HB1001 | STATE BUDGET. (THOMPSON J) Appropriates money for capital expenditures, the operation of the state, K-12 and higher education, the delivery of Medicaid and other services, and various other distributions and purposes. Repeals a provision allowing the department of administration to enter into a lease with the Indiana historical society (society) for use of a building. Requires the director of the budget agency to make a written determination that funds are not appropriated or otherwise available to support continuation of the performance of any contract or lease with the society. Establishes the primary care access revolving fund for the purpose of making loans to primary care medical practices in Indiana. Requires that the salary matrix for state police, capitol police officers, and department of natural resources law enforcement officers be adjusted each time an adjustment is made to a pay plan for state employees in the executive branch. Provides a sales and use tax exemption period for three days in January and in August of each year for the following items: (1) School supplies. (2) Clothing, including shoes. (3) Computers and computer accessories. (4) Learning aids. (5) Sports and recreational equipment to be used by an individual who is not more than 18 years of age. Provides a sales and use tax exemption period for seven days in May of each year for the following items: (1) Bicycles and accessories. (2) Fishing supplies. (3) Hiking supplies. (4) Hunting supplies. Requires the department of state revenue to calculate an annual adjusted gross income tax exemption index factor to be used in determining certain exemption amounts for purposes of calculating an individual's adjusted gross income each taxable year. Provides an adjusted gross income tax deduction for retirement benefits, phased in over four years. Exempts tips received by an individual employed in a service-providing industry occupation from the adjusted gross income tax. Increases the: (1) employee threshold; and (2) maximum amount of tax credits that may be granted in a year; for purposes of the health reimbursement arrangement income tax credit. Establishes a state tax credit for certain capital investments made in rural funds (rural fund credit). Prescribes requirements for the rural fund credit. Provides an adjusted gross income tax credit for retired farmers who sell or lease farmland or sell livestock to a qualified beginning farmer. Requires the treasurer of state to establish a long term care savings account program that allows an individual to save for long term care expenses. Provides an adjusted gross income tax deduction for contributions made to an individual's long term care savings account during a taxable year. Provides an adjusted gross income tax deduction for long term care insurance premiums paid during the taxable year. Requires the treasurer of state to establish a farm savings account program that allows an individual to save for farming related expenses. Provides an adjusted gross income tax deduction for contributions made to an individual's farm savings account during a taxable year. Establishes the local child care assistance program for the purpose of providing a county with assistance in expanding the availability of child care in the county, including by providing matching grants. Extends the sunset of the collection of hospital assessment fees and health facility quality assessment fees from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2027. Removes the annual income maximum for choice scholarship eligibility and eligibility for the education scholarship account. Provides that an individual may continue to participate in the career scholarship program after graduating, receiving an Indiana high school equivalency diploma, or obtaining a certificate of completion if the individual: (1) participated in the career scholarship program or the education savings account program while enrolled in grade 10, 11, or 12 in Indiana; (2) was a student with a disability at the time the account was established who required special education and for whom an individualized education program, a service plan, or a choice special education plan was developed; and (3) is less than 22 years of age. Establishes the Hoosier workforce upskill program to provide grants to eligible employers for reimbursement of training expenses. Establishes the public prosecution fund to provide county reimbursement of compensation paid to deputy prosecuting attorneys and other administrative expenses. Provides that unexpended and unencumbered amounts appropriated from the federal economic stimulus fund in P.L.165-2021 do not revert to the state general fund. Requires the state comptroller to transfer: (1) $15,000,000 from the addiction services fund; and (2) $25,000,000 from the department of insurance fund; to the tobacco master settlement agreement fund on July 1, 2025. |
| Current Status: | 2/6/2025 - House Ways and Means, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 11:00 AM, Rm. 404
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| State Bill Page: | HB1001 |
| News Stories: | 2/4/2025 - Braun, Faith Leaders Have “Meaningful” Discussion on DEI, Martin University |
| | 2/3/2025 - Draft budget has more for tuition support, less for gifted learners, zero for Dolly Parton library |
| | 1/31/2025 - Eight takeaways from Gov. Mike Braun’s proposed state budget |
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HB1032 | FOREIGN INTERESTS. (HAGGARD C) Prohibits a prohibited person from entering into a contract for the provision of goods or services with the state, a state agency, and a political subdivision. Requires agents acting on behalf of certain countries of concern to register with the attorney general. Establishes the foreign adversary enforcement fund. Requires schools and school corporations in Indiana to disclose certain foreign gifts and contracts. Requires public and private postsecondary educational institutions in Indiana to disclose certain foreign gifts and contracts. Prohibits certain individuals and business entities from acquiring: (1) an interest in business entities governed under Indiana law; and (2) real property located in Indiana. Requires certain individuals and business entities to divest their ownership of any interests in business entities or real property not later than January 1, 2026. Repeals existing statutes regarding foreign ownership of real property. |
| Current Status: | 2/10/2025 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:30 AM, Rm. 156-B
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| State Bill Page: | HB1032 |
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HB1033 | RETAINAGE REQUIREMENTS. (PRESSEL J) Changes the maximum amount of retainage for certain state and local public works projects from: (1) 10% to 6% of the dollar value of all work satisfactorily completed until the public work is 50% complete; and (2) 5% to 3% of the dollar value of all work satisfactorily completed until the public work is substantially complete. Removes the requirement of a minimum amount of retainage for certain state and local public works projects. |
| Current Status: | 2/6/2025 - Senate sponsor: Senator Rogers
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| State Bill Page: | HB1033 |
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HB1037 | STORM WATER MANAGEMENT. (MILLER D) Provides that a unit does not have the power to adopt a law, rule, ordinance, or regulation that is more stringent than or exceeds in any manner the requirements of the department of environmental management's (IDEM) construction stormwater general permit (CSGP). Provides that if a law, rule, ordinance, or regulation is more stringent than or exceeds the CSGP, then: (1) the law, rule, ordinance, or regulation is void; and (2) the unit must continue to discharge its duties under IDEM's CSGP program. |
| Current Status: | 2/4/2025 - Senate sponsor: Senator Doriot
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| State Bill Page: | HB1037 |
| News Stories: | 2/4/2025 - Bill strips cities, counties of stricter laws to control stormwater from construction sites |
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HB1066 | PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS. (MAYFIELD P) Provides that a board of aviation commissioners and an airport authority are subject to the same procedures as a school corporation for certain public work projects. Provides that if a federal grant is to be issued to fund a portion of the construction on a public work project, the successful bidder has 90 days to proceed with the contract. |
| Current Status: | 1/9/2025 - added as coauthor Representative Meltzer
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| State Bill Page: | HB1066 |
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HB1100 | LIMITED LIABILITY FOR OBSTACLE COURSE OPERATORS. (MAYFIELD P) Provides that a governmental entity operating an activity on land leased by the governmental entity from the federal government is entitled to certain immunities from a tort claim. Expands the definition of "extreme sport area" to include an obstacle course. |
| Current Status: | 1/8/2025 - Referred to House Judiciary
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| State Bill Page: | HB1100 |
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HB1109 | USE OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. (LEHMAN M) Requires an insurer that provides property insurance coverage to a named insured to take certain actions when the insurer uses aerial images to aid in its determination to not renew property insurance coverage for a named insured. |
| Current Status: | 1/28/2025 - House Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:30 AM, Rm. 404
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| State Bill Page: | HB1109 |
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HB1127 | BIOFUEL TAX CREDITS. (HEINE D) Provides tax credits for: (1) the sale of higher ethanol blend; and (2) the: (A) sale of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel; and (B) blending of biodiesel or renewable diesel. Provides that the amount of the higher ethanol blend tax credit is $0.05 per gallon of higher ethanol blend sold at the taxpayer's fueling station. Provides that the total amount of higher ethanol blend tax credits that may be awarded for a state fiscal year may not exceed $10,000,000. Provides that the amount of the tax credit for blended biodiesel or renewable diesel is computed as follows: (1) $0.05 per gallon of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel of at least 5% but not more than 10%: (A) sold at the taxpayer's fueling station; or (B) sold by a distributor directly to the final user. (2) $0.10 per gallon of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel that is more than 10% but not more than 20%: (A) sold at the taxpayer's fueling station; or (B) sold by a distributor directly to the final user. (3) $0.18 per gallon of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel that is more than 20%: (A) sold at the taxpayer's fueling station; or (B) sold by a distributor directly to the final user. (4) For a person who blends biodiesel or renewable diesel the product of: (A) $0.035; multiplied by (B) the number of gallons of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel that is more than 5% and produced by blending biodiesel or renewable diesel at a terminal located in Indiana. Provides that the tax credit for blended biodiesel or renewable diesel is refundable. Provides that the total amount of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel tax credits that may be awarded for a state fiscal year may not exceed $5,000,000. |
| Current Status: | 1/8/2025 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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| State Bill Page: | HB1127 |
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HB1130 | PROPERTY TAX DEDUCTION INFORMATION. (LAWSON E) Requires the department of local government finance (department), in a manner determined by the department, to include on every real property tax statement educational information regarding the eligibility and procedures for the over 65 property tax deduction and for various property tax deductions available to veterans. |
| Current Status: | 1/8/2025 - Coauthored by Representative Pressel
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| State Bill Page: | HB1130 |
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HB1134 | EXECUTIVE SESSIONS. (SMALTZ B) Allows meetings of a state or local agency governing body concerning the following topics to be held in executive session: (1) Employee health care options with respect to special exceptions to coverage. (2) Employee handbook changes. (3) Review of negotiations on the performance of publicly bid contracts, when public knowledge may result in increased cost. (4) Solicitation of contract proposals containing a bidder's proprietary information. |
| Current Status: | 2/10/2025 - House Government and Regulatory Reform, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:30 AM, House Chamber
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| State Bill Page: | HB1134 |
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HB1170 | ELIMINATION OF GUN-FREE ZONES. (LUCAS J) Provides, with some exceptions, that beginning July 1, 2025, the state of Indiana may not regulate: (1) firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories; and (2) the ownership, possession, carrying, transportation, registration, transfer, and storage of firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories. Specifies that a certain provision of an ordinance, measure, enactment, rule, policy, or exercise of proprietary authority is void. Provides that a person not otherwise prohibited from carrying or possessing a firearm under federal or state law may carry or possess a firearm, without restriction, on certain property affiliated with the following state agencies beginning July 1, 2025: (1) The department of natural resources. (2) The state fair commission. (3) The department of administration. (4) The department of workforce development. Prohibits, with some exceptions, a state educational institution (institution) from regulating the possession or transportation of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories in particular places. Allows a person to bring an action against an institution if the person is adversely affected by certain rules concerning firearms. |
| Current Status: | 1/8/2025 - Referred to House Public Policy
