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Affordable Housing
HB1073: Termination of residential leases
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Provides that a tenant leasing a dwelling may terminate a lease agreement if the tenant is the victim of certain crimes. HB1122: Abatement of abandoned and vacant structures
Makes various changes regarding the abatement process and abandoned and vacant structures. HB1207: Storage of tenant property
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Provides that a storage facility may not release certain property to a tenant whose property has been stored with the storage facility until the landlord gives the tenant a release. HB1214: Regulation of residential landlords/tenants
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Imposes certain procedural requirements on the adoption by a political subdivision of a regulation of landlord and tenant relations, residential leases, or inspection of real property subject to a residential lease. HB1334: Homeownership education account
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Requires that fees and funds accruing from the administration of the Indiana Securities Act (IC 23-19) and other statutes must be deposited in the home ownership education account. Child Care HB1036: Child care ministries
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Requires the division of family resources to establish a child care advisory committee for child care ministries. Specifies certain requirements for registration of child care ministries. Child Poverty HB1003: Contracting of public assistance eligibility
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Prohibits the office of the secretary of family and social services, the division of family resources, and the office of Medicaid policy and planning to contract with another person to administer or process eligibility intake for specified programs. HB1009: Child and dependent care tax credit
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Provides a refundable income tax credit to individuals for certain household, child care, or dependent care expenses associated with an individual's gainful employment. HB1021: Bankruptcy exemptions; earned income tax credit
Provides that a debtor's Indiana earned income tax credit is property that is exempt under the bankruptcy property exemption statute. HB1030: Local government reorganization
Specifies that a reorganization committee acting under the local government reorganization statutes must include certain documentation in its reorganization plan be provided to the public. HB1095: Employee personal leave
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Provides that certain employees of certain employers are entitled to take: (1) 24 hours of paid leave; and (2) 16 hours of unpaid leave; in a 12 month period. HB1136: Moratorium on privitization contracts
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Imposes a three year moratorium on state agencies entering into or renewing contracts for privatization of state services if the amount of the contract is at least $50,000,000. HB1139: Sales tax on home energy
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Provides a sales tax exemption for the sale of power, light, and heat for residential use. Eliminates references to the sales tax exemption for home energy acquired through home energy assistance, which expired July 2, 2009. HB1173: Unemployment insurance
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Provides that pension, retirement, or annuity payments under any plan of a base period employer for which the employer contributes all of the money are deductible from an individual's unemployment benefit for a week under specific circumstances. HB1174: Interim study committee on public assistance
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Establishes the interim committee on the administration of public assistance for two years. HB1181: Referendum on retaining township trustee and board
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Requires a public question to be placed on the November 2010 general election ballot in each township regarding whether the voters want to retain a township trustee and township board. HB1243: Method of payment for certain public assistance recipients
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Requires the auditor of state to allow payment by warrant instead of direct deposit by electronic funds transfer for certain recipients of the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program who are participating in the Indiana manpower and comprehensive training (IMPACT) program and who request to be paid by warrant. HB1249: Elimination of township government
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Provides that all township governments are abolished on January 1, 2013, and all township functions are transferred to the county. HB1283: Funding of 211 services
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Provides that if a local government unit's emergency telephone system fund contains sufficient funds to pay all expenses of the unit's enhanced emergency telephone system, the unit's legislative body may appropriate any funds not needed to pay the expenses of the system to support the provision of 211 services in a 211 service area that includes the unit. HB1321: TANF recipient education
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Requires certain individuals and children who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to attend educational training approved by the division of family resources. HB1341: Unemployment contribution rates
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Delays from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2011, changes in the taxable wage base and employer contribution rates for the unemployment compensation system. HB1356: Duty to support a child
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Provides that the duty to support a child ceases when the child becomes 19 years of age. SB0023: Unemployment contribution rates
Delays from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2011, changes in the taxable wage base and employer contribution rates for the unemployment compensation system. SB0062: Removal of FSSA expiration dates
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Removes the expiration dates for the office of the secretary of family and social services, the office of Medicaid policy and planning, the statutes concerning directors of divisions within family and social services (FSSA), and certain advisory committees under the FSSA statutes. SB0085: Disclaimer of property to avoid child support
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Prohibits a person from disclaiming an interest in property if the person is delinquent in the payment of child support. SB0158: Restriction of employer use of consumer reports
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Prohibits an employer from using a consumer report for employment purposes unless certain conditions apply. Allows a consumer to bring a civil action against an employer for a violation of this provision. SB0163: Various child support matters
Makes numerous changes to child support collection and enforcement. SB0225: Marion county government
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Provides that beginning January 1, 2013, in a county having a consolidated city, the health and hospital corporation shall administer township assistance on a countywide basis. Makes other changes to consolidate township and county government functions in Marion County. SB0235: State employee caseworkers at township offices
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Requires the division of family resources to locate a state employee caseworker at each township office and provide specified equipment for the caseworker to assist township residents with applying for public assistance programs. Requires the township trustee to provide necessary office space for the caseworker. SB0237: Interim study committee on economic development
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Establishes the interim study committee on economic development. SB0240: Township government
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Specifies that in each county after December 31, 2012: (1) the county fiscal body is the fiscal body and legislative body of each township in the county; and (2) the county fiscal body shall exercise the legislative and fiscal powers assigned in the Indiana Code to township boards, including the authority to adopt the township's annual budget and to levy township property taxes for township funds. SB0300: Worker's compensation reserves
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Specifies requirements for worker's compensation insurers with respect to reserve funds deposited by employers. SB0314: Delinquent child support
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Changes the definition of "delinquent" to mean at least: (1) $1,000; or (2) three months; past due on payment of court ordered child support. SB0328: Various financial institution matters
Makes various changes to the laws concerning: (1) financial institutions; (2) debt management companies; (3) pawnbrokers; (4) money transmitters; (5) check cashers; (6) persons licensed under the Uniform Consumer Credit Code; (7) first lien mortgage lenders; and (8) rental purchase agreements. SB0347: Administration of public assistance
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Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to ensure that public assistance services are: (1) provided in a timely and safe manner; (2) provided in accordance with state and federal law; and (3) appropriate to the needs of the individual. SB0352: Employer credits for rehiring laid off workers
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Provides for a tax credit for a taxpayer that employs an individual laid off from a place of employment located in Indiana. Provides for a credit to an employer's unemployment insurance experience account for an employer that reemploys an employee laid off by the employer. SB0411: Offenders owing child support
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Requires the department of correction to first attempt to assign a criminal offender or a delinquent offender who owes child support under a child support order to an employment program that pays wages before assigning the criminal offender or delinquent offender to an education, training, or other program unless there are specific circumstances that would impact employment. SB0419: Food stamp eligibility
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Provides that an individual who has been convicted of a felony involving a controlled substance and who has completed or is participating in certain substance abuse treatment programs or mental health programs may receive assistance under the federal Food Stamp Program for up to 12 months. Child Welfare Services HB1038: Release of pre-adoptive sibling information
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Repeals and relocates language concerning requests for information about pre-adoptive siblings. Allows requests for and requires, under certain circumstances, release of information concerning pre-adoptive siblings for any adoption. HB1085: Disposition of certain children in need of services (CHINS)
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Provides that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian or to preserve a child's family are not required with respect to a child who has been adjudicated a child in need of services (CHINS) if the court finds that the child has, on three separate occasions, been adjudicated a child in need of services because of an act or omission by the child's parent, guardian, or custodian. HB1110: Early intervention service plans
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Creates the community services plan for early intervention services for delinquent children and children in need of services. Repeals the chapter concerning regional service strategic plans. HB1157: Select joint commission on child welfare services oversight
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Establishes the select joint commission on child welfare services oversight. HB1167: Placement of children outside Indiana
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Removes a provision that states the department of child services (department) is responsible for payment of any costs or expenses for housing or services provided to or for the benefit of a child placed by a juvenile court in a home or facility located outside Indiana only if the director of the department or the director's designee recommends or approves the placement. SB0070: Adoption and paternity proceedings
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Requires a petition to establish the paternity of a child who is the subject of an adoption proceeding to be filed in the court having jurisdiction over the adoption proceeding. Provides that a person contesting an adoption must file either a motion to contest the adoption or a petition to establish paternity. SB0140: Adoption matters
Makes various changes regarding adoption procedures. SB0149: Department of Child Services
Removes the department of child services (DCS) from the entities to which a clerk of the court must forward a petition for adoption. Removes language regarding a child protection team being required to provide diagnostic and prognostic services for DCS or a juvenile court. Specifies how a child's death or near fatality may be determined to have been the result of abuse, abandonment, or neglect for purposes of certain records. Removes certain duties of the office of the secretary of family and social services regarding child welfare. Adds additional information required in a petition for the appointment of a guardian for an incapacitated person or minor. Requires DCS to be notified of certain guardianship petitions and to be allowed to participate in a hearing on certain guardianship petitions. Makes other changes related to Department of Child Services. SB0355: Release of identifying adoption information
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Repeals, effective July 1, 2011, provisions applicable to adoptions finalized before January 1, 1994, that prohibit the release of identifying adoption information unless a consent to release the information is on file. SB0389: Information on individual development accounts
Requires a caseworker of a foster child to provide information to the child concerning individual development accounts. Disproportionality of Children of Color in Youth Services HB1110: Early intervention service plans
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Creates the community services plan for early intervention services for delinquent children and children in need of services. Repeals the chapter concerning regional service strategic plans. HB1187: Agency contracts with minority owned nonprofits
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Requires the board for the coordination of programs serving vulnerable individuals (board) to: (1) review and make recommendations regarding certain state agencies contracting with minority operated nonprofit organizations; and (2) develop a plan to increase the number of contracts between certain state agencies and minority operated nonprofit organizations. HB1193: Juvenile, education, and law enforcement issues
Creates the law enforcement, school policing, and youth work group (work group) to be staffed and administered by the criminal justice institute. and specifies duties of the work group. HB1277: Health disparities in Medicaid
Requires a managed care organization (MCO) that contracts with the office of Medicaid policy and planning (OMPP) to provide Medicaid services that report to the Medicaid Oversight committee information regarding the MCO's culturally and linguistically appropriate services standards plan and the progress in implementing these standards. Makes various other changes. HB1295: School counselors
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Establishes specific target counselor/student ratios to be used for the hiring of school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists. SB0387: Office of minority health
Establishes the office of minority health within the state department of health. Education HB1005: Indefinite teacher contracts
Removes the age limit for teachers who hold indefinite contracts. HB1012: Subjects of educational discussion and bargaining
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Removes requirements related to items included in the 1972-1973 collective bargaining agreement and school employer bargaining of hours of employment. Repeals language regarding a school employer having to discuss certain educational items with certified school employees. HB1017: Small school performance grant
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Provides a small school performance grant to a public school, other than a charter school, that has an enrollment of less than 2,000. HB1072: School internet connection
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Requires the department of education to develop a strategic plan that provides for an increase in the bandwidth of all public high school computer systems. HB1087: Notice of school tax levy referendum
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Requires the governing body of a school corporation that adopts a resolution to conduct a referendum for a tax levy to certify the resolution to both the department of local government finance and the county fiscal body of each county in which the school corporation is located. HB1092: School instructional time
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Outlines the minimum amount of hours students must be in the classroom during the school year. HB1096: School board elections at general election time
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Provides that school board members selected by election must be elected at general elections. HB1117: Funding of adult education
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Provides an adult education grant to school corporations as part of the state tuition support distribution. HB1133: Election of school board members
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Provides standards for election of the members of the governing body of a school corporation on a nonpartisan basis. HB1134: Teacher performance evaluations
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Prohibits the use of test scores as a sole factor to determine teacher employment decisions, and assigns liability for the misuse of test scores. HB1135: Advanced placement tests
Requires state educational institutions to grant postsecondary level academic credit to students who receive a satisfactory score on an advanced placement examination. HB1141: Admissions preferences for Indiana residents
