{"state_abbr":"IN","state_name":"Indiana","session_title":"2026 Regular Session","year":2026,"agencies":["Child Services","Secretary Of Family And Social Services","Natural Resources","Higher Education","Local Government Finance","Homeland Security","Environmental Management","Motor Vehicles","Workforce","Correction","Trustees","Administration","Cosmetology And Barber Examiners"],"bills":[{"bill_id":2068139,"bill_number":"HB1001","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Housing matters.","description":"Housing matters. Revises the allocation of money available for making loans from the residential housing infrastructure assistance revolving fund. Adds requirements regarding the location of impact zones designated by a county, city, or town (unit) after June 30, 2026. Requires a unit to approve a project that complies with the legal restrictions in effect on the date the project's permit application is submitted. After December 31, 2026, restricts a unit's ability to impose and increase fees related to building approvals and permits. Delays the implementation of building permit increases to 180 days after publication of the ordinance. Beginning January 1, 2027, requires a unit to annually report the unit's housing status to the Indiana housing and community development authority. Requires the department of environmental management to review and update its Indiana Storm Water Quality Manual not later than December 1, 2026. Prohibits the state or local government from requiring a person intending to fill land in a flood plain to provide compensatory storage at a ratio greater than three (mitigated land) to one (filled land). Requires a unit to forfeit or refund regulatory fees if the unit fails to meet statutory deadlines for issuing a Class 2 building permit. After June 30, 2026, prohibits a state agency or political subdivision from requiring the installation of the following: (1) An arc-fault circuit interrupter in Class 2 structure or structure classified as an R-2 building occupancy classification. (2) An emergency responder communications enhancement system in a Class 1 structure. Repeals a provision that would have reinstated on July 1, 2027, the statute in effect before its amendment in the 2023 regular session of the general assembly setting forth the authorization and procedures for establishing a residential housing development program (program). Amends the current statute for establishing a program to provide that a program terminates: (1) 25 years (instead of 20 years) after the date on which the first obligation was incurred to pay principal and interest on obligations payable from tax increment revenues from the program; or (2) on the date on which the bond obligations or lease rentals are satisfied. Requires a unit not later than January 1, 2027 to: (1) review its unified development ordinance in a public hearing with the purpose of increasing housing development; and (2) report to the executive director of legislative services agency. Urges assignment of the topic of housing developments by religious institutions to an interim study committee. Resolves conflicts for IC 36-2-4-8, which was amended by both P.L.22-2021 and P.L.152-2021. Increases the average construction cost allowable for certain housing projects to be completed by a housing authority. Provides that bonds, notes, or warrants of a housing authority may be sold at less than par value at a negotiated sale.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1001/2026","subjects":["housing","environment","finance","elections","emergency","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068279,"bill_number":"HB1002","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Electric utility affordability.","description":"Electric utility affordability. Requires an electricity supplier, other than a municipally owned utility, that is under the jurisdiction of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to do the following: (1) Beginning with the first monthly billing cycle that begins after June 30, 2026, apply a levelized billing plan (plan) to all active residential customer accounts: (A) for service provided under the electricity supplier's standard residential tariff to a household that is eligible for and has applied for assistance from the state's home energy assistance program; and (B) to which a plan does not already apply. (2) Not later than April 1, 2026, offer each customer a mechanism by which the customer may opt out of a plan at any time without penalty. (3) Not later than July 1, 2026, for any plan offered by the electricity supplier and applied to an active customer account, amend or design the plan so that plan's account reconciliation mechanism is applied at such times during a calendar year to reflect typical seasonal patterns of electricity usage by residential customers, but not more than two times during a calendar year. Prohibits an electricity supplier from referring to or promoting a levelized billing plan as a \"budget billing plan\" unless the levelized billing plan also provides other specified forms of relief for customers. Authorizes the IURC to adopt rules to implement these provisions. Amends existing law granting the IURC the authority to take certain actions with respect to the rates and services of public utilities during emergency circumstances, as judged by the IURC, to provide instead that the IURC may recommend that the governor declare a disaster emergency or proclaim a state of energy emergency during which the IURC may take such actions. Specifies that the emergency must result from: (1) a national economic depression; (2) an act of war; or (3) a disaster of unprecedented size and destructiveness. Provides that an electric utility, other than a municipally owned utility, may not terminate residential electric service to a customer on any day with respect to which the National Weather Service has forecast, not earlier than 48 hours in advance, a heat index of at least 95 degrees for the location where the customer receives service. Requires an electricity supplier, other than a municipally owned utility, that is under the jurisdiction of the IURC for the approval of rates and charges to report to the office of utility consumer counselor (OUCC) on a quarterly basis certain data concerning residential customer accounts. Requires the OUCC to annually compile and summarize the information contained in the reports and include the summary in the OUCC's annual report to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications. Provides that an investor owned electricity supplier that is under the jurisdiction of the IURC for the approval of rates and charges must petition the IURC for approval of any change in its basic rates and charges through the submission of a three-year multi-year rate plan (MYRP). Beginning in 2026, requires each electricity supplier to file its first petition with the IURC for approval of an MYRP according to a prescribed schedule. Provides that the base rates for the first rate year of an MYRP shall be established by the IURC in the same manner that base rates would be established in a proceeding for a change in basic rates and charges that occurs outside an MYRP. Specifies that in a petition to the IURC for a multi-year plan, an electricity supplier must include certain information in its case in chief. Provides that for each rate year in an electricity supplier's MYRP, the following apply: (1) A customer affordability performance metric and an associated performance incentive mechanism (PIM) that: (A) is based on the electricity supplier's performance in meeting the customer affordability performance metric; and (B) provides financial rewards or penalties to the electricity supplier based on that performance. (2) A service restoration performance metric and an associated PIM that: (A) is based on the electricity supplier's performance in meeting the service restoration performance metric; and (B) provides financial rewards or penalties to the electricity supplier based on that performance. Sets forth the methods by which the IURC must calculate the prescribed performance metrics and determine the associated PIMs. Sets forth specified findings the IURC must make in approving an electricity supplier's MYRP. Provides that at any time before the expiration of an electricity supplier's approved MYRP, the IURC may, upon its own motion, or at the request of the OUCC or the electricity supplier: (1) examine the electricity supplier's rates under the MYRP; (2) conduct periodic reviews with opportunities for public hearings and comments; and (3) adjust the base rates or PIMs under the MYRP. Beginning in 2029, requires the IURC to include in its annual report certain information about: (1) the status of electricity suppliers' MYRP filings and current MYRPs; (2) electricity suppliers' calculated performance metrics for the current rate year; and (3) the impact of all applicable PIMs on customer rates. Requires the IURC to adopt rules to implement these provisions. Requires an electricity supplier, other than a municipally owned utility, that is under the jurisdiction of the IURC to offer, not later than July 1, 2026, a low income customer assistance program (program) that provides financial assistance to low income residential customers for the payment of monthly bills for utility service. Requires an electricity supplier to annually fund its program in an amount equal to: (1) at least 0.2% of the electricity supplier's jurisdictional revenues for residential customers; plus (2) any contributions from governmental agencies or programs or from other third parties. Provides that if a customer who applies for assistance is eligible for assistance under the program, the electricity supplier shall enroll the customer in the program. Provides that an electricity supplier may, but is not required to, petition the IURC for approval to recover eligible program costs. Provides that \"eligible program costs\" do not include costs recovered by the electricity supplier through contributions that are provided at no cost to the electricity supplier. Beginning in 2027, requires the IURC to include each year in its annual report specified information concerning each electricity supplier's program with respect to the most recently concluded state fiscal year. Requires the IURC to adopt rules to implement these provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1002/2026","subjects":["it","housing","finance","energy","emergency","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068336,"bill_number":"HB1003","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Boards and commissions.","description":"Boards and commissions. Creates the agricultural promotion and regulation task force to study various agriculture related topics. Makes changes to requirements for the readoption of administrative rules. Repeals, merges, consolidates, or otherwise modifies various boards, commissions, and other governmental bodies. Modifies or establishes various funds. Makes changes to the membership, duties, and operations of various boards, commissions, and other governmental bodies. Expands the applicability of a statute concerning county hospital governance to Perry County, Spencer County, and Orange County. Repeals the fire prevention and building safety commission (commission). Transfers the commission's responsibilities and administrative rules to the department of homeland security. Makes certain changes to the administration of building and safety statutes and building and safety codes. Makes technical corrections. Makes an appropriation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1003/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety","finance","agriculture"],"agencies":["Homeland Security"]},{"bill_id":2068176,"bill_number":"HB1004","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various education matters.","description":"Various education matters. Makes changes to various education provisions concerning the following: (1) Certain school corporation accounting requirements. (2) The \"nonpublic school\" definition. (3) Recodification and state board of education (state board) transition provisions. (4) The state board's duties. (5) Powers of the governing bodies of school corporations. (6) Public-private agreements by charter schools for the construction or renovation of schools. (7) Adoption of certain rules by the state board. (8) Provisions that apply to a qualified district or qualified high school. (9) Department of education's (department) duties regarding initiatives for teacher recruitment and retention of certain educators. (10) Internet use policy. (11) Graduation plan requirements. (12) Instruction on alcoholic beverages, tobacco, prescription drugs, and controlled substances. (13) Recognition program criteria application. (14) Reporting on certain student expenditure information. (15) Excused absences. (16) Automated external defibrillator (AED) requirements. (17) Grant awards from the Indiana secured school fund. (18) Joint meetings of governing bodies of school corporations. (19) The borrowing of money by school corporations for certain hardware. Relocates a provision regarding certain possession and storage of a firearm educational materials from the department to the department of homeland security. Allows use of temporary teacher contracts for teachers who have been issued an emergency permit. Removes or repeals various education and higher education provisions concerning the following: (1) Expired and expiring provisions. (2) Duties, discretionary actions, and restrictions regarding the department. (3) Posting of certain information by schools. (4) Discretionary display of certain words by qualified districts. (5) Academic receivership. (6) Staff performance evaluations regarding Indianapolis Public Schools. (7) Certain powers of governing bodies of school corporations. (8) Certain student teaching agreement requirements with postsecondary educational institutions. (9) Certain discretionary authority of school corporations regarding joining regional school study councils, distributing payroll based on contractual and compensation plans, and establishing and using funds for nursery schools. (10) Spending restrictions for remediation programs. (11) Certain website posting requirements for school corporations and charter schools. (12) Reporting regarding students who meet certain requirements during their expected graduation year. (13) Discretion regarding certain feasibility studies. (14) Certain rights and privileges of teachers employed in a joint program or special education cooperatives or with regard to certain interlocal cooperation agreements. (15) Joint investment funds. (16) Application of certain laws to joint programs. (17) Establishment of certain students as transfer students. (18) Discretion regarding employee health coverage for certain individuals. (19) Notification to the secretary of education by a superintendent regarding a conviction or certain final actions. (20) References to an online platform for training. (21) Reports regarding adjunct teachers. (22) Teacher contract requirements regarding the number of work hours per day. (23) Voiding of contracts with teachers if certain conditions apply. (24) Regular teacher's contract requirement for principals, assistant principals, and directors of special education. (25) The provision of certain individual test scores regarding examinations required for teacher licensure. (26) The definition of \"secondary school\" regarding the federal teacher loan forgiveness program. (27) The definition of \"deficit financing\" with regard to the Gary Community School Corporation and the Muncie Community school corporation. (28) Allowing instruction on bullying prevention and child abuse by certain individuals. (29) Timing of statewide assessment requirements for state accredited nonpublic schools and eligible schools. (30) Requirement that the department make available certain diagnostic tools. (31) Discretionary portfolio programs by governing bodies of school corporations. (32) Allowing expulsion if a student's legal settlement is not in an attendance area. (33) Report requirement by the education commission of the states. (34) Duty of a school corporation to preserve instructional programs. (35) The primary care physician loan forgiveness program. (36) Required payments by postsecondary credit bearing proprietary educational institutions regarding cost of performing team onsite investigations. (37) Indiana excellence in teaching endowment. (38) Listing of funds established outside certain education provisions. Repeals and relocates education provisions regarding programs administered by the state with the following changes: (1) Removes or repeals the following: (A) Dissemination of certain information regarding the teacher referral system. (B) Expired provisions. (C) Certain uses of the Senator David C. Ford educational technology fund. (D) The technology plan grant program and requirements. (E) School social worker qualification requirements. (F) An annual report regarding system of teacher and student advancement grants. (G) The Indiana education residency pilot program. (H) A biannual progress report regarding the next level computer science program and fund. (I) A noncompliance and transfer of responsibility provision regarding the next level computer science program and fund. (2) Amends certain requirements regarding the process for evaluating curricular materials. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1004/2026","subjects":["it","health","education","transportation","labor","energy","cannabis","elections","trade"],"agencies":["Homeland Security"]},{"bill_id":2054594,"bill_number":"HB1011","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"End of life options.","description":"End of life options. Allows individuals with a terminal illness who meet certain requirements to make a request to an attending provider for medication that the individual may self-administer to bring about death. Specifies requirements a provider must meet in order to prescribe the medication to a patient. Prohibits an insurer from denying payment of benefits under a life insurance policy based upon a suicide clause in the life insurance policy if the death of the insured individual is the result of medical aid in dying. Establishes a Level 1 felony if a person: (1) without authorization of the patient, willfully alters, forges, conceals, or destroys a request for medication or a rescission of a request for medication with the intent or effect of causing the individual's death; or (2) knowingly or intentionally coerces or exerts undue influence on an individual to request medication to bring about death or to destroy a rescission of a request for medication to bring about death. Establishes a Class A misdemeanor if a person, without authorization of the patient, willfully alters, forges, conceals, or destroys a request for medication or a rescission of a request for medication in order to affect a health care decision by the individual. Establishes certain criminal and civil immunity for health care providers.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1011/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054981,"bill_number":"HB1012","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Medicaid matters.","description":"Medicaid matters. Amends the duties of the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) concerning home and community based services waivers (waiver). Sets forth requirements for conducting an audit of a provider of waiver services. Requires: (1) a waiver recipient to review the recipient's monthly statement and report errors or inconsistencies; and (2) the recipient's case manager to provide assistance to the recipient in reviewing the statements and reporting any errors. Establishes the home and community based services waiver waiting list assistance fund (fund) to provide individuals on a waiver waiting list with access to certain supports. Provides that when the office determines an individual is ineligible for Medicaid, the office shall provide the specific reason for determining the individual is ineligible. Requires the office to review certain bank accounts in determining an individual's Medicaid eligibility. Requires a provider of waiver services to provide a recipient and the recipient's care coordinator with certain billing statements. Provides that appropriations in the budget bill for Medicaid assistance that are budgeted for a waiver that remain unexpended and unencumbered at the close of the state fiscal year and that would otherwise lapse and be returned to the state general fund do not revert to the state general fund, but instead shall be deposited in the fund. Provides that, for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027, appropriations in the budget bill for Medicaid assistance in an amount sufficient to cover costs incurred by the office in carrying out specified duties that remain unexpended and unencumbered at the close of the state fiscal year and that would otherwise lapse and be returned to the state general fund do not revert to the state general fund, but instead shall remain available to the office to cover these costs.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1012/2026","subjects":["health","finance","trade"],"agencies":["Secretary Of Family And Social Services"]},{"bill_id":2054854,"bill_number":"HB1013","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Exemption from certain health care mandates.","description":"Exemption from certain health care mandates. Prohibits an individual from being required to inject, receive an injection of, ingest, inhale, or otherwise incorporate a qualified substance into the individual's body.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1013/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054769,"bill_number":"HB1014","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sonography.","description":"Sonography. Specifies that the term \"radiation\" includes sound waves commonly used for sonography. Prohibits a person from performing sonography unless certain conditions are met, and provides both criminal and civil penalties. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1014/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055002,"bill_number":"HB1015","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana National Guard.","description":"Indiana National Guard. Provides that the governor may not, with certain exceptions, order a member of the Indiana National Guard to perform any law enforcement duty that may result in the surveillance, apprehension, detention, or arrest of an individual.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1015/2026","subjects":["public_safety","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054940,"bill_number":"HB1016","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Selection of primary care provider.","description":"Selection of primary care provider. Provides that a policy of accident and sickness insurance and health maintenance organization that require an insured to select a primary care provider to receive coverage may permit an insured to select a participating provider who is a physical therapist to provide physical therapy services or an occupational therapist to provide occupational therapy services.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1016/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054876,"bill_number":"HB1017","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"University notification of emergency contact.","description":"University notification of emergency contact. Requires each postsecondary educational institution in Indiana and state educational institution to: (1) establish and implement a procedure whereby a student may designate a medical emergency contact for medical emergencies that occur on campus; and (2) if the institution has knowledge of the medical emergency, notify the student's medical emergency contact after the student experiences a medical emergency on campus.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1017/2026","subjects":["health","education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054896,"bill_number":"HB1018","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"School age child care.","description":"School age child care. Removes certain transportation requirements in the approval criteria for the school age child care project fund. Requires the division of family resources to adopt rules specifying cost and expense standards for transporting a child to a facility where the child does not attend school.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1018/2026","subjects":["education","transportation","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054684,"bill_number":"HB1019","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Constitutional amendment ballot question.","description":"Constitutional amendment ballot question. Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning the residency of a city or town court judge.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1019/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054610,"bill_number":"HB1020","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Access to birth control program.","description":"Access to birth control program. Establishes the access to birth control program (program) administered by the Indiana department of health for the purpose of increasing access to birth control by Indiana residents with a specified maximum household income. Sets forth requirements of the program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1020/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054639,"bill_number":"HB1021","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Firearm storage.","description":"Firearm storage. Provides that a person having the care of a dependent who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally fails to secure a loaded firearm in the person's residence or vehicle commits neglect of a dependent, a Level 6 felony, if the dependent uses the firearm to cause bodily injury or death to any person. Enhances the offense to a Level 5 felony in particular instances. Specifies exceptions and defenses. Specifies sign requirements for retail dealers. Defines terms and makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1021/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054650,"bill_number":"HB1022","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Selection of candidate for lieutenant governor.","description":"Selection of candidate for lieutenant governor. Requires a candidate for governor who has been nominated at a primary election or state convention to certify the name of the candidate for lieutenant governor who will run jointly with the candidate for governor at the general election. Requires the candidate for lieutenant governor to file a declaration of candidacy not later than noon July 15 before the general election. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1022/2026","subjects":["housing","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054918,"bill_number":"HB1023","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Deduction for surviving spouses of WW I veterans.","description":"Deduction for surviving spouses of WW I veterans. Restores the property tax deduction available to a surviving spouse of a World War I veteran that was limited to property taxes imposed for an assessment date before January 1, 2025, by SEA 1-2025 (P.L. 68-2025).","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1023/2026","subjects":["finance","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054812,"bill_number":"HB1024","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Veterinary student loan repayment program.","description":"Veterinary student loan repayment program. Establishes the veterinary medicine student loan repayment program (program) and the veterinary medicine student loan repayment fund (fund). Provides that the Indiana state board of animal health shall administer the program and the fund.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1024/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055108,"bill_number":"HB1025","status":3,"status_name":"Enrolled","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"County policies.","description":"County policies. Specifies that county residency requirements do not apply to: (1) public defenders (except for the chief public defender); (2) employees of a public defender office; (3) judicial officers; or (4) court personnel.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1025/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054832,"bill_number":"HB1026","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Child care funding.","description":"Child care funding. Amends the appropriation from the financial responsibility and opportunity growth fund (fund) for the state budget biennium in HEA 1001-2025 to require the total amount appropriated from the fund to be used for funding the Child Care and Development Fund voucher program and On My Way Pre-K programmatic funding and for no other purpose.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1026/2026","subjects":["education","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055088,"bill_number":"HB1027","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sale of bureau of motor vehicles information.","description":"Sale of bureau of motor vehicles information. Prohibits the bureau of motor vehicles (BMV) from selling the personal information of an individual who: (1) is less than 21 years of age; (2) is 65 years of age or older; or (3) opts out of the sale of the individual's personal information. Prohibits a person to which the BMV provides such information from selling or disclosing the information (sales prohibition). Requires the BMV to provide an easily understandable and easily accessible means by which an individual may opt out of the sale of the individual's personal information. Permits the state board of finance, upon approval by the governor, to transfer funds to the BMV to offset a shortfall in funding for the BMV that occurs in a state fiscal year beginning before July 1, 2028, as a result of the sales prohibition.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1027/2026","subjects":["transportation","finance"],"agencies":["Motor Vehicles"]},{"bill_id":2054661,"bill_number":"HB1028","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Medicaid coverage for health related social needs.","description":"Medicaid coverage for health related social needs. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply, not later than October 1, 2026, for approval of a Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver to provide coverage for health related social needs.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1028/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055024,"bill_number":"HB1029","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Alzheimer's disease and dementia education.","description":"Alzheimer's disease and dementia education. Requires the Indiana department of health (state department) to: (1) collaborate with a national Alzheimer's disease and dementia organization in educating the public about Alzheimer's disease and dementia; and (2) identify and collaborate with additional partners in the education. Requires the state department to partner for outreach in the education and publish certain educational materials on the state department's website. Allows the state department to accept grants, services, and property from public and private entities for the education.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1029/2026","subjects":["education","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054747,"bill_number":"HB1030","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Electrology services.","description":"Electrology services. Provides that an applicant for an electrologist license does not need to hold a cosmetologist license or esthetician license before applying for an electrologist license. Requires an applicant to complete a combined total of 600 hours of education and experience required under the rules adopted by the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners (board) beginning July 1, 2027. Requires the board to amend the rules for electrology training in a beauty culture school not later than June 30, 2027.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1030/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":["Cosmetology And Barber Examiners"]},{"bill_id":2054626,"bill_number":"HB1031","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"County coroners.","description":"County coroners. Makes changes to the blood or tissue retention protocols at a hospital for purposes of conducting a death investigation. Makes changes to the training course requirements for coroners and deputy coroners. Makes changes to provisions governing the conduct of a death investigation.Provides that a coroner or deputy coroner who conducts a death investigation or signs a death certificate without completing certain training commits a Class B misdemeanor. Provides that, if a coroner or deputy coroner fails to complete the required training course within the time required, the county shall reimburse the coroners training board for the cost of the training. Provides that the county may recover from an individual the amount the county reimbursed the coroners training board. Makes technical corrections.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1031/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054790,"bill_number":"HB1032","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Redistricting.","description":"Redistricting. Allows the general assembly to amend congressional districts at a time other than the first regular session of the general assembly convening immediately following the United States decennial census. Specifies requirements that apply to any action challenging the apportionment of congressional districts or general assembly districts. Establishes new Indiana congressional districts. Provides for expiration of the current congressional districts on the date of the 2026 general election. Specifies that for purposes of the 2026 primary and general election, a precinct may cross the boundary of a congressional district. Requires the election division to assist each county voter registration office with the implementation of this act. Makes technical and necessary changes in related statutes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1032/2026","subjects":["housing","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054726,"bill_number":"HB1033","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various judicial matters.","description":"Various judicial matters. Amends the membership of the community corrections advisory board. Defines \"full court\" as the total of all Marion superior court judges who are appointed and serving as judges. Specifies that if a newly appointed judge is filling a vacancy of a judge whose term ends the same year as the appointment, the newly appointed judge shall serve a term that expires on December 31 of the sixth full year following the appointment. Requires the Marion County judicial selection committee (judicial selection committee) to nominate five candidates to the governor when a judicial vacancy exists and allows the governor to appoint any of the nominated candidates when filling more than one vacancy.  Replaces the term \"presiding judge\" with \"chief judge\" within the Marion County superior court. Amends the membership of the judicial selection committee. Prohibits a member of the judicial selection committee who is not an ex officio member to serve consecutive terms and staggers the terms of certain members of the judicial selection committee to begin on July 1, 2026, or July 1, 2028. Requires the judicial selection committee to determine that a judge is suitable to retain judicial office before a judge's request for retention may be placed on the ballot. Establishes a procedure with specific deadlines for a judge who wishes to stand for retention in 2026. Repeals and replaces a provision concerning the procedure to select the Marion County judicial executive committee (executive committee) and certain court provisions. Provides that, for an executive committee starting a term on January 1, 2027, and for the selection of each executive committee thereafter, the full court shall meet not later than November 15 in the final year of the executive committee's term to select the candidates of the next executive committee. Requires a two-thirds vote of the sitting judges who will hold office on January 1 of the next year to select the candidates of the executive committee and requires the chair of the judicial selection committee to approve the members of the executive committee and select one member of the executive committee as the chief judge. Allows the chair of the judicial selection committee to remove a member of the executive committee for cause. Increases the term of an executive committee member of the Marion County judiciary from two years to three years. Specifies which duties are the responsibility of the full court and which are to be determined by a trial judge. Describes the duties and authority of the executive committee. Provides that any action taken by the executive committee may only be overruled by a vote of 85% of the full court sitting at the time the vote is taken. Removes a requirement that the executive committee requires the approval of two-thirds of the judges to determine the number of judicial officers and personnel required to serve the court. Provides that the judge of the circuit court has exclusive authority to appoint commissioners or magistrates allocated to the circuit court. Amends how magistrates and commissioners are appointed. Specifies that the executive committee has final authority for all employment decisions regarding commissioners and magistrates. Repeals a provision that allows the presiding judge to appoint a magistrate and allows the executive committee to appoint 28 magistrates. Requires a voting member of the justice reinvestment advisory council to cast a vote in person. Requires that, in a county having a consolidated city, the chief judge or a judge appointed by the chief judge be the chair of the local justice reinvestment advisory council. Provides that a local or regional advisory council may only take action upon the affirmative vote of the members and a member must cast a vote in person. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1033/2026","subjects":["public_safety","labor","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055066,"bill_number":"HB1034","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Student cellular telephone use.","description":"Student cellular telephone use. Amends the definition of \"wireless communication device.\" Requires each school corporation and charter school to adopt and implement a wireless communication device policy that: (1) prohibits a student from using or possessing a wireless communication device during the school day; (2) requires teacher directed use of a wireless communication device for educational purposes during the school day to occur only on school supplied wireless communication devices; and (3) mandates the use of a no device policy or a secure storage policy. Creates certain exceptions to a wireless communication device policy. Requires the department of education to publish model policy language and implementation guidance.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1034/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055045,"bill_number":"HB1035","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Permissible unsupervised activity.","description":"Permissible unsupervised activity. Defines \"independent activity\". Provides that a child is not a child in need of services solely because a parent, guardian, or custodian allows the child to engage in an independent activity unless the parent, guardian, or custodian is so reckless in allowing the child to engage in the independent activity that it endangers the child's health or safety given the child's maturity, condition, and ability. Provides a defense for neglect of a dependent that the accused person reasonably believed that an independent activity was not dangerous.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1035/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054961,"bill_number":"HB1036","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Children in need of services.","description":"Children in need of services. Requires the department of child services, subject to certain procedural safeguards, to have in-person contact with an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect: (1) before concluding an assessment; and (2) before dismissing or terminating a pending child in need of services case with the juvenile court.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1036/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":["Child Services"]},{"bill_id":2054629,"bill_number":"HB1037","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-01","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Insurance rate review.","description":"Insurance rate review. Provides that the insurance commissioner shall discharge the powers and duties of the commissioner's office with respect to policies of accident and sickness insurance and health maintenance organization contracts in a specified manner. Requires the commissioner to consider, before approving or disapproving a rate increase or decrease for a policy of accident and sickness insurance or a health maintenance organization contract, whether the filer's products are affordable and whether the filer has implemented effective strategies to enhance the affordability of the filer's products. Allows the commissioner to disapprove a rate increase if the rate is increased by an amount that exceeds the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food and Energy percentage increase plus 1%.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1037/2026","subjects":["energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2054706,"bill_number":"HB1038","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Gaming matters.","description":"Gaming matters. Provides that the horse racing commission may issue three satellite facility licenses (instead of four per permit holder under current law). Requires Allen County, DeKalb County, and Steuben County to place a public question on the 2026 general election ballot that seeks approval from the voters to permit inland casino gambling. Authorizes the Indiana gaming commission (commission) to award a new riverboat license for an inland casino in Allen County, DeKalb County, or Steuben County. Prohibits the commission from awarding an owner's license to operate a casino in Allen County, DeKalb County, or Steuben County if the voters of the county do not approve casino gaming in the county. Specifies application requirements, including local government support and the applicant's commitment and plan to invest at least $500,000,000 for the development of a casino and nongaming amenities. Requires an approved applicant to pay $150,000,000 to the commission to be deposited by the commission as follows: (1) $100,000,000 to the state general fund; and (2) $50,000,000 to the shuttered riverboat fund to be used for local units that are affected by a shuttered riverboat or inland casino closure. Provides that if a licensed owner ceases operations or goes out of business, the license issued under this section is terminated effective on that date.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1038/2026","subjects":["housing","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055942,"bill_number":"HB1039","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-02","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various immigration matters.","description":"Various immigration matters. Provides that if a law enforcement officer, governmental body, or postsecondary educational institution is made a party to a civil suit and the attorney general determines that the suit has arisen out of certain acts, the attorney general shall defend the law enforcement officer, governmental body, or postsecondary educational institution throughout the action. Clarifies that the enforcement of federal immigration laws may be carried out by federal, state, or local law enforcement. Removes the mens rea standard in the statute concerning governmental bodies or postsecondary institutions violating the citizenship and immigration status information and enforcement of federal laws chapter. Provides that a governmental body that has the custody of an individual who is the subject of an immigration detainer request shall: (1) provide the judge authorized to grant or deny the individual's release on bail notice that the individual is subject to an immigration detainer request; (2) record in the individual's case file that the individual is subject to an immigration detainer request; (3) comply with the immigration detainer request; and (4) inform the individual that the individual is being held pursuant to an immigration detainer request. Provides immunity to a governmental body or an employee of a governmental body for any action taken concerning an immigration detainer request. Prohibits a political subdivision from taking certain actions to aid, assist, incentivize, or facilitate the migration of any alien or class of aliens into Indiana. Provides that if the attorney general determines that probable cause exists that a governmental entity has not complied with an immigration detention request, the attorney general may bring a court action to: (1) enjoin an act or practice constituting a violation of an immigration detention request; and (2) impose a civil penalty for noncompliance with an immigration detention request. Requires a judge who receives notice that an individual is subject to an immigration detainer request to ensure that the notice of the immigration detainer request is recorded in the court's record. Prohibits an employer from knowingly or intentionally recruiting, hiring, or employing an unauthorized alien. Provides that if the attorney general determines that probable cause exists that an employer has recruited, hired, or employed an unauthorized alien, the attorney general may enjoin the action and seek the suspension of the employer's operating authorizations. Provides that a governmental entity that employs a prosecuting official is entitled to investigative costs and costs in an indecent nuisance action.