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| State Bill Page: | HB1170 |
| News Stories: | 1/28/2025 - Buyback, safe storage, hunting: 20 gun bills proposed in Indiana |
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HB1181 | WORKER CLASSIFICATION ON PUBLIC PROJECTS. (MOSELEY C) Requires a contractor in any contractor tier except for tier 1 (a general or prime contractor) on a: (1) public works project; or (2) tax advantaged construction project; to complete a weekly report of wages and hours of the contractor's employees who work on the project. Requires the department of labor to employ an investigator to investigate complaints of employee misclassification. Provides that the investigator shall be located at the Marion County prosecuting attorney's office. Extends certain protections to an employee who reports, complains, or testifies about employee misclassification. |
| Current Status: | 1/8/2025 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and Pensions
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| State Bill Page: | HB1181 |
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HB1196 | MEMBERSHIP OF AVIATION BOARDS. (ISA T) Provides that an eligible entity with a population of less than 38,000 is not subject to the political party membership requirements for a board of aviation commissioners or an airport authority. |
| Current Status: | 1/30/2025 - Senate sponsor: Senator Donato
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| State Bill Page: | HB1196 |
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HB1198 | LOCAL PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS. (LAWSON E) Changes the amount of a public work project that a board may perform using its own workforce, without awarding a contract, from an estimated cost of less than $250,000 to an estimated cost of less than $500,000. Removes the distinction between a political subdivision that is a school corporation and a political subdivision that is not a school corporation for the cost of a public work project that is not subject to certain procedures. Provides that if a federal grant is to be issued to fund a portion of the construction on a public work project, the successful bidder has 90 days to proceed with the contract. Provides that plans and specifications approved by an architect or engineer are not required for certain public work on a public building. |
| Current Status: | 2/4/2025 - Cosponsor: Senator Rogers
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| State Bill Page: | HB1198 |
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HB1207 | SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRANT PROGRAM. (GOSS-REAVES L) Establishes the space science and technology grant program to provide grants to eligible entities to develop and implement high quality, innovative educational opportunities in schools, with a focus in atmospheric and outer space exploration. Provides a procedure for eligible entities to apply to the department of education (department) to receive a grant. Establishes the space science and technology fund. Provides that the department shall develop criteria to award grants to eligible entities. |
| Current Status: | 1/8/2025 - Referred to House Education
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| State Bill Page: | HB1207 |
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HB1214 | WORKER'S COMPENSATION. (LEHMAN M) Provides that, after June 30, 2025, a party may not prohibit an employer from bidding on a contract solely on the basis of the employer's experience rating. Requires insurance companies providing worker's compensation insurance to revise an insured party's prior experience ratings in a specified manner after the insurance company makes a successful subrogation claim. |
| Current Status: | 2/4/2025 - Senate sponsor: Senator Zay
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| State Bill Page: | HB1214 |
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HB1223 | TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. (KARICKHOFF M) Establishes a program administered by the Indiana destination development corporation (IDDC) to provide an incentive for tourism development projects in the form of a sales tax rebate available to businesses that are able to satisfy the requirements needed to enter into an agreement with the IDDC with respect to specified tourism development projects. Sets forth the: (1) types of tourism development projects that may qualify for the incentive; (2) approval process to receive the incentive; and (3) required elements of the agreement between the board of the IDDC and a business approved for the incentive. Specifies the manner in which a business may claim the incentive. Requires the board of the IDDC, in negotiating the approved costs in a tourism development project agreement with an approved company, to collaborate with the executive of a county, city, or town to establish a maximum amount of approved costs. Provides that a person may circulate a petition to create a tourism improvement district (district) within the territory of a county, city, or town. Specifies the contents of the tourism improvement district plan that must be filed with a petition to establish a district. Provides that the legislative body of the county, city, or town may require in the district plan of a tourism development district that the boundaries of the district be drawn to: (1) exclude businesses; or (2) prevent overlap of the district with another area or district in which a special assessment is imposed. Excludes from inclusion within a district: (1) property that receives a homestead standard deduction; (2) property used for single family residential housing; and (3) property used for multi-unit residential housing. Provides that owners of businesses located within a district may be charged a special assessment to fund improvements and other district activities. Provides that, after a hearing on a petition to establish a district, a county, city, or town legislative body may adopt the ordinance establishing the district only if it determines that the petition has been signed by: (1) at least 50% of the owners of businesses within the proposed district; or (2) the owners of businesses within the proposed district that constitute more than 50% of the revenue to be collected from the assessments. Specifies the contents of the ordinance establishing a district and the length of time for which a district may exist. Allows a district to issue bonds. Requires the county, city, or town legislative body to contract with a nonprofit district management association to administer and implement the district's activities and improvements. |
| Current Status: | 2/3/2025 - Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
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| State Bill Page: | HB1223 |
| News Stories: | 1/14/2025 - Bill seeks to boost Indiana tourism projects through tax rebates, special districts |
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HB1234 | CONSERVATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND. (CULP K) Establishes an agricultural land protection program (program) to allow the state or a county fiscal body to purchase agricultural conservation easements throughout the state and also acquire agricultural conservation easements by gift, bequest, or devise. Provides that the Indiana state department of agriculture (department) may receive and hold agricultural conservation easements acquired under the program or by gift, bequest, or devise. Establishes the Indiana land protection board to administer the program in coordination with the department. Establishes the agricultural conservation easement fund to provide funding for the purchase of agricultural conservation easements throughout the state. Makes an appropriation. |
| Current Status: | 1/27/2025 - added as coauthor Representative Bauer
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| State Bill Page: | HB1234 |
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HB1260 | ARCHITECT OR ENGINEER REVIEW OF PUBLIC WORK. (MILLER K) Provides that plans and specifications approved by an architect or engineer are not required for certain public work on a public building. |
| Current Status: | 1/27/2025 - added as coauthors Representatives Smaltz, Gore, Shonkwiler A
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| State Bill Page: | HB1260 |
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HB1276 | VARIOUS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE AND TOBACCO MATTERS. (MANNING E) Modifies the insurance coverage requirements that apply to specified permit holders. Allows the holder of a permit issued to the proprietor of a restaurant facility in the passenger terminal complex of a publicly owned airport to sell alcoholic beverages each day from 5 a.m. until 3 a.m. the following day. Allows specified local government entities to permit the retail sale of alcoholic beverages in certain areas if a person that has an agreement to act as concessionaire for the permitted premises applies for and secures the necessary permits. Increases, from 45 to 60 days, the number of days in a calendar year the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) may approve for a small brewery, farm winery, or artisan distillery to participate in a trade show or exposition. Establishes requirements regarding permittee donations of alcoholic beverages to qualified organizations who are permittees conducting an event. Repeals a provision prohibiting a beer dealer from selling and delivering beer for carry-out, or for delivery to a customer's residence or office, in a quantity that exceeds 864 ounces in a single transaction. Repeals a limitation on the maximum quantity of liquor that a liquor dealer may deliver to a customer's residence or office at any one time. Repeals a provision that allows the holder of a farm winery permit to sell the winery's wine to consumers by the bottle at a farmers' market that is operated on a nonprofit basis. Repeals a limitation on the maximum quantity of wine that a wine dealer may sell in a single transaction. Provides that if a tobacco certificate holder (holder) sells or distributes tobacco products at a location where criminal conduct occurs involving illegal substances or contraband, the cost of disposal of the substances or contraband may be part of the sanctions imposed on the holder. Allows a restaurant permittee that meets certain requirements to establish on the premises a segregated room attached to an outdoor patio in which cigar consumption may occur. Provides that the commission may issue a three way permit: (1) to a theater within the historic district of a city with a certain population; and (2) that is not subject to the quota. Requires a permittee to obtain written permission from the appropriate local or state agency to locate a restaurant or hotel patio or terrace in the public right-of-way. Allows the commission to issue a food hall master permit to a food hall that meets certain requirements. Requires the commission to issue an airport refreshment area designation to a publicly owned airport that submits an application to designate one or more refreshment areas within the passenger terminal complex of the airport. Specifies restrictions that apply to an airport refreshment area designation. Allows a minor to be in a small brewery and the brewery's restaurant, if accompanied by an adult. Makes it a Class C misdemeanor to sell a nicotine analogue. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on public policy during the 2025 legislative interim the task of studying third party delivery of beer, wine, and liquor to consumers by alcoholic beverage dealers and retailers. |
| Current Status: | 2/10/2025 - House Bills on Third Reading
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| State Bill Page: | HB1276 |
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HB1286 | PFAS CHEMICALS. (CASH B) Requires the department of environmental management to publish a registry of persons that discharge PFAS chemicals into waters of the state. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to House Environmental Affairs
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| State Bill Page: | HB1286 |
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HB1288 | PUBLIC PURCHASING. (HAMILTON C) Provides that the purchasing agency of a governmental body must use a purchasing procedure when purchasing services. Provides that a purchasing agent may only make a purchase without soliciting bids or proposals if the purchase qualifies for a special purchase. Requires a contract between a state elected official's office and a contractor to include language disclosing if, in the 12 months preceding the execution of the contract, the contractor or an officer or director of the contractor made a contribution to the state elected official's campaign. Requires a state elected official's office to execute an addendum to a contract if the contractor or an officer or director of the contractor makes a contribution to the state elected official's campaign after the contract is executed and before the end of the contract's term. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to House Government and Regulatory Reform
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| State Bill Page: | HB1288 |
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HB1312 | PUBLIC NOTICES. (MELTZER J) Requires the Indiana office of technology (office) to establish a state public notice website not later than July 1, 2026. Prohibits the office from charging a fee for publishing or viewing notices. Allows a person to satisfy any notice statute by publishing notice in any of the following forms of media: (1) Newspaper, including print edition or electronic edition. (2) Locality newspaper, including print edition or electronic edition. (3) The state public notice website. (4) Political subdivision website. Requires the Indiana archives and records administration (administration) to establish standards and guidelines and enter into memoranda of understanding with agencies for the transfer and preservation of public notices from the state public notice website to the administration to preserve public notices for historical purposes. Phases out the publication of notices on the political subdivision website. Phases in the publication of notices on the state public notice website. |
| Current Status: | 2/3/2025 - Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
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| State Bill Page: | HB1312 |
