beginning with the date of the IURC's order. Provides that if at the end of the six month probationary period, the operator has failed: (1) on more than three occasions to provide, in the time prescribed by the state's 811 statute, the information or temporary markings required under the statute with respect to any underground facilities of the operator in a project area; or (2) to relocate any facilities as requested by a county executive or other local official in connection with a planned road, highway, or bridge construction project (if the initial request was made before the start date of the operator's probationary status); the IURC may require the carrier to post a performance bond in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000. Provides that the performance bond shall be posted to cover the anticipated costs of the operator's: (1) facility locating activities; or (2) relocation activities requested in connection with a planned county road, highway, or bridge construction project; during the six month period beginning on the day after the date on which the operator's probationary status ends. Provides that if during the six month period for which a performance bond is required, the operator fails to: (1) locate any underground facility of the operator in accordance with the state's 811 statute; or (2) relocate any underground facility of the operator as requested by a county executive or other local official in connection with a planned road, highway, or bridge construction project (if the initial request is made before the start date of the six month period covered by the performance bond); the IURC may order the use of the performance bond in the performance of the applicable action, to be undertaken on behalf of the operator by any lawful agent.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB447
 
SB452REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES. (NIEMEYER R) Authorizes the fiscal body of a county or municipality in which a regional transportation authority is established to levy property taxes within the area designated as a transportation planning district by the Indiana department of transportation to provide funding to be used for the purposes of the regional transportation authority and to support a public transportation system. Amends current provisions to provide that the members of the county executive shall serve as the board of a regional transportation authority established in Lake County. Establishes an advisory committee to the regional transportation authority in Lake County to advise and assist the board in the performance of its powers, duties, and functions. Provides for the appointment of one resident of each township in the county to serve on the advisory committee. Makes conforming changes.
 Current Status:   2/4/2020 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
 State Bill Page:   SB452
 
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