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Requires a state educational institution to limit the admission of students who are not Indiana residents to not more than 25% of each freshman class and makes additional requirements. HB1147: Physical characteristics of school bus monitors
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Makes certain conditions for employment relating to physical characteristics inapplicable to school bus monitors. HB1168: High school athletics
Provides that the case review panel that hears cases relating to disputes over the application or interpretation of rules governing interscholastic high school athletics may take action by the affirmative vote of a majority of the panel members present at a meeting if a quorum of the panel is present. HB1171: State universities
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Requires certain course offerings to be made available to students to obtain a degree and specifies regulations for professors and counselors. HB1184: College credit for high school classes
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Requires each high school to offer a number of dual credit and advanced placement courses sufficient to allow a student who qualifies to enroll in the courses to complete at least one year of college credit. HB1193: Juvenile, education, and law enforcement issues
Creates the law enforcement, school policing, and youth work group (work group) to be staffed and administered by the criminal justice institute. and specifies duties of the work group. HB1196: Meningitis vaccinations for college students
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Provides that a state educational institution may not permit a student to matriculate in a residential campus of the state educational institution unless the student provides documentation of having been vaccinated for meningococcal meningitis or qualifies for an exemption. HB1202: Liability for use of school bus safety belts
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Provides that a school corporation or an employee of, volunteer for, or independent contractor who performs services for a school corporation is not liable for an injury to or the death of a passenger on a school bus equipped with safety belts under certain circumstances. HB1213: Twenty first century scholars program
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Allows a student who: (1) is enrolled in grade 9, 10, 11, or 12; and (2) did not meet certain qualifications in grades 6, 7, or 8 for the twenty-first century scholars program; to apply and qualify for the twenty-first century scholars program if the student meets certain requirements, including the income requirement, at the time the student applies for the twenty-first century scholars program. HB1224: Limitation on school starting date
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Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, prohibits schools from beginning student instructional days for the school year before September 1. HB1236: Higher education accountability and reporting
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Requires a state educational institution to prepare annual reports concerning measures of institutional accountability and intellectual diversity. HB1280: LIFE scholarships
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Establishes the Indiana lifelong learning incentive for excellence (LIFE) scholarship program to provide scholarships to Indiana residents for postsecondary education. HB1282: Lifelong learning account pilot program
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Requires the Indiana education savings authority (authority) to establish and administer a lifelong learning account pilot program. HB1285: University and school corporation construction
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Exempts school corporations and state educational institutions from the common construction wage law from July 1, 2010, through December 31, 2012. Establishes the interim study committee on the common construction wage to study the effects of the common construction wage law. HB1290: Inappropriate relationships with students
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Provides that a teacher or coach in a primary or secondary school who knowingly or intentionally has sexual contact with an individual who is less than 19 years of age and who is a student in the primary or secondary school commits having an inappropriate relationship with a student, a Class A misdemeanor. HB1294: School improvement plan
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Requires an employees' association for a school administered by the department of correction, the School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, or the School for the Deaf to demonstrate support for the professional development program that is part of the school improvement plan before the school improvement plan may be approved by the state board of education. HB1297: Financing public university projects
Makes changes in the law governing the financing of capital projects by state educational institutions. Repeals a requirement that certain revenue bonds be approved in an appropriation act of the general assembly. HB1306: Dual credit
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Requires all state educational institutions to accept certain dual credit courses that are successfully completed by a high school student. HB1327: Reporting student absence from school
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Requires the parent of a child to notify the child's school when the child will be absent. HB1348: School employee records; misconduct
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Provides that certain employment records of licensed school employees, including substantiated reports of certain types of misconduct or offenses, must be provided to various individuals and creates a process for expungement. HB1362: Textbook rental fee calculation
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Permits public and nonpublic schools to rent textbooks to students using an average fee for each student if the average is determined using the same total rental fees that would be charged under the per student method. HB1364: Youth advisory council
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Changes the age of eligibility to be a youth advisory council (council) member from 14 to 18 years of age to 16 to 20 years of age and makes various other changes regarding the Council. HB1365: Dual enrollment cost and fees
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Provides that a student may not be charged tuition or fees for a college course or test that the student completes in order to obtain a core 40 diploma. SB0084: General Assembly access to research services
Requires state educational institutions to make research tools used by state educational institutions available to legislators and staff of the legislative services agency. SB0133: Student instructional time
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Specifies the amount of time students must be receiving instruction during the academic year. SB0150: School year; calendar flexibility
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Prohibits schools from starting school before Labor Day and ending before after June 10 of the following year. SB0166: Dues for educational service centers
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Allows school corporations to pay educational service center dues from any school corporation fund. SB0181: Virtual charters and school scholarship tax credit
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Eliminates the virtual charter school pilot program. Eliminates the school scholarship tax credit. SB0183: Superintendent of public instruction appointment
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Provides for the state superintendent of public instruction to be appointed by the governor. SB0193: Transfers between school funds
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Allows the governing body of a school corporation to adopt a resolution to transfer money in a fund maintained by a school corporation to another fund of the school corporation, except to or from the debt service fund. SB0226: Suicide prevention training for school personnel
Allows a governing body to adjourn its schools to allow teachers to participate in a basic or inservice course of education and training on suicide prevention and the recognition of students who are considering suicide. SB0242: School employee records; misconduct
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Provides that certain employment records of licensed school employees, including substantiated reports of certain types of misconduct or offenses, must be provided to various individuals and creates a process for expungement. SB0251: Textbook rental fees
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Permits public and nonpublic schools to rent textbooks using an average fee for each student if the average is determined using the same total rental fees that would be charged under the per student method. SB0252: Waiver of transfer tuition
Provides that a transferee school may elect to not charge transfer tuition to the parents of a student or a student who transfers into the transferee school. SB0256: School corporation administrative hearings
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Provides that a student or the parent of a student who believes the student has been improperly denied participation in an educational function or subjected to an illegal rule or standard is entitled to a hearing with the school corporation's superintendent, upon request of the student or parent. SB0257: Commission for higher education
Provides that a full-time employee of a state public or private college or university (except for one faculty member) may not be a member of the commission for higher education. Makes various other changes regarding the Commission. SB0258: Reading deficiencies and student retention
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Requires additional information concerning ISTEP performance and student retention be included on a school corporation's annual performance report. SB0288: Tax credits for contributions to K-12 foundations
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Provides for an adjusted gross income tax credit for charitable donations to a charitable organization or educational foundation that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and organized and operated solely for the benefit of a public elementary school or public high school located in Indiana. SB0296: School influenza vaccination pilot program
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Requires the state department of health (department), subject to available funding, to implement a school based influenza vaccination pilot program. Requires the department to issue a report concerning the pilot program before August 1, 2011. SB0306: Imagination Library program
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Appropriates $3,000,000 to the department of education to be used to fund matching grants to school corporations to participate in the Imagination Library early reading program to provide books for children from birth through five years of age. SB0308: Determination of graduation rate
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Provides that a student whose individualized education program does not provide for the student to graduate from high school is not included in the calculation of a high school's graduation rate. SB0309: School corporation expenditures
Provides that a school corporation's expenditures from the capital projects fund for utility services and property or casualty insurance may not, in 2010 and 2011, exceed 6% instead of 3.5% of the school corporation's 2005 calendar year distribution. SB0322: Collective bargaining for school employees
Provides that school employers and noncertificated school employees have the right and obligation to discuss certain topics related to school employment and may bargain collectively, negotiate, be subject to or enter into impasse procedures, or enter into a written contract. SB0345: Commission on career and technical education
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Abolishes the commission for career and technical education (commission) and transfers the duties of the commission to the state workforce innovation council. SB0375: Commission on career and technical education
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Provides that basic tuition support for a charter school, excluding a conversion charter school, is based on the countywide average foundation amount per average daily membership (ADM) received by all school corporations located in the county in which the charter school is located. Financing Appropriate Services HB1149: Variable local option income tax
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Authorizes a taxing unit to impose variable local option income taxes to replace revenue lost to the local unit due to a circuit breaker or elimination of property tax. HB1150: State spending cap
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Imposes general expenditure controls on the state beginning with the budget adopted for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011. HJR0001: Circuit breakers and other property tax matters
Requires, for property taxes first due and payable in 2012 and thereafter, the general assembly to limit a taxpayer's property tax liability and outlines how tax liability will be limited. HJR0002: Circuit breakers and other property tax matters
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Requires, for property taxes first due and payable in 2012 and thereafter, the general assembly to limit a taxpayer's property tax liability and outlines how tax liability will be limited. HJR0004: Government spending limitation
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Provides that an Indiana governmental entity's expenditures may not increase from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year by more than a growth factor based on Indiana personal income. SB0236: State tax matters
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Amends the definition of federal "Internal Revenue Code" used in Indiana statutes and regulations to refer to the Internal Revenue Code in effect on January 1, 2010. Makes various changes regarding tax credits. SJR0001: Circuit breakers and other property tax matters
Requires, for property taxes first due and payable in 2012 and thereafter, the general assembly to limit a taxpayer's property tax liability and outlines how tax liability will be limited. Healthcare HB1022: Insurer access to providers
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Prohibits health plan contract provisions that would require a contracted provider to accept more than a certain number of patients. Requires providers to inform the insurer or heath maintenance organization when the provider is accepting or not accepting new patients. HB1103: Jury exemption for breast feeding mothers
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Provides that a mother breastfeeding a child shall be exempted from jury service if the mother notifies the jury administrator that she is breastfeeding a child and wishes to be exempted from jury service. HB1131: Smoking ban in public places
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Prohibits smoking in: (1) public places; (2) enclosed areas of a place of employment; and (3) certain state vehicles. HB1132: Indiana check-up plan trust fund interest
Specifies that beginning July 1, 2011 interest accrued from investments of funds from the Indiana check-up plan trust fund remains in the fund and does not revert to the state general fund. HB1151: Basic health insurance coverage
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Allows, under certain circumstances, an accident and sickness insurer or a health maintenance organization to provide a policy or contract without complying with all health benefit mandates. HB1152: Individual out-of-state health insurance
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Allows an accident and sickness insurer that is licensed in certain other states, and is not licensed in Indiana, to issue or deliver an individual policy of accident and sickness insurance to an individual resident of Indiana without complying with other Indiana insurance law. HB1172: Volunteer medical care
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Allows a physician or nurse who is licensed in another jurisdiction to practice for not more than six days per year as a volunteer in a shortage area or health clinic setting if no fee or other consideration is charged. HB1185: Health care consent
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Provides that an adult who shares an emotional, physical, and financial relationship with a patient similar to that of a spouse may consent to health care for an individual incapable of consenting if a health care representative has not been appointed. HB1226: Health and Medicaid fraud matters
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Establishes procedures for the attorney general to seize, secure, store, and destroy abandoned or at risk health records and other records containing personally identifying information. Makes various other changes related to health records and fraud investigation. HB1240: Various insurance matters
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Makes various changes to the law concerning: (1) pharmacy actions with respect to prescriptions; (2) disclosures of insurer information; (3) insurer examinations; (4) annual audited financial reporting; (5) foreign and alien insurers requirements; (6) insurance producer licensing and continuing education; (7) records of insurer held securities; (8) insurance holding company transactions; (9) insurance administrator licensing; (10) an unauthorized insurers exception in relation to an industrial insured; (11) consistency in compliance with laws by various types of insurers and health maintenance organizations; (12) requirements for discretionary groups for purposes of accident and sickness insurance; and (13) small employer group insurance requirements. HB1262: Medicaid prescription drugs
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Defines "waste" for purposes of drug utilization review. Allows the office of Medicaid policy and planning to restrict the use of a mental health drug that is prescribed for an individual less than 18 years of age under certain conditions. HB1264: Emergency room Medicaid reimbursement
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Specifies emergency department screening services requiring reimbursement under the Medicaid program. HB1303: County hospitals operating health facilities
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Allows a county hospital to own or operate, or contract with a person to operate, a health facility. HB1320: Medication changes
Requires a pharmacist to inform a prescribing physician or physician's office of a change in manufacturer of a lifeline medicine. HB1360: Vaccines containing thimerosal