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HB1363 | PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (WESCO T) Provides that a contractor that employs 10 or more employees on a design-build public works project must provide its employees access to a training program applicable to the tasks to be performed in the normal course of the employee's employment with the contractor on the public project. Provides that a tier 1 or tier 2 contractor that employs 50 or more journeymen must participate in an apprenticeship or training program that meets certain standards. Requires design-builders and any member of a team working on a design-build public works project to comply with certain statutes. Provides that a public agency awarding a contract for a construction manager as constructor project may not take certain actions based on a bidder's, offeror's, or contractor's entering into, refusing to enter into, adhering to, or refusing to adhere to an agreement with a labor organization. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and Pensions
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| State Bill Page: | HB1363 |
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HB1370 | PUBLIC CONTRACTS FOR LOCAL UNITS. (CLERE E) Provides that a political subdivision must upload a digital copy of every contract entered into after December 31, 2025, to the Indiana transparency website (website). Changes the individual responsible for submitting a statement attesting that a political subdivision uploaded a contract entered into in the preceding year to the website from the executive of the political subdivision to the fiscal officer of the political subdivision. Requires the department of local government finance to develop and implement an application programming interface that would allow a political subdivision to upload multiple contracts at once directly from the political subdivision's network to the website. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to House Government and Regulatory Reform
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| State Bill Page: | HB1370 |
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HB1379 | PROPERTY TAX DEDUCTION FOR WATER CONSERVATION. (BOY P) Provides a property tax deduction for the use of permeable pavement in new construction projects. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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| State Bill Page: | HB1379 |
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HB1392 | STATE COMPTROLLER MATTERS. (CLERE E) Specifies the timing of annual salary increases for state elected officials. Provides that the state comptroller calculates distributions of financial institutions tax revenue to taxing units. Provides that a taxing unit may deposit a distribution of financial institutions tax revenue in any fund. Requires state agencies and offices of statewide elected officials to upload a copy of a contract entered into to the Indiana transparency website. Provides that the purchasing agency of a governmental body must use a purchasing procedure when purchasing services. Provides that a purchasing agent may only make a purchase without soliciting bids or proposals if the purchase qualifies for a special purchase. Requires the state comptroller to calculate and provide the distribution amounts of commercial vehicle excise tax revenue for each taxing unit in a county to the county auditor. Provides that the county auditor may deposit a distribution of commercial vehicle excise tax revenue in any fund. Removes a requirement that a prosecuting attorney notify the state comptroller of the prosecuting attorney's election to devote full professional time to the duties of the office. Provides that an individual is not required to file any notification with the state comptroller that the individual has been elected or appointed to a judgeship. Requires the state comptroller and Indiana public retirement system to develop and present to the interim study committee on pension management oversight a proposed plan for a transition from the use of, and contribution of state revenue to, retirement medical benefits accounts to an increased focus on the use of, and additional contributions of state revenue to, the state employees' deferred compensation plan. |
| Current Status: | 1/30/2025 - added as coauthors Representatives Engleman, Hamilton, Harris
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| State Bill Page: | HB1392 |
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HB1402 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE. (THOMPSON J) Phases in a total exemption for business personal property that is placed in service after January 1, 2025. Specifies that the exemption does not apply to business personal property that is placed in service on or before January 1, 2025. Increases the acquisition cost threshold for the business personal property tax exemption from $80,000 to $200,000 over six years. Provides that the 30% minimum valuation limitation does not apply to business personal property placed in service after January 1, 2025. Phases down the minimum valuation percentage from 30% to zero for business personal property placed in service on or before January 1, 2025. Phases down the homestead standard deduction over five years to zero beginning for taxes due and payable in 2031. Phases in an increase in the supplemental homestead deduction over five years to 2/3 of the assessed value (AV) of the homestead. Provides an AV deduction for all property that is subject to the 2% circuit breaker credit for excessive property taxes for assessment dates beginning in 2025. Provides that the amount of the AV deduction is increased over a five year period from a 7% AV deduction for taxes due and payable in 2026 to a 1/3 AV deduction for taxes due and payable in 2031, and each taxable year thereafter. Expires certain property tax deductions allowed in current law, and instead allows a credit against local property taxes in certain instances. Increases, beginning in 2027, the maximum local income tax (LIT) expenditure rate for all counties to 2.9%. Authorizes a city or town to impose a municipal LIT rate beginning in 2027 not to exceed 1.2%. Provides four rate categories within the county's total expenditure rate that a county may adopt: (1) up to a 1.2% rate for county general purpose revenue; (2) up to a 0.4% rate for fire protection and emergency medical services; (3) up to a 0.2% rate for nonmunicipal civil taxing unit general purpose revenue; and (4) up to 1.2% for certain cities and towns that are not eligible to adopt a municipal LIT rate. Defines "nonmunicipal civil taxing units". Eliminates the imposition of the LIT on individuals who maintain a principal place of business or employment in a county with a LIT but do not reside in the county. Eliminates provisions that provide for a distribution of LIT expenditure rate revenue to schools and civil taxing units in counties that imposed a rate under the prior county adjusted gross income tax (CAGIT). Expires the authority to impose a property tax relief rate under the LIT and repeals the levy freeze rate. Provides that an ordinance adopted to impose a LIT property tax relief rate shall expire December 31, 2026. Provides that, in order to continue to impose an expenditure tax rate after 2026, each county must adopt a new ordinance in 2026 (on or before October 1, 2026) to impose the rate. Provides that, for counties that fail to adopt an ordinance to renew an existing expenditure tax rate in 2026, the expenditure tax rate for the county in 2027 shall be the minimum tax rate necessary for existing debt service. Specifies that this does not prevent the county from renewing, imposing, or modifying an expenditure tax rate in subsequent years. Eliminates local income tax councils beginning July 1, 2026, and instead provides that the county fiscal body is the adopting body in all counties for purposes of the county LIT, and the city or town fiscal body is the adopting body in the case of a municipal LIT. Requires the budget agency to determine the difference between the balance in a county's local income tax trust account as of December 31, 2025, minus the county's certified distribution amount for 2027, and beginning in 2027, make five consecutive special distributions to counties over a five year period equal to 20% of that amount each year. Establishes the local income tax holding account within the state general fund for purposes of local income tax distributions. Provides that the budget agency shall administer the account. Requires the budget agency to maintain an accounting for each county imposing a local income tax based on annual returns filed by or for county taxpayers (same as current law). Requires undistributed amounts so accounted to be held for purposes of the local income tax holding account beginning after December 31, 2026. (Under current law, undistributed amounts are required to be held in reserve separate from the state general fund.) Requires the budget agency to present each December to the budget committee a report of the following: (1) An estimate of the monthly certified distribution amounts for the immediately succeeding calendar year. (2) A description of the method used to determine the monthly estimates. (3) The balance in the local income tax holding account, including an accounting of the undistributed amounts held for purposes of the account. Beginning in 2027, requires the budget agency to make monthly transfers to the local income tax holding account of the amount determined for the month in its report to the budget committee. Repeals a provision that requires the budget agency to adjust the certified distribution of a county for the succeeding year following a tax rate change. Makes technical corrections. Makes a continuous appropriation. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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| State Bill Page: | HB1402 |
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HB1424 | CAUSES OF ACTION. (LEHMAN M) Limits a civil cause of action concerning a public nuisance. Prohibits certain causes of action against a property owner, a business owner, or a third party business operator for a criminal act committed by another person: (1) on the property; (2) at the business; or (3) on a premises, owned by another person. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to House Judiciary
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| State Bill Page: | HB1424 |
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HB1427 | DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE. (SNOW C) Provides that the only permissible method of filing a personal property return is by using the personal property online submission portal. Establishes a $5 filing fee and an exception. Adds requirements for the filing of a petition for review of land value. For purposes of public utility companies, specifies that the period of time that a taxpayer may file an objection with the department of local government finance (department) is not later than 15 days after the notice is postmarked. For purposes of the assessment of industrial facilities in Lake County, changes the minimum population for a qualifying county from 400,000 to 450,000. For purposes of property of an exempt organization used in a nonexempt trade or business, provides that the department may (as opposed to shall in current law) adopt certain rules. Provides that all or part of a building is deemed to serve a charitable purpose and thus is exempt from property taxation if it is owned by a nonprofit entity and is: (1) registered as a continuing care retirement community; (2) defined as a small house health facility; or (3) licensed as a health care or residential care facility. Adds continuing care retirement communities and small house health facilities to the list of exempt entities. Clarifies the deadline for submitting amended certified net assessed value amounts. Provides that property tax assessment board of appeals members' terms must be staggered for a two year period and begin on January 1. Repeals certain language related to the commercial vehicle excise tax. Provides for funding for cultural institutions. |
| Current Status: | 1/22/2025 - House Ways and Means, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 1:30 PM, Rm. 404
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| State Bill Page: | HB1427 |
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HB1449 | RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TAX RELIEF. (SLAGER H) Provides an assessed value stabilization deduction for homestead property after applying the standard homestead and supplemental homestead deductions taking into account the year over year change in the homestead's assessed value compared to the year over year change in the Consumer Price Index. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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| State Bill Page: | HB1449 |
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HB1460 | DRAINAGE SYSTEMS. (PRESSEL J) Requires a unit to use data from the most recent: (1) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Maps; and (2) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Atlas; to calculate and regulate storm water runoff from a developed or undeveloped plat. Authorizes a unit to use data from another state that is in proximity to the developed or undeveloped plat under consideration, as appropriate under the circumstances. Requires a plan commission or plat committee to take action on a plat application, including meeting with any stakeholders with a financial interest in the application, not later than 30 days after receiving the application. Provides that if a plan commission or plat committee fails to make written findings and a decision granting or denying primary approval to a plat not later than 60 days after a public hearing, then the plat is considered to have received primary approval. |
| Current Status: | 2/6/2025 - Cosponsors: Senators Dernulc and Doriot
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| State Bill Page: | HB1460 |