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1039/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055843,"bill_number":"HB1040","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-14","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Battery against school and healthcare employees.","description":"Battery against school and healthcare employees. Increases the penalty for battery on certain health care employees and school employees. Specifies that the enhancement for battery committed against a department of child services (DCS) employee applies only to those DCS employees whose responsibilities include personally supervising a child or parent, personally providing services to a child or parent, or personally interviewing a child or parent as part of an investigation. Requires the employer of a health care or school employee who is the victim of battery to make a semiannual report to the department of labor concerning workplace batteries.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1040/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing","public_safety","labor","trade"],"agencies":["Child Services"]},{"bill_id":2055982,"bill_number":"HB1041","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-02","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Line maintenance in public rights-of-way.","description":"Line maintenance in public rights-of-way. Sets forth minimum standards and requirements for the installation and maintenance of communications service or utility service facilities (facilities) in a public right-of-way. Defines a \"permittee\" as: (1) a person to whom an initial permit or authorization for the installation of a facility in a public right-of-way is granted by a unit; or (2) a service provider responsible for maintaining a facility that has been installed in a public right-of-way. Defines a \"line pollution violation\" as a violation attributable to a permittee and involving: (1) noncompliance with any standard or requirement set forth in the bill; or (2) the presence of any damaged, abandoned, loose, or improperly secured facilities within a public right-of-way. Provides that a permittee responsible for a line pollution violation is liable to the unit owning the public right-of-way for a fine in an amount determined by the unit, but not to exceed: (1) $500 per violation for each day the violation remains uncured; or (2) a total fine of $2,500. Requires a permittee to ensure that any person responsible for installing, replacing, relocating, or repairing any underground facility that is owned or operated by the permittee and located within a public right-of-way complies with the requirements set forth in: (1) Indiana's statute concerning underground utility facilities; and (2) any applicable local ordinance or regulation; with respect to any work involving drilling, trenching, boring, hand digging, or plowing.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1041/2026","subjects":["environment","energy","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055924,"bill_number":"HB1042","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Regulation and investment of cryptocurrency.","description":"Regulation and investment of cryptocurrency. Provides that the following shall offer, as a regular investment program, a self directed brokerage account that offers at least one cryptocurrency investment option: (1) The legislators' defined contribution plan. (2) The Hoosier START plan. (3) Specified public employees' retirement fund plans and accounts. (4) Specified teachers' retirement fund plans and accounts (including the teachers' pre-1996 account). Prohibits a public agency, other than the department of financial institutions, or a county, municipality, or township from adopting or enforcing a rule, ordinance, or other regulation that does any of the following: (1) Prohibits, restricts, or impairs an individual's ability to: (A) accept digital assets as a method of payment for legal goods and services; or (B) take custody of digital assets using specified technologies. (2) Imposes taxes or fees on: (A) use or acceptance of digital assets as a method of payment for legal goods and services; or (B) taking or maintaining custody of digital assets using a self-hosted wallet or hardware wallet; that are not applicable to comparable financial transactions that do not involve digital assets. (3) Prohibits, restricts, or impairs the ability of an individual or business to engage in specified activities pertaining to blockchains. Prohibits a public agency, other than the department of financial institutions, from adopting or enforcing a rule, ordinance, or other regulation that prohibits operation of a digital mining business. Prohibits a county, municipality, or township from adopting or enforcing a rule, ordinance, or other regulation that does any of the following: (1) Prohibits a digital asset mining business from operating in an area zoned for industrial use, or subjects a digital asset mining business located in an area zoned for industrial use to noise restrictions that are not applicable to other businesses operating in an area zoned for industrial use. (2) Prohibits private digital asset mining in a private residence located in an area that is zoned for residential use, or subjects private digital asset mining in a residence located in an area zoned for residential use to noise restrictions that do not apply to other residences in an area zoned for residential use.  Provides that development or use of software for noncustodial transfer of digital assets does not constitute money transmission for purposes of statutes regarding licensure of money transmitters. Provides that a court may compel a person to disclose a digital asset private key only if no other admissible information is sufficient to provide access to the digital asset.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1042/2026","subjects":["it","education","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055884,"bill_number":"HB1043","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-02","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Data center water regulation.","description":"Data center water regulation. Defines \"data center\". Prohibits a person from operating a data center in Indiana without obtaining a consumption permit from the department of natural resources (department). Sets forth information that must be included in a consumption permit application. Establishes procedures for the department to approve or deny a consumption permit application. Provides that a consumption permit may be transferred under certain circumstances. Provides that a person may consult with the department to assess the viability of a proposed data center with respect to water consumption. Allows the natural resources commission to adopt rules to implement this bill.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1043/2026","subjects":["environment","water"],"agencies":["Natural Resources"]},{"bill_id":2055903,"bill_number":"HB1044","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Insurance coverage for public safety employees.","description":"Insurance coverage for public safety employees. Provides that a public safety employee who: (1) becomes disabled on or after January 1, 2020; (2) receives a Class 1 or a Class 2 impairment benefit; and (3) is eligible for group health insurance coverage for the public safety employee and the public safety employee's spouse or dependents; must pay no more than the amount that the public safety employee would have been required to pay if still serving as a current active public safety employee employed by the local unit public employer. Specifies that the public safety employee must file a written request for insurance coverage with the employer before June 1, 2026, or within 90 days after the public safety employee begins receiving disability benefits, whichever is later. Specifies that if a public safety agency closes, merges, or otherwise ceases to exist, the local unit public employer that caused the public safety agency to cease to exist, shall continue to provide certain insurance coverage. Provides that a surviving spouse or dependent of a public safety employee who dies in the line of duty must pay the same amount that the public safety employee would have been required to pay if still serving as a current active public safety employee employed by the local unit public employer for coverage selected by the surviving spouse or dependent under the group health insurance program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1044/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055863,"bill_number":"HB1045","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-02","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Restricted access of certain offenders to parks.","description":"Restricted access of certain offenders to parks. Provides that the offense of unlawful entry by a serious sex offender includes a serious sex offender knowingly or intentionally entering a public park.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1045/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2055963,"bill_number":"HB1046","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-02","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Family recovery court fund.","description":"Family recovery court fund. Establishes the family recovery court fund (fund). Provides that the fund consists of money appropriated by the general assembly from the state unrestricted opioid settlement account as well as donations, gifts, and money received from other sources. Provides that money in the fund is continuously appropriated for the purpose of funding family recovery courts and safe baby courts. Provides that family recovery courts: (1) target cases of abuse or neglect wherein a parent or primary caregiver suffers from a substance use disorder or co-occurring disorders; and (2) are certified as problem solving courts by the office of judicial administration.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1046/2026","subjects":["health","housing","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056003,"bill_number":"HB1047","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-02","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Regulation of payroll service providers.","description":"Regulation of payroll service providers. Requires a payroll service provider to provide the option to a business client that would allow the business client to hold the business client's funds in a bank account that is: (1) owned by the business client (as opposed to the payroll service provider's bank account); and (2) insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund. Requires a payroll service provider to obtain a performance bond equal to the amount of the business client's total annual estimated payroll taxes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1047/2026","subjects":["finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057027,"bill_number":"HB1048","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"VFD clothing and automobile allowances.","description":"VFD clothing and automobile allowances. Increases, from $100 to $250, the clothing and automobile allowance for an active member of a volunteer fire department (department). Provides that a unit served by a volunteer fire department shall pay the clothing and automobile allowance directly to each active and participating member of the department.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1048/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057020,"bill_number":"HB1049","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Coverage for doula services.","description":"Coverage for doula services. Requires a state employee health plan, policy of accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organization contract to provide coverage for doula services. Requires Medicaid pregnancy services to include reimbursement for doula services.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1049/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057073,"bill_number":"HB1050","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prohibition on lien for medical debt.","description":"Prohibition on lien for medical debt. Provides that: (1) any amount of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer; or (2) in an action against a consumer in which a judgment has been entered, any amount of the judgment that represents health care debt determined to be owed by the consumer; does not constitute a lien against the consumer's principal residence. Provides that in any action filed, in a court of competent jurisdiction in Indiana, for the recovery of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer, the principal residence of the consumer is not liable to judgment or attachment or to be sold on execution against the consumer.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1050/2026","subjects":["health","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057086,"bill_number":"HB1051","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Exclusion of medical debt from credit scoring.","description":"Exclusion of medical debt from credit scoring. Prohibits a health care provider from reporting or furnishing to a consumer reporting agency any information related to health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer who resides in Indiana. Requires a health care provider to include in any contract entered into with a third party furnisher a provision that prohibits the reporting or furnishing to a consumer reporting agency any information related to health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer, including information concerning any delinquent account action taken with respect to health care debt. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from recording or retaining in the file of a consumer any information that is: (1) related to health care debt incurred or alleged to be incurred by the consumer; and (2) reported to the consumer reporting agency after June 30, 2026. Provides that if a consumer reporting agency receives a request from a consumer to delete any record of health care debt maintained in the file of the consumer, the consumer reporting agency shall, not later than five business days after receiving the request, take all lawful and reasonable actions to delete from the consumer's file the record of the health care debt, regardless of when the health care debt was reported to the consumer reporting agency. Provides that a person who violates the provisions of this act commits a deceptive act.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1051/2026","subjects":["health","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057080,"bill_number":"HB1052","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various administrative law matters.","description":"Various administrative law matters. Adds conditions for which the horse racing commission (HRC) may revoke or suspend a license or deny a license application. Adds a reference to wagering on horse racing in a provision prohibiting certain individuals from wagering at a licensed facility. Provides that appeals of certain decisions of the HRC may be appealed to the office of administrative law proceedings. Adds sports wagering certificate holders to the voluntary exclusion program. Defines and establishes civil penalties for conducting a \"sweepstakes game\". Allows the holder of a beer wholesaler's permit to possess, transport, sell, and deliver beer to a food manufacturer that is registered with the federal Food and Drug Administration for the purpose of adding or integrating the beer into a product or recipe. Provides that a wine retailer whose wine sales represent at least 60% of the annual gross income from the premises may allow customers to obtain sealed bottles of wine by self-service for consumption off the licensed premises. Allows the holder of a temporary wine permit to purchase, receive, and sell mixed beverages. Establishes requirements for the wholesale sale and distribution of tobacco products and electronic cigarettes. Adds additional information an applicant must provide to the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) when applying for a tobacco sales certificate. Provides for the suspension of a certificate if the certificate holder's employees violate employee identification requirements three or more times in one year. Allows the commission to issue to the city of Gary not more than 10 new three-way permits. Allows the commission to issue: (1) a beer dealer's permit, wine dealer's permit, and liquor dealer's permit to a drug store operated in the city of Westfield; and (2) a beer dealer's permit and wine dealer's permit to a convenience store operated in the town of Sellersburg. Provides that certain requirements regarding the sale, rental, trade, or transfer of a handgun do not apply to an item defined as an antique firearm.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1052/2026","subjects":["it","housing","public_safety","labor","cannabis","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057057,"bill_number":"HB1053","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Remediation of tax sale parcels.","description":"Remediation of tax sale parcels. Permits a county treasurer to require purchasers of designated parcels of real property that are: (1) located in a consolidated city; and (2) subject to tax sale, and purchased at or as a separate part of a tax sale; to submit remediation plans describing how the purchasers will bring the parcels of real property into compliance with a building code or ordinance of a consolidated city after the redemption period ends.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1053/2026","subjects":["housing","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057115,"bill_number":"HB1054","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Plumbing noncompete agreements.","description":"Plumbing noncompete agreements. Defines \"noncompete agreement\". Provides that a noncompete agreement entered into: (1) on or after April 1, 2026; and (2) between an employer and certain persons in the plumbing trade; is void and unenforceable.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1054/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057064,"bill_number":"HB1055","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Municipal elections.","description":"Municipal elections. Moves, as a general rule, elections of town officers to even-numbered years. Allows a town with a population of more than 10,000 to opt out of the general rule by resolution. Allows a city to pass a resolution to opt in to the general rule. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1055/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057052,"bill_number":"HB1056","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Resisting law enforcement conflict resolution.","description":"Resisting law enforcement conflict resolution. Resolves a conflict between HEA 1014-2025 and HEA 1637-2025.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1056/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056981,"bill_number":"HB1057","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Public works projects.","description":"Public works projects. Provides that a contractor that employs 10 or more employees on a design-build public works project must provide its employees access to a training program applicable to the tasks to be performed in the normal course of the employee's employment with the contractor on the public project. Provides that a tier 1 or tier 2 contractor that employs 50 or more journeymen must participate in an apprenticeship or training program that meets certain standards. Requires design-builders and any member of a team working on a design-build public works project to comply with certain statutes. Provides that a public agency awarding a contract for a construction manager as constructor project may not take certain actions based on a bidder's, offeror's, or contractor's entering into, refusing to enter into, adhering to, or refusing to adhere to an agreement with a labor organization.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1057/2026","subjects":["housing","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057109,"bill_number":"HB1058","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Annexation.","description":"Annexation. Provides that annexation territory that is divided by railroad tracks satisfies contiguity requirements, if the territory on at least one side of the railroad tracks is contiguous to the municipality.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1058/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057015,"bill_number":"HB1059","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Commercial advertising on a school bus.","description":"Commercial advertising on a school bus. Provides that a school corporation may display commercial advertising on a school bus owned by the school corporation if the governing body of the school corporation adopts a policy that meets certain requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1059/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057104,"bill_number":"HB1060","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Emergency medical services.","description":"Emergency medical services. Exempts state educational institution degree programs primarily focused on emergency medical services from a certain elimination provision.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1060/2026","subjects":["health","education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057042,"bill_number":"HB1061","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Veterinary telehealth.","description":"Veterinary telehealth. Requires an initial in-person examination to establish a veterinarian-client-patient relationship beginning July 1, 2026. Provides an exception for veterinarian-client-patient relationships established on or before June 30, 2026.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1061/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056996,"bill_number":"HB1062","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Wake boarding and wake surfing.","description":"Wake boarding and wake surfing. Specifies restrictions that apply to wake boarding or wake surfing on a public freshwater lake. Establishes a penalty. Specifies restrictions that apply to wake boarding or wake surfing on a small lake.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1062/2026","subjects":["water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056977,"bill_number":"HB1063","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Deceptive consumer sales.","description":"Deceptive consumer sales. Amends the definition of \"consumer transaction\" for purposes of the deceptive consumer sales act to include the provision of a product or service to a state agency or a local agency in Indiana. Amends the definition of \"supplier\" for purposes of the deceptive consumer sales act to include an entity that provides a product or service to a state agency or a local agency in Indiana. Provides that an action that arises from a consumer transaction involving the provision of a product or service by a supplier to a state agency may be brought and enforced only by the attorney general. Provides that an action that arises from a consumer transaction involving the provision of a product or service by a supplier to a local agency may be brought and enforced only by an attorney acting on behalf of the local agency, unless the local unit of government served by the local agency requests the attorney general to bring and enforce an action on behalf of the local unit. Provides that in an action that arises from a consumer transaction involving the provision of a product or service by a supplier to a state agency or a local agency, a court may take certain actions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1063/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057068,"bill_number":"HB1064","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Unmanned aerial vehicles.","description":"Unmanned aerial vehicles. Makes repeated operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over private real property a nuisance, with both civil and criminal penalties, including an increased penalty for nuisances involving agricultural property. Provides that operating a UAV not more than 100 feet above private real property or landing the UAV on private real property is a civil trespass, with civil penalties, including an increased penalty for trespasses involving agricultural property. Creates various crimes for operating a UAV over certain places, people, or animals such as livestock. Provides that operating a UAV to collect certain data, recordings, or photographs of an individual or area of real property is a Class A misdemeanor. Provides, however, that the violation is a Level 6 felony if the subject of the data, recordings, or photographs involves certain critical infrastructure. Requires a person who operates a UAV that is at least 55 pounds to carry liability insurance, and requires the department of homeland security to develop and administer a program to verify UAV insurance compliance. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1064/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","transportation","agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056986,"bill_number":"HB1065","status":3,"status_name":"Enrolled","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Ban on gratuities for public officials.","description":"Ban on gratuities for public officials. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally violates a specified provision by commingling the funds of a committee with the personal funds of an officer, a member, or an associate of the committee commits a Class A misdemeanor. Enhances the penalty to a Level 6 felony if a person commingles at least $50,000 of committee funds.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1065/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057037,"bill_number":"HB1066","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Purchase and lease of government vehicles.","description":"Purchase and lease of government vehicles. With certain exceptions, requires a political subdivision to procure only base model vehicles. Removes a provision that allows the Indiana department of administration to permit a state entity to procure a vehicle that is not a base model vehicle. Requires a state entity to dispose of vehicles that are not base model vehicles at a time and in a prudent manner as determined by the commissioner of the department of administration. Provides that a state entity or political subdivision is not prohibited from purchasing, installing, modifying, or affixing equipment and accessories necessary for the state entity's or political subdivision's operational, public safety, maintenance, or emergency response functions, regardless of whether the equipment and accessories are installed at the time of purchase or after.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1066/2026","subjects":["public_safety","transportation","elections","emergency"],"agencies":["Administration"]},{"bill_id":2057010,"bill_number":"HB1067","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Reporting of grocery staple pricing.","description":"Reporting of grocery staple pricing. Requires: (1) a grocery chain that operates or franchises five or more retail food stores located in Indiana to report each month to the state department of agriculture (department) specified sales information regarding specified staple food items sold by the grocery chain in Indiana; and (2) the department to establish and maintain an online dashboard through which members of the public can view and compare the data reported. Provides for enforcement of the reporting requirement by the attorney general and specifies penalties for violations.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1067/2026","subjects":["agriculture","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056990,"bill_number":"HB1068","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Retention of IURC commissioners.","description":"Retention of IURC commissioners. Provides that a commissioner of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) may serve an additional term as a commissioner only if the commissioner's retention for an additional term is approved by voters at a general election.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1068/2026","subjects":["energy","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056972,"bill_number":"HB1069","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Choice of physician for worker injury or disease.","description":"Choice of physician for worker injury or disease. Permits an employee to choose the attending physician who will provide services and goods resulting from an employment injury or occupational disease for purposes of the worker's compensation law.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1069/2026","subjects":["health","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057119,"bill_number":"HB1070","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.","description":"Income tax credit for volunteer firefighters. Provides that an individual who is a volunteer firefighter is entitled to a credit of $200 against the individual's adjusted gross income tax liability each taxable year.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1070/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057000,"bill_number":"HB1071","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Twenty-first century scholarship eligibility.","description":"Twenty-first century scholarship eligibility. Provides that the commission for higher education may allow a student who does not meet full-time enrollment or credit hour requirements under the twenty-first century scholars program to be eligible or to maintain eligibility for a twenty-first century scholarship award if the student is a student with a disability and meets certain other requirements. Provides that a scholarship may be renewed for the student for the number of academic terms that constitute eight undergraduate academic years. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1071/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057099,"bill_number":"HB1072","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Anatomical gifts.","description":"Anatomical gifts. Provides that a violation of certain provisions of the uniform anatomical gift act constitutes a deceptive consumer act. Bans a procurement organization from obtaining certain licenses or registrations. Provides that a procurement organization may not select or recommend a specific licensed funeral provider to a potential donor's family. Alters who may make an anatomical gift with respect to the body of a decedent. Provides that a person may, under certain circumstances, invalidate an anatomical gift. Requires a procurement organization to: (1) notify certain licensed funeral providers before removing human remains; (2) provide certain disclosures when seeking consent from a person to make an anatomical gift; and (3) publish an annual transparency report. Prohibits a procurement organization from transporting human remains outside Indiana unless the organization has notified certain people of the organization's intent.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1072/2026","subjects":["elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057031,"bill_number":"HB1073","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Rape kit processing.","description":"Rape kit processing. Requires the state police department (department) to use part of an appropriation from House Enrolled Act 1001 (2025) to process rape kits and to eliminate the backlog of untested rape kits. Permits the department to issue grants to law enforcement agencies and testing labs to eliminate the backlog of untested rape kits. Requires the department to make a report to the general assembly by October 1, 2027, concerning the status of untested rape kits.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1073/2026","subjects":["public_safety","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061506,"bill_number":"HB1074","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Nutrition supports Medicaid waiver.","description":"Nutrition supports Medicaid waiver. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply, not later than October 1, 2026, for approval of a Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver or any other Medicaid waiver to provide coverage for nutrition supports for specified individuals.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1074/2026","subjects":["health","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061443,"bill_number":"HB1075","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Mental health and substance use disorder screening.","description":"Mental health and substance use disorder screening. Requires each school corporation and charter school to develop a plan to conduct developmentally appropriate evidence based: (1) mental health screening; and (2) substance use disorder screening; for students in kindergarten through grade 12. Establishes notification, consent, and data destruction requirements. Requires the department of education to make available to school corporations and charter schools developmentally appropriate evidence based mental health screening and substance use disorder screening tools and resources.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1075/2026","subjects":["health","education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061442,"bill_number":"HB1076","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Liability connected with off-road vehicle use.","description":"Liability connected with off-road vehicle use. Provides that an owner, a spectator, and a promoter are immune from civil liability arising from a claim brought by a participant or the participant's personal representative concerning the damage to or the loss of the participant's property or the participant's injury or death that results from the inherent risks of off-road vehicle use.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1076/2026","subjects":["housing","transportation","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061490,"bill_number":"HB1077","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Boating issues.","description":"Boating issues. Requires a person towed by a motorboat to wear a personal flotation device. Provides that a person operating a boat on an inland lake shall operate the vessel in a counter-clockwise fashion. Establishes that a person operating a boat between sunset and sunrise may not tow anything other than a distressed boat. Requires a person on a boat to use a red or orange safety flag when a person being towed enters the water.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1077/2026","subjects":["water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061511,"bill_number":"HB1078","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Online lottery sales and voluntary exclusion.","description":"Online lottery sales and voluntary exclusion. Authorizes the lottery commission (commission) to operate the sale of draw games and eInstant games over the Internet. Specifies rules the commission must adopt concerning the sale of digital lottery games. Requires the commission to establish a retailer incentive program for retailers that participate in the promotion of digital lottery games. Specifies annual public meeting requirements. Provides that unless granted authority by the general assembly, the commission shall not operate or authorize the use of certain digital lottery games. Requires the commission to adopt rules to implement and establish a voluntary exclusion program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1078/2026","subjects":["it","finance","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061486,"bill_number":"HB1079","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Alcoholic beverages and THC hemp extract.","description":"Alcoholic beverages and THC hemp extract. Establishes a direct beer seller's permit to allow a brewer to ship beer directly to a consumer. Allows liquor retailers and catering halls to purchase alcoholic beverages from a package liquor store. Allows a beer wholesaler to make credit sales. Allows a bar or restaurant (retailer) to deliver mixed drinks for carryout or delivery to a consumer's residence or office. Allows a wine wholesaler to offer a channel price to a retailer if certain conditions are met. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) to deny an application for issuing, renewing, or transferring an alcoholic beverage permit (permit) for nonpayment of property taxes that the applicant is statutorily or contractually obligated to pay. Allows a retailer to operate a points based rewards program. Allows the commission to issue beer and wine dealer permits that are not subject to the quota. Allows a retailer, dealer, or craft manufacturer to deliver alcoholic beverages to a consumer's residence or office using a third party delivery service. Creates a third party delivery service permit and delivery driver permit. Imposes graduated civil penalties against a third party delivery service permittee for deliveries made by the permittee's delivery drivers that violate law. Prohibits the distribution or sale of low THC hemp extract to a person who is less than 21 years of age.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1079/2026","subjects":["transportation","finance","agriculture","cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061484,"bill_number":"HB1080","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Family reunification.","description":"Family reunification. Prohibits the department of child services from recommending and a court from ordering certain family reunification programs. Requires the office of judicial administration (office) to establish a judicial training program for an individual who presides over family law or juvenile law matters. Requires the judicial training program established by the office to include certain information regarding domestic violence. Beginning January 1, 2027, requires an individual who presides over family law or juvenile law matters to attend the judicial training established by the office at least one time each year.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1080/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061448,"bill_number":"HB1081","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Hoosier scam prevention board.","description":"Hoosier scam prevention board. Establishes the Hoosier scam prevention board.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1081/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061505,"bill_number":"HB1082","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Shared labor to conduct referendum.","description":"Shared labor to conduct referendum. Provides that a charter school that will participate in an operating referendum tax levy or school safety referendum tax levy must contribute a proportionate share of the labor (in addition to the cost under current law) to conduct the referendum based on the total combined average daily membership of the school corporation and any participating charter schools.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1082/2026","subjects":["education","housing","finance","labor","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061464,"bill_number":"HB1083","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Lane expansion of I-70.","description":"Lane expansion of I-70. Requires the Indiana department of transportation to take action necessary to construct one or more additional lanes of traffic across Indiana for: (1) eastbound; and (2) westbound; Interstate Highway 70 in areas of Interstate Highway 70 where there are four lanes of traffic. Makes an appropriation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1083/2026","subjects":["transportation","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061427,"bill_number":"HB1084","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Plug-in solar power systems.","description":"Plug-in solar power systems. Defines a \"plug-in solar power system\" as a moveable photovoltaic generation device that: (1) has a maximum power output of not more than 1,200 watts; (2) is designed to be connected to a building's electrical system through a standard outlet; and (3) is intended primarily to offset part of the electricity consumption in the building in which it is used. Provides that electricity generated by a plug-in solar power system is not subject to the Indiana statute concerning distributed generation. Provides that a plug-in solar power system is exempt from the Indiana utility regulatory commission's rules concerning customer-generator interconnection standards. Requires a plug-in solar power system to include a functionality or feature that: (1) is activated during a loss of electrical power to the building in which the plug-in solar power system is used; and (2) prevents the plug-in solar power system from energizing the building's electrical system during the electrical outage. Prohibits an electricity supplier from requiring a customer to do any of the following with respect to the installation or use of a plug-in solar power system that meets certain requirements: (1) Obtain the electricity supplier's approval for the installation or use. (2) Pay any fee or charge related to the installation or use. (3) Install any additional controls or equipment in connection with the installation or use. Provides that an electricity supplier is not liable for any injury or damages caused by a customer's installation or use of a plug-in solar power system.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1084/2026","subjects":["energy","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061482,"bill_number":"HB1085","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Civil liability for child sexual abuse material.","description":"Civil liability for child sexual abuse material. Permits an individual depicted in child sexual abuse material or obscene material on the Internet, or exposed to obscene material on the Internet, to bring a civil action against a person who knowingly or intentionally: (1) allows or facilitates access to the material on the Internet; (2) disseminates the material on the Internet; or (3) is a content provider of prohibited material. Allows the attorney general to seek injunctive relief. Creates a safe harbor provision for certain persons under certain conditions. Provides that: (1) comparative fault; and (2) tort claims immunities; do not apply to a civil action based on prohibited material.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1085/2026","subjects":["it"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061503,"bill_number":"HB1086","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Ten Commandments as a protected writing.","description":"Ten Commandments as a protected writing. Includes the Ten Commandments on a list of protected writings, documents, and records. Provides that a principal or teacher may not read the Ten Commandments aloud when students are present.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1086/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061458,"bill_number":"HB1087","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Overdose reversal medication.","description":"Overdose reversal medication. Provides that, subject to available funding, the division of mental health and addiction may develop an application to provide funds to a school corporation or school maintained by a school corporation to obtain a federal Food and Drug Administration approved opioid overdose reversal medication. Provides that the state health commissioner shall issue a statewide standing order, prescription, or protocol for a federal Food and Drug Administration approved opioid overdose reversal medication for each public school or school corporation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1087/2026","subjects":["health","education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061479,"bill_number":"HB1088","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Technical corrections.","description":"Technical corrections. Addresses technical issues in the Indiana Code, including those related to spelling, tabulation, formatting, grammar, and cross-references. Resolves technical conflicts from the 2025 legislative session. Makes conforming amendments. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the code revision committee.)","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1088/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061460,"bill_number":"HB1089","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Authority to prohibit firearms in local parks.","description":"Authority to prohibit firearms in local parks. Provides that a unit may prohibit or restrict the possession of a firearm in a public park operated or maintained by the unit.