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Prohibits the administration of influenza vaccines containing thimerosal to: (1) children at least six months but less than 36 months of age; and (2) pregnant women; unless no alternative vaccines are available or unless there is an emergency. HB1363: Medicaid providers and electronic records
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Requires a Medicaid provider to use an electronic health records system not later than January 1, 2011. HB1366: Informed consent for hysterectomy
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Requires a physician to obtain informed consent and provide certain information to a patient before performing a hysterectomy. HJR0006: Right to opt out of mandated health care system
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Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to specify certain rights with respect to health care. HJR0008: Right to opt out of mandated health care system
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Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to specify certain rights with respect to health care. SB0095: Prohibit smoking in public places
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Prohibits smoking in public places and places of employment. SB0129: Contracts for dental services
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Prohibits dental insurers and health maintenance organizations from requiring dentists to accept certain payments. SB0141: Contraception definition
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Defines "contraception", and provides that contraception is not subject to or governed by the abortion statutes. SB0171: Health plan use of premiums
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Requires accident and sickness insurers and health maintenance organizations to annually report to the department of insurance concerning use of premiums. SB0175: Various health matters
Makes various changes regarding records and creates specific health programs and funds. SB0192: Hospital visitation rights for domestic partners
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Allows an individual who is in a domestic partnership with a patient to have hospital visitation rights. SB0198: State contracts and grants
Prohibits state agencies from entering contracts with or making grants to Planned Parenthood of Indiana. Cancels state funding for any current contracts with or grants to Planned Parenthood of Indiana. SB0232: Midwives
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Establishes the midwifery board (board). Sets qualifications for a certified direct entry midwife (CDEM). SB0233: Smoking ban in public places
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Prohibits smoking in public places and places of employment. SB0279: Medicaid coverage for breast cancer treatment
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Defines "treatment" for purposes of Medicaid eligibility under the federal breast and cervical cancer program. SB0294: Disproportionate share hosipital providers
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Requires disproportionate share payments to be distributed in a uniform and equitable manner. SB0295: Family and social services
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Authorizes the disclosure of a Social Security number for the administration of a state funded health plan. Specifies the notice procedures for the division of aging and the bureau of developmental disabilities services to follow against providers regulated by the division or the bureau. Makes various other changes related to Family and Social Services Administration. SB0310: Employer income tax credit for health care plan
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Provides a state income tax credit to an employer that pays or provides reimbursement for all or part of the cost of a health benefit plan made available to employees if the employer is eligible to or did receive the credit for offering a health benefit plan. SB0319: Health care choice
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Declares state sovereignty with respect to health care choice under the Constitution of the United States, federal law, and the Constitution of the State of Indiana. SB0323: Electronic drug prescriptions
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Requires the Indiana health informatics corporation to prepare a plan for statewide electronic prescribing. SB0326: Out of network health provider payments
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Specifies requirements concerning health benefit payments to providers that have not entered into payment agreements with health carriers. SB0353: Medicaid income spend down pay-in option
(this bill is now dead)
Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to apply to the federal government for an amendment to the state's Medicaid plan to allow a Medicaid recipient to elect to participate in the pay-in option in the state's Medicaid spend down program. SB0404: Chiropractor office services under Indiana check up plan
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Requires the Indiana check-up plan to include chiropractor office services. SB0414: Providers state administered health care programs
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Allows the office of the secretary of family and social services to exclude specified persons who engage in fraud or abuse from participating in state administered health care programs. Immigration HB1225: Police enforcement of federal immigration laws
(this bill is now dead)
Requires the superintendent of the state police department (superintendent) to: (1) negotiate terms of a memorandum of understanding (memorandum) concerning a pilot project for the enforcement of federal immigration and customs laws; and (2) designate appropriate police employees to be trained under the memorandum. SB0026: Enforcement of wage requirements
(this bill is now dead)
Increases the penalties imposed on an employer whose violation of the state common construction wage law or minimum wage law involves an employee who is an illegal alien. Provides that a determination by a federal immigration agency that an alien has come to, entered, or remained in the United States in violation of law creates a rebuttable presumption that the alien is in the United States in violation of law. SB0213: Unauthorized aliens
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Requires various state agencies to implement changes to address unauthorized aliens in Indiana. Juvenile Delinquency HB1057: Texting while operating a motor vehicle
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Provides that a person who uses a telecommunications device to transmit a text message or electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle commits a Class D infraction. HB1060: Use of telecommunications device while driving
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Prohibits the use of a handheld personal communications device by a motor vehicle operator who is at least 18 years of age and holds an operator's license, including a probationary license. HB1115: Sending of sexual material by cell phone or other media
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Provides that a school corporation may offer classes, instruction, or programs regarding the risks and consequences of creating and sharing sexually suggestive or explicit materials. Provides defenses to the crimes of disseminating matter that is harmful to minors, child exploitation, and possession of child pornography if a cellular telephone was used and the defendant and recipient of the matter are certain ages and meet other requirements. HB1163: Expungement of records of certain convictions
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Creates guidelines for the court if post conviction DNA testing is favorable to a convicted person and if the court orders the release of the person. HB1220: Penalty for consumption of alcohol by a minor
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Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally permits a minor to possess or consume an alcoholic beverage on real property that the person owns or controls commits a Class B misdemeanor and changes penalties for other infractions involving minors and alcohol. HB1231: Community corrections
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Provides that department of correction (department) rules concerning the maintenance of order and discipline among committed persons applies to persons placed in a community corrections program, assigned to a community transition program, or released on parole. HB1242: Credit times for behavior management programs
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Requires the department of correction to establish, implement, and maintain an offender behavior management program. Provides that an offender who completes a behavior management program may receive good time credit. HB1259: Community transition programs for offenders
(this bill is now dead)
Changes the community transition program (CTP) commencement dates for offenders. Requires the department of correction (department) to provide certain additional information when the department gives notice of an offender's eligibility for a CTP. HB1260: Expungement of certain felony conviction records
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Allows a sentencing court to expunge the records of certain felony convictions committed before a person was 25 years of age if 12 years have passed. HB1279: Texting while driving
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Provides that it is a Class C infraction if a person uses a telecommunications device to transmit a text message or electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle. HB1298: Expungement of certain conviction records
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Allows a sentencing court to expunge the records of certain felony and misdemeanor convictions committed before a person was 25 years of age if 12 years have passed. HB1352: Nonprofit or faith based community transition programs
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Establishes that nonprofit or faith based community transition programs are eligible to receive certain offenders for community transition programs. SB0018: Texting while driving
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Provides that it is a Class C infraction if a person uses a telecommunications device to transmit a text message or electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle. SB0081: Criminal law and sentencing policy study committee
Establishes the criminal law and sentencing policy study committee to evaluate criminal laws and sentencing policies. Repeals laws establishing the sentencing policy study committee. SB0111: Texting while driving
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Makes it a Class C misdemeanor to use a handheld wireless communications device to transmit a text message or electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle, and enhances the penalty for repeat offenses or if a person is injured or killed. SB0148: Corrections and developmental disabilities
Requires the department of correction to maintain information concerning offenders who are persons with developmental disabilities and provide certain services. SB0203: Annual review of unpaid restitution orders
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Requires a governmental entity that is the beneficiary of a criminal or juvenile restitution order issued by a state or federal court to annually file a payment status report with the court and with the state board of accounts. SB0224: Electronic dissemination of indecent material
Provides that a child commits a delinquent act if the child creates, transmits, or possesses a photograph, video, or other material that shows a minor in a state of nudity. SB0227: Department of correction disciplinary hearings
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes at each department of correction (DOC) correctional facility an independent disciplinary hearing board consisting of three members appointed by the governor. SB0231: Minors and public transportation
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Provides that a child less than 16 years of age may travel by public transport to a nonadjacent county only if the minor provides the entity that operates the public transport with written permission to travel. SB0248: Electronic dissemination of indecent material
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Provides that a child commits a delinquent act if the child creates, transmits, or possesses a photograph, video, or other material that shows a minor in a state of nudity. SB0264: Prohibit alcohol sale on school property
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Makes it a Class B misdemeanor for a person to knowingly or intentionally possess an alcoholic beverage on school property. SB0290: Probation
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Provides that the requirement that certain offenders placed on home detention be subject to constant supervision does not apply if the supervising department or program's inability to maintain constant supervision is solely because electronic monitoring is not possible in certain locations in the county due to the unavailability of an appropriate telecommunications infrastructure. SB0338: Expungement of arrest records
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Provides additional situations in which a person may petition a court to expunge arrest records. SB0349: Community corrections
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Provides that department of correction (department) rules concerning the maintenance of order and discipline among committed persons applies to persons placed in a community corrections program, assigned to a community transition program, or released on parole. Mental Health and Substance Abuse HB1027: Election day alcohol sales
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Allows alcoholic beverages to be sold on election days HB1035: Wineries
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Allows the holder of an Indiana farm winery permit to own 50% or less of a limited wine wholesaler's permit. Allows an Indiana consumer to buy wine from a direct wine seller and have it shipped using a third party verification service retained by the winery. HB1043: Access to mental health records
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Defines "psychotherapy notes" for purposes of the law concerning access to mental health records and states that they must be kept separate from mental health records. HB1051: Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
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Makes ephedrine and pseudoephedrine schedule V controlled substances. Repeals provisions concerning the establishment and operation of an electronic log to record the sale without a prescription of drugs containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. HB1052: Alcoholic beverage permits at certain airports
(this bill is now dead)
Eliminates the requirement that a publicly owned airport be served by a scheduled commercial passenger airline in order for a restaurant located in the passenger terminal to be eligible for a permit to sell beer, wine, and liquor. HB1066: Election day sales
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Allows alcoholic beverages to be sold on election days. HB1191: Alcoholic beverage wholesalers
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Allows a person to wholesale beer, wine, and liquor. HB1281: Alcohol excise tax
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Increases the beer and hard cider excise tax from $0.115 to $0.435 per gallon. Increases the liquor excise tax from $2.68 to $5.24 per gallon. Increases the wine tax from $0.47 to $1.24 per gallon. Increases the malt excise tax from $0.05 to $0.20 per gallon. HB1338: Methamphetamine production
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Enhances the penalty for manufacturing methamphetamine to a Class A felony if: (1) the laboratory or chemicals used to manufacture the methamphetamine; or (2) waste from the manufacture of the methamphetamine; causes serious bodily injury or death to a person other than the defendant. HB1339: Identification for carryout purchases
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Makes it a Class B misdemeanor for an alcoholic beverage permittee or permittee's employee or agent to recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally sell, barter, exchange, provide, or furnish another person alcoholic beverages for carryout without first requiring the person to produce proof that the person is at least 21 years of age. SB0075: Sunday carryout by microbreweries
Allows a microbrewery to sell the brewery's beer for carryout on Sunday at the address for which the brewer's permit was issued. SB0076: Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
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Makes ephedrine and pseudoephedrine schedule V controlled substances. Repeals provisions concerning the establishment and operation of an electronic log to record the sale without a prescription of drugs containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. SB0079: Mental health quality advisory committee
Defines "waste" for purposes of the limits the office of Medicaid policy and planning may put on drug use under the Medicaid program and the children's health insurance program. Allows the office of Medicaid policy and planning to restrict the use of certain drugs by individuals less than 18 years of age in certain circumstances. SB0096: Prenatal substance abuse commission
(this bill is now dead)
Creates the prenatal substance abuse commission and requires the commission to develop and recommend a coordinated plan to improve early intervention and treatment for pregnant women who abuse alcohol or drugs or use tobacco. SB0118: Election day sales
(this bill is now dead)
Allows alcoholic beverages to be sold on election days. SB0119: Alcohol sale hours on Sunday
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Allows the holder of a retailer's permit to sell alcoholic beverages on Sunday from 7 a.m. until 3 a.m. the following day. SB0120: Sunday sales for microbreweries
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Allows a microbrewery to sell the brewery's beer for carryout on Sunday. SB0125: Coverage for smoking cessation drugs
(this bill is now dead)
Requires a state employee health benefit plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract that provides coverage for prescription drugs to provide coverage for smoking cessation drugs. SB0167: Purchase of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
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Makes the purchase of drugs containing more than three grams of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or both, in one week a Class A misdemeanor instead of a Class C misdemeanor. SB0189: Alcoholic beverage matters