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HB1495 | REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL RULES. (BASCOM G) Establishes the administrative rules review committee. Requires: (1) an agency to submit a rule and the latest version of the regulatory analysis with any supporting documents; and (2) the supreme court to submit a rule and any economic impact statement, with supporting documents; to the office of fiscal management and analysis of the legislative services agency to estimate the fiscal impact on state and local government. Provides that if the fiscal impact is estimated to be greater than $300,000, the rule and supporting documents shall be provided to the administrative rules review committee for review. Provides that the rule described may not take effect unless authorized by a bill enacted by the general assembly. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Referred to House Judiciary
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| State Bill Page: | HB1495 |
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HB1514 | HIGH VALUE WORKFORCE READY CREDIT-BEARING GRANT. (BEHNING R) Amends eligibility requirements for the high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Referred to House Education
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| State Bill Page: | HB1514 |
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HB1518 | PURCHASE OF VEHICLES BY STATE ENTITIES. (GORE M) Provides that if a state entity purchases or leases a vehicle, the vehicle: (1) must be a government model, base model, or low trim level model; and (2) may not be from a luxury or semi-luxury brand if a nonluxury brand alternative exists that uses the same underlying vehicle platform. |
| Current Status: | 2/10/2025 - House Government and Regulatory Reform, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:30 AM, House Chamber
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| State Bill Page: | HB1518 |
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HB1523 | PUBLIC DEPOSITORIES. (PIERCE K) Amends as follows the Indiana Code section authorizing a political subdivision to invest public funds in certificates of deposit of depositories that have not been designated as a depository by the local board of finance but have been designated by the state board of finance as a depository for state deposits: (1) Provides that an investment that is made under the section after June 30, 2018, in a certificate of deposit of a depository that is located outside the territorial limits of the investing political subdivision is considered lawfully invested and insured by the public deposits insurance fund notwithstanding the current statutory requirement that all public funds of all political subdivisions must be deposited in designated depositories located in the territorial limits of the political subdivision. (2) Eliminates, for purposes of investments in certificates of deposit made under the section, the applicability of the current statutory requirement that all public funds of all political subdivisions must be deposited in designated depositories located in the territorial limits of the political subdivision. Amends Indiana Code section concerning the deposit of funds in public depositories within the territorial limits of political subdivisions to provide that a board of finance of a political subdivision that is: (1) a school corporation; (2) a library district; or (3) a county; may invest the public funds of the political subdivision in a designated depository located anywhere in the county in which the political subdivision is located. |
| Current Status: | 2/10/2025 - House Bills on Second Reading
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| State Bill Page: | HB1523 |
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HB1537 | NET METERING FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION. (SMITH V) Amends the statute concerning distributed electricity generation as follows: (1) Repeals provisions requiring an electricity supplier's net metering tariff to remain available to customers until the earlier of: (A) January 1 of the first calendar year after the calendar year in which the aggregate amount of net metering facility nameplate capacity under the net metering tariff equals at least 1.5% of the electricity supplier's most recent summer peak load; or (B) July 1, 2022. (2) Repeals provisions requiring an electricity supplier to: (A) petition the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) for a rate for the procurement of excess distributed generation produced by customers owning a distributed generation facility; and (B) credit, at the approved rate, customers for excess distributed generation supplied to the electricity supplier. (3) Provides that an electricity supplier's net metering tariff must be offered and remain available to customers at least until January 1 of the first calendar year after the calendar year in which the aggregate amount of net metering facility nameplate capacity under the net metering tariff equals at least 5% (versus 1.5% under current law) of the electricity supplier's most recent summer peak load. (4) Requires an electricity supplier to petition, before July 1, 2025, the IURC for approval of a new or amended net metering tariff that is subject to the following: (A) If the electricity supplier establishes a limit on the aggregate amount of net metering facility nameplate capacity made available for participation by customers under the net metering tariff, that minimum aggregate amount must be at least 5% of the most recent summer peak load of the electricity supplier. (B) Any limit on the aggregate amount of net metering facility nameplate capacity made available for participation by customers is subject to the reservation of: (i) at least 30% (versus 40% under current law) for participation by residential customers; and (ii) not more than 5% (versus 15% under current law) for participation by customers that install a net metering facility that uses organic waste biomass. (5) Provides that before July 1, 2025, the IURC shall make similar amendments to its net metering rules. (6) Provides that a customer that installs a net metering facility on the customer's premises before the net metering tariff of the customer's electricity supplier terminates under the bill's provisions shall continue to be served under the net metering tariff until the customer removes from the customer's premises or replaces the net metering facility. (Current law requires the customer to continue to be served under the net metering tariff until: (A) the customer removes or replaces the net metering facility; or (B) either July 1, 2032, or July 1, 2047, depending on the date of installation; whichever is earlier.) Specifies that any repairs, updates, or upgrades to portions of a net metering facility that do not increase the nameplate capacity of the net metering facility are not considered a replacement of the net metering facility for purposes of these provisions. (7) Makes conforming changes in other provisions of the statute. Adds a noncode provision that: (1) requires an electricity supplier to file, not later than July 1, 2025, a petition with the IURC for approval of a new or amended net metering tariff, as required under the bill; and (2) provides that upon the IURC's approval of the electricity supplier's new or amended net metering tariff: (A) the electricity supplier's excess distributed generation rate and tariff are no longer in effect; and (B) the electricity supplier's new or amended net metering tariff, as approved by the IURC, is in effect and available to the electricity supplier's customers. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Referred to House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
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| State Bill Page: | HB1537 |
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HB1553 | PFAS BIOSOLIDS TESTING. (BAUER M) Prohibits a person from applying biosolids, industrial waste products, or pollutant-bearing waters that contain a concentration of more than 100 parts per billion of one or more PFAS chemicals to land. Provides that a person that applies biosolids, industrial waste products, or pollutant-bearing water to land shall submit samples to the department of environmental management (department) for testing. Requires a person that applies biosolids, industrial waste products, or pollutant-bearing water to land to provide notice of the concentration of PFAS chemicals to all impacted landowners. Requires the department to test biosolids, industrial waste products, and pollutant-bearing water for PFAS chemicals. Requires the department to share data with different state agencies. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Referred to House Environmental Affairs
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| State Bill Page: | HB1553 |
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HB1559 | CMC CONTRACT AWARD STANDARD. (VANNATTER H) Provides that when a public agency chooses to employ a construction manager as constructor on a public works project, the applicable contract award standard for the project is "lowest and best". |
| Current Status: | 2/10/2025 - House Bills on Second Reading
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| State Bill Page: | HB1559 |
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HB1576 | SMALL TOWN OPPORTUNITY INITIATIVE. (GOSS-REAVES L) Adds provisions concerning the awarding of redevelopment tax credits by the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) for projects located in counties, cities, and towns that meet specified population and project criteria. Provides for the minimum and maximum credit percentages for such a project. Specifies that a credit awarded to a taxpayer for such a project is not subject to repayment and prohibits the IEDC from including a repayment provision as part of an agreement entered into for the award of the credit. Provides that the aggregate limit of applicable tax credits that the IEDC may certify for a state fiscal year excludes the first $100,000,000 in redevelopment tax credits for projects in counties, cities, and towns meeting the criteria added by the bill. Allows a redevelopment commission (commission) in a county, city, or town for which a project meeting the criteria added by the bill has received a redevelopment tax credit to establish a program to enhance investments made for those projects in the form of a 60 year allocation area to accomplish the purposes of the program. Sets forth the procedures that a commission is required to take to establish such a program. Requires the commission to annually transfer at least 12% of the aggregate allocated tax proceeds from the allocation area to school corporations located within the allocation area. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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| State Bill Page: | HB1576 |
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HB1581 | COMMUNITY SOLAR FACILITIES. (HAMILTON C) Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (commission) to adopt rules governing community solar facilities not later than July 1, 2026. Provides that, not later than 180 days after adoption of the rules, an electricity provider shall begin: (1) allowing interconnection of the electricity provider's facilities with community solar facilities in which at least three of the electricity provider's customers have entered into a subscription; and (2) crediting the electricity provider's subscribing customers for the amount of electricity from the community solar facility for which the customer subscribes. Requires the commission to: (1) establish an interconnection working group composed of representatives of electricity suppliers and other stakeholders with respect to electric utility service; and (2) implement the working group's recommendations regarding creation, revision, or elimination of policies, processes, tariffs, rules, or standards relating to the interconnection of community solar facilities and electricity suppliers as necessary for transparent, accurate, and efficient implementation of community solar facilities. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Referred to House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
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| State Bill Page: | HB1581 |
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HB1612 | RURAL BUSINESS GROWTH. (LINDAUER S) Establishes a state tax credit (credit) for certain capital investments made in rural funds. Establishes procedures for a rural fund to apply to the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) for certification of a capital investment as eligible for a credit provided by the bill. Requires a rural fund to pay a nonrefundable application fee of $5,000 to the IEDC. Provides that the credit is an amount equal to: (1) the applicable percentage for the credit allowance date; multiplied by (2) the purchase price paid to the rural fund for the capital investment. Sets forth the maximum annual amount of credits that may be certified. Provides that the credit is subject to recapture. Requires a rural fund that has received a credit to submit reports on an annual basis to the IEDC over the credit allowance period. |
| Current Status: | 1/27/2025 - added as coauthor Representative Jordan
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| State Bill Page: | HB1612 |
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HB1615 | MILITARY BASE DEVELOPMENT. (LINDAUER S) Establishes the Indiana military base infrastructure grant program (program) for physical infrastructure projects located on current or proposed Indiana military bases. Provides that the: (1) Indiana defense task force, in consultation with the Indiana economic development corporation (corporation) shall develop policies and guidelines regarding the application process for the program; and (2) corporation shall administer the program. Provides that the budget committee must make a recommendation to the budget agency on whether to approve a proposed grant. Requires the budget agency to approve a proposed grant before the grant may be awarded. Establishes the Indiana military base infrastructure grant fund within the state treasury as a dedicated fund. Provides that if a Level 2 certified technology park (park): (1) has reached the limit of deposits for a Level 2 park; (2) maintains its certification; and (3) is located within a military base enhancement area; the park shall become a Level 3 park upon reaching its Level 2 deposit limit. Provides that a Level 3 park may receive an additional annual incremental income tax deposit of up to $500,000. Makes an appropriation. |
| Current Status: | 1/27/2025 - Committee Report do pass, adopted
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| State Bill Page: | HB1615 |
