SB0170 - Crimes and election workers.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Greg Walker, Susan C. Glick, Mike Bohacek
Last updated 6 months ago7 Co-Sponsors
Crimes and election workers. Defines "election worker" and makes it a Level 6 felony under certain circumstances to: (1) threaten an election worker; or (2) to obstruct, interfere with, or injure an election worker.
STATUS
Passed
SB0156 - Dissolution or name change of town.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
James R. Buck, Rick Niemeyer, Daniel E. Dernulc
Last updated 8 months ago5 Co-Sponsors
Dissolution or name change of town. Establishes the following procedure for dissolving a town or changing the name of a town: (1) Requires at least 5% of the registered voters of the town to file a petition for town dissolution or name change with the county auditor. (2) Requires the county commissioners to hold a hearing on a petition. (3) Requires approval of a public question by the town's voters by an affirmative vote of at least 2/3 of the voters voting on the public question. Provides, in the case of a town dissolution, for disposition of funds, property, and records of a dissolved town. Repeals statutes relating to: (1) town dissolutions; and (2) changing the name of a town.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB0145 - Tax credit for charter school contribution.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Brian Buchanan
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Tax credit for charter school contribution. Authorizes the governing body of a charter school to establish a charter school building fund (fund) for the purpose of accepting charitable contributions to be used to fund one or more capital projects of the charter school. Provides an individual adjusted gross income tax credit for contribution to a fund equal to 50% of the aggregate amount of charitable contributions made by the taxpayer during the taxable year. Caps the total amount of tax credits provided at $10,000,000.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0063 - Law enforcement powers of fire investigators.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
J.D. Ford
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Law enforcement powers of fire investigators. Provides that a fire investigator appointed after June 30, 2024, who is a member of: (1) a fire department that provides service to a first or second class city (city); or (2) a city fire department; may exercise police powers for the city if certain requirements are satisfied, including meeting basic training standards established by the law enforcement training board (board) and written notification is sent from the city fire chief to the city police chief and county sheriff. (Under current law, the fire investigator must be authorized to exercise police power by the police chief and fire chief of the first class or second class city.) Provides that a fire investigator who exercised police powers before July 1, 2024, and has not completed the basic training standards established by the board must complete supplemental training and education established by the board to continue exercising police powers after June 30, 2026. Allows the board to adopt interim rules to establish the supplemental training and educational requirements for fire investigators.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0255 - Education accounts.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ryan D. Mishler
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Education accounts. Expires the Indiana choice scholarship program and Indiana education scholarship account program on June 30, 2025. Beginning July 1, 2025, establishes the Indiana funding students first grant program (program) as a pilot program through June 30, 2027. Provides that the treasurer of state shall administer the program. Allows the parents of eligible students who are homeschooled or who attend a public school or a nonpublic school to apply to the treasurer of state to establish an account for purposes of the program. Defines "eligible student". Specifies the annual grant amount to the eligible student's account. Provides that the parent of an eligible student may use money in a program account for any qualified expense. Defines "qualified expense" for purposes of the program. Requires all students who participate in the program to take the statewide assessment. Makes conforming changes and technical corrections.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0141 - Education matters.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jean Leising, Stacey Donato, Jake Teshka
Last updated 8 months ago6 Co-Sponsors
Education matters. Provides that, for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school years, a school shall ensure that at least 60% of a school counselor's aggregate time performing the counselor's job duties is devoted to providing direct services to students. Provides that, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, a school shall ensure that at least 80% of a school counselor's aggregate time performing the counselor's job duties is devoted to providing direct services to students. Exempts schools that have a school counselor/student ratio that is not more than one school counselor to 350 students from the school counselor time requirement provisions. Allows school corporations to provide certain notices regarding expulsion meetings by electronic mail.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB0258 - Physician referrals and reimbursement rates.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Justin Busch
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Physician referrals and reimbursement rates. Prohibits a referring physician from receiving compensation or an incentive from a health care entity or another physician, who is in the same health care network as the referring physician, for referring a patient to the health care entity or other physician. Provides that the rules adopted by the department of insurance regarding the all payer claims data base must include a requirement that health payers report physician reimbursement rates for each contract and specify a process for health payers to report the physician reimbursement rates. Requires the all payer claims data base to publish the physician reimbursement rates as a separate line item for each contract instead of in the aggregate.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0080 - Code publication amendments.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Aaron Freeman, Greg Taylor, Karen Engleman
Last updated 6 months ago6 Co-Sponsors
Code publication amendments. Makes Indiana Code publication amendments. Repeals and relocates a specific Indiana Code definitions chapter for organization of the defined terms by alphabetical order and to provide for future expansion of the chapter. Makes conforming cross-reference updates. Resolves technical conflicts between various enrolled acts passed during the 2024 legislative session.
STATUS
Passed
SB0216 - Agriculture and pesticides.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Kyle Walker, Chris Garten, Rick Niemeyer
Last updated 6 months ago8 Co-Sponsors
Agriculture and pesticides. Requires the dean of agriculture of Purdue University to submit certain annual reports to the legislative council and the budget committee as well as to the governor. Makes several changes in the laws concerning pesticides and pesticide use and application. Adds and revises definitions of terms used in those laws. Provides for the adoption of certain pesticide requirements and standards set forth in federal regulations as state requirements and standards. Makes changes concerning who may use certain pesticides and the circumstances under which the pesticides may be used. Authorizes the state chemist to enter a premises to access copies of records but allows the person holding records to defer the state chemist's access for up to ten days. Provides that the state chemist may enter public or private or property to investigate conditions possibly resulting from pesticide use only if the state chemist has reasonable suspicion of a violation. Requires the state chemist, in a proceeding involving multiple counts of repeated incidents of the same violation, to limit the imposition of a civil penalty to five counts. Provides that any findings related to a violation must be disclosed to the alleged violator before a penalty is assessed. Provides that, absent evidence of wrongdoing by the licensed pesticide business, any citation or civil penalty for a violation by an employee of a licensed pesticide business must be directed to the employee or the employee's supervisor instead of to the licensed pesticide business. Establishes requirements for individuals applying to become registered technicians. Establishes record keeping requirements for registered pesticide dealers, commercial applicators, and private applicators. Establishes restrictions and requirements concerning the application of pesticides on school property and pesticide use in a wellhead protection area. Sets forth acts for which the state chemist may impose a civil penalty or deny, suspend, or revoke a license, permit, or registration, including the application of a pesticide in a manner that allows it to drift from the target site, distributing a restricted use pesticide to a noncertified end user, and storing or disposing of a pesticide in violation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requirements.