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Creates a supplemental dealer's permit for holders of beer, wine, or liquor dealer permits who want to sell alcoholic beverages for carryout on Sunday. Makes other changes related to the sale of alcohol. SB0244: Alcoholic beverage wholesalers
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Allows a person to wholesale beer, wine, and liquor. SB0285: Sale and tracking of ephedrine
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Prohibits a retailer from selling, and a purchaser from purchasing, more than three and six-tenths grams of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine on one day, or nine grams of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine in a 30 day period. SB0305: Alcoholic beverage permits
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Requires a person who holds a retailer's license or permit to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises to maintain coverage for liability after December 31, 2012. SB0380: Drug and alcohol abuse and commitments
(this bill is now dead)
Provides procedures for the involuntary commitment of a person due to alcohol or drug abuse. SB0383: Sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
(this bill is now dead)
Requires a retailer who sells drugs containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine to complete certain requirements. SB0385: Identification for carryout purchases of alcohol
(this bill is now dead)
Makes it a Class B misdemeanor for an alcoholic beverage permittee or permittee's employee or agent to recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally sell, barter, exchange, provide, or furnish another person alcoholic beverages for carryout without first requiring the person to produce proof that the person is at least 21 years of age. SB0395: Civil commitment
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes a procedure to civilly commit for up to 24 hours an individual who is mentally ill and dangerous. Prevention HB1055: Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation
(this bill is now dead)
Allows great-grandparents to seek visitation rights with their great-grandchildren in certain circumstances. HB1276: Domestic violence, bullying, and sending sexually explicit material
Requires the sentencing policy study committee to study and make recommendations regarding the sending of sexually suggestive or sexually explicit material over the Internet or by use of a cell phone or similar device. Requires school corporations to provide instruction or programs regarding domestic violence. Amends the definition of "bullying" to include communications transmitted from an electronic communications device or though a social networking web site. HB1307: Preventative programs for at risk children
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a juvenile court may create a preventative program for at-risk children (program). HB1314: Paternity affidavits
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a paternity affidavit executed before or after the birth of a child who is born out of wedlock must include certain information. HB1344: Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation
(this bill is now dead)
Allows great-grandparents to seek visitation rights with their great-grandchildren in certain circumstances. SB0059: Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation
(this bill is now dead)
Allows great-grandparents to seek visitation rights with their great-grandchildren in certain circumstances. SB0061: Rescission of paternity affidavit
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that evidence that a man is excluded as the biological father of a child based on a genetic test that indicates that the man is not the child's biological father constitutes a material mistake of fact that existed in the execution of the paternity affidavit. SB0099: Grandparent visitation
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a child's grandparent may seek visitation rights when a parent or guardian of the child unreasonably denies or restricts visitation. SB0153: Joint legal custody in paternity actions
(this bill is now dead)
Amends the factors that a court must consider in awarding joint legal custody after paternity has been established. SB0154: Custody after execution of paternity affidavit
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that if a paternity affidavit is executed, the mother has primary physical custody of the child and the man who is identified as the father has parenting time in accordance with the parenting time guidelines unless another determination is made by a court. SB0178: Custody and parenting time matters
Provides that if a paternity affidavit is executed, the mother and the man who is identified as the father share joint legal custody of the child, the mother has primary physical custody of the child, and the man who is identified as the father has parenting time in accordance with the parenting time guidelines unless another determination is made by a court. SB0220: Parents on active military duty
(this bill is now dead)
Prohibits a court from considering a parent's absence or relocation due to active military duty as a factor in determining custody or permanently modifying a child custody order. SB0316: Dating violence policy and education
Requires school corporations to have policies and provide education regarding dating violence. SB0406: Relationship education; dating violence policies
(this bill is now dead)
Requires school corporations and nonpublic schools to: (1) provide age appropriate education concerning healthy relationships to students in kindergarten through grade 12; (2) develop a dating violence response policy; and (3) provide training to staff concerning healthy relationship education and dating violence response policies. Violence Affecting Children HB1007: Domestic battery
(this bill is now dead)
Increases the penalties for domestic battery. HB1058: Handgun licenses
(this bill is now dead)
Requires a person under certain circumstances to disclose to a law enforcement officer that they are carrying a gun. HB1065: Various provisions concerning firearms
Prohibits the state, a political subdivision, or any other person from prohibiting or restricting the lawful possession, transfer, sale, transportation, storage, display, or use of firearms or ammunition during a declared disaster emergency, energy emergency, or local disaster emergency. Makes various other changes related to firearms. HB1068: Access to handgun license information
Makes certain provisions related to handgun licenses and public access to information related to individuals holding handgun licenses. HB1070: Local regulation of firearms
(this bill is now dead)
Repeals provisions that allow certain political subdivisions to adopt emergency ordinances to regulate firearms if a local disaster emergency has been declared. HB1097: Halloween enticement
(this bill is now dead)
Makes it a Class D felony for an offender against children to knowingly or intentionally participate in Halloween by offering or appearing to offer candy or another item to trick or treaters. HB1189: Child trafficking
(this bill is now dead)
Makes it a Class B felony for a person to recruit, harbor, or transport another person who is less than 18 years of age to engage the other person in forced labor or involuntary servitude or to force the other person into marriage or prostitution. HB1219: Handgun licenses and local firearm regulation
(this bill is now dead)
Allows certain information to be made public regarding individuals who obtain a handgun license. HB1234: No contact orders
Requires a court to include as a condition of bail the requirement that a defendant charged with a violent crime refrain from any direct or indirect contact with the victim if the defendant is released to bail without the court having held a bail hearing in open court. HB1273: use of a minor's identity for sexual gratification
(this bill is now dead)
Makes it a Class D felony for a person at least 18 years of age to use a computer network to impersonate a specific child if the impersonation is done with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of any person. HB1291: Child exploitation
(this bill is now dead)
Makes child exploitation a Class B felony instead of a Class C felony if the photograph, film, videotape, or digitized image used to commit the offense was taken at or created in a public building, school, or library. HB1310: Certain sex offenders and school property
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that, as a condition of probation, a sex offender who is a sexually violent predator or an offender against children (sex offender) is prohibited from being on the property of a primary or secondary school. HB1311: Court information on domestic relations cases
(this bill is now dead)
Requires that, in the Indiana judicial reports, information concerning domestic relations cases be separated into: (1) actions for dissolution of marriage; (2) actions for legal separation; and (3) petitions to establish child support; and that information be provided for each of the categories. HB1326: Ban sex offenders from public libraries
(this bill is now dead)
Specifies that a registered sex offender who enters a public library commits a Class D felony. SB0025: Firearms in locked vehicles
(this bill is now dead)
Prohibits a person (which includes an individual, a corporation, and a governmental entity) from adopting or enforcing a policy or rule that prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting an individual from legally possessing a firearm that is locked in the individual's vehicle while the vehicle is in or on the person's property. Provides specific exemptions to the requirement. SB0026: Child solicitation
(this bill is now dead)
Makes child solicitation committed by a person at least 21 years of age against a child under 14 years of age a Class C felony if the person performs an overt act demonstrating an intent to physically meet the child. SB0086: Petition for change of name of a minor child
(this bill is now dead)
Removes a provision that requires a parent or guardian of a minor child who wishes to change the name of the minor child to publish the first notice of the petition for the name change not more than seven days after the date the petition is filed. SB0101: Invasion of privacy by photography
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the crime of invasion of privacy by photography, a Class A misdemeanor. SB0124: Corporal punishment by parents
(this bill is now dead)
Outlines acceptable punishment that a parent can use with a child based on certain factors and circumstances. SB0147: Law enforcement issues
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a law enforcement officer who engages in sexual conduct with a child who is at least 16 and less than 18 years of age and at least five years younger than the law enforcement officer commits child seduction, a Class D felony. SB0152: Sharing of sexually explicit material
(this bill is now dead)
Authorizes a school corporation to provide education concerning the potential risks and consequences of creating and sharing sexually suggestive or explicit materials through cell phones, over a computer, or through other digital media. SB0195: Access to handgun license information
(this bill is now dead)
Allows certain information to be made public regarding individuals who obtain a handgun license. SB0200: Indiana firearms freedom act
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that: (1) is manufactured commercially or privately in Indiana from basic materials; (2) can be manufactured without the inclusion of any significant parts imported from another state; and (3) remains within the borders of Indiana; is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of the United States Congress to regulate interstate commerce. SB0202: Rape reporting
(this bill is now dead)
Makes the failure of a person who witnesses the commission of rape or sexual deviate conduct against a child to report the crime to law enforcement a Class B misdemeanor. SB0276: Indiana firearms freedom act
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that: (1) is manufactured commercially or privately in Indiana from basic materials; (2) can be manufactured without the inclusion of any significant parts imported from another state; and (3) remains within the borders of Indiana; is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of the United States Congress to regulate interstate commerce. SB0291: Sex and violent offender tracking program
(this bill is now dead)
Creates the public safety technology fund to purchase, operate, and maintain a qualified sex or violent offender tracking program. SB0304: Firearms safety courses
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Prohibits a person from: (1) purchasing a firearm; (2) renting a firearm; or (3) obtaining a firearm by transfer; after December 31, 2010, unless the person has successfully completed a firearms safety course conducted by the state police department or a person authorized by the superintendent of the state police department to conduct a firearms safety course. SB0364: Crime stoppers programs
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes a crime stoppers program fund administered by the Indiana criminal justice institute. SB0388: Crime prevention income tax credit
(this bill is now dead)
Provides an income tax credit to a landlord who offers incentives to tenants for reporting criminal activities that result in the arrest and successful prosecution of an individual for the crime of murder, battery, kidnapping, sexual assault, an offense related to a controlled substance, or criminal mischief. SB0416: Indiana firearms freedom act
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Provides that a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that: (1) is manufactured commercially or privately in Indiana from basic materials; (2) can be manufactured without the inclusion of any significant parts imported from another state; and (3) remains within the borders of Indiana; is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of the United States Congress to regulate interstate commerce. Other Bills HB1001: Lobbyists; Campaign contributions
(this bill is now dead)
Makes various changes regarding allowable activities of lobbyists. HB1013: Redistricting commission
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes a redistricting commission to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts. HB1029: Lobbyists; Campaign contributions
(this bill is now dead)
Makes various changes regarding allowable activities of lobbyists. HB1106: Provisional ballots; vote centers; satellite offices
Makes various changes regarding provisional ballots and the use of vote centers and satellite offices during elections. HB1109: Early voting by voters with disabilities
Requires that all locations (other than the circuit court clerk's office) where a voter is entitled to cast in person an absentee ballot before election day must meet the same accessibility requirements that apply to a polling place for a precinct. HB1118: Nuisance actions by community organizations
(this bill is now dead)
Allows a community organization within whose specific geographic boundaries a nuisance exists to bring an action under the laws governing: (1) general nuisance actions; (2) actions for indecent nuisances; and (3) actions for drug nuisances; as applicable. HB1292: Commission on driver education
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the Indiana driver's education commission, charged with consulting and advising the Indiana criminal justice institute and recommending the adoption, amendment, or repeal of rules concerning driver education. HB1293: Driver education
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the Indiana driver's education commission, charged with consulting and advising the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) and the commissioner of the bureau and recommending the enactment, amendment, or repeal of rules concerning driver education. HB1308: Vote centers
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the use of vote centers as an option for all counties. HB1346: Legislative ethics
(this bill is now dead)
Makes various changes to the statues addressing allowable activities of the legislative branch. HB1347: Redistricting commission
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes a redistricting commission to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts. HJR0009: Legislative term limits
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that an individual may not serve more than 24 years as a member of the general assembly. SB0080: Legislative district guidelines
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes standards for drawing legislative districts. SB0082: Challenges to a candidate's eligibility
(this bill is now dead)
Authorizes a challenge to a candidate's eligibility to seek an office to be filed by a registered voter of the jurisdiction conducting the election. SB0083: Public inspection of provisional ballot materials
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Requires that election material related to provisional ballots (excluding the provisional ballots themselves) be made available for copying and inspection under the access to public records law in the same manner as other election material, except in the case of a recount or contest, when material related to provisional ballots remains confidential for six months after the completion of the recount or contest. SB0091: Absentee voting
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Requires a voter casting an absentee ballot to provide information concerning the voter's identification before the absentee ballot is counted. SB0114: Government ethics
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Makes various changes to allowable activities in the legislative branch. SB0136: Redistricting study committee
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the redistricting study committee. SB0146: Accessibility of voting locations
(this bill is now dead)
Requires that all locations where a voter is entitled to cast an absentee ballot in person before election day meet the same accessibility requirements that apply to a polling place for a precinct. SB0160: Vote centers
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Extends for four years (until December 31, 2014) the use of vote centers in vote center pilot counties. SB0196: Motor vehicle learner's permits
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that, beginning January 1, 2011, an individual must be at least 16 years and 30 days of age to be issued a learner's permit by the bureau of motor vehicles. SB0289: Redistricting commission
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes a redistricting commission to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts. SB0361: Bicycles and traffic safety
(this bill is now dead)
Makes various changes concerning bicycle operation and traffic laws.