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HB1621 | BUILDING AND PUBLIC WORKS MATTERS. (MILLER D) Requires a proposed rule with implementation and compliance costs of at least $1,000,000 for businesses, units, and individuals over any two year period to be authorized by legislation passed by the general assembly. Requires the state to give political subdivisions that enact certain land use policies first priority in receiving housing and housing infrastructure grants and loans. Provides that a public agency awarding a contract for a construction manager as constructor project may not take certain actions based on a bidder's, offeror's, or contractor's entering into, refusing to enter into, adhering to, or refusing to adhere to an agreement with a labor organization. Prohibits a political subdivision or agency of a political subdivision from imposing a requirement inconsistent with, in addition to, or more stringent or restrictive than the requirements of the public works statute. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and Pensions
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| State Bill Page: | HB1621 |
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HB1628 | PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT MATTERS. (SNOW C) Defines a "multi-jurisdictional infrastructure project" as a project that: (1) involves the siting, construction, or deployment of facilities, equipment, or infrastructure used in the generation, transmission, distribution, or storage of electricity, gases or fluids, or water; and (2) will have specified impacts on residents, businesses, or political subdivisions in more than one county in Indiana. Provides that the state is the sole regulator of the following with respect to a multi-jurisdictional infrastructure project, to the extent not preempted by federal law or otherwise under the jurisdiction of a federal agency or authority: (1) The siting and construction of any electric generation facility with a capacity of at least 50 megawatts that generates electricity to be directly or indirectly used for the furnishing of public utility service. (2) The siting, construction, and deployment of all facilities, equipment, and infrastructure used in the transmission, distribution, or storage of electricity, gases or fluids, or water. Provides for the preemption of all other regulation by a political subdivision or a local authority of the siting, construction, or deployment of any facilities, equipment, or infrastructure with respect to a multi-jurisdictional infrastructure project. Prohibits a political subdivision from taking specified actions concerning the siting, construction, or deployment of facilities, equipment, and infrastructure in connection with a multi-jurisdictional infrastructure project. Provides that a person that seeks to locate, construct, or deploy any facilities, equipment, or infrastructure in connection with a multi-jurisdictional infrastructure project is not required to obtain from a local authority a permit, or any other land use or zoning approval, with respect to the siting, construction, or deployment. Requires a unit to use data from: (1) the unit's 100 year flood map; and (2) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Atlas 14; to calculate and regulate storm water runoff from a developed or undeveloped plat. Requires a plat committee to take action on a plat application, including meeting with all necessary individuals, not later than 30 days after receiving the application. Provides that if a plan commission or plat committee fails to make written findings and a decision granting or denying primary approval to a plat not later than 60 days after a public hearing, then the plat is considered to have received primary approval. Provides the following: (1) Requires an applicant for a permit or approval (applicant) to be given an extension of time if the applicant's failure to meet the application deadline was caused by unforeseen circumstances beyond the applicant's control. (2) Provides a deadline in an ordinance for commencing or completing a permitted use is tolled until two years after the conclusion of any litigation regarding the granting of the permit. (3) Establishes a timeline for review of permit applications. (4) Establishes requirements for development agreements. (5) With certain exceptions, requires the ordinances, regulations, and statutes (legal restrictions) in effect at the time a permit is entered into to continue to apply unless the development is not completed within 10 years. (6) With certain exceptions, requires the legal restrictions in effect at the time a development agreement is entered into to apply for the agreement's duration. Repeals a statute requiring the ordinances, regulations, and statutes in effect at the time a zoning permit or approval is issued to govern a development for at least three years. Moves parts of the repealed statute to other locations. |
| Current Status: | 2/4/2025 - House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:30 AM, Rm. 156-A
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| State Bill Page: | HB1628 |
| News Stories: | 2/6/2025 - Proposed bill could shift control of major infrastructure projects from local to state government |
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HB1641 | COUNTY GOVERNMENT MATTERS. (MELTZER J) Excludes meetings of the governing body of a police or fire merit system from the definition of a "meeting" under the open door law. Allows an executive session to be held to: (1) review, receive, and discuss the terms and conditions of a proposed contract; and (2) communicate with an attorney, subject to the attorney client privilege. Excludes conveyances to a unit from the definition of a "conveyance document". Amends requirements for local ordinances concerning the operation of a golf cart or an off-road vehicle. Provides that if a body is to be transported by common carrier, the person in charge of interment shall secure a burial transit permit in duplicate from certain individuals. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation may enter into a public-private agreement for the construction or renovation of school buildings under the statutes governing public-private agreements. Prohibits a county employee from taking action on a county contract, unless permitted by a county ordinance. Adds language excluding certain property from the definition of "residential property" for an allocation area established after June 30, 2025. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Coauthored by Representative Zimmerman
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| State Bill Page: | HB1641 |
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HB1645 | RURAL UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE. (ISA T) Establishes the rural utility infrastructure grant fund (fund) for the purpose of providing grants to specified eligible entities to use in obtaining the utility infrastructure required to meet the growing demand for utility service in rural areas in Indiana. Provides that the fund shall be administered by the Indiana economic development corporation (corporation) or its successor. Requires the corporation to adopt rules to implement these provisions. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Referred to House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
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| State Bill Page: | HB1645 |
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HB1668 | ASSESSMENT OF WIND, SOLAR, AND BATTERY DEVICES. (CULP K) Requires a new public utility company owner of a wind power device to report, in years after the first year of ownership, the valuation of the wind power device at the same valuation amount entered in the public utility company's first annual report after the change in ownership, less adjustments for depreciation according to a schedule prescribed by the department of local government finance (department). Requires a new public utility company owner of a solar power device or a utility scale battery energy storage system to report the valuation of the solar power device or utility scale battery energy storage system at the same valuation amount that the previous owner last valued the solar power device or utility scale battery energy storage system prior to the change in ownership, less adjustments for depreciation according to a schedule prescribed by the department. Requires the department to create depreciation schedules. Requires the department to prepare and present reports to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications on: (1) the valuation of the devices and systems; and (2) the department's progress in implementing the bill's provisions. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - Referred to House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
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| State Bill Page: | HB1668 |
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HB1677 | WASTE DISPOSAL. (GORE M) Provides that depositing or causing or allowing the deposit of contaminants or solid waste upon the land is a Class C misdemeanor in certain circumstances. |
| Current Status: | 2/10/2025 - House Bills on Second Reading
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| State Bill Page: | HB1677 |
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SB1 | PROPERTY TAX RELIEF. (HOLDMAN T) Amends the homestead standard deduction amount to equal either: (1) 60% of the homestead's assessed value (AV), in the case of a homestead with an AV that exceeds $125,000; or (2) $48,000 plus 60% of the remaining AV, in the case of a homestead with an AV of $125,000 or less. Repeals the supplemental homestead deduction. Provides a maximum property tax liability credit for all taxable real property. Specifies the credit amount for homesteads and specifies the credit amount for all other taxable property. Provides that a referendum on a controlled project may be held only at a general election occurring in an even-numbered year, if the preliminary determination to issue bonds or enter into a lease for the controlled project is made after June 30, 2025. Provides that a referendum for a school operating referendum tax levy and school safety referendum tax levy may be held only at a general election occurring in an even-numbered year, if the resolution to hold the referendum is adopted after June 30, 2025. Makes a change to the language for a school operating levy referendum to include the estimated increase to the school corporation's property tax levy. Requires the department of local government finance to develop and maintain a property tax transparency portal through which taxpayers may: (1) compare the property tax liability in their current tax statement compared to their potential property tax liability based on changes under a proposed tax rate; and (2) provide taxpayer feedback to the department. Makes corresponding changes. Makes technical corrections. |
| Current Status: | 2/4/2025 - Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 9:00 AM, Rm. 431
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| State Bill Page: | SB1 |
| News Stories: | 2/6/2025 - Schools face huge cuts under Gov. Braun’s tax plan. Here’s how much your district could lose |
| | 2/6/2025 - Senators embrace income tax rate cut; fate of property tax changes uncertain |
| | 2/5/2025 - Braun to local leaders on negative impact of property tax cut: 'Prove it' |
| | 2/5/2025 - Locals, lawmakers struggle to compromise on Indiana property tax relief |
| | 2/5/2025 - Indiana public schools stand to lose $1.8 billion over two years under property tax relief proposal |
| | 2/5/2025 - Can local governments take the hit from Gov. Braun's property tax reform? |
| | 2/4/2025 - Local leaders sound alarm on Braun’s property tax overhaul legislation |
| | 1/30/2025 - Mike Braun goes off script and other takeaways from his first State of the State speech |
| | 1/29/2025 - County council introduces resolution opposing property tax bill |
| | 1/23/2025 - AARP property tax town hall reveals challenges for reform; possible changes |
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SB5 | STATE FISCAL AND CONTRACTING MATTERS. (BALDWIN S) Allows a state agency to use artificial intelligence software to prepare information and projections for the state budget. Requires a state agency to: (1) report to the budget committee certain information before submitting a new federal funds request or application to participate in a new federal program; and (2) obtain the budget committee's review if the new federal funds request or application to participate in a new federal program would require a transfer in funds between state accounts for a state match. Requires that permanent full-time positions which have been vacant for 90 days or more be reviewed and either: (1) reauthorized; or (2) eliminated; by the budget director. Requires the budget director to provide a quarterly report to the governor's office regarding those positions that were reauthorized or eliminated by the budget director in the preceding three months. Requires a state agency to provide the state comptroller with a contract for inclusion in the Indiana transparency website not later than 30 days after the contract is fully executed. Requires a state agency to provide quarterly reports to the budget committee regarding the state agency's active contracts. Requires the department of administration (department) to develop a process for state agencies to submit complaints about contractors. Allows the department to disqualify a contractor with one or more complaints from entering into state contracts. Provides for the reversion of funds appropriated to a state agency for expenses related to a contract that are unused after the end of the contract term. Requires the department to develop certain contract language to be included in state contracts of $500,000 or more. Requires the budget committee to review a proposed amendment to a contract that: (1) increases the maximum contract amount by not less than $500,000; or (2) for a contract with an initial maximum contract amount of not less than $500,000, extends the term of the contract by not less than six months. Prohibits any entity that receives state appropriations from entering into a nonpublic contract. Defines "nonpublic contract." Requires all contracts of any entity that receives state appropriations to be competitively procured. Provides that the following apply to nonpublic contracts of a state entity that have not been competitively procured and that are in existence on June 30, 2025: (1) The nonpublic contract shall terminate December 31, 2025. (2) On or before July 1, 2025, the state entity shall submit a competitive procurement through a public process for any new contract to replace a contract. Requires all contract opportunities of state entities to be posted in the form of a Request for Qualifications "RFQ" on the state entity's website prior to the contract being awarded. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services and the office of Medicaid policy and planning to do the following: (1) Establish a reporting work group to review inputs and overall financials validation. (2) Establish a steering committee to develop accompanying commentary. (3) Review monthly reports on the Medicaid program service utilization to identify trends and risks within the state Medicaid program. (4) Post publicly on the office of the secretary of family and social services's website monthly financial reports or expenditures and revenues for each state Medicaid program and commentary providing context for each monthly financial report. (5) Submit a quarterly report to the budget committee. |
