2017 Regular Session

Distributed generation. Requires: (1) the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to post a summary of the results of the IURC's most recent periodic review of the basic rates and charges of an electricity supplier on the IURC's Internet web site; and (2) the electricity supplier subject to the review to provide a link on the electricity supplier's Internet web site to the IURC's posted summary. Amends the statute concerning alternate energy production, cogeneration, and small hydro facilities to: (1) include in the definition of a "private generation project" certain cogeneration facilities that: (A) are located on the same site as the

Sponsor: Brandt Hershman

Massage therapy. Provides that an individual must be licensed by the state board of massage therapy (board) to practice massage therapy. (Under current law, massage therapists are certified by the board but certification is not required to practice massage therapy.) Provides that massage therapy licensing requirements do not prohibit specified conduct of individuals who meet certain requirements. Amends the definition of "massage therapy" to include certain acts. Amends the definition of "massage therapist" to include an individual who offers to provide massage therapy. Provides that an individual may not use certain titles or practice massage therapy without a license. Establishes

Sponsor: Ronald Bacon

Child neglect defense. Specifies under the safe haven law that it is a defense to a claim of neglect of a dependent if the individual left the child: (1) with a person who is an emergency medical services provider; or (2) in a newborn safety device that meets the specified requirements. Allows a newborn safety device that was installed on January 1, 2017, to continue to operate. Provides civil immunity for a hospital that operates a newborn safety device if the device meets specified requirements, unless the act or omission constitutes gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. Provides that

Sponsor: Travis Holdman

Leases and sales of real property. Amends the statute concerning landlord and tenant relations to provide that a unit may not regulate rental rates for privately owned real property, through a zoning ordinance or otherwise, unless the regulation is authorized by an act of the general assembly. (Current law provides that regulation of rental rates for such property must be authorized by an act of the general assembly.) Prohibits a political subdivision from imposing certain penalties against a tenant, an owner, or a landlord for a contact made to request law enforcement or other emergency assistance for one or more

Sponsor: Travis Holdman

Alcohol matters. Provides that after May 14, 2017, a restaurant may not sell carryout unless at least 60% of its gross retail income from alcoholic beverage sales is derived from sales of alcoholic beverages consumed on the premises. Makes the following exceptions to the gross retail income requirements for sale of carryout: (1) Exempts retailer's permits issued to a city market, marina, state park, golf course, hotel, resort hotel, social or fraternal club, or restaurant operated by a microbrewer. (2) Provides that a restaurant initially issued or transferred a retailer's permit before November 1, 2016, is not required to comply

Sponsor: Ben Smaltz

Automobile sales requirements. Provides that a manufacturer may sell directly to the general public only if the manufacturer was granted its initial license to sell new motor vehicles before July 1, 2015, and has established a warranty repair center in Indiana before January 1, 2018. Provides that a manufacturer may no longer sell directly to the general public if the manufacturer sells, conveys, or transfers a majority interest to another person that is required to be registered under this chapter.

Sponsor: Edmond Soliday

Child in need of services. Removes a rebuttable presumption that a child is a child in need of services if a child is born with: (1) fetal alcohol syndrome; (2) neonatal abstinence syndrome; or (3) any amount of a controlled substance or legend drug in the child's body; and there is evidence that a child's mother used a controlled substance or legend drug during pregnancy.

Sponsor: Robert Cherry

Charter schools. Changes the definition of a charter school organizer. Requires each authorizer to establish a charter school Internet web page. Makes changes to the minimum standards for renewing a charter. Makes changes to the procedure for suspending an authorizer from authorizing a charter school. Provides that an authorizer is considered a state educational authority within the meaning of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Provides that a: (1) charter school or a participating innovation network charter school located in a county with a consolidated city; or (2) governing body of a school corporation with regard to transfer students;

Sponsor: Robert Behning

Career and technical education. Requires the state board of education to use data from the department of workforce development (DWD) in developing and implementing certain plans, recommendations, and other matters relating to career and technical education. Requires the department of education (department) to implement a pilot program for instruction in and use of the Indiana career explorer program and curriculum by all students in grade 8 attending the schools in 15 schools. Provides that the pilot program expires July 1, 2018, unless the department determines the pilot program shall be extended until July 1, 2019. Provides that beginning on July

Sponsor: Doug Eckerty

Infrastructure assistance fund. Requires the Indiana finance authority to study the ability of utilities to provide clean and safe drinking water in Indiana for the foreseeable future. Requires the utility regulatory commission (IURC), in its deliberations in a general rate case of a water or wastewater utility, to consider governmental requirements arising from environmental law and their effect upon the utility's operational expenses. Authorizes the IURC, upon request by a water or wastewater utility in a general rate case, to permit the utility to voluntarily establish a customer assistance program. Provides that an IURC-approved customer assistance program may not be

Sponsor: Ed Charbonneau

Zoning and construction permits. Provides that in the case of a zoning proposal for property within close proximity to a county line, notice to the property owners in the adjacent county to a certain depth is required if the proposal: (1) references a specific parcel of real estate; and (2) is unrelated to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of the text or zone maps of a county zoning ordinance. Provides that the granting of secondary, additional or related permits under local planning and zoning laws are to be governed for at least three years by standards and regulations in effect

Sponsor: Jim Pressel

Education matters. Provides that when a school corporation authorizes an absence to permit a student to attend any educationally related nonclassroom activity, the student may not be recorded as being absent on any date for which the excuse is operative and may not be penalized by the school. Provides that an initial school improvement plan must be established and approved by the governing body not later than August 1 of the school year in which the plan is to be implemented. Requires: (1) the Indiana education employment relations board (board) to publish a model compensation plan with a model salary

Sponsor: Dennis Kruse

Regional infrastructure improvement projects. Provides that the Indiana finance authority (IFA), rather than the budget agency, administers the local infrastructure revolving loan funds (loan funds). Expands the types of entities that may participate in the loan funds. Authorizes the IFA to issue its bonds to carry out the loan funds. Expands the types of infrastructure that are eligible for the loan funds to include bridges or other public ways. Provides that a regional development authority (RDA) may apply for a "FASTLANE" grant from the Federal Highway Administration (or a grant from any other federal program) for highway funding. Authorizes an

Sponsor: Mark Messmer

Certified technology parks. Requires that a certified technology park be recertified every three years beginning January 1, 2018. (Under current law, a certified technology park is required to be recertified every four years.) Requires the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC), in conjunction with the office of management and budget (OMB), to develop metrics for measuring the performance of a certified technology park during a review period. Requires the IEDC to consult with local units of government in developing the metrics. Requires the metrics to include: (1) the criteria to be used to analyze and evaluate each category of information furnished

Sponsor: Todd Huston

Mental health matters. Requires the secretary of family and social services to provide that residences for residential care and supported housing for chronic addiction that receive reimbursement when used as a recovery residence to be certified and meet standards determined by the division of mental health addiction through administrative rules. Adds, subject to the approval of the Indiana commission to combat drug abuse (commission), an individual who is: (1) less than 18 years of age; and (2) a defendant whose case is either waived from juvenile court to adult court or directly filed in adult court; to the individuals who

Sponsor: Cindy Kirchhofer

Local income tax and state sales tax matters. Provides that a retail merchant that does not have a physical presence in Indiana shall, as an agent for the state, collect sales tax on a retail transaction made in Indiana, remit the sales tax, and comply with all applicable procedures and requirements of the sales tax laws as if the retail merchant has a physical presence in Indiana, if: (1) the retail merchant's gross revenue from sales into Indiana in a calendar year exceeds $100,000; or (2) the retail merchant makes sales into Indiana in more than 200 separate transactions. Authorizes

Sponsor: Jeffrey Thompson

Domestic violence fatality review committee. Removes the limit on the authority of a local domestic violence review team (local review team) to the review of fatalities when the person who commits domestic violence resulting in death is charged with a criminal offense that results in a final judgment or is deceased. Specifies that local review teams may review near fatalities. Establishes the statewide domestic violence fatality review committee (committee). Imposes various duties upon the committee, including to: (1) assist local review teams; (2) assist in or conduct a review of a death or near fatality in possible domestic violence cases;

Sponsor: Julie Olthoff

Various tax matters. Provides and modifies sales and use tax exemptions. Provides an income tax deduction for certain amounts a taxpayer included as an item of income in a prior tax year. Specifies that, in determining an Indiana net operating loss deduction, certain modifications to adjusted gross income are not to be applied. Provides that certain professional sports team members or race team members are subject to the local income tax, and that in Marion County this local income tax revenue: (1) must be deposited in a dedicated fund established by its capital improvement board; and (2) is not captured

Sponsor: Brandt Hershman

Professional licensing. Requires the behavioral health and human services licensing board to issue a license to a social worker, clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, mental health counselor, licensed addiction counselor, licensed clinical addiction counselor, addiction counselor associate, or clinical addiction counselor associate who: (1) has a valid license or certificate to practice from another state or jurisdiction; (2) has passed an examination substantially equivalent to the level for which licensure is being requested; (3) does not have a pending disciplinary proceeding in another state; and (4) pays a fee. Establishes requirements to obtain a license as an addiction

Sponsor: Randall Head

Property tax matters. Provides that a political subdivision must upload a copy of a contract that the political subdivision enters into after June 30, 2016, to the Indiana transparency Internet web site if the total cost of the contract exceeds $50,000. Specifies the definition of "low income rental property" for purposes of property tax assessment. Specifies the total true tax value of low income rental property that is used to provide Medicaid assisted living services. Allows the department of local government finance (DLGF) to use estimated data to compute six year rolling averages for the purpose of determining the annual

Sponsor: Daniel Leonard

Title 9 technical corrections. Makes technical and other corrections to statutes amended or affected by HEA 1087-2016.

Sponsor: Edmond Soliday

Utility easements. Establishes a framework for resolving disputes between electricity suppliers and property owners regarding the attachment or installation of communications infrastructure within an electric easement. Provides that the procedures apply only to an electricity supplier that is a rural electric membership corporation. Provides specified exemptions from the procedures. Specifies that the bill's provisions provide the exclusive remedy to a property owner with respect to the attachment or installation of communications infrastructure on above ground electric facilities within an electric easement. Specifies that the bill's provisions do not provide the exclusive remedy to a property owner if the terms of:

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Various education matters. Provides that before July 1, 2018, the state board of education (state board) shall establish a definition of a high mobility school for schools with a high concentration of mobile students. Provides that for each school year beginning after June 30, 2018, the department of education (department) shall make a report regarding the performance of high mobility schools and post the report on the department's Internet web site. Provides that for purposes of calculating a school's category or designation of school improvement, the state board shall consider the mobility of high school students who are credit deficient

Sponsor: Robert Behning

Regulation of signs. Provides that an ordinance or a regulation of a political subdivision relating to the number or size of signs is unenforceable beginning 60 days before an election and ending at the beginning of the sixth day after the election. Provides that for purposes of the statute, a "sign" refers to a sign, the surface area of which is not greater than 32 square feet. (Provides that the measurement of the surface area of a sign that has two faces is determined by measuring the surface area of only one of the faces if the faces are mounted

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

INSPECT program. Adds a definition of the Indiana board of pharmacy (board) for purposes of the INSPECT program. Requires the board to report, before December 1, 2017, to the legislative council concerning grants or funding received and applied for by the state for integration of the INSPECT program data base with electronic health records. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of potential improvements to the INSPECT program.

Sponsor: Erin Houchin

Handgun matters. Provides that certain persons protected by a civil protection order may carry a handgun without a license for: (1) 60 days after the date the civil protection order is issued; or (2) 60 days after the date the person applies for a license to carry a handgun, if the person applies for the license during the 60 day period following issuance of the civil protection order; whichever is later. Requires the state police to adopt rules expediting the processing of an application for a license to carry a handgun made by a person protected by an order of

Sponsor: Sean Eberhart

Asset limitation for SNAP eligibility. Requires the division of family resources to: (1) beginning January 1, 2018, implement within the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) an expanded eligibility category and specifies a countable asset limitation for resources of $5,000 in determining an individual's SNAP eligibility; and (2) notify the United States Department of Agriculture of the implementation of expanded categorical eligibility under SNAP. Specifies certain resources that may not be counted as an asset for purposes of SNAP eligibility. Requires the division of family resources to submit a report to the legislative council concerning the projected total amounts that

Sponsor: James Merritt

Superintendent contracts. Provides that a contract entered into or renewed after June 30, 2017, between a governing body and its superintendent is subject to the following conditions: (1) The contract must, with an exception for an extension, be for a term of at least one year and not more than three years. (2) If the contract contains a provision that establishes an amount the governing body must pay to the superintendent to buy out the contract, the amount may not be more than an amount equal to the lesser of: (A) the superintendent's salary for any one year under the

Sponsor: Erin Houchin

E-liquids. Limits the applicability of e-liquids statutes for a manufacturer of a closed system vapor product. Removes date restrictions in the e-liquids statutes. Removes the following requirements for an initial e-liquids manufacturing permit: (1) Construction and operation plans for manufacturing facilities. (2) Service agreements. (3) Security firm specifications. (4) Projected e-liquid production outputs. (5) Consent for the alcohol and tobacco commission (ATC) to conduct inspections. (6) Any other information required by the ATC. Requires a manufacturer to verify that it will comply with manufacturing practices and ingredient listing requirements required by federal law. Removes the following renewal application requirements: (1)

Sponsor: Randall Head

Long term care and home health agencies. Requires a home and community based services program for individuals who are aged or disabled to include reimbursement for assisted living services in the Medicaid program. Requires the division of aging to report to the general assembly a plan to expand the scope and availability of home and community based services for individuals who are aged or disabled and requires the division to implement the plan. Prohibits the office of Medicaid policy and planning (office) from including certain individuals who receive nursing facility services in a Medicaid risk based managed care program or

Sponsor: Timothy Brown

Opportunity to correct violation. Imposes a duty on certain state agencies under certain circumstances to give a person an opportunity to correct an alleged violation of a state rule or state statute that is discovered in an inspection.

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Superintendent of public instruction. Abolishes the office of the state superintendent of public instruction on January 10, 2025. Provides that, after January 10, 2025, the governor shall appoint a secretary of education. Establishes residency, education, and experience qualifications for the secretary of education. Makes conforming and technical amendments.

Sponsor: Brian Bosma

Waiver of local occupational license fees. Requires a unit (county, city, town, or township) to waive as applicable all or part of the occupational and professional license fees and taxes imposed by the unit for the initial issuance and reinstatement of an occupational or professional license for applicants who are veterans, on active duty with the military or national guard, or indigent.

Sponsor: David Frizzell

Access to identifying information. Requires the state registrar to search death certificates in the state registrar's possession and the State and Territorial Exchange of Vital Events (STEVE) Exchange System if an eligible individual submits a request for the release of identifying information of a birth parent or adoptee. (Current law requires the state registrar to search death certificates in the state registrar's possession.) Provides, with exceptions under current law, that a consent of an adoptee or birth parent is not required if the individual requesting the identifying information submits records from the STEVE system indicating that the adoptee or birth

Sponsor: Vanessa Summers

Prekindergarten education. Provides that, after June 30, 2017, the early education grant pilot program (prekindergarten pilot program) includes: (1) eligible providers in an additional 15 counties; and (2) eligible providers that received a grant under the early education matching grant program and meet certain conditions. Changes references to the "pilot program" to the "prekindergarten pilot program". Adds additional requirements for an eligible provider to participate in the prekindergarten pilot program. Adds additional requirements for an eligible child to qualify for or receive a grant under the prekindergarten pilot program. Amends income eligibility requirements for eligible children in counties that meet

Sponsor: Robert Behning

Cannabidiol and treatment resistant epilepsy. Defines "cannabidiol" and "substance containing cannabidiol" and establishes a cannabidiol registry for certain persons for the use of a substance containing cannabidiol in the treatment of an individual with treatment resistant epilepsy. Requires the state department of health to maintain the registry. Provides that the offense of possession of paraphernalia applies to the possession of certain items used in connection with lawfully possessed cannabidiol. Establishes defenses to: (1) possession of marijuana; and (2) an allegation that a person has violated a condition of supervised release; if the charge or violation is based on the use

Sponsor: William Friend

Pharmacies and pharmacists. Allows the state health commissioner or a designated public health authority who is a licensed prescriber to issue a statewide standing order, prescription, or protocol that allows a pharmacist to administer or dispense a smoking cessation product. Requires that the standing order, prescription, or protocol be posted on the Internet web site of the board of pharmacy (board). Allows: (1) more than four members of the same political party; and (2) individuals who are full-time members or professors at a school of pharmacy; to serve on the board. Allows the board to adopt emergency rules concerning pharmacies

Sponsor: Steven Davisson

School employment and teacher licensure. Amends the time by which a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school must conduct expanded criminal history checks for applicants for employment. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to conduct an expanded child protection index check concerning each applicant for employment before or not later than 60 days after the applicant's employment. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school shall require an expanded criminal history check on each employee every five years. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school may implement the requirement for updated

Sponsor: Jeffrey Thompson

Syringe exchange programs. Allows a county or municipality to approve the operation of a syringe exchange program (program). Allows a program to be renewed for not longer than two years. Requires a program to keep a sufficient quantity of an overdose intervention drug in stock to administer when needed. Requires the state health commissioner to receive written notice when a program is renewed, expired, or terminated or if the qualified entity operating the program changes. Extends the law concerning programs until July 1, 2021. (Current law expires July 1, 2019.)

Sponsor: Cindy Kirchhofer

Child services. Requires child abuse and neglect training for school employees. Allows the department of child services (department) to share costs incurred in maintaining the new hire directory in accordance with federal law with the department of workforce development. Adds a definition of "concurrent planning". Adds a definition of "nonwaivable offense" and makes conforming changes. Allows the department to pay the criminal background check fee in certain adoption cases. Prohibits the department from charging a fee for state tax offsets. Amends provisions concerning restricted driving licenses. Provides that the department may not grant a variance or waiver of a rule

Sponsor: James Merritt

Department of transportation property matters. Provides that the commissioner of the department may transfer certain real property owned by the department to a nonprofit land management organization without a prior appraisal if: (1) the real property is owned by the department in fee simple; and (2) the real property is nonmarketable due to environmental mitigation requirements imposed by federal or state regulations. Requires the department to establish rules for approving installation of traffic control signals. Defines certain terms. Raises the dollar amounts for when certain financial statements must be prepared and attested as audited, reviewed, or certified as correct in

Sponsor: Jim Pressel

Probate and trust matters. Makes various changes to probate and trust laws concerning contesting of wills, authorization of certain acts by a trustee, and the consideration of the requests of de facto custodians and living parents of incapacitated persons in the appointment of guardians and in custody orders. Prohibits a court clerk from collecting a court costs fee for the filing of a closing statement associated with a small estate. Specifies parameters for electronic message delivery. Makes technical corrections.

Sponsor: Thomas Washburne

Firearms matters. Removes penal facilities from the list of locations where employer ordinances, resolutions, policies, or rules prohibiting the keeping of firearms on employer property may be enforced. Provides that a penal facility shall require an employee to: (1) secure the employee's firearm or ammunition, or both, in a locked case; and (2) store the firearm or ammunition in the trunk or glove compartment or out of plain sight in the employee's locked vehicle. Permits certain employees of the general assembly and members of the Indiana lobby registration commission to carry a handgun within the state capitol building and on

Sponsor: James Tomes

Deregulation of hair braiding. Exempts the act of hair braiding from regulation concerning beauty culture. Specifies techniques and practices that constitute "natural hair braiding". Excludes use of dyes, reactive chemicals, joining agents, and other preparations from the definition of "natural hair braiding". Excludes the act of hair braiding from the definitions for "barbering" and "cosmetology". Provides that the term "esthetician" excludes a person who engages in natural hair braiding. Defines "mechanical devices" as clips, combs, crochet hooks, hair pins, rollers, scissors, blunt-tipped needles, thread, and hair binders.

Sponsor: Timothy Wesco

Addiction treatment teams. Adds a definition of "medication assisted treatment". Specifies: (1) providers that must be included as part of; and (2) services that must be provided by; an addiction treatment team. Establishes reimbursement for addiction treatment teams from health and addiction forensic treatment services grants. Allows addiction treatment teams to provide services in temporary locations and mobile units in specified conditions.

Sponsor: Steven Davisson

Construction and construction permits. Amends the law requiring the state department of health to approve or disapprove a construction permit application in not more than 30 days to specify that the law applies to applications for permits for the construction of nonresidential onsite sewage systems. Provides that the construction, acquisition, or leasing of any sewage works by a municipality is initiated by the adoption, by the municipal works board or other appropriate body of the municipality, of a resolution (rather than by the adoption by the municipal legislative body of an ordinance).

Sponsor: Mark Messmer

School debt service obligations. Provides the following for purposes of the school bond payment intercept statute: (1) The term "debt service obligations" also includes principal and interest payable to a school corporation's designated paying agent under a written agreement entered into in connection with the issuance of a school corporation's general obligation bonds. (2) Upon being notified of a school corporation's failure to pay debt service obligations when due, the treasurer of state shall within five days pay the unpaid debt service obligations that are due from state funds, in an amount equal to the amount of the unpaid debt

Sponsor: Howard Kenley

Abortion, child abuse, and human trafficking. Defines "parent or legal guardian or custodian". Prohibits the state or an agency of the state from consenting to the abortion of a pregnant minor unless the life or health of the pregnant minor is endangered. Specifies that before performing an abortion on an unemancipated pregnant minor, a physician must first obtain from a parent, legal guardian, or custodian accompanying the unemancipated pregnant minor seeking an abortion: (1) written consent; (2) proof of identification; and (3) evidence of the relationship between the parent, legal guardian, or custodian and the unemancipated minor. Adds a parental

Sponsor: Erin Houchin

Drug and alcohol treatment reporting. Adds additional reporting requirements for opioid treatment programs. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services, with the assistance of the state department of health and the department of administration, to report to the legislative council a comprehensive plan to increase the number of inpatient and residential beds used for detoxification, treatment, and rehabilitation, including the: (1) number of hospital beds currently available in Indiana; (2) location and physical description of state owned buildings that are currently available, or expected to be available before July 1, 2018, for conversion and use; and

Sponsor: James Merritt

Police reserve officers. Provides that town police reserve officers are eligible for a line of duty death benefit from the special death benefit fund. Adds town police reserve officers to the tuition and fee exemption for the children and surviving spouse of a public safety officer killed in the line of duty. Provides that: (1) after December 31, 2017, a county, city, or town shall furnish without charge to a police reserve officer (officer) who is injured or contracts an illness in the course of or as the result of the performance of duties as an officer all necessary physician,

Sponsor: Peggy Mayfield

Rural electric membership corporation governance. Amends the statute governing rural electric membership corporations (corporations) as follows: (1) Specifies that for purposes of the statute: (A) a "law" includes the statute itself; and (B) a "member" of a corporation means a person admitted to membership under law and the corporation's bylaws. (Current law provides that a member means a person admitted to membership under law or the corporation's bylaws.) (2) Allows for electronic notice of a meeting of the corporation's members. (3) Authorizes a corporation to include a provision in its articles of incorporation or its bylaws to allow any votes

Sponsor: Erin Houchin

Real property improvement contracts. Amends the statute concerning home improvement contracts to do the following: (1) Redesignate a "home improvement contract" a "real property improvement contract" and make conforming changes in terminology throughout the statute. (2) Specify that for purposes of the statute, improvements include interior improvements made to real property, including improvements made to a basement. (3) Expand a consumer's right to cancel a contract to include canceling a contract before midnight on the third business day after the later of the following: (A) The date the contract is signed by the consumer and the real property improvement supplier.

Sponsor: Randall Head

Regional development authorities. Provides that the exercise of the power of eminent domain by a regional development authority (other than the northwest Indiana regional development authority) is subject to the approval of the legislative body of the municipality in which the property is located or, if the property is not located within a municipality, the legislative body of the county in which the property is located.

Sponsor: Steven Stemler

Unemployment insurance. Requires the department of workforce development (department) to give its annual presentation regarding the status of the unemployment compensation system to the interim study committee on employment and labor (instead of the budget committee, as provided in current law). Modifies the law governing the department's recordkeeping, release of records, and confidentiality duties and obligations. Changes the manner in which notice of a claimant's registration, failure to register, renewal, or continuation of the claimant's claim for unemployment benefits may be provided to an employer. Allows an employer to receive delivery of: (1) a notice of a claimant's registration, failure

Sponsor: Daniel Leonard

Information in INSPECT prescription drug data base. Requires the ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and controlled substance prescription monitoring program to include an entry for a dispenser to indicate, when applicable, if a patient has entered into a pain management contract with a designated practitioner. Allows the management performance hub and the state epidemiologist to obtain information from the INSPECT program. Requires that the information provided to the management performance hub not include personally identifying information. Requires the professional licensing agency (agency) to establish a workgroup consisting of emergency medical technicians, registered nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, physicians, law enforcement officers and physician assistants for

Sponsor: James Merritt

Teacher induction pilot program. Makes changes to who may submit a plan to participate in the career pathways and mentorship program. Establishes the Indiana new educator induction program (program) to give new teachers, principals, and administrators mentoring support. Provides that grants for the program may be made from the system for teacher and student advancement grant fund. Provides that, not later than July 1, 2018, and each July thereafter, the state board of education shall submit a report to the governor and the general assembly regarding the status of the program. Establishes the Indiana educator residency pilot program. Urges the

Sponsor: Dale DeVon

Telecommunications. Specifies that a person that controls, directly or indirectly, a person that violates certain requirements concerning unlawful telephone solicitation (the "do not call" statute) is equally liable for the violation. Defines "caller" for purposes of the "do not call" statute. Defines "pecuniary loss" for purposes of an offense against computer users, and increases the penalty for an offense against computer users (including "ransomware" attacks) based on the pecuniary loss. Specifies that certain offenses against computer users are deceptive acts actionable by the attorney general.