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1089/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061463,"bill_number":"HB1090","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"The attorney general and amicus curiae briefs.","description":"The attorney general and amicus curiae briefs. Provides that the attorney general may file an amicus curiae brief only if the governor gives written approval to file the amicus curiae brief. Makes a conforming change.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1090/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061435,"bill_number":"HB1091","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Resisting law enforcement.","description":"Resisting law enforcement. Resolves a conflict between HEA 1014-2025 and HEA 1637-2025.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1091/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061439,"bill_number":"HB1092","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Child services matters.","description":"Child services matters. Requires a sports wagering certificate holder and vendor to withhold funds from a person who requests a certain type of withdrawal from the person's mobile sports wagering account if the person is delinquent in the person's child support payments. Requires an order establishing paternity to be obtained without further proceedings if certain conditions are met. Allows the state to approve additional payment facilities for purposes of accepting child support payments. Provides that if a child who is the subject of an adoption petition is also the subject of an open or pending child in need of services (CHINS) or delinquency proceeding, the adoption petition must identify: (1) the court in which the CHINS or delinquency proceeding is open or pending and the cause number; and (2) the case number of the CHINS or delinquency proceeding; if known to the petitioner. Requires a volunteer of an applicant for licensure as a child caring institution to undergo a criminal background check if the volunteer is likely to have unsupervised contact with children in the child caring institution or will have access to a child's medical records. Provides that the department may deny an application for licensure as a child caring institution, group home, or child placing agency if the applicant was previously licensed as a residential child care provider and the license was revoked within one year of the application. Provides that a department caseworker who wishes to interview a child at the child's school must provide the caseworker's department issued credential in order to interview the child alone.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1092/2026","subjects":["health","education","public_safety","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061438,"bill_number":"HB1093","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Student bullying and abusive behavior.","description":"Student bullying and abusive behavior. Revises the definition of \"bullying\". Requires each public school, including a charter school, to track, monitor, and analyze specified aspects of bullying, and provides that a parent of a student or a student, if the student is an emancipated minor, may submit a grievance to the school for a violation of this requirement. Requires each school corporation and charter school to: (1) document and track all acts of bullying and abusive behaviors for analysis; (2) prepare and implement interventions to deter and prevent bullying and abusive behaviors; and (3) compile, prepare, and submit an annual report beginning July 1, 2027, to the department of education, the state board of education, and the legislative council summarizing the information collected. Requires the state board of education to review the report and provide recommendations to certain schools to reduce the frequency of acts of bullying or abusive behaviors. Allows the department of child services to release unredacted reports to a school's designated liaison under certain circumstances.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1093/2026","subjects":["education","housing","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061494,"bill_number":"HB1094","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Uniform recognition of Canadian protection orders.","description":"Uniform recognition of Canadian protection orders. Codifies the Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act. Provides procedures for enforcement of a Canadian domestic violence protection order (protection order) by a law enforcement officer and the court. Provides that a protection order may be registered in Indiana.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1094/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061474,"bill_number":"HB1095","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"School police pension matters.","description":"School police pension matters. Makes changes to the definition of a \"school resource officer\" for provisions relating to the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (1977 fund). Provides that a school police department may participate in the 1977 fund. Establishes requirements for establishing a local board for school police departments. Provides that an appointing authority shall waive the age restriction for a school resource officer for purposes of the 1977 fund if: (1) on the date the individual applies to be appointed and hired, the individual is a veteran who has completed at least 20 years of military service; (2) the individual received or is eligible to receive a discharge from the armed forces of the United States under conditions other than certain specified conditions; and (3) the individual meets all other requirements for appointment and hiring. Provides that a school corporation or charter school that employs a school resource officer must enter into a contract or memorandum of understanding with a local law enforcement agency for the purpose of complying with the reporting and payment requirements for purposes of the 1977 fund. Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1095/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety","veterans","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061477,"bill_number":"HB1096","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various elections matters.","description":"Various elections matters. Allows an individual to affiliate with a political party while registering to vote. Requires the text: \"Would you like to choose your political party? If you wish to vote in a primary election, you must first choose your political party affiliation and may only vote that party's ballot in the primary election.\" and a blank space for the applicant to list a party affiliation to be included on a voter registration form. Modifies the list of information concerning a voter that the election division is prohibited from providing. Provides, with exceptions, that certain individuals are entitled to review data concerning registered voters that has been collected and maintained on the computerized list. Provides that a voter may only vote at a primary election if the voter has affiliated with a political party not later than 119 days before the date of the primary election. Requires a voter to vote at the primary election held by the political party with which the voter is affiliated. Provides an exception to allow an individual who: (1) has moved to Indiana later than 119 days before the date of the primary election from another state; and (2) is 17 years of age but will be at least 18 years of age on the day of the next general, municipal, or special election; to register to vote and affiliate with a political party later than 119 days before the primary election, and vote at a primary election. Allows a voter to change party affiliation less than 119 days before the primary election and vote in a primary election if the voter has moved to a new election district less than 119 days before the primary election and the voter transfers the voter's registration record. Requires a county voter registration office to automatically affiliate certain voters with a political party and to allow all voters to affiliate or change political party affiliation. Allows a voter to affiliate with a political party when transferring the voter's registration record. Requires a voter who casts a provisional ballot to make an affidavit identifying the voter's political party affiliation. Provides that, except for certain political parties, no person may provide an individual with an absentee ballot application unless requested by the individual or certain family members of the individual. Allows the county election board to assess a civil penalty of not more than $100 if an unsolicited absentee ballot is provided. Reduces the period during which in person absentee voting may occur at the office of the circuit court clerk or a satellite office established by the county election board to a 10 day period ending at noon on the day before election day. Establishes a minimum number of satellite offices for in person absentee voting. Requires the secretary of state to do the following: (1) conduct at least three public meetings to study certain topics concerning election equipment and election procedures; and (2) report the results of meetings to the legislative council before November 1, 2026.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1096/2026","subjects":["it","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061465,"bill_number":"HB1097","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Chronic disease registry.","description":"Chronic disease registry. Adds Parkinson's disease to the definition of \"chronic disease\" for provisions concerning the chronic disease registry.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1097/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061504,"bill_number":"HB1098","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Work based learning liability.","description":"Work based learning liability. Requires an intermediary and an employer to enter into an agreement that sets forth the duties and responsibilities of the intermediary and the employer when participating in a work based learning program. Repeals provisions relating to the federal School to Work Opportunities Act under the worker's compensation and worker's occupational diseases compensation laws. Provides that, subject to certain limitations, a student who performs services for an employer as part of a work based learning program is entitled to benefits under the worker's compensation and worker's occupational diseases compensation laws. Provides that any underwriting decision made by an insurer or rating factor applied to a participant must be based on objective risk based criteria that are applied uniformly and without regard to the age of the student to be covered under the policy.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1098/2026","subjects":["education","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061468,"bill_number":"HB1099","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-02-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Foreign adversaries.","description":"Foreign adversaries. Provides that, if a contractor or a subcontractor working under the contractor for the provision of a technological product or service is a prohibited person, a qualified entity may enter into the contract if the contractor affirms the contractor and its subcontractors are not acting as agents of a foreign adversary. Requires a state educational institution to meet certain requirements regarding the admission and enrollment of a foreign student into qualifying programs at state educational institutions. Requires an approved postsecondary educational institution to provide to the commission for higher education the number of foreign students currently enrolled in a qualifying program and the number of foreign students enrolled in a qualifying program for each academic year for the preceding 10 years. Prohibits certain individuals and business entities from acquiring real property located in Indiana. Repeals existing statutes regarding foreign ownership of agricultural land.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1099/2026","subjects":["education","housing","agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061470,"bill_number":"HB1100","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Health insurance coverage for adoptive children.","description":"Health insurance coverage for adoptive children. Provides that if an adoptive child is eligible for coverage under the Medicaid program and as a dependent under the adoptive parent's private health insurance, the adoptive parent may opt out of the adoptive child's participation in the Medicaid program. Requires the adoptive parent to file a request with the department of child services (department) to opt out of the adoptive child's participation in the Medicaid program. Provides that, before approving an adoptive parent's request, the department shall ensure that the adoptive child is eligible for coverage under the adoptive parent's private health insurance and will not experience a lapse in coverage while changing from Medicaid to private health insurance.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1100/2026","subjects":["health","housing"],"agencies":["Child Services"]},{"bill_id":2061522,"bill_number":"HB1101","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Regional economic development.","description":"Regional economic development. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) to designate 15 economic development regions throughout Indiana. Establishes a regional economic development commission (commission) for each economic development region. Provides for the membership of each commission. Requires each commission to establish or designate a primary administrative entity (entity) to carry out a strategic comprehensive economic development plan for the region. Sets forth the duties of a commission and entity.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1101/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061455,"bill_number":"HB1102","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Applied behavioral analysis therapy services.","description":"Applied behavioral analysis therapy services. Requires, upon request, a public school to consult with and allow certain licensed or board certified behavior analysts and certified registered behavior technicians to provide applied behavioral analysis therapy services in the public school to a student under certain conditions in accordance with the student's special education program or plan. Provides immunity from civil liability for any actions taken in good faith to comply with the requirements. Requires the department of education to prepare and provide information and guidance to assist public schools in implementing the requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1102/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061475,"bill_number":"HB1103","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Applied behavior analysis coverage.","description":"Applied behavior analysis coverage. Requires a state employee health plan to reimburse the provider of behavior analysis services that provides behavior analysis services to a covered individual at a rate of not less than 110% of the Medicaid reimbursement rate for behavior analysis services under certain circumstances. Requires a policy of accident and sickness insurance to reimburse the provider of behavior analysis services that provides behavior analysis services to an insured at a rate of not less than 110% of the Medicaid reimbursement rate for behavior analysis services under certain circumstances. Requires a health maintenance organization contract to reimburse the provider of behavior analysis services that provides behavior analysis services to an enrollee at a rate of not less than 110% of the Medicaid reimbursement rate for behavior analysis services under certain circumstances.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1103/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061437,"bill_number":"HB1104","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Nondisclosure agreements in economic development.","description":"Nondisclosure agreements in economic development. Provides that the Indiana economic development corporation, the state, any instrumentality of the state, or any other public authority, or any party negotiating on behalf of any of those entities, may not, after June 30, 2026, enter into an economic development agreement or contract that contains any provision, clause, or language that provides that the agreement or contract, or any of its terms, is confidential, or that the parties to the agreement or contract are prohibited from disclosing, discussing, describing, or commenting upon the terms of the agreement or contract.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1104/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061501,"bill_number":"HB1105","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Condemnation of Hoosier homestead property.","description":"Condemnation of Hoosier homestead property. Establishes the Hoosier homestead program administered by the Indiana state department of agriculture to commemorate and maintain a registry of farms owned by the same family for at least 100 years. Provides that only the portion of a farm that satisfies the familial ownership and other requirements receives the Hoosier homestead designation and is subject to the provisions regarding eminent domain. Requires all property taxes to be paid up to date to be registered as a Hoosier homestead property or to renew registration as a Hoosier homestead property. Provides with certain exceptions, that if a county, city, town, or school corporation (unit) exercises eminent domain to take a fee simple interest in a Hoosier homestead, the property owner is entitled to: (1) testify at a public meeting of the condemning unit's legislative body; and (2) compensation that is the greater of: (A) 200% of the fair market value of the parcel; or (2) 200% of the value of the land and replacement cost of the improvements to the land minus depreciation. Requires the owner to also be compensated for relocation costs, other damages, and business losses resulting from the condemnation of the property.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1105/2026","subjects":["education","finance","agriculture","elections","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061478,"bill_number":"HB1106","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various family matters.","description":"Various family matters. Allows a provider to remain eligible to receive a voucher payment until a final determination is made that the provider's license or eligibility is no longer in good standing. Provides that a child care center is exempt from licensure if the child care center complies with all of the requirements for child care ministries, including registration. Provides certain qualifications that a child care center's director must meet. Requires the department of child services to create and periodically update a medical history form and ensure that certain people receive the medical history form. Provides that the crime of false reporting is a Level 6 felony if the alleged conduct, if true, would constitute certain felonies. Requires that, if a child is alleged to be a child in need of services and has been removed from the child's home and placed in an out-of-home placement, a court must order each biological parent who retains visitation or parenting time rights to complete a medical history form and may, under certain circumstances, temporarily suspend a biological parent's visitation or parenting time. Allows a biological parent to amend or complete the medical history form. Requires the court to reconsider any previous order suspending visitation or parenting time if the court makes certain findings. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1106/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061446,"bill_number":"HB1107","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Bullying oversight committees and ombudsman.","description":"Bullying oversight committees and ombudsman. Establishes a state bullying ombudsman (ombudsman) position within the department of education (department). Establishes the duties of the ombudsman. Requires the department to: (1) provide staff and administrative support for the ombudsman; and (2) post the ombudsman's contact information on the department's website. Requires each school corporation to provide the ombudsman's contact information in certain rules, policies, and notices. Requires, with an exception, each school corporation to establish a bullying oversight committee (committee). Establishes the membership, authority, and duties of a committee. Provides that a parent of a targeted student may submit a complaint to the committee if the parent believes that: (1) the school administration failed to investigate a bullying or physical assault incident involving the targeted student; or (2) the resolution of an incident was insufficient or ineffective. Requires the department to adopt and post on the department's website guidelines and model training materials for committee members. Provides that a parent may, under certain circumstances, request a hearing before the governing body of the school corporation regarding a complaint. Establishes requirements for a governing body of a school corporation that receives a request for a hearing. Provides that a parent of a targeted student or parent of an alleged perpetrator may view any video evidence related to a bullying incident or physical assault involving the student for which a complaint or request for a hearing has been submitted.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1107/2026","subjects":["education","housing","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061449,"bill_number":"HB1108","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Contracts for road projects.","description":"Contracts for road projects. Allows the commissioner of the Indiana department of transportation (commissioner) to let a contract for the construction, improvement, or maintenance of a road to a bidder that is not the lowest and best bidder if all of the following apply: (1) The bidder is responsive and qualified. (2) The bidder commits to employing Indiana residents for not less than 65% of the total workforce for the project. (3) The bidder's bid is not more than: (A) 5% greater than the bid submitted by the lowest and best bidder; and (B) the estimated cost of the project. (4) The commissioner determines that awarding the contract to the bidder is in the best interests of the project and the community. (5) The bidder demonstrates certain compliance requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1108/2026","subjects":["transportation","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061527,"bill_number":"HB1109","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Homeless veterans initiative shelter program.","description":"Homeless veterans initiative shelter program. Establishes the Hoosier homeless veteran initiative for the purpose of providing a means for homeless veterans to have access to temporary shelter during the veteran's rehabilitation. Provides that the initiative shall be coordinated and administered by the Indiana department of veterans' affairs (department) in consultation with the Indiana department of health. Requires each homeless shelter with at least 25 beds to reserve at least one bed out of every 25 beds for a homeless veteran. Provides that a homeless shelter or other entity may apply to the department to become a participating shelter. Provides that a participating shelter shall receive grants from the department. Provides that a participating shelter shall provide food and housing and other services prescribed by the department for a participating veteran for a period consisting of the lesser of: (1) two years; or (2) the period necessary for the veteran to complete the requirements necessary for the participating veteran to receive a housing voucher in accordance with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) HUD-VASH program. Provides that a homeless veteran who is not married may request to become a participating veteran in a manner prescribed by the department. Provides that the homeless veteran shall not be required to test negative on a drug or alcohol test to obtain initial placement in a participating shelter. Requires that a participating veteran receive services and meet certain requirements to remain eligible for placement in a participating facility.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1109/2026","subjects":["housing","cannabis","elections","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061495,"bill_number":"HB1110","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"PFAS chemicals.","description":"PFAS chemicals. Requires the department of environmental management to adopt maximum contaminant levels for PFAS chemicals and effluent limitation standards for wastewater containing PFAS chemicals by July 1, 2027. Creates various compliance requirements for direct dischargers and indirect dischargers. Establishes various civil penalties. Establishes the PFAS chemical testing and remediation fund. Creates a PFAS chemical grant program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1110/2026","subjects":["environment","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061431,"bill_number":"HB1111","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various utility matters.","description":"Various utility matters. Prohibits a utility from charging a customer a reconnection fee to restore terminated service to the customer. Provides that an electric or gas utility may not terminate residential electric or gas service between June 21 and September 23 for residential customers whose residence includes a person who is: (1) 65 years of age or older; or (2) 16 years of age or younger. Requires an electric or gas utility to identify new residential customers who are 62 years of age or older and to provide the identified customers with information concerning relevant assistance programs for seniors. Requires a public utility to provide a residential customer with a bill credit for an electric service interruption.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1111/2026","subjects":["energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061502,"bill_number":"HB1112","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Coverage for cancer screening.","description":"Coverage for cancer screening. Requires a state employee health plan to cover supplemental breast examinations. Requires a policy of accident and sickness insurance and a health maintenance organization to cover diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations. Provides that the coverage for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations may not be subject to any cost sharing requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1112/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061445,"bill_number":"HB1113","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Repair of residential rental properties.","description":"Repair of residential rental properties. Requires a landlord to repair or replace an essential item not later than 24 hours after being notified by a tenant that the tenant's rental unit is without certain essential services. Provides that a tenant may request an agency tasked with enforcing unsafe building provisions (enforcement authority) to conduct an inspection and replace or repair an essential item within 24 hours of the inspection. Authorizes the enforcement authority to replace or repair an essential item within 24 hours and to charge the landlord for certain costs and to order a $500 civil penalty to be paid. Requires any civil penalties to be placed in a repair fund to be used for costs incurred by the enforcement authority to replace or repair an essential item. Establishes appeal procedures. Requires a rental agreement entered into after June 30, 2026, to include a provision allowing a tenant to be reimbursed for any deposits paid by the tenant and to terminate the rental agreement if certain repairs are not made within seven days. Allows a court to order that a tenant's regular rental payments are paid into an attorney trust account or to the clerk of the court during the pendency of an enforcement action brought by the tenant.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1113/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061514,"bill_number":"HB1114","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Coverage for certain cancer prescriptions.","description":"Coverage for certain cancer prescriptions. Prohibits a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization that provides coverage for advanced, metastatic cancer and associated conditions from requiring that, before providing coverage for a prescription drug, the insured fail to successfully respond to a different prescription drug or prove a history of failure of a different prescription drug.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1114/2026","subjects":["health","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061524,"bill_number":"HB1115","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Homeowners association governance.","description":"Homeowners association governance. Amends the statute governing residential real estate sales disclosures to provide that in the case of a resale or refinance of property covered by the governing documents of a homeowners association (HOA), an HOA or an agent of the HOA providing a statement of unpaid assessments or other charges relating to a property may not charge more than $50 for the statement. (HEA 1152-2026 prohibits an HOA from charging a fee for the statement.) Provides that an HOA member is considered to be in attendance at a meeting of the HOA if the member attends by remote or virtual means in accordance with the statutory procedures for remote meetings of nonprofit corporations. Requires the board of an HOA to provide to HOA members at least four days advance written notice of any meeting of the board. Provides that the meeting notice must include: (1) a meeting agenda; and (2) in the case of a notice for an annual meeting, a statement of the right of HOA members to demand a special meeting of the members, including a statement of the required number of members needed to demand a special meeting. Amends the provision in HEA 1152-2026 that prohibits an HOA, an agent of an HOA, or an HOA management company from charging a homeowner a fee associated with any service provided by the HOA to specify that such services include services that are included in the homeowner's association assessment but do not include any optional service that is offered to a homeowner in connection with the homeowner's individual lot in the subdivision and that the homeowner opts to receive. Provides that a schedule of any optional services offered must be approved by the board and distributed to HOA members on at least an annual basis and whenever there is a change in the fees for any of the offered services. Prohibits an HOA, an agent of an HOA, or an HOA management company from charging a homeowner a fee associated with the production of a statement of account setting forth the amount of any unpaid assessments or other charges due and owing from the homeowner. Requires an HOA or its agent to maintain an account statement for a homeowner and provide the statement to the homeowner upon request. Provides that the governing documents of an HOA may not require that the consent of more than 2/3 of the owners be required to amend the HOA's governing documents. Provides that an HOA's governing documents may not require the consent of more than 2/3 of first lien mortgage holders in order to amend the governing documents. Removes the provision in current law that provides that the governing documents may require the approval of at least 95% of the owners to convey common areas or to dissolve the plan of governance for the HOA. Authorizes an HOA to assess a fine for a member's violation of a covenant if the HOA first: (1) adopts a schedule of fines for specified violations; and (2) provides to the member a notice setting forth the violation, the amount of the fine, and the date on which the fine will be assessed. Requires a schedule of fines to include a maximum aggregate fine amount for any single violation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1115/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061519,"bill_number":"HB1116","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Virtual currency kiosks.","description":"Virtual currency kiosks. Prohibits the operation of virtual currency kiosks in Indiana. Provides that: (1) a person that violates these provisions commits an act that is actionable by the attorney general under law regarding deceptive consumer sales; and (2) in addition to the penalties prescribed for deceptive consumer sales, a person that knowingly or intentionally violates these provisions may be ordered to forfeit one or both of: (A) the amount of the charges assessed to users of the person's virtual currency kiosks in Indiana during the period of the violation; and (B) any virtual currency kiosk operated by the operator in Indiana. Provides that the attorney general may bring an enforcement action against: (1) the operator of a virtual currency kiosk that gives rise to a violation; and (2) the owner of the premises on which the virtual currency kiosk is located if the owner knowingly or intentionally permitted the violation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1116/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061423,"bill_number":"HB1117","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Uniform municipal innkeeper's tax.","description":"Uniform municipal innkeeper's tax. Creates a uniform municipal innkeeper's tax that may be imposed at a flat rate that does not exceed $5 per night and includes provisions similar to the uniform county innkeeper's tax. Makes corresponding changes to statutes concerning innkeeper's tax administration.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1117/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061454,"bill_number":"HB1118","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Expungement.","description":"Expungement. Repeals and replaces the existing adult expungement statute with a new expungement process that makes certain changes to: (1) time periods for filing expungement; (2) crimes that are eligible for expungement; and (3) other procedural matters relating to expungement. Adds a provision concerning the expungement of juvenile arrest records.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1118/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061529,"bill_number":"HB1119","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Execution methods.","description":"Execution methods. Authorizes the death penalty to be carried out by firing squad. Removes the requirement that an execution be carried out: (1) at the Indiana state prison; and (2) before sunrise. Adds a pooled media witness to the list of persons authorized to witness an execution. Exempts certain persons from being required to participate in an execution, and requires the department of correction to contract with a psychologist or psychiatrist to make available treatment services to a member of an execution team. Makes conforming amendments and technical corrections.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1119/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061485,"bill_number":"HB1120","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Retirement of electric generation resources.","description":"Retirement of electric generation resources. Amends the statute concerning public utilities' annual electric resource planning reports to the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to provide that for an annual report submitted after December 31, 2026, if: (1) after an investigation under the statute, the IURC does not issue an order to prohibit the retirement of a public utility's electric generation resource; (2) the public utility proceeds with plans to retire the electric generation resource before: (A) the date specified for the retirement in the public utility's most recently filed integrated resource plan; or (B) the end of the electric generation resource's economically useful life; and (3) the retirement is not required to comply with environmental laws, regulations, or court orders; the public utility may not recover a return on any asset retirement obligations related to the retirement in any future general rate case or other regulatory proceeding. Makes a conforming amendment to a provision concerning public utilities' depreciation rates and asset retirement obligations.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1120/2026","subjects":["environment","energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061433,"bill_number":"HB1121","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Drug and alcohol testing.","description":"Drug and alcohol testing. Provides that a law enforcement agency that employs a law enforcement officer involved in an officer-involved shooting must administer alcohol and drug testing to the applicable law enforcement officer.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1121/2026","subjects":["public_safety","cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061425,"bill_number":"HB1122","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-02-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"License plates for former state legislators.","description":"License plates for former state legislators. Provides that a special license plate may be issued to former members of the general assembly who served: (1) for a former member of the house of representatives, not less than five terms; (2) for a former member of the senate, not less than three terms; and (3) for an individual who served in both the house of representatives and the senate, for a total of not less than 12 years.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1122/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061453,"bill_number":"HB1123","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Police investigations relating to prostitution.","description":"Police investigations relating to prostitution. Provides that, after June 30, 2026, a law enforcement agency may not authorize the use of public funds by a law enforcement officer to pay for or engage in sexual intercourse, other sexual conduct, or the fondling of the law enforcement officer's or another individual's genitals as part of an investigation of: (1) prostitution; (2) making an unlawful proposition; or (3) promoting prostitution as a Level 5 felony. Provides that a law enforcement officer who knowingly or intentionally: (1) engages in sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct with an individual; (2) has an individual fondle or agree to fondle the genitals of the law enforcement officer; or (3) fondles the genitals of an individual under certain circumstances relating to the law enforcement officer's official duties; commits unlawful sexual conduct by a law enforcement officer, a Level 5 felony. Makes exceptions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1123/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061476,"bill_number":"HB1124","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Testing drinking water for lead in school buildings.","description":"Testing drinking water for lead in school buildings. Requires the person or entity having authority over a school building to: (1) test the drinking water in the school building by a specified time frame; and (2) follow certain guidelines in conducting the testing and remediation. Requires the Indiana department of health to impose a civil penalty on the superintendent of a school corporation or the equivalent for a charter school for failing to have the school building's drinking water tested within the specified time frame.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1124/2026","subjects":["education","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061518,"bill_number":"HB1125","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"False or fraudulent deeds and affidavits.","description":"False or fraudulent deeds and affidavits. Provides that it is a deceptive act enforceable by the attorney general for a person to: (1) convey or attempt to convey; or (2) conspire to convey or attempt to convey; title to real property by recording a false or fraudulent deed or affidavit.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1125/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061441,"bill_number":"HB1126","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Military family relief fund.","description":"Military family relief fund. Provides that, for purposes of receiving a grant from the military family relief fund, eligibility criteria shall be based on the financial need of the applicant regardless of the applicant's income or assets.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1126/2026","subjects":["veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061440,"bill_number":"HB1127","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Stay of certain eviction actions against veterans.","description":"Stay of certain eviction actions against veterans. Provides that a court shall stay certain eviction actions for defendants who qualify and have applied for housing assistance from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or the Indiana department of veterans' affairs.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1127/2026","subjects":["housing","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061493,"bill_number":"HB1128","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prohibited discrimination in housing.","description":"Prohibited discrimination in housing. Expands the Indiana fair housing statute to prohibit discrimination on the basis of a person's: (1) source of income; (2) military active duty status; or (3) veteran status. Defines \"source of income\", \"active duty\", and \"veteran\" for purposes of the statute.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1128/2026","subjects":["housing","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061516,"bill_number":"HB1129","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Advanced practice registered nurses.","description":"Advanced practice registered nurses. Removes the requirement that an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) have a practice agreement with a collaborating physician. Removes a provision requiring an APRN to operate under a collaborative practice agreement or the privileges granted by a hospital governing board. Removes certain provisions concerning the audit of practice agreements. Allows an APRN with prescriptive authority to prescribe a schedule II controlled substance for weight reduction or to control obesity. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1129/2026","subjects":["health","finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061471,"bill_number":"HB1130","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Craft hemp.","description":"Craft hemp. Establishes a regulatory framework for hemp and craft hemp. Prohibits the sale of specified products to a person less than 21 years of age. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1130/2026","subjects":["agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061467,"bill_number":"HB1131","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Licensed estheticians and electrologists.","description":"Licensed estheticians and electrologists. Amends the definition of \"esthetician\" to include certain services. Adds a definition for \"microneedling\". Requires a person who provides microneedling to provide the professional licensing agency proof of advanced training or certification at the agency's request. Provides that an applicant for an electrologist license does not need to hold a cosmetologist license or esthetician license before applying for an electrologist license. Requires an applicant to complete a combined total of 600 hours of education and experience required under the rules adopted by the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners (board) beginning July 1, 2027. Requires the board to amend the rules for electrology training in a beauty culture school not later than June 30, 2027.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1131/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":["Cosmetology And Barber Examiners"]},{"bill_id":2061444,"bill_number":"HB1132","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Rush County food and beverage tax.","description":"Rush County food and beverage tax. Establishes the Rush County food and beverage tax.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1132/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061521,"bill_number":"HB1133","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Elimination of straight ticket voting.","description":"Elimination of straight ticket voting. Removes a voter's option to vote for all candidates of a political party or an independent ticket at one time (straight ticket voting) in a general or municipal election. Repeals superseded statutes relating to straight ticket voting. Makes technical corrections.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1133/2026","subjects":["public_safety","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061488,"bill_number":"HB1134","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Insurance for mental health and substance use.","description":"Insurance for mental health and substance use. Amends the definition of \"treatment of a mental illness or substance abuse\" for certain provisions of the Indiana Code.