STATUS
Passed
SR0006 - Urging the Legislative Council to assign the topic of the effectiveness of awarding time off of sentences for individuals serving sentences at the Indiana DOC participating in the CPCT Program.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Eric Allan Koch
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Urging the Legislative Council to assign the topic of the effectiveness of awarding time off of sentences for individuals serving sentences at the Indiana DOC participating in the CPCT Program. A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the Legislative Council to assign to an appropriate study committee the topic of the effectiveness of awarding time off of sentences for individuals serving sentences at the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) participating in the Case Plan Credit Time (CPCT) Program.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0228 - Various tax matters.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Travis Holdman, Lonnie Marcus Randolph, Scott A. Baldwin
Last updated 6 months ago5 Co-Sponsors
Various tax matters. Amends the economic threshold for sales tax nexus to remove the number of sales transactions in the state as one of the two current triggers that require retail merchants to collect and remit sales tax. Allows a retail merchant that receives 75% or more of its receipts from the sale of prepared food to elect to claim a sales tax exemption on transactions involving electricity equal to 50% of the tax imposed on the transactions. Makes certain changes to statutes of limitations provisions. Requires sheriffs to transfer funds collected through executions of tax warrants twice a month electronically through the department of state revenue (department) payment portal. Specifies that the service of process fee for postjudgment service can only be assessed one time per case. Authorizes the department to disclose a taxpayer's name and other personal identification information with a tax preparer or tax preparation software provider in cases where the department suspects that a fraudulent return has been filed on behalf of a taxpayer and that the system of a taxpayer's previous year tax preparer or tax preparation software provider has been breached. Specifies the pass through entity tax liability for pass through entities in certain circumstances. Repeals an outdated provision that requires an owner of a truck stop to obtain a license from the department. Reorganizes certain retail merchant certificate provisions. Makes clarifying and technical changes.
STATUS
Passed
SB0247 - Water and wastewater utility infrastructure.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Eric Allan Koch, Jean Leising, Ed Charbonneau
Last updated 6 months ago6 Co-Sponsors
Water and wastewater utility infrastructure. Amends the statute concerning the acquisition by a utility company of a water or wastewater utility to provide that if: (1) the appraised value of the utility property to be acquired does not exceed $3,000,000; and (2) the purchase price for the utility property is less than the appraised value of the utility property; the acquiring utility company may submit to the Indiana utility regulatory agency (IURC) a filing under a procedure, based on the procedures set forth in the IURC's rules governing 30 day administrative filings, to include in the acquiring utility company's rate base specified costs associated with the acquisition. Sets forth certain information that must be included in an acquiring utility company's filing. Provides that if the IURC approves an acquiring utility company's filing, the IURC: (1) may only authorize that: (A) the full purchase price; and (B) estimated: (i) incidental expenses; and (ii) other costs of acquisition; be recorded as the acquiring utility company's net original cost of acquisition; and (2) shall provide that any estimated: (i) incidental expenses; and (ii) other costs of the acquisition; are subject to a reasonableness review as part of the acquiring utility company's next base rate case. Adds language specifying that the Indiana Code chapter that governs the transfer, acquisition, and improvement of utilities by municipalities applies to a municipally owned natural gas utility (in addition to a municipally owned electric, water, wastewater, or combined water and wastewater utility).
STATUS
Passed
SJR0010 - Vehicle joint resolution.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Rodric D. Bray
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Vehicle joint resolution. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0061 - Tourism improvement districts.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Travis Holdman, Lonnie Marcus Randolph, Scott A. Baldwin
Last updated 8 months ago7 Co-Sponsors
Tourism improvement districts. Provides that a person may circulate a petition to create a tourism improvement district (district) within the territory of a county, city, or town (local unit). Specifies the contents of the tourism improvement district plan that must be filed with a petition to establish a district. Provides that, after a hearing on a petition to establish a district, the legislative body of a local unit may adopt the ordinance establishing the district only if it determines that the petition has been signed by at least: (1) 65% of the owners within the proposed district that will pay the assessments; and (2) the owners of 65% of the total net assessed value of the real property within the proposed district that will pay the assessments. Provides that owners located within a district may be charged a special assessment to fund improvements and other district activities. Defines the term "owner". 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. 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. Requires a district management association to annually engage an independent certified public accounting firm to conduct an examination of the district's funds, accounts, and financial affairs and submit the examination to the legislative body and the fiscal body. Excludes Marion County from the provisions of the bill.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB0214 - Student mental health resources.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Scott Alexander, Michael R. Crider, Daniel E. Dernulc
Last updated 8 months ago7 Co-Sponsors
Student mental health resources. Requires the department of education, in consultation with the office of the secretary of family and social services, to approve and make available student mental health resources for certain schools. Requires the governing body of a school corporation or the equivalent authority for a charter school to publish and publicly post the approved student mental health resources.
STATUS
Engrossed