Sponsor: Christopher Judy

Department of health matters. Repeals the expiration provision for the office of minority health and the birth problems registry. Specifies various ways in which a hospital board may be named. Extends eligibility for the hearing aid assistance program (program) to a child who is at least three years of age and less than seven years of age. Removes: (1) a requirement for the program that reimbursement is unavailable from specific third sources in order to be eligible for the program; and (2) the state department of health's ability to use internal and external resources to administer the program and registration

Sponsor: Cindy Kirchhofer

Telemedicine matters. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning (office) to reimburse a Medicaid provider, determined by the office to be eligible, for covered telemedicine services. Prohibits the office from setting any distance restrictions under Medicaid on telehealth services and telemedicine services. Adds podiatrist to the definition of "prescriber" for purposes of telemedicine services. Requires a telemedicine services prescriber to contact the patient's primary care provider if the telemedicine services prescriber has provided care to the patient at least two consecutive times through the use of telemedicine services. Removes a limitation on prescribing controlled substances except for opioids through

Sponsor: Cindy Kirchhofer

Insurance matters. Provides that, for purposes of the insurance law, a United States Postal Service intelligent mail bar code tracking record, a certificate of mailing, or another similar first class mail method may be used as proof of mailing. Provides that an insurance producer education course may concern sales, motivation, psychology, and time management. Limits continuing education in those areas to four hours per renewal period. Allows a prospective continuing education provider to electronically submit supporting materials for a course. Amends the description of an extraordinary dividend or distribution for purposes of the insurance holding company system law. Removes requirements

Sponsor: Martin Carbaugh

Railroads and eminent domain. Defines "corporation", "rail carrier", and "railroad". Specifies that eminent domain may be exercised by a rail carrier incorporated in Indiana or authorized to do business in Indiana, and prescribes the manner in which a railroad (including a rail carrier) may incorporate. Requires a rail carrier to demonstrate that property will be used for a public use before the carrier may use eminent domain to take the property. Eliminates the provisions in the law under which a defendant in an eminent domain proceeding who appeals an interlocutory order overruling the defendant's objections to the proceeding is required

Sponsor: Edmond Soliday

Transborder water resources authority. Establishes the transborder water resources authority (authority) as a body consisting of four members of the general assembly, four ex officio members, and four individuals appointed by the governor. Requires the authority to: (1) study the subject of ownership rights in one or more transborder water resources shared by Indiana and other states; (2) explore the desirability of entering into interstate compacts with other states concerning the mutually fair and prudent use of transborder water resources shared by Indiana and the other states; and (3) make recommendations concerning the content of any such interstate compact. Authorizes

Sponsor: Steven Stemler

Off- road vehicle safety. Requires off-road vehicle operators and riders less than 18 years of age to wear helmets, and prohibits the owner of an off-road vehicle from permitting a person less than 18 years of age to ride the off-road vehicle without a helmet.

Sponsor: Lloyd Arnold

Disciplinary process for firefighters. Establishes minimum rights for a full-time, paid, nonprobationary member of a fire department to be represented in a meeting at which the chief of the fire department (chief) notifies the firefighter: (1) of the firefighter's termination or demotion with cause; or (2) that the chief is recommending the firefighter's termination or demotion with cause to the safety board. Provides that the firefighter's meeting with the chief concerning the firefighter's termination or demotion with cause may not proceed until the firefighter is provided at least 72 hours to obtain the requested representation. Excludes from these provisions: (1)

Sponsor: Kevin Mahan

IN211 program. Transfers from the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to the housing and community development authority (authority) the responsibility for administering the statute concerning the administration of the 211 dialing code used to provide access to human services information and referrals. For purposes of the statute, expands the definition of "human services" to include assistance concerning: (1) emotional and physical abuse (including sexual assault); (2) specified public health issues; (3) food programs and nutrition education; (4) safe and affordable housing; (5) occupational and vocational training; and (6) reentry programs for persons leaving certain facilities. Caps the amount that the authority

Sponsor: Sally Siegrist

Financial institutions and consumer credit. Makes various changes to the statutes concerning: (1) first lien mortgage lenders; (2) persons licensed under the Uniform Consumer Credit Code; (3) rental purchase agreements; (4) financial institutions; (5) pawnbrokers; (6) money transmitters; and (7) check cashers. Changes references to the "Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act" to references to the "Consumer Credit Protection Act" throughout these statutes. Removes outdated references to: (1) the Office of Thrift Supervision; and (2) the Federal Reserve Board; throughout the statutes. In the statute concerning rental purchase agreements: (1) repeals the definition of "Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act"; and (2)

Sponsor: Charles Burton

Securities matters. Decreases the frequency of meetings of the mortgage lending and fraud prevention task force. Exempts certain offers to sell or sales of the securities of issuers made after June 30, 2017, from provisions in the Indiana Uniform Securities Act (Act) concerning the registration of securities and the filing of specified sales and advertising literature with the securities commissioner. Changes the fee structure under the Act with respect to federal covered securities. Makes other changes in the law concerning the registration of securities and notice filings for federal covered securities. For purposes of the securities law concerning financially endangered

Sponsor: Robert Heaton

Manufactured home dealers. Provides that a manufactured home dealer must be licensed as a dealer by the secretary of state. Prohibits a government body from regulating or restricting the ability of an owner or manager of a mobile home community or a manufactured home community to: (1) obtain a dealer's license; or (2) sell a mobile home or a manufactured home that is located within the owner's or manager's mobile home community or manufactured home community.

Sponsor: Doug Miller

Regulation of processed manure based fertilizer. Requires the state chemist to adopt rules regulating the distribution of manure based fertilizer. Specifies that, except for certain laws governing the deposit of fees, commercial fertilizer laws do not apply to manure based fertilizer.

Sponsor: Donald Lehe

Accessing child pornography. Makes it a Level 6 felony to access with intent to view a photograph or other pictorial representation that depicts or describes sexual conduct by a child who the person knows is less than 18 years of age or who appears to be less than 18 years of age.

Sponsor: Thomas Washburne

Emergency contact data base. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) to create, maintain, and operate the Indiana emergency contact data base (data base). Requires a law enforcement officer to: (1) access the data base; and (2) attempt to contact emergency contact persons; within a reasonable amount of time after learning of death or serious bodily injury to an individual holding certain credentials issued by the bureau. Allows each credential holder to have not more than two emergency contact persons entered in the data base. Provides that information contained in the data base is confidential and exempt from disclosure or

Sponsor: Anthony Cook

Plastic-coated ammunition. Defines "armor-piercing ammunition", and prohibits certain persons from possessing, manufacturing, selling, or delivering armor piercing ammunition. Repeals a superseded provision concerning armor piercing handgun ammunition.

Sponsor: Charles Burton

Child abuse education and policies. Requires, not later than July 1, 2018, the department of education (department) to make available model educational materials and model response policies and reporting procedures concerning child abuse and child sexual abuse to assist schools with the implementation of: (1) child abuse and child sexual abuse education programs in kindergarten through grade 12; and (2) child abuse and child sexual abuse response and reporting policies. (Current law requires the department to make available the model educational materials and model response policies and reporting procedures concerning child abuse and child sexual abuse to assist schools with

Sponsor: Mark Messmer

Air ambulance services. Adds a representative of an entity that provides air ambulance services to the composition of the Indiana emergency medical services commission (commission). Requires the commission with the assistance of the state department of health to develop and recommend statewide standards for activation and use of air medical services for transport of patients from the emergency scene to a trauma center. Requires that the standards must be updated at least every three years. Provides a public safety officer special death benefit to an emergency medical services provider who, after June 30, 2017, dies as a direct result of

Sponsor: Vaneta Becker

Property tax audit contractor compensation. Extends the prohibition under current law against contracting for property tax audit services on a percentage basis to include any method that bases payments under the contract on increases of assessed value or property tax revenue that are attributable to the discovery of property that has been undervalued or omitted from assessment. Specifies conditions for intermediate distributions of property tax revenue that is collected before the expiration of a contract for property tax audit services. Provides that the term of a contract for property tax audit services may not exceed three years, including any extensions.

Sponsor: Rick Niemeyer

Opioid addiction. Provides that, after approval of the Indiana commission to combat drug abuse (commission), the division of mental health and addiction (division) shall establish a three year opioid treatment pilot program (pilot program) for opioid abuse disorder in Tippecanoe, Marion, and Wayne counties. Establishes the criteria for the program. Requires the division to collect data and issue a report to the legislative council on the pilot program. Specifies that certain persons: (1) charged with or convicted of a drug offense; and (2) who received an overdose intervention drug for an acute opioid overdose; are entitled to priority admission in

Sponsor: Jeff Raatz

A SENATE RESOLUTION expressing gratitude to Verizon Communications for its role in promoting and supporting the Indiana General Assembly's legislative internship programs and scholarships.

Sponsor: David Long

Drug testing of home health care employees. Requires home health agencies to drug test job applicants and employees who come in direct contact with patients. Exempts from drug testing certain licensed home health employees employed by a home health agency. Requires random drug testing of at least 50% of certain home health agency employees to occur at least annually. Allows for random drug testing upon reasonable suspicion of illegal controlled substance use. Requires verification of a positive drug test, and requires the employee to pay for the verification test. Specifies that, unless an employee has a valid prescription for the

Sponsor: Brandt Hershman

Recording of documents. Changes the amounts and distribution of recording fees. Sets a statutory fee for bulk form copies of 10 cents per copy of a recorded document and 10 cents per recorded document for a copy of the indices. Allows a fee set by ordinance in an amount of up to 20 cents per copy and per recorded document if the county executive finds that the costs incurred by the county recorder exceed the amount of the statutory fee. Requires a recipient of bulk form copies (bulk user) to enter into a contract with the county recorder as a

Sponsor: Rodric Bray

Veteran preference for employment and training. Requires the department of workforce development (department) to give a veteran or the spouse of a veteran priority for placement in any federal or state employment or training program administered by the department if the veteran or the veteran's spouse: (1) submits documentation satisfactory to the department establishing the veteran's honorable discharge from service; and (2) meets the eligibility requirements for the program.

Sponsor: Brandt Hershman

Emergency medication. Defines "emergency medication" as epinephrine, albuterol, or naloxone. Allows a school or school corporation to: (1) fill a prescription for an emergency medication; and (2) store the emergency medication. (Current law allows a school to fill a prescription for auto-injectable epinephrine and store the auto-injectable epinephrine.) Defines "emergency stock medication" as emergency medication to which both the following apply: (1) The prescription of the emergency medication is filled by a school or school corporation. (2) The emergency medication is stored at a school. Provides that injectable epinephrine filled by certain entities must have an expiration date of not

Sponsor: Mark Stoops

Doing business or marketing as a cooperative. Specifies that certain cooperative entities are not subject to the restrictions of the bill. Provides that it is unlawful for a business entity that is not a cooperative entity to do the following: (1) Use the terms "cooperative", or "co-op", or any derivative of those terms in a business entity name if the use of the term would create a substantial likelihood of misleading the public by implying that the business entity is a cooperative. (2) Advertise or represent the business entity to the public, its customers, or prospective customers as a cooperative

Sponsor: Jean Leising

Donation of certain local funds to a foundation. Provides that when a county, municipality, or township (unit) donates the proceeds of the sale of a utility or a facility, or the amount of a gift, to a foundation, the unit and the foundation may agree that distribution of the proceeds is governed by the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (IC 30-2-12). Provides that this authority applies only to the donation of proceeds that occurs after December 31, 2015. Provides that department of local government finance may not reduce a unit's property tax levy because of: (1) the donation

Sponsor: Ronald Grooms

Animal protective orders and wireless service providers. Allows a court to grant an order of protection to: (1) grant possession and care of an animal to a petitioner; (2) prohibit a respondent from taking action against the animal; and (3) direct a law enforcement officer to accompany the petitioner to retrieve the animal. Allows a court to include the transfer of wireless telephone numbers and accounts as part of an order for protection.

Sponsor: Erin Houchin

Indiana housing first program. Establishes the Indiana housing first program (program) to provide housing and support services for eligible persons that have: (1) a serious and persistent mental illness; (2) a chronic chemical addiction; or (3) serious and persistent mental illness with a co-occurring chronic chemical addiction. Requires the housing and community development authority (authority) to administer the program. Requires the authority to establish, not later than January 1, 2018, policies and procedures to implement and administer the program. Provides that the policies and procedures must ensure the program does the following along with other requirements: (1) Includes partnerships with

Sponsor: James Merritt

Student school information. Requires the department of education (department), for each spring semester and each fall semester, to distribute to each school corporation: (1) the name of each eligible school in which an eligible choice scholarship student who has legal settlement in the school corporation is enrolled; (2) the number of the eligible choice scholarship students who are enrolled in each eligible school for the school year; and (3) certain information regarding the number of students who have legal settlement in a school corporation and attend a public school maintained by another school corporation or a charter school. Requires the

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Direct primary care agreements. Specifies that: (a) a direct primary care agreement is not insurance; and (b) a primary care provider or an employer of primary care provider that enters into a direct primary care agreement is not required to obtain an insurance certificate of authority. Sets forth requirements of a direct primary care agreement.

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Notaries public and trademarks. Provides that a person who wishes to register a trademark must file an electronic application for the registration of the trademark. Allows the governor to appoint notaries public in certain instances. Describes permitted notarial acts. Provides that notarial acts performed in another state are presumptively valid in certain instances. Provides that notarial acts performed: (1) under the authority of; and (2) within the jurisdiction of; a federally recognized tribe are presumptively valid in certain instances. Provides that notarial acts performed by foreign governments or nations are presumptively valid in certain instances. Specifies records should be notarized.

Sponsor: Rodric Bray

Lifetime parole. Requires a sexually violent predator released on lifetime parole to be placed on 24 hour GPS monitoring, subject to a sex offender risk assessment and funds specifically appropriated to the department of correction for this purpose. Requires the parole board to inform the county sheriff and prosecuting attorney: (1) that an offender has been placed on lifetime parole; and (2) whether the offender is required to wear a GPS monitoring device as a condition of parole. Provides that a person placed on lifetime parole who violates a condition of parole involving a child or a victim commits criminal

Sponsor: Joseph Zakas

Immunizations. Allows the state health commissioner or a designated public health authority who is a licensed prescriber to issue a statewide standing order, prescription, or protocol that allows a pharmacist to administer or dispense certain immunizations. Allows immunization data to be released to an entity for outreach and education purposes to increase immunization rates if certain conditions are met. Requires that the standing order, prescription, or protocol be posted on the Internet web site of the board of pharmacy. Adds the following immunizations to the list of immunizations that pharmacists may administer if certain conditions are met: (1) Measles, mumps,

Sponsor: Ronald Grooms

A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the House Courts and Criminal Code Committee to adopt the practice of requiring, to the extent practicable, bills that create a new crime, or increase the penalty for an existing crime, to be reviewed by the Interim Study Committee on Corrections and Criminal Code, the Interim Study Committee on Courts and the Judiciary, or another appropriate interim study committee.

Sponsor: Rodric Bray

Driver safety program. Requires that an individual less than 21 years of age must complete a driver safety program approved by the bureau of motor vehicles if the individual has at least twice been the operator of a motor vehicle involved in an incident for which points may be assessed by the bureau. Provides that the duration of certain court ordered specialized driving privileges may not exceed 2.5 years in length. Provides that the compliance response period for proof of financial responsibility is 40 days before July 1, 2017 and 90 days after June 30, 2017.

Sponsor: Randall Head

Motor vehicle related offenses. Provides that a person who commits a Class A misdemeanor or a felony by failing to comply with the duties of the operator of a motor vehicle involved in an accident commits a separate offense for each person whose serious bodily injury or death is caused by the person's failure to comply with those duties. Provides that it is a Level 4 felony (instead of a Level 5 felony) for a vehicle operator to cause the death of another person when: (1) the vehicle operator's blood or breath has a certain alcohol concentration; (2) the vehicle

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Requests to locate underground utility facilities. Amends the statute concerning the locating and marking of underground utility facilities (Indiana's 811 law) to allow a person responsible for: (1) a construction project; or (2) any other project or operation; that will involve an excavation or demolition operation to provide a voluntary design information notice to the association known as the Indiana Underground Plant Protection Service (association) before commencing preliminary engineering studies or construction planning activities in the project area that will be affected by the excavation or demolition. Provides that a design information notice must be received by the association at

Sponsor: Michael Crider

Post-exposure prophylaxis reimbursement. Changes the definition of "additional forensic services" to include HIV prophylactic medication, and removes discretionary reimbursement for the service.

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

Medicaid eligibility of former foster children. Sets forth Medicaid eligibility for individuals who: (1) are at least 18 years of age or emancipated; and (2) are less than 26 years of age. Requires the department of child services (department), in cooperation with the office of Medicaid policy and planning (office), to enroll individuals, who received foster care in Indiana and are turning 18 years of age, in the Medicaid program as part of the individuals' transitional services plan. Prohibits the office from requiring the individual to submit eligibility information after enrolling in the Medicaid program during the individual's Medicaid eligibility

Sponsor: Ronald Grooms

Pension thirteenth checks. Provides for thirteenth checks in 2017 and 2018 for certain members of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (4) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (5) state police 1987 benefit system.

Sponsor: Doug Gutwein

Juvenile justice. Adds additional members to a community corrections advisory board. Allows an application for a state grant for a community corrections program for juveniles to be made to the department of correction division of youth services. Provides that a child who was: (1) the victim of human trafficking; and (2) adjudicated a delinquent child for an act performed while a victim of human trafficking and the delinquent act was a result of human trafficking; is entitled to have the adjudication expunged. Specifies that expunged electronic records must be stored in a secure data base. Permits the department of correction

Sponsor: Wendy McNamara

Congratulating the Castle High School archery team.

Sponsor: Ronald Bacon

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to congratulate Dana Evans on her 2017 Miss Indiana Basketball nomination and her high school career accomplishments.

Sponsor: Eddie Melton

A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to assign to the appropriate committee the topic of an examination of the need, if any, to provide continued state funding to solid waste management districts.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Brown

Unnecessary, unused law reports. Requires every state agency to compile and report to the legislative council a list of all state laws administered by the state agency that the state agency considers to be in need of change because the laws are no longer necessary or used.

Sponsor: Milo Smith

Fixing the date for the First Regular Technical Session of the One Hundred Twentieth General Assembly.

Sponsor: Brian Bosma

Lead and arsenic soil contamination in East Chicago. Defines "East Chicago area of special concern" to refer to the areas of the city of East Chicago in which lead or arsenic has been discovered in the soil through testing or in which the presence of lead or arsenic in the soil is probable. Encourages the department of environmental management (IDEM) to cooperate with and provide assistance to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the sampling, excavation, and removal of contaminated soil and restoration work in the East Chicago area of special concern. Requires the Indiana housing and community

Sponsor: Earl Harris

Infrastructure development zone utility service. Provides that facilities used by a wastewater utility in the collection or treatment of wastewater constitute "eligible infrastructure" for purposes of the law providing a property tax exemption to a person who invests in eligible infrastructure located in an infrastructure development zone. Authorizes a public utility that provides water utility service to petition the utility regulatory commission (IURC) for approval of a plan (plan) to develop a future source of water source supply. Requires the IURC to approve the plan if the IURC finds that the plan is reasonable and prudent for the provision of

Sponsor: Heath VanNatter

Task force to assess services. Establishes a task force for assessment of services and supports for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Specifies the composition, duties, and governance structure of the task force.

Sponsor: Edward Clere

A SENATE RESOLUTION congratulating Pioneer Junior-Senior High School's robotics team on qualifying for the 2017 VEX IQ World Robotics Championship.

Sponsor: Randall Head

Recognizing the first ever Senior Ladies Professional Golf Association Championship at the Pete Dye Course at the French Lick Resort.

Sponsor: Steven Davisson

Congratulating the Walker Career Center Robotics Team.

Sponsor: Cindy Kirchhofer

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring the career accomplishments of Max Schumacher.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the University of Notre Dame on the occasion of its 175th Anniversary.

Sponsor: Joseph Zakas

Honoring Davis Purdue Agricultural Center on its 100th anniversary and urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to consider signage commemorating the Davis Purdue Agricultural Center's sustained presence and service to east central Indiana and Hoosier farmers.

Sponsor: Greg Beumer

Honoring the Hamilton County Parks and Recreation Department on the occasion of its 50th year of service.

Sponsor: Kathy Richardson

Urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to rename Mile Marker 46-47 of the Hoosier Heartland Highway the "Mark S. Davis Memorial Mile".

Sponsor: Sally Siegrist

A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to assign the topic of serious mental illness and the death penalty to the appropriate committee.

Sponsor: Joseph Zakas

Congratulating Brayden Curtis and Brad Laughlin.

Sponsor: Melanie Wright

A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to assign the topic of prohibiting persons convicted of a Level 6 felony from being sent to the Department of Correction to the appropriate committee.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

Honoring the Indiana School for the Deaf Academic Bowl team.

Sponsor: Gregory Porter

A SENATE RESOLUTION to recognize and honor the Senate Democratic Caucus Interns for their service during the First Regular Session of the One Hundred Twentieth Indiana General Assembly.

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

Honoring those who have served as legislative interns for the Indiana House of Representatives during the First Regular Session of the 120th Indiana General Assembly.

Sponsor: Kathy Richardson

Congratulating Cantor Janice L. Roger on her retirement.

Sponsor: Edward DeLaney

Indications on driver's licenses. Provides that an individual may request an indication of the individual's status as a surviving spouse of a veteran on the individual's driver's license or state identification card. (Current law provides only for an indication of veteran status.). Requires the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) to share with the Indiana department of veterans' affairs information submitted to the bureau concerning requests for an indication of status as a surviving spouse of a veteran on a driver's license, permit, or identification card.

Sponsor: Michael Crider

Above ground storage tanks. Repeals the law requiring owners of certain above ground storage tanks to register their tanks with the department of environmental management. Authorizes the person responsible for the operation of a public water system to gather information from potential sources of contamination for the purpose of developing or updating the public water system's threat minimization and response plan. Provides that, depending on the circumstances, the information gathered from potential sources of contamination may be excepted from inspection and copying under the public records law. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on environmental

Sponsor: Eric Bassler

529 education savings plan matters. Prohibits, unless otherwise provided under federal law, money in a 529 education savings account from being considered as a resource or asset in determining an applicant's or recipient's eligibility for: (1) certain public assistance programs; or (2) scholarships, grants, or awards administered by the commission for higher education.

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Elimination of state agency public safety committee. Abolishes the state agency public safety committee.

Sponsor: Michael Crider

Honoring S. Joe DeHaven for his service to the Indiana banking industry.

Sponsor: Charles Burton

Plea agreements and sentencing. Removes a provision excluding a plea agreement, a presentence report, and hearings on a plea agreement from the official record of a case unless the plea agreement is accepted by the court. Removes a provision requiring that a trial court advise a convicted defendant of the earliest release date and the maximum possible release date at the time the court pronounces the defendant's sentence, and requires the court to advise certain convicted defendants of the number of days the defendant served while awaiting trial and sentencing.

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Residency of the attorney general. Removes a requirement that the attorney general reside in Indianapolis. Requires the attorney general to reside in Indiana.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

Civic event motor vehicles and license plates. Allows a person to display a civic event license plate on the civic event motor vehicle after the term of the civic event, if certain conditions are met.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

Solid waste management district board membership. Provides that if a county contains only one municipality, the board of the county's single county solid waste management district must include one member: (1) who is a freeholder; (2) whose freehold is located in a conservancy district that is located entirely within the county and contains the greatest number of freeholds of any conservancy district located in the county; and (3) who is appointed to the board of the county district by the board of the conservancy district.

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Possession of a firearm by an illegal alien. Provides that an alien who is illegally or unlawfully present in the United States and knowingly or intentionally possesses a firearm commits unlawful possession of a firearm by an alien, a Level 6 felony.

Sponsor: Michael Young

Petitioning the National Park Service to complete the Eastern Legacy Special Resource Study mandated by Congress in 2008 and to recommend inclusion of the Eastern Legacy sites, which include Indiana locations, in the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.

Sponsor: Thomas Saunders

Various pension matters. Establishes a single special death benefit fund to replace the two separate death benefit funds established under current law to pay death benefit claims to the beneficiaries of public safety officers or other state public employees who die in the line of duty. Provides that death benefits paid to beneficiaries of members of the following funds who die in the line of duty are to be paid from the special death benefit fund instead of the pension relief fund: (1) The 1925 police pension fund. (2) The 1937 firefighters' fund. (3) The 1953 police pension fund (Indianapolis).