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1134/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061424,"bill_number":"HB1135","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Investor ownership of single family residences.","description":"Investor ownership of single family residences. Establishes the housing down payment assistance fund. Establishes a transfer tax equal to 50% of the fair market value of a single family residence for each single family residence acquired by an applicable taxpayer after the applicable date. Establishes a maximum number of single family residences that may be owned by an applicable taxpayer after the applicable date for purposes of calculating an annual excise tax on any excess single family residences.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1135/2026","subjects":["housing","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061498,"bill_number":"HB1136","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tuition caps.","description":"Tuition caps. Provides that the commission for higher education shall determine a tuition rate and mandatory fee cost of living adjustment for specified postsecondary educational institutions. Requires that, except for cost of living adjustments, the tuition rate and mandatory fees at specified postsecondary educational institutions may not increase from the time the student initially enrolls until the student graduates for an undergraduate student who is an Indiana resident.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1136/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061428,"bill_number":"HB1137","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Foods and beverages on school property.","description":"Foods and beverages on school property. Provides that a public school that participates in a federally funded or assisted meal program: (1) may not serve, sell, or allow a third party vendor to serve or sell a food or beverage that contains certain ingredients on school property on a school day; and (2) shall post any breakfast or lunch menu and ingredients on the school's website. Establishes exceptions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1137/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061492,"bill_number":"HB1138","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Child care tax credit.","description":"Child care tax credit. Provides a child and dependent care refundable tax credit against an individual's Indiana adjusted gross income tax for employment related child and dependent care expenses based on the taxpayer's Indiana adjusted gross income and a percentage of the federal child and dependent care tax credit the taxpayer claimed for the taxable year for federal income tax purposes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1138/2026","subjects":["education","finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061447,"bill_number":"HB1139","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Assessment of property.","description":"Assessment of property. Provides that all tangible property that is subject to assessment shall be assessed on a just valuation basis and in a uniform and equal manner regardless of: (1) who owns the tangible property; or (2) who the person or entity is that is liable for property taxes due on the tangible property. Requires a county assessor to, as soon as possible, post an approved reassessment plan on the department of local government finance's (DLGF) website and any transparency portal developed by the state regarding public information. Provides that if an assessor changes the underlying parcel characteristics, including property classification or agricultural land type, of a property, based on verifiable evidence of a change in use, the assessor shall provide notice to the property owner that includes all verifiable evidence used to change assessment methods from agricultural land and document each change and the reason that each change was made for any class of property. Provides that land shall be assessed or reassessed as agricultural land only when it is devoted to agricultural use regardless of: (1) who owns the land; or (2) who the person or entity is that is liable for property taxes due on the land. Requires the DLGF to inform assessors and the presidents of county councils in writing if it finds that: (1) the reassessment of a group of parcels under a county's reassessment plan or other property assessment activities are not being properly conducted; (2) work required to be performed by local officials is not being properly conducted; or (3) property assessments are not being properly made. Provides that the failure of the DLGF to inform local officials shall be construed as an indication by the DLGF that assessment activities are being conducted properly. Requires the DLGF, if it determines that assessment activities are not being conducted properly, to order a state conducted assessment or reassessment.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1139/2026","subjects":["finance","agriculture","elections","trade"],"agencies":["Local Government Finance"]},{"bill_id":2061473,"bill_number":"HB1140","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sale and resale of event tickets.","description":"Sale and resale of event tickets. Provides that certain actions taken by a ticket issuer or ticket reseller with respect to tickets sold or resold for entertainment events constitute deceptive acts. Establishes requirements for the advertising and offer for sale, sale, and resale of tickets. Requires a ticket reseller to issue a refund to a consumer for a ticket if the entertainment event is canceled or if, for certain reasons, the ticket is not accepted by the venue.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1140/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061483,"bill_number":"HB1141","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Commingling committee funds.","description":"Commingling committee funds. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally violates a specified provision by commingling the funds of a committee with the personal funds of an officer, a member, or an associate of the committee commits a Class A misdemeanor. Enhances the penalty to a Level 6 felony if a person commingles at least $50,000 of committee funds.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1141/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061461,"bill_number":"HB1142","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Uniform food and beverage tax.","description":"Uniform food and beverage tax. Creates uniform food and beverage tax authorization provisions for cities and counties that are not required or authorized to impose a food and beverage tax under any other food and beverage tax enabling statute. Specifies the food and beverage tax adoption procedure, maximum food and beverage tax rate, uses of revenue from a food and beverage tax, and the duration of the food and beverage tax.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1142/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061481,"bill_number":"HB1143","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local option income taxes.","description":"Local option income taxes. Provides that an individual who resides in a county with a local income tax and has a principal place of employment or business in a different county shall also pay a local income tax in the county where the individual maintains the principal place of employment. Provides that the local income tax rate in effect for a local taxpayer in the county where the local taxpayer maintains the local taxpayer's principal place of business or employment is one fourth of the sum of the local income tax rates imposed on the adjusted gross income of local taxpayers who reside in the county where the local taxpayer maintains the local taxpayer's principal place of business or employment. Provides that a local taxpayer is entitled to a credit against the tax imposed by a county in the county where the local taxpayer resides equal to the amount of the tax paid in the county where the local taxpayer has a principal place of business or employment.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1143/2026","subjects":["housing","finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061523,"bill_number":"HB1144","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tourism improvement districts.","description":"Tourism improvement districts. Provides that a person may circulate a petition to create a tourism improvement district (district) within the territory of a county, city, or town (local unit). Specifies the contents of the tourism improvement district plan that must be filed with a petition to establish a district. Provides that the legislative body of the local unit may require in the district plan that the boundaries of the district be drawn to: (1) exclude businesses; or (2) prevent overlap of the district with another area or district in which a special assessment is imposed. Provides that owners of businesses located within a district may be charged a special assessment to fund improvements and other district activities. Provides that, after a hearing on a petition to establish a district, a local unit's legislative body may adopt the ordinance establishing the district only if it determines that the petition has been signed by: (1) at least 50% of the owners of businesses within the proposed district; and (2) the owners of businesses within the proposed district that constitute more than 50% of the revenue to be collected from the special assessments. Requires the county, city, or town legislative body, at the public hearing on the establishment of a district, to hear from each individual business owner that wishes to make a request for exclusion from the district. Specifies the contents of the ordinance establishing a district and the length of time for which a district may exist. Allows a district to issue bonds and specifies the term of any bonds issued. Provides that a district may be renewed. Sets forth an annual 30 day period in which the owners of the businesses in the district may request disestablishment of the district under specified conditions. Requires the local unit to contract with a private nonprofit district management association to administer and implement the district's activities and improvements. Excludes from inclusion within a district: (1) property that receives a homestead standard deduction; (2) property used for single family residential housing; and (3) property used for multi-unit residential housing.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1144/2026","subjects":["housing","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061530,"bill_number":"HB1145","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Thirteenth check.","description":"Thirteenth check. Allows a participant in the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan to elect a joint and survivor option for the payment of the participant's retirement allowance. Provides for a thirteenth check in calendar year 2026 for certain members, participants, or beneficiaries of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) Indiana public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (4) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (5) state police 1987 benefit system.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1145/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety","environment"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061429,"bill_number":"HB1146","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Homestead property tax freeze.","description":"Homestead property tax freeze. Freezes an individual's property tax liability attributable to the individual's homestead based on the date on which the individual acquired an ownership interest in the homestead.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1146/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061466,"bill_number":"HB1147","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Licensure of certified public accountants.","description":"Licensure of certified public accountants. Provides that an individual is eligible to take the examination for licensure as a certified public accountant if the individual has at least a baccalaureate degree with a concentration in accounting or equivalent as determined by the board to be appropriate.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1147/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061513,"bill_number":"HB1148","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Same day voter registration.","description":"Same day voter registration. Permits an individual to register at the polls by completing a voter registration form and by providing proof of residence. Specifies that an individual may comply with the proof of residence requirement only by providing a REAL ID driver's license or identification card that shows the name and residence address of the individual registering to vote. Requires the ballot of a voter who registers at the polls to be treated as a provisional ballot.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1148/2026","subjects":["transportation","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061500,"bill_number":"HB1149","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Pre-kindergarten care SGO tax credit.","description":"Pre-kindergarten care SGO tax credit. Establishes an early childhood scholarship tax credit for contributions made to a scholarship granting organization that conducts a program to provide scholarships for children who attend a qualified early child care provider. Provides that the amount of the credit is equal to 50% of the amount of the contribution. Limits the total amount of tax credits awarded in a state fiscal year to not more than $100,000,000. Requires the department of education (department) to certify early childhood scholarship granting organizations that meet certain criteria. Requires qualified early childhood scholarship granting organizations to enter into an agreement with the department. Specifies conditions that must be included in the agreement. Provides that a school corporation that operates an early childhood education program may not limit consideration for participation in the program solely to those residing within the school district.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1149/2026","subjects":["education","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061517,"bill_number":"HB1150","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local regulation.","description":"Local regulation. Provides that a homeowners association's governing documents may not include a covenant, policy, or similar measure that: (1) prohibits or restricts the use of; (2) distinguishes between types of; or (3) results in differing standards for different types of; motor vehicles or outdoor equipment based on the fuel source that powers the motor vehicle or outdoor equipment. Provides that a homeowners association's governing documents may not include a covenant, policy, or similar measure that prohibits the display of an American flag.Prohibits a homeowners association from installing, maintaining, or operating an automated license plate reader (ALPR), and prohibits a homeowners association from permitting the installation, maintenance, or operation of an ALPR on the property of the homeowners association unless the ALPR is installed by a law enforcement agency and only the law enforcement agency has access to the ALPR data.Prohibits a county or municipality from adopting or enforcing a utility usage data ordinance. Prohibits a county, municipality, or township from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, order, regulation, resolution, policy, or similar measure that: (1) prohibits or restricts the use, sale, or lease of; (2) distinguishes between types of; or (3) results in differing regulatory standards for different types of; motor vehicles or machines other than vehicles, including outdoor equipment, based on the fuel source that powers the motor vehicle or machine. Requires political subdivisions located within five miles of the end of a runway of a publicly owned, public use airport to adopt an airspace overlay zoning ordinance.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1150/2026","subjects":["it","housing","public_safety","transportation","energy","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061456,"bill_number":"HB1151","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Time observance in Indiana.","description":"Time observance in Indiana. Exempts Indiana from daylight saving time.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1151/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061509,"bill_number":"HB1152","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Homeowners association matters.","description":"Homeowners association matters. Allows, if certain conditions are met, a homeowners association to increase a budget, without a quorum, in an amount not to exceed 110% of the amount of the last approved budget, within five years after the first sale of a lot or unit from a developer to a person not associated with the developer. Prohibits a homeowners association from charging a fee associated with any service provided by the homeowners association. Allows, if certain conditions are met, a homeowners association to increase an annual budget without a quorum in an amount that does not exceed the lesser of: (1) 105% of the last approved budget; or (2) the average increase of the Consumer Price Index for housing in the Midwest for the prior 12 months. Prohibits a homeowners association from adopting or enforcing a regulation, rule, or other policy that prohibits a person from maintaining an amateur radio antenna. Specifies that a homeowners association may not prohibit or restrict a person from operating a Class I child care home or providing certain child care if the person resides within and owns, rents, or leases the single family residence where child care services are provided.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1152/2026","subjects":["education","housing","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061525,"bill_number":"HB1153","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Auto dealer matters.","description":"Auto dealer matters. Requires a dealer to collect and retain certain identifying information from a potential purchaser. Beginning July 1, 2026, requires a transport operator to either: (1) have an established place of business with a physical Indiana address; or (2) provide the secretary of state (secretary) with proof of the transport operator's valid registration from the United States Department of Transportation authorizing the transport operator to operate within Indiana; to apply for a registration number. Provides that a dealership that operates without a license from the secretary commits a Class A infraction.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1153/2026","subjects":["transportation","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061450,"bill_number":"HB1154","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Hunger-free campus grant program.","description":"Hunger-free campus grant program. Establishes the hunger-free campus grant program (grant program) to provide grants to state educational institutions for purposes of addressing food insecurity among students enrolled in state educational institutions. Provides that the commission for higher education (commission) shall provide a grant under the grant program to a state educational institution if at least one campus is designated by the commission as a hunger-free campus. Establishes criteria that a campus of a state educational institution must meet in order to be designated as a hunger-free campus. Makes an appropriation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1154/2026","subjects":["education","finance"],"agencies":["Higher Education"]},{"bill_id":2061507,"bill_number":"HB1155","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Traffic enforcement.","description":"Traffic enforcement. Establishes a traffic enforcement on private roads pilot project. Provides that a subdivision: (1) that is subject to governance authority by a homeowners association; (2) that contains at least 1,500 lots; and (3) with at least 15 miles of private road that are owned and maintained by the homeowners association; may establish maximum speed limits and designate intersections at which a vehicle is required to stop. Provides that a law enforcement officer has all police powers necessary to enforce the laws of the state for the regulation and use of vehicles on the private roads within the subdivision governed by the homeowners association. Provides that, with the exception of maximum speed limits and stop signs established by the homeowners association, a law enforcement officer may not enforce other rules or requirements established by the homeowners association. Provides that, with certain requirements, a homeowners association may enter into an agreement with or employ an off duty law enforcement officer. Provides that the pilot program expires July 1, 2028.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1155/2026","subjects":["public_safety","transportation","energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061491,"bill_number":"HB1156","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Veterans property tax deduction.","description":"Veterans property tax deduction. Eliminates the assessed value cap that applies to the property tax deduction for a veteran who: (1) has a total disability; or (2) is at least 62 years of age and has at least a 10% disability.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1156/2026","subjects":["finance","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061426,"bill_number":"HB1157","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Maximum practical parenting time.","description":"Maximum practical parenting time. Requires a court in certain circumstances to make decisions to promote continuity of relationship by both parents with the child through maximum practical parenting time with each parent. Provides that the ability of the parties to encourage the sharing of love, affection, and contact between the child and the other party is a permissible factor to consider in weighing the best interests of a child. Provides that: (1) parents must be encouraged to develop the parents' own parenting plans and parenting time calendars, but if the parents cannot agree to a part of the plan, the court shall provide the required components according to the best interests of the child; (2) if the parents are in total disagreement, the parenting time guidelines apply; and (3) the court must make specific findings of fact and conclusions of law on the record to support any deviation of parenting time that falls below the minimum standards in the parenting time guidelines.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1157/2026","subjects":["housing","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061515,"bill_number":"HB1158","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Positive personal outcomes.","description":"Positive personal outcomes. Includes instruction that stresses the nature and importance of the positive personal and societal outcomes associated with: (1) obtaining a high school diploma or high school equivalency credential; (2) securing full-time employment; and (3) waiting until marriage to begin having children; in existing good citizenship instruction.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1158/2026","subjects":["education","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061436,"bill_number":"HB1159","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prekindergarten vision screening.","description":"Prekindergarten vision screening. Requires the governing body of each school corporation to conduct vision testing for prekindergarten children. Allows for the use of electronic eye charts.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1159/2026","subjects":["it","education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061434,"bill_number":"HB1160","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Naturalization examination.","description":"Naturalization examination. Beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, requires administration of the naturalization examination provided by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (exam) in grade 8. Beginning in the 2030-2031 school year, requires administration of the exam in high school, and requires a student to complete the exam with a score of not less than 70% in order to graduate high school. Allows a student to retake the exam. Allows certain students to obtain an academic waiver for the exam. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1160/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061451,"bill_number":"HB1161","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local government matters.","description":"Local government matters. Provides that individuals who are appointed to certain boards, committees, or other bodies in a county that does not have a consolidated city, serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority as long as: (1) the officeholder who appointed the individual continues to hold the office; or (2) the board, committee, or body that appointed the individual retains all of the same members who served when the individual was appointed. Provides that, in the case of a reorganized political subdivision, the oath of office of the town board of police commissioners is administered by any of the individuals granted notary powers. Staggers the terms of a nine member local board of health. Provides that the county executive, excluding a county containing a consolidated city, may set the salary of a county administrator subject to: (1) salary parameters established; or (2) approval; by the county fiscal body. Provides that each county executive, excluding a county containing a consolidated city and certain employees, shall adopt and maintain a written personnel policy, employee handbook, or equivalent document establishing minimum standards for county employee conduct, performance, and workplace expectations.  Requires the executive of a county or municipality (unit) to preapprove any of the following actions of the unit's park and recreation board, if the cost exceeds the lesser of $500,000 or 10% of the park district's annual budget: (1) Exercising eminent domain powers. (2) Entering into a contract. (3) Acquiring real or personal property. (4) Making capital improvements. Adds public defenders to those officials whose home addresses may be restricted from public property data base websites.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1161/2026","subjects":["public_safety","finance","labor","energy","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061520,"bill_number":"HB1162","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Medicaid waiver direct care staff compensation.","description":"Medicaid waiver direct care staff compensation. Sets forth requirements for a home and community based services attendant care service Medicaid provider to meet in the use of the state fund share of Medicaid reimbursement for compensation of direct care staff. Requires the provider to submit a cost report annually to verify compliance.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1162/2026","subjects":["health","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061531,"bill_number":"HB1163","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prosecuting attorneys retirement fund COLA.","description":"Prosecuting attorneys retirement fund COLA. Provides for an annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) for participants of the prosecuting attorneys retirement fund based on the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1163/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061499,"bill_number":"HB1164","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tax increment financing districts.","description":"Tax increment financing districts. Provides that a redevelopment commission may use money from certain funds for the purpose of retiring debt service earlier. Provides that a redevelopment commission making accelerated debt payments may retain the assessed value associated with the original debt service schedule. Requires a redevelopment commission to include an invitation to overlapping taxing units to participate in the hearing regarding a proposed redevelopment project. Allows a redevelopment commission to expend money for the maintenance of an infrastructure project within a tax increment financing district if: (1) the infrastructure project was originally funded or supported by tax increment financing funds; and (2) the use of the funds is limited to the remaining life of the project. Allows a redevelopment commission to share tax increment finance district revenue with certain local economic development organizations under certain conditions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1164/2026","subjects":["finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065040,"bill_number":"HB1165","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various animal related matters.","description":"Various animal related matters. Removes partial liability for damages when a person removes a domestic animal from a motor vehicle. Increases certain penalties for offenses involving animals, and establishes a defense for an uninvolved person attacked by a law enforcement animal. Sets forth new definitions and amends various definitions for offenses relating to animals. Specifies that animal cruelty statutes apply to a rodent that is not a nuisance rodent. Makes certain acts an aggravating circumstance for purposes of sentencing.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1165/2026","subjects":["public_safety","transportation","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065022,"bill_number":"HB1166","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Elections.","description":"Elections. Provides that the state of Indiana shall conduct all elections using secure, hand-marked paper ballots that are: (1) designed and made in Indiana; (2) embellished with a distinctive watermark; and (3) serialized numerically. Provides that no other method of voting may be used in Indiana. Specifies that ballots must be counted by hand. Requires precincts to have video cameras that record and live stream the counting of ballots and the ballot box container. Requires each precinct to have one voting system equipped for individuals with disabilities. Specifies requirements for reporting results of the election. Requires election results to be announced the evening of the election. Prohibits the use of a pollbook in any form other than paper. Provides that ballots are not confidential. Prohibits the state from conducting the voting system technical oversight program (VSTOP) after June 30, 2026. Specifies storage requirements for certain election documents. Requires the secretary of state (secretary) to randomly choose 10 counties for post-election hand recounts and inspections of secured storage facilities. Provides that all Indiana citizens have the right to inspect and copy all election materials at the office of the county clerk. Requires the secretary to establish and maintain a statewide voter registration data base. Requires the secretary to administer voter registration rolls and provides that the secretary may not delegate this function. Requires county clerks to create and print the paper pollbook for each precinct. Specifies requirements for back up lists and daily records of the voter registration data base. Specifies that an election in Indiana may be held only on election day. Prohibits: (1) early in person voting; (2) vote centers; (3) Internet voting; (4) mass mail-in voting; (5) ballot harvesting; and (6) a ballot drop box. Provides that a precinct may contain not more than 1,500 registered active voters. Specifies that absentee voter boards may be used for all voters at extended care facilities. Requires all voter registration applications to include proof of citizenship and a signature. Specifies certain restrictions that apply to a third party organization. Provides that a digital identification is not acceptable for the purposes of registration or voting. Specifies: (1) requirements for absentee ballots; and (2) the individuals who qualify to receive an absentee ballot. Requires an absentee ballot to include a copy of the voter's proof of identification or the last four digits of the voter's Social Security number. Provides that a person who violates these provisions: (1) commits a Class A misdemeanor; and (2) is deprived of the right of suffrage for 10 years. Repeals a provision that designates as confidential certain information maintained by VSTOP. Requires the attorney general to establish an election crimes unit.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1166/2026","subjects":["it","public_safety","elections","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065049,"bill_number":"HB1167","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Digital alert technology pilot program.","description":"Digital alert technology pilot program. Establishes the digital alert pilot program (pilot program) administered by the department of homeland security (department) to provide grants to providers of fire, emergency medical, and law enforcement services for the use of digital alert technology to notify motorists regarding the location of providers' emergency vehicles. Establishes the digital alert pilot program grant fund. Requires the secretary of public safety and the executive director of the Indiana criminal justice institute to provide a plan to the department not later than September 1, 2026, for leveraging available federal funds to fund the pilot program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1167/2026","subjects":["it","health","public_safety","transportation"],"agencies":["Homeland Security"]},{"bill_id":2065190,"bill_number":"HB1168","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Property tax exemption for qualified veterans.","description":"Property tax exemption for qualified veterans. Provides a property tax deduction for an individual, or the surviving spouse of an individual, who has been rated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as individually unemployable.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1168/2026","subjects":["finance","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065059,"bill_number":"HB1169","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"College savings tax credit.","description":"College savings tax credit. Beginning in taxable year 2027, increases the credit provided for a contribution to an Indiana529 savings plan against a taxpayer's adjusted gross income from $1,500 to $2,500 (and from $750 to $1,250 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return), subject to other requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1169/2026","subjects":["education","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065046,"bill_number":"HB1170","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Teacher compensation.","description":"Teacher compensation. Provides that, for each school year beginning after June 30, 2027, a school corporation shall, if the school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot establish a minimum salary of $60,000 (instead of $40,000 under current law) for each full-time teacher, comply with certain requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1170/2026","subjects":["education","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065097,"bill_number":"HB1171","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Epilepsy foundation trust license plate.","description":"Epilepsy foundation trust license plate. Establishes the epilepsy foundation trust license plate as a special group recognition license plate. Establishes the epilepsy foundation trust fund.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1171/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065102,"bill_number":"HB1172","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Rape kits.","description":"Rape kits. Requires the superintendent of the state police department to: (1) obtain data from law enforcement agencies concerning medical forensic examination kits in the agencies' possession; and (2) report a summary of the data to the legislative council.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1172/2026","subjects":["health","education","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065201,"bill_number":"HB1173","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Designated public forums.","description":"Designated public forums. Defines a \"designated public forum\". Provides that the state or a political subdivision may impose time, place, and manner restrictions on speech in a designated public forum, provided that such restrictions are: (1) justified by a compelling interest of the state or political subdivision; (2) narrowly tailored; (3) administered using the least restrictive means available; and (4) viewpoint neutral. Provides that the state or a political subdivision may not exclude speech: (1) made by a religious or political group, if the speech is consistent with the designated public forum's purpose; or (2) solely because it expresses a religious or political viewpoint.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1173/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065013,"bill_number":"HB1174","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Project Lifesaver program requirement for counties.","description":"Project Lifesaver program requirement for counties. Requires each county to establish and maintain a Project Lifesaver program. Tasks the division of disability and rehabilitative services with ensuring compliance, and requires the division to report to the general assembly.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1174/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065200,"bill_number":"HB1175","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Study of state house accessibility improvements.","description":"Study of state house accessibility improvements. Requires the department of administration (IDOA) and the Indiana protection and advocacy services commission (IPASC) to jointly study the accessibility of the state house to individuals with disabilities. Requires the IDOA and the IPASC to report on the study to the budget committee, governor, and legislative council before November 1, 2026.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1175/2026","subjects":["finance","trade"],"agencies":["Administration"]},{"bill_id":2065112,"bill_number":"HB1176","status":3,"status_name":"Enrolled","status_date":"2026-02-20","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Education matters.","description":"Education matters. Amends provisions, beginning July 1, 2027, regarding use of the Pokagon Indiana education fund to make payments to Indiana public or private institutions of higher learning or workforce development and training programs. Provides that, in addition to conditions established in current law to convert an existing public elementary or secondary school, an existing public elementary or secondary school may be converted into a charter school if certain other conditions apply. Allows, if the conditions are met, the governing body of a school corporation to: (1) convert more than one existing public elementary or secondary school within the school corporation; and (2) operate two or more conversion charter schools under a single charter. Prohibits the governing body of a school corporation from being the authorizer of a charter school and entering into or having a participating innovation network charter school agreement with the charter school at the same time. Amends provisions regarding participating innovation network charter schools to allow an organizer to enter into an agreement with more than one school corporation. Amends requirements regarding the location of a participating innovation network charter school and terms of an agreement. Amends the duties of the department of education with regard to participating innovation network charter schools. Makes conforming changes, including changes to the complexity index. Requires parental notification if a school determines a student is at risk of not achieving grade level proficiency in mathematics.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1176/2026","subjects":["education","housing","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065073,"bill_number":"HB1177","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Child care assistance.","description":"Child care assistance. Increases the maximum number of individuals an entity may employ to be eligible for the employer child care expenditure income tax credit. Provides that costs incurred: (1) for the operating costs of a child care facility operated for a taxpayer's employees; or (2) under a contract with a child care facility to provide child care services to employees of the taxpayer, or under a contract with an intermediate entity that contracts with one or more child care facilities for child care services; are qualified expenditures for purposes of the employer child care expenditure income tax credit. Allows a redevelopment commission to use revenue collected in a tax increment financing district to expend money or provide financial assistance to entities for the purpose of encouraging or incentivizing the construction or expansion of child care facilities.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1177/2026","subjects":["education","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065133,"bill_number":"HB1178","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Minor access to social media.","description":"Minor access to social media. Provides that a social media provider that meets specified conditions (provider) may not create an account for an individual who is less than 14 years of age (minor) unless the provider receives verifiable parental consent to creation of the account from a parent of the minor. Requires a provider that creates an account for a minor to: (1) provide the minor's parent with the option of receiving a separate password that allows the parent to set limits on the minor's use of the account; and (2) configure the account in a specified manner, including by disabling access by the account holder to specified features and functionality of the social media platform. Requires a provider to: (1) periodically verify the age of each Indiana account holder; and (2) terminate an account if: (A) the provider determines that the Indiana account holder is a minor; and (B) the provider did not receive verifiable parental consent for the creation of the account; subject to a specified process by which an account holder may dispute the provider's determination. Requires a provider to: (1) provide a minor account holder and the minor's parent with a clearly explained, simple to use, and easily accessible means of terminating the minor's account; and (2) terminate the minor's account within a specified time after receiving a request for the account's termination. Provides requirements for a provider's use and retention of information provided to the provider for purposes of verifiable parental consent. Provides that a provider that creates or maintains an account for a minor in violation of these requirements is subject to a civil action by the minor or a parent of the minor, and specifies remedies available to a prevailing plaintiff in such an action. Provides that the attorney general may independently enforce these requirements under the attorney general's authority to enforce Indiana law regarding unfair trade practices.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1178/2026","subjects":["housing","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065146,"bill_number":"HB1179","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Term limits.","description":"Term limits. Provides that an individual elected or appointed as a state senator or state representative after November 3, 2026, may serve until the earlier of the following: (1) The date on which the individual completes 20 total combined years of service as a state senator or state representative. (2) The individual's seventieth birthday.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1179/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065167,"bill_number":"HB1180","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Health facility matters.","description":"Health facility matters. Requires the state health commissioner to establish a work group to study methods of reducing and preventing health facility resident neglect and submit a report to the general assembly. Requires a health facility to do the following: (1) Designate at least one employee to act as a family advocacy liaison. (2) Establish an independent third party review process for written resident or other individual complaints alleging neglect of a resident. (3) Offer grief support to the family of a deceased resident. Prohibits a health facility from taking retaliatory action against an employee because the employee: (1) discloses actions or practices by the health facility that the employee reasonably believes violate state or federal law; (2) provides information or testifies in investigations or hearings; or (3) assists or participates in proceedings to enforce state law. