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HB1138 - Professional licensing matters.
Lori Goss-Reaves, Elizabeth Rowray, Chuck Goodrich
Last updated 9 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Professional licensing matters. Removes references to a quality review in provisions relating to the licensing of accountants. Requires the Indiana board of accountancy (board) to adopt rules requiring the firm to allow the administering entity to provide access to the results of its most recently accepted peer review and other objective information to the board. Removes language requiring the administering entity to make a peer review report available to the oversight committee not more than 30 days after the issuance of the peer review report. Provides that the results of a peer review may be treated as a complaint submitted by the board. Removes language requiring the peer review committee issuing a report to cooperate with an investigation of a complaint. Allows the use of certain titles by an individual who is enrolled in or has graduated from a school or college of architecture or an accredited curriculum of landscape architecture. Specifies that the renewal of a professional geologist license after June 30, 2025, requires continuing education. Allows certain individuals to take various licensing examinations early if certain conditions are met. Increases the number of clinical or supervised hours certain individuals may obtain through virtual supervision.
STATUS
Passed
HB1231 - Service of safety orders and penalty assessments.
Chuck Goodrich, Heath VanNatter, Matt Hostettler
Last updated 9 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Service of safety orders and penalty assessments. Permits the commissioner of labor or the commissioner's representative to serve safety orders or penalty assessments by electronic mail. Expands where the commissioner of labor or the commissioner's representative may serve physical copies of safety orders or penalty assessments.
STATUS
Passed
HB1423 - Parent-child relationship.
Christopher N. Judy, Michelle Davis, Julie A. McGuire
Last updated 10 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Parent-child relationship. Provides that if a court in a paternity or child custody proceeding does not award joint legal custody or joint physical custody of a child, the court shall enter findings of fact and conclusions of law citing a preponderance of evidence that awarding joint legal custody or joint physical custody is unreasonable and not in the best interest of the child. Provides for a court in a proceeding to modify custody to consider any substantial changes in the facts underlying a previous court decision not to award joint legal custody or joint physical custody. Provides that in allocating parenting time, there is a rebuttable presumption that it is in the best interests of the child for parenting time to be allocated equally or nearly equally between the child's custodial parent and the child's noncustodial parent. Provides that a finding by the court that a history of child abuse or neglect exists with respect to the child is sufficient to rebut the presumption.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1093 - Employment of minors.
Kendell Culp, Heath VanNatter, Joanna King
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Employment of minors. Provides certain exemptions from the employment of minors law. Repeals a provision concerning conditions for the employment of a minor as a performer. Provides exemptions from certain hour and time restrictions for the employment of a minor who is at least 14 years of age and less than 16 years of age. Removes language providing that a minor who is at least 14 years of age and less than 16 years of age may only work until 7 p.m. on a day that precedes a school day from June 1 through Labor Day. Repeals provisions concerning hour and time restrictions for the employment of a minor who is at least 16 years of age and less than 18 years of age. Specifies that the prohibition on a minor from working in a hazardous occupation does not apply to a minor who is at least 16 years of age and less than 18 years of age who is employed in agriculture. Repeals a provision concerning restrictions on an employer who employs a minor to work after 10 p.m. and before 6 a.m. Makes corresponding changes.
STATUS
Passed
HB1349 - Decriminalization of marijuana.
Heath VanNatter, Steve Bartels, Jake Teshka
Last updated 11 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Decriminalization of marijuana. Decriminalizes possession of two ounces or less of marijuana.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1348 - Professional licensing matters.
Heath VanNatter
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Professional licensing matters. Removes references to a quality review in provisions relating to the licensing of accountants. Requires the Indiana board of accountancy (board) to adopt rules requiring the firm to allow the administering entity to provide access to the results of its most recently accepted peer review and other objective information to the board. Removes language requiring the administering entity to make a peer review report available to the oversight committee not more than 30 days after the issuance of the peer review report. Provides that the results of a peer review may be treated as a complaint submitted by the board. Removes language requiring the peer review committee issuing a report to cooperate with an investigation of a complaint. Allows the use of certain titles by an individual who is enrolled in or has graduated from a school or college of architecture or an accredited curriculum of landscape architecture.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1350 - Cannabis legalization.
Heath VanNatter, Steve Bartels, Jake Teshka
Last updated 11 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Cannabis legalization. Establishes a procedure for the lawful production and sale of cannabis in Indiana. Makes conforming amendments.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1388 - Use of digital assets.
Heath VanNatter
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Use of digital assets. Provides an income tax deduction for short term or long term capital gain that is attributable to the sale or exchange of digital assets in a transaction and that is included in federal adjusted gross income, in an amount not to exceed $200 per transaction for the 2024 taxable year, and adjusted annually for inflation each taxable year thereafter. Provides that a county or municipality may not: (1) impose a tax that is assessed based on use of a digital asset as payment in a transaction; or (2) impose a tax on transactions at a different rate based on the use of a digital asset for payment in the transaction. Prohibits the Indiana utility regulatory commission (commission) from approving a rate schedule for electricity supplied by an electricity supplier to digital asset mining businesses that is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory as compared to the rate schedule approved by the commission for electricity supplied by the electricity supplier to industrial customers. Provides that a person is not required to be licensed as a securities broker-dealer solely because the person provides, or offers to provide, specified services with respect to transactions involving digital assets. Provides that specified operations conducted with respect to maintenance of a blockchain do not constitute money transmission for purposes of statutes regarding licensure of money transmitters. Provides immunity from civil liability for a person that performs specified actions with respect to validation of a transaction on a blockchain network. Prohibits a county, municipality, or township from adopting or enforcing an ordinance that would have the effect of prohibiting, restricting, or impairing an individual's ability to: (1) use digital assets to purchase legal goods and services; or (2) use a hardware wallet or self-hosted wallet to store the individual's digital assets. Provides that use of a property for digital asset mining is a permitted industrial use under any applicable zoning ordinance of a unit and may not be disallowed by a zoning ordinance in a zoning district that permits industrial use. Prohibits a unit from applying the unit's zoning ordinances in specified ways to regulate digital asset mining. Makes conforming amendments and technical corrections.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1232 - Fair and open competition for public projects.
Chuck Goodrich, Heath VanNatter, Gerald R. Torr
Last updated 11 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Fair and open competition for public projects. Provides that a public agency may not do any of the following: (1) Require a potential bidder on a public works project to provide any information that the potential bidder considers confidential or proprietary as a requirement for the public agency finding the bidder to be a responsive or responsible bidder. (2) By rule, ordinance, or any other action relating to contracts for public works projects for which competitive bids are required impose any requirement that directly or indirectly restricts potential bidders to any predetermined class of bidders defined by experience on similar projects, size of company, union membership or requiring the use of union labor, or any other criteria. (3) 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.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1347 - Maximum practical parenting time.
Heath VanNatter
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Maximum practical parenting time. Requires a court in certain circumstances to make decisions to promote continuity of relationship by both parents with the child through maximum practical parenting time with each parent. Provides that the ability of the parties to encourage the sharing of love, affection, and contact between the child and the other party is a permissible factor to consider in weighing the best interests of a child. Provides that: (1) parents must be encouraged to develop the parents' own parenting plans and parenting time calendars, but if the parents cannot agree to a part of the plan, the court shall provide the required components according to the best interests of the child; (2) if the parents cannot agree at all, the parenting time guidelines apply; and (3) the court must make specific findings of fact and conclusions of law on the record to support any deviation of parenting time that falls below the minimum standards in the parenting time guidelines.
STATUS
Introduced
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Representative from Indiana district HD-038
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