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a tenant leasing a dwelling may terminate a lease agreement if the tenant is the victim of certain crimes. HB1122: Abatement of abandoned and vacant structures
Makes various changes regarding the abatement process and abandoned and vacant structures. HB1207: Storage of tenant property
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Provides that a storage facility may not release certain property to a tenant whose property has been stored with the storage facility until the landlord gives the tenant a release. HB1214: Regulation of residential landlords/tenants
(this bill is now dead)
Imposes certain procedural requirements on the adoption by a political subdivision of a regulation of landlord and tenant relations, residential leases, or inspection of real property subject to a residential lease. HB1334: Homeownership education account
(this bill is now dead)
Requires that fees and funds accruing from the administration of the Indiana Securities Act (IC 23-19) and other statutes must be deposited in the home ownership education account. Child Care HB1036: Child care ministries
(this bill is now dead)
Requires the division of family resources to establish a child care advisory committee for child care ministries. Specifies certain requirements for registration of child care ministries. Child Poverty HB1003: Contracting of public assistance eligibility
(this bill is now dead)
Prohibits the office of the secretary of family and social services, the division of family resources, and the office of Medicaid policy and planning to contract with another person to administer or process eligibility intake for specified programs. HB1009: Child and dependent care tax credit
(this bill is now dead)
Provides a refundable income tax credit to individuals for certain household, child care, or dependent care expenses associated with an individual's gainful employment. HB1021: Bankruptcy exemptions; earned income tax credit
Provides that a debtor's Indiana earned income tax credit is property that is exempt under the bankruptcy property exemption statute. HB1030: Local government reorganization
Specifies that a reorganization committee acting under the local government reorganization statutes must include certain documentation in its reorganization plan be provided to the public. HB1095: Employee personal leave
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that certain employees of certain employers are entitled to take: (1) 24 hours of paid leave; and (2) 16 hours of unpaid leave; in a 12 month period. HB1136: Moratorium on privitization contracts
(this bill is now dead)
Imposes a three year moratorium on state agencies entering into or renewing contracts for privatization of state services if the amount of the contract is at least $50,000,000. HB1139: Sales tax on home energy
(this bill is now dead)
Provides a sales tax exemption for the sale of power, light, and heat for residential use. Eliminates references to the sales tax exemption for home energy acquired through home energy assistance, which expired July 2, 2009. HB1173: Unemployment insurance
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that pension, retirement, or annuity payments under any plan of a base period employer for which the employer contributes all of the money are deductible from an individual's unemployment benefit for a week under specific circumstances. HB1174: Interim study committee on public assistance
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the interim committee on the administration of public assistance for two years. HB1181: Referendum on retaining township trustee and board
(this bill is now dead)
Requires a public question to be placed on the November 2010 general election ballot in each township regarding whether the voters want to retain a township trustee and township board. HB1243: Method of payment for certain public assistance recipients
(this bill is now dead)
Requires the auditor of state to allow payment by warrant instead of direct deposit by electronic funds transfer for certain recipients of the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program who are participating in the Indiana manpower and comprehensive training (IMPACT) program and who request to be paid by warrant. HB1249: Elimination of township government
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that all township governments are abolished on January 1, 2013, and all township functions are transferred to the county. HB1283: Funding of 211 services
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Provides that if a local government unit's emergency telephone system fund contains sufficient funds to pay all expenses of the unit's enhanced emergency telephone system, the unit's legislative body may appropriate any funds not needed to pay the expenses of the system to support the provision of 211 services in a 211 service area that includes the unit. HB1321: TANF recipient education
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Requires certain individuals and children who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to attend educational training approved by the division of family resources. HB1341: Unemployment contribution rates
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Delays from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2011, changes in the taxable wage base and employer contribution rates for the unemployment compensation system. HB1356: Duty to support a child
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Provides that the duty to support a child ceases when the child becomes 19 years of age. SB0023: Unemployment contribution rates
Delays from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2011, changes in the taxable wage base and employer contribution rates for the unemployment compensation system. SB0062: Removal of FSSA expiration dates
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Removes the expiration dates for the office of the secretary of family and social services, the office of Medicaid policy and planning, the statutes concerning directors of divisions within family and social services (FSSA), and certain advisory committees under the FSSA statutes. SB0085: Disclaimer of property to avoid child support
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Prohibits a person from disclaiming an interest in property if the person is delinquent in the payment of child support. SB0158: Restriction of employer use of consumer reports
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Prohibits an employer from using a consumer report for employment purposes unless certain conditions apply. Allows a consumer to bring a civil action against an employer for a violation of this provision. SB0163: Various child support matters
Makes numerous changes to child support collection and enforcement. SB0225: Marion county government
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Provides that beginning January 1, 2013, in a county having a consolidated city, the health and hospital corporation shall administer township assistance on a countywide basis. Makes other changes to consolidate township and county government functions in Marion County. SB0235: State employee caseworkers at township offices
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Requires the division of family resources to locate a state employee caseworker at each township office and provide specified equipment for the caseworker to assist township residents with applying for public assistance programs. Requires the township trustee to provide necessary office space for the caseworker. SB0237: Interim study committee on economic development
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Establishes the interim study committee on economic development. SB0240: Township government
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Specifies that in each county after December 31, 2012: (1) the county fiscal body is the fiscal body and legislative body of each township in the county; and (2) the county fiscal body shall exercise the legislative and fiscal powers assigned in the Indiana Code to township boards, including the authority to adopt the township's annual budget and to levy township property taxes for township funds. SB0300: Worker's compensation reserves
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Specifies requirements for worker's compensation insurers with respect to reserve funds deposited by employers. SB0314: Delinquent child support
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Changes the definition of "delinquent" to mean at least: (1) $1,000; or (2) three months; past due on payment of court ordered child support. SB0328: Various financial institution matters
Makes various changes to the laws concerning: (1) financial institutions; (2) debt management companies; (3) pawnbrokers; (4) money transmitters; (5) check cashers; (6) persons licensed under the Uniform Consumer Credit Code; (7) first lien mortgage lenders; and (8) rental purchase agreements. SB0347: Administration of public assistance
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Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to ensure that public assistance services are: (1) provided in a timely and safe manner; (2) provided in accordance with state and federal law; and (3) appropriate to the needs of the individual. SB0352: Employer credits for rehiring laid off workers
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Provides for a tax credit for a taxpayer that employs an individual laid off from a place of employment located in Indiana. Provides for a credit to an employer's unemployment insurance experience account for an employer that reemploys an employee laid off by the employer. SB0411: Offenders owing child support
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Requires the department of correction to first attempt to assign a criminal offender or a delinquent offender who owes child support under a child support order to an employment program that pays wages before assigning the criminal offender or delinquent offender to an education, training, or other program unless there are specific circumstances that would impact employment. SB0419: Food stamp eligibility
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Provides that an individual who has been convicted of a felony involving a controlled substance and who has completed or is participating in certain substance abuse treatment programs or mental health programs may receive assistance under the federal Food Stamp Program for up to 12 months. Child Welfare Services HB1038: Release of pre-adoptive sibling information
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Repeals and relocates language concerning requests for information about pre-adoptive siblings. Allows requests for and requires, under certain circumstances, release of information concerning pre-adoptive siblings for any adoption. HB1085: Disposition of certain children in need of services (CHINS)
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Provides that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian or to preserve a child's family are not required with respect to a child who has been adjudicated a child in need of services (CHINS) if the court finds that the child has, on three separate occasions, been adjudicated a child in need of services because of an act or omission by the child's parent, guardian, or custodian. HB1110: Early intervention service plans
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Creates the community services plan for early intervention services for delinquent children and children in need of services. Repeals the chapter concerning regional service strategic plans. HB1157: Select joint commission on child welfare services oversight
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Establishes the select joint commission on child welfare services oversight. HB1167: Placement of children outside Indiana
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Removes a provision that states the department of child services (department) is responsible for payment of any costs or expenses for housing or services provided to or for the benefit of a child placed by a juvenile court in a home or facility located outside Indiana only if the director of the department or the director's designee recommends or approves the placement. SB0070: Adoption and paternity proceedings
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Requires a petition to establish the paternity of a child who is the subject of an adoption proceeding to be filed in the court having jurisdiction over the adoption proceeding. Provides that a person contesting an adoption must file either a motion to contest the adoption or a petition to establish paternity. SB0140: Adoption matters
Makes various changes regarding adoption procedures. SB0149: Department of Child Services
Removes the department of child services (DCS) from the entities to which a clerk of the court must forward a petition for adoption. Removes language regarding a child protection team being required to provide diagnostic and prognostic services for DCS or a juvenile court. Specifies how a child's death or near fatality may be determined to have been the result of abuse, abandonment, or neglect for purposes of certain records. Removes certain duties of the office of the secretary of family and social services regarding child welfare. Adds additional information required in a petition for the appointment of a guardian for an incapacitated person or minor. Requires DCS to be notified of certain guardianship petitions and to be allowed to participate in a hearing on certain guardianship petitions. Makes other changes related to Department of Child Services. SB0355: Release of identifying adoption information
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Repeals, effective July 1, 2011, provisions applicable to adoptions finalized before January 1, 1994, that prohibit the release of identifying adoption information unless a consent to release the information is on file. SB0389: Information on individual development accounts
Requires a caseworker of a foster child to provide information to the child concerning individual development accounts. Disproportionality of Children of Color in Youth Services HB1110: Early intervention service plans
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Creates the community services plan for early intervention services for delinquent children and children in need of services. Repeals the chapter concerning regional service strategic plans. HB1187: Agency contracts with minority owned nonprofits
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Requires the board for the coordination of programs serving vulnerable individuals (board) to: (1) review and make recommendations regarding certain state agencies contracting with minority operated nonprofit organizations; and (2) develop a plan to increase the number of contracts between certain state agencies and minority operated nonprofit organizations. HB1193: Juvenile, education, and law enforcement issues
Creates the law enforcement, school policing, and youth work group (work group) to be staffed and administered by the criminal justice institute. and specifies duties of the work group. HB1277: Health disparities in Medicaid
Requires a managed care organization (MCO) that contracts with the office of Medicaid policy and planning (OMPP) to provide Medicaid services that report to the Medicaid Oversight committee information regarding the MCO's culturally and linguistically appropriate services standards plan and the progress in implementing these standards. Makes various other changes. HB1295: School counselors
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Establishes specific target counselor/student ratios to be used for the hiring of school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists. SB0387: Office of minority health
Establishes the office of minority health within the state department of health. Education HB1005: Indefinite teacher contracts
Removes the age limit for teachers who hold indefinite contracts. HB1012: Subjects of educational discussion and bargaining
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Removes requirements related to items included in the 1972-1973 collective bargaining agreement and school employer bargaining of hours of employment. Repeals language regarding a school employer having to discuss certain educational items with certified school employees. HB1017: Small school performance grant
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Provides a small school performance grant to a public school, other than a charter school, that has an enrollment of less than 2,000. HB1072: School internet connection
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Requires the department of education to develop a strategic plan that provides for an increase in the bandwidth of all public high school computer systems. HB1087: Notice of school tax levy referendum
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Requires the governing body of a school corporation that adopts a resolution to conduct a referendum for a tax levy to certify the resolution to both the department of local government finance and the county fiscal body of each county in which the school corporation is located. HB1092: School instructional time
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Outlines the minimum amount of hours students must be in the classroom during the school year. HB1096: School board elections at general election time
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Provides that school board members selected by election must be elected at general elections. HB1117: Funding of adult education
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Provides an adult education grant to school corporations as part of the state tuition support distribution. HB1133: Election of school board members
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Provides standards for election of the members of the governing body of a school corporation on a nonpartisan basis. HB1134: Teacher performance evaluations
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Prohibits the use of test scores as a sole factor to determine teacher employment decisions, and assigns liability for the misuse of test scores. HB1135: Advanced placement tests
Requires state educational institutions to grant postsecondary level academic credit to students who receive a satisfactory score on an advanced placement examination. HB1141: Admissions preferences for Indiana residents
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Requires a state educational institution to limit the admission of students who are not Indiana residents to not more than 25% of each freshman class and makes additional requirements. HB1147: Physical characteristics of school bus monitors
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Makes certain conditions for employment relating to physical characteristics inapplicable to school bus monitors. HB1168: High school athletics