Sponsor: Philip Boots

Regulation of food dispensing micro markets. Provides that a retail food establishment that is a micro market is not required to have a person in charge present at the micro market if certain requirements are met.

Sponsor: Jon Ford

Electronic authorization for prescription drugs. Requires certain health plans to accept and respond to electronic prior authorization requests according to a particular electronic transaction standard.

Sponsor: Ronald Grooms

Specialty constructed vehicles. Provides that a vehicle: (1) built to resemble and be a reproduction of another vehicle that was manufactured at least 25 years ago; and (2) assembled using all new or used parts; must be titled as a "specialty constructed vehicle". Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the task of conducting a study that compares Indiana's titling process for home built, "kit", replica, or specialty constructed cars with the titling process used by other states to title such vehicles.

Sponsor: Dennis Kruse

Pro bono legal services fee. Postpones the current sunset provision for the pro bono legal services fee from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2022. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Ronald Grooms

Sales tax on recreational vehicles and cargo trailers. Provides that in the case of a transaction that: (1) occurs after June 30, 2017, and before July 1, 2019; (2) is not exempt from sales tax; and (3) involves a cargo trailer or recreational vehicle that: (A) is purchased by a nonresident; (B) the purchaser intends to transport outside Indiana and title or register in another state or country; and (C) will not be titled or registered in Indiana; the sales tax rate on the cargo trailer or recreational vehicle is the rate of the other state or other country in

Sponsor: Blake Doriot

Health care consent. Provides that an adult grandchild may consent to health care for an individual incapable of consenting if a health care representative has not been appointed, is not reasonably available, declines to act, or is unknown to the health care provider. Provides that a grandparent may consent to health care for a grandchild incapable of consenting if a health care representative has not been appointed, is not reasonably available, declines to act, or is unknown to the health care provider. Provides that a grandparent also may consent to health care for a minor grandchild if a guardian or

Sponsor: Jean Leising

Professional licensing. Eliminates the jobs creation committee (committee). Transfers duties of the committee to the Indiana professional licensing agency. Makes conforming changes.

Sponsor: Dennis Kruse

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring K&K Insurance Group on the occasion of its 65th anniversary.

Sponsor: David Long

A SENATE RESOLUTION congratulating the Frankton High School boys basketball team on winning the Indiana High School Athletic Association ("IHSAA") Class 2A state championship title.

Sponsor: Doug Eckerty

Use of firearms to secure loans. Repeals the statute prohibiting the use of a firearm as a security.

Sponsor: James Tomes

Various election matters. Removes a reference to a county executive in the definition of "county voter registration office". Specifies the allocation of municipal and special election administration expenses among a county and the municipalities in the county in vote center counties. Specifies the extended deadline for taking an action or making a filing when a government office is closed. Adds a county voter registration office to the list of offices where filings by fax or electronic mail are not available. Specifies that any petition that requires the county voter registration office to certify the validity of the signatures may not

Sponsor: Greg Walker

Employment of individuals with disabilities. Increases the number of members and changes the membership of the commission on rehabilitation services (commission). Makes changes in the terms of service of commission members and requires the governor to specify each member's term of service to ensure that terms expire on a staggered basis. Adds the following to the commission's duties: (1) Establish baseline data regarding the number of individuals with disabilities in competitive integrated employment and set annual goals for increasing the percentage of individuals with disabilities in competitive integrated employment. (2) Identify and resolve barriers to employment for individuals with disabilities.

Sponsor: Mark Stoops

Oral history project advisory committee. Requires the historical bureau to establish and maintain an oral history of the general assembly. Requires the director of the historical bureau to employ a qualified historian to conduct and preserve interviews of members of the general assembly. Requires the historical bureau to: (1) share information with the legislative services agency upon request; and (2) submit a report to the legislative council on the status of the oral history of the general assembly before July 1, 2018, and upon request thereafter. Establishes an advisory committee to advise the historical bureau in establishing the oral history.

Sponsor: Matthew Lehman

Early absentee in-person voting. Provides that, whenever a county that uses electronic poll books offers early absentee in-person voting on an electronic voting system, the county may comply with the requirement that there is a procedure to ensure that an invalid ballot is not counted by: (1) requiring each voter to make and subscribe to an affidavit that includes a unique identifier; or (2) establishing a procedure to produce a document, label, or electronic record that is associated with each voter and includes a unique identifier. Requires a county to file with the election division a copy of the affidavit

Sponsor: Greg Walker

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Ray Looze for being named the Big 10 Swim Coach of the Year for Indiana University's men's and women's swim teams and being named to Team USA's coaching staff for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.

Sponsor: Ryan Mishler

Annual report on criminal code reform. Requires the Indiana criminal justice institute to prepare its annual report for the governor and the legislative council before December 1 of each year (instead of July 1 of each year).

Sponsor: Gregory Steuerwald

Disposal of real property. Allows the fiscal body of a unit (a county, municipality, or township) to adopt an ordinance (in the case of a county or municipality) or a resolution (in the case of a township) to increase the minimum appraised value of real property for which the fiscal body must approve a sale of the property. (Current law requires the fiscal body to approve a sale of real property if the appraised value is $50,000 or more.) Allows the fiscal body of a political subdivision to adopt an ordinance (in the case of a county or municipality) or

Sponsor: Cherrish Pryor

Study of law enforcement training matters. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate committee a study of: (1) possible sources of funding for new and existing law enforcement academies; (2) possible sources of funding for law enforcement officer training; (3) alternative sources of funding for law enforcement academies and officer training; (4) the sustainability of existing revenue streams responsible for funding law enforcement academies and officer training; (5) possible locations for new or relocated law enforcement academies; (6) the repurposing of existing facilities for use as law enforcement academies; (7) the leasing of existing facilities for use as

Sponsor: Wendy McNamara

Motor vehicle insurance policy requirements. Changes the application of SEA 40-2016 from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2018. Requires that a motor vehicle insurance policy issued or renewed after June 30, 2017, to establish financial responsibility must provide property damage coverage of $25,000 rather than $10,000.

Sponsor: Matthew Lehman

Tax sales. Specifies deadlines related to acquiring a tax deed for real property if a county assigns a certificate of sale for the real property to a political subdivision. Eliminates a conflict with an administrative order of the Indiana supreme court concerning cause numbers.

Sponsor: Karen Engleman

Accountants. Allows competency based learning through professional development opportunities to qualify accountants for accountant certificate renewal.

Sponsor: Martin Carbaugh

Recognizing Zeta Phi Beta Day at the Statehouse.

Sponsor: Cherrish Pryor

Teachers' defined contribution plan. Establishes the teachers' defined contribution plan (plan) as an account within the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (fund). Provides that an individual who begins employment with a school corporation in a covered position that would otherwise be eligible for membership in the fund may elect to become a member of the plan. Provides that an individual who does not elect to become a member of the plan becomes a member of the fund. Requires the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system (board) to establish, subject to any approval from the Internal Revenue Service

Sponsor: Martin Carbaugh

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Carmel High School boys tennis team on winning the 2016 Indiana High School Athletic Association ("IHSAA") state championship title.

Sponsor: Michael Delph

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Carmel High School football team on winning the 2016 Indiana High School Athletic Association ("IHSAA") Class 6A state championship title.

Sponsor: Michael Delph

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Carmel High School girls swimming and diving team on winning its 31st consecutive Indiana High School Athletic Association ("IHSAA") state championship title and re-setting the national record for most consecutive state championship titles in any sport.

Sponsor: Michael Delph

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the La Lumiere School boys basketball team on winning the 2017 DICK'S Sporting Goods High School Nationals.

Sponsor: Mike Bohacek

Vending machine sales of food. Urges the legislative council to assign to a study committee the topic of studying issues related to eliminating the state gross retail tax on food sold through a vending machine.

Sponsor: David Ober

Congratulating the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School's boys basketball team.

Sponsor: Gregory Porter

Workforce development. Requires the state board of education to use data from the department of workforce development (DWD) in developing and implementing certain plans, recommendations, and other matters relating to career and technical education. Requires the department of education (department) to implement a pilot program for instruction in and the use of the Indiana career explorer program and curriculum by all students in grade 8 attending schools in 15 school corporations. Provides that the pilot program expires July 1, 2018, unless the department determines the pilot program shall be extended until July 1, 2019. Provides that beginning on July 1,

Sponsor: Todd Huston

Honoring Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School boys basketball team.

Sponsor: Vanessa Summers

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Paul Fuller for his 51 years of service with the Lowell Volunteer Fire Department.

Sponsor: Rick Niemeyer

Honoring the accomplishments of John Grew.

Sponsor: Patrick Bauer

Urging the United States Congress to enact legislation requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to certify all licensure conductor trainee programs for GI Bill benefits as prescribed by the Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2010.

Sponsor: Charles Moseley

Recognizing the Indiana District Exchange Clubs.

Sponsor: Brian Bosma

Recognizing the many accomplishments of Robert "Bobby" Wonnell.

Sponsor: Brian Bosma

Recognizing The Youth LEADership and Prevention Summit's efforts for a Youth Bill of Rights.

Sponsor: Robin Shackleford

Urging the government of Turkey to cease its discrimination against the Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Orthodox Christian Church.

Sponsor: Robert Morris

Recognizing Martino's Italian Villa on their induction into the Pizza Hall of Fame.

Sponsor: Michael Karickhoff

Recognizing the many contributions of WBAA, a National Public Radio station from Purdue University.

Sponsor: Sheila Klinker

Local government matters. Provides that if a newspaper or locality newspaper does not refuse to publish a timely notice, but subsequently fails to publish it, notice is nonetheless sufficient if the notice is timely posted: (1) in printed form, in three prominent places in the political subdivision; or (2) on the political subdivision's Internet web site. Increases the amount of debt that a municipal sewage works or sanitation department can write off as uncollectable.

Sponsor: Sharon Negele

Activation of state employees. Provides that a state employee who is a member of the Indiana National Guard or a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States is entitled to: (1) a leave of absence without loss of time while on active duty; and (2) compensation in an amount that is equal to the difference between the member's active duty military pay and the salary the member would have received if the member was not called to active duty. Defines certain terms.

Sponsor: Dan Forestal

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Indiana department of transportation to rename the Washington Street Bridge on U.S. 24 in Monticello as the "Chief Master Sergeant Dean A. DuVall Bridge".

Sponsor: Brandt Hershman

Congratulating the Springs Valley Jr. Sr. High School Blackhawk Brigade on their 2016 Indiana State School Music Association Class D Marching Band State Championship.

Sponsor: Lloyd Arnold

Urging Hoosiers to participate in Independent Bookstore Day.

Sponsor: Dan Forestal

Welcoming the 2017 Breeders Crown to Hoosier Park in Anderson, Indiana, and congratulating the Indiana Standardbred industry and its partners on this accomplishment.

Sponsor: Terri Jo Austin

Recognizing Mark GiaQuinta.

Sponsor: Philip GiaQuinta

Permits and certain expenses related to alcoholic beverages. Defines "entertainment", "gift", and "professional and educational expenses", and specifies that certain prohibitions that apply to alcoholic beverage permittees concerning gifts do not apply to entertainment or professional and educational expenses, if the provision of entertainment or professional and educational expenses is not exclusionary. Defines "advertising specialty" and "consumer advertising specialty", and voids certain rules of the alcohol and tobacco commission that relate to advertising specialties and consumer advertising specialties. Increases, from four days to seven days, the number of days in a calendar month that may be designated as guest days

Sponsor: Ronnie Alting

A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to assign the topic of stillbirth protocols and reporting to the appropriate committee for study.

Sponsor: Joseph Zakas

A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of Medicaid coverage for patients in need of specialty care, permitting more access to out-of-state and out-of-network resources.

Sponsor: Eddie Melton

Urging the Legislative Council to assign the topic of expanding the sales tax to include services to an interim study committee.

Sponsor: Timothy Brown

Service of process fees. Makes the clerk responsible for collecting service of process fees. Raises the service of process fee from $13 to $28. Reinstates the prohibition on collection of service of process fees more than one time in a case. Specifies that $3 of each service of process fee shall be distributed, by the county auditor, to the clerk's record perpetuation fund. Makes conforming technical amendments.

Sponsor: Philip Boots

Recognizing Alpha Kappa Alpha Day at the Capitol.

Sponsor: Vanessa Summers

Memorializing First Sergeant Ron Magill.

Sponsor: Lloyd Arnold

Celebrating the 65th anniversary of the creation of the Association for the Disabled of Elkhart County.

Sponsor: Doug Miller

Recognizing the National Association of Women Business Owners of Indianapolis for 20 years of excellence.

Sponsor: Robin Shackleford

Commitment to the DOC for a Level 6 felony. Amends the law limiting the circumstances under which a person convicted of a Level 6 felony can be committed to the department of correction (DOC). Provides that a person convicted of a Level 6 felony can be committed to the DOC if: (1) the commitment is due to the revocation of the person's sentence for violating probation, parole, or community corrections and the revocation of the person's sentence is due to a new criminal offense; or (2) the person is convicted of a Level 6 felony and the sentence for that

Sponsor: Gregory Steuerwald

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Raymond Werner on the occasion of his retirement from St. Benedict Cathedral School and parish.

Sponsor: James Tomes

War memorials. Provides that the fiscal body of a city, county, or township may by ordinance or resolution authorize the sale or donation of a war memorial to certain organizations exempt from federal income taxation. Requires an organization acquiring a war memorial to continue to operate and maintain the war memorial. Provides that ownership of the war memorial reverts to the city, county, or township if the acquiring organization determines that it is unable to continue operating the war memorial, is dissolved, or otherwise ceases to exist.

Sponsor: Randall Head

Habitual offender requirements. Provides that to be sentenced as a habitual offender (other than for a conviction of a Level 1 through Level 4 felony or murder), a person must have accumulated at least one of the required number of prior unrelated felony convictions within 10 years of accumulating the current offense.

Sponsor: Gregory Steuerwald

Right-of-way in a roundabout. Requires a driver to yield the right-of-way to a driver of a vehicle having a total length of at least 40 feet or a total width of at least 10 feet when driving through a roundabout. Requires that, when two truck drivers approach or drive through a roundabout at the same time, the driver on the right yields the right-of-way to the driver on the left.

Sponsor: Gerald Torr

Traffic amnesty program. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of studying a traffic amnesty program to permit certain persons owing unpaid traffic fines, or who may be required to pay a fee for driver's license reinstatement, to obtain a reduction in the amount owed or amount payable.

Sponsor: Robin Shackleford

Handgun licenses and law enforcement officers. Provides that police officers, sheriffs or their deputies, and law enforcement officers of the United States government who have 20 or more years of service are entitled to a lifetime license to carry a handgun in Indiana. (Current law states police officers, sheriffs or their deputies, and law enforcement officers of the United States government must have been honorably retired by a lawfully created pension board or its equivalent after 20 or more years of service to be entitled to a lifetime license to carry a handgun.) Provides that these individuals are exempt from

Sponsor: Terry Goodin

Honoring Jim Shella.

Sponsor: Gregory Porter

Teacher licensing for military spouses. Requires the state board of education to adopt rules, including emergency rules, that establish procedures to expedite the issuance, renewal, or reinstatement of a teacher license to a military spouse whose husband or wife is assigned to a duty station in Indiana. (Current law allows, but does not require, the state board to adopt such rules.)

Sponsor: Wendy McNamara

State institutions. Includes the Neurodiagnostic Institute and Advanced Treatment Center as a state institution. Allows for the instruction of medical students at all state institutions. (Current law allows for instruction of medical students only at Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital.) Authorizes the director of the division of mental health and addiction to contract for the management and clinical operation of any state institution, including contracting with an entity for services. (Current law allows for only Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital.)

Sponsor: Cindy Kirchhofer

Recognizing Chris Perdue.

Sponsor: Randall Frye

Urging Congress to study the modernization of the International Symbol of Access.

Sponsor: Holli Sullivan

Memorializing John Jay McNichols.

Sponsor: Clyde Kersey

Honoring the Homestead High School girls basketball team.

Sponsor: Christopher Judy

Honoring radio station WDSO-FM, Chesterton High School.

Sponsor: Charles Moseley

A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of naturopathic physicians, permitting licensure of practitioners of naturopathic medicine.

Sponsor: David Niezgodski

Sales tax collection by remote sellers. Provides that a retail merchant that does not have a physical presence in Indiana shall, as an agent for the state, collect sales tax on a retail transaction made in Indiana, remit the sales tax, and comply with all applicable procedures and requirements of the sales tax laws as if the retail merchant has a physical presence in Indiana, if: (1) the retail merchant's gross revenue from sales into Indiana in a calendar year exceeds $100,000; or (2) the retail merchant makes sales into Indiana in more than 200 separate transactions. Authorizes the department

Sponsor: Howard Kenley

Recognizing the accomplishments of Dr. Wilbur Williams.

Sponsor: Kevin Mahan

Congratulating the Lincoln Amphitheatre, Lincoln City, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the inaugural season.

Sponsor: Lloyd Arnold

Memorializing George Neagu.

Sponsor: Scott Pelath

Guardian reimbursement and Medicaid eligibility. Specifies that an amount not to exceed $175 a month in court ordered guardianship fees for an individual who is: (1) in an institution; or (2) applying for or participating in the Medicaid aged and disabled waiver; is exempt from Medicaid income eligibility consideration.

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Honoring the Plainfield High School "We the People" team.

Sponsor: Robert Behning

Honoring the Marching Pride of Lawrence Township.

Sponsor: John Bartlett

Congratulating the Eastern High School girls basketball team.

Sponsor: Steven Davisson

Honoring Gene Miles.

Sponsor: Michael Karickhoff

A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the government of Turkey to cease its discrimination against the Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Orthodox Christian Church, to grant the Ecumenical Patriarch appropriate international recognition, ecclesiastical succession, and the right to train clergy of all nationalities, and to respect the property rights and human rights of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Sponsor: Lonnie Randolph

Recognizing the National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (CASA).

Sponsor: Milo Smith

A SENATE RESOLUTION to honor Steve and Linda Ellis for 40 years of dedicatetd state service.

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the Junior League of Indianapolis ("JLI") on the occasion of its 95th anniversary.

Sponsor: James Merritt

Benjamin Harrison conservation trust. Makes nonvoting members of the Indiana Heritage Trust project committee voting members. Makes conforming changes. Makes nonvoting members of the Indiana White River State Park Development Commission voting members. Makes conforming changes.

Sponsor: Karen Tallian

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the Noblesville Cultural Arts District.

Sponsor: Howard Kenley

Honoring the University of Southern Indiana Chamber Choir.

Sponsor: Wendy McNamara

Spay-neuter program. Provides for the state board of animal health (board) to administer forfeited deposits held by animal care facilities for spay-neuter procedures. (Current law provides for the bureau of motor vehicles to administer the forfeited deposits.) Establishes the spay-neuter program beginning July 1, 2020. Establishes the spay-neuter trust fund. Provides that the board administers the program and the fund.

Sponsor: Mark Messmer

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Katherine Dorsey on being named one of the top youth volunteers in Indiana for 2017, in the 22nd annual Prudential Spirit of Community Awards.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Brown

Recognizing the Indiana Racing Memorial Association.

Sponsor: Randall Frye

Urging the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the issue of prior authorization for health care services.

Sponsor: Martin Carbaugh

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the Indiana Library Federation for 125 years of service to the State of Indiana.

Sponsor: Howard Kenley

Honoring radio station WDSO-FM, Chesterton High School.

Sponsor: Charles Moseley

Memorializing Mark S. Davis.

Sponsor: Sally Siegrist

Recognizing Post Traumatic Stress Awareness Day and Post Traumatic Stress Awareness Month.

Sponsor: Karlee Macer

Honoring the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Sponsor: Karlee Macer

Grain buyers and warehouse licensing. Makes numerous changes to the operations and procedures of the grain indemnity fund board (board) and the grain indemnity fund. Requires that a person applying for or renewing a license who does not conduct business at an Indiana address must appoint a registered agent in Indiana. Provides that violations of certain confidentiality agreements are Class B infractions. Provides that grain that has been delivered to a first purchaser for sale or storage under a bailment to a licensee within 15 months before the date of failure of the licensee may be considered in determining the

Sponsor: Philip Boots

Mental health education and screenings. Requires a school corporation's health education curriculum to include mental health wellness education. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation may provide mental health screenings to students if the written consent of the student's parent or guardian is received. Requires the department of education to provide a school corporation with resources regarding mental health wellness upon request by the school corporation.

Sponsor: Frank Mrvan

Regulation of confined feeding operations. Amends the law on confined feeding operations (CFOs, which include any confined feeding of at least 300 cattle, 600 swine or sheep, 30,000 fowl, or 500 horses). Repeals the statute requiring a person to obtain the "prior approval" of the department of environmental management (IDEM) before constructing or operating a CFO. Provides instead that a person must obtain a permit from IDEM before constructing or operating a CFO. Requires a permit amendment before: (1) construction of a replacement manure storage facility that would not increase the CFO's manure storage capacity; (2) a change that would

Sponsor: David Wolkins

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring E.J. Tackett on being named the 2016 GEICO Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year.

Sponsor: Andy Zay

Honoring the Gold Star Volunteers of the Indiana State Archives.

Sponsor: Matt Pierce

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the Penn High School girls soccer team on its Indiana High School Athletic Association ("IHSAA") class 2-A state championship title.

Sponsor: Joseph Zakas

Honoring Brenda Bowman on her selection as the 2016-2017 Indiana Rural Teacher of the Year by the Indiana Small and Rural Schools Association.

Sponsor: William Friend

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Jack E. Schult on the occasion of his retirement.

Sponsor: Ronnie Alting

Cultural district development. Provides that an arts and cultural district (district) certified by the Indiana arts commission (commission) is subject to annual review by the commission and must be recertified every four years. Specifies certain requirements for certification (or recertification) of a district. Permits a city, town, or county that has a certified district to establish a tax area within the district to capture incremental income tax to be transferred to the Indiana arts commission trust fund and used only for the benefit of the tax area. Provides that a city, town, or county that wishes to establish a tax

Sponsor: Jon Ford

Distribution of lottery revenue for veterans' purposes. Provides that from January 1, 2018, through June 30, 2020, the state lottery commission shall, before the last business day of January, April, July, and October of each year, transfer $125,000 of the surplus lottery revenue to the treasurer of state for deposit in a grant account established within the veterans' affairs trust fund. Authorizes the Indiana veterans' affairs commission to use money in the grant account to make grants to be used for the purpose of providing services to veterans.

Sponsor: Ronnie Alting

Honoring volunteer firefighters.

Sponsor: Randall Frye

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Justice Robert D. Rucker on the occasion of his retirement.

Sponsor: David Long

Recognizing Young Black Males Legislative Day on April 12, 2017.

Sponsor: Vernon Smith

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating Cathedral High School's "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution" team on winning Indiana's state competition.

Sponsor: Jean Breaux

Foreclosure counseling and education fee. Extends the expiration of the $50 mortgage foreclosure counseling and education fee to July 1, 2018. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: James Merritt

Healthy food initiative program. Establishes the healthy food initiative program (program) to be administered by the Indiana housing and community development authority (authority) to assist new businesses, existing businesses, and other legal entities to offer fresh or unprocessed foods within an underserved geographic area. Defines "underserved geographic area". Requires the authority to establish: (1) criteria for awarding grants and making loans under the program; and (2) terms and conditions for recipients of the grants and loans. Specifies the permissible uses of grants and loans. Establishes the healthy food initiative fund for purposes of awarding grants and loans under the program.

Sponsor: Randall Head

Supplemental nutrition assistance program and drug convictions. Removes 12 month limitation on certain individuals receiving supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefits. Specifies that, beginning January 1, 2018, Indiana elects to opt out of the federal law prohibiting individuals convicted of certain drug offenses from receiving SNAP assistance if the individual meets specified conditions.

Sponsor: James Merritt

Study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate committee a study of public policy issues relating to liability shifting provisions contained in contracts.

Sponsor: Michael Crider

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating Cathedral High School on being named a 2016 National Blue Ribbon School.

Sponsor: Jean Breaux

Tobacco use. Repeals employment protections for individuals who smoke cigarettes or use other tobacco products.

Sponsor: Cindy Kirchhofer

Vehicle inspection and maintenance program. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on roads and transportation for study during the 2017 interim the topic of the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program in Lake and Porter counties and whether there are alternatives to the program that would satisfy regulatory requirements and have a comparable effect on air quality.

Sponsor: Charlie Brown

Financial crimes against the elderly. Permits a financial institution to release certain financial records to a law enforcement agency or adult protective services unit if the financial institution reasonably suspects illegal activity in connection with an endangered adult customer's account, and provides immunity to a financial institution that releases, or does not release, this information. Permits a court to order a person convicted of exploitation of an endangered adult or a dependent to disgorge all or some of any property the person received as the result of the death of the endangered adult or dependent. Removes an individual at least

Sponsor: Michael Young

Expungement. Prohibits a sex or violent offender from expunging a misdemeanor conviction. Provides that arrest records may be expunged if a related conviction is expunged or if the person has completed a diversion program. Permits the expungement of civil forfeiture records if a related arrest or conviction is expunged. Establishes a procedure for the expungement of civil protection orders, and allows the expungement of a civil protection order if: (1) the protection order is granted ex parte and the court subsequently denies the petition for a (regular) protection order following a hearing; or (2) an appellate court reverses or vacates

Sponsor: Michael Young

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Peter DeKever on the occasion of his retirement from coaching the Penn High School Academic Super Bowl - Social Studies team.

