| HB1020 | STUDY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES. (KOCH E) Requires the commission on state tax and financing policy to review, analyze, and evaluate state and local tax incentives that are provided to encourage economic development or to alter, reward, or subsidize a particular action or behavior by a tax incentive recipient. |
| | Current Status: | 3/25/2014 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2014 - Received by the Governor
3/13/2014 - Signed by the President Pro Tempore
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| SB158 | PROPERTY TAXES. (KENLEY L) Specifies requirements that a for profit early childhood education provider must meet to obtain a property tax exemption for educating children who are four or five years of age. Prorates the exemption based on the number of children who are four or five years of age. |
| | Current Status: | 3/26/2014 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2014 - Received by the Governor
3/6/2014 - Motion to Concur in House Amendments: prevailed; Roll Call 368: yeas 39 and nays 0
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| SB207 | SCHOOL OPERATING REFERENDUM BALLOT LANGUAGE. (WALKER G) Changes the language to be used on the ballot when a school corporation conducts a school general fund referendum. Removes the requirement that the department of local government finance must approve the ballot language proposed by a school corporation for a school general fund referendum. Provides that the county election board of the county or counties in which the school corporation is located must either approve or revise the proposed ballot language. Provides that if the county election board revises the ballot language, the governing body of the school corporation may request the Indiana election commission to review the county election board's decision. Provides that if the Indiana election commission does not act not later than 60 days before the election at which the public question is to be placed on the ballot, the county election board's language is the language used for the public question. Provides that if a majority of the voters do not vote in favor of a school general fund referendum, another referendum under the law may not be held for another 350 days. (Current law provides that another referendum may not be held for another year.) |
| | Current Status: | 3/26/2014 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2014 - Received by the Governor
3/10/2014 - Signed by the President Pro Tempore
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| SB225 | VARIOUS STATE AND LOCAL FINANCIAL MATTERS. (KENLEY L) Eliminates the requirement that excess state general fund reserves are to be carried over each year for purposes of determining a transfer to the pension stabilization fund and an automatic taxpayer refund. Reduces from 50 to 25 the number of hard copy documents a state agency must provide to the state library. Permits the state library foundation to choose to have its annual audit performed by an independent certified public accountant or by the state board of accounts. Changes the publisher of the annual report of the meetings of the Indiana Academy of Science from the commission on public records to the Indiana Academy of Science. Changes various copy requirements concerning the Indiana Academy of Science's reports. Repeals the annual appropriation for the printing of the proceedings and papers of the Indiana Academy of Science. Eliminates local unit participation in the state employee health plan. Repeals the requirement that the state provide a retiree health benefit plan to state employees after they become eligible for Medicare coverage. Repeals the mandatory contribution by state employees at retirement of unused vacation leave to the PERF 401(h) retirement medical benefits account. Recognizes multiparty agreements, including agreements with other states and local government units, using a transportation public-private arrangement. Modifies hearing requirements related to public-private partnership arrangements. Removes restrictions on how the state police department may use certain appropriations. Allows parties involved in a property tax appeal to agree to receive notices and other material by electronic means. |
| | Current Status: | 3/25/2014 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2014 - Received by the Governor
3/13/2014 - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 adopted; Roll Call 506: yeas 79 and nays 20
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