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim committee during the 2026 interim the study of requiring health facilities to meet certain staff-to-patient ratios.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1180/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065101,"bill_number":"HB1181","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Eviction task force.","description":"Eviction task force. Establishes the access to counsel in eviction task force (task force) to review matters related to the eviction process and potential funding sources to increase a tenant's access to counsel in an eviction proceeding. Sets forth membership, and requires the task force to issue a report to the legislative council. Provides that the task force expires December 31, 2026.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1181/2026","subjects":["housing","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065085,"bill_number":"HB1182","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Digital sexual image abuse.","description":"Digital sexual image abuse. Defines \"digital sexual image\" as a digital, computer generated image or video that is created or modified to depict: (1) sexual intercourse; (2) other sexual conduct; or (3) exhibition of certain body parts; of a quality, characteristic, or condition, such that it appears to depict an individual. Establishes the offenses of possession of a digital sexual image and distribution of a digital sexual image.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1182/2026","subjects":["it"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065086,"bill_number":"HB1183","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Digital sexual image abuse.","description":"Digital sexual image abuse. Increases the penalty for the crime of distribution of an intimate image, from a Class A misdemeanor to a Level 6 felony, and increases the enhancement of this crime from a Level 6 felony to a Level 5 felony. Defines \"digital sexual image\" as a digital, computer generated image or video that is created or modified to depict: (1) sexual intercourse; (2) other sexual conduct; or (3) exhibition of certain body parts; of a quality, characteristic, or condition, such that it appears to depict an individual. Makes creation or possession of a digital sexual image a Class A misdemeanor and distribution of a digital sexual image a Level 6 felony.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1183/2026","subjects":["it","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065164,"bill_number":"HB1184","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Towing matters.","description":"Towing matters. Provides that the proceeds from the sale of abandoned vehicles or parts by a city, county, or town shall first be credited against the costs of removal, storage, and disposal of the vehicle incurred by the towing company or storage facility. Allows a towing company responding to a summons for an emergency towing to utilize the shoulder of the roadway as necessary to reach the scene of a disabled motor vehicle. Provides that a commercial private property owner that establishes a tow-away zone must post a tow-away zone sign at the location of the tow-away zone that is at a height of more than five feet and less than seven feet from the ground. Prohibits a towing company from towing a motor vehicle from a tow-away zone if the tow-away zone sign is not at the required height. Provides that a towing company or storage facility shall accept a credit card or debit card as a form of payment. Prohibits a towing company or storage facility from charging a credit card service fee of more than three percent (3%). Establishes requirements for the storage of collateral by collateral recovery agencies. Specifies the time within which a self-service storage facility owner may tow or remove a motor vehicle, trailer, or watercraft.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1184/2026","subjects":["transportation","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065130,"bill_number":"HB1185","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Department of agriculture.","description":"Department of agriculture. Adds a purpose for which money in the clean water Indiana fund may be used. Renames the value added research fund to the agricultural market development fund and makes various changes to the purposes for which money in the agricultural market development fund may be used. Allows the agricultural market development fund to accept grants, donations, and money received from any other source. Requires the division of soil conservation to work in collaboration with state and federal agencies and research institutions in the installation and maintenance of mesonet sites. Allows money in the grain buyers and warehouse licensing agency license fee fund to be used to augment and supplement funding for the implementation of the Indiana grain buyers and warehouse licensing and bonding law subject to approval by the budget agency. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1185/2026","subjects":["environment","finance","labor","agriculture","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065158,"bill_number":"HB1186","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Restrictions on the sale of public utilities.","description":"Restrictions on the sale of public utilities. Prohibits a public utility from: (1) selling, assigning, transferring, leasing, or encumbering its franchise, business, or property; or (2) selling, assigning, or transferring any shares of its stock; to a prohibited person. Provides that the Indiana utility regulatory commission may not approve such a transaction, and that any contract for such a transaction is void. Provides that for purposes of this prohibition, a \"prohibited person\" means either of the following: (1) A private equity firm or an affiliate of a private equity firm. (2) A citizen of, or a company owned or controlled by or headquartered in, China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, or a country designated as a threat to critical infrastructure by the governor.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1186/2026","subjects":["energy","agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065056,"bill_number":"HB1187","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Property tax credits for veterans.","description":"Property tax credits for veterans. Increases the property tax deduction for a veteran who is totally disabled to an amount equal to 100% of the assessed value of the individual's real property (instead of $14,000). Expires property tax deductions for certain veterans, and, beginning with property taxes imposed for the 2026 assessment date and thereafter, instead provides a property tax liability credit against local property taxes for veterans who previously claimed a deduction. Includes a mechanism to establish an additional maximum property tax liability credit for a veteran who previously claimed a deduction.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1187/2026","subjects":["housing","finance","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065124,"bill_number":"HB1188","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Police pension matters.","description":"Police pension matters. Extends eligibility for supplemental pension benefits and incentive increases to employee beneficiaries of the state police 1987 benefit system. (Current law provides eligibility to employee beneficiaries under the state police pre-1987 benefit system.) Modifies the: (1) terms of eligibility for; and (2) calculation of; supplemental pension benefits and incentive increases. Provides that first time payments of and increases to supplemental pension benefits shall be paid or commence beginning in July of each year. Makes changes to the definition of a \"school resource officer\" for provisions relating to the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (1977 fund). Provides that a school police department may participate in the 1977 fund. Establishes requirements for establishing a local board for school police departments. Provides that an appointing authority shall waive the age restriction for a school resource officer for purposes of the 1977 fund if certain conditions are met. Provides that a school corporation or charter school that employs a school resource officer must enter into a contract or memorandum of understanding with a local law enforcement agency for the purpose of complying with the reporting and payment requirements for purposes of the 1977 fund. Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1188/2026","subjects":["education","housing","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065151,"bill_number":"HB1189","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Labor requirements for data center incentives.","description":"Labor requirements for data center incentives. Requires that an agreement between a qualified data center user or quantum computing research, advanced computing, and defense infrastructure network operator and the Indiana economic development corporation for a specific transaction award certificate includes a requirement that the user or operator limit bids or requests for proposals for the project to labor unions or employers that have project labor agreements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1189/2026","subjects":["labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065096,"bill_number":"HB1190","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Line of duty disability from PFAS exposure.","description":"Line of duty disability from PFAS exposure. Provides that a health condition that is caused by a PFAS chemical creates a presumption of disability in the line of duty with respect to firefighters under certain circumstances. Defines certain terms. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1190/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065156,"bill_number":"HB1191","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Decriminalization of marijuana.","description":"Decriminalization of marijuana. Decriminalizes possession of two ounces or less of marijuana.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1191/2026","subjects":["public_safety","cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065150,"bill_number":"HB1192","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Seed laws.","description":"Seed laws. Incorporates various administrative rules into the Indiana seed law. Repeals certain administrative rules. Makes conforming and technical changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1192/2026","subjects":["agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065176,"bill_number":"HB1193","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Civil rights commission.","description":"Civil rights commission. Provides that the civil rights commission (commission) may not represent a private individual in a civil action filed in circuit or superior court. Amends the definition of \"discriminatory practice\". Requires the commission to first send a complaint received by the commission to another state or federal agency that has jurisdiction over the complaint. Allows the commission to enter into a memorandum of understanding with  a state or federal agency if certain conditions are met. Requires the party that elects to have claims asserted in a finding of reasonable cause decided in a civil action to file the civil action. Provides that the commission may only represent the state in a civil action and repeals a provision allowing a court to award monetary damages in those cases. Conforms the circumstances under which the commission may be required to pay attorney's fees to the circumstances under which an agency may be required to pay fees under the administrative orders and proceedings act (AOPA).","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1193/2026","subjects":["water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065202,"bill_number":"HB1194","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Bail matters.","description":"Bail matters. Provides that offenses other than murder are not bailable if the state proves: (1) by a preponderance of the evidence that the proof is evident or the presumption strong; and (2) by clear and convincing evidence that the arrestee is dangerous and that no conditions of release will reasonably protect the safety of other persons or the community. Establishes procedures for a bail hearing.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1194/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065181,"bill_number":"HB1195","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"High school equivalency programs.","description":"High school equivalency programs. Amends Indiana high school equivalency diploma program eligibility requirements for individuals under 18 years of age. Changes the expiration date of the high school equivalency pilot program from June 30, 2026, to June 30, 2028. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1195/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065083,"bill_number":"HB1196","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Employment and vaccinations.","description":"Employment and vaccinations. Provides that an employer may require an immunization only if the employer respects the employee's right to refuse an immunization. Provides that an employee shall be free from coercion or an adverse action based on the employee's refusal of an immunization. Requires an employer that offers an immunization at no cost to an employee to provide certain notice to the employee. Provides that a violation may be reported to the department of labor (department). Requires the department to impose a civil penalty of $5,000 per incident. Allows an employee to bring a civil action against an employer to enforce the provisions. Repeals provisions concerning exemptions from COVID-19 immunization requirements. Makes a corresponding change.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1196/2026","subjects":["health","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065032,"bill_number":"HB1197","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Hysterectomy and oophorectomy informed consent.","description":"Hysterectomy and oophorectomy informed consent. Requires a physician to provide certain information to a patient and obtain oral and written consent before a hysterectomy or an oophorectomy may be performed. Allows for an exception in an emergency. Allows for the modification of an informed consent form by the patient and specifies requirements for the modification.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1197/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065023,"bill_number":"HB1198","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Use of public restrooms.","description":"Use of public restrooms. Makes it a Class B misdemeanor if: (1) a male knowingly or intentionally enters a restroom that is designated to be used only by females; or (2) a female knowingly or intentionally enters a restroom that is designated to be used only by males. Provides certain defenses.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1198/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065159,"bill_number":"HB1199","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Birth certificate information.","description":"Birth certificate information. Provides that the gender listed on an individual's birth certificate and permanent record made from the birth certificate may not be changed. Specifies certain exceptions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1199/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065044,"bill_number":"HB1200","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Bureau of motor vehicles.","description":"Bureau of motor vehicles. Allows additional license plates issued by the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) to be designed as a personalized license plate. Provides that a motor vehicle may be equipped with an appropriate, functioning rear view camera that provides the driver a view of the highway for a distance of at least 200 feet to the rear of the vehicle instead of a mirror. Prohibits the Indiana department of transportation from implementing variable speed limits or using electronic variable speed limit signs. Amends the information required to be provided by an applicant for a driver's license or permit. Amends the required age an individual must be to obtain a driver's license from 16 years and 90 days of age to 16 years of age. Requires an individual to demonstrate sufficient proficiency of the English language to operate a commercial motor vehicle. Provides that an individual commits a Level 6 felony if the individual: (1) represents that a false record is a valid commercial driver's license; or (2) does not have proper documentation while driving with a commercial driver's license issued by any jurisdiction other than a state, territory, or possession of the United States. Provides that a business enterprise may not educate, train, or otherwise prepare an individual to operate a commercial motor vehicle if certain circumstances exist. Makes certain changes to the requirements for the issuance of a nondomiciled commercial driver's license and allows for the revocation of an individual's nondomiciled commercial driver's license in certain circumstances. Allows an applicant for a driver's license or permit to take an examination of the individual's ability to read and understand highway signs and the individual's knowledge of Indiana traffic laws by satisfactorily completing an online examination approved by the bureau. Amends the time that an expired driver's license of an individual temporarily residing outside Indiana because of service in the armed forces remains valid. Changes the time for an individual who is 75 years of age or older and renewing a physical credential to provide proof to the bureau that the individual passed an eyesight examination from 30 days to 60 days. Removes the limitation that a renewal identification card cannot be issued by electronic service if the card expired more than 180 days prior to the date of the application for renewal. Provides that an advertisement that violates the prohibition on advertising certain illegal products must be removed from public circulation not later than October 1, 2026. Amends certain requirements for township capital improvement plans.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1200/2026","subjects":["it","transportation","veterans","trade"],"agencies":["Motor Vehicles"]},{"bill_id":2065139,"bill_number":"HB1201","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various mental health and insurance matters.","description":"Various mental health and insurance matters. Prohibits the use of an artificial intelligence system to impersonate or act as a substitute for a licensed mental health professional. Requires the department of insurance to contract with an objective third party to verify that health carriers are in compliance with network adequacy standards. Sets forth notice requirements for an amendment to a health provider contract. Prohibits the use of downcoding in a specified manner. Requires an insurer and a health maintenance organization to reimburse providers of mental illness or substance abuse services at rates that are at least as favorable relative to Medicare rates as reimbursement rates are for providers of medical or surgical services relative to Medicare rates. Prohibits an insurer and a health maintenance organization from retroactively auditing a paid claim or seeking recoupment or a refund of a paid claim after a certain time frame. Sets forth a limitation on the amount that an insured or enrollee may be charged for receiving mental and behavioral care services from an out of network provider under certain circumstances.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1201/2026","subjects":["it","health","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065116,"bill_number":"HB1202","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various public safety matters.","description":"Various public safety matters. Requires a vendor or provider of an ignition interlock device to register an ignition interlock device with the department of toxicology. Eliminates a requirement for the director of the state department of toxicology to provide periodic reports to the Indiana criminal justice institute (institute) regarding the number of ignition interlock devices used in Indiana. Provides that a registered ignition interlock device must be installed in a motor vehicle in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions for installing the registered ignition interlock device. Codifies administrative rules adopted by the state department of toxicology relating to ignition interlock devices. Provides that prior to being issued an initial license to operate a child care center, the child care center must be inspected and found to be in substantial compliance with applicable building and fire safety laws by the department of homeland security. (Current law provides that a license may be issued only if the child care center is in substantial compliance with the fire and life safety rules as determined by the state fire marshal under rules adopted by the division of family resources (division) or in accordance with a variance or waiver approved by the division.) Provides that prior to being issued an initial registration to operate a child care ministry, the unlicensed child care ministry must be inspected and found to be in substantial compliance with applicable building and fire safety laws by the department of homeland security. Provides that the department of homeland security shall perform inspections of: (1) child care ministries; (2) child care centers; (3) child caring institutions; and (4) group homes. Provides that a license or registration to operate a child care center or child care ministry may be revoked if the division determines that the operator has failed to comply with an order of the department of homeland security. Provides that the operator of an unlicensed child care ministry shall maintain a copy of the most recent department of homeland security inspection findings in a conspicuous place in the unlicensed child care ministry. Provides that the department of child services is not required to consult with the fire prevention and building safety commission when adopting administrative rules pertaining to the licensing and inspection of child care institutions, foster family homes, group homes, and child placing agencies. Provides that administrative rules of the fire prevention and building safety commission must include minimum building and safety requirements applicable for child caring institutions. Provides that prior to being issued an initial license to operate a child caring institution or group home, the child caring institution or group home must be inspected and found to be in substantial compliance with applicable building and fire safety laws by the department of homeland security. Provides that a license or registration to operate a child caring institution or group home may be revoked if the department of child services determines that the operator has failed to comply with an order of the department of homeland security. Provides that in order for an individual to receive a license from the emergency medical services commission, the individual must obtain a national criminal history background check and authorize release of the results of the check to the department of homeland security. Eliminates the requirement for the institute to adopt administrative rules relating to the child restraint system account. Provides that inspections conducted by the department of homeland security shall be conducted periodically in lieu of established periods. Changes a reference, from the department of education to the office of school safety, relating to the duties of a school safety specialist. Repeals: (1) provisions relating to public safety improvement areas; (2) a provision requiring the board of trustees of the institute to adopt rules relating to the law enforcement assistance fund; (3) a provision that authorizes the state fire marshal to charge a child care ministry a $50 fee for processing a registration; (4) a provision requiring the institute to review characteristics of offenders committed to the department of correction over such period of time it deems appropriate and of the offenses committed by those offenders in order to ascertain norms used by the trial courts in sentencing; (5) a provision requiring the bureau of motor vehicles and the institute to enter into a memorandum of understanding to administer the provisions relating to ignition interlock devices; and (6) a provision that requires the institute to adopt rules relating to ignition interlock devices.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1202/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing","public_safety","environment","transportation","trade"],"agencies":["Homeland Security"]},{"bill_id":2065169,"bill_number":"HB1203","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Adoption of research animals.","description":"Adoption of research animals. Requires research facilities to offer for adoption dogs or cats no longer required for research purposes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1203/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065165,"bill_number":"HB1204","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-02-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Natural resource entrance fees.","description":"Natural resource entrance fees. Allows counties that meet certain criteria to adopt an ordinance to impose a surcharge of not more than $1 in addition to the fees charged by the department of natural resources (department) for entry into certain state parks and recreation areas. Provides that the surcharge may not be imposed on an annual state park pass holder. Requires the department to collect and to report and pay the surcharge to each county treasurer. Provides that the surcharge collected is to be used for certain purposes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1204/2026","subjects":["environment","trade"],"agencies":["Natural Resources"]},{"bill_id":2065053,"bill_number":"HB1205","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Annexation.","description":"Annexation. Requires a municipality that initiates an annexation to file an annexation petition (petition) with a court signed by: (1) at least 51% of the owners of non-tax exempt land in the annexation territory; or (2) the owners of at least 75% in assessed valuation of non-tax exempt land in the annexation territory. Eliminates: (1) remonstrances and waivers; (2) reimbursement of remonstrator's attorney's fees and costs; (3) settlement agreements in lieu of annexation; (4) contiguity of a public highway provisions; and (5) a required fiscal plan for certain super voluntary annexations. Reduces the number of outreach meetings from six to three. For super voluntary annexations, requires a municipality to: (1) hold a hearing on the petition within 90 (instead of 30) days; (2) adopt an annexation ordinance within 120 (instead of 60) days. Allows a super voluntary annexation of noncontiguous land for business, industrial, or residential development, if: (1) the landowner and municipal utility agree on the provision of gas, electric, water, or sewer service to the property; and (2) the county executive timely approves the petition. Allows noncontiguous land annexed in a super voluntary annexation to be used for additional voluntary or super voluntary annexations of contiguous land. After December 31, 2026, allows signatures on petitions to be gathered by mail. Provides that annexation territory that is divided by railroad tracks satisfies contiguity requirements, if the territory on at least one side of the railroad tracks is contiguous to the municipality. Grandfathers in annexations that adopt: (1) a fiscal plan before March 30, 2026; or (2) an annexation ordinance before March 30, 2026 (if a fiscal plan is not required by current law). Removes obsolete provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1205/2026","subjects":["housing","transportation","finance","energy","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065070,"bill_number":"HB1206","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local public work project bidding.","description":"Local public work project bidding. Provides additional considerations that a local public works board may consider in determining the lowest responsible and responsive bidder for a public work project costing at least $300,000.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1206/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065118,"bill_number":"HB1207","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tests of a motor vehicle operator.","description":"Tests of a motor vehicle operator. Provides that a law enforcement officer shall offer a chemical test to any person who the officer has reason to believe operated a vehicle that was involved in a fatal accident.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1207/2026","subjects":["public_safety","transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065027,"bill_number":"HB1208","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Offender against children residency restrictions.","description":"Offender against children residency restrictions. Provides that an offender against children who: (1) is required to register as a sex offender for life; and (2) knowingly or intentionally resides within 500 feet of certain areas owned, maintained, and governed by a homeowners association or property owners association; commits a sex offender residency offense, a Level 6 felony. Establishes the crime of interference with law enforcement, a Class B misdemeanor.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1208/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065017,"bill_number":"HB1209","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Municipal collection protocols.","description":"Municipal collection protocols. Effective January 1, 2027, establishes requirements for the provision of invoices and delinquency notices for certain municipal accounts. Requires the state board of accounts to prescribe forms for an invoice and a notice of a delinquent account. Requires municipal officers and employees with oversight responsibilities or access to the municipality's financial payment system to be segregated from the responsibilities of reporting or recording payments received. Requires a municipal officer whose official duties include oversight of reporting, recording, or monitoring of the municipality's accounts to not have access to the officer's own personal account.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1209/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065105,"bill_number":"HB1210","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Department of local government finance.","description":"Department of local government finance. Requires a municipal entity that hires or retains a municipal advisor to publish a contract in a prominent location on the municipal entity's website. Modifies the amount of supplemental wagering tax that the treasurer of state is required to pay to the riverboat operating in Gary and the distribution of wagering tax revenue to the city of Gary. Provides that the Lake County Convention Center Authority is established upon the substantial completion of the convention and event center. Establishes an alternative procedure for certain school corporations to issue refunding bonds. Requires state agencies and political subdivisions to cooperate with the state GIS officer in preparing a statewide base map. Eliminates the requirement that the department of local government finance (DLGF) work with the office of technology or another organization that is part of a state educational institution for purposes of posting information on the Indiana transparency website and submitting forms regarding data for local units. Allows a person to satisfy any notice statute by publishing notice in specified forms of media and modifies related provisions regarding notice by publication. Provides that in assessing or reassessing land, the land shall be assessed as agricultural land regardless of who owns the property or who is liable for the property taxes. Modifies procedures as to the reporting of assessment values of real and personal property and parcel level data. Changes the deadline for a county to submit to the DLGF data regarding real property, personal property, and geographic information system information. Requires the purchaser of a mobile home to process the paperwork with the bureau of motor vehicles to transfer the title into the purchaser's name within 90 days of the sale. Specifies eligibility for certain townships to petition for an increase to the maximum property tax levy for the firefighting and emergency services fund. Makes procedural changes for civil taxing units not subject to levy limits. Provides that certain local property tax credits result in a reduction of property tax collections in a political subdivision in which such a credit is applied. Specifies the procedures for the submission of certain forms and related allocation amounts with regard to various allocation areas. Amends various tax increment financing allocation area provisions, including provisions to redefine \"residential property\" and to require the original owner of certain nonowner-occupied residential property in an allocation area to enter into a written agreement with the appropriate entity to pay the property taxes for the portion of outstanding bonds until the bonds are retired. Changes reporting requirements by governing bodies to the DLGF regarding guaranteed savings contracts and energy efficient programs used by school corporations. Provides that the property tax rate for the levy imposed for the replacement of fire protection territory equipment is considered part of the maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levy and may not exceed $0.0333 per $100 of assessed value. Extends a temporary increase in the capitalization rate percentage under the statewide agricultural land base rate determination. Requires the DLGF to annually publish on the Indiana Register the adjusted cost estimate threshold for certain local public work projects. Provides a real and personal property tax exemption for Indiana nonprofit senior living communities beginning with property taxes that are first due and payable in 2027. Adds the Indiana Historical Society, Inc. to a list of organizations exempt from property taxation. Allows certain taxpayers to retroactively file a property tax exemption application. Increases the amount of the property tax deduction for a model residence and a residence in inventory to 100% of the assessed value of the property for each deduction. Increases the number of model residences and residences in inventory from three to ten that may be claimed for purposes of those property tax deductions. Requires an individual to reside on the real property, mobile home, or manufactured home to be eligible for the over 65 property tax credit. Increases the property tax deduction for a veteran who is totally disabled to 100% of the assessed value of the individual's real property (instead of $14,000). Expires property tax deductions for certain veterans, and instead provides a property tax liability credit. Restores the property tax deduction available to a surviving spouse of a World War I veteran that was limited by SEA 1-2025. Provides, if a taxpayer claims the homestead deduction for property that is not eligible for the deduction, that the taxpayer shall (instead of may) be liable for any additional taxes that would have been due on homestead property plus a civil penalty. Requires the county auditor to include in a notice of tax due a 10% fine as a penalty for claiming the homestead deduction falsely, which is in addition to all other penalties for which the taxpayer is liable. Allows the executive of Miami Township in Cass County to submit a petition to the DLGF requesting an increase in the township's maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levy for property taxes first due and payable in 2027. Requires the Hancock County fiscal body to adopt a resolution to allow a one time transfer of money from the library property tax replacement fund. Provides that for purposes of fixing and reviewing budgets, tax rates, and tax levies, before a county auditor makes an amendment, the county auditor must provide written notice to the county fiscal body, the DLGF, and the fiscal officers of the affected taxing units. Provides that the DLGF may not approve the budget for a political subdivision until an attestation statement concerning the uploading of contracts is submitted. Allows a school corporation to allocate the effects of supplemental homestead credits granted for property taxes first due and payable in 2026 proportionately among all the school corporation's property tax funds. Requires certain qualified data center users to enter into an agreement with local officials before the qualified data center user may use a specific transaction award certificate. Adds a provision regarding repayment in the redevelopment tax credit. Specifies eligibility and procedures for a health reimbursement arrangement income tax credit. Moves the effective date for the local income tax changes enacted in SEA 1-2025 from 2028 to 2029. Makes corresponding changes to move the expiration date regarding a county with a single voting bloc enacted in HEA 1142-2025. Specifies procedures for the imposition of local income taxes and distribution of local income tax revenue. Removes provisions enacted in SEA 1-2025 providing for the expiration of local income tax expenditure rates for counties or municipalities that fail to adopt an ordinance to renew an existing expenditure tax rate. Provides that the county may determine an allocation method for revenue raised from a tax rate for fire protection or emergency medical services. Provides that the county and certain township fire departments must receive an allocation of revenue raised from a tax rate for fire protection or emergency medical services. Provides a formula for the distribution of revenue from the local income tax rate imposed by a county for certain small cities and towns. Specifies procedures for determining population for purposes of a municipal local income tax rate. Specifies that taxing units may deposit distributions of excise tax revenue in any fund maintained by the taxing unit. Allows each county to establish a local strategic taskforce to negotiate and determine certain maximum local income tax rates. Allows the Marshall County jail fund to be used for costs otherwise incurred for the operation of the county jail. Provides that distributions of certain excise tax revenue to a taxing unit may be deposited in any fund maintained by the taxing unit and may be used for any purpose allowed by law. Makes numerous changes and additions to the local innkeeper's tax and food and beverage tax statutes, including new food and beverage tax authorizations, modifications to distributions of innkeeper's tax revenue, and revisions to the composition of various innkeeper's tax boards and commissions. Replaces the definitions of \"manufactured home\" and \"mobile home\" throughout the Indiana Code with a singular definition. Subject to an exception, limits voting eligibility in a homeowners association to members of the homeowners association who use their property as a homestead as to certain matters. With certain exceptions, prohibits a unit from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, regulation, policy, or rule that prohibits or restricts an owner of a privately owned residential property from using the property as a rental property. Retroactively amends the definition of \"short term rental\" to specify that certain private, owner occupied businesses are excluded from that definition. Requires a person appointed to a fire protection district board of trustees to reside in the fire protection district. Sets forth an alternative procedure that may be used to appoint the board of trustees of certain fire protection districts. Specifies maximum property tax rates for certain fire protection territories. Revises a provision of the municipal Barrett Law concerning deferred installments. Amends provisions in the drainage law as to bidding on certain projects and the term of loans. Authorizes the budget agency, subject to budget committee review, to augment the state agency contingency fund appropriations in HEA 1001-2025 through July 1, 2027, in an amount not to exceed $40,000,000 for Indiana office of technology contracts, in addition to the uses for the appropriation authorized in HEA 1001-2025.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1210/2026","subjects":["it","health","education","housing","transportation","finance","labor","energy","agriculture","elections","veterans","trade"],"agencies":["Local Government Finance"]},{"bill_id":2065080,"bill_number":"HB1211","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Aggravated speeding.","description":"Aggravated speeding. Provides for a penalty enhancement for aggravated speeding committed in the commission of certain offenses.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1211/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065028,"bill_number":"HB1212","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Medicaid coverage for health related social needs.","description":"Medicaid coverage for health related social needs. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply, not later than October 1, 2026, for approval of a Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver to provide coverage for health related social needs.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1212/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065024,"bill_number":"HB1213","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Elimination of sales tax on household utility use.","description":"Elimination of sales tax on household utility use. Provides that a power subsidiary or a person engaged as a public utility is not a retail merchant making a retail transaction when the subsidiary or person furnishes or sells electrical energy, natural or artificial gas, water, steam, or steam heating service to a person for domestic consumption.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1213/2026","subjects":["finance","energy","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065091,"bill_number":"HB1214","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Arrest power.","description":"Arrest power. Provides that an investigator appointed by a prosecuting attorney has the same police powers within the state if the investigator was previously employed as a law enforcement officer or a federal enforcement officer for at least five years.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1214/2026","subjects":["public_safety","energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065141,"bill_number":"HB1215","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Regulation of interchange fees.","description":"Regulation of interchange fees. Prohibits a payment card network from taking certain actions with respect to electronic payment transactions. Prohibits a payment card network from establishing, putting forward, or implementing a fee schedule that the payment card network knows or reasonably should know has been used by at least one issuer other than the payment card network to determine the amount of an interchange fee received or charged with respect to a charitable contribution, unless the interchange fee does not exceed certain amounts. Provides that a person that alleges damages arising from a payment card network's violation of certain provisions has a cause of action against the payment card network.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1215/2026","subjects":["it","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065123,"bill_number":"HB1216","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Hyperbaric oxygen treatment program.","description":"Hyperbaric oxygen treatment program. Requires the Indiana department of veterans' affairs to establish and administer a hyperbaric oxygen treatment program (program) to make grants to certain providers to provide diagnostic testing and hyperbaric oxygen treatment to qualified service members. Establishes program requirements. Requires the Indiana department of health to: (1) issue a request for proposals to offer treatment under the program; and (2) adopt rules to implement these provisions, including rules concerning program eligibility, treatment plan requirements, criteria for approving payments for treatment, and confidentiality. Provides that funding for the program is paid from the military family relief fund. Makes conforming amendments related to the sunset of the hyperbaric oxygen treatment pilot program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1216/2026","subjects":["veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065129,"bill_number":"HB1217","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-21","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Regulation of stablecoin.","description":"Regulation of stablecoin. Prohibits a permitted payment stablecoin issuer or foreign payment stablecoin issuer from: (1) paying interest or any other type of yield; or (2) providing any other economic benefit; to a person in connection with the person's holding, use, or retention of a payment stablecoin.  