Sponsor: Joseph Zakas

Suicide prevention programming. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to: (1) develop a statewide program for suicide prevention; and (2) employ a coordinator of the statewide program for suicide prevention. Requires the coordinator to study and determine: (1) the professions that should be required to receive training on suicide assessment, treatment, and management; and (2) the manner in which to fund the training. Requires the coordinator to report the determinations to the legislative council not later than December 31, 2017. Requires emergency medical services providers to complete an evidence based training program concerning suicide assessment, treatment, and management.

Sponsor: Randall Head

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the University of Saint Francis football team on its 2016 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) championship title.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Brown

Indemnification from legal malpractice claims. Provides that any provision in an agreement between an attorney and a client that purports to prospectively release the attorney from liability for malpractice is against public policy, void, and unenforceable.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Brown

Appraisal management practices. Provides that an appraisal management company that engages a real estate appraiser to perform an appraisal shall pay the real estate appraiser for the appraisal to be performed not later than: (1) the: (A) payment date; or (B) occurrence of a specified event upon which payment is to be made; that is set forth in the contract or agreement between the appraisal management company and the real estate appraiser; or (2) 30 days after the return of the appraisal to the appraisal management company by the real estate appraiser, if: (A) a contract or agreement between the

Sponsor: Jon Ford

Recognizing National Speech and Debate Education Day.

Sponsor: Karlee Macer

Teacher hiring. Provides that a school corporation and a charter school shall adopt a policy requiring the school employer of the school corporation or charter school to contact references and, if applicable, the most recent employer provided by a prospective employee, before the school corporation or charter school may hire the prospective employee.

Sponsor: Jeff Raatz

Guardianships. Requires a guardian of a protected adult to permit all appropriate contact, communication, and social interaction between the protected adult and individuals with whom the protected adult had significant past family or social relationships, subject to a determination by the guardian, after consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, that contact, communication, or social interaction with the protected adult should be limited, supervised, or prohibited in order to prevent harm to the protected adult's health, person, or property. Provides that any act or omission by the guardian in permitting contact, communication, and social interaction with the protected adult is

Sponsor: Michael Crider

Catastrophic injury. Defines "catastrophic injury", and permits a court to impose an additional fixed term of five to 10 years if a person commits certain offenses that cause the victim to suffer catastrophic injury. Prohibits imposing an additional fixed term if the same facts necessary to establish the catastrophic injury are used to prove an element of the offense.

Sponsor: Michael Young

Precinct committeemen. Provides that in order for a precinct committeeman or a precinct vice committeeman (exercising the precinct committeeman's proxy) to participate in a caucus to fill a vacancy, the committeeman or vice committeeman must be entitled to vote for the office for which a successor is to be selected in the caucus.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

Public safety officer survivor health coverage. Urges the legislative council to assign to the pension management oversight committee or another appropriate interim study committee the topic of whether the employer of a public safety officer who dies in the line of duty should offer to provide and pay for survivor health coverage.

Sponsor: Michael Crider

Offenses committed by incarcerated individuals. Provides that the knowing or intentional possession of: (1) a cellular telephone; (2) storage media; (3) a subscriber identity module or SIM card; or (4) any other cellular or wireless communications device; while incarcerated in a jail or state penal facility is a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that a person convicted of a misdemeanor offense may be committed to the department of correction for an executed sentence if the person was serving a prior, unrelated sentence at the department of correction when the misdemeanor was committed. Provides that a person convicted of a Level 6

Sponsor: Erin Houchin

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Richard Gordon Hatcher on the 50th Anniversary of being elected as Mayor for the city of Gary.

Sponsor: Eddie Melton

United States history courses. Requires that each high school United States history course must include the study of the structure of state and federal governments. Moves existing language concerning the study of the Holocaust. Requires that all students enrolled in a high school United States history course must take the United States Civics Test prepared by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Allows school corporations to determine whether a passing score on the test is required to receive credit for the course.

Sponsor: Dennis Kruse

Various crimes. Provides that the crime of strangulation includes application of pressure to a victim's torso, and increases the penalty to a Level 5 felony if it is knowingly committed against a pregnant woman. Creates an enhancement to obstruction of justice if a person interferes with a witness during the investigation or pendency of a domestic violence or child abuse case. Increases the penalty for receiving stolen auto parts if the person has a prior conviction. Defines "drug related felony", and requires the division of state court administration to report certain drug related felonies to the National Precursor Log Exchange

Sponsor: Michael Young

Property tax assessment. Provides, with limited exceptions, that: (1) the only factor permitted to be used in changing the assessed value of most real property from year to year is the annual adjustment factor; and (2) an assessing official may not change the real property's underlying parcel characteristics (including age, grade, or condition of the real property) until the real property has been reassessed under the county's reassessment plan, there is a change in an objective factor or feature relating to a property, or there is a need to correct an error. Provides a process that must be followed by

Sponsor: Doug Eckerty

Agency settlement fund. Requires the attorney general to include certain language concerning settlement funds in proposed court order language. Establishes the agency settlement fund (fund) for purposes of receiving certain funds paid to the state as part of a settlement or similar agreement. Provides for use of the money in the fund as approved and appropriated by the general assembly, or according to a court order that applies to the specific settlement or agreement.

Sponsor: Howard Kenley

State examiner findings. Specifies requirements for corrective action when audited entities fail to comply with certain guidelines or laws. Requires an audited entity to file a corrective action plan following findings of noncompliance in two consecutive examination reports. Specifies actions that the audit committee may take if an audited entity fails to comply with a corrective action plan.

Sponsor: Rick Niemeyer

Contributing to delinquency. Provides that the penalty for the crime of contributing to delinquency is a felony one level higher than that of the delinquent act committed by the child, except that: (1) the penalty for inducing a child to commit a Level 1 felony is a Level 1 felony; and (2) the penalty for inducing a child to commit murder is the penalty for murder.

Sponsor: Eric Koch

A SENATE RESOLUTION recognizing the importance of Natural Resources Education in Indiana.

Sponsor: Dennis Kruse

Elementary school teachers. Provides that, not later than July 1, 2019, the state board of education shall adopt rules to establish one or more elementary school teacher content area licenses that must, at a minimum, include a content area license in the subject matter of math and science.

Sponsor: Robert Behning

A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the Department of Education to reinforce support of teachers who choose to teach a diverse curriculum.

Sponsor: Jeff Raatz

Miami County local income tax. Permits Miami County to use its local income tax revenue that is designated for the county jail for operating and maintaining the county jail. (Current law limits the use of revenue to financing, constructing, acquiring, renovating, and equipping the jail.)

Sponsor: William Friend

Organized retail theft. Makes it organized retail theft, a Level 6 felony, for a person to knowingly: (1) take, procure, receive, conceal, or otherwise exercise control over merchandise of a retail merchant; or (2) use an artifice, an instrument, a container, a device, or another article to facilitate taking, procuring, receiving, concealing, or exercising control over merchandise of a retail merchant; without the consent of the retail merchant or without paying the appropriate consideration for the merchandise, and with the intent to sell, deliver, or distribute the merchandise to another person. Makes organized retail theft, in certain circumstances, a Level

Sponsor: Sharon Negele

Department of correction and Level 6 felons. Repeals provisions prohibiting a court from committing certain persons convicted of Level 6 felonies to the department of correction.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

School buses. Provides that a special education cooperative or school corporation may enter into an agreement with an agency or organization serving individuals with a developmental disability in which a school bus or special purpose bus used by the special education cooperative or school corporation may be used to transport individuals with a developmental disability. (Current law provides that a special education cooperative or school corporation may enter into an agreement with a state supported agency serving individuals with a developmental disability in which a school bus or special purpose bus may be used to transport individuals with a developmental

Sponsor: Edmond Soliday

A SENATE RESOLUTION urging Governor Holcomb to recognize September as Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month.

Sponsor: Michael Crider

Congratulating Brentwood Elementary School.

Sponsor: Robert Behning

Crimes involving adoption. Amends the criminal provision concerning unauthorized adoption advertising. Increases, from $3,000 to $4,000, the allowable payment for certain costs and expenses with respect to an adoption. Makes the following crimes a Level 6 felony (instead of a Class A misdemeanor): (1) Adoption deception. (2) Unauthorized adoption advertising.

Sponsor: Julie Olthoff

Regulation of coal combustion residuals. Authorizes the environmental rules board to adopt rules consistent with the regulations of the United States Environmental Protection Agency concerning standards for the disposal of coal combustion residuals in landfills and surface impoundments.

Sponsor: David Wolkins

Compliance and enforcement. Makes conforming amendments to align certain motor vehicle statutes in the Indiana Code with requirements in the federal Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. Increases the hours of community service required for a person who has one or more previous convictions of operating while intoxicated.

Sponsor: Ben Smaltz

Recognizing Helping Hands for Freedom.

Sponsor: Sean Eberhart

Recognizing West Clay Elementary School.

Sponsor: Donna Schaibley

Recognizing FFA and all of its work to advance the quality of agricultural education both locally and nationally.

Sponsor: Donald Lehe

Honoring Jennifer Hodge for her service to the General Assembly.

Sponsor: Brian Bosma

Congratulating the Cardinal Ritter High School football team.

Sponsor: Vanessa Summers

Tax deduction for health care sharing expenses. Allows a taxpayer who is an Indiana resident and a member of a health care sharing ministry to deduct from the taxpayer's adjusted gross income the total amount of qualified health care sharing expenses incurred by the taxpayer in a particular taxable year.

Sponsor: Eric Koch

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging Governor Holcomb to recognize Grain Bin Safety Awareness Week, an annual observance that occurs the third full week of February.

Sponsor: Jean Leising

Pharmacy robbery. Provides that the taking of a controlled substance from: (1) a pharmacist acting in an official capacity; or (2) a pharmacy; is robbery, a Level 4 felony. Provides that: (1) the use of a deadly weapon; or (2) causing bodily injury to any person other than the defendant; during the robbery of: (A) a pharmacist acting in an official capacity; or (B) a pharmacy; is a Level 2 felony. Provides that causing serious bodily injury to any person other than the defendant during a robbery of: (1) a pharmacist acting in an official capacity; or (2) a pharmacy;

Sponsor: Sharon Negele

State disaster relief fund appropriation. Makes an appropriation to the state disaster relief fund to provide financial assistance to eligible entities affected by lead contamination in East Chicago.

Sponsor: Frank Mrvan

Selection of superintendent of public instruction. Provides for the state superintendent of public instruction (superintendent) to be appointed by the governor after January 10, 2021. Provides that, after January 10, 2021, the governor appoints the members of the charter school review panel. (Under current law, the superintendent, or the governor jointly with the superintendent, appoints the members of the panel.) Provides that, after January 10, 2021, the governor appoints the director of special education. (Under current law, the governor appoints the director of special education upon the recommendation of the superintendent.) Repeals a provision that a candidate for the office

Sponsor: James Buck

County, city, and town officer salary waivers. Allows an elected officer of a county, city, or town to waive all or part of the officer's compensation. (Current law allows a town officer to waive all of the officer's compensation.)

Sponsor: Matthew Lehman

Urging the legislative council to assign the topic of public safety issues near methadone clinics to the appropriate committee.

Sponsor: Randy Lyness

Regulation of naturopathic physicians. Provides for licensure of practitioners of naturopathic medicine.

Sponsor: David Niezgodski

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Sergeant Matthew Coddington on the occasion of his retirement from the West Lafayette Police Department ("WLPD").

Sponsor: Ronnie Alting

Veterans' programs and scratch off game. Requires the state lottery commission to adopt rules to establish a scratch-off game to benefit Indiana veterans. Deposits revenue from sales of tickets for the scratch-off game into the veterans' treatment fund, the veterans service officer fund, and to the lottery commission for operating costs. Establishes the veterans service officer fund. Requires the director of the department of veterans' affairs (department) to give notice of the existence of the veterans' treatment program (program) to each individual in Indiana who has a traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder related to the individual's service as

Sponsor: Michael Delph

Memorializing Reverend Michael K. Jones.

Sponsor: Cherrish Pryor

Income tax credit for volunteer firefighters. Provides that an individual who is a volunteer firefighter is entitled to a credit of $500 against the individual's adjusted gross income tax liability each taxable year.

Sponsor: Richard Hamm

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the Marian High School boys soccer team on their second straight Indiana High School Athletic Association ("IHSAA") Class 1-A state championship title.

Sponsor: Joseph Zakas

Congratulating the Indiana Catholic Conference on the 50th anniversary of its founding.

Sponsor: Patrick Bauer

Recognizing Deaconess Health System on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of its establishment.

Sponsor: Ronald Bacon

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION celebrating Indiana's "Jobs for America's Graduates" program on the occasion of its 10th anniversary.

Sponsor: Dennis Kruse

Electronic signatures. Provides that a person may create an electronic will and an electronic trust document if certain conditions are met, and provides that a power of attorney (including a living will and health care power of attorney) may be signed electronically and created or stored in an electronic format. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Gregory Steuerwald

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring the Leadership Development Academy ("LDA") Class of 2017.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

Tax deduction for military income. Provides an income tax deduction for all military retirement and survivor's benefits and removes the age requirement for the deduction.

Sponsor: James Smith

Indiana housing first program. Establishes the Indiana housing first program (program) to provide housing and support services for eligible homeless persons. Requires the housing and community development authority (authority) to administer the program. Requires the authority to establish, not later than January 1, 2018, policies and procedures to implement and administer the program. Provides that the policies and procedures, among other requirements, must include: (1) a plan for moving eligible homeless persons into housing directly from the streets or emergency shelter care without a precondition of accepting or complying with certain requirements; and (2) partnerships with private and public entities

Sponsor: Earl Harris

Appointments to local boards and commissions. Provides that after June 30, 2017, one of the commissioners appointed to a redevelopment commission must be a member of the governing body of a school corporation that includes all or part of the territory served by the redevelopment commission. Provides for the appointment to be made by the appointing governing body as determined in the statute. Removes language providing for the appointment of nonvoting advisers to redevelopment commissions from the governing bodies of school corporations. Provides that nonvoting advisers serve until a member of the governing body of a school corporation is appointed

Sponsor: Edward Clere

Veterans affairs issues. Requires the state lottery commission to adopt rules to establish a scratch off game to benefit Indiana veterans. Deposits revenue from sales of tickets for the scratch off game into the veterans service officer fund, the veterans service officer training fund, and the veterans disability clinic fund. Requires a part of local income taxes to be withheld from cities and counties that fail to enforce accreditation and reaccreditation requirements for city and county veterans service officers. Requires notification from the director of the department of veterans affairs to county and city executives concerning noncompliance of veterans service

Sponsor: Christopher Judy

Urging the Indiana Department of Transportation to rename State Road 75 between the northern entrance of the town of Cutler and the southern entrance off of State Road 75 the "Cary D. Landis Memorial Mile".

Sponsor: Donald Lehe

Congratulating the Linton-Stockton High School football team on the occasion of their Class A state championship.

Sponsor: Jeff Ellington

Home modification loan pilot program. Establishes the home modification loan pilot program (pilot program). Authorizes the Indiana housing and community development authority to administer the pilot program. Provides: (1) that the Indiana housing and community development authority may make zero interest or low interest loans under the pilot program to provide funds for the purpose of modifying the primary dwellings of eligible individuals and families of low and moderate income; (2) that eligible individuals or families must be or include individuals with disabilities or individuals who have a child with disabilities; and (3) that an eligible individual's or family's primary

Sponsor: Eddie Melton

Out of school time pilot program and fund. Requires the department of education (department) to establish a pilot program to provide grants for out of school time programs that serve students in grades 5 through 8. Establishes eligibility requirements. Establishes the out of school time program fund. Requires, before November 1 of each year, the department to submit a report regarding the pilot program to the governor, budget committee, state board of education, and legislative council.

Sponsor: Dennis Kruse

Out-of-state health insurance. Allows an accident and sickness insurer that is licensed in certain other states, but is not licensed in Indiana, and that complies with the state examination and insurance premium tax requirements, to issue a policy of accident and sickness insurance to a resident of Indiana without complying with other Indiana insurance law.

Sponsor: Mike Braun

Access to epilepsy medications. Prohibits the office of Medicaid policy and planning, a managed care organization, and the healthy Indiana plan from requiring in specified programs prior authorization for antiepilepsy and anticonvulsant drugs, and requires unrestricted access for recipients to these drugs.

Sponsor: David Frizzell

Honoring Adam Vinatieri.

Sponsor: Charles Burton

Congratulating the Fort Wayne Concordia Lutheran High School football team.

Sponsor: Martin Carbaugh

Memorializing Jean Paul Lushin.

Sponsor: Michael Karickhoff

Recognizing Brianna DeCamp and Jordan Axel.

Sponsor: David Ober

Medical payment coverage. Specifies that medical payment coverage is supplemental to coverage under a health plan or public health coverage program. Specifies that: (1) the amount paid under medical payment coverage must not exceed the amount to which the health care provider agreed as payment in full for a health care service under the covered individual's health plan or public health coverage program; and (2) the covered individual is not liable for any amount that exceeds the amount to which the health care provider agreed as described in (1).

Sponsor: Randall Frye

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Greg Clark on the occasion of his retirement.

Sponsor: David Long

Marion County CRED district. Provides that a community revitalization enhancement district (district) that is established in Marion County before May 1, 2017, may use captured tax revenue and funds from its industrial revenue fund to improve the value of real property in the district to be more suitable for residential development. Amends the definition of "qualified investment" for purposes of the community revitalization enhancement district tax credit to include a taxpayer's expenditures made on residential property in a district in Marion County established before May 1, 2017.

Sponsor: Michael Delph

Crimes against public safety officials. Increases the penalty for battery if it is committed against a public safety official or a relative of a public safety official because of the official's status or perceived status as a public safety official, and increases the penalty for criminal recklessness if it is committed against: (1) a public safety official while the official is engaged in the official's official duties; or (2) a public safety official or a relative of a public safety official if the offense is committed because of the official's status or perceived status as a public safety official.

Sponsor: James Merritt

Flood control public works projects. Creates the water resource development and flood prevention grant fund (fund). Requires the transfer of $10,000,000 of surplus revenue from the Hoosier Lottery per year, in quarterly installments, to the fund. Provides that if the surplus revenue from the Hoosier Lottery is insufficient to make any quarterly installment, the insufficiency shall be made up through a transfer from the postwar construction fund. Provides that the fund shall be administered by the Indiana finance authority (authority) and used to provide grants to towns, cities, and counties for flood control public works projects. Requires that all money

Sponsor: Gregory Porter

Community revitalization enhancement districts. Permits a second class city that meets certain conditions to establish a community revitalization enhancement district consisting of noncontiguous plots.

Sponsor: Doug Miller

Professional sports development commission. Establishes the northwest Indiana professional sports development commission. Authorizes the commission to study various plans and recommendations that are proposed with respect to attracting a professional sports franchise to northwest Indiana. Authorizes the commission to prepare a comprehensive master plan for building the facilities and other infrastructure necessary for attracting and developing one or more professional sports franchises in northwest Indiana. Creates the professional sports development fund.

Sponsor: Earl Harris

Marriage licenses. Allows the clerk of a circuit court to issue a marriage license to an individual who: (1) is unable to appear in person before the clerk due to physical illness or infirmity; or (2) is being treated with a narcotic drug due to physical illness or infirmity; if the individual provides affidavits from the individual and a licensed physician concerning the physical illness or infirmity. Requires the clerk of a circuit court to notify individuals to whom the clerk refuses to issue a marriage license that the individuals may request a court hearing regarding the refusal. Allows the

Sponsor: Sheila Klinker

Urging the legislative council to assign the topic of loans to Indiana small businesses to the appropriate committee.

Sponsor: Karlee Macer

Appointment of magistrates. Allows the judges of the superior court of Marion County to appoint 20 full-time magistrates after December 31, 2017. (Under current law, 16 magistrates are appointed.) Provides that the magistrates continue in office until removed under local rule.

Sponsor: Mike Speedy

Monetary awards for exonerated prisoners. Provides that a person whose conviction is vacated on the basis of DNA evidence is entitled to compensation in the amount of $25,000 for each year that the person was wrongfully incarcerated in the department of correction. Establishes the DNA exoneration fund, appropriates $200,000 to the fund, and specifies that the attorney general shall administer the fund and receive and investigate claims for compensation from the fund.

Sponsor: Gregory Steuerwald

Coverage for in vitro fertilization. Requires an insurer that issues a group accident and sickness insurance policy, and a health maintenance organization that enters into a group contract, that provides pregnancy related coverage to offer to the group sponsor certain coverage for in vitro fertilization procedures. Provides a religious exemption.

Sponsor: Robin Shackleford

Veterans' recovery program. Establishes, for five years, the veterans' recovery program and fund to provide treatment for veterans with a traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder and to obtain reimbursement from third parties. Requires the commissioner of insurance (commissioner) to establish program standards. Allows the commissioner to appoint an advisory board for the program. Requires annual reporting.

Sponsor: Dennis Zent

Foreclosure counseling and education fee. Extends from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2019, the date for the expiration of the $50 mortgage foreclosure counseling and education fee that must be paid by a party filing an action to foreclose a mortgage. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Charles Burton

Congratulating the Daleville High School baseball team.

Sponsor: Melanie Wright

Honoring Marlee Hobbs, Mackenzie Riddle, and Morgan Riddle.

Sponsor: Melanie Wright

Main street downtown redevelopment districts. Provides that a city or town having a population that does not exceed 20,000 (eligible municipality) may establish a main street downtown redevelopment district (district) within the eligible municipality for the purpose of capturing sales tax collected by businesses located in the district. Provides that the sales tax increment distributed to each eligible municipality that establishes a district may be used to pay for improvements in the district or the financing of improvements in the district.

Sponsor: Lloyd Arnold

Increased penalties for certain crimes. Increases the offense level for certain animal cruelty crimes.

Sponsor: Ryan Hatfield

Worker misclassification issues. Requires the department of labor (DOL), the department of workforce development (DWD), the department of state revenue (DOR), and the worker's compensation board (WCB) to share information concerning instances in which a construction contractor paid a worker in cash. Establishes the payroll fraud task force (task force), consisting of the commissioners of the DOL, DWD, and DOR, and the chair of the WCB, or their designees, to investigate suspected instances of payroll fraud, employee misclassification, and violations of other state labor and employment statutes occurring on commercial and industrial construction projects. Requires the DOL to hire and

Sponsor: Karen Tallian

Artisan distillers. Removes a requirement that an artisan distiller's permit applicant hold a farm winery, brewer's, or distiller's permit (qualifying permit) for the three year period before the date of the application. Repeals an exception to the qualifying permit requirement for applicants meeting certain requirements on January 1, 2014. With the approval of the alcohol and tobacco commission, allows an artisan distiller to sell liquor, serve samples, and conduct business other than manufacturing, blending, and bottling of liquor at three additional locations that are separate from the distillery.

Sponsor: Donna Schaibley

Rural economic development. Provides that one or more rural counties may develop a rural strategic development plan (plan) that may be submitted to the office of community and rural affairs (office) and the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) for joint approval. Provides that a plan must be developed in conjunction with: (1) the Indiana works council for the region; (2) the regional advisory committee of Ivy Tech Community College; and (3) any cooperative owned utilities for the area. Specifies the requirements that must be included in a plan. Provides that grants from the rural economic development fund (fund) may not

Sponsor: Robert Cherry

Employer training expense tax credit. Establishes a tax credit against state tax liability for expenditures and donations made on behalf of an employee or student to meet the requirements for portable workforce credentials that are required or beneficial for targeted employment in manufacturing, health care, information technology, or logistics that is critical to or emerging as needed by employers to conduct business in Indiana. Limits the tax credit to $40,000 per employer and $5,000 per employee or student in each taxable year, and limits the aggregate total of all tax credits that may be claimed by all taxpayers for expenditures

Sponsor: Jeff Raatz

Tourism task force. Establishes the Indiana tourism task force to study the tourism departments of other states for the purposes of learning: (1) the structure of state tourism departments; (2) the level of funding provided to state tourism departments; and (3) the relationship between state funding of a state's tourism department and the economic impact of tourism on the state. Makes an appropriation.

Sponsor: Wes Culver

Low cost food plan. Requires the division of family resources to calculate Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for and distribute SNAP benefits to eligible recipients using the low cost food plan developed by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Sponsor: Linda Lawson

Grandparent and great-grandparent visitation. Allows great-grandparents to seek visitation rights with their great-grandchildren in certain circumstances. Allows a grandparent or great-grandparent to seek visitation if the grandparent or great-grandparent has had meaningful contact with the child but, as a result of an estrangement between the parent of the child and the grandparent or great-grandparent, the parent of the child terminated the child's visits with the grandparent or great-grandparent. Establishes factors for the court to consider in determining whether granting a grandparent or great-grandparent visitation rights is in the best interests of the child. Provides that a court may order a

Sponsor: Lonnie Randolph

Recognizing the Walker Career Center Advanced Finance Academy.