Provides that the case review panel that hears cases relating to disputes over the application or interpretation of rules governing interscholastic high school athletics may take action by the affirmative vote of a majority of the panel members present at a meeting if a quorum of the panel is present. HB1171: State universities
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Requires certain course offerings to be made available to students to obtain a degree and specifies regulations for professors and counselors. HB1184: College credit for high school classes
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Requires each high school to offer a number of dual credit and advanced placement courses sufficient to allow a student who qualifies to enroll in the courses to complete at least one year of college credit. HB1193: Juvenile, education, and law enforcement issues
Creates the law enforcement, school policing, and youth work group (work group) to be staffed and administered by the criminal justice institute. and specifies duties of the work group. HB1196: Meningitis vaccinations for college students
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Provides that a state educational institution may not permit a student to matriculate in a residential campus of the state educational institution unless the student provides documentation of having been vaccinated for meningococcal meningitis or qualifies for an exemption. HB1202: Liability for use of school bus safety belts
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Provides that a school corporation or an employee of, volunteer for, or independent contractor who performs services for a school corporation is not liable for an injury to or the death of a passenger on a school bus equipped with safety belts under certain circumstances. HB1213: Twenty first century scholars program
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Allows a student who: (1) is enrolled in grade 9, 10, 11, or 12; and (2) did not meet certain qualifications in grades 6, 7, or 8 for the twenty-first century scholars program; to apply and qualify for the twenty-first century scholars program if the student meets certain requirements, including the income requirement, at the time the student applies for the twenty-first century scholars program. HB1224: Limitation on school starting date
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Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, prohibits schools from beginning student instructional days for the school year before September 1. HB1236: Higher education accountability and reporting
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Requires a state educational institution to prepare annual reports concerning measures of institutional accountability and intellectual diversity. HB1280: LIFE scholarships
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Establishes the Indiana lifelong learning incentive for excellence (LIFE) scholarship program to provide scholarships to Indiana residents for postsecondary education. HB1282: Lifelong learning account pilot program
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Requires the Indiana education savings authority (authority) to establish and administer a lifelong learning account pilot program. HB1285: University and school corporation construction
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Exempts school corporations and state educational institutions from the common construction wage law from July 1, 2010, through December 31, 2012. Establishes the interim study committee on the common construction wage to study the effects of the common construction wage law. HB1290: Inappropriate relationships with students
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Provides that a teacher or coach in a primary or secondary school who knowingly or intentionally has sexual contact with an individual who is less than 19 years of age and who is a student in the primary or secondary school commits having an inappropriate relationship with a student, a Class A misdemeanor. HB1294: School improvement plan
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Requires an employees' association for a school administered by the department of correction, the School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, or the School for the Deaf to demonstrate support for the professional development program that is part of the school improvement plan before the school improvement plan may be approved by the state board of education. HB1297: Financing public university projects
Makes changes in the law governing the financing of capital projects by state educational institutions. Repeals a requirement that certain revenue bonds be approved in an appropriation act of the general assembly. HB1306: Dual credit
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Requires all state educational institutions to accept certain dual credit courses that are successfully completed by a high school student. HB1327: Reporting student absence from school
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Requires the parent of a child to notify the child's school when the child will be absent. HB1348: School employee records; misconduct
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Provides that certain employment records of licensed school employees, including substantiated reports of certain types of misconduct or offenses, must be provided to various individuals and creates a process for expungement. HB1362: Textbook rental fee calculation
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Permits public and nonpublic schools to rent textbooks to students using an average fee for each student if the average is determined using the same total rental fees that would be charged under the per student method. HB1364: Youth advisory council
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Changes the age of eligibility to be a youth advisory council (council) member from 14 to 18 years of age to 16 to 20 years of age and makes various other changes regarding the Council. HB1365: Dual enrollment cost and fees
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Provides that a student may not be charged tuition or fees for a college course or test that the student completes in order to obtain a core 40 diploma. SB0084: General Assembly access to research services
Requires state educational institutions to make research tools used by state educational institutions available to legislators and staff of the legislative services agency. SB0133: Student instructional time
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Specifies the amount of time students must be receiving instruction during the academic year. SB0150: School year; calendar flexibility
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Prohibits schools from starting school before Labor Day and ending before after June 10 of the following year. SB0166: Dues for educational service centers
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Allows school corporations to pay educational service center dues from any school corporation fund. SB0181: Virtual charters and school scholarship tax credit
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Eliminates the virtual charter school pilot program. Eliminates the school scholarship tax credit. SB0183: Superintendent of public instruction appointment
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Provides for the state superintendent of public instruction to be appointed by the governor. SB0193: Transfers between school funds
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Allows the governing body of a school corporation to adopt a resolution to transfer money in a fund maintained by a school corporation to another fund of the school corporation, except to or from the debt service fund. SB0226: Suicide prevention training for school personnel
Allows a governing body to adjourn its schools to allow teachers to participate in a basic or inservice course of education and training on suicide prevention and the recognition of students who are considering suicide. SB0242: School employee records; misconduct
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Provides that certain employment records of licensed school employees, including substantiated reports of certain types of misconduct or offenses, must be provided to various individuals and creates a process for expungement. SB0251: Textbook rental fees
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Permits public and nonpublic schools to rent textbooks using an average fee for each student if the average is determined using the same total rental fees that would be charged under the per student method. SB0252: Waiver of transfer tuition
Provides that a transferee school may elect to not charge transfer tuition to the parents of a student or a student who transfers into the transferee school. SB0256: School corporation administrative hearings
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Provides that a student or the parent of a student who believes the student has been improperly denied participation in an educational function or subjected to an illegal rule or standard is entitled to a hearing with the school corporation's superintendent, upon request of the student or parent. SB0257: Commission for higher education
Provides that a full-time employee of a state public or private college or university (except for one faculty member) may not be a member of the commission for higher education. Makes various other changes regarding the Commission. SB0258: Reading deficiencies and student retention
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Requires additional information concerning ISTEP performance and student retention be included on a school corporation's annual performance report. SB0288: Tax credits for contributions to K-12 foundations
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Provides for an adjusted gross income tax credit for charitable donations to a charitable organization or educational foundation that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and organized and operated solely for the benefit of a public elementary school or public high school located in Indiana. SB0296: School influenza vaccination pilot program
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Requires the state department of health (department), subject to available funding, to implement a school based influenza vaccination pilot program. Requires the department to issue a report concerning the pilot program before August 1, 2011. SB0306: Imagination Library program
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Appropriates $3,000,000 to the department of education to be used to fund matching grants to school corporations to participate in the Imagination Library early reading program to provide books for children from birth through five years of age. SB0308: Determination of graduation rate
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Provides that a student whose individualized education program does not provide for the student to graduate from high school is not included in the calculation of a high school's graduation rate. SB0309: School corporation expenditures
Provides that a school corporation's expenditures from the capital projects fund for utility services and property or casualty insurance may not, in 2010 and 2011, exceed 6% instead of 3.5% of the school corporation's 2005 calendar year distribution. SB0322: Collective bargaining for school employees
Provides that school employers and noncertificated school employees have the right and obligation to discuss certain topics related to school employment and may bargain collectively, negotiate, be subject to or enter into impasse procedures, or enter into a written contract. SB0345: Commission on career and technical education
(this bill is now dead)
Abolishes the commission for career and technical education (commission) and transfers the duties of the commission to the state workforce innovation council. SB0375: Commission on career and technical education
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Provides that basic tuition support for a charter school, excluding a conversion charter school, is based on the countywide average foundation amount per average daily membership (ADM) received by all school corporations located in the county in which the charter school is located. Financing Appropriate Services HB1149: Variable local option income tax
(this bill is now dead)
Authorizes a taxing unit to impose variable local option income taxes to replace revenue lost to the local unit due to a circuit breaker or elimination of property tax. HB1150: State spending cap
(this bill is now dead)
Imposes general expenditure controls on the state beginning with the budget adopted for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011. HJR0001: Circuit breakers and other property tax matters
Requires, for property taxes first due and payable in 2012 and thereafter, the general assembly to limit a taxpayer's property tax liability and outlines how tax liability will be limited. HJR0002: Circuit breakers and other property tax matters
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Requires, for property taxes first due and payable in 2012 and thereafter, the general assembly to limit a taxpayer's property tax liability and outlines how tax liability will be limited. HJR0004: Government spending limitation
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Provides that an Indiana governmental entity's expenditures may not increase from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year by more than a growth factor based on Indiana personal income. SB0236: State tax matters
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Amends the definition of federal "Internal Revenue Code" used in Indiana statutes and regulations to refer to the Internal Revenue Code in effect on January 1, 2010. Makes various changes regarding tax credits. SJR0001: Circuit breakers and other property tax matters
Requires, for property taxes first due and payable in 2012 and thereafter, the general assembly to limit a taxpayer's property tax liability and outlines how tax liability will be limited. Healthcare HB1022: Insurer access to providers
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Prohibits health plan contract provisions that would require a contracted provider to accept more than a certain number of patients. Requires providers to inform the insurer or heath maintenance organization when the provider is accepting or not accepting new patients. HB1103: Jury exemption for breast feeding mothers
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Provides that a mother breastfeeding a child shall be exempted from jury service if the mother notifies the jury administrator that she is breastfeeding a child and wishes to be exempted from jury service. HB1131: Smoking ban in public places
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Prohibits smoking in: (1) public places; (2) enclosed areas of a place of employment; and (3) certain state vehicles. HB1132: Indiana check-up plan trust fund interest
Specifies that beginning July 1, 2011 interest accrued from investments of funds from the Indiana check-up plan trust fund remains in the fund and does not revert to the state general fund. HB1151: Basic health insurance coverage
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Allows, under certain circumstances, an accident and sickness insurer or a health maintenance organization to provide a policy or contract without complying with all health benefit mandates. HB1152: Individual out-of-state health insurance
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Allows an accident and sickness insurer that is licensed in certain other states, and is not licensed in Indiana, to issue or deliver an individual policy of accident and sickness insurance to an individual resident of Indiana without complying with other Indiana insurance law. HB1172: Volunteer medical care
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Allows a physician or nurse who is licensed in another jurisdiction to practice for not more than six days per year as a volunteer in a shortage area or health clinic setting if no fee or other consideration is charged. HB1185: Health care consent
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Provides that an adult who shares an emotional, physical, and financial relationship with a patient similar to that of a spouse may consent to health care for an individual incapable of consenting if a health care representative has not been appointed. HB1226: Health and Medicaid fraud matters
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Establishes procedures for the attorney general to seize, secure, store, and destroy abandoned or at risk health records and other records containing personally identifying information. Makes various other changes related to health records and fraud investigation. HB1240: Various insurance matters
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Makes various changes to the law concerning: (1) pharmacy actions with respect to prescriptions; (2) disclosures of insurer information; (3) insurer examinations; (4) annual audited financial reporting; (5) foreign and alien insurers requirements; (6) insurance producer licensing and continuing education; (7) records of insurer held securities; (8) insurance holding company transactions; (9) insurance administrator licensing; (10) an unauthorized insurers exception in relation to an industrial insured; (11) consistency in compliance with laws by various types of insurers and health maintenance organizations; (12) requirements for discretionary groups for purposes of accident and sickness insurance; and (13) small employer group insurance requirements. HB1262: Medicaid prescription drugs
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Defines "waste" for purposes of drug utilization review. Allows the office of Medicaid policy and planning to restrict the use of a mental health drug that is prescribed for an individual less than 18 years of age under certain conditions. HB1264: Emergency room Medicaid reimbursement
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Specifies emergency department screening services requiring reimbursement under the Medicaid program. HB1303: County hospitals operating health facilities
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Allows a county hospital to own or operate, or contract with a person to operate, a health facility. HB1320: Medication changes
Requires a pharmacist to inform a prescribing physician or physician's office of a change in manufacturer of a lifeline medicine. HB1360: Vaccines containing thimerosal
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Prohibits the administration of influenza vaccines containing thimerosal to: (1) children at least six months but less than 36 months of age; and (2) pregnant women; unless no alternative vaccines are available or unless there is an emergency. HB1363: Medicaid providers and electronic records