Provides that: (1) a payment stablecoin may be issued in Indiana only by a licensed payment stablecoin issuer; and (2) beginning July 1, 2028, subject to specified exceptions, a digital asset service provider may not offer or sell a payment stablecoin in Indiana that is not issued by a licensed payment stablecoin issuer. Requires the department of financial institutions (department) to: (1) administer licensure of persons to act as payment stablecoin issuers; and (2) regulate and supervise licensed payment stablecoin issuers. Establishes requirements for licensure as a payment stablecoin issuer and a process by which an applicant for licensure may appeal denial of the applicant's application. Imposes reporting requirements for licensed payment stablecoin issuers. Specifies powers of the department in regulating and supervising licensed payment stablecoin issuers. Specifies civil and criminal penalties for violations. Provides for priority of claims in an insolvency action regarding a licensed payment stablecoin issuer.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1217/2026","subjects":["it","public_safety","energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065071,"bill_number":"HB1218","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Straight ticket voting.","description":"Straight ticket voting. Removes a voter's option to vote for all candidates of a political party or an independent ticket at one time (straight ticket voting) in a general or municipal election. Repeals superseded statutes relating to straight ticket voting.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1218/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065042,"bill_number":"HB1219","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prekindergarten program enrollment.","description":"Prekindergarten program enrollment. Amends the definition of \"eligible child\" for purposes of the prekindergarten program (program). Removes provisions regarding the program that require: (1) the office of the secretary of family and social services to determine the number of eligible children who will participate in the program; and (2) a percentage of matching funds from other sources. Establishes the prekindergarten expansion grant fund to provide grants to potential eligible providers and existing eligible providers. Makes a continuous appropriation to the prekindergarten program fund from the state general fund in an amount sufficient to carry out the purposes of the fund. Makes an appropriation to the prekindergarten expansion grant fund from the state general fund. Repeals certain provisions regarding the definitions of \"eligible child\", \"extended enrollment period\", \"limited eligibility child\", \"priority enrollment period\", \"child care employee\", and \"child of a child care employee\". Repeals or removes provisions regarding prekindergarten vouchers for limited eligibility children and children of child care employees. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1219/2026","subjects":["education","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065012,"bill_number":"HB1220","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prohibition on declawing cats.","description":"Prohibition on declawing cats. Prohibits a person from declawing cats in Indiana.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1220/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065090,"bill_number":"HB1221","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Antique firearms.","description":"Antique firearms. Provides that certain requirements regarding the sale, rental, trade, or transfer of a handgun do not apply to an item defined as an antique firearm.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1221/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065038,"bill_number":"HB1222","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Regulation of dams.","description":"Regulation of dams. Exempts retention ponds from dam regulations.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1222/2026","subjects":["water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065132,"bill_number":"HB1223","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Crimes against law enforcement.","description":"Crimes against law enforcement. Makes a person who commits an offense that results in serious bodily injury or death to a law enforcement officer a sex or violent offender. Prohibits a court from considering time spent by the defendant in pretrial detention or home detention or on work release when determining the sentence for a crime that resulted in serious bodily injury or death to a law enforcement officer. Makes it a sentencing aggravator if an offense results in serious bodily injury or death to a law enforcement officer. Provides that a person charged with an offense that resulted in serious bodily injury or death to a law enforcement officer may only be released on cash bail.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1223/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065052,"bill_number":"HB1224","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system.","description":"Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system. Requires the Indiana department of health (department) to establish an Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system (IVAERS) for reporting the occurrence of adverse events relating to childhood vaccines. Provides that IVAERS must enable a health care provider to report the occurrence of an adverse event experienced by a child residing in Indiana who is under the care of the health care provider. Requires the department to create a searchable Internet data base for publishing information reported through IVAERS. Provides that the health information of a particular individual is confidential. Specifies the requirements for releasing health information of a particular individual and who may receive the information. Provides that a person who knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly discloses confidential information received through IVAERS in violation of the statute commits a Class A misdemeanor. Requires the department to adopt certain rules concerning IVAERS. Makes an appropriation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1224/2026","subjects":["it","health","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065171,"bill_number":"HB1225","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Certified technology parks.","description":"Certified technology parks. Provides that if a Level 2 certified technology park (park): (1) has reached the limit of deposits for a Level 2 park; (2) maintains its certification; and (3) is located within a qualified military base enhancement area; the park shall become a Level 3 park upon reaching its Level 2 deposit limit. Provides that a Level 3 park may receive an additional annual incremental income tax deposit of up to $250,000.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1225/2026","subjects":["it","finance","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065014,"bill_number":"HB1226","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Public purchasing from Indiana businesses.","description":"Public purchasing from Indiana businesses. Provides a price preference to a business that is not an Indiana business but offers to provide supplies manufactured, assembled, or produced in Indiana. Provides that an Indiana business that offers to provide supplies manufactured, assembled, or produced in Indiana is eligible for an additional price preference for a contract awarded by a state agency. (Under current law, the additional price preference applies only when two or more equal bids are submitted.) Provides a 25% price preference for the purchase of flags that are manufactured in the United States.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1226/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065064,"bill_number":"HB1227","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Designation of gold and silver as legal tender.","description":"Designation of gold and silver as legal tender. Requires the treasurer of state (treasurer) to designate one or more established bullion depositories to provide a secure location for the storage of bullion by Indiana consumers. Requires the treasurer to engage an electronic payment system to oversee transactional and administrative procedures on behalf of consumers holding bullion depository accounts in a designated bullion depository. Provides that a consumer may establish a bullion depository account with a designated bullion depository by entering into a depository agreement with the bullion depository. Provides that a designated bullion depository qualifies as a state depository and is eligible to receive public funds of: (1) the state; or (2) a political subdivision; on deposit. Provides that each designated bullion depository must be audited by an independent third party auditor on an annual basis. Requires the treasurer to provide to the members of the general assembly on an annual basis a report concerning the operations and financial status of each designated bullion depository. Provides that the treasurer shall: (1) adopt guidelines; (2) designate one or more bullion depositories; and (3) engage an electronic payment system; not later than December 31, 2027. Provides that bullion is not subject to assessment and taxation under Indiana's property tax statute. Provides that the exchange of one type or form of legal tender for another type or form of legal tender is exempt from the state gross retail tax. Provides that the purchase, sale, or exchange of any type of specie is exempt from the state gross retail tax. Provides that specie is recognized as legal tender in Indiana. Provides that except as otherwise specifically provided by law or contract, a person may not compel any other person to tender or accept specie as legal tender. Provides that a prevailing party in an action for breach of any contract provision that expressly designates a type or form of specie as legal tender is entitled to specific performance of the contract provision.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1227/2026","subjects":["it","finance","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065182,"bill_number":"HB1228","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Judicial immunity concerning electronic monitoring.","description":"Judicial immunity concerning electronic monitoring. Adds judges to the list of persons immune from civil liability for certain acts or omissions that occur in connection with the statute establishing electronic monitoring standards. (Current law provides that immunity does not apply to gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.)","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1228/2026","subjects":["it","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065029,"bill_number":"HB1229","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"International money wiring fee.","description":"International money wiring fee. Requires a money transmitter (entities licensed under the Money Transmission Modernization Act) to collect and remit an international money wiring fee from senders of a money transmission to a location outside of the United States. Allows a money transmitter to retain a collection allowance from the fee amounts remitted. Provides an income tax credit to individuals who are a citizen or national of the United States, or an alien who has lawful permanent resident status or conditional permanent resident status, and paid an international money wiring fee during the taxable year. Renames the community services quality assurance fund the community based services fund (fund). Requires 20% of the revenue from the international money wiring fee to be deposited in the state general fund and 80% of the revenue to be deposited in the fund to be used to fund the family supports Medicaid waiver and community integration habilitation Medicaid waiver programs, including applied behavior analysis, in order to reduce the wait list and make additional waiver slots available under these two programs. Provides that, of the money in the fund for that purpose, 50% is subject to review by the budget committee before being expended and the remaining 50% may be used any time following the deposit of the money in the fund.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1229/2026","subjects":["health","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065050,"bill_number":"HB1230","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Professional licensing agency.","description":"Professional licensing agency. Provides that a state agency must determine if an alleged violator has substantially corrected the violation and notify an alleged violator whether the alleged violator is in substantial compliance with a state rule or state statute not more than 90 days after certain occurrences (current law provides for 30 days). Adds certification language for purposes of renewals. Allows certain boards to assess different fines for individuals and businesses for purposes of disciplinary sanctions. Makes various changes to the following boards: (1) The state board of cosmetology and barber examiners. (2) The committee of hearing aid dealer examiners. (3) The respiratory care committee. Provides that certain persons may not own an interest in an appraisal management company. Repeals the Indiana Code chapter relating to the professional licensing agency's duties and merges the agency's duties in another existing Indiana Code chapter.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1230/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":["Cosmetology And Barber Examiners"]},{"bill_id":2065204,"bill_number":"HB1231","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Battery recycling.","description":"Battery recycling. Provides that a retailer may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale a covered battery or battery containing product unless: (1) the producer joins a battery stewardship organization; and (2) the battery is approved under a battery stewardship plan. Provides that a battery stewardship organization shall submit a battery stewardship plan (plan) to the Indiana department of environmental management (department) for approval. Sets out certain requirements with respect to a plan. Establishes the battery stewardship fund to cover the department's expenses in administering this act. Requires the department to publish certain information regarding battery recycling on the department's website. Provides that a battery stewardship organization may recover, under certain circumstances, all costs associated with collecting a covered battery from the producer. Allows fee based and nonfee based collection and recycling programs to operate under certain conditions. Prohibits a person from improperly recycling a covered battery. Defines certain terms. Provides that a producer and battery stewardship organization are exempt from state antitrust law with respect to planning, reporting, or operating a battery stewardship program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1231/2026","subjects":["environment","trade"],"agencies":["Environmental Management"]},{"bill_id":2065122,"bill_number":"HB1232","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Schools, funding, and religion.","description":"Schools, funding, and religion. Requires a public school, including a charter school, to teach the Bible as literature. Prohibits a governmental entity from denying benefits to any person on the basis of: (1) Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana; (2) separation of church and state; or (3) the establishment clause; and establishes certain exceptions. Permits a person adversely affected by a violation to file a civil action against the governmental entity. Authorizes a: (1) prevailing plaintiff in a suit brought against a governmental entity; and (2) prevailing party, in a suit brought by a governmental entity; to obtain court costs and reasonable attorney's fees.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1232/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065089,"bill_number":"HB1233","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Masking offenses.","description":"Masking offenses. Makes wearing a mask at a public assembly a Class C misdemeanor, and increases the penalty to a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense. Increases the penalty for rioting and disorderly conduct to a Level 6 felony if the offense is committed while wearing a mask.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1233/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065039,"bill_number":"HB1235","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Video gaming terminals.","description":"Video gaming terminals. Authorizes wagering on video gaming terminals in certain establishments. Establishes a licensing structure for participants in video gaming. Imposes a video gaming wagering tax of 30% of adjusted gross receipts.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1235/2026","subjects":["finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065081,"bill_number":"HB1236","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Fire prevention and suppression equipment.","description":"Fire prevention and suppression equipment. Establishes a business license and technician license with respect to fire suppression equipment professionals. Bestows certain powers, duties, and rulemaking authority upon the board of firefighting personnel standards and education (board). Provides that the board may take disciplinary action if certain conditions are met. Provides that certain actions with respect to the licensure of fire suppression equipment professionals are a Class B misdemeanor. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1236/2026","subjects":["education","energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065197,"bill_number":"HB1237","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Use of opioid settlement funds.","description":"Use of opioid settlement funds. Provides that distributions to the local abatement opioid settlement account to cities, counties, and towns may be used for the procurement of mobile radio equipment by a city, county, or town for use by first responders, in addition to programs of treatment, prevention, and care that are best practices as defined or required by a settlement document or court order under current law.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1237/2026","subjects":["health","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065117,"bill_number":"HB1238","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Assessment of homesteads.","description":"Assessment of homesteads. Provides that, beginning with the January 1, 2027, assessment date, the assessed value of real property that qualifies as a homestead shall only be adjusted upon the sale, devise, descent, or conveyance of the real property. Provides that the assessed value of such real property may not be adjusted before the sale, devise, descent, or conveyance of the real property unless requested by the owner of the real property.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1238/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065195,"bill_number":"HB1239","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"PFAS water safety standards.","description":"PFAS water safety standards. Requires the Indiana department of health (state department) to establish state maximum contaminant levels for PFAS in water provided by public water systems. Provides that maximum contaminant levels established by the state department: (1) must be protective of public health, including the health of vulnerable subpopulations; and (2) may not be less stringent than any maximum contaminant level or health advisory promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1239/2026","subjects":["health","environment","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065035,"bill_number":"HB1240","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Dissolution of human remains.","description":"Dissolution of human remains. Amends the definition of cremation to include alkaline hydrolysis as a means for the dissolution of human remains. Requires the state board of funeral and cemetery service to adopt rules governing the operation of alkaline hydrolysis facilities. Adds alkaline hydrolysis to statutes that allow for burial or cremation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1240/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065196,"bill_number":"HB1241","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Roth IRA rollover of 529 account balance.","description":"Roth IRA rollover of 529 account balance. Designates as a qualified withdrawal for Indiana529 plan (529 plan) purposes a withdrawal of funds from the 529 plan in order to make a contribution to a Roth IRA, pursuant and subject to the limitations of the federal SECURE 2.0 Act. Requires the Indiana education savings authority to coordinate with the treasurer of state in the administration of contributions to 529 plans.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1241/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065155,"bill_number":"HB1242","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Education reports.","description":"Education reports. Requires the department of education to: (1) prepare a report compiling certain statewide data on school corporations and charter schools; and (2) submit the report to the legislative council and the interim study committee on education. Requires the department of local government finance, in consultation with the department of education, to conduct a study of the disparities in per student operational funding amounts in school corporations, and submit the report to the legislative council and the state budget committee.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1242/2026","subjects":["education","finance","trade"],"agencies":["Local Government Finance"]},{"bill_id":2065136,"bill_number":"HB1243","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prepayment of assessment installments.","description":"Prepayment of assessment installments. Revises a provision of the municipal Barrett Law to: (1) require a municipal works board to establish a policy to permit an owner of real property in the municipality that has filed a waiver to pay the property owner's assessments in deferred installments to prepay the property owner's assessment; and (2) specify that the policy must allow such a property owner to pay the assessment in full at any time, including within the year in which the waiver is filed to pay assessments in deferred installments, while retaining the provision in current law for payment in full at any time after the expiration of the first year after the filing of the waiver.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1243/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065011,"bill_number":"HB1244","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tax increment financing.","description":"Tax increment financing. Provides that 10% of the excess property tax proceeds collected in an allocation area must be allocated among school corporations, libraries, and taxing units that provide police services, fire protection, emergency medical service, or public safety services in the allocation area.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1244/2026","subjects":["health","education","public_safety","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065018,"bill_number":"HB1245","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"IURC study of data centers.","description":"IURC study of data centers. Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to conduct a study to evaluate the effect of new and additional electricity demand from data centers and large load customers on: (1) the costs incurred by energy utilities to meet that demand; and (2) retail electric rates for all customer classes of energy utilities. Sets forth specific topics that the IURC must evaluate as part of the study. Requires the IURC to include in its 2026 annual report the commission's findings with respect to the topics evaluated in the study.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1245/2026","subjects":["energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065074,"bill_number":"HB1246","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Financial literacy education.","description":"Financial literacy education. Requires a person who is at least 18 years of age and is a member of a family that receives TANF or SNAP benefits to complete a course of instruction on financial literacy that is established by the department of education (department). Requires the department to establish and administer a course of instruction on financial literacy. Requires the department to submit an annual report to the executive director of the legislative services agency for distribution to the members of the general assembly that contains certain information regarding the course of instruction on financial literacy.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1246/2026","subjects":["education","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065048,"bill_number":"HB1247","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Underground utility facilities.","description":"Underground utility facilities. Amends Indiana's 811 law, which requires the location and marking of underground utility facilities (facilities) before planned excavation or demolition projects, to provide that if the operator of a facility (operator) fails to: (1) provide to the person responsible for an excavation or demolition (excavator) required information as to the location of the operator's facilities; or (2) provide to the association known as the Indiana Underground Plant Protection Service (association) an electronic positive response indicating that the operator either has provided the required notice to the excavator or has no facilities in the location of the proposed project; within the time specified in the law, the excavator may engage the services of a third party utility locator (locator) to determine whether the operator has underground facilities in the location of the proposed project and, if applicable, provide the marking information for those facilities. Provides that an excavator that elects to engage the services of a locator must: (1) select a locator that is authorized by the operator to act on the operator's behalf; and (2) notify the association of the locator's completion of the services for which the locator was engaged, along with the amount paid by the excavator to the locator for those services. Requires the operator on whose behalf the services were performed to submit to the excavator payment in an amount equal to three times the amount paid by the excavator for the services. Provides that not later than June 1, 2026, each operator subject to the 811 law must provide to the association a notice that authorizes one or more locators to act on the operator's behalf for purposes of these provisions. Provides that upon receiving the required notices, the association shall compile a listing of the authorized locators for each operator. Provides that after June 30, 2026, upon receiving a notice of a planned project, the association shall immediately provide the listing to the person that submitted the notice. Requires the association to develop and adopt policies and procedures to implement these provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1247/2026","subjects":["it","energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065206,"bill_number":"HB1248","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Advanced DNA testing for cold cases.","description":"Advanced DNA testing for cold cases. Establishes a process concerning eligibility for advanced DNA testing for cold cases.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1248/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065174,"bill_number":"HB1249","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various criminal law matters.","description":"Various criminal law matters. Provides that if a person has one prior OWI conviction, the court shall order that the person be imprisoned for at least 10 days or perform community service, and if a person has two prior OWI convictions, the court shall order that the person be imprisoned for at least 20 days or perform community service. Provides that a person receives good time credit while serving a sentence imposed under this statute (under current law, a person does not receive good time credit). Provides that this statute does not increase the maximum sentence for the offense as provided by either IC 35-50-2 or IC 35-50-3. Specifies that \"vehicle\", for purposes of the crime of operating while intoxicated, includes a watercraft, and repeals the separate crime of operating a motorboat while intoxicated. Provides that an initial hearing may be waived and allows a person to apply for a specialized driving privilege after an initial hearing. Adds operating while intoxicated due to use of a controlled substance to the habitual traffic violator statute. Requires a law enforcement officer to offer a chemical test that includes a blood test to any person who the officer has reason to believe operated a vehicle that was involved in a fatal accident. Specifies that ignition interlock devices may only be used when the underlying offense is operating while intoxicated resulting from the use of alcohol. Specifies that certain provisions do not prevent an otherwise eligible individual from applying for a specialized driving privilege after the initial hearing. Increases the penalty for battery on certain health care employees and school employees. Specifies that the enhancement for battery committed against a department of child services (DCS) employee applies only to those DCS employees whose responsibilities include personally supervising a child or parent, personally providing services to a child or parent, or personally interviewing a child or parent as part of an investigation. Requires the employer of a health care or school employee who is the victim of battery to make a semiannual report to the department of labor concerning workplace batteries. Provides that certain uses of a drone constitute remote aerial harassment. Specifies that a child charged with dangerous possession of a firearm may be tried by a juvenile court under certain circumstances. Makes dangerous possession of a firearm a Level 5 felony if the child: (1) has a prior conviction for unlawful carrying of a handgun; or (2) possesses the firearm on school property, within 500 feet of a school, or on a school bus. Specifies that certain individuals may not be subject to a county residency requirement, including a public defender (except for the chief public defender), court personnel, and a deputy prosecuting attorney. Prohibits the release of personally identifying information concerning a railroad crew in a public report concerning a railroad fatality. Repeals provisions that require: (1) the department of education to maintain a public data base concerning public school employees who were physically injured on the job by students; and (2) each public school to provide to the department of education information concerning certain public school employees physically injured on the job by a student.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1249/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing","public_safety","environment","transportation","labor","cannabis","water","trade"],"agencies":["Child Services"]},{"bill_id":2065180,"bill_number":"HB1250","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Public safety procedures.","description":"Public safety procedures. Requires the department of correction to electronically notify, at least seven days in advance, the: (1) county sheriff; (2) prosecuting attorney; and (3) chief of police; of the county or municipality into which the department will release a serious violent felon, including a juvenile adjudicated for an act that would be a serious violent felony, and of the county or municipality where the serious violent felon or juvenile committed the offense. Requires the department of correction to notify a registered victim through the department's automated victim notification system.  Requires: (1) a court; and (2) the prosecuting attorney or the prosecuting attorney's victim assistance program; to notify a victim of the automated victim assistance notification program, and provides that a victim has the right to be informed, upon request, about the progress of the criminal case involving the victim. Requires that, before hiring a person as a law enforcement officer, a law enforcement hiring department or agency shall request from prior law enforcement employers all documents relating to disciplinary action or internal investigations that involve the person. (Under current law, a hiring agency must request all findings and orders).","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1250/2026","subjects":["it","housing","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065078,"bill_number":"HB1251","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-02-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Emergency ambulance services.","description":"Emergency ambulance services. Specifies that emergency medical services, including emergency ambulance services, are essential services in Indiana. Specifies that the provision of emergency medical services is an essential purpose of political subdivisions. Requires the county commissioners of each county to: (1) identify areas that are unserved by emergency ambulance services; and (2) provide emergency ambulance services to those areas by establishing a county emergency ambulance service, contracting with a public, private, or nonprofit provider of emergency ambulance services, or by any other available means. Allows a governing body to opt out of the requirement to provide emergency ambulance services to unserved areas in certain cases. Provides that a county governing body that opts out of the provision of emergency ambulance services is immune from civil liability for personal injury or death resulting from a lack of emergency ambulance services in an area of the county.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1251/2026","subjects":["health","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065106,"bill_number":"HB1252","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Broker companies.","description":"Broker companies. Requires a broker company who refers a client or customer to another broker company to disclose if the broker company may be compensated for referring the client or customer.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1252/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065191,"bill_number":"HB1253","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various crimes and child protection.","description":"Various crimes and child protection. Adds family case managers to the list of individuals who are designated as Indiana first responders. Clarifies that a court order concerning certain sex offender registration requirements may only be granted if a petition is filed under the provision governing certain retroactive application of law. Specifies that, if a petition to determine if a person should be considered a sexually violent predator or an offender against children has been filed, notice must be sent to certain parties. Separates the offenses of voyeurism, public voyeurism, and aerial voyeurism into two sections of the Indiana Code. Removes, from the crime of public voyeurism, the required element that the individual has the intent to peep at the person being recorded, and changes the name of the crime to \"digital voyeurism\". Provides that a serious sex offender who knowingly or intentionally approaches or communicates with a child in a public park commits a Level 6 felony.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1253/2026","subjects":["it","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065069,"bill_number":"HB1254","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various dental matters; respiratory care.","description":"Various dental matters; respiratory care. Amends the educational requirements for dental hygienists. Amends the requirements for administration of nitrous oxide by a dental hygienist. Allows the state board of dentistry to establish additional requirements for an applicant who has failed the licensure examination at least three times. Amends the licensure and temporary permit requirements for respiratory care practitioners.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1254/2026","subjects":["health","education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065187,"bill_number":"HB1255","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Presumption of continuation of life.","description":"Presumption of continuation of life. Establishes a presumption that the continuation of life is in a minor's best interests. Requires a health care provider to obtain the consent of each parent or each legal guardian before issuing a do not resuscitate order or otherwise withholding or withdrawing treatment to allow the natural death of a minor. Prohibits a health care provider from interfering with the transfer of a minor patient at the request of a parent or guardian or otherwise preventing life saving measures before or during the transfer. States that a court does not have jurisdiction to withdraw life sustaining treatment for a minor.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1255/2026","subjects":["health","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065147,"bill_number":"HB1256","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Campaign finance reports of local candidates.","description":"Campaign finance reports of local candidates. Requires the circuit court clerk of each county to place a copy of each campaign finance report, notice, or other instrument filed with the county election board on the circuit court clerk's or county election board's website in portable document format. Allows certain covered persons to submit a written request to a county, municipality, or township to restrict access to the covered person's home address in a confidential document. Requires a county, municipality, or township to establish certain processes to prevent a member of the public from gaining access to the home address of a covered person.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1256/2026","subjects":["elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065095,"bill_number":"HB1257","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Child services matters.","description":"Child services matters. Adds four members to the statewide child fatality review committee, one of whom is appointed by each of the following: (1) The speaker of the house of representatives. (2) The president pro tempore of the senate. (3) The minority leader of the house of representatives. (4) The minority leader of the senate. Provides that a court may grant postadoption contact privileges to the birth parent of a child if the child is at least one year of age (rather than two years of age, under current law). Adds information that must be included in the annual report of the department of child services (department) concerning child fatalities or near fatalities in Indiana that are the result of child abuse or neglect. Requires the department to promptly disclose to the public certain information regarding child fatalities or near fatalities. Allows the department, upon request, to provide additional information regarding cases of child fatalities or near fatalities subject to certain requirements. Provides that the obligation of the department to conduct a detailed assessment of a report of known or suspected child abuse or neglect does not apply if the report is screened out and referred to a law enforcement agency. Provides that the department: (1) shall disclose information regarding reported child abuse or neglect to a member of the United States Congress representing Indiana or a member of the Indiana general assembly (state legislator) upon request of the state legislator; (2) may release information to the news media to confirm, clarify, correct, or supplement information concerning reported child abuse or neglect that has been made public by a source other than the department; and (3) shall, upon request by the news media, report to the news media specified information regarding the death of a child whose death is suspected to be the result of child abuse or neglect. Provides that if the information disclosed or released by the department includes a record that is redacted to exclude specified information, the record is not confidential. Provides that the department may provide unredacted reports or material to: (1) a service provider that requires access to the unredacted reports or material to assess whether the service provider's services are suitable for the child; and (2) the attorney general or a prosecutor for purposes of a criminal investigation by the attorney general or prosecutor. Provides that the statutory limit on the department's provision of services to a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is the subject of a petition alleging the child to be a child in need of services (CHINS) applies: (1) regardless of whether the child has been removed from the home of the parent, guardian, or custodian; (2) regardless of whether the services are provided at the direction of a court or at the direction of the department; and (3) beginning on the date on which the CHINS petition is filed. Makes technical and conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1257/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":["Child Services"]},{"bill_id":2065100,"bill_number":"HB1258","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Crimes of violence.","description":"Crimes of violence. Revises and consolidates the definition of \"crime of violence\". Amends the definition of violent offender to mean a person who is convicted of an offense or attempted offense that is a crime of violence or a person who is charged with an offense or attempted offense that is a crime of violence. Amends the definition of \"violent arrestee\" to mean a person arrested for or charged with a crime of violence that is a Level 1 felony, Level 2 felony, Level 3 felony, Level 4 felony, or a Level 5 felony. Removes provisions concerning repeat violent arrestees. Amends the definition of \"violent criminal\" to mean a person convicted of a crime of violence. Adds: (1) dangerous possession of a firearm with two priors; and (2) unlawful carrying of a handgun with two priors; to the crimes of violence list. Makes a technical correction and conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1258/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065137,"bill_number":"HB1259","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local income tax.","description":"Local income tax. Requires state agencies and political subdivisions to cooperate with the state GIS officer in preparing a statewide base map. Requires a county auditor to submit certain information to the state GIS officer concerning an annexation or disannexation. Specifies procedures for the imposition of local income taxes and distribution of local income tax revenue. Provides that, for counties or municipalities that fail to adopt an ordinance to renew an existing expenditure tax rate, the expenditure tax rate for the county or municipality shall be the minimum tax rate necessary for existing debt service. Allows an adopting body to adopt a tax rate to provide distributions to school corporations as a component of the tax rate for general purpose revenue. Provides that a county's total expenditure tax rate expires on December 31, 2029, and on December 31 of every fourth calendar year thereafter. Provides that the county may determine an allocation method for revenue raised from a tax rate for fire protection or emergency medical services. Provides that the county and certain township fire departments must receive an allocation of revenue raised from a tax rate for fire protection or emergency medical services. Authorizes cities and towns with a population of at least 3,500 that have adopted a 1.2% municipal local income tax rate to impose an additional local income tax rate that does not exceed the county's unused rate capacity for general purpose revenue, if any. Provides a formula for the distribution of revenue from the local income tax rate imposed by a county for certain small cities and towns. Specifies procedures for determining population for purposes of a municipal local income tax rate. Requires each county and municipality to report to the department of local government finance the total amount of the county's or municipality's debt service obligations payable from local income tax revenues that will be due in the ensuing year.