Sponsor: Cindy Kirchhofer

Storm water fee exemptions. Provides that a municipality or county may not assess storm water fees with respect to: (1) property where religious services are held regularly; (2) property that belongs to a school corporation and is used for educational purposes; or (3) property that is assessed as agricultural land for property tax purposes.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION celebrating Indiana's "Jobs for American Graduates" (JAG) program on the occasion of its 10th Anniversary.

Sponsor: Dennis Kruse

Driving authority permits. Provides for the issuance of driving authority permits, probationary driving authority permits, and learner's driving authority permits (permits) to residents of Indiana who cannot provide proof of identity and lawful status in the United States. Provides that permits may not be used for federal identification or any federal purposes. Requires that an individual who holds a permit and operates a motor vehicle must verify that financial responsibility on any motor vehicle that the holder operates is continuously maintained in the amounts required by law. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

Habitat conservation stamp. Establishes the Indiana fish and wildlife habitat conservation stamp.

Sponsor: Matt Pierce

Food deserts study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign topics to a study committee concerning the food deserts in rural and urban areas of Indiana.

Sponsor: Vanessa Summers

Student assessments. Replaces the ISTEP test program with an assessment program using the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills or the Iowa Tests of Educational Development, as appropriate for the grade level being tested. Repeals a statute establishing the ISTEP program citizens' review committee. Repeals a provision defining the ISTEP program. Repeals an expiration provision. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Michael Delph

Requires the general assembly to establish a commission to draw congressional and legislative districts. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.

Sponsor: Michael Delph

Statewide trauma care system study. Urges the legislative council to assign the study of Indiana's trauma care system to a study committee during the 2017 legislative interim.

Sponsor: Jean Leising

Gary schools. Provides that the following apply to the Gary Community School Corporation: (1) The governing body of the Gary Community School Corporation shall appoint a superintendent for academics and a chief operating officer. Specifies the powers and duties of these individuals. (2) The fiscal management board is established, consisting of one member appointed by the governing body of the Gary Community School Corporation, one member appointed by the mayor of the city of Gary, and one member appointed by the superintendent of public instruction. Provides that members of the fiscal management board must have experience in finance and financial

Sponsor: Eddie Melton

Medicinal use of hemp oil. Exempts caregivers and individuals with intractable epilepsy from prosecution for possession of hemp oil if the oil is being used to treat intractable epilepsy in a child (or an adult if the individual began using hemp oil as a child) under the caregiver's care.

Sponsor: Donald Lehe

Appointed superintendent of public instruction. Provides that, after January 10, 2021, the state superintendent of public instruction is to be appointed by the governor. Repeals a provision that a candidate for the office of state superintendent of public instruction must have resided in Indiana for at least two years. Makes conforming and technical amendments.

Sponsor: Eric Bassler

Grant programs and liquor excise taxes. Creates the Indiana arts commission arts development fund to provide grants to fund the arts throughout Indiana. Creates the DNR (department of natural resources) waterways development fund to provide grants to: (1) maintain and clean state, county, and local waterways; and (2) purchase land near a waterway that will assist in cleaning that waterway. Creates the DNR parks and trails development fund to provide money to maintain state and local parks and trails. Creates the water infrastructure development revolving fund to provide money to repair existing water infrastructure. Raises the alcohol excise tax by

Sponsor: Jon Ford

Age of consent. Adds the criminal offense of indiscretion, which is committed when a person who is at least 23 years of age engages in sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct, fondling, or touching with a child who is at least 16 years of age but less than 18 years of age. Provides that a teacher's license may be revoked or contract canceled for conviction of indiscretion. Adds indiscretion to the list of sex offenses. Makes conforming amendments. Makes a technical correction.

Sponsor: Karlee Macer

Location of wind turbine facilities. Establishes minimum setback requirements for wind power devices. Provides that an ordinance or amended ordinance regarding construction or location of wind power devices may not take effect unless the construction or location of wind power devices within the county, municipality, or township has been approved by voters in a public question. Establishes disclosure requirements applicable to wind farm developers regarding potential conflicts of interest of elected and unelected officials in proposed wind farm developments. Provides that certain ethical violations related to supervision of wind farm development constitute conflict of interests for purposes of public servant

Sponsor: Thomas Saunders

Storm water management user fees. Provides that if the department of public works of a consolidated city adopts a storm water master plan and the master plan delineates the geographic area of the county benefited by the storm water management projects included in the master plan, the board of public works of the consolidated city may not assess or collect user fees from the owners of property that is located in the county but not located within the geographic area delineated in the master plan as benefited by the storm water management projects included in the master plan.

Sponsor: Justin Moed

Accessing child pornography. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a person to access, with intent to view, a photograph or other pictorial representation that depicts or describes sexual conduct by a child who the person knows is less than 18 years of age or who appears to be less than 18 years of age.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

Business personal property taxes. Provides that the owner of personal property that qualifies for the $20,000 and under personal property tax exemption may choose between claiming the exemption or filing a completed personal property tax return.

Sponsor: Vernon Smith

Additional teacher salary. Provides that a school corporation may provide an increase or increment in a local salary range for a teacher who attains a master's degree or doctorate degree. Removes an obsolete provision.

Sponsor: Vernon Smith

County highway supervisors and engineers. Provides for various grant-in-aid subsidies to each county that employs a county highway supervisor who is enrolled in the Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) road scholar program and is working to achieve, or has achieved, the master road builder designation. Increases the grant-in-aid subsidy to each county that employs a county highway engineer. Makes an appropriation.

Sponsor: Mike Braun

1977 fund and sheriff's disability benefits. Provides that: (1) a fund member of the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (1977 fund); and (2) an employee beneficiary of a sheriff's pension trust; who has a permanent and total disability that is the direct result of a catastrophic personal injury that occurs in the line of duty after July 1, 2017, and that permanently prevents the fund member or employee beneficiary from performing any gainful work receives for the remainder of the individual's life a disability benefit equal to the monthly salary of a first class patrolman or

Sponsor: Jack Sandlin

Artisan distiller sales at farmers' markets. Allows artisan distillers to sell liquor to consumers by the bottle at a farmers' market that is operated on a nonprofit basis.

Sponsor: Terri Jo Austin

Firearm ownership and medical records. Prohibits a practitioner or medical records custodian from disclosing certain information relating to a patient's ownership of a firearm. Prohibits a political subdivision or the board regulating a practitioner from requiring the practitioner to: (1) inquire whether a patient owns a firearm; (2) document in a patient's medical record whether the patient owns a firearm; or (3) notify any governmental entity of the patient's identification solely on the basis of the patient's ownership of a firearm.

Sponsor: Christopher Judy

Law enforcement ombudsman. Establishes the office of the law enforcement ombudsman (ombudsman). Provides that the governor appoints the ombudsman, who must be a licensed attorney and devote full time to the duties of the office. Provides that the ombudsman receives and investigates complaints made against law enforcement officers of state and local law enforcement agencies to determine if the law enforcement agency's investigation of the law enforcement officer's actions was complete, thorough, objective, and fair. Requires the ombudsman to have access to any local or state agency records that are relevant to the complaint. Provides that if the ombudsman determines

Sponsor: Vanessa Summers

Possession of firearms on school property. Permits a person who may legally possess a firearm to possess a firearm on school property if the person possesses the firearm: (1) as an employee or volunteer of a house of worship located on the school property; or (2) while attending a worship service or religious ceremony conducted at a house of worship located on the school property.

Sponsor: Jack Sandlin

Sales tax exemption for firearms and ammunition. Provides a sales tax exemption for transactions involving firearms and ammunition.

Sponsor: Robert Morris

Various property tax matters. Requires an exchange of evidence between a property taxpayer and an assessing official before a preliminary informal meeting and before any county property tax assessment board of appeals (PTABOA) hearing. Provides that costs directly attributable to the sale of a property tax certificate of sale include all costs of all county offices and not only the costs of the county executive. Allows an immediate family member to be a tax representative for a property owner at a PTABOA hearing. Provides that, when a local unit obtains real property from a person on which taxes are owed,

Sponsor: Vernon Smith

Property tax collection. Requires a person that applies to register a vehicle (applicant) to furnish proof, as a condition of registering a vehicle, that the applicant has paid all relevant property taxes, special assessments, interest, and penalties for which the applicant is liable. Provides that county auditors shall issue certifications to eligible registrants of motor vehicles in their respective counties that: (1) the registrant's liability for all relevant property taxes, special assessments, penalties, and interest is paid in full; or (2) the registrant is not liable for any property taxes, special assessments, penalties, or interest. Requires the bureau of motor

Sponsor: Vernon Smith

State payments in lieu of property taxes. Requires the state to make payments in lieu of property taxes (PILOTs) for qualified parcels in counties in which at least 15% of all land in the county is: (1) in the aggregate, owned or leased by the state of Indiana or the federal government; and (2) subject to an exemption from property taxes. Defines "qualified parcel" as a parcel that is: (1) owned or leased by the state of Indiana; (2) subject to an exemption from property taxes; and (3) located in a county to which this act applies. Provides that a

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Testing opioid treatment program patients. Requires that an opioid treatment program periodically and randomly test a patient for certain drugs at least 16 times during each 12 month period during the patient's treatment by the program.

Sponsor: Jeff Raatz

Exemption for military service income. Provides a 100% income tax deduction for all military service income received by an individual or the individual's surviving spouse. Removes the minimum age requirement for an individual to deduct a military pension benefit.

Sponsor: Randall Frye

Gary Community School Corporation. Appropriates $50,240,000 from the state general fund to the department of education to pay some of the bond obligations of the Gary Community School Corporation.

Sponsor: Vernon Smith

Tobacco crimes. Raises the penalty from a Class C infraction to a Class B infraction if a person sells cigarettes other than in an unopened package. Raises the penalty from a Class C infraction to a Class B infraction if a person sells or distributes tobacco or an electronic cigarette to a person less than 18 years of age. Requires the alcohol and tobacco commission to revoke a tobacco sales certificate if a certificate holder has three convictions for certain tobacco crimes.

Sponsor: Vernon Smith

School buildings. Requires the department of education (department) to conduct a review of each school building in a school corporation, including: (1) the physical condition of each school building; and (2) the student enrollment of each school building. Requires the department to provide the information to the school corporation and to post the results of the review on the department's Internet web site.

Sponsor: Mara Reardon

Voyeurism. Provides that the crime of voyeurism is a Level 5 felony if the person peeped upon is less than 15 years of age.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

Coverage for abuse deterrent opioids. Requires that, if an abuse deterrent opioid analgesic is available with a certain active ingredient, state employee health plans, policies of accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organization contracts must provide coverage for at least one abuse deterrent opioid analgesic that provides that active ingredient.

Sponsor: Steven Davisson

School facility ADA compliance. Requires charter schools and eligible schools, jointly in consultation with the department of education (department), before July 1, 2018, to establish standards of compliance (standards) with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Requires the department to post the standards on the department's Internet web site. Allows the department to conduct an assessment of the school buildings, educational programs, and student activities of each charter school and eligible school to determine the school's compliance with the standards. Provides that, notwithstanding any other law, each charter school or eligible school that receives public funds must meet the standards

Sponsor: Mara Reardon

State income tax credit for licensed teachers. Provides a state income tax credit for an individual who is a licensed K-12 classroom teacher. Specifies that the credit is limited to state income taxes on the income earned from the individual's employment as a classroom teacher.

Sponsor: Todd Huston

Ballistics and microstamping of firearms. Defines "ballistics" and "microstamping" and urges the legislative council to assign the topic of ballistics and microstamping to an interim study committee.

Sponsor: Vanessa Summers

Modifying the symbol of accessibility. Requires that parking signs for accessible parking spaces for an individual with a physical disability must bear, instead of the international symbol of accessibility (also known as the international wheelchair symbol), a modified symbol of access, and describes the symbol. Requires that license plates and placards for display in or on a vehicle used to transport a person with a disability must bear, rather than the international symbol of accessibility, the modified symbol of access.

Sponsor: Holli Sullivan

Controlled substances and reporting. Requires the professional licensing agency (agency) to establish a workgroup consisting of emergency medical technicians, registered nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, physicians, and law enforcement officers for the purpose of evaluating the cost and feasability of cataloging: (1) each administration of an overdose intervention drug by an emergency medical services provider; and (2) data related to certain controlled substance investigations by law enforcement; in the INSPECT data base. Requires the agency to provide: (1) statutory recommendations; and (2) a written report; to the legislative council not later than December 1, 2017.

Sponsor: James Merritt

Public purchasing. Specifies requirements for the department of administration's application of factors or criteria to proposals offered in response to a request for proposals for a purchase by a state agency. Requires the department of administration, before a contract is awarded, to provide an explanation of the method by which the factors or criteria are applied to a proposal.

Sponsor: Ronald Bacon

Admissions tax. Repeals flexible scheduling for riverboats. Changes the riverboat admissions tax to a percentage rate of the riverboat's adjusted gross receipts beginning October 1, 2014, and ending September 30, 2016, divided by the total riverboat admissions tax that the riverboat paid beginning October 1, 2014, and ending September 30, 2016. Changes the distributions of riverboat admissions taxes from a set dollar amount to percentages of the adjusted gross receipts.

Sponsor: Holli Sullivan

Crisis intervention team grant program and fund. Establishes the crisis intervention team grant program (program) and crisis intervention team grant fund (fund) to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies to establish and operate crisis intervention teams. Requires the Indiana criminal justice institute to: (1) administer the program and fund; (2) develop procedures for making grants from the fund; and (3) develop criteria for making grants with the assistance of the Indiana technical assistance center.

Sponsor: Ronald Grooms

Vehicle bill. None

Vehicle bill. None

Driver's licenses and veterans. Provides that the motor vehicle excise tax credit for veterans who do not own property to which certain property tax deductions may be applied is equal to the motor vehicle excise tax liability for the veteran's vehicle. (Current law provides that the credit is equal to the lesser of the amount of the excise tax liability for the vehicle or $70.) Provides that an individual may request an indication of the individual's status as a surviving spouse of a veteran on the individual's driver's license or state identification card. (Current law provides only for an indication

Sponsor: Mike Speedy

Veterans service officer funding. Requires the state lottery commission to adopt rules to establish a scratch off game to benefit Indiana veterans. Deposits revenue from the sale of tickets for the scratch off game into the veterans service officer fund and the veterans service officer training fund. Requires a part of local income taxes to be withheld from cities and counties that fail to enforce accreditation and reaccreditation requirements for city and county veterans service officers. Requires notification from the director of the department of veterans' affairs to county and city executives concerning noncompliance of veterans service officer accreditation requirements.

Sponsor: Randall Frye

Elimination of textbook fees. Requires public schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost to a student. Establishes the curricular materials fund to provide state reimbursements for costs incurred by public schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost. Provides that the department of education shall administer the fund. Provides that money in the fund is continually appropriated. Makes corresponding changes.

Sponsor: Ryan Hatfield

Water supply development and sustainability costs. Authorizes a public utility that provides water utility service to petition the utility regulatory commission (commission) for approval of a plan to develop a future source of water supply. Requires the commission to approve the plan if the commission finds that the proposed future source of supply is reasonably needed within the utility's timetable for providing reasonably adequate service. Provides that, after the utility's plan is approved, the commission shall, for ratemaking purposes, add the costs incurred by the utility in developing the future source of water supply to the value of the water

Sponsor: Heath VanNatter

Education options account program. Establishes the education options account program (program). Requires the treasurer of state to administer the program. Establishes: (1) the education options account fund; and (2) requirements and conditions for the program. Requires the treasurer of state to: (1) annually request a parent of an eligible student who is participating in the program to complete a written survey; and (2) annually provide a summary of the survey to the governor and the legislative council. Continuously appropriates money from the education options account fund and the accounts established within the fund for the purposes of the program. Provides

Sponsor: Jim Lucas

License plates for disabled Hoosier veterans. Provides for a disabled Hoosier veteran to receive annually one motor vehicle license plate free of charge.

Sponsor: Robert Morris

Laura's Law. To honor the memory of Laura Russell, provides that if a court denies a request for an arrest warrant involving a crime of domestic violence, a prosecuting attorney may petition a court to hold an ex parte hearing to present additional evidence to establish probable cause. Requires a court to hold the ex parte hearing within 24 hours after the petition is filed. Provides that if a court denies a request for an arrest warrant after the ex parte hearing and issues a summons for the defendant, certain notice of the summons to the victim is required. Requires

Sponsor: Terry Goodin

Provides that the people of Indiana may propose and adopt amendments to the Constitution of the State of Indiana and propose and enact statutes independent of the General Assembly through initiative. Provides that the people of Indiana may approve or reject through referendum any statute or part of any statute enacted by the General Assembly. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.

Sponsor: Scott Pelath

Safe and supportive schools. Requires the department of education (department) to: (1) develop a safe and supportive school framework; (2) create a school monitoring tool; and (3) develop procedures for updating, improving, or refining the safe and supportive school framework and the school monitoring tool. Allows a school corporation, by a vote of the school corporation's governing body, to: (1) implement a safe and supportive school framework; and (2) develop and implement an action plan to create and maintain the safe and supportive school framework. Allows, upon approval, a public school to develop and implement an action plan to create

Sponsor: Scott Pelath

Regulation of naturopathic physicians. Provides for licensure of practitioners of naturopathic medicine.

Sponsor: Donald Lehe

Indianapolis airport authority. Provides that as of June 1, 2017, the advisory member of the board of the Indianapolis Airport Authority representing Morgan County becomes a full voting member of the board. Makes conforming changes.

Sponsor: Peggy Mayfield

Vehicle bill. None

Small estates. Increases, from five days to 10 days, the time that must elapse after a decedent's death before title to a vehicle or watercraft may be transferred to a small estate from a person in possession of the assets of the decedent (obligor). Increases, from three days to five days, the amount of time within which an obligor must furnish certain information in response to an affidavit. Prohibits a court clerk from collecting a court costs fee for the filing of a closing statement associated with a small estate. Makes technical corrections.

Sponsor: Joseph Zakas

Investigation of overdose deaths. Requires a coroner as part of an investigation into the death of a decedent who is at least 13 years of age, to: (1) have a drugs of abuse panel performed to detect the presence of schedule I and schedule II controlled substances; and (2) forward the test results to the state department of health. Creates an account in the state general fund, administered by the state department of health, to reimburse a coroner for the cost of performing the drugs of abuse panels. Requires the coroner's training board to provide instruction to coroners and deputy

Sponsor: James Merritt

Overdose intervention drug report. Requires that information reported to the Indiana emergency medical services commission concerning the administration of an overdose intervention drug: (1) include the county in which the drug was administered; and (2) be shared with the state department of health.

Sponsor: Jean Breaux

Victim compensation and victims' rights. Provides that: (1) leaving the scene of an accident if the accident results in serious bodily injury or death; and (2) operating while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury or death; are "violent crimes" for purposes of the victim compensation act. Provides that if a victim requests an expedited trial, the court shall require a trial or disposition of the criminal case within 18 months.

Sponsor: Ryan Hatfield

Privacy of license plate data. Prohibits a law enforcement agency from retaining license plate data captured by an automated license plate reader for more than 30 days. Specifies exceptions to this retention limit in specified circumstances, including: (1) for captured plate data obtained under a warrant; and (2) for purposes related to ongoing investigations. Allows a law enforcement agency to share captured plate data with another law enforcement agency in certain circumstances. Allows a party to pending or potential litigation, or the party's attorney, to request the retention of captured plate data for more than 30 days. Allows the owner

Sponsor: Matt Pierce

Emergency action plans. Requires schools to create emergency action plans in consultation with emergency medical services personnel, school public safety officials, onsite first responders, and school administrators. Specifies that the emergency action plans must be tailored to each individual facility hosting an athletic event for student athletes. Requires head coaches and assistant coaches to complete a heat preparedness training course.

Sponsor: Ronald Bacon

Matching fund for sidewalks and multi-use paths. Establishes the Indiana sidewalk and multi-use path program and matching fund (matching fund) to which eligible applicants may apply for grants to finance the construction of new sidewalks and multi-use paths. Specifies that the Indiana department of transportation shall administer the matching fund. Provides that $5,000,000 shall be transferred from the administrative trust fund of the lottery to the matching fund in the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and that $10,000,000 shall be transferred from the administrative trust fund of the lottery to the matching fund in each state fiscal year

Sponsor: Carey Hamilton

Recreational trail maintenance fund. Provides for an annual transfer from the state general fund to the recreational trail maintenance fund (fund) of an amount equal to 10% of the state sales tax collected on the first Saturday of June (National Trails Day). Establishes an application process to receive money from the fund.

Sponsor: William Friend

Vehicle bill. None

Medicaid eligibility of former foster children. Sets forth Medicaid eligibility for individuals who: (1) are at least 18 years of age or emancipated; (2) received foster care in Indiana and in other states before residing in Indiana for at least six months; and (3) are less than 26 years of age. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to verify an individual's status as a foster care recipient with another state if the individual received foster care in the other state. Requires the department of child services (department), in cooperation with the office of Medicaid policy

Sponsor: Todd Huston

Pension cost of living adjustments. Provides for cost of living adjustments for certain members of: (1) the public employees' retirement fund; (2) the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (3) the state police 1987 benefit system; and (4) the state police pre-1987 benefit system. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.)

Sponsor: Martin Carbaugh

Nonpublic schools; school corporation audits. Provides that the state board of education (state board) may accredit a nonpublic school that has: (1) received provisional or candidate accreditation from a nationally or regionally recognized accrediting body recognized by the state board; or (2) demonstrated to the state board the nonpublic school's accomplishments based on the nonpublic school's performance in another state. Provides that the state board may: (1) authorize a school participating in the choice scholarship program or that receives contributions from a scholarship granting organization to sponsor another nonpublic school that has demonstrated to the state board the nonpublic school's

Sponsor: Martin Carbaugh

Precinct committeemen. Provides that precinct committeemen are elected at the time of the primary election in each even-numbered year. Provides that the term of a precinct committeeman is two years instead of four years. Provides that in order for a precinct committeeman or a precinct vice committeeman (exercising the precinct committeeman's proxy) to participate in a caucus to fill a vacancy, the committeeman or vice committeeman must be entitled to vote for the office for which a successor is to be selected in the caucus. Repeals a statute providing for the election of precinct committeemen of the Indiana Republican Party

Sponsor: Mike Speedy

Corporal punishment. Prohibits the use of corporal punishment on public school students, including charter school, students. Allows the use of reasonable and necessary force in certain situations.

Sponsor: Philip GiaQuinta

Vehicle bill. None

Tax credit for aquaponics systems. Provides for a credit against a taxpayer's state tax liability for expenditures made by the taxpayer during a taxable year for the acquisition, construction, enlargement, or rehabilitation of an aquaponics system for use in the taxpayer's trade or business.

Sponsor: Melanie Wright

Vehicle bill. None

Student emergency safety plans. Requires, not later than January 1, 2018, the commission for higher education to prepare and disseminate to each state educational institution recommendations and guidelines concerning emergency procedures for student safety. Requires, not later than July 1, 2018, a state educational institution to establish a student emergency safety plan that sets forth the state educational institution's student safety procedures in cases of emergency situations on a campus of the state educational institution. Requires, beginning after August 31, 2018, a state educational institution to provide written information concerning the student emergency safety plan to new students and present

Sponsor: Ryan Hatfield

Merger of state library and the historical bureau. Merges the Indiana historical bureau into the Indiana state library as a division of the library. (Current law specifies that the Indiana historical bureau and the Indiana state library are separate divisions of the Indiana library and historical department (ILHD).) Specifies that: (1) the ILHD shall manage the library; and (2) the library shall manage the bureau. Requires the director of the library to appoint a chief administrative officer of the bureau. (Current law requires the board of the ILHD to appoint a director of the bureau.) Makes conforming changes.

Sponsor: Thomas Saunders

Vehicle bill. None

Report on underground natural resources. Requires the department of natural resources (DNR) to prepare a report that: (1) presents a comprehensive inventory of underground natural resources present in property belonging to the state; (2) indicates, for each site at which underground natural resources are located, the financial return the state is receiving from the underground natural resources, if any; (3) presents, for each site, options that might enable the state to begin receiving a return or to increase its return on the underground natural resources; and (4) indicates the option that, in the DNR's judgment, would offer the best and

Sponsor: Steven Stemler

Income tax deduction for military income. Provides for an income tax deduction for military income equal to the annual military pay and allowances received by a staff sergeant with the rank of (E-7) in the armed forces of the United States or an officer or enlisted person of the same rank or grade in the service of the armed forces of the United States.

Sponsor: Peggy Mayfield

Medicaid accountable care pilot program. Establishes the Medicaid accountable care pilot program (program) to be developed, implemented, and administered by the office of Medicaid policy and planning (office). Sets forth eligibility for participation in the program. Requires implementation of the program not later than April 1, 2018. Requires the office to: (1) include a savings sharing component as part of the program; (2) share certain relevant information with a participating accountable care organization; (3) develop metrics for determining whether the program is successful; and (4) prepare and publish a report concerning the results of providing care under the program. Expires

Sponsor: Robin Shackleford

Worker's compensation. Defines "rejected risk" for purposes of coverage under the worker's compensation assigned risk plan.