| Current Status: | 1/29/2025 - Referred to House
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| State Bill Page: | SB5 |
| News Stories: | 1/29/2025 - Income tax cut tops legislative roundup |
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SB6 | PROPERTY TAX DEFERRAL PROGRAM. (ROGERS L) Authorizes a county fiscal body to adopt an ordinance to establish a property tax payment deferral program (program). Provides that a qualified individual participating in the program may defer the payment of part of the property taxes that would otherwise be due on a homestead. Defines "qualified individual". Provides that property taxes deferred under the program are due after the occurrence of a deferral termination event. Provides that the maximum amount of taxes that may be deferred cumulatively year over year may not exceed $10,000. |
| Current Status: | 2/4/2025 - added as coauthor Senator Randolph
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| State Bill Page: | SB6 |
| News Stories: | 1/23/2025 - AARP property tax town hall reveals challenges for reform; possible changes |
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SB9 | MAXIMUM LEVY GROWTH QUOTIENT. (BALDWIN S) Amends, beginning with property taxes first due and payable in 2027, the calculation to determine the maximum levy growth quotient (MLGQ) used in determining a civil taxing unit's maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levy and specifies that the MLGQ calculation is determined for the county and each civil taxing unit within the county. Provides, beginning with property taxes first due and payable in 2027, that the term "civil taxing unit" includes a school corporation. (Under current law, a school corporation: (1) is excluded from the definition of a "civil taxing unit"; and (2) has a separate MLGQ calculation.) Beginning with property taxes first due and payable in 2027, requires the budget agency to: (1) provide the MLGQ for each county to civil taxing units and the department of local government finance; and (2) calculate, using each county's MLGQ, the statewide minimum, statewide maximum, statewide median, and statewide average. Provides, beginning with property taxes first due and payable in 2027, for the calculation of the MLGQ for civil taxing units with territory in more than one county. |
| Current Status: | 1/28/2025 - Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 8:30 AM, Rm. 431
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| State Bill Page: | SB9 |
| News Stories: | 1/29/2025 - As lawmakers eye tax reform, schools worry about cuts to funding |
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SB93 | COMMON CONSTRUCTION WAGE. (DERNULC D) Requires any firm, individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation that is awarded a contract, after June 30, 2025, by the state, a political subdivision, or a municipal corporation for the construction of a public work, and any subcontractor of the construction, to pay a scale of wages that is not less than the common construction wage. Establishes a process for determining the common construction wage. Provides that a contractor or subcontractor who knowingly fails to pay the common construction wage commits a Class B misdemeanor. Provides that a public work project may not be artificially divided into two or more projects to avoid the application of the common construction wage requirements. Provides that a person who unlawfully divides a public work project commits a Class A infraction. Repeals a chapter regarding the effect of the repeal of the common construction wage statute by legislation enacted in 2015 and a chapter regarding wage scales for public works projects. Makes corresponding changes. |
| Current Status: | 1/30/2025 - added as coauthors Senators Becker and Bohacek
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| State Bill Page: | SB93 |
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SB101 | REGISTRATION OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS. (NIEMEYER R) Provides a new pathway to registration as a professional engineer for an individual with at least 25 years of engineering experience who also passes the required examination on the individual's first attempt. |
| Current Status: | 1/22/2025 - Senate Pensions and Labor, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:00 AM, Rm. 233
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| State Bill Page: | SB101 |
| News Stories: | 1/16/2025 - Indiana lawmakers contemplate slashing unemployment insurance timespan |
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SB128 | COMPENSATION FOR BUSINESS LOSSES. (BUCK J) Provides that a person operating a business on a property may be compensated for business losses resulting from a condemnation of the property. Provides that a municipality may not acquire property using an alternative condemnation procedure if the municipality is notified of the person's intent to claim compensation for business losses. |
| Current Status: | 1/30/2025 - added as second author Senator Niemeyer
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| State Bill Page: | SB128 |
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SB129 | LANDLOCKED PROPERTY. (BUCK J) 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 subdivision of the state, causes real property to become landlocked property, the county assessor of the county in which the landlocked property is located must assess the value of the landlocked property at the same rate that native forest land, a forest plantation, or wildlands are assessed for as long as the property qualifies as landlocked property. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - added as second author Senator Niemeyer
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| State Bill Page: | SB129 |
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SB131 | ACCESS TO EMPLOYEE RESTROOMS. (FORD J) Provides that if a retail establishment has a restroom facility on its premises for the use of the retail establishment's employees, a customer who suffers from an eligible medical condition must, upon request, be allowed to use the restroom facility during normal business hours if certain conditions are met. Specifies that a customer who uses the retail establishment's employee restroom facility is responsible for leaving the restroom facility in the same condition as when the customer entered the restroom facility. Provides immunity from civil liability for any act or omission in allowing a customer to use an employee restroom facility if all of the specified conditions for use of the facility are met, provided that the act or omission: (1) is not willful or grossly negligent; and (2) occurs in an area of the retail establishment that is not accessible to the public. Imposes a maximum $100 civil penalty on an owner, operator, or employee of a retail establishment for violating these provisions. |
| Current Status: | 1/14/2025 - added as coauthor Senator Becker
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| State Bill Page: | SB131 |
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SB144 | COUNTY POLICE FORCE PENSION TRUST AND TRUST FUND. (BECKER V) Requires in a county other than Marion County, that the county police department or a designee of the county police department make an annual presentation regarding the county police force pension trust and trust fund to the county council. |
| Current Status: | 1/28/2025 - Referred to House
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| State Bill Page: | SB144 |
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SB161 | ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITIONS ON PUBLIC CAMPING. (FREEMAN A) Prohibits a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing any policy that prohibits or discourages the enforcement of any order or ordinance prohibiting public camping, sleeping, or other obstruction of a sidewalk. Authorizes the attorney general to bring a civil action to enjoin a political subdivision that adopts or enforces such a policy. |
| Current Status: | 1/16/2025 - added as second author Senator Bohacek
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| State Bill Page: | SB161 |
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SB179 | REGULATING QUARRY LOCATION. (BOHACEK M) Provides that a quarter square mile area containing at least five (instead of eight) residences constitutes an "urban area" within which a planning and zoning authority may prohibit mining and logging. Makes a stylistic change. |
| Current Status: | 1/8/2025 - Referred to Senate Local Government
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| State Bill Page: | SB179 |
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SB183 | RURAL INTERSECTION SAFETY. (CRIDER M) Provides that a person that owns or is the lessee of a parcel of agricultural land at an intersection of two county, municipal, or township roads that is not controlled by a traffic signal shall maintain a line of sight triangle at the intersection. Provides that the land contained within the line of sight triangle must not contain any: (1) crops that typically exceed a height of three feet; or (2) other: (A) vegetation; or (B) structures, signs, fences, walls, or obstructions that are owned or controlled by the property owner or a lessee of the property owner; that exceed a height of three feet. Provides that trees may be planted and maintained within the line of sight triangle area if all branches are trimmed to maintain a clear vision for a vertical height of six feet above the roadway surface. Provides that a person involved in an automobile accident resulting from the landowner's or lessee's failure to maintain the line of sight triangle has a cause of action against the landowner or lessee for damages resulting from the accident. Provides that certain provisions do not apply to critical infrastructure. |
| Current Status: | 2/6/2025 - Senate Bills on Second Reading
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| State Bill Page: | SB183 |
| News Stories: | 2/5/2025 - Rural safety bill named after tragic incident gains ground in Indiana legislature |
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SB235 | LIMITATIONS ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION. (JOHNSON T) Establishes prohibitions and requirements on state agencies, recipients of state contracts or grants, state educational institutions, and health profession licensing boards regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Allows the attorney general to bring an action concerning noncompliance against a state educational institution. Establishes: (1) requirements regarding a standardized admissions test; and (2) requirements regarding altering academic standards; for postsecondary educational institutions that offer certain health education programs. |
| Current Status: | 2/6/2025 - Senate Bills on Second Reading
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| State Bill Page: | SB235 |
| News Stories: | 2/6/2025 - Lawmakers advance bills on DEI, sex ed, chaplains in schools |
| | 2/4/2025 - Faith leaders meet with Gov. Braun to express concerns over DEI executive actions |
| | 2/4/2025 - Ball State cancels LGBTQ training session amid uncertainty of state legislation |
| | 2/3/2025 - Indiana bill tracker: Senate OKs income tax cut, parental rights bill. Here's what else moved |
| | 1/30/2025 - Braun highlights early administrative wins in his first State of the State address |
| | 1/27/2025 - The CRT debate is back at the Indiana Statehouse, but this time, it's DEI |
| | 1/23/2025 - Bills to restrict or ban DEI in Indiana education advance after Trump and Braun orders |
| | 1/23/2025 - Anti-DEI bills take heat but pass committee |
| | 1/23/2025 - Senate committee seeks to ban diversity, equity and inclusion in state agencies, schools |
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SB255 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (DEERY S) Requires the department of education to grant an initial practitioner license to an individual who: (1) holds a bachelor's degree with a major in any combination of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics; (2) successfully completes a total of at least nine academic credits regarding certain instruction in teaching; and (3) meets other specified requirements. Requires a principal to allow a student who is enrolled in a public secondary school to receive religious instruction for a period or periods that do not exceed the amount of time that is equivalent to attending one elective course at the public secondary school during the week. (Current law provides for a period or periods of not more than 120 minutes in total in any week.) Changes certain requirements regarding the reporting of a bullying "incident" to the reporting of a bullying "investigation". Requires discipline rules to include a provision to make a reasonable attempt to notify both the parent of a targeted student and the parent of an alleged perpetrator that the school is investigating a possible incident of bullying before the end of the calendar day on which the school is made aware of the possible incident of bullying. |
| Current Status: | 1/29/2025 - Referred to House
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| State Bill Page: | SB255 |
| News Stories: | 1/23/2025 - Lawmakers eye changes to STEM teacher licenses, religious instruction time, bullying notice |