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Requires a Medicaid provider to use an electronic health records system not later than January 1, 2011. HB1366: Informed consent for hysterectomy
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Requires a physician to obtain informed consent and provide certain information to a patient before performing a hysterectomy. HJR0006: Right to opt out of mandated health care system
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Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to specify certain rights with respect to health care. HJR0008: Right to opt out of mandated health care system
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Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to specify certain rights with respect to health care. SB0095: Prohibit smoking in public places
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Prohibits smoking in public places and places of employment. SB0129: Contracts for dental services
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Prohibits dental insurers and health maintenance organizations from requiring dentists to accept certain payments. SB0141: Contraception definition
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Defines "contraception", and provides that contraception is not subject to or governed by the abortion statutes. SB0171: Health plan use of premiums
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Requires accident and sickness insurers and health maintenance organizations to annually report to the department of insurance concerning use of premiums. SB0175: Various health matters
Makes various changes regarding records and creates specific health programs and funds. SB0192: Hospital visitation rights for domestic partners
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Allows an individual who is in a domestic partnership with a patient to have hospital visitation rights. SB0198: State contracts and grants
Prohibits state agencies from entering contracts with or making grants to Planned Parenthood of Indiana. Cancels state funding for any current contracts with or grants to Planned Parenthood of Indiana. SB0232: Midwives
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Establishes the midwifery board (board). Sets qualifications for a certified direct entry midwife (CDEM). SB0233: Smoking ban in public places
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Prohibits smoking in public places and places of employment. SB0279: Medicaid coverage for breast cancer treatment
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Defines "treatment" for purposes of Medicaid eligibility under the federal breast and cervical cancer program. SB0294: Disproportionate share hosipital providers
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Requires disproportionate share payments to be distributed in a uniform and equitable manner. SB0295: Family and social services
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Authorizes the disclosure of a Social Security number for the administration of a state funded health plan. Specifies the notice procedures for the division of aging and the bureau of developmental disabilities services to follow against providers regulated by the division or the bureau. Makes various other changes related to Family and Social Services Administration. SB0310: Employer income tax credit for health care plan
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Provides a state income tax credit to an employer that pays or provides reimbursement for all or part of the cost of a health benefit plan made available to employees if the employer is eligible to or did receive the credit for offering a health benefit plan. SB0319: Health care choice
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Declares state sovereignty with respect to health care choice under the Constitution of the United States, federal law, and the Constitution of the State of Indiana. SB0323: Electronic drug prescriptions
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Requires the Indiana health informatics corporation to prepare a plan for statewide electronic prescribing. SB0326: Out of network health provider payments
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Specifies requirements concerning health benefit payments to providers that have not entered into payment agreements with health carriers. SB0353: Medicaid income spend down pay-in option
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Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to apply to the federal government for an amendment to the state's Medicaid plan to allow a Medicaid recipient to elect to participate in the pay-in option in the state's Medicaid spend down program. SB0404: Chiropractor office services under Indiana check up plan
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Requires the Indiana check-up plan to include chiropractor office services. SB0414: Providers state administered health care programs
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Allows the office of the secretary of family and social services to exclude specified persons who engage in fraud or abuse from participating in state administered health care programs. Immigration HB1225: Police enforcement of federal immigration laws
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Requires the superintendent of the state police department (superintendent) to: (1) negotiate terms of a memorandum of understanding (memorandum) concerning a pilot project for the enforcement of federal immigration and customs laws; and (2) designate appropriate police employees to be trained under the memorandum. SB0026: Enforcement of wage requirements
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Increases the penalties imposed on an employer whose violation of the state common construction wage law or minimum wage law involves an employee who is an illegal alien. Provides that a determination by a federal immigration agency that an alien has come to, entered, or remained in the United States in violation of law creates a rebuttable presumption that the alien is in the United States in violation of law. SB0213: Unauthorized aliens
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Requires various state agencies to implement changes to address unauthorized aliens in Indiana. Juvenile Delinquency HB1057: Texting while operating a motor vehicle
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Provides that a person who uses a telecommunications device to transmit a text message or electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle commits a Class D infraction. HB1060: Use of telecommunications device while driving
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Prohibits the use of a handheld personal communications device by a motor vehicle operator who is at least 18 years of age and holds an operator's license, including a probationary license. HB1115: Sending of sexual material by cell phone or other media
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Provides that a school corporation may offer classes, instruction, or programs regarding the risks and consequences of creating and sharing sexually suggestive or explicit materials. Provides defenses to the crimes of disseminating matter that is harmful to minors, child exploitation, and possession of child pornography if a cellular telephone was used and the defendant and recipient of the matter are certain ages and meet other requirements. HB1163: Expungement of records of certain convictions
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Creates guidelines for the court if post conviction DNA testing is favorable to a convicted person and if the court orders the release of the person. HB1220: Penalty for consumption of alcohol by a minor
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Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally permits a minor to possess or consume an alcoholic beverage on real property that the person owns or controls commits a Class B misdemeanor and changes penalties for other infractions involving minors and alcohol. HB1231: Community corrections
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that department of correction (department) rules concerning the maintenance of order and discipline among committed persons applies to persons placed in a community corrections program, assigned to a community transition program, or released on parole. HB1242: Credit times for behavior management programs
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Requires the department of correction to establish, implement, and maintain an offender behavior management program. Provides that an offender who completes a behavior management program may receive good time credit. HB1259: Community transition programs for offenders
(this bill is now dead)
Changes the community transition program (CTP) commencement dates for offenders. Requires the department of correction (department) to provide certain additional information when the department gives notice of an offender's eligibility for a CTP. HB1260: Expungement of certain felony conviction records
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Allows a sentencing court to expunge the records of certain felony convictions committed before a person was 25 years of age if 12 years have passed. HB1279: Texting while driving
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Provides that it is a Class C infraction if a person uses a telecommunications device to transmit a text message or electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle. HB1298: Expungement of certain conviction records
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Allows a sentencing court to expunge the records of certain felony and misdemeanor convictions committed before a person was 25 years of age if 12 years have passed. HB1352: Nonprofit or faith based community transition programs
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Establishes that nonprofit or faith based community transition programs are eligible to receive certain offenders for community transition programs. SB0018: Texting while driving
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Provides that it is a Class C infraction if a person uses a telecommunications device to transmit a text message or electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle. SB0081: Criminal law and sentencing policy study committee
Establishes the criminal law and sentencing policy study committee to evaluate criminal laws and sentencing policies. Repeals laws establishing the sentencing policy study committee. SB0111: Texting while driving
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Makes it a Class C misdemeanor to use a handheld wireless communications device to transmit a text message or electronic mail message while operating a moving motor vehicle, and enhances the penalty for repeat offenses or if a person is injured or killed. SB0148: Corrections and developmental disabilities
Requires the department of correction to maintain information concerning offenders who are persons with developmental disabilities and provide certain services. SB0203: Annual review of unpaid restitution orders
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Requires a governmental entity that is the beneficiary of a criminal or juvenile restitution order issued by a state or federal court to annually file a payment status report with the court and with the state board of accounts. SB0224: Electronic dissemination of indecent material
Provides that a child commits a delinquent act if the child creates, transmits, or possesses a photograph, video, or other material that shows a minor in a state of nudity. SB0227: Department of correction disciplinary hearings
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes at each department of correction (DOC) correctional facility an independent disciplinary hearing board consisting of three members appointed by the governor. SB0231: Minors and public transportation
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Provides that a child less than 16 years of age may travel by public transport to a nonadjacent county only if the minor provides the entity that operates the public transport with written permission to travel. SB0248: Electronic dissemination of indecent material
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Provides that a child commits a delinquent act if the child creates, transmits, or possesses a photograph, video, or other material that shows a minor in a state of nudity. SB0264: Prohibit alcohol sale on school property
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Makes it a Class B misdemeanor for a person to knowingly or intentionally possess an alcoholic beverage on school property. SB0290: Probation
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Provides that the requirement that certain offenders placed on home detention be subject to constant supervision does not apply if the supervising department or program's inability to maintain constant supervision is solely because electronic monitoring is not possible in certain locations in the county due to the unavailability of an appropriate telecommunications infrastructure. SB0338: Expungement of arrest records
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Provides additional situations in which a person may petition a court to expunge arrest records. SB0349: Community corrections
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Provides that department of correction (department) rules concerning the maintenance of order and discipline among committed persons applies to persons placed in a community corrections program, assigned to a community transition program, or released on parole. Mental Health and Substance Abuse HB1027: Election day alcohol sales
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Allows alcoholic beverages to be sold on election days HB1035: Wineries
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Allows the holder of an Indiana farm winery permit to own 50% or less of a limited wine wholesaler's permit. Allows an Indiana consumer to buy wine from a direct wine seller and have it shipped using a third party verification service retained by the winery. HB1043: Access to mental health records
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Defines "psychotherapy notes" for purposes of the law concerning access to mental health records and states that they must be kept separate from mental health records. HB1051: Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
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Makes ephedrine and pseudoephedrine schedule V controlled substances. Repeals provisions concerning the establishment and operation of an electronic log to record the sale without a prescription of drugs containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. HB1052: Alcoholic beverage permits at certain airports
(this bill is now dead)
Eliminates the requirement that a publicly owned airport be served by a scheduled commercial passenger airline in order for a restaurant located in the passenger terminal to be eligible for a permit to sell beer, wine, and liquor. HB1066: Election day sales
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Allows alcoholic beverages to be sold on election days. HB1191: Alcoholic beverage wholesalers
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Allows a person to wholesale beer, wine, and liquor. HB1281: Alcohol excise tax
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Increases the beer and hard cider excise tax from $0.115 to $0.435 per gallon. Increases the liquor excise tax from $2.68 to $5.24 per gallon. Increases the wine tax from $0.47 to $1.24 per gallon. Increases the malt excise tax from $0.05 to $0.20 per gallon. HB1338: Methamphetamine production
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Enhances the penalty for manufacturing methamphetamine to a Class A felony if: (1) the laboratory or chemicals used to manufacture the methamphetamine; or (2) waste from the manufacture of the methamphetamine; causes serious bodily injury or death to a person other than the defendant. HB1339: Identification for carryout purchases
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Makes it a Class B misdemeanor for an alcoholic beverage permittee or permittee's employee or agent to recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally sell, barter, exchange, provide, or furnish another person alcoholic beverages for carryout without first requiring the person to produce proof that the person is at least 21 years of age. SB0075: Sunday carryout by microbreweries
Allows a microbrewery to sell the brewery's beer for carryout on Sunday at the address for which the brewer's permit was issued. SB0076: Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
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Makes ephedrine and pseudoephedrine schedule V controlled substances. Repeals provisions concerning the establishment and operation of an electronic log to record the sale without a prescription of drugs containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. SB0079: Mental health quality advisory committee
Defines "waste" for purposes of the limits the office of Medicaid policy and planning may put on drug use under the Medicaid program and the children's health insurance program. Allows the office of Medicaid policy and planning to restrict the use of certain drugs by individuals less than 18 years of age in certain circumstances. SB0096: Prenatal substance abuse commission
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Creates the prenatal substance abuse commission and requires the commission to develop and recommend a coordinated plan to improve early intervention and treatment for pregnant women who abuse alcohol or drugs or use tobacco. SB0118: Election day sales
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Allows alcoholic beverages to be sold on election days. SB0119: Alcohol sale hours on Sunday
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Allows the holder of a retailer's permit to sell alcoholic beverages on Sunday from 7 a.m. until 3 a.m. the following day. SB0120: Sunday sales for microbreweries
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Allows a microbrewery to sell the brewery's beer for carryout on Sunday. SB0125: Coverage for smoking cessation drugs
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Requires a state employee health benefit plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract that provides coverage for prescription drugs to provide coverage for smoking cessation drugs. SB0167: Purchase of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
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Makes the purchase of drugs containing more than three grams of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or both, in one week a Class A misdemeanor instead of a Class C misdemeanor. SB0189: Alcoholic beverage matters