Sponsor: Peggy Mayfield

Regulation of e-liquids. Changes an applicability date in the definition of "security firm" in the statute regulating e-liquids. Provides that a security firm may not be owned by an e-liquids manufacturer, retailer, or distributor. Provides that a security firm is not required to be a locksmith. Removes the date requirement regarding applications for e-liquid manufacturing permits. Provides that the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) may issue up to 10 e-liquid manufacturing permits. Requires a security firm to notify the commission if the security firm does not meet the security firm requirements. Provides that the commission may allow a security firm

Sponsor: Kevin Mahan

Action for contribution for railroad employees. Creates a right of action for contribution against a third party for claims that arise under the Federal Employers' Liability Act.

Sponsor: Matthew Lehman

Vehicle bill. None

Exotic animals and endangered species. Defines "domestically bred species and subspecies" as any member of a species or subspecies of fish and wildlife appearing on the United States list of endangered foreign fish and wildlife (50 CFR 17, Appendix A) that is bred in the United States or any territory of the United States from parents or stock held in captivity at the time the breeding of the specimen takes place. Specifies that certain domestically bred species and subspecies of fish and wildlife are excluded from certain prohibitions spelled out in fish and wildlife laws.

Sponsor: Heath VanNatter

Dental recruitment program. Establishes a dental recruitment fee of $10 for dental hygienists and $20 for dentists to be paid in addition to the license renewal fee. Requires that the recruitment fee must be deposited in the Indiana dental recruitment fund. Amends the requirements for a dental recruitment grant (grant) to provide that a dentist must commit to working four years in an underserved area or as a minority dentist in Indiana and meet other requirements for a yearly grant of $30,000 to $35,000 with the option by the dentist to serve fifth year for a grant of $40,000; or

Sponsor: David Frizzell

Increases the membership of the Indiana senate to 100 members and the membership of the Indiana house to 200 members beginning November 8, 2022.

Sponsor: Ryan Dvorak

Exemption for military service income. Provides a 100% income tax deduction for all military service income received by an individual or the individual's surviving spouse. Removes the minimum age requirement for an individual to deduct a military pension benefit.

Sponsor: Mike Speedy

Medicaid reimbursement for services for disabilities. Requires the division of disability and rehabilitative services, in coordination with the office of Medicaid policy and planning for purposes of reimbursement under the Medicaid program, to establish, to the extent possible, reimbursement rates for services for individuals with developmental disabilities at a rate that allows individuals providing the services a living wage.

Sponsor: Melanie Wright

Vehicle bill. None

Food and beverage taxes in Rush County. Authorizes Rush County to adopt a county food and beverage tax after May 31, 2017, and before December 1, 2017. Provides that the tax rate may not exceed 1%. Provides that money received from the tax shall be distributed by the treasurer of state as follows: (1) 50% to the county. (2) 50% to the city of Rushville. Specifies that if Rush County does not adopt a food and beverage tax before December 1, 2017, the city of Rushville may adopt a municipal food and beverage tax after November 30, 2017. Provides that

Sponsor: Thomas Saunders

Standard deduction. Requires a county auditor to grant an individual a standard deduction regardless of whether the individual and the individual's spouse claim a deduction on two different applications and each application claims a deduction for different property if the individual files an affidavit with the county auditor containing certain information. Allows a county auditor to require an individual to provide evidence of the accuracy of the information contained in the affidavit.

Sponsor: Peggy Mayfield

Firearms on public property. Repeals statutes prohibiting the carrying or possession of firearms on: (1) school property; and (2) a school bus. Provides that the state of Indiana may not regulate: (1) firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories; (2) the ownership, possession, carrying, transportation, registration, transfer, and storage of firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories; or (3) commerce in and taxation of firearms, firearms ammunition, and firearm accessories. Provides certain exceptions. Provides that any provision of an ordinance, measure, enactment, rule, or policy enacted by the state pertaining to firearms regulation is void. Provides that a person not otherwise prohibited from carrying

Sponsor: Jim Lucas

Vehicle bill. None

Medicinal use of cannabidiol. Authorizes a physician to provide a patient with a letter or other document stating that the person possesses cannabidiol (CBD) to treat intractable epilepsy or severe muscle spasms. Provides a defense to certain controlled substance possession offenses if: (1) the controlled substance possessed by the person is CBD; (2) the CBD does not contain tetrahydrocannabinol or another psychoactive substance; (3) the person possesses a letter from a physician stating that the person possesses CBD for certain medical purposes; and (4) the CBD was purchased in another state, was sold in a sealed container with a label

Sponsor: Greg Beumer

Veterans' preference for firefighter hiring. Establishes the veterans' preference for firefighter hiring pilot program (program). Encourages the hiring of certain veterans for an entry level firefighter position by allowing a local unit to apply for a grant when a qualifying veteran is hired. Limits program eligibility to local units that hire at an entry level firefighter position a veteran who: (1) has served not less than three consecutive years of service in the United States Army, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Coast Guard, or the Indiana National Guard;

Sponsor: Todd Huston

Establishes the Indiana permanent fund (fund) in the state treasury. Provides that the fund consists of: (1) 50% or such other greater percentage established by law of any general fund budget surplus realized during a state fiscal year; (2) appropriations made to the fund; and (3) other sources designated by law. Provides for the allocation of income among the fund, the state general fund, and other state funds designated by law. Provides that the principal of the fund may be used only for those investments specifically designated by law as eligible for investment from the fund.

Sponsor: Ryan Dvorak

Stop human trafficking license plate. Establishes a stop human trafficking license plate. Provides that fees collected from the stop human trafficking license plates be deposited in the human trafficking prevention and victim assistance fund.

Sponsor: Julie Olthoff

Juvenile courts and facilities. Grants immunity under the Indiana tort claims act for the adoption or enforcement, or the failure to adopt or enforce, a security policy in a building used by a governmental entity, unless the enforcement constitutes false arrest or false imprisonment. Adds to the definition of "law enforcement officer" a member of the security staff of a circuit or superior court acting under a court security policy.

Sponsor: Martin Carbaugh

Advance deposit wagering. Authorizes wagering on horse racing through advance deposit wagering. Provides for the regulation of advance deposit wagering. Imposes an excise tax on wagers made through advance deposit wagering by Indiana residents. Establishes the equine industry infrastructure fund for the deposit of the excise tax revenue. Authorizes the use of the excise tax revenue for grants to promote Indiana horse racing and Indiana horse racing tracks. Authorizes the Indiana horse racing commission to adopt administrative rules concerning advance deposit wagering.

Sponsor: Robert Cherry

Marion County judicial selection. Provides for the selection of Marion superior court (court) judges. Establishes the 13 member Marion County judicial selection committee (committee). Provides that, when the committee learns of a vacancy or open judicial seat on the court, the committee follows certain procedures that conclude in the committee appointing a judge to the court (in the case of an open judicial seat) or sending the names of three nominees to the governor (in the case of a vacancy). Specifies that the Indiana judicial center shall receive public comments concerning a candidate, remove identifying information from the comments, and

Sponsor: Michael Young

Handguns and professional staff. Permits certain employees of the general assembly to carry a handgun within the state capitol building and on the property of the state capitol complex if the employee: (1) possesses a valid Indiana license to carry a handgun; and (2) is otherwise permitted to possess a handgun.

Sponsor: James Tomes

Licensed clinical social workers. Allows applicants for licensure as a clinical social worker (LCSW) to obtain required clinical social work experience by working at a community mental health center or other qualified facility or program and under the supervision of a qualified LCSW supervisor. Provides that any supervised clinical social work experience hours that an applicant accumulates do not expire and may be used by the applicant to satisfy the supervised clinical social work experience requirements.

Sponsor: Terri Jo Austin

Stillbirth protocols and reporting. Requires the state department of health to develop and implement policies to advance the goal of preventing and reducing the incidences of stillbirth in Indiana. Adds stillbirth as a reportable birth problem for purposes of the birth problems registry. Extends the abolishment date for the birth problems registry from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2020.

Sponsor: Joseph Zakas

Industrial hemp. Allows the state seed commissioner to adopt rules to implement laws concerning industrial hemp. Encourages Indiana University School of Medicine and other state educational institutions to research the use of cannabidiol oil (CBD) from a hemp plant in the treatment of intractable epilepsy. Provides that an individual who possesses or uses CBD from a hemp plant for the treatment of intractable epilepsy is not subject to criminal penalties for the possession or use of the CBD if certain conditions are met. Provides civil, criminal, and administrative immunity for a physician who recommends, dispenses, possesses, or administers CBD in

Sponsor: Sheila Klinker

Health insurance coverage and cost information. Requires health care providers and health plans to provide to covered individuals and patients certain information concerning the cost of health care services. Requires health care providers to publish a payment policy for medically necessary health care services not covered by a third party payment source. Requires the department of insurance to establish, post, and maintain on the department's Internet web site a standardized prior authorization form for notice or authorization for health care services. Requires a state employee health plan, an accident and sickness insurer, and a health maintenance organization to: (1) use

Sponsor: Donna Schaibley

Human trafficking. Provides that a child who was: (1) the victim of human trafficking; and (2) adjudicated a delinquent child for an act performed while a victim of human trafficking; is entitled to have the adjudication vacated if certain conditions are met. Makes it a Level 6 felony to access with intent to view a photograph or other pictorial representation that depicts or describes sexual conduct by a child who the person knows is less than 18 years of age or who appears to be less than 18 years of age. Requires manufacturers, sellers, and distributers of Internet enabled devices

Sponsor: Wendy McNamara

Sentencing. Provides that a person who: (1) commits an offense; and (2) is sentenced; before July 1, 2014, may petition a court for a modified sentence consistent with the statutory penalties enacted on July 1, 2014, by HEA 1006-2014. Prohibits a person from seeking a modified sentence if: (1) the person is a credit restricted felon; (2) the person is a violent criminal; or (3) the person has already received a sentence modification. Defines certain terms. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Wes Culver

Honoring the inductees and the Indiana Military Veterans Hall of Fame.

Sponsor: John Bartlett

Out-of-state drug prescriptions. Provides that if a patient legally obtains a drug containing marijuana, hash oil, hashish, or salvia in a state, territory, or possession of the United States other than Indiana through a prescription from a licensed physician acting in the course of the physician's professional medical practice and dispensed by a licensed pharmacist or other licensed dispenser, the patient may possess marijuana, hash oil, hashish, or salvia subject to certain requirements and limitations.

Sponsor: Christopher Judy

Venture capital tax credits. Provides that the venture capital investment tax credit may be applied against any retaliatory premium tax liability imposed on out-of-state insurance companies. (A retaliatory tax is added in determining Indiana insurance premium tax liability when the state in which the insurance company is domiciled imposes higher taxes and fees on an Indiana domiciled insurer for the same business.) Increases the maximum amount of tax credits available under the venture capital investment tax credit for the provision of qualified investment capital to a particular qualified Indiana business to be the lesser of: (1) the total amount of

Sponsor: Ben Smaltz

E-liquids taxes. Imposes a tax on e-liquids that contain nicotine at a rate of 10 cents per milliliter of consumable product. Deposits the revenue from the tax in the state general fund and the addiction services fund.

Sponsor: Sheila Klinker

Symbol to signify accessible parking. Requires that parking signs for accessible parking spaces for an individual with a physical disability must bear, instead of the international symbol of accessibility (also known as the international wheelchair symbol), the modified symbol of access. Requires that license plates and placards issued by the bureau of motor vehicles for display in or on a vehicle used to transport a person with a disability must bear, rather than the international symbol of accessibility, the modified symbol of access.

Sponsor: Vaneta Becker

Lakefront or riverfront project alcohol permit. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission to issue not more than 10 new three-way permits (permits to sell beer, wine, and liquor) to a restaurant located: (1) within or near a lakefront or riverfront development project funded in part with state, county, or federal money; (2) within an unincorporated area of a county; and (3) within an economic development area, a redevelopment project area, or a redevelopment area. Provides restrictions on the transfer of the permit. Allows a county to require a permit applicant to enter into a written commitment regarding the character of

Sponsor: Curt Nisly

A SENATE RESOLUTION memorializing the life of Ron Bonham, a basketball legend and Muncie public servant.

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

Labor matters. Makes a technical correction.

Sponsor: Ed Charbonneau

Demand side management programs. Provides that after June 30, 2017, an industrial customer of an electricity supplier may not opt out of participating in an energy efficiency program established by the electricity supplier. Provides that an industrial customer that, before July 1, 2017, opts out of participating in an electricity supplier's energy efficiency program shall, not later than December 31, 2017, subsequently participate in the same or a different energy efficiency program. Provides that after December 31, 2017, energy efficiency targets or goals that are approved or mandated by the utility regulatory commission (IURC) in a demand side management order

Sponsor: Ryan Dvorak

Filling city and town court vacancies. Provides that a person selected to fill a city office not held by a major party shall immediately hold the office upon appointment. Removes language allowing a city or town court in existence on January 1, 1986, to be abolished by ordinance.

Sponsor: Micheal Aylesworth

Rural entrepreneurship area incentives. Permits the office of community and rural affairs (office) to designate an applicant rural county as a rural entrepreneurship area development incentives area (READI area). Provides for the distribution of adjusted gross income taxes paid annually by employees working in an area for a new business or paid annually by additional employees in an existing business and by the new business itself to the rural county for the development of new business opportunities in the rural county, including transfers to local or regional venture capital funds. Limits the amount that may be distributed to a particular

Sponsor: Ben Smaltz

Visitation for former foster parents. Provides that a foster parent may file a petition seeking visitation rights with a child if the child was placed under the care and supervision of the foster parent for at least 12 months. Requires the court to enter a decree after holding a hearing. Allows the court to modify an order granting or denying visitation rights. Requires the department of child services to provide notification to a foster parent if the parent-child relationship of a child who was placed under the care and supervision of the foster parent for at least 12 months is

Sponsor: Ben Smaltz

Urging the Legislative Council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of a Fair Tax at the state level.

Sponsor: Christopher Judy

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Edward Spitznagle, Assistant Chief of the West Lafayette Fire Department, on the occasion of his Retirement.

Sponsor: Ronnie Alting

Driver safety program. Requires that an individual less than 21 years of age must complete a driving safety program approved by the bureau of motor vehicles if the individual has at least twice done either of the following or has done both of the following: (1) Been convicted of a moving traffic offense. (2) Been the operator of a motor vehicle involved in an incident for which points may be assessed by the bureau.

Sponsor: Dave Heine

A SENATE RESOLUTION congratulating Bette Worley on her retirement from the National Student Exchange (NSE) Program.

Sponsor: Dennis Kruse

State police salaries. Requires the office of management and budget to annually prepare and submit a report to the budget committee and the legislative council that compares the base salaries of: (1) police employees of the state police department; and (2) police officers of the three largest local police departments in Indiana. Requires the budget committee to review the report. Provides that the budget committee may make findings and recommendations regarding base salary parity among state police department police employees and the local police officers used for comparison. Requires the budget committee to report its findings and recommendations to the

Sponsor: Ben Smaltz

Pharmacy security matching grant fund. Establishes the enhanced pharmacy security matching grant fund (fund) to provide matching grants to businesses that own and operate licensed pharmacies in Indiana for the purpose of increasing security measures. Provides that the fund consists of certain fees that are deposited into and transferred from the controlled substances data fund. Limits matching grants to $10,000 per pharmacy location. Provides that the fund expires July 1, 2020.

Sponsor: Steven Davisson

Urging the Governor to proclaim May 6 as Moyamoya Awareness Day.

Sponsor: Doug Miller

Pharmacy remote dispensing facility registration. Establishes a registration for pharmacy remote dispensing facilities. Sets forth requirements for the registration and requirements of the remote dispensing facility. Allows pharmacy technicians to staff a remote dispensing facility with supervision from a pharmacist through the use of computers, videos, and audio technology. Includes pharmacy interns in the limitations of the number of individuals that may be supervised by a pharmacist, and specifies that not more than three of the six individuals being supervised by a pharmacist may be pharmacy technicians in training.

Sponsor: David Ober

Immunity for safe haven boxes for newborn babies. Provides immunity from civil liability for qualified service providers and employees of qualified service providers for any act or omission relating to the installation, operation, use, supervision, or maintenance of safe haven boxes for newborn babies.

Sponsor: Martin Carbaugh

Charter schools in Gary. Prohibits, beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2022, an authorizer from granting to an organizer a charter to operate a charter school that is or will be located in the city of Gary unless the Gary Community School Corporation has no outstanding loans or advances from the common school fund.

Sponsor: Eddie Melton

Work opportunity grant program. Creates the work opportunity grant program (program) to provide grants to employers that continue to employ certain eligible employees into a second year of employment. Provides that the department of workforce development administers the program. Creates a purchasing preference for employers that are awarded a grant under the program.

Sponsor: Doug Eckerty

Availability of electronic medical records. Requires a health care provider to electronically record information from the examination of or provision of services to a patient into the patient's electronic health record within 72 hours after the patient visit. Sets forth a civil penalty of $500 per patient visit for a health care provider who fails to update the patient's electronic health record, and requires the state department of health to enforce violations.

Sponsor: Wes Culver

Duration of first regular session of the general assembly. Changes the deadline for the general assembly to adjourn sine die in an odd-numbered year from April 29 to April 15.

Sponsor: Todd Huston

Uniform real property electronic recording act. Enacts the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, which provides for the recording of electronic documents related to title to real property. Establishes the electronic recording commission to adopt standards to implement the statute.

Sponsor: Kathy Richardson

Production of alcoholic beverages. Provides the following with regard to a farm winery, a microbrewery, and an artisan distillery (permit holders) that share the same building: (1) The permit holders may not have an ownership or other interest in a restaurant located in the same building. (2) The permit holders may sell the alcoholic beverages they manufacture directly to the restaurant. (3) The restaurant may serve alcoholic beverages by the glass and may not sell alcoholic beverages for carryout.

Sponsor: Ben Smaltz

Elevation of a building in a flood plain. Prohibits the construction of a building in a flood plain unless the elevation of the lowest floor of the building will be at least one foot above the regulatory flood level. Provides that a rule of the natural resources commission (commission) may not require the elevation of the lowest floor of a building constructed in a flood plain to be greater than one foot above the regulatory flood level. Prohibits the director of the department of natural resources from enforcing, and requires the commission to repeal or amend, a rule of the

Sponsor: Jim Pressel

Recognition of veterans of the Gulf Wars. Provides for the soldiers and sailors of the Gulf Wars to be entitled to the same rights and privileges provided by law and held by the soldiers and sailors of other wars and their surviving spouses and orphans. Creates the Veterans Bonus Program.

Sponsor: Doug Eckerty

A SENATE RESOLUTION to congratulate Lynn Staley on her retirement as Principal of Liberty Christian School in Anderson.

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

County jail standards and inspections. Creates the committee on jail standards (committee) within the criminal justice division of the Indiana criminal justice institute. Transfers, on July 1, 2018: (1) the powers and duties of the department of correction (department); and (2) the department's liabilities, records, property, appropriations, and employees; related to county jail standards and inspections to the committee. Requires the committee to do the following not later than July 1, 2018: (1) Adopt standards regarding the condition of county jails. (2) Conduct periodic jail inspections. Requires, after July 1, 2018, the commission to do the following: (1) Receive reports

Sponsor: Kevin Mahan

Municipal-township reorganization. Allows a municipal government to reorganize with a township that is located within the corporate boundaries of the municipality and the unincorporated area of the county. Provides that after the reorganization: (1) the municipal government is also the township government; and (2) a resident of the unincorporated area of the township is entitled to vote for these municipal offices. Provides that after the reorganization, the unincorporated area of the reorganizing township is not incorporated into the municipality and continues to receive county services. Excludes municipalities and townships located in Marion County and townships that have township assessors. Requires

Sponsor: Alan Morrison

Special education scholarship account program. Establishes the Indiana special education scholarship account program (program). Requires the treasurer of state to administer the program. Establishes: (1) the special education scholarship account fund (fund); and (2) requirements and conditions for the program. Requires the department of education (department) to, on or before May 1 and January 1 of each year, provide the treasurer of state a list of the names of students with disabilities who require special education and for whom an individualized education program has been developed. Provides that any grant amount distributed to a taxpayer's Indiana special education scholarship account

Sponsor: Jeff Raatz

Teacher salaries. Provides that a school corporation may offer a teacher who on June 30, 2011: (1) was employed with the school corporation; and (2) had at least 10 years of teaching experience; a one time annual salary increase. Provides that compensation attributable to additional degrees or graduate credits for which a teacher has started course work before July 1, 2011, and completed course work before September 2, 2018, shall also continue for school years beginning after June 30, 2015. (Current law provides that compensation attributable to additional degrees for which a teacher has started course work before July 1,

Sponsor: Jeffrey Thompson

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the USS Indiana Commissioning Committee for its commitment to building a lasting relationship between the State and People of Indiana, and the Ship and Crew of the USS Indiana naval vessel.

Sponsor: Howard Kenley

Issues relating to the death of a minor. Provides that if a minor child dies, the parent awarded: (1) sole legal custody; or (2) primary physical custody (if joint legal custody was awarded to the parents); is the parent who may decide issues regarding the disposition of the child's body, including autopsy, cremation, funeral arrangements, or anatomical gifts.

Sponsor: Julie Olthoff

A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring the life of Irene J. Saucer.

Sponsor: Vaneta Becker

Sibling visitation. Provides that a petition seeking visitation rights with a child may be filed by the child's sibling, or by an individual on behalf of the sibling, in certain circumstances. Establishes factors for the court to consider in determining whether granting sibling visitation rights is in the best interests of the child. Requires the court to enter a decree after holding a hearing. Allows the court to modify an order granting or denying sibling visitation rights. Provides that a court may order a party to an action for sibling visitation to pay a reasonable amount for the cost to

Sponsor: Julie Olthoff

Local income taxes. Expires the existing local income tax law on December 31, 2021, and adds a new local income tax law effective in 2022 and thereafter. Does the following under the new local income tax law: (1) Authorizes counties, municipalities, and school corporations to each enact a property tax relief tax rate of not more than 0.5%. Provides that in Marion County, municipalities may not enact a property tax relief rate, but the Marion County city-county council may adopt a 1% property tax relief rate. (2) Authorizes counties (other than Marion County), municipalities (other than municipalities in Marion County),

Sponsor: Jeffrey Thompson

Congratulating the Wapahani High School girls volleyball team on winning the Indiana High School Athletic Association 2016 Class 2A Volleyball State Championship.

Sponsor: Greg Beumer

Assessment of outdoor advertising signs. Eliminates the expiration date of the law specifying the assessed values of outdoor signs. Provides that, beginning with the 2018 assessment date, the assessed values of outdoor signs specified in the statute shall be adjusted on a quadrennial basis by an amount equal to the average of the annual percentage changes in the Core Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index using the four most recent calendar years for which data is available. Provides that the adjustment may not exceed 3%.

Sponsor: Robert Cherry

Various education matters. Provides that appropriations to the department of education to provide grants to school corporations for high ability students must be for expenditures beyond those for regular educational programs. Makes changes to the definition of "teacher" to include a: (1) school nurse; and (2) school social worker. Makes changes to the composition of the board of trustees for Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana.

Sponsor: Robert Behning

Free admission to state parks of veterans with a disability. Provides free admission of certain veterans with a service connected disability to state parks, state museums, playgrounds, and historical sites held or managed by the department of natural resources or the state museum and historic sites corporation.

Sponsor: Terri Jo Austin

Collective bargaining for teachers. Amends, regarding collective bargaining for teachers, the: (1) timelines for an impasse to be declared and for certain mediation requirements; and (2) agreement deadline (at which time the parties will continue the terms of the current contract and the school employer may issue tentative individual contracts and prepare the school employer's budget).

Sponsor: Vaneta Becker

Tax court reorganization. Establishes the position of chief tax judge, who serves with two judges of the Indiana court of appeals as the tax panel of the court of appeals (tax panel). Specifies that the tax panel has jurisdiction to hear appeals from the: (1) Indiana board of tax review (Indiana board); and (2) tax court. Provides that the tax court consists of a pool of six circuit, superior, or probate court judges assigned to the tax court by the supreme court and supervised by the chief tax judge. Transfers jurisdiction to hear cases appealed from the Indiana board of

Sponsor: Brandt Hershman

Ranked choice voting. Permits a municipality to implement ranked choice voting for all of the municipality's elected offices. Permits a county to implement ranked choice voting for all offices elected in the county. Establishes the procedure for a voter to rank the candidates according to the voter's choice when there are three or more candidates for election to an office. Establishes the procedures to count the voter's choices as votes at various stages of tabulating ballots. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Mark Stoops

Emergency rules for outdoor event equipment. Expands the authority of the fire prevention and building safety commission to adopt temporary rules in the manner of emergency rules to govern outdoor event equipment.