| | 1/23/2025 - Deregulation, athletics, teacher benefits. These Indiana education bills are on the move |
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SB289 | NONDISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION. (BYRNE G) Establishes prohibitions and requirements on state agencies, state educational institutions, and health profession licensing boards regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Provides that certain civil actions for noncompliance may be filed against a state educational institution. Establishes requirements regarding a standardized admissions test for state educational institutions that offer certain health education programs. Requires a school corporation, charter school, state agency, and political subdivision to post on its website certain training and curricular materials concerning nondiscrimination, diversity, equity, inclusion, race, ethnicity, sex, and bias. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, state agency, or political subdivision may not: (1) require or otherwise compel a student of the school corporation or charter school or an employee to affirm, adopt, or adhere to certain beliefs or concepts; or (2) use public funds to contract with, hire, or otherwise engage consultants, trainers, or other persons to take certain actions to promote the beliefs or concepts. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, state agency, political subdivision, or an employee of a school corporation, charter school, state agency, or political subdivision may not, in the course or scope of public service or employment, promote, embrace, or endorse stereotypes. Establishes a process for an employee, a parent, or an emancipated student to file a complaint of a violation. Allows the attorney general to file an action for mandate to compel a school corporation, charter school, state agency, or political subdivision to comply with certain requirements. |
| Current Status: | 2/6/2025 - Cosponsor: Representative McNamara
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| State Bill Page: | SB289 |
| News Stories: | 2/6/2025 - Lawmakers advance bills on DEI, sex ed, chaplains in schools |
| | 2/4/2025 - Faith leaders meet with Gov. Braun to express concerns over DEI executive actions |
| | 1/30/2025 - Braun highlights early administrative wins in his first State of the State address |
| | 1/27/2025 - The CRT debate is back at the Indiana Statehouse, but this time, it's DEI |
| | 1/23/2025 - Bills to restrict or ban DEI in Indiana education advance after Trump and Braun orders |
| | 1/23/2025 - Anti-DEI bills take heat but pass committee |
| | 1/23/2025 - Senate committee seeks to ban diversity, equity and inclusion in state agencies, schools |
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SB298 | GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY LIMITED LIABILITY. (WALKER G) Provides that a governmental entity operating an activity on land leased by the governmental entity from the federal government is entitled to certain immunities from a tort claim. Expands the definition of "extreme sport area" to include an obstacle course. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to Senate Judiciary
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| State Bill Page: | SB298 |
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SB299 | LOCAL PUBLIC QUESTIONS. (WALKER G) Makes certain changes to the language for the public question required for a controlled project referendum, school operating levy referendum, and school safety referendum. Makes corresponding changes. Makes technical corrections. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy
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| State Bill Page: | SB299 |
| News Stories: | 1/29/2025 - Lawmakers seek limit on how often schools ask voters for funding increase |
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SB315 | MAXIMUM LEVY GROWTH QUOTIENT CAP. (BALDWIN S) Extends the calculation used to determine the maximum levy growth quotient added by HEA 1499-2023 to 2026. |
| Current Status: | 1/28/2025 - Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 8:30 AM, Rm. 431
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| State Bill Page: | SB315 |
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SB340 | MAXIMUM INCREASE OF HOMESTEAD PROPERTY TAX BILL. (YOUNG M) Caps the year over year increase of property tax liability on a homestead at 2%. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy
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| State Bill Page: | SB340 |
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SB349 | ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION. (RAATZ J) Provides that, for purposes of voluntary remediation of hazardous substances and petroleum, a restrictive covenant or environmental restrictive ordinance is not necessary to control potential exposure pathways at a site unless it is determined that the expected future use of the site is more likely than not to result in exposure to remaining contamination in excess of remediation objectives. |
| Current Status: | 2/3/2025 - Senate Environmental Affairs, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:00 AM, Rm. 431
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| State Bill Page: | SB349 |
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SB351 | THIRD CLASS CITY PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD. (GASKILL M) Allows a resident of the library district to be appointed to the parks and recreation board of a third class city. |
| Current Status: | 2/6/2025 - Senate Committee recommends passage, as amended Yeas: 9; Nays: 0
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| State Bill Page: | SB351 |
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SB352 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY TASK FORCE. (GASKILL M) Establishes the local government efficiency task force (task force) to study creating a more streamlined and cost effective local government structure. Sets forth the membership, and requires the task force to issue a report to the general assembly and the governor not later than November 1, 2026. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to Senate Local Government
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| State Bill Page: | SB352 |
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SB353 | PROPERTY TAX RATE FREEZE. (GASKILL M) Provides a calculation to be used in determining the maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levy and resulting tax rate for taxes first due and payable in 2026 and 2027, to cap the increase in the levy and tax rates based on a ratio comparison of each civil taxing unit's maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levy to net assessed value in 2025. |
| Current Status: | 1/30/2025 - added as coauthor Senator Rogers
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| State Bill Page: | SB353 |
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SB362 | THIRTEENTH CHECK. (NIEZGODSKI D) Provides for a thirteenth check for certain members, participants, or beneficiaries of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) Indiana public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (4) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (5) state police 1987 benefit system. Provides for a $50 payment to members of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund and Indiana public employees' retirement fund, and to participants of the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to Senate Appropriations
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| State Bill Page: | SB362 |
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SB365 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (RAATZ J) Requires the department of education (department), in collaboration with the commission for higher education (commission) and the department for workforce development, to create a combined return on investment report for specified programs. Requires the department, in collaboration with the commission and the department for workforce development, to collect and maintain certain data concerning the specified programs. Requires the department to publish the return on investment report on the department's website and submit the report to the governor's workforce cabinet and the legislative council. Provides that the department shall administer and implement the career navigation coaching system developed by the commission. Establishes the career coaching fund (fund) and provides that the department shall administer the fund. Provides certain requirements for an eligible entity to receive a grant from the fund. Requires the department to prepare a report concerning career coaching and submit the report to the governor and legislative council. Requires the department of workforce development to update wage threshold data used to categorize career and technical education programs for use in the subsequent school year. Makes conforming changes. |
| Current Status: | 2/6/2025 - Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
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| State Bill Page: | SB365 |
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SB374 | PUBLICATION OF MEETING NOTICE ON WEBSITE. (GOODE G) Provides that for purposes of the open door law, if a public agency has a website the governing body of the public agency shall provide public notice of meetings by posting a copy of the notice on the public agency's main website. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to Senate Public Policy
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| State Bill Page: | SB374 |
| News Stories: | 1/13/2025 - A bill that could dissolve five Indiana school districts and turn their district-run schools into charter schools drew much discussion during a legislative crackerbarrel session Saturday at the Vigo County Public Library. |
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SB385 | E-VERIFY PROGRAM. (GOODE G) Requires a construction manager as contractor and a subcontractor of any tier to submit the E-Verify case verification number for an individual to the public agency before the individual begins work on a public works project. Provides that a public agency may not enter into a contract for a public works project with a contractor unless: (1) the contract contains certain provisions; and (2) the contractor signs an affidavit affirming that: (A) the contractor does not knowingly employ an unauthorized alien; and (B) the E-Verify documentation provided to the public agency is complete and accurate. |
| Current Status: | 1/23/2025 - added as coauthors Senators Glick and Doriot
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| State Bill Page: | SB385 |
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SB391 | POLITICAL SUBDIVISION BUDGETS. (BUCK J) Provides that, notwithstanding any growth in a political subdivision's assessed value in the previous year, a political subdivision's ad valorem property tax levy shall not exceed the ad valorem property tax levy for its last preceding annual budget, unless the fiscal body of the political subdivision adopts an affirmative tax rate and tax levy increase by ordinance following a separate public hearing. Requires a resulting decrease in tax rates for each political subdivision in which there was an increase in the political subdivision's assessed value in the previous year, subject to any affirmative tax rate and tax levy increase adopted by the fiscal body of the political subdivision. |
| Current Status: | 1/13/2025 - Referred to Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy
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| State Bill Page: | SB391 |
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SB425 | ENERGY PRODUCTION ZONES. (KOCH E) Provides that a project owner is not required to apply for or receive a permit, or any other land use or zoning approval, from a local governmental agency for the construction of an electric generation facility if: (1) the Indiana utility regulatory commission (commission): (A) grants the project owner a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) for the construction; or (B) declines jurisdiction over the construction; (2) the electric generation facility will be located on a premise of land on which there is located: (A) an existing electric generation facility with a generating capacity of at least 80 megawatts, regardless of whether the electric generation facility is operational; or (B) a former surface or underground mine; and (3) the project owner complies with specified notice and hearing requirements. |
| Current Status: | 1/30/2025 - Senate Utilities, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 9:00 AM, Rm. 130
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| State Bill Page: | SB425 |
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SB428 | IMMIGRATION MATTERS. (KOCH E) Clarifies that the enforcement of federal immigration laws may be carried out by federal, state, or local law enforcement. Removes the mens rea standard in the statute concerning governmental entities or postsecondary institutions violating the citizenship and immigration status information and enforcement of federal laws. Provides that a governmental body that has the custody of an individual who is the subject of an immigration detainer request shall: (1) provide the judge authorized to grant or deny the individual's release on bail notice that the individual is subject to an immigration detainer request; (2) record in the individual's case file that the individual is subject to an immigration detainer request; (3) comply with the immigration detainer request; and (4) inform the individual that the individual is being held pursuant to an immigration detainer request. Provides immunity to a governmental body or an employee of a governmental body for any action taken concerning an immigration detainer request. Provides that if the attorney general determines that probable cause exists that a governmental entity has not complied with an immigration detention request, the attorney general may: (1) issue a cease and desist order; (2) bring a court action to enjoin an action or practice constituting a violation of an immigration detention request or compel compliance with the immigration detention request; and (3) impose a civil penalty for noncompliance with an immigration detention request. Provides that if the attorney general determines a governmental body did not comply with an immigration detention order, upon the advice of the attorney general, the governor may order that state funding and grants be withheld from the governmental body. Requires a judge, who receives notice that an individual is subject to an immigration detainer request, to ensure that the notice of the immigration detainer request is recorded in the court's record. Requires a judge to report to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency an individual who has been convicted in the judge's court of a felony or misdemeanor. |