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1259/2026","subjects":["health","education","finance","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065184,"bill_number":"HB1260","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various insurance matters.","description":"Various insurance matters. Requires a person or entity to furnish information relating to a fraudulent insurance act to the department of insurance or the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Provides that a person or entity is not subject to civil or criminal liability for filing a report or furnishing other information concerning a fraudulent insurance act under certain circumstances. Sets forth a fee schedule for providing unrestricted data to certain entities from the all payer claims data base. Makes various changes to: (1) provisions relating to notice of material change; and (2) the property and casualty insurance and guaranty association law. Allows the insurance commissioner to waive the requirements for a merger or consolidation of a farm mutual insurance company with any other company if an emergency event occurs. Provides that a policy of insurance that provides coverage in excess of any liability relating to a self-insured retention amount shall be considered a commercial umbrella or excess liability policy under the uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage provision. Requires an insurer of automobile insurance policies to mail a notice of nonrenewal at least 30 days before the expiration of the policy. Requires an insurer of residential policies to: (1) mail a notice of nonrenewal at least 60 days before the expiration of the policy; and (2) take certain actions when the insurer utilizes aerial images as part of the insurer's coverage determinations. Allows co-owners of a condominium that meets certain conditions to obtain property and casualty insurance coverage for the condominium units by purchasing a master policy or by allowing each co-owner to purchase insurance on an individual basis. Requires an insurer and a health maintenance organization to provide an insurance producer with access to a complete list of providers who have entered into a reimbursement agreement with the insurer or health maintenance organization. Provides that the prohibition on denying, conditioning, or discriminating in the pricing of Medicare supplement policies for certain applicants applies to an applicant who submits an application during the period beginning one month before the applicant's birthday and ending one month after the applicant's birthday. Provides that the insurance commissioner has the authority to take certain actions relating to the creation, implementation, or operation of a health benefit exchange. Requires the department of insurance to annually report information to the budget committee regarding the fee schedule for providing unrestricted data that is being added in the bill.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1260/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","finance","agriculture","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065178,"bill_number":"HB1261","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Use of aerial photography.","description":"Use of aerial photography. Requires an insurer that provides property insurance coverage to a named insured to take certain actions when the insurer uses aerial images to aid in its determination to not renew property insurance coverage for a named insured.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1261/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065060,"bill_number":"HB1262","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Report on civics education.","description":"Report on civics education. Requires, not later than October 1, 2026, the department of education to: (1) prepare a report that includes information and recommendations, as applicable, regarding certain civics curriculum, initiatives, and assessments and certain longitudinal methodologies; and (2) submit the report to the general assembly. Establishes requirements regarding the preparation of the report.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1262/2026","subjects":["education","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065562,"bill_number":"HB1263","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Use of SNAP benefits.","description":"Use of SNAP benefits. Prohibits Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits recipients from using SNAP benefits to purchase accessory foods, including: (1) energy drinks; (2) sweetened beverages; (3) soft drinks; (4) corn or potato chips; and (5) prepared desserts, including cookies, candy, ice cream, cakes, and pies. Allows SNAP recipients to purchase hot prepared chicken that is not fried or breaded using SNAP benefits. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a waiver or authorization to implement the prohibition and allowance if a waiver or authorization from a federal agency is required, and allows a delay in implementation until the waiver or authorization is received. Requires the Indiana department of health (department) to include promotion of healthy eating as part of the department's promotion of health and wellness activities, including by developing and making available materials that provide guidance on purchasing and preparing healthy foods on a limited budget.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1263/2026","subjects":["finance","energy","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065563,"bill_number":"HB1264","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Child fatality information.","description":"Child fatality information. Provides that the department of child services (department) shall disclose to the public certain information regarding child fatalities or near fatalities. Provides that, upon request, the department may provide additional information regarding cases of child fatalities or near fatalities subject to certain requirements. Makes technical and conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1264/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":["Child Services"]},{"bill_id":2065527,"bill_number":"HB1265","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Natural resource entrance fees.","description":"Natural resource entrance fees. Allows counties to adopt an ordinance to impose a surcharge of not more than $2 in addition to the fees charged by the department of natural resources (department) for entry into state parks and state recreation areas. Requires the department to collect the surcharge and to report and pay the surcharge to each county treasurer. Provides that the revenue collected is to be used for purposes related to first responders and infrastructure improvements. Provides that the surcharge may not be imposed on a person who holds an annual pass.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1265/2026","subjects":["environment","finance","trade"],"agencies":["Natural Resources"]},{"bill_id":2065522,"bill_number":"HB1266","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Department of education and education matters.","description":"Department of education and education matters. Makes various changes to education provisions concerning the following: (1) Creating a teaching and learning framework for the implementation of mathematics academic standards. (2) Development of a data science math pathway. (3) Submission of a report to the general assembly concerning recommendations on strategies to support academically and fiscally underperforming schools, and interventions as necessary. (4) Evaluating, approving, and publishing high quality curricular materials time lines. (5) Local board membership for a local centralized school facilities board and local student transportation board. (6) Salary differentiation regarding teachers who possess a literacy endorsement. (7) Amounts expended in participating in an interlocal agreement included in determining amounts school corporations expend on full-time teacher salaries for purposes of teacher salary minimum funding requirements. (8) Summer school program and reimbursement administration. (9) Criteria required for eligibility of a waiver for conducting four day school weeks. (10) Oversight of career and technical education program designation. (11) Uses of teacher appreciation grants. (12) The calculation of operating referendum distributions and school safety referendum distributions to charter schools with regard to virtual instruction. (13) Petitions regarding reconsidering payments of choice scholarships. (14) Membership of the board for proprietary education. (15) The effective date regarding the changes to the definition of \"eligible choice scholarship student\". (16) Career specialist permit eligibility. Provides that an emergency permit may be renewed up to two times to an individual enrolled in an alternative teacher certification program if the program provides documentation verifying the individual's good standing in the program to the department of education. Creates a new qualification option for a transition to teaching program participant who seeks to obtain a license to teach in grades 5 through 12. Removes a provision that provides that the department may not release less than 10 items per subject matter level per grade level regarding the statewide summative assessment. Removes a requirement that for a parent or student to use a career scholarship account (CSA) annual grant amount for costs related to transportation a CSA participating entity must pay a matching amount for the transportation costs. Requires each state educational institution that offers a two year graduate degree program in mental or behavioral health to evaluate the graduate degree program to determine the feasibility of providing the program in a specifically structured manner to allow full-time students to complete the program within: (1) one year; or (2) five years if the program is combined with a baccalaureate degree program. Requires the Indiana department of education to elect to participate as a covered state in the federal tax credit scholarship program for elementary and secondary education under Section 25F of the Internal Revenue Code (enacted in Public Law 119-21, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025). Makes conforming changes to the school scholarship tax credit in current law. Requires the governor and the department of workforce development, in consultation with the commission for higher education, to: (1) establish a process to identify eligible workforce training programs; (2) establish a process for institutions and programs to apply for recognition as an eligible workforce training program; (3) coordinate certain workforce training matters; and (4) require eligible workforce training programs to provide certain datasets to the department. Provides that the department of workforce development must maintain alignment with federal rules governing workforce Pell grants. Repeals certain provisions concerning postsecondary career and technical education.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1266/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing","transportation","finance","labor","elections","trade"],"agencies":["Higher Education","Workforce"]},{"bill_id":2065529,"bill_number":"HB1267","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"State board of accounts.","description":"State board of accounts. Provides that the state board of accounts is subject to applicable professional auditing standards. Requires the governor to appoint two deputy examiners, one of whom must be a certified public accountant, and the other of whom must be either a certified public accountant or an attorney licensed in Indiana.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1267/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065534,"bill_number":"HB1268","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana defense matters.","description":"Indiana defense matters. Adds one voting member to the Indiana defense task force (task force) appointed by the president pro tempore of the senate and one voting member to the task force appointed by the speaker of the house. Adds the adjutant general of the Indiana National Guard or the adjutant general's designee as a nonvoting member of the task force. Provides that, on or before May 1, 2026, and each May 1 thereafter, the task force shall submit a report to the Indiana economic development corporation's office of defense development and the budget committee. Provides that the report shall identify the task force's identified priorities for expenditures for the following state fiscal year. Provides that on or before August 1, 2027, and each August 1 thereafter, the corporation's office of defense development shall submit a report to the task force and the budget committee that details expenditures from amounts appropriated to the corporation's office of defense development for priorities identified by the task force for the previous state fiscal year. Provides that, beginning with the 2026-2027 state fiscal year, and each state fiscal year thereafter, the corporation's office of defense development shall consider and incorporate, to the extent practicable, the task force's identified priorities for expenditures when the corporation's office of defense development formulates its annual budget. Provides that the IEDC and an operating partner shall administer the federal Unmanned Aircraft System Test Site program Indiana.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1268/2026","subjects":["finance","elections","veterans","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065536,"bill_number":"HB1269","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-02-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Unlawful proposition penalties.","description":"Unlawful proposition penalties. Provides that at the time of sentencing for a person convicted of making an unlawful proposition the court may require the person to complete a prostitution offender program approved by the court. Requires a person ordered to complete a prostitution offender program to pay a fee.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1269/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065546,"bill_number":"HB1270","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Department of child services employees.","description":"Department of child services employees. Provides that salary and wage adjustments or personal service payments for the department of child services (department) that are within established salary classifications and schedules become effective when approved by the director of the department (instead of the budget agency). Specifies that the director of the department is responsible for certain duties related to individuals who are employed in the state public employee civil service in a position with the department (instead of the state personnel department).","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1270/2026","subjects":["finance","labor"],"agencies":["Child Services"]},{"bill_id":2065548,"bill_number":"HB1271","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Payment of health claims.","description":"Payment of health claims. Requires a hospital to: (1) disclose information concerning payment assistance programs; (2) post signs concerning the programs in specified locations of the hospital; and (3) make information concerning the programs available to individuals through the hospital's patient portal. Requires a hospital to make a reasonable effort to notify individuals of available payment assistance programs before beginning a collection action against the individual. Prohibits the use of downcoding in a specified manner. Prohibits a provider from using an automated process, system, or tool to submit a health benefits claim without the review of a provider or other person involved in the development of the claim for submission. Prohibits an insurer that issues a policy of accident and sickness insurance (insurer) and a health maintenance organization from retroactively reducing the reimbursement rate for any CPT code. Sets forth limitations on the time frame in which an insurer and a health maintenance organization: (1) may request repayment of an overpayment, adjust a subsequent claim, recoup a paid claim, or retroactively audit a paid claim; and (2) is required to correct a payment error to a provider. Provides that if an insurer or a health maintenance organization recoups payment from a provider due to an error in coordination of benefits, the provider may submit a claim for the same services to the appropriate insurer or health maintenance organization.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1271/2026","subjects":["it","health","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065545,"bill_number":"HB1272","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Collateral recovery services.","description":"Collateral recovery services. Renames the private investigator and security guard licensing board as the private investigator, security guard, and collateral recovery agency licensing board, and adds two additional members to the board. Establishes licensure for a collateral recovery agency. Requires a person to be licensed as a collateral recovery agency to repossess collateral, attempt to repossess collateral, hold one's self out as being in the business of repossessing collateral, or use license plate recognition. Provides certain requirements: (1) for an applicant seeking licensure as a collateral recovery agency; (2) for a licensee to maintain licensure; and (3) for a legal owner when personal effects are in or on the collateral at the time of repossession. Requires equipment used to repossess collateral to meet certain criteria. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1272/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065552,"bill_number":"HB1273","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Requirements for proxy advisors.","description":"Requirements for proxy advisors. Provides that if a proxy advisor makes a recommendation against entity management on an entity proposal or proxy proposal, or makes a default recommendation or policy concerning votes against entity management on entity proposals or proxy proposals, and the proxy advisor does not do so based on a written financial analysis, the proxy advisor shall do the following: (1) At the time the proxy advisor provides the proxy advisory services, provide a clear and conspicuous disclosure to each interest holder or any person acting on behalf of an interest holder, receiving the proxy advisory services, that: (A) identifies the services being provided by the proxy advisor; (B) identifies the recommendation at issue; and (C) states that the proxy advisor has made the recommendation without utilizing a written financial analysis regarding the impact that the recommended action would have on entity interest holders. (2) If the proxy advisor provides certain proxy advisory services, then at the time the proxy advisor provides the proxy advisory services, the proxy advisor must provide to entity management the disclosure provided to each interest holder or any person acting on behalf of an interest holder receiving the proxy advisory services. (3) For the entire time that a proxy advisor is providing proxy advisory services to an interest holder of an entity or any person acting on behalf of an interest holder of an entity, prominently display on the home page of the proxy advisor's website a statement that the proxy advisor has made a recommendation: (A) against entity management on an entity proposal or proxy proposal; and (B) without utilizing a written financial analysis regarding the impact that the recommended action would\nhave on entity interest holders. Provides that if a proxy advisor makes a recommendation against entity management on an entity proposal or proxy proposal, or makes a default recommendation or policy concerning votes against entity management on entity proposals or proxy proposals, and the proxy advisor does so based on a written financial analysis, the proxy advisor shall do the following: (1) At the time the proxy advisor provides the proxy advisory services, provide a clear and conspicuous disclosure to each interest holder or any person acting on behalf of an interest holder, receiving proxy advisory services, that: (A) identifies the services being provided by the proxy advisor; (B) identifies the recommendation at issue; (C) states that the proxy advisor utilized a written financial analysis regarding the impact that the recommended action would have on entity interest holders in making the recommendation; and (D) states that the written financial analysis is available upon request. (2) Make the written financial analysis available to an interest holder or any person acting on behalf of an interest holder, receiving the proxy advisory services within a reasonable time after an interest holder or any person acting on behalf of an interest holder, receiving the proxy advisory services requests the written financial analysis. (3) If the proxy advisor provides certain proxy advisory services, then at the time the proxy advisor provides the proxy advisory services, the proxy advisor must provide a copy of the written financial analysis to entity management. Amends the definition of \"consumer transaction\" for purposes of the deceptive consumer sales act to include the provision of a product or service to a state agency or a local agency in Indiana. Amends the definition of \"supplier\" for purposes of the deceptive consumer sales act to include an entity that provides a product or service to a state agency or a local agency in Indiana. Provides that an action that arises from a consumer transaction involving the provision of a product or service by a supplier to a state agency may be brought and enforced only by the attorney general. Provides that an action that arises from a consumer transaction involving the provision of a product or service by a supplier to a local agency may be brought and enforced only by an attorney acting on behalf of the local agency, unless the local unit of government served by the local agency requests the attorney general to bring and enforce an action on behalf of the local unit. Provides that in an action that arises from a consumer transaction involving the provision of a product or service by a supplier to a state agency or a local agency, a court may take certain actions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1273/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065551,"bill_number":"HB1274","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Insurance mandated gun free zone notices.","description":"Insurance mandated gun free zone notices. Provides that an insurer may not require an insured or prospective insured to post or display a gun free zone notice.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1274/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065519,"bill_number":"HB1275","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sale of hemp containing products.","description":"Sale of hemp containing products. Provides that a person selling certain hemp products may not permit an individual less than 21 years of age to enter the retail premises, and makes a violation a Class C infraction.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1275/2026","subjects":["agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065556,"bill_number":"HB1276","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Competitive electric generation service.","description":"Competitive electric generation service. Provides that beginning: (1) July 1, 2028, for industrial customers; (2) January 1, 2029, for commercial customers; and (3) July 1, 2029, for residential customers; a customer of an electricity supplier may elect to receive competitive electric generation service directly from a retail electric provider. Requires an electricity supplier to do the following not later than June 30, 2028: (1) Unbundle the cost components of: (A) electric generation services; and (B) electric transmission and distribution services; in the electricity supplier's tariffs for all customer classes. (2) Functionally separate all: (A) electric generation and supply services; and (B) transmission and distribution services; within the electricity supplier's operations. (3) Divest the electricity supplier's generation assets not otherwise needed to provide default electric generation service to customers within the electricity supplier's service area after the implementation of competitive electric generation service. Provides that, except for the licensing requirements for retail electric providers set forth in the bill, competitive electric generation service is not subject to regulation by the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC). Provides that the IURC shall continue to regulate: (1) default electric generation service; and (2) transmission and distribution service; provided by an electricity supplier to customers within the electricity supplier's service area. Provides that rates charged by electricity suppliers for default electric generation service must be: (1) based on market prices; and (2) subject to annual comparisons to regional averages for comparable service. Provides that not later than January 1, 2027, the IURC shall initiate a stakeholder proceeding to develop a customer education program to ensure that all retail electric customers have access to accurate information about the availability of, and options for, competitive electric generation service in advance of the applicable dates set forth in the bill by which competitive electric generation service must be available to specified customer classes. Requires the IURC to establish, not later than March 1, 2028, an online portal that enables customers to compare competitive electric generation service offered by retail electric providers. Requires the IURC to establish by rule requirements for an electricity supplier to provide to a retail electric provider historical usage data for a customer that seeks to receive competitive electric generation service from the retail electric provider. Sets forth: (1) specified billing arrangements that must be offered to customers receiving competitive electric generation service; and (2) the dates by which each arrangement must be made available. Requires the IURC to issue a general administrative order to ensure that the following are available to customers not later than December 31, 2029: (1) An expedited process for residential customers to change retail electric providers. (2) A process that allows: (A) residential customers; or (B) small commercial or industrial customers; that move from one service location to another within their electricity supplier's service area to have their competitive electric generation service transferred directly to the new location. Requires the IURC to establish by rule a licensing process for retail electric providers that seek to provide competitive electric generation service to customers in Indiana. Sets forth certain requirements that a retail electric provider must meet as a condition of receiving and maintaining a license. Authorizes the IURC to initiate an investigation to consider, and establish guidelines for, the offering by retail electric providers of additional services or programs in conjunction with the provision of competitive electric generation service. Beginning in 2029, requires the IURC to include each year in its annual report specified information concerning the provision of competitive electric generation service by retail electric providers. Requires the legislative services agency to prepare legislation for introduction in the 2028 regular session of the general assembly to make conforming amendments to: (1) Title 8 of the Indiana Code; and (2) other provisions outside of Title 8 of the Indiana Code; as necessary to implement the bill's provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1276/2026","subjects":["education","energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065520,"bill_number":"HB1277","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Health and human services matters.","description":"Health and human services matters. Amends the duties of the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) concerning Medicaid home and community based services waivers (waiver). Requires: (1) a provider of waiver services to provide certain documentation to a waiver recipient; (2) a waiver recipient to review the documentation and report errors or inconsistencies; and (3) the recipient's case manager to provide assistance to the recipient in reviewing the documentation and reporting any errors or inconsistencies. Requires certain Medicaid recipients to choose the recipient's provider of integrated health care coordination. Provides that integrated health care coordination provided by a provider of assisted living services is not duplicative of certain other services. Establishes a time frame in which the bureau of disabilities services must review and approve or deny requests for an increase in service units provided to certain individuals with a disability. Requires the office to apply to the federal government for: (1) a new Medicaid waiver to provide assisted living services; and (2) an amendment to a specific Medicaid home and community based services waiver to establish an individual cost limit of not more than the institutional cost of nursing facility services. Specifies that provisions concerning reimbursement for assisted living services for individuals who are aged and disabled and receiving services under a Medicaid waiver apply to the new assisted living Medicaid waiver. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2027, an individual is no longer a member of the covered population upon receiving nursing facility services for 100 consecutive days. Provides that on the one hundredth day, the individual is not a member of the covered population and shall receive Medicaid services under a fee for service program. Provides that a provision prohibiting the office from reducing reimbursement for home health services expires June 30, 2027. Requires the office to collaborate with certain entities to develop a new reimbursement methodology for home health services. Specifies that public notice of at least six months (rather than one year) must be provided before a health facility service reimbursement that results in a reduction in reimbursement may be changed. Amends the definition of \"bulk drug substance\" for provisions concerning drug compounding. Provides that a claim by the estate recovery unit of the office of Medicaid policy and planning (estate recovery unit) is forever barred unless the estate recovery unit files a claim in the court in which the decedent's estate is being administered not later than nine months after the date of death of the decedent.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1277/2026","subjects":["health","labor","trade"],"agencies":["Secretary Of Family And Social Services"]},{"bill_id":2065559,"bill_number":"HB1278","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Nursing matters; education programs.","description":"Nursing matters; education programs. Requires the Indiana State Nurses Association, any time there is a vacancy or expiration of a term on the board of nursing, to recommend to the governor a list of qualified nurses for appointment. (Current law requires the Indiana State Nurses Association to recommend the list when there is a vacancy on the board.) Allows an institution that has been operating an eligible nursing program for at least five years to increase the enrollment in any eligible nursing program at any rate the institution considers appropriate.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1278/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065532,"bill_number":"HB1279","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Collection of cost sharing.","description":"Collection of cost sharing. Provides that an insurer: (1) must pay a health care provider the full amount due for health care services under the health care provider's agreement with the insurer, including any cost sharing; (2) has the sole responsibility for collecting cost sharing from a covered individual; and (3) upon request of the covered individual, must collect cost sharing throughout the policy year in increments defined by the insurer. Prohibits an insurer from taking certain actions regarding the collection of cost sharing. Requires each insurer to certify to the insurance commissioner, before December 31 of each year, that the insurer has fully and completely complied with the requirements during the previous calendar year.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1279/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065535,"bill_number":"HB1280","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Social Security number search requests.","description":"Social Security number search requests. Defines \"Social Security number search request\" (search request) as a request made by a consumer to a consumer reporting agency to conduct a search of all files maintained by the consumer reporting agency to determine if the consumer's Social Security number is associated with one or more consumer credit files not associated with the consumer. Provides that after December 31, 2026, upon receiving a search request from a consumer, a consumer reporting agency shall fulfill the consumer's search request if: (1) the consumer reporting agency maintains a file on the consumer; and (2) the consumer provides proper identification and written consent for the consumer reporting agency to verify with the Social Security Administration that the consumer's Social Security number belongs to the consumer. Provides that in fulfilling a search request, a consumer reporting agency shall: (1) verify with the Social Security Administration that the Social Security number supplied by the consumer belongs to the consumer; and (2) conduct a search of all files maintained by the consumer reporting agency to determine if the consumer's Social Security number is associated with one or more files not associated with the consumer. Provides that if the search indicates that the consumer's Social Security number is associated with any files not associated with the consumer, the consumer reporting agency must provide information as to: (1) the number of such files; and (2) each person that procured a consumer report in connection with those files during the one year period immediately preceding the date of the consumer's search request. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from charging or increasing certain fees in connection with a search request.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1280/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065541,"bill_number":"HB1281","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Restrictions on lobbying for a foreign adversary.","description":"Restrictions on lobbying for a foreign adversary. Provides that a lobbyist may not: (1) register as a lobbyist for a foreign adversary client; and (2) contract as a lobbyist to represent a foreign adversary.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1281/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065544,"bill_number":"HB1282","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"College savings program.","description":"College savings program. Makes various changes to the state's Indiana529 plan to conform to Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1282/2026","subjects":["education","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065518,"bill_number":"HB1283","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Public notices.","description":"Public notices. Requires the Indiana office of technology (office) to establish a state public notice website not later than July 1, 2028. Prohibits the office from charging a fee for publishing or viewing notices. Allows a person to satisfy any notice statute by publishing notice in any of the following forms of media: (1) Newspaper, including print edition or electronic edition. (2) Locality newspaper, including print edition or electronic edition. (3) The state public notice website. (4) Political subdivision website. (5) The Hoosier State Press Association public notice website. Requires the Indiana archives and records administration (administration) to establish standards and guidelines and enter into memoranda of understanding with agencies for the transfer and preservation of public notices from the state public notice website to the administration to preserve public notices for historical purposes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1283/2026","subjects":["it","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065549,"bill_number":"HB1284","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local income taxes.","description":"Local income taxes. Provides that within a county's total expenditure rate, the county may adopt: (1) up to a 0.7% rate (instead of a 1.2% rate) for county general purpose revenue; (2) up to a 0.2% rate (instead of a 0.4% rate) for fire protection and emergency medical services; (3) up to a 0.2% rate for nonmunicipal civil taxing unit general purpose revenue; and (4) up to a 1.9% rate (instead of a 1.2% rate) for certain cities and towns that are not eligible to adopt a municipal LIT rate. Eliminates provisions that expire local income tax rates each year. Authorizes a city or town to impose a municipal LIT rate up to 1.9% (instead of 1.2%). Modifies the population threshold required for a city or town to impose a municipal LIT rate. Modifies the formula used to determine distribution amounts of revenue from a tax rate imposed for fire protection and emergency medical services.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1284/2026","subjects":["health","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065553,"bill_number":"HB1285","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Low THC hemp extract.","description":"Low THC hemp extract. Defines \"hemp\" as a cannabis plant that contains not more than 0.3% total THC. Defines \"low THC hemp extract\" as a substance that: (1) is derived from hemp; (2) does not contain more than 0.3% total THC; (3) does not contain synthetic or synthesized cannabinoids; (4) contains no other controlled substances; and (5) is not sold in a container that contains more than 0.4 milligrams of total THC. Provides that a person that manufactured low THC hemp extract before January 1, 2026, may continue to manufacture the product solely for out of state export. Prohibits the sale of products containing THC to minors, and the purchase, possession, or transport of products containing THC by minors. Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1285/2026","subjects":["agriculture","cannabis","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065538,"bill_number":"HB1286","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Military protective order.","description":"Military protective order. Specifies that a party to a protective order proceeding has a duty to inform the court of any military protective orders issued by a military commander in effect between the parties. Allows the court to consider evidence of a military protective order in effect against a respondent for the protection of the petitioner. Amends provisions concerning facially valid foreign protection orders to include certain protection orders issued by a Canadian court.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1286/2026","subjects":["public_safety","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065539,"bill_number":"HB1287","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Execution of death sentence.","description":"Execution of death sentence. Requires the warden of the state prison to select an execution team consisting of members of the general assembly who have volunteered to serve on the execution team. Prohibits a person who is not a member of the general assembly from serving on an execution team, and provides that an execution may not be carried out until the execution team is fully staffed. Specifies that the name of a member of the general assembly who: (1) volunteers to serve on an execution team; or (2) serves on an execution team; is a public record.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1287/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065547,"bill_number":"HB1288","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local government finance.","description":"Local government finance. Abolishes the assessment of tangible property after December 31, 2026, and the imposition of property taxes after December 31, 2027. Provides that a political subdivision may not issue any new bonds, notes, or warrants, or enter into any leases or obligations to be paid from property tax revenue, or that include a pledge to levy property taxes if other funds are insufficient. Provides that: (1) no property tax increment financing district or allocation area may be established, amended, or renewed; and (2) no bonds, leases, or other obligations may be issued, entered into, or extended for a property tax increment financing district or allocation area. Provides that a school corporation may impose an annual fee to replace the loss of revenue previously collected by the school corporation from the imposition of an operating referendum tax levy or school safety referendum tax levy. Prescribes procedures for the fixing and reviewing of a political subdivision's budget. Prohibits the imposition of new levies for controlled projects, operating referenda, and school safety referenda. Abolishes the offices of county assessor and township assessor. Extends the sales and use tax application to transactions involving services, except for health care or mental health services (including insurance premiums for policies covering these services) and services provided for charitable tax exempt purposes. Establishes the local revenue sharing fund (fund) into which revenue from the portion of revenue from the extended sales and use tax is to be deposited. Requires the state comptroller to distribute to taxing units the portion of all the state sales and use tax revenue attributable to services from the fund. Continually appropriates money from the fund. Requires the legislative services agency to prepare legislation for introduction in the 2027 regular session of the general assembly to make appropriate required changes in statutes. Makes corresponding changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1288/2026","subjects":["health","education","finance","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065555,"bill_number":"HB1289","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"State and local administration.","description":"State and local administration. Repeals the Hoosier alliance against drugs, the advisory committee on the oral history of the general assembly, and the Wendell L. Willkie memorial commission. Removes expired provisions located within Indiana Code sections. Limits collective bargaining with school bus drivers to the subjects allowed in collective bargaining with teachers. Provides that the prohibited subjects of collective bargaining with teachers apply to collective bargaining with school bus drivers. Makes conforming changes and technical corrections.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1289/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety","transportation","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065554,"bill_number":"HB1290","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Wage matters.","description":"Wage matters. Updates or amends certain portions of the definition of \"employee\". Provides that an employer who knowingly sells merchandise or supplies to an employee for higher than the market price commits a Class C infraction. Provides that an employer must pay each employee at least semimonthly or biweekly the amount due the employee. (Current law gives the employee the choice.) Provides that a wage assignment: (1) is not required to have a revocation provision on or after July 1, 2026; and (2) may benefit the employer under certain circumstances. Specifies that an employee may bring an action under certain wage provisions if an employer makes an improper wage deduction. Reorganizes certain minimum wage and wage claim provisions. Changes the statute of limitations with respect to certain minimum wage and wage claim provisions. Makes technical and conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1290/2026","subjects":["housing","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065537,"bill_number":"HB1291","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Self-service by wine retailer customer.","description":"Self-service by wine retailer customer. Provides that a wine retailer whose wine sales represent at least 60% of the annual gross income from the premises may allow customers to obtain sealed bottles of wine by self-service for consumption off the licensed premises.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1291/2026","subjects":["cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065550,"bill_number":"HB1292","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Automated traffic enforcement safety devices.","description":"Automated traffic enforcement safety devices. Authorizes a county or municipality to adopt and enforce an ordinance that regulates the use of an automated traffic enforcement safety device (device) to detect certain violations. Provides a civil penalty for a violation. Specifies that a civil penalty must first be applied to defray the cost of the installation, operation, and maintenance of the device. Specifies the manner in which the remaining money from the civil penalty must be distributed. Prohibits: (1) reporting a violation on a driving record; (2) using a violation to determine rates for motor vehicle insurance; (3) assessing points under the point system by the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) for a violation; and (4) reselling data collected by an agent operating a device. Requires notification to the bureau, and the suspension of the registration of a motor vehicle if a violation is not paid. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1292/2026","subjects":["it","transportation","trade"],"agencies":["Motor Vehicles"]},{"bill_id":2065557,"bill_number":"HB1293","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vulnerable road users.","description":"Vulnerable road users. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles to suspend or revoke the current driver's license or driving privileges of an individual who is convicted of a moving traffic offense that causes the death of a vulnerable road user.