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

Property tax exemptions. Specifies that for purposes of the property tax exemption for property owned by or leased to state agencies, the term "state agency" also includes Ball State University, Indiana State University, Indiana University, Ivy Tech Community College, Purdue University, the University of Southern Indiana, and Vincennes University. Specifies that the exemption is also available for property leased to a state agency if the lease requires the state agency to pay the property taxes on the property. (Under current law, the exemption for property leased to a state agency applies if the lease requires the state agency to reimburse

Sponsor: Milo Smith

Veterans. Establishes the office of transition recruiting under the lieutenant governor to recruit active military service personnel during the final six months of their military service to live and work in Indiana at the conclusion of their military service. Establishes the transition recruiting fund to provide grants to counties, cities, and towns that seek to welcome and support recently discharged military service personnel to their communities with various types of financial assistance. Provides for a tax credit against a qualified veteran's adjusted gross income tax liability each taxable year to a qualified veteran who rents a dwelling as a principal

Sponsor: Philip Boots

TANF eligibility. Sets the income eligibility requirements for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program at not more than 50% of the federal income poverty level. Requires the division of family resources to amend the state TANF plan or take any other action necessary to implement the income requirements. Repeals a statute that sets the amount of need payments for the TANF program.

Sponsor: Mark Stoops

Motor vehicle medical information program. Establishes the yellow dot medical information program (program). Specifies that the purpose of the program is to provide: (1) certain medical information; and (2) emergency contact information; to emergency medical services providers (providers). Provides that participation in the program is voluntary, and allows program participants to end participation in the program at any time. Requires motorists participating in the program to affix a yellow dot decal to the lower right interior corner of a participating automobile's driver side window. Requires a: (1) yellow dot program envelope (envelope); and (2) yellow dot information card (card); to

Sponsor: Jim Pressel

Dual language pilot program. Provides that $25,000 is the maximum grant a school corporation or charter school may receive under the dual language immersion pilot program.

Sponsor: Robert Behning

Pharmacy security measures. Beginning January 1, 2018, requires a holder of a retail pharmacy permit to install: (1) a time delay safe to secure certain drugs; and (2) an emergency call button.

Sponsor: Justin Moed

Underground petroleum storage tank liability fund. Requires the administrator of the department of environmental management (IDEM) to reimburse a claimant from the underground petroleum storage tank excess liability fund (ELTF) for compensation paid by the claimant to technicians for services performed in preparation of the claimant's ELTF claim. Prohibits IDEM from issuing or using a nonrule policy document that interprets or supplements the rules of the underground storage tank financial assurance board concerning the ELTF. Requires IDEM to permanently withdraw a particular nonrule policy document concerning ELTF claims. Requires IDEM to establish a system through which underground storage tank registration

Sponsor: Sean Eberhart

Planning, zoning, and permitting approval. Authorizes a county fiscal body to adopt an ordinance to allow political subdivisions and local agencies within the county to use a uniform property tax disclosure form. Specifies the information that must be disclosed on the form. Provides that if an ordinance is adopted, the county and other local governmental entities in the county may require a person applying for property tax exemptions, property tax deductions, zoning changes or zoning variances, building permits, or other locally issued licenses or permits to submit a disclosure form. Authorizes a county and other local governmental entities to include

Sponsor: Justin Moed

Funding for industrial rail service. Increases, from 0.031% to 0.062%, the percentage of sales tax revenue (other than gasoline use tax revenue) that is distributed to the industrial rail service fund, and makes a corresponding decrease in the percentage of sales tax revenue (other than gasoline use tax revenue) that is distributed to the state general fund.

Sponsor: Randall Frye

Subdividing land. If certain requirements are met, requires a property owner to be allowed to subdivide an original parcel by deed without subdivision approval or processing by the local government.

Sponsor: Jeff Ellington

Advanced practice nurses. Removes the requirements that an advanced practice nurse have a practice agreement with a collaborating physician. Repeals law concerning the audit of practice agreements. Makes conforming changes. Makes technical changes.

Sponsor: Timothy Wesco

Hunting license. Provides that a person without a Social Security number may not be issued a hunting license without providing valid, government issued identification establishing that the applicant is a United States citizen.

Sponsor: Milo Smith

Medicaid rate for chemical dependency services. Requires Medicaid reimbursement for the provision of inpatient substance abuse detoxification services at a per diem rate that factors in the average length of stay for a patient for the reimbursed diagnosis related group.

Sponsor: Jean Breaux

Mufflers. Requires a motor vehicle to be equipped with a factory installed or equivalent after market muffler that is in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise or smoke.

Sponsor: Doug Miller

Removal of asset limits for SNAP eligibility. Requires the division of family resources to: (1) implement within the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) an expanded eligibility category under which an individual's value of assets is not considered in determining SNAP eligibility; and (2) notify the United States Department of Agriculture of the implementation of expanded categorical eligibility under SNAP.

Sponsor: Mark Stoops

Winter holidays in schools. Provides that a school corporation may: (1) instruct students about the history of traditional winter celebrations, including Christmas; (2) allow the use of traditional greetings concerning the celebrations; and (3) display on school property scenes or symbols associated with traditional winter celebrations if certain conditions are met. Requires the governing bodies of school corporations to develop guidelines to assist school corporations in developing appropriate instruction and displays.

Sponsor: James Smith

Electric power grid security. Requires the division of planning and assessment of the Indiana department of homeland security to: (1) develop an emergency response plan for an attack on or systematic failure of the electric power grid; and (2) develop standards for increasing the physical security of the electric power grid.

Sponsor: Michael Delph

Lead-based paint renovation hazards program. Requires the state department of health to seek authorization from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to administer and enforce, in Indiana, the EPA's program to address lead-based paint hazards created by renovation, repair, and painting activities that disturb lead-based paint in certain housing structures and facilities.

Sponsor: Jean Breaux

Notice for home health service patients. Provides that a home health agency may not terminate or discontinue providing some or all home health services provided for a patient unless the home health agency has provided the patient written notification at least 15 days before the termination or discontinuation of the home health services.

Sponsor: Christopher Judy

Teacher compensation. Provides that a teacher who possesses a master's degree is eligible for supplemental pay and increases or increments in pay. Removes language that prohibits collectively bargaining for supplemental pay and increases or increments in pay. Requires the department of education to review compensation models. Makes a conforming amendment.

Sponsor: Vaneta Becker

Property tax deductions. Provides that the property tax mortgage deduction applies only if: (1) the mortgage loan or installment loan is made and recorded before January 1, 2018, or the purchase contract under which the person owes the contract indebtedness is entered into before January 1, 2018, and the purchase contract or a memorandum of the contract is recorded before January 1, 2018; and (2) the statement applying for the deduction is filed for the first time on or before January 5, 2018. Increases the homestead deduction to the lesser of: (1) 65% of the assessed value of the homestead;

Sponsor: Timothy Wesco

Economic development incentives. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) to recapture incentives from a recipient that: (1) makes a lower level of capital investment; (2) employs fewer individuals; or (3) pays less in wages; than specified in an incentive agreement. Requires employers with at least 100 employees to give 90 days written notice to affected employees before plant closings and mass layoffs that occur after June 30, 2017.

Sponsor: Justin Moed

Government terminology. Prohibits units of government from using the term "free" to describe a payment, good, or service unless the payment, good, or service is privately funded.

Sponsor: James Smith

Designated wild areas. Provides that 13 specified areas within certain state forests are "designated wild areas". Specifies certain activities that are prohibited or allowed within a designated wild area. Establishes responsibilities for the department of natural resources and divisions that manage designated wild areas.

Sponsor: Mark Stoops

Prohibited discrimination in civil rights statutes. Amends civil rights enforcement statutes to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and ancestry.

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

Redistricting commission. Establishes a redistricting commission (commission) to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts. Requires the legislative services agency (agency) to provide staff and administrative services to the commission. Establishes standards to govern the commission and the agency in the creation of redistricting plans. Provides that the general assembly shall meet and enact redistricting plans before October 1 of a redistricting year. Authorizes the general assembly to convene in a session to act on redistricting bills at times other than the times the general assembly is currently

Sponsor: Justin Moed

Data base of valuable metal transactions. Creates the valuable metal dealers registry. Allows the state police department to contract with a third party to maintain a valuable metal dealers data base.

Sponsor: Justin Moed

Forfeiture of criminal organization property. Allows seizure by law enforcement of vehicles and real and personal property in connection with criminal organization crimes.

Sponsor: Wendy McNamara

Vigo County food and beverage tax. Authorizes the county council of Vigo County to adopt a county food and beverage tax (tax). Provides that the tax rate may not exceed 1%. Specifies the revenue from the tax shall be distributed to the capital improvement board and may be used by the board only for the following purposes: (1) The renovation of the Hulman Center in Terre Haute. (2) The acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, or financing of a convention center or a facility that is used or will be used principally for convention or tourism related events serving national or regional

Sponsor: Robert Heaton

Campaign finance limits. Provides that a member of the general assembly or a candidate for election to the general assembly may not accept contributions of more than $100 in any calendar year.

Sponsor: Justin Moed

Hunting by disabled veterans. Defines "qualified veteran" as an individual: (1) who is a resident of Indiana; (2) who has served in the armed forces of the United States; and (3) who has a service connected disability rating of at least 80%. Allows a qualified veteran to obtain a hunting license free of charge.

Sponsor: James Smith

Elimination of lower speed limit for trucks. Provides that the maximum speed limit for a vehicle having a declared gross weight greater than 26,000 pounds operated on a highway that is: (1) on the national system of interstate and defense highways located outside an urbanized area (as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least 50,000; or (2) the responsibility of the Indiana finance authority; is 70 miles per hour. (Current law provides that the speed limit for those vehicles (other than a bus) is 65 miles per hour.)

Sponsor: Micheal Aylesworth

Appropriation for mental health provider loan forgiveness. Appropriates $500,000 for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and $500,000 for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018, to the division of mental health and addiction (division) for deposit in the mental health and addiction services loan forgiveness account, to be used by the division for purposes of providing loan repayments for certain mental health professionals.

Sponsor: Jean Breaux

School City of East Chicago fiscal matters. Changes, for the school years beginning after June 30, 2016, June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2018, the manner in which average daily membership is determined for the School City of East Chicago school corporation. Transfers, not later than July 15, 2017, to the school disaster loan fund from the state general fund an amount equal to the total amount to pay off the loan that was made to the School City of East Chicago school corporation in the amount of $2,805,000 from the school disaster loan fund. Appropriates to the department of

Sponsor: Lonnie Randolph

Marion County courts. Provides for the selection of Marion superior court (court) judges. Establishes the 14 member Marion County judicial selection committee (committee). Provides that, when the committee learns of a vacancy on the court, the committee follows certain procedures that conclude in the committee sending the names of three nominees to the governor. Requires the governor to appoint one of the nominees as judge to fill the vacancy. Provides that, at the end of a judge's term on the court, the judge may have the question of the judge's retention on the court placed on the general election ballot.

Sponsor: James Merritt

Fire protection district per diems. Increases, from $20 to $100, the maximum per diem of a member of the board of fire trustees of a fire protection district.

Sponsor: Lonnie Randolph

Strangulation elements and definition. Adds to the current strangulation statute a new element concerning application of pressure to a victim's torso. Defines "torso" for purposes of the statute. Makes the crime of strangulation a Level 5 felony if it is knowingly committed against a pregnant woman.

Sponsor: Julie Olthoff

Employee training tax credits. Provides a tax credit to employers who complete the requirements for a portable workforce credential that is required for a high wage, high demand job.

Sponsor: Edward Clere

Geologist licensing. Adds and amends definitions concerning the licensure and practice of geologists. Allows the board of licensure for professional geologists (board) to elect a secretary who is not a member of the board. Requires the board to meet at least two times each year. Allows a licensed geologist to request an informal review within 30 days of receiving a complaint. (Current law allows the request to be made within 20 days.) Provides that if the board compels a licensed geologist to respond to a complaint or charges the response must be in writing and the notification must be sent

Sponsor: Carey Hamilton

Health education. Requires the state department of health and the department of education, working cooperatively, to identify and report to the general assembly appropriate academic standards and curricula concerning health education.

Sponsor: Jean Leising

Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Sponsor: Vernon Smith

State wildflower. Provides that the milkweed flower (Asclepias tuberosa) is adopted as the official state wildflower.

Sponsor: Vaneta Becker

De facto custodian. Amends the minimum time requirement for a caregiver to meet the definition of de facto custodian. Adds factors to be considered by the court in determining whether to award custody of a child to a de facto custodian.

Sponsor: Clyde Kersey

Economic development incentive accountability. Adds various job and employee definitions to the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) laws. Requires that all records related to taxpayer funded economic development incentives must be disclosed under the open records law. Requires that the IEDC's annual job creation incentives and compliance report must be published on the Indiana transparency portal Internet web site. Requires the IEDC and the department of state revenue to compile information on all job creation incentives granted, including the total amount of uncollected or diverted state tax revenues resulting from each incentive, and requires that this information must be included

Sponsor: Frank Mrvan

Chiropractors. Amends the definition of "chiropractic" and relocates prohibited practices provisions. Removes a prohibition on chiropractors taking x-rays of any organ other than the vertebral column and extremities. Provides that a member of the board of chiropractic examiners (board) may not serve for more than four consecutive terms. Allows the board to adopt rules concerning peer review. Allows the board to approve chiropractic schools and colleges that meet licensing requirements. Requires that an applicant for a license to practice chiropractic must complete at least 90 semester hours after June 30, 2020. Prohibits an individual from using certain titles or abbreviations

Sponsor: Ronnie Alting

Small school grants. Reestablishes a small school grant for school corporations having a current ADM (average daily membership) of less than 2,400. Appropriates from the state general fund an amount sufficient to make the grants for the 2017-2019 biennium.

Sponsor: William Friend

Income tax credit for firearms instruction. Provides a state income tax credit to taxpayers (individuals filing single tax returns or married couples filing joint tax returns) who incur expenses in receiving qualified firearms instruction. Provides that the credit is equal to the amount of the incurred expenses. Provides that the maximum amount allowed as a credit is $100 for individuals filing single returns or $200 for married couples filing joint returns. Provides that a tax credit may not exceed the taxpayer's state income tax liability. Provides that a taxpayer is not entitled to a carryover, carryback, or refund of any

Sponsor: Dan Forestal

Architectural services. Requires an architectural firm (firm) to register with the board of registration for architects and landscape architects and to submit a list of the registered architects who are employed by the firm to oversee the firm's architecture services. Requires the Indiana professional licensing agency to maintain a public list of each registered architectural firm.

Sponsor: Dan Forestal

Immunity for misuse of blended fuel. Removes the definitions of "E85" motor fuel and "flexible fuel vehicle", and creates a definition for "blended fuel". Replaces immunity protections for misuse of E85 with immunity protections for misuse of blended fuel.

Sponsor: James Baird

Transportation network companies. Requires that the primary motor vehicle liability insurance coverage for a transportation network company (TNC) driver who is logged on to the TNC's digital network, but is not engaged in a prearranged ride, includes at least $50,000 per incident medical payments. Describes the relationship between a TNC and a TNC driver for minimum wage and overtime, worker's compensation and occupational diseases compensation, unemployment compensation, and other benefits to an individual based on an employer-employee relationship. Requires a TNC to: (1) maintain records of all amounts paid to its TNC drivers; (2) withhold from amounts paid to a

Sponsor: Karen Tallian

Dangerous wild animals. Prohibits a person from possessing, selling, transferring, or breeding a dangerous wild animal. Prohibits a person who owns a dangerous wild animal from allowing a member of the public to come into direct contact with the animal. Establishes requirements that a: (1) zoological park or circus; or (2) person who possesses a dangerous wild animal before July 1, 2017; must meet to continue to possess a dangerous wild animal. Establishes procedures to seize, impound, and forfeit dangerous wild animals. Provides criminal penalties for violations. Allows a city, town, or county to adopt an ordinance or a township

Sponsor: Sean Eberhart

Reporting TRF service for substitute teachers. Requires the treasurer of a school corporation, the township trustee, or the appropriate officer of any other institution covered by the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (TRF) to make contributions for, deduct contributions from, and include in reports to the board of the Indiana public retirement system a substitute teacher who qualifies for membership in TRF. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Sue Errington

Property tax deductions for veterans. Authorizes the fiscal body of a county to adopt an ordinance to allow a property tax deduction to veterans of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam Conflict. Provides that the deduction is subject to the same procedures and eligibility limits as the expired deduction for World War I veterans. Authorizes the fiscal body of a county to adopt an ordinance to provide a property tax deduction to the surviving spouses of veterans of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam Conflict that is equivalent to the current property tax deduction

Sponsor: Charles Moseley

Tax increment financing in Marion County. Requires the Indianapolis metropolitan development commission to establish a new base assessed value beginning in 2018 for purposes of determining the incremental tax revenue for the Marion County airport economic development area. Specifies that the base assessed value must be set at the amount that will limit the incremental revenue to 150% of the debt service of the bonds denominated as series 2007 and 2007A as of January 1, 2017. (The base assessed value is used in determining revenue for other taxing units.)

Sponsor: Michael Young

Disabled veterans benefits. Provides for an annual pass for nonresident disabled veterans to enter state parks at the same rate as residents of Indiana. Provides for a reduction of any fees charged for facilities, lodging, and recreational activities held or managed by the department of natural resources (department). Allows a nonresident disabled veteran to obtain a hunting and fishing license at an in-state resident rate. Allows the department to establish a hunting season for disabled veterans. Allows a nonresident disabled veteran to attend a state educational institution at an in-state tuition rate.

Sponsor: Bruce Borders

Age for compulsory school attendance. Provides that a student shall enroll in a kindergarten program not later than the fall term of the school year if the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year. (Current law requires that a student enroll in a kindergarten class not later than the fall term of the school year in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Greg Taylor

Firearms and federalism. Prohibits a state agency, political subdivision, or employee of an agency or political subdivision from: (1) participating in the enforcement of a federal firearms law enacted after January 1, 2017; or (2) using any state funds to aid the federal government in the enforcement of a federal firearms law enacted after January 1, 2017; unless the participation or use of state funds is required by a court order. Provides that a state employee, an employee of a political subdivision, or an agent of the state or a political subdivision who participates in the enforcement of a federal

Sponsor: Christopher Judy

Sales tax exemption for mining safety property. Provides a sales tax exemption for property acquired for the purpose of complying with mining safety statutes or regulations if the person acquiring the property is engaged in: (1) the business of mining; or (2) providing goods or services on a mine safety regulated site to one or more persons engaged in the business of mining.

Sponsor: Holli Sullivan

Uniform municipal food and beverage tax. Authorizes a municipal legislative body to impose by ordinance a municipal food and beverage tax. Provides that the tax may not exceed 1% of the gross retail income received from retail food and beverage transactions. Provides that the tax does not apply to a transaction that is exempt from the sales tax. Provides that the tax does not apply to a consolidated city, a municipality that has imposed a food and beverage tax under current law, or a municipality that is receiving county food and beverage tax revenue.

Sponsor: Charles Burton

Access to expunged records. Provides that law enforcement officers lacking a court order may access expunged information or records only when acting in an: (1) enforcement; or (2) investigative; capacity.

Sponsor: Greg Taylor

Absentee voting. Requires a voter who casts an absentee ballot by mail to provide a photocopy of the voter's proof of identification in the mailing envelope.

Sponsor: Harold Slager

Cigarette taxes. Increases the cigarette tax from $0.995 per pack to $2.995 per pack and uses the additional revenue ($2 per pack) as follows: (1) Transfers $1 of the additional revenue per pack to the Indiana tobacco use prevention and cessation trust fund to be used for one or more of the following purposes: (A) To emphasize the prevention and reduction of tobacco use by minorities, pregnant women, children, and youth, including youth with serious and emotional disturbances. (B) To encourage smoking cessation. (C) To provide research on issues related to the reduction of tobacco use. (2) Transfers $1 of

Sponsor: Charlie Brown

School performance grants and evaluations. Provides that, for a state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017, the amount that a school corporation may receive as part of a performance grant relating to test results must be calculated using the higher of: (1) the percentage of passing scores on ISTEP program tests for the school for the 2013-2014 school year; or (2) the percentage of passing scores on ISTEP program tests for the school for the 2015-2016 school year. (The current law that applies to this calculation provides for certain limits on the grant amount.) Provides

Sponsor: Vaneta Becker

Certification of volunteer canine search teams. Establishes the canine team certification program (program) administered by the department of homeland security (department). Allows, but does not require, a volunteer canine team to be tested and certified as to the team's competency in locating live persons, human remains, and objects. Allows the department to set a fee by rule for participation in the program to be deposited in the canine team program fund.

Sponsor: Cindy Kirchhofer

County coroner compensation. Provides that a coroner who: (1) is a registered nurse; and (2) possesses a bachelor's degree in nursing and a master's degree in nursing, or an equivalent to a master's degree in nursing; is entitled to the same compensation as a licensed physician who serves as a coroner. Makes a technical amendment.

Sponsor: Linda Lawson

Use of tobacco and smudge materials. Requires hospitals and nursing homes to accommodate the use of ceremonial tobacco and ceremonial smudge materials for practitioners of Native American Indian religions.

Sponsor: Randall Head

Small loans. Amends the statute concerning small loans to require a lender to conspicuously disclose, both in the lending area of each of the lender's Indiana business locations and in the loan documents provided to borrowers, the: (1) median number of days that a borrower is indebted under one or more outstanding small loans with the lender during a calendar year; and (2) median number of small loans entered into by a borrower with the lender during a calendar year; based on all small loans made at all of the lender's Indiana business locations during the most recent calendar year.

Sponsor: Eddie Melton

Hospital admissions and organ donor designation. Requires a hospital to: (1) ask a patient or the patient's health care representative as soon as practicable following the patient's admission to the hospital whether the patient wants to be a human organ donor; and (2) designate the choice in the patient's medical record.

Sponsor: Ronald Bacon

Indiana work opportunity tax credit. Provides that a taxpayer is entitled to the Indiana work opportunity tax credit against state tax liability for wages paid by the taxpayer during a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2017, and before January 1, 2023, to an individual who: (1) is a member of the Indiana National Guard or a reserve component of the armed forces; (2) is hired by the taxpayer after June 30, 2017; and (3) is employed by the taxpayer during the taxable year. Specifies that for each individual for whom the taxpayer may claim a credit, the amount of

Sponsor: Michael Delph

Sale of individual bottles of cold alcohol. Restricts carryout sales of cold alcoholic beverages to the following: (1) Sales of single bottles, cans, or containers of a minimum capacity. (2) Sales of a minimum quantity of 12 bottles, cans, or containers, if the bottles, cans, or containers have less than the minimum capacity. Specifically exempts farm wineries, breweries, artisan distillers, charity gaming events, charity auctions, festivals, and city marinas from the restrictions.

Sponsor: Todd Huston

Veterans' court fund. Establishes the veterans' court fund. Requires the criminal justice institute (institute) and the Indiana judicial center to coordinate to apply for federal grants for the veterans' court fund. Requires the institute to report its grant application progress to the legislative council. Urges the legislative council to assign to a study committee the topic of funding the expansion of veterans' courts throughout Indiana. Requires the study committee to issue a final report to the legislative council containing the study committee's findings and recommendations not later than November 1, 2017.

Sponsor: Michael Delph

Asbestos litigation. Requires certain disclosures regarding asbestos bankruptcy trust claims in civil asbestos actions. Provides medical criteria to set aside and preserve the claims of asbestos and silica claimants without physical impairment, and gives priority to asbestos and silica claimants with malignant conditions and impairing nonmalignant conditions.

Sponsor: Susan Glick

Film production tax credit. Establishes the Indiana film and media production expenditure tax credit. Provides a refundable tax credit to taxpayers that make certain expenditures for a qualified media production if at least 50% of the total incurred expenses are qualified production expenditures in Indiana. Provides that the tax credit may be granted only if qualified production expenditures are at least $35,000. Provides that the amount of the credit equals the taxpayer's qualified production expenditures multiplied by a percentage determined by the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC). Specifies that the tax credit percentage may not be more than: (1) 35%,

Sponsor: David Frizzell

Regulation of valuable metal transactions. Requires, after December 31, 2017, a valuable metal dealer (dealer) to enter into a registry established and maintained by the state police department certain information concerning a valuable metal purchase transaction. Makes it a Class A infraction to fail to enter the required information into the registry within 24 hours of the valuable metal purchase transaction. Makes it a Class C misdemeanor instead of a Class A infraction for a dealer to knowingly or intentionally fail to comply with the law concerning regulation of dealers. Makes it a Class C misdemeanor instead of a Class

Sponsor: Doug Gutwein

Criminal law matters. Provides that a sex or violent offender who: (1) knowingly or intentionally fails to register as required; and (2) has a prior unrelated conviction in another jurisdiction for an offense that is substantially equivalent to an offense of failure to register as required under Indiana law; commits a Level 5 felony. Provides that for purposes of the habitual offender statute, a Level 6 felony means a conviction for which a convicted person could have been imprisoned for more than one year but not more than two and one-half years.

Sponsor: Thomas Washburne

State payments in lieu of property taxes. Requires the state to make payments in lieu of property taxes (PILOTs) for qualified parcels in counties in which at least 15% of all land in the county is: (1) in the aggregate, owned or leased by the state of Indiana or the federal government; and (2) subject to an exemption from property taxes. Defines "qualified parcel" as a parcel that is: (1) owned or leased by the state of Indiana; (2) subject to an exemption from property taxes; and (3) located in a county to which this act applies. Provides that a

Sponsor: Lloyd Arnold

Small claims courts. Increases the small claims jurisdictional amount to $30,000. Provides that the court shall endeavor to bring cases filed on the small claims docket to trial within 90 days.