| Current Status: | 1/28/2025 - added as coauthor Senator Schmitt
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| State Bill Page: | SB428 |
| News Stories: | 1/30/2025 - 'Unprecedented' number of immigration bills filed amid growing anti-immigrant sentiment |
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SB448 | HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT MATTERS. (GOODE G) Requires the Indiana management performance hub, in collaboration with the department of education (department), to: (1) collect and compile certain student income data; and (2) report certain credential information on the department's website. Requires the secretary of education to establish a plan to develop a market driven stackable credentials and qualifications framework and submit the plan to the general assembly. Provides that the commission for higher education (commission) shall (instead of may) approve or disapprove certain branches, campuses, centers, new colleges, new schools, degrees, or programs. Provides that before the commission approves or disapproves a degree or program, a state educational institution shall provide, and the commission shall consider, certain information regarding the degree or program. Requires the commission to: (1) review each degree or program for approval or disapproval at least one time every 10 years; (2) outline a process for degree and program monitoring, improvement, suspension, and closure; (3) publish certain information; and (4) take official action regarding the approval or disapproval of certain requests within 90 days. Requires the commission to prepare and submit an annual report to the legislative council regarding certain student enrollment data. |
| Current Status: | 2/6/2025 - Committee Report amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
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| State Bill Page: | SB448 |
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SB453 | VARIOUS TAX MATTERS. (HOLDMAN T) Amends estimated quarterly tax payment provisions. Restructures tax collection requirements for kerosene to eliminate specialized tax filing. Streamlines the filing requirements for gasoline use tax to eliminate multiple filing requirements. Specifies the liability and remittance requirements for the gross retail tax, gasoline use tax, and other listed taxes in certain circumstances. Amends provisions that apply to passenger and household goods carriers. Amends the college savings tax credit. Replaces the term "college choice 529 education savings plan" with "Indiana529 plan". Provides that heated tobacco products (HTPs) are subject to the cigarette tax, and are not taxed as a vapor product under the electronic cigarette tax. Specifies the rate of taxation for HTPs under the cigarette tax. Makes a clarifying change to the closed system cartridge tax. Extends the renewal period from one year to two years for businesses licensed to collect the electronic cigarettes tax, closed systems cartridge tax, and other tobacco products tax. Provides various tax exemptions for the Women's National Basketball Association All-Star Game, including ancillary events, when held in Indiana. Specifies that the fiscal officer of an entity that has adopted an innkeeper's tax, a food and beverage tax, or an admissions tax must enter into an agreement with the department of state revenue (department) before the department provides certain information to the fiscal officer as required under current law. Specifies when certain tax information may be disclosed by the department. Provides for the transfer of certain funds from the bureau of motor vehicles commission fund to the motor carrier regulation fund. Makes a technical correction to the pass through entity tax. Amends provisions in the assessed value deduction for individuals who are blind or disabled. Makes corresponding changes. |
| Current Status: | 1/21/2025 - added as second author Senator Baldwin
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| State Bill Page: | SB453 |
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SB472 | CYBERSECURITY. (BROWN L) Requires political subdivisions, state agencies, school corporations, and state educational institutions (public entities), with the exception of specified categories of hospitals, to adopt not later than December 31, 2025, a: (1) technology resources policy; and (2) cybersecurity policy; that meet specified requirements. Requires the office of technology (office) to develop: (1) standards and guidelines regarding cybersecurity for use by political subdivisions and state educational institutions; and (2) a uniform cybersecurity policy for use by state agencies. Requires the office to develop, in collaboration with the department of education: (1) a uniform technology resources policy governing use of technology resources by the employees of school corporations; and (2) a uniform cybersecurity policy for use by school corporations. Requires: (1) a public entity to biennially submit to the office the cybersecurity policy adopted by the public entity; and (2) the office to establish a procedure for collecting and maintaining a record of submitted cybersecurity policies. Establishes: (1) the cybersecurity insurance program (program) for the purpose of providing coverage to a participating government entity for losses incurred by the government entity as a result of a cybersecurity incident; and (2) the cybersecurity insurance board (board) to administer the program. Provides that coverage for losses incurred by a participating government entity as a result of a cybersecurity incident are paid under the program from premiums paid into a trust fund by participating government entities. Provides that the board shall contract with cybersecurity professionals who can be dispatched by the board to assist a participating government entity in the event of a cybersecurity incident. Provides that fines recovered by the attorney general for any of the following violations are deposited in the trust fund: (1) Failure of an adult oriented website to implement or properly use a reasonable age verification method. (2) Failure of a data base owner to safeguard personal information of Indiana residents. (3) Failure of a data base owner to disclose or provide notice of a security breach. (4) Violation of consumer data protection law. Makes an appropriation. |
| Current Status: | 1/23/2025 - Committee Report amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
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| State Bill Page: | SB472 |
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SB508 | PROPERTY TAX STREAMLINE. (ALEXANDER S) Abolishes the offices of county assessor and township assessor, effective July 1, 2025. Transfers the duties of the assessor to the county auditor. Requires the department of local government finance (DLGF) to develop an automated valuation model system (AVM system) to be used by the DLGF to conduct the assessment of all tangible property statewide, except for agricultural land. Requires the DLGF to conduct all assessments for tangible property, excluding agricultural land, using the AVM system beginning with the first assessment date that an AVM system is operational for use, but not later than 2036. Eliminates the payment of property taxes in arrears beginning with the first assessment date for which the AVM system is applied. Requires the DLGF to present a plan of implementation for an AVM system to the interim study committee on fiscal policy before November 1, 2025, and present an update on the AVM system before November 1 in subsequent years until the AVM system is operational for use. Except for agricultural land, provides that tangible property shall not be subject to assessment beginning with assessments in 2026 through the first assessment date for which the AVM system is applied. Freezes the assessed value of all taxable property, except agricultural land, during this time period at the assessed value determined for the property for the 2025 assessment date. Caps the property tax liability for all taxable property for taxes first due and payable in 2027 through the first date that taxes are first due and payable based on assessments under the AVM system to not more than: (1) for taxes first due and payable in 2027, the property tax liability imposed on the taxpayer's property for taxes first due and payable in 2021; and (2) for taxes first due and payable in 2028 and thereafter, the property tax liability for the calendar year not to exceed a 3% increase from the taxpayer's property tax liability from the previous year. Requires the legislative services agency to prepare legislation for introduction in the 2026 regular session of the general assembly to make appropriate required changes in statutes. Makes corresponding changes. |
| Current Status: | 1/16/2025 - added as second author Senator Johnson T
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| State Bill Page: | SB508 |
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SB512 | INSURANCE POOLING FOR POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. (BECKER V) Permits political subdivisions, acting jointly, to pool resources to purchase insurance coverage. |
| Current Status: | 1/16/2025 - Referred to Senate Local Government
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| State Bill Page: | SB512 |
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SB519 | LOCAL PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS. (ROGERS L) Prohibits a political subdivision or agency of a political subdivision from imposing a requirement inconsistent with, in addition to, or more stringent or restrictive than the requirements of the public works statute. |
| Current Status: | 1/16/2025 - Referred to Senate Pensions and Labor
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| State Bill Page: | SB519 |
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SB524 | THE PRACTICE OF LAW. (CARRASCO C) Allows a resident of a contiguous county to be appointed the head of the department of law. |
| Current Status: | 2/6/2025 - added as coauthor Senator Jackson
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| State Bill Page: | SB524 |
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SB538 | PFAS CHEMICALS. (ZAY A) Defines "PFAS chemicals" and requires the environmental rules board to use the definition in certain rules concerning industrial processes and research and development. |
| Current Status: | 1/16/2025 - Referred to Senate Environmental Affairs
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| State Bill Page: | SB538 |
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SB540 | LOCAL FISCAL MATTERS. (BUCHANAN B) Raises the acquisition cost threshold for purposes of the personal property tax exemption from $80,000 to $250,000. Limits the ability to seek an excess levy appeal to those units that have experienced a year over year population increase of 5% or more. Caps the allowable increase in the amount of property taxes first due and payable on a homestead in 2026, 2027, and 2028. Provides, beginning in 2027, that the office of the county assessor is an appointive office rather than an elective office. Specifies that the county executive shall appoint an individual to the office of the county assessor. Includes provisions to manage the conversion of the office of the county assessor to an appointive office upon the abolition of the office as an elective office. |
| Current Status: | 1/16/2025 - Referred to Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy
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| State Bill Page: | SB540 |
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SB541 | COMMUNITY SOLAR FACILITIES. (SPENCER M) Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (commission) to adopt rules governing community solar facilities not later than July 1, 2026. Provides that, not later than 180 days after adoption of the rules, an electricity provider shall begin: (1) allowing interconnection of the electricity provider's facilities with community solar facilities in which at least three of the electricity provider's customers have entered into a subscription; and (2) crediting the electricity provider's subscribing customers for the amount of electricity from the community solar facility for which the customer subscribes. Requires the commission to: (1) establish an interconnection working group composed of representatives of electricity suppliers and other stakeholders with respect to electric utility service; and (2) implement the working group's recommendations regarding creation, revision, or elimination of policies, processes, tariffs, rules, or standards relating to the interconnection of community solar facilities and electricity suppliers as necessary for transparent, accurate, and efficient implementation of community solar facilities. |
| Current Status: | 1/16/2025 - Referred to Senate Utilities
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| State Bill Page: | SB541 |
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SB542 | ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS TO GOVERNMENTAL BODIES. (SPENCER M) Amends the definition of "electronic payment" for purposes of the statute governing electronic payments to a governmental body (defined as the state or a state agency) to include a payment made by means of any of the following: (1) Interactive voice response. (2) A digital wallet. (3) A digital currency. Provides that after June 30, 2025, a governmental body may not enter into or renew a contract: (1) that is made with a provider or vendor of payment processing services; and (2) the terms of which provide that any: (A) vendor transaction charge; (B) discount fee; or (C) other service charge or fee; assessed in connection with the contract is payable by the person who makes an electronic payment. |
| Current Status: | 1/16/2025 - Referred to Senate Appropriations
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| State Bill Page: | SB542 |
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