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Creates a supplemental dealer's permit for holders of beer, wine, or liquor dealer permits who want to sell alcoholic beverages for carryout on Sunday. Makes other changes related to the sale of alcohol. SB0244: Alcoholic beverage wholesalers
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Allows a person to wholesale beer, wine, and liquor. SB0285: Sale and tracking of ephedrine
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Prohibits a retailer from selling, and a purchaser from purchasing, more than three and six-tenths grams of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine on one day, or nine grams of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine in a 30 day period. SB0305: Alcoholic beverage permits
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Requires a person who holds a retailer's license or permit to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises to maintain coverage for liability after December 31, 2012. SB0380: Drug and alcohol abuse and commitments
(this bill is now dead)
Provides procedures for the involuntary commitment of a person due to alcohol or drug abuse. SB0383: Sales of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
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Requires a retailer who sells drugs containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine to complete certain requirements. SB0385: Identification for carryout purchases of alcohol
(this bill is now dead)
Makes it a Class B misdemeanor for an alcoholic beverage permittee or permittee's employee or agent to recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally sell, barter, exchange, provide, or furnish another person alcoholic beverages for carryout without first requiring the person to produce proof that the person is at least 21 years of age. SB0395: Civil commitment
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes a procedure to civilly commit for up to 24 hours an individual who is mentally ill and dangerous. Prevention HB1055: Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation
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Allows great-grandparents to seek visitation rights with their great-grandchildren in certain circumstances. HB1276: Domestic violence, bullying, and sending sexually explicit material
Requires the sentencing policy study committee to study and make recommendations regarding the sending of sexually suggestive or sexually explicit material over the Internet or by use of a cell phone or similar device. Requires school corporations to provide instruction or programs regarding domestic violence. Amends the definition of "bullying" to include communications transmitted from an electronic communications device or though a social networking web site. HB1307: Preventative programs for at risk children
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a juvenile court may create a preventative program for at-risk children (program). HB1314: Paternity affidavits
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a paternity affidavit executed before or after the birth of a child who is born out of wedlock must include certain information. HB1344: Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation
(this bill is now dead)
Allows great-grandparents to seek visitation rights with their great-grandchildren in certain circumstances. SB0059: Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation
(this bill is now dead)
Allows great-grandparents to seek visitation rights with their great-grandchildren in certain circumstances. SB0061: Rescission of paternity affidavit
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that evidence that a man is excluded as the biological father of a child based on a genetic test that indicates that the man is not the child's biological father constitutes a material mistake of fact that existed in the execution of the paternity affidavit. SB0099: Grandparent visitation
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Provides that a child's grandparent may seek visitation rights when a parent or guardian of the child unreasonably denies or restricts visitation. SB0153: Joint legal custody in paternity actions
(this bill is now dead)
Amends the factors that a court must consider in awarding joint legal custody after paternity has been established. SB0154: Custody after execution of paternity affidavit
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that if a paternity affidavit is executed, the mother has primary physical custody of the child and the man who is identified as the father has parenting time in accordance with the parenting time guidelines unless another determination is made by a court. SB0178: Custody and parenting time matters
Provides that if a paternity affidavit is executed, the mother and the man who is identified as the father share joint legal custody of the child, the mother has primary physical custody of the child, and the man who is identified as the father has parenting time in accordance with the parenting time guidelines unless another determination is made by a court. SB0220: Parents on active military duty
(this bill is now dead)
Prohibits a court from considering a parent's absence or relocation due to active military duty as a factor in determining custody or permanently modifying a child custody order. SB0316: Dating violence policy and education
Requires school corporations to have policies and provide education regarding dating violence. SB0406: Relationship education; dating violence policies
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Requires school corporations and nonpublic schools to: (1) provide age appropriate education concerning healthy relationships to students in kindergarten through grade 12; (2) develop a dating violence response policy; and (3) provide training to staff concerning healthy relationship education and dating violence response policies. Violence Affecting Children HB1007: Domestic battery
(this bill is now dead)
Increases the penalties for domestic battery. HB1058: Handgun licenses
(this bill is now dead)
Requires a person under certain circumstances to disclose to a law enforcement officer that they are carrying a gun. HB1065: Various provisions concerning firearms
Prohibits the state, a political subdivision, or any other person from prohibiting or restricting the lawful possession, transfer, sale, transportation, storage, display, or use of firearms or ammunition during a declared disaster emergency, energy emergency, or local disaster emergency. Makes various other changes related to firearms. HB1068: Access to handgun license information
Makes certain provisions related to handgun licenses and public access to information related to individuals holding handgun licenses. HB1070: Local regulation of firearms
(this bill is now dead)
Repeals provisions that allow certain political subdivisions to adopt emergency ordinances to regulate firearms if a local disaster emergency has been declared. HB1097: Halloween enticement
(this bill is now dead)
Makes it a Class D felony for an offender against children to knowingly or intentionally participate in Halloween by offering or appearing to offer candy or another item to trick or treaters. HB1189: Child trafficking
(this bill is now dead)
Makes it a Class B felony for a person to recruit, harbor, or transport another person who is less than 18 years of age to engage the other person in forced labor or involuntary servitude or to force the other person into marriage or prostitution. HB1219: Handgun licenses and local firearm regulation
(this bill is now dead)
Allows certain information to be made public regarding individuals who obtain a handgun license. HB1234: No contact orders
Requires a court to include as a condition of bail the requirement that a defendant charged with a violent crime refrain from any direct or indirect contact with the victim if the defendant is released to bail without the court having held a bail hearing in open court. HB1273: use of a minor's identity for sexual gratification
(this bill is now dead)
Makes it a Class D felony for a person at least 18 years of age to use a computer network to impersonate a specific child if the impersonation is done with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of any person. HB1291: Child exploitation
(this bill is now dead)
Makes child exploitation a Class B felony instead of a Class C felony if the photograph, film, videotape, or digitized image used to commit the offense was taken at or created in a public building, school, or library. HB1310: Certain sex offenders and school property
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that, as a condition of probation, a sex offender who is a sexually violent predator or an offender against children (sex offender) is prohibited from being on the property of a primary or secondary school. HB1311: Court information on domestic relations cases
(this bill is now dead)
Requires that, in the Indiana judicial reports, information concerning domestic relations cases be separated into: (1) actions for dissolution of marriage; (2) actions for legal separation; and (3) petitions to establish child support; and that information be provided for each of the categories. HB1326: Ban sex offenders from public libraries
(this bill is now dead)
Specifies that a registered sex offender who enters a public library commits a Class D felony. SB0025: Firearms in locked vehicles
(this bill is now dead)
Prohibits a person (which includes an individual, a corporation, and a governmental entity) from adopting or enforcing a policy or rule that prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting an individual from legally possessing a firearm that is locked in the individual's vehicle while the vehicle is in or on the person's property. Provides specific exemptions to the requirement. SB0026: Child solicitation
(this bill is now dead)
Makes child solicitation committed by a person at least 21 years of age against a child under 14 years of age a Class C felony if the person performs an overt act demonstrating an intent to physically meet the child. SB0086: Petition for change of name of a minor child
(this bill is now dead)
Removes a provision that requires a parent or guardian of a minor child who wishes to change the name of the minor child to publish the first notice of the petition for the name change not more than seven days after the date the petition is filed. SB0101: Invasion of privacy by photography
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the crime of invasion of privacy by photography, a Class A misdemeanor. SB0124: Corporal punishment by parents
(this bill is now dead)
Outlines acceptable punishment that a parent can use with a child based on certain factors and circumstances. SB0147: Law enforcement issues
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a law enforcement officer who engages in sexual conduct with a child who is at least 16 and less than 18 years of age and at least five years younger than the law enforcement officer commits child seduction, a Class D felony. SB0152: Sharing of sexually explicit material
(this bill is now dead)
Authorizes a school corporation to provide education concerning the potential risks and consequences of creating and sharing sexually suggestive or explicit materials through cell phones, over a computer, or through other digital media. SB0195: Access to handgun license information
(this bill is now dead)
Allows certain information to be made public regarding individuals who obtain a handgun license. SB0200: Indiana firearms freedom act
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that: (1) is manufactured commercially or privately in Indiana from basic materials; (2) can be manufactured without the inclusion of any significant parts imported from another state; and (3) remains within the borders of Indiana; is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of the United States Congress to regulate interstate commerce. SB0202: Rape reporting
(this bill is now dead)
Makes the failure of a person who witnesses the commission of rape or sexual deviate conduct against a child to report the crime to law enforcement a Class B misdemeanor. SB0276: Indiana firearms freedom act
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that: (1) is manufactured commercially or privately in Indiana from basic materials; (2) can be manufactured without the inclusion of any significant parts imported from another state; and (3) remains within the borders of Indiana; is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of the United States Congress to regulate interstate commerce. SB0291: Sex and violent offender tracking program
(this bill is now dead)
Creates the public safety technology fund to purchase, operate, and maintain a qualified sex or violent offender tracking program. SB0304: Firearms safety courses
(this bill is now dead)
Prohibits a person from: (1) purchasing a firearm; (2) renting a firearm; or (3) obtaining a firearm by transfer; after December 31, 2010, unless the person has successfully completed a firearms safety course conducted by the state police department or a person authorized by the superintendent of the state police department to conduct a firearms safety course. SB0364: Crime stoppers programs
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes a crime stoppers program fund administered by the Indiana criminal justice institute. SB0388: Crime prevention income tax credit
(this bill is now dead)
Provides an income tax credit to a landlord who offers incentives to tenants for reporting criminal activities that result in the arrest and successful prosecution of an individual for the crime of murder, battery, kidnapping, sexual assault, an offense related to a controlled substance, or criminal mischief. SB0416: Indiana firearms freedom act
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that: (1) is manufactured commercially or privately in Indiana from basic materials; (2) can be manufactured without the inclusion of any significant parts imported from another state; and (3) remains within the borders of Indiana; is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of the United States Congress to regulate interstate commerce. Other Bills HB1001: Lobbyists; Campaign contributions
(this bill is now dead)
Makes various changes regarding allowable activities of lobbyists. HB1013: Redistricting commission
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes a redistricting commission to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts. HB1029: Lobbyists; Campaign contributions
(this bill is now dead)
Makes various changes regarding allowable activities of lobbyists. HB1106: Provisional ballots; vote centers; satellite offices
Makes various changes regarding provisional ballots and the use of vote centers and satellite offices during elections. HB1109: Early voting by voters with disabilities
Requires that all locations (other than the circuit court clerk's office) where a voter is entitled to cast in person an absentee ballot before election day must meet the same accessibility requirements that apply to a polling place for a precinct. HB1118: Nuisance actions by community organizations
(this bill is now dead)
Allows a community organization within whose specific geographic boundaries a nuisance exists to bring an action under the laws governing: (1) general nuisance actions; (2) actions for indecent nuisances; and (3) actions for drug nuisances; as applicable. HB1292: Commission on driver education
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the Indiana driver's education commission, charged with consulting and advising the Indiana criminal justice institute and recommending the adoption, amendment, or repeal of rules concerning driver education. HB1293: Driver education
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the Indiana driver's education commission, charged with consulting and advising the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) and the commissioner of the bureau and recommending the enactment, amendment, or repeal of rules concerning driver education. HB1308: Vote centers
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the use of vote centers as an option for all counties. HB1346: Legislative ethics
(this bill is now dead)
Makes various changes to the statues addressing allowable activities of the legislative branch. HB1347: Redistricting commission
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes a redistricting commission to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts. HJR0009: Legislative term limits
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that an individual may not serve more than 24 years as a member of the general assembly. SB0080: Legislative district guidelines
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes standards for drawing legislative districts. SB0082: Challenges to a candidate's eligibility
(this bill is now dead)
Authorizes a challenge to a candidate's eligibility to seek an office to be filed by a registered voter of the jurisdiction conducting the election. SB0083: Public inspection of provisional ballot materials
(this bill is now dead)
Requires that election material related to provisional ballots (excluding the provisional ballots themselves) be made available for copying and inspection under the access to public records law in the same manner as other election material, except in the case of a recount or contest, when material related to provisional ballots remains confidential for six months after the completion of the recount or contest. SB0091: Absentee voting
(this bill is now dead)
Requires a voter casting an absentee ballot to provide information concerning the voter's identification before the absentee ballot is counted. SB0114: Government ethics
(this bill is now dead)
Makes various changes to allowable activities in the legislative branch. SB0136: Redistricting study committee
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes the redistricting study committee. SB0146: Accessibility of voting locations
(this bill is now dead)
Requires that all locations where a voter is entitled to cast an absentee ballot in person before election day meet the same accessibility requirements that apply to a polling place for a precinct. SB0160: Vote centers
(this bill is now dead)
Extends for four years (until December 31, 2014) the use of vote centers in vote center pilot counties. SB0196: Motor vehicle learner's permits
(this bill is now dead)
Provides that, beginning January 1, 2011, an individual must be at least 16 years and 30 days of age to be issued a learner's permit by the bureau of motor vehicles. SB0289: Redistricting commission
(this bill is now dead)
Establishes a redistricting commission to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts. SB0361: Bicycles and traffic safety
(this bill is now dead)
Makes various changes concerning bicycle operation and traffic laws.