Sponsor: Dale DeVon

Overtime compensation for certain employees. Provides that certain employees must be paid compensation for employment in certain circumstances at a rate not less than 1.5 times the regular rate at which the employee is employed and, under certain circumstances, not less than two times the regular rate at which the employee is employed. Removes outdated language. Relocates language concerning the tip credit.

Sponsor: Ryan Hatfield

Rental lease application deception. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally omits a previous eviction on a rental application commits rental application deception, a Class C misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Michael Delph

Ordinance enforcement. Permits a city, town, or county (unit) to establish an ordinance violation court to adjudicate ordinance or code violations committed within the unit. Establishes the powers and duties of the court, and provides that the only court fee that may be collected by the ordinance violation court is an ordinance court fee, which may not exceed $200. Specifies that the ordinance court fee must be deposited in the general fund of the unit.

Sponsor: Bruce Borders

Oversight of unemployment trust fund. Requires that the department of workforce development provide an annual report to the interim study committee on employment and labor (committee) concerning the status of the unemployment compensation system, including any recommendations for maintaining the solvency of the unemployment insurance benefit fund. Authorizes the committee to receive the report and requires the committee to submit to the legislative council recommendations, if any, concerning the unemployment compensation system. Changes from December 1 to November 1 the due date for an annual report to the general assembly and the governor concerning the unemployment compensation system.

Sponsor: David Ober

Work sharing unemployment benefit. Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program. Requires an employer to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce development. Establishes the work sharing benefit as equal to an employee's unemployment benefit reduced by a percentage that is equivalent to the number of hours by which the employee's normal weekly work hours are reduced.

Sponsor: Ryan Hatfield

Cannabis oil for medical treatment. Exempts an individual and a physician from criminal penalties for possession or use of cannabis oil if: (1) the individual is the patient of the physician and has cannabis oil transferred, dispensed, or administered to the individual as part of the individual's treatment by the physician; and (2) the physician who is treating the individual transfers, dispenses, or administers cannabis oil as part of the individual's treatment.

Sponsor: Terry Goodin

Income tax exemption for military income. Provides a 100% state income tax deduction for all military service income received by an individual or the individual's surviving spouse. Repeals superseded provision.

Sponsor: Lloyd Arnold

Limited liability for aiding a companion animal. Provides that a certified advanced emergency medical technician, certified emergency medical technician, or paramedic who provides certain emergency medical services to a companion animal is not liable for an act or omission related to the services provided unless the act or omission constitutes negligence or willful misconduct. Defines "companion animal" as a pet or service animal. Grants civil immunity to a person who forcibly enters a locked car for the purpose of rescuing a companion animal. Does not extend civil immunity to acts of entry involving gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct.

Sponsor: Linda Lawson

Sale of schedule II drugs. Requires a prescribed schedule II controlled substance to be distributed or dispensed in a blister pack.

Sponsor: James Merritt

Ownership of banks of the Ohio River. Provides that in all places where the southern border of the state of Indiana, as determined according to the low water mark of the Ohio River as it was when Kentucky became a state in 1792, is coterminous with the banks of the Ohio River on the Indiana side of the Ohio River, the person or persons who hold title in fee simple to the land in Indiana adjoining the Ohio River are owners of the land all the way to the border of the state of Indiana. Provides that the state of

Sponsor: Lloyd Arnold

Camera enforcement of school bus arm signal violations. Provides that a school corporation or a nonpublic school may install cameras on school buses to enforce arm signal device traffic violations (camera enforcement). Allows a school corporation to pay for costs associated with camera enforcement from the school corporation's school transportation fund. Imposes civil penalties for arm signal device violations detected by camera enforcement.

Sponsor: Milo Smith

Indiana's electoral vote. Provides that allocation of Indiana's electoral votes to the candidate for President of the United States to the winner of the Indiana popular vote does not apply if the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" (agreement) becomes effective. Provides for allocation of Indiana's electoral votes to the national popular vote winner if the agreement becomes effective. Enacts and enters into the agreement.

Sponsor: Mark Stoops

Child custody petitions. Prohibits the department of child services, an agency or person authorized to act on behalf of the department of child services, or a similar agency or county office with similar responsibilities in another state from filing a petition seeking a determination of custody of a child.

Sponsor: John Young

Violations of wildlife protection laws. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a person to knowingly or intentionally take a wild bird or wild mammal that is on the endangered species list. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a person to illegally take a deer or wild turkey if the person has at least three prior unrelated convictions for illegally taking a deer or wild turkey in the previous seven years. Increases the amount that a person must reimburse the state for unlawfully taking, possessing, or selling a deer or wild turkey for a third or subsequent violation. Increases

Sponsor: Terry Goodin

Local labor for public works projects. Requires that at least 25% of the labor employed by each contractor in any contractor tier on a public works project must be individuals who reside: (1) in the municipality, if the project is located in a municipality; or (2) in the county, if the project is not located in a municipality. Allows the public agency letting the contract for the public works project to make a determination in writing that sufficient labor is not available and to modify or waive the requirement. Includes the requirement for operating agreements, design-build projects, and construction managers

Sponsor: Charlie Brown

Income tax credit for toll road charges. Provides an income tax credit to individuals who pay tolls to drive on the Indiana toll road for a nonbusiness purpose. Provides that the amount of the tax credit may not exceed the lesser of $300 or the amount of tolls paid by an individual during the taxable year. Provides that the tax credit may not exceed an individual's adjusted gross income tax liability.

Sponsor: Joseph Zakas

Seat belts on school buses. Provides that a school bus or special purpose bus that is placed into operation after June 30, 2018, and that is used to transport elementary school or high school students must be equipped with a 3-point lap and shoulder safety belt (safety belt) at each seating location. Requires the state school bus committee to adopt rules for the design, installation, and use of safety belt systems that must be installed in school buses and special purpose buses. Provides for an exception to the laws concerning other types of passenger restraint systems. Requires each occupant of

Sponsor: John Bartlett

Attorney general. Includes in the definition of "law enforcement officer" the attorney general, a deputy attorney general, a special deputy attorney general, and an investigator for the attorney general for the purposes of certain sentence enhancements and statutes relating to the possession of a firearm. Requires the attorney general to annually issue a photographic identification card to certain employees identifying them as a law enforcement officer.

Sponsor: Aaron Freeman

Crimes against public safety officials. Increases the penalty for battery if it is committed against a public safety official or a relative of a public safety official because of the official's status or perceived status as a public safety official, and increases the penalty for criminal recklessness if it is committed against: (1) a public safety official while the official is engaged in the official's official duties; or (2) a public safety official or a relative of a public safety official if the offense is committed because of the official's status or perceived status as a public safety official.

Sponsor: Michael Karickhoff

Deferred retirement option plan for PERF and TRF. Establishes a deferred retirement option plan (DROP) for members of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) and the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (TRF), excluding elected officials of the state or a political subdivision. Provides that a member of PERF or TRF who is employed in a covered position and is eligible to receive an unreduced retirement benefit under the provisions of the fund to which the member belongs may make an election to enter the DROP. Provides that a member who enters the DROP: (1) shall execute an irrevocable election to

Sponsor: Charles Burton

Agricultural education. Provides that after June 30, 2018, a school corporation, charter high school, or accredited nonpublic high school may not be placed in the highest category or designation of school improvement unless the school corporation, charter high school, or accredited nonpublic high school offers as part of its high school curriculum at least one course in agriculture science. Provides that a student may receive an excused absence from school if the student: (1) participates or exhibits in a 4-H club or FFA event; or (2) is at least 14 years of age and assists a parent with farm work

Sponsor: Donald Lehe

Vehicle Bill. None

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

Legislative study committee on the state fair. Urges the legislative council to assign topics to a study committee concerning the governance and operation of the state fair.

Sponsor: Donald Lehe

Municipal elections. Provides that any municipality may adopt an ordinance to move the election of its elected officers to be held only in even-numbered years. Provides that a municipality's schedule of municipal elections remains the same as it was for the 2015 municipal elections unless it changes the schedule under the new statute. Provides that a municipality that holds any of its municipal elections in years other than even-numbered years shall reimburse the county the county's costs in administering such elections. Repeals existing statutes that authorize towns to change the schedule of their municipal elections in certain specified ways. Makes

Sponsor: Micheal Aylesworth

Firearms on state university campuses. Prohibits a regional campus (campus) of a state educational institution from imposing an enactment, measure, policy, or rule that prohibits or limits the legal carrying, possession, or transportation of a firearm while: (1) on land; or (2) in a building or other structure; leased or owned by the state educational institution. Allows a person adversely affected by campus firearm restrictions to bring a court action against the campus. Requires that 10% of the total operating appropriation for the campus of a state educational institution for the current state fiscal year must be withheld if the

Sponsor: Jim Lucas

Recognizing the strength and courage of Mason Metzger.

Sponsor: David Wolkins

Former offenders. Prohibits a public employer from asking an applicant for employment to disclose orally or in writing, whether on an employment application or otherwise, information concerning the applicant's criminal record or history until the public employer has determined that the applicant meets the public employer's minimum employment qualifications. Provides that the requirement does not apply to employment with a law enforcement agency or when federal or Indiana law provides otherwise. Provides that a board, commission, or committee regulated by the Indiana professional licensing agency may deny, revoke, or suspend a professional license or certificate of registration of an individual

Sponsor: Robin Shackleford

Use of telecommunications devices while driving. Requires a person to use hands free or voice operated technology to place or receive a telephone call while operating a moving motor vehicle unless the device is used to call 911 to report a bona fide emergency. Revises the term "telecommunications device" for purposes related to motor vehicle operation.

Sponsor: Milo Smith

Homeland security matters. Establishes the Indiana advisory security council to advise the governor concerning Indiana's homeland security policy and preparedness and to coordinate homeland security efforts among state agencies. Requires the executive director of the Indiana department of homeland security to prepare emergency response plans to address the following: (1) A failure of Indiana's electrical grid and related systems. (2) An earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone or Wabash Valley seismic zone. Requires political subdivisions to comply with the National Incident Management System developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Sponsor: Michael Delph

Crimes involving synthetic drugs. Makes possessing or dealing a substance that is a controlled substance analog an offense of the same level as possession of or dealing the controlled substance of which the substance is an analog. Defines "substance represented to be a controlled substance" and establishes certain factors the trier of fact may consider to determine if a substance meets the definition. Repeals crimes concerning synthetic drug lookalike substances. Provides that convictions for synthetic drug offenses will, in certain cases, no longer be treated the same as marijuana offenses. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Erin Houchin

Cost-benefit analysis of state forest logging. Requires the department of natural resources (department) to prepare and publish on the department's Internet web site a cost-benefit analysis concerning the removal of merchantable timber from state forests. Provides that the department may not advertise or solicit bids for the removal of merchantable timber from a state forest until the cost-benefit analysis has been published on the department's Internet web site for at least 30 days.

Sponsor: Mark Stoops

Invasion of privacy. Increases the offense level for a person who commits the crime of invasion of privacy from a Level 6 felony to: (1) a Level 5 felony, if the person has one prior unrelated conviction for that offense; or (2) a Level 4 felony, if the person has two or more unrelated convictions for that offense. Allows a conviction from another jurisdiction for a substantially equivalent offense to be considered when determining the offense level.

Sponsor: Randy Lyness

Fingerprinting fee for adoption. Provides that if a petitioner for adoption seeks to adopt a child who is under the care and supervision of the department of child services at the time of or any time after the filing of a petition for adoption, the department may pay the fees and other costs of the criminal history check required for the petitioner.

Sponsor: Vanessa Summers

Sales tax holiday. Provides a sales and use tax exemption each year beginning on the second Friday of July 2017 and July 2018 through the following Sundays (sales tax holiday) for the following items: (1) Clothing, if the sales price does not exceed $75. (2) A school supply, school art supply, or school instructional material, if the sales price does not exceed $15. Incorporates the definitions of these items as set forth in the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.

Sponsor: Gregory Steuerwald

Smoking in public places. Removes the exemptions to places where smoking is prohibited. Makes conforming changes.

Sponsor: Charlie Brown

State mammal. Designates the red fox as the official mammal of Indiana.

Sponsor: Doug Eckerty

Tax deduction for Ohio River bridge tolls. Provides an income tax deduction to qualified individuals who pay tolls to cross certain Ohio River bridges. Provides that a qualified individual is an individual who: (1) resides in Clark County or Floyd County; (2) incurs at least $100 in nonreimbursed toll expenses to cross the Ohio River bridges in Clark County or Floyd County during a taxable year; and (3) has a Riverlink personal account. Provides that the amount of the tax deduction may not exceed the lesser of: (1) the amount of nonreimbursed tolls paid by the qualified individual during the

Sponsor: Ronald Grooms

Vehicle Bill. None

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

Indiana earned income tax credit. Increases the amount of the Indiana earned income tax credit from 9% to 10% of the federal earned income tax credit.

Sponsor: Mark Stoops

School policies on reporting child abuse or neglect. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school may not establish an internal policy or procedure that in any way restricts or delays a duty to report child abuse or neglect. Provides that an individual who knowingly establishes a policy or procedure that restricts or delays a duty to report child abuse or neglect commits a Class B misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Vanessa Summers

Vehicle Bill. None

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

Vehicle Bill. None

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

School referendum grants. Provides a dollar for dollar state matching grant for a school corporation in which the voters approve an operating referendum tax levy after May 1, 2017. Specifies that a school corporation in which a charter school is located is not eligible for the grant.

Sponsor: Mara Reardon

Tenant eviction upon foreclosure. Provides that if real property subject to a judgment of foreclosure is occupied by a tenant on the date a deed of conveyance is executed following the foreclosure judgment, the immediate successor in interest to the property must provide to the tenant any notice to vacate the premises at least 90 days before the date on which the tenant must vacate the premises. Specifies that this provision does not affect the requirements for termination of a rental agreement or for a tenant's occupancy of the premises under: (1) any federal or state subsidized tenancy; or (2)

Sponsor: Cherrish Pryor

Fee for public safety protection. Authorizes a municipal corporation providing public safety protection to property owned by the department of natural resources (department) to establish fees for providing public safety protection, unless the municipal corporation and the department have entered into an interlocal cooperation agreement that establishes the fees for providing public safety protection to the department's property.

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Property insurance coverage for a total loss. Requires an insurer that issues a policy of insurance that covers first party loss to a primary or secondary dwelling on a replacement cost basis to compensate the named insured for a total loss to the dwelling at the policy limit that applies to the dwelling.

Sponsor: Matthew Lehman

Public transit funding. Allows counties to impose an additional local income tax rate to fund one or more county transit projects. Provides that the rate must be adopted by the county council and must be at least 0.1% but not more than 0.25%. Excludes from this provision any county that is eligible to hold a referendum on funding transportation projects under the central Indiana public transportation projects statute.

Sponsor: Mark Stoops

Public safety officer health studies. Establishes the public safety research fund. Provides that $500,000 shall be appropriated from the state general fund and disbursed to the public safety research fund on July 1 of each year. Requires money disbursed to the public safety research fund be used for longitudinal research studies related to the health, safety, and well-being of public safety officers. Requires longitudinal research studies to be performed by the national institute for public safety and health (NIPSH). Requires NIPSH to provide a report of ongoing or performed longitudinal research studies to the executive director of the department of

Sponsor: Randall Frye

Repeal of INSPECT oversight committee. Repeals the INSPECT oversight committee. Removes expired language.

Sponsor: Doug Gutwein

Vehicle Bill. None

Sponsor: Timothy Lanane

Aviation taxes. Provides that: (1) sales and use tax revenue attributable to the sale of aircraft; and (2) aviation fuel excise tax revenue; shall be deposited in the airport development grant fund.

Sponsor: Holli Sullivan

Study of water utility service. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications for study during the 2017 interim the topic of how adequate and affordable water utility service can be provided in areas of Indiana in which water utility service is inadequate or costly.

Sponsor: Lloyd Arnold

Automated traffic enforcement. Authorizes a county, city, or town to adopt and enforce an ordinance (ordinance) that regulates the placement and use of automated traffic enforcement safety devices (devices) to detect certain traffic offenses (offenses). Authorizes the department of transportation and the Indiana finance authority to use devices and to adopt rules concerning devices to enforce the collection of judgments for violations of highway work zone speed limits. Provides for civil penalties for offenses and violations. Specifies that the civil penalty must be applied first to defray the cost of the installation, operation, and maintenance of the devices, and specifies

Sponsor: Edmond Soliday

Green cleaning at schools. Requires the department of education (department), in consultation with the state department of health and the Indiana department of environmental management, to establish: (1) a list of environmentally sensitive cleaning and maintenance products approved by the department; and (2) guidelines and specifications for the purchase, storage, and use of environmentally sensitive cleaning and maintenance products by a school at a school facility. Requires, not later than July 1, 2022, the following: (1) A school to comply with the guidelines and specifications and notify school employees of the availability of the list and guidelines and specifications. (2)

Sponsor: Sue Errington

Garnishment of wages. Provides that if: (1) a judgment debtor leaves employment with an employer who is garnishing the wages of the judgment debtor subject to a judgment obtained by a judgment creditor; (2) the judgment debtor subsequently returns to employment with the same employer; and (3) the judgment against the judgment debtor has not been satisfied; the judgment creditor must obtain a new judgment against the judgment debtor before the employer of the judgment debtor is required to resume garnishment of the wages of the judgment debtor.

Sponsor: Richard Hamm

State and local taxation. Provides that the minimum valuation applicable to the total amount of a taxpayer's assessable depreciable personal property in a taxing district is reduced incrementally from 30% of the assessed value of the depreciable personal property in the taxing district to 20% over 10 years beginning with the January 1, 2018, assessment date. Eliminates the addbacks of a taxpayer's federal income tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities in the definitions of "adjusted gross income" under the adjusted gross income tax law and the financial institutions tax law.

Sponsor: Daniel Leonard

Grandparent and great-grandparent rights. Allows great-grandparents to seek visitation rights with their great-grandchildren in certain circumstances. Provides that a grandparent or great-grandparent may seek visitation with a child if the parent or guardian of the child refuses to allow or restricts visitation by the grandparent or great-grandparent. Establishes factors the court may consider in determining whether granting visitation rights to a grandparent or great-grandparent is in the best interests of the child.

Sponsor: Bruce Borders

Elimination of township boards. Specifies that: (1) in the case of a township board for which the members were elected in 2014, the township board is abolished on January 1, 2019; and (2) in the case of a township board for which the members were elected in 2016, the township board is abolished on January 1, 2021. Specifies that after a township board is abolished: (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

Sponsor: Cindy Ziemke

Use of oil from industrial hemp. Requires the Indiana state seed commissioner to adopt emergency rules to establish standards and specifications for commercial cultivation and production of industrial hemp.

Sponsor: Lloyd Arnold

Cost of living adjustment for retired teachers. Provides for a 2% cost of living adjustment for retired members of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund.

Sponsor: Michael Karickhoff

License plate display violations. Imposes an additional civil penalty of not more than $500 on a person that improperly displays a license plate on a vehicle. Distributes the civil penalty as follows: (1) If the violation occurs in a county in which a toll road or qualifying project that is served by an automated traffic law enforcement system is located, or in a contiguous county, to the Indiana finance authority or the operator for reduction of debt associated with the toll road or qualifying project. (2) For all other violations, to the department of transportation for deposit in the motor

Sponsor: Edward Clere

Right to jury trial in certain administrative proceedings. Provides that a person seeking judicial review of the final revocation of a professional license has the right to a jury trial.

Sponsor: Bruce Borders

Property tax exemption. Allows a church that meets certain conditions and that missed the applicable deadline to claim a property tax exemption for the 2011 assessment date to file an application to claim the exemption.

Sponsor: David Niezgodski

Exploitation of vulnerable individuals. Increases the penalties for exploitation of a dependent or an endangered adult and financial exploitation of an endangered adult.

Sponsor: Michael Crider

School assessments and evaluations. Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of performance for the 2015-2016 school year, 2016-2017 school year, 2017-2018 school year, and 2018-2019 school year may not be lower than the grade assigned to the school or school corporation by the state board of education for the 2013-2014 school year. Provides that, for state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2016, and ending before July 1, 2020, the amount that a school corporation may receive as part of a performance grant relating to test results shall be calculated using the percentage of passing scores

Sponsor: Jon Ford

Local government common construction wage. Allows the legislative body of a political subdivision to adopt an ordinance requiring the political subdivision to establish a common construction wage for public work projects awarded by the political subdivision. Exempts projects: (1) in which the actual construction costs are less than $350,000; (2) that are paid for in whole or in part by federal funds unless the federal government gives written consent; or (3) that are undertaken by a person that has entered into an operating agreement with a political subdivision for the management or operation of a public facility under IC 5-23.

Sponsor: Frank Mrvan

Attending an animal fighting contest. Makes attending an animal fighting contest a Level 6 felony regardless of whether the person attending the animal fighting contest has an animal in the person's possession. Repeals the law that makes attending a fighting contest involving animals a Class A misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Brandt Hershman

Resident tuition rate for undocumented aliens. Provides that an agency or political subdivision is not required to verify that an individual is a United States citizen or qualified alien for the individual to be eligible to pay the resident tuition rate. Repeals a provision that provides that an individual who is not lawfully in the United States is not eligible to pay the resident tuition rate.

Sponsor: Joe Taylor

Coercive federal funds in the budget. Requires the office of management and budget to: (1) prepare a coercive federal funds report for each budget bill; and (2) classify the conditions of each source of federal funds in the budget bill. Permits the attorney general to bring a suit in federal court to enjoin spending conditions of federal funds. Provides that the governor or legislative council may hire private counsel to bring a suit if the attorney general declines to bring a suit. Provides that the governor may consult with other governors to develop a coordinated approach to issues concerning coercive

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Resisting law enforcement. Specifies that a person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally fails to comply with the lawful order of a law enforcement officer with authority to direct traffic commits a Class C infraction. (Under current law, a person commits the infraction only if the failure to comply is done knowingly.) Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally fails to comply with the lawful order of a law enforcement officer while the officer is engaged in the officer's official duties commits resisting law enforcement, a Class A misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Susan Glick

Tax sale redemption period. Provides that the ordinary redemption period for real property sold at a tax sale is shortened from one year to six months.

Sponsor: Jean Leising

Individual out-of-state health insurance. Allows an accident and sickness insurer that is licensed in certain other states, but is not licensed in Indiana, and complies with the state examination and premium tax requirements, 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.

Sponsor: Eric Koch

Medical marijuana. Establishes a medical marijuana program (program), and permits caregivers and patients who have received a physician recommendation to possess a certain quantity of marijuana for treatment of certain medical conditions. Establishes the department of marijuana enforcement (DOME) as a state agency to oversee the program, and creates the DOME advisory committee to review the effectiveness of the program and to consider recommendations from DOME. Authorizes DOME to grant research licenses to research facilities with a physical presence in Indiana. Repeals the controlled substance excise tax and the marijuana eradication program. Makes conforming amendments.

Sponsor: Karen Tallian

Warning devices on forklifts. Requires the occupational safety standards commission to adopt a general industry standard not later than January 1, 2018, that requires a forklift operated on a worksite to be equipped with an audible reverse signal alarm that must be sounded whenever the forklift is operated in reverse gear. Requires compliance with the standard beginning January 1, 2019.

Sponsor: Kevin Mahan

INSPECT program certification. Requires that a practitioner who issues a prescription for a controlled substance must be certified to receive information from the INSPECT program.

Sponsor: Randall Head

Resisting law enforcement. Specifies that a person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally fails to comply with the lawful order of a law enforcement officer with authority to direct traffic commits a Class C infraction. (Under current law, a person commits the infraction only if the failure to comply is done "knowingly".) Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally refuses to comply with the lawful order of a law enforcement officer after having been detained based on: (1) probable cause; (2) reasonable suspicion; (3) a warrant; or (4) another court order; commits resisting law enforcement as a Class C misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Rodric Bray

Prevailing wage. Requires that, whenever the actual costs for the construction of a public improvement are at least $150,000, a contractor or subcontractor shall pay the workers employed in the performance of work for the construction of the public improvement a rate of wages that is not less than the prevailing wage determined by the commissioner (commissioner) of the department of labor. Requires that employer contributions for fringe benefits paid under a bona fide collective bargaining agreement be included in the prevailing wage determination unless a contractor or subcontractor is required by federal, state, or local law to provide the

Sponsor: Karen Tallian

Indiana school counseling pilot program. Establishes the Indiana school counseling pilot program, which authorizes the state superintendent of public instruction to select school corporations and charter schools from urban, suburban, and rural areas to apply for and receive grants from the department of education (department) to develop and implement school counseling programs. Establishes a fund, administered by the department, to provide grants to participating schools and to carry out or contract for research concerning school counseling programs. Makes an appropriation.

Sponsor: Randall Head

Long term small loans. Provides that a lender that is licensed by the department of financial institutions to engage in small loans may enter into a transaction for a long term small loan with a borrower. Defines a long term small loan as a loan that: (1) is entered into by a licensed small loan lender and a borrower; (2) has a principal amount of at least $605 and not more than $2,500; and (3) is payable in installments over a term of not more than 24 months. Provides that with respect to a long term small loan, a lender

Sponsor: Travis Holdman