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1293/2026","subjects":["housing","transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065530,"bill_number":"HB1294","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Administrative rules review.","description":"Administrative rules review. Establishes the administrative rules review committee. Requires an agency to submit a rule, including an executive order, and the latest version of the regulatory analysis with any supporting documents to the office of fiscal management and analysis of the legislative services agency to estimate the fiscal impact on state and local government. Provides that if the fiscal impact is estimated to be greater than $300,000 in any two year period, the rule and supporting documents shall be provided to the administrative rules review committee for review. Provides that the rule described may not take effect unless authorized by a bill enacted by the general assembly, unless the governor certifies that an emergency exists and the rule is necessary to address the emergency. Specifies that a rule enacted to address an emergency expires after one year.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1294/2026","subjects":["finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065543,"bill_number":"HB1295","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Hospital disclosures and requirements.","description":"Hospital disclosures and requirements. Requires a hospital to: (1) inform a woman in premature labor of the hospital's capabilities of treating the born alive infant and managing a high risk pregnancy; and (2) if the hospital's capabilities interfere with the woman's care, provide this information before the woman is admitted to the hospital. Provides that if a born alive infant is transported to a hospital with an appropriate perinatal level of care, the woman must be offered an opportunity to be transported to the same hospital. Requires a local prosecuting attorney to investigate and seek criminal prosecution if the prosecuting attorney has probable cause to believe that a health care provider may have knowingly or intentionally: (1) violated the requirements concerning the treatment and care of a born alive infant or mother or the professional standards of practice through the health care provider's actions or inactions; and (2) caused harm or death to the born alive infant or mother.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1295/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065521,"bill_number":"HB1296","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Mental health services.","description":"Mental health services. Requires the secretary of family and social services to certify integrated reentry and correctional support programs. Requires the owner of a recovery residence to register with the division of mental health and addiction (division). Sets forth the requirements for registration. Requires the division to post a list of registered recovery residences on the division's public website and include certain information concerning each recovery residence. Requires the division to adopt rules concerning: (1) the issuance, revocation, and denial of a registration; and (2) any rules necessary to implement these provisions. Allows the division to contract with certain entities to administer the registration of recovery residences.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1296/2026","subjects":["health","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065523,"bill_number":"HB1297","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Water intensive facilities.","description":"Water intensive facilities. Provides that if a proposed economic development project includes proposed construction or establishment of a facility that will consume an average of at least 500,000 gallons of water per day in ordinary operation (water intensive facility), the Indiana finance authority (IFA) may not approve a bid for the project, the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) may not grant a job creation incentive for the project, and a local unit may not provide financing for the project unless the IFA, IEDC, or local unit: (1) provides notice of the proposed water intensive facility to the water utility that provides water utility service to the proposed location of the water intensive facility; (2) receives from the water utility a plan for provision of water utility service to the water intensive facility; (3) determines that the water utility's plan adequately ensures that: (A) the water utility can reliably meet both the ordinary and peak water demand of the water intensive facility; and (B) incremental costs of supplying water to the water intensive facility will be allocated to and paid by the water intensive facility; and (4) provides the water utility's plan to the local plan commission.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1297/2026","subjects":["energy","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065524,"bill_number":"HB1298","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Classification of marijuana and THC.","description":"Classification of marijuana and THC. Moves marijuana and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) from classification as schedule I controlled substances to schedule III. Makes a conforming amendment.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1298/2026","subjects":["cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065526,"bill_number":"HB1299","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Surrender of firearms for domestic violence crimes.","description":"Surrender of firearms for domestic violence crimes. Provides that a person who: (1) has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence; and (2) knowingly or intentionally possesses a firearm; commits a Class A misdemeanor. Specifies defenses. Requires a court to issue an order, upon entry of a judgment of conviction for domestic battery or a crime of domestic violence, that: (1) prohibits ownership or possession of a firearm; (2) requires the defendant to surrender: (A) any firearm owned or possessed by the defendant; and (B) any license or permit to carry a handgun (license) owned or possessed by the defendant; and (3) requires confiscation, within 72 hours, of any firearm or license owned or possessed by the defendant. Provides that a domestic batterer who knowingly or intentionally fails to surrender a certain firearm or license commits a Class A misdemeanor, enhanced to a Level 6 felony in specific instances. Provides defenses. Specifies how a confiscated firearm or license shall be returned or disposed of if a person's right to possess a firearm is restored.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1299/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065525,"bill_number":"HB1300","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Deferred retirement option plan.","description":"Deferred retirement option plan. Allows a member of the 1925 police pension fund, 1937 firefighters' pension fund, 1953 police pension fund (Indianapolis), or 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund to withdraw from the deferred retirement option plan (DROP) and make an election to enter the DROP for a second time not earlier than three years after the date the member withdraws from the DROP. Provides that a member may make an election to enter the DROP only twice in the member's lifetime.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1300/2026","subjects":["public_safety","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065528,"bill_number":"HB1301","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sentence modification.","description":"Sentence modification. Requires the department of correction to issue a certificate of eligibility for rehabilitative release (certificate) to certain convicted persons. Provides that a certificate must be issued to the following: (1) A person sentenced for a crime other than murder who is at least 60 years of age, and has served at least 20 years in the department of correction. (2) A person serving a sentence for murder who is at least 62 years of age, and has served at least 30 years in the department of correction. Allows a convicted person who has received a certificate to file a petition for sentence modification without the consent of the prosecuting attorney. Provides certain criteria that the court must consider when ruling on a petition for sentence modification. Allows a court to grant a petition for sentence modification if the court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that: (1) the convicted person is no longer a danger to public safety; (2) the convicted person has demonstrated significant rehabilitative efforts, including participation in educational, vocational, and therapeutic programs; and (3) the interest of justice supports sentence modification. Allows the state public defender to represent a convicted person on a petition for sentence modification that is based upon a certificate. Allows certain convicted persons to file a petition for sentence reduction. Requires a petition for sentence reduction to identify information related the convicted person, sentence sought to be reduced, and evidence in support of the request. Allows a court to dismiss an incomplete petition or set a hearing on a properly filed petition. Requires that notice of a hearing be served on the petitioner, convicted person, counsel, department of correction, prosecuting attorney, and the victim or witness. Requires a court to appoint a public defender to represent the convicted person. Provides that the court is to take certain factors into consideration when deciding a petition for sentence reduction. Specifies that if the evidence supports that the convicted person does not present a significant safety risk to the community, there is a rebuttable presumption that the convicted person's sentence should be reduced by at least 20%. Requires the court to issue a final appealable order with findings of fact.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1301/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":["Correction"]},{"bill_id":2065531,"bill_number":"HB1302","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various labor and safety matters.","description":"Various labor and safety matters. Repeals various provisions concerning the Indiana department of labor employer data base for youth employment. Removes provisions relating to a belt examiner certificate. Makes corresponding changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1302/2026","subjects":["labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065533,"bill_number":"HB1303","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sex crimes and child safety.","description":"Sex crimes and child safety. Specifies the sex offender reporting requirements for persons who are sex offenders or required to register in other jurisdictions. Adds \"high risk missing person\" to the definition of \"missing child\". Specifies that the silver alert program applies to missing children. Removes provisions concerning possession of child sex abuse material (CSAM) from the statute containing the offense of child exploitation, and makes a new section for CSAM offenses. Creates a new crime for distribution of CSAM, and generally conforms the sentencing enhancements for possession of CSAM, distribution of CSAM, and child exploitation. Specifies that certain restrictions on CSAM in discovery also apply in civil proceedings (under current law, they only apply in criminal proceedings). Provides a defense in specified circumstances. Removes certain duplicative provisions and makes conforming amendments and technical corrections.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1303/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065540,"bill_number":"HB1304","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Titles for vintage vehicles.","description":"Titles for vintage vehicles. Establishes a procedure for applying for bonded certificates of title for vintage motor vehicles. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles to amend the Indiana Administrative Code to make a conforming amendment. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally provides false information to receive a bonded certificate of title commits fraud involving a bonded certificate of title, a Level 6 felony.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1304/2026","subjects":["transportation","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065542,"bill_number":"HB1305","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Grain shortages, claims, and payments.","description":"Grain shortages, claims, and payments. Allows the inspector general to receive complaints regarding violations of the Indiana grain buyers and warehouse licensing and bonding law by the director of the Indiana grain buyers and warehouse licensing agency. Reorganizes the existing statute regarding grain shortages, claims, and payments. Provides for certain notices to be included in contracts for the purchase of grain. Requires an administrative law judge to award reasonable attorney's fees to the claimant in certain administrative adjudications. Makes conforming and technical corrections.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1305/2026","subjects":["public_safety","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065512,"bill_number":"HB1306","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prevention of elder abuse.","description":"Prevention of elder abuse. Precludes certain individuals who have been convicted of particular crimes from providing certain types of in-home care for compensation. Prohibits the division of aging from registering certain individuals for purposes of attendant care services.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1306/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065513,"bill_number":"HB1307","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Department of child services ombudsman.","description":"Department of child services ombudsman. Provides that the office of the department of child services ombudsman (ombudsman office) shall (rather than may, under current law): (1) employ technical experts and other employees to carry out the purposes of the ombudsman office; (2) receive, investigate, and attempt to resolve complaints alleging that the department of child services failed to protect the physical or mental health or safety of a child or failed to follow specific laws, rules, or written policies; (3) issue recommendations if: (A) the ombudsman office determines that a complaint has merit; or (B) an investigation by the ombudsman office reveals a problem with an agency, facility, or program; and (4) take other specified actions and undertake other specified initiatives. Provides that if a local child protection team is involved in the initial investigation of a matter, a different local child protection team shall (rather than may, under current law) assist the ombudsman office in the ombudsman office's investigation of the matter.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1307/2026","subjects":["health","housing","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065515,"bill_number":"HB1308","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana bright start program and fund.","description":"Indiana bright start program and fund. Establishes the Indiana bright start program (program) to support the early learning and child care needs of working families with eligible children. Provides that the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) shall develop and implement the program, and may contract with nonprofit corporations to facilitate the program. Establishes the Indiana bright start program fund. Requires the office, beginning October 1, 2027, to annually submit a report to the governor and legislative council with information concerning the program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1308/2026","subjects":["education","trade"],"agencies":["Secretary Of Family And Social Services"]},{"bill_id":2065508,"bill_number":"HB1309","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local regulation of no impact home based businesses.","description":"Local regulation of no impact home based businesses. Limits municipal regulation of a no impact home based business.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1309/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065510,"bill_number":"HB1310","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Domestic violence investigations.","description":"Domestic violence investigations. Requires a law enforcement officer to administer a lethality assessment for domestic violence incidents. Requires data to be transmitted to a local domestic violence fatality review team and the statewide domestic violence fatality review committee. Provides that a law enforcement officer responding to the scene of an alleged crime involving domestic or family violence shall use all reasonable means to prevent further violence, including administering a lethality assessment. Provides that all statements communicated in a lethality assessment are not admissible as evidence against the victim in any judicial proceeding and not discoverable in any litigation. Provides that the statewide domestic violence fatality review committee shall collect and analyze data concerning domestic violence lethality assessments. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1310/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065514,"bill_number":"HB1311","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Obtaining copies of recorded documents.","description":"Obtaining copies of recorded documents. Prohibits a person from using the person's own equipment to copy a recorded document. Specifies that a county recorder is required to charge the fees in the county recorder's statutes for copying documents.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1311/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065509,"bill_number":"HB1312","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Penalties for certain sex offenses.","description":"Penalties for certain sex offenses. Defines \"aggravated child molesting\". Provides that the state may seek either a death sentence or a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a person convicted of aggravated child molesting. Provides requirements for a jury or court to impose either a death sentence or a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1312/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065507,"bill_number":"HB1313","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Education matters.","description":"Education matters. Prohibits a school corporation, public school, governing body of a school corporation, or state educational institution from spending public funds to: (1) hire or contract with, for the purpose of lobbying a member of the general assembly, a person required to register as a lobbyist; or (2) pay a nonprofit association or organization that: (A) primarily represents school corporations, public schools, governing bodies, or state educational institutions; and (B) hires or contracts with a person required to register as a lobbyist. Provides that a taxpayer or resident of Indiana may bring a civil action for a violation of the prohibited conduct. Provides that a school corporation may not convert a scheduled instructional day to virtual instruction because of the planned or coordinated absence of teachers or other personnel for the purpose of participating in a protest, demonstration, or political advocacy event. Provides that a school corporation that violates this provision is subject to a reduction in state tuition support for each day of violation. Provides that a school employer may not deduct any dues, fee, assessment, or other sum of money from the wages or other earnings of an employee to hold for or pay to a school employee organization. Repeals provisions regarding certain deductions of dues from pay by school employers.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1313/2026","subjects":["education","finance","labor","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065506,"bill_number":"HB1314","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Postconviction proceedings.","description":"Postconviction proceedings. Establishes a procedure for postconviction relief.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1314/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065517,"bill_number":"HB1315","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-02-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Township reorganization.","description":"Township reorganization. Provides that on January 1, 2028, certain townships are dissolved and their powers, duties, offices, and property are transferred to a municipality or county. Requires a township to adopt a resolution not later than June 1, 2026, that designates the municipality or county (designated unit) that will reorganize with the township. Requires the appointment of a joint board consisting of representatives of the township and the designated unit to prepare a plan of reorganization. Provides that a township must reorganize with the county if: (1) the township does not adopt a resolution by June 1, 2026; or (2) the municipality that the township designated in its resolution does not adopt a reorganization plan by December 31, 2026.  Provides that if: (1) the designated unit is a municipality; and (2) part of a township is located outside the municipality; the municipality must establish an urban township services district and a rural township services district. Requires the county fiscal body to approve the budget, tax rate, and tax levy imposed by the municipality within the boundaries of the rural township services district. Provides that a designated unit has all of the powers of the government modernization act in reorganizing the township. Amends the government modernization act to require a political subdivision to respond to a resolution that names the political subdivision as a participant in a proposed reorganization. Provides that a township that operates a fire department is not subject to dissolution.  Provides that a township does not operate a fire department if the township is a participating unit (not a provider unit) in a fire protection territory (territory) or is within a fire protection district (district). Provides that after a reorganization: (1) the area within the boundaries of the dissolved township remains in the territory or district; and (2) the designated unit succeeds the dissolved township in its role in the territory or district.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1315/2026","subjects":["finance","energy","agriculture","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065511,"bill_number":"HB1316","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Child welfare provider protections.","description":"Child welfare provider protections. Prohibits a governmental entity from discriminating against a person in adoption and foster care matters based on the person's sincerely held religious belief. Allows a person to sue a governmental entity for discriminating against the person and allows for certain remedies. Provides that there is a two year statute of limitation for a discrimination claim.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1316/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065516,"bill_number":"HB1317","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"IURC and utility audits.","description":"IURC and utility audits. Provides that every three years, beginning in 2026, the state board of accounts shall conduct an audit of the funds, accounts, financial affairs, and all compliance related matters of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) for the state fiscal year ending in the year in which the audit is conducted. Provides that a report of an audit conducted under these provisions must be submitted to the executive director of the legislative services agency for distribution to members of the general assembly. Provides that the IURC: (1) may, with good cause, as part of an examination, inquiry, or investigation authorized by specified statutes conduct a forensic audit of a public utility; and (2) shall as part of a base rate case that is filed with or pending before the IURC after December 31, 2025, for a change in a public utility's basic rates and charges, conduct a forensic audit of the public utility. Authorizes the IURC to appoint: (1) an independent accounting firm; or (2) another qualified agent; with experience or expertise in conducting forensic audits to conduct a forensic audit under these provisions. Specifies the scope of a forensic audit under these provisions. Provides that upon the completion of a forensic audit, the IURC may do the following: (1) Issue an order directing the public utility to take actions to correct or cure certain acts or practices examined as part of the audit. (2) Refer any suspected criminal activities uncovered during the audit to an appropriate law enforcement agency or prosecutorial agency or official. Specifies how expenses incurred by the IURC or the IURC's agent in conducting a forensic audit under this section shall be charged and paid.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1317/2026","subjects":["public_safety","finance","energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065739,"bill_number":"HB1318","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Physical examinations in CHINS investigations.","description":"Physical examinations in CHINS investigations. Provides that if the department of child services (department) receives a report of known or suspected abuse of a child who is less than five years of age, a department caseworker: (1) shall physically examine the child's head, face, arms, legs, chest, and back for bruises or contusions; and (2) if the caseworker finds evidence of abuse, shall: (A) immediately take the child into custody; (B) cause color photographs to be taken of the areas of trauma visible on the child, unless a law enforcement agency is obligated to do so; (C) cause a medical examination of the child to be performed; and (D) if medically indicated, cause a radiological examination of the child to be performed. Provides that if the department receives a report of known or suspected abuse of a child who is not less than five years of age, the department may have a: (1) health screening; or (2) medical examination; of the child conducted. Provides that the department is responsible for the cost of the health screening or medical examination.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1318/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety","labor","trade"],"agencies":["Child Services"]},{"bill_id":2065794,"bill_number":"HB1319","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Collection of toll road user fees.","description":"Collection of toll road user fees. Requires the Indiana department of transportation to establish and implement an electronic or nonmanual tolling program as the sole means for charging and collecting user fees. Provides that a public-private agreement between the Indiana finance authority and an operator that is entered into, renewed, or amended after June 30, 2026, must contain a provision requiring the operator to establish and implement an electronic or nonmanual tolling program as the sole means for charging and collecting user fees.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1319/2026","subjects":["it","transportation","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065780,"bill_number":"HB1320","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Domestic violence reports.","description":"Domestic violence reports. Removes language concerning an affidavit from provisions concerning probable cause for battery and domestic battery. Requires a law enforcement officer to provide a victim who requests a protection order with the required forms and appropriate assistance in completing and filing the forms.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1320/2026","subjects":["public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065816,"bill_number":"HB1321","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prohibition on use of certain food additives.","description":"Prohibition on use of certain food additives. Prohibits the use of various food additives in Indiana.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1321/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065762,"bill_number":"HB1322","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Attorney eligibility for real estate broker exam.","description":"Attorney eligibility for real estate broker exam. Allows a licensed attorney to obtain a real estate broker license without completing an approved broker course of study.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1322/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065768,"bill_number":"HB1323","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Bail.","description":"Bail. Prohibits a court from requiring an arrestee to pay bail as a condition of pretrial release, unless: (1) the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the arrestee is a flight risk or danger to the community; (2) the arrestee is charged with murder or treason; (3) the arrestee is on pretrial release not related to the incident that is the basis for the present arrest; or (4) the arrestee is on probation, parole, or other community supervision. Requires that the amount of bail be the lowest amount required, based on the defendant's financial circumstances, to assure the arrestee's appearance at trial and to protect the community.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1323/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065807,"bill_number":"HB1324","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Consumer pricing information.","description":"Consumer pricing information. Provides that it is a deceptive consumer sales act to display or advertise a purchase price for the subject of a consumer transaction that does not include all fees and charges other than: (1) taxes or fees imposed on the purchase by a unit of government; or (2) reasonably expected shipping or handling charges; that are required to be paid by the consumer to complete the consumer transaction.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1324/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065850,"bill_number":"HB1325","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Special education.","description":"Special education. Requires the department of education, in collaboration with the Indiana department of health, the department of child services, and the office of the secretary of family and social services to report and make recommendations concerning certain data regarding residential placement, developmental preschool, and special education.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1325/2026","subjects":["education","labor","trade"],"agencies":["Child Services","Secretary Of Family And Social Services"]},{"bill_id":2065787,"bill_number":"HB1326","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana emergency efficiency and resilience task force.","description":"Indiana emergency efficiency and resilience task force. Establishes the Indiana emergency efficiency and resilience task force (task force). Provides that the task force shall study certain topics related to disaster resilience. Requires the task force to submit a written report with specific findings and recommendations to the legislative council not later than December 1, 2026.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1326/2026","subjects":["emergency","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065811,"bill_number":"HB1327","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Annexation.","description":"Annexation. Allows a town to annex: (1) a noncontiguous residential development; and (2) the right-of-way of a public highway connecting the development to the city. Provides that annexation is initiated by: (1) the filing of a petition requesting annexation by the owner of the residential development; and (2) the town legislative body adopting a resolution approving initiation of the annexation process. Requires the town to satisfy statutory requirements for annexation, including adopting a written fiscal plan and annexation ordinance.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1327/2026","subjects":["transportation","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065838,"bill_number":"HB1328","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Charges for hospital administered drugs.","description":"Charges for hospital administered drugs. Prohibits a hospital from billing for an administered drug an amount that exceeds the lesser of the following: (1) 120% of the Medicare reimbursement rate for the administered drug. (2) The amount the hospital bills for the administered drug on June 30, 2026. Creates an exception. Requires a hospital to update the Medicare reimbursement rate for an administered drug on January 1 and July 1 of each year.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1328/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065829,"bill_number":"HB1329","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-02-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Real property assessment.","description":"Real property assessment. Establishes the real property assessment task force (task force) to review issues related to real property assessment in Indiana. Sets forth membership, and requires the task force to issue a report to the general assembly not later than November 1, 2026. Adds representatives with certain categories of expertise to the real property assessment task force.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1329/2026","subjects":["housing","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065754,"bill_number":"HB1330","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Elimination of township assessors.","description":"Elimination of township assessors. Abolishes the office of township assessor, in counties in which the office of township assessor has not already been abolished, if the county council and county commissioners unanimously vote to abolish the office and consolidate it with the office of the county assessor.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1330/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065719,"bill_number":"HB1331","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"School scholarship tax credits.","description":"School scholarship tax credits. Increases the percentage of the contribution allowed to be claimed for the school scholarship tax credit (tax credit) from 50% to 75%. Allows taxpayers that commit to making a contribution of at least the same amount for at least two consecutive years to claim the tax credit in an amount equal to 90% of the amount of the contribution. Increases the total amount of tax credits that may be awarded for a state fiscal year from $18,500,000 to $80,000,000. Provides a calculation for an annual increase of the total amount of tax credits for future state fiscal years based on the tax credit's usage. Expands the definition of \"participating school\" for purposes of the certification of scholarship granting organizations by removing language providing for accreditation and administration of tests under the statewide assessment program or other norm-referenced assessment of the school's students. Requires the receipt prescribed by the department of state revenue for use in an agreement to be a scholarship granting organization to include whether a taxpayer commits to making contributions of at least the same amount for at least two consecutive years.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1331/2026","subjects":["education","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065772,"bill_number":"HB1332","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Internal Revenue Code conformity.","description":"Internal Revenue Code conformity. Amends the definition of \"Internal Revenue Code\" for state income tax purposes to conform with certain provisions enacted in Public Law 119-21 (H.R. 1) (commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025).","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1332/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065736,"bill_number":"HB1333","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-02-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Land use and development.","description":"Land use and development. Requires a development that is sited on land: (1) in an area zoned agricultural; and (2) comprised of certain capability classes of soils; to be a permitted use. Extends governmental immunity to a private entity or nonprofit entity that has executed certain agreements under the Indiana brownfields program. Provides that before a qualified data center user may use a specific transaction award certificate issued after June 30, 2026, to purchase qualified data center equipment eligible for the state gross retail tax exemption, the qualified data center user and a local unit that issues after June 30, 2026, a permit authorizing the development, construction, or operation of the qualified data center in the unit shall enter into a written agreement that includes a commitment by the qualified data center user to contribute to the local unit an amount equal to at least 1% of the amount of taxes that are not paid on each purchase of qualified data center equipment that is made: (1) using the specific transaction award certificate; and (2) during the duration of the specific transaction award certificate. For purposes of the statute concerning energy production zones: (1) redesignates the term \"electric generation facility\" as \"electric generation or storage facility\"; and (2) provides that the term includes a utility scale battery energy storage system (BESS). Provides that if a planned electric generation or storage facility will include a BESS, the project owner must include in the required statutory notice to the local planning authority: (1) the emergency response plan required under the statute governing the approval of a BESS by the department of homeland security (department); and (2) documentation of the department's approval of the BESS. Makes conforming changes. Allows a plan commission, board of zoning appeals, or county or municipal legislative body (body) to require a person to provide their name and address in writing in order to speak at a public hearing regarding certain matters. Allows the body's presiding officer to give consideration to whether a person is a county resident or has an interest as an owner, lessor, lessee, or life tenant in real property within the county in deciding: (1) the order of speakers; and (2) the amount of time allotted to speakers; at a hearing.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1333/2026","subjects":["housing","finance","energy","agriculture","emergency"],"agencies":["Homeland Security"]},{"bill_id":2065820,"bill_number":"HB1334","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Directory of in network providers.","description":"Directory of in network providers. Requires, upon issuance and renewal of a policy, an insurer to provide a directory of providers with which the insurer has entered into a reimbursement agreement to an insured or prospective insured. (Under current law, an insurer may provide a directory of providers to an insured.) Provides that: (1) a directory of providers provided by an insurer must include every provider that has entered into a reimbursement agreement with the insurer; and (2) a list of providers provided by a health maintenance organization must include every provider who provides health care services through the health maintenance organization.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1334/2026","subjects":["health","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065834,"bill_number":"HB1335","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Nonprofit hospitals.","description":"Nonprofit hospitals. Sets forth additional requirements for a nonprofit hospital's community benefits plan (plan). Requires a nonprofit hospital to spend more under the nonprofit hospital's plan than the nonprofit hospital's estimated tax exemption value. Allows the Indiana department of health (state department) to enforce compliance with the plan requirements. Sets forth additional reporting requirements for a nonprofit hospital's annual plan report (report). Requires the state department to review the report for compliance and to verify certain reported expenditure data. Allows for the assessment of a penalty for violations.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1335/2026","subjects":["health","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065826,"bill_number":"HB1336","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Securities and investment adviser representatives.","description":"Securities and investment adviser representatives. Exempts a merger and acquisition broker from registering as a broker-dealer under certain circumstances. Requires an applicant seeking to register as an agent of a broker-dealer in Indiana to pass financial industry regulatory authority (FINRA) examinations unless certain exceptions apply. Requires an applicant seeking to register as an investment adviser representative in Indiana to pass FINRA examinations unless certain exceptions apply. Provides that under certain circumstances an agent of a broker-dealer or an investment adviser representative may have the validity of the individual's FINRA qualifying examinations extended. Requires an investment adviser representative to participate in a continuing education program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1336/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065846,"bill_number":"HB1337","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Property and local income tax.","description":"Property and local income tax. Provides that property taxes imposed to pay debt service: (1) on certain bonds; and (2) to make lease payments on certain leases; are not considered for purposes of calculating a person's supplemental tax credit. Provides that the expenditure tax rate for a county or municipality expires on December 31, 2029, and on December 31 of every fourth calendar year thereafter (instead of every calendar year under current law).","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1337/2026","subjects":["housing","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065732,"bill_number":"HB1338","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Physician standards of practice.","description":"Physician standards of practice. Specifies that the provisions prohibiting a physician or practitioner from aiding or abetting in the provision of gender transition procedures to a minor do not prohibit a physician or other practitioner from: (1) releasing a minor's health information to another physician or other practitioner in the course of the receiving practitioner's care of the minor; or (2) discussing a minor's medical history with another physician or other practitioner providing care to the minor.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1338/2026","subjects":["health","transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065802,"bill_number":"HB1339","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Voter identification.","description":"Voter identification. Provides that a REAL ID driver's license or identification card that complies with certain requirements is sufficient proof of identification for purposes of elections statutes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1339/2026","subjects":["transportation","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065746,"bill_number":"HB1340","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sales tax exemption for utility service.","description":"Sales tax exemption for utility service. Provides a sales tax exemption for the sale or furnishing of the following services or commodities by a power subsidiary or a person engaged as a public utility to a person for commercial or domestic consumption: (1) Electrical energy. (2) Natural or artificial gas. (3) Water. (4) Steam. (5) Steam heating service. Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1340/2026","subjects":["finance","energy","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065750,"bill_number":"HB1341","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Eminent domain.","description":"Eminent domain. Eliminates eminent domain authority for the following purposes: (1) Acquiring a right-of-way for the construction or operation of a pipeline for transporting carbon dioxide or other carbon oxides. (2) Acquiring underground strata for a well or monitoring facility for underground storage of carbon dioxide or other carbon oxides. (3) A carbon sequestration pilot project or other underground carbon dioxide or other carbon oxides storage project.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1341/2026","subjects":["environment","energy","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065707,"bill_number":"HB1342","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"County commissioner districts.","description":"County commissioner districts. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying whether the county executive should implement certain processes with respect to establishing or revising districts.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1342/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065798,"bill_number":"HB1343","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Public safety matters.","description":"Public safety matters. Provides that the law enforcement training board (board) shall select an executive director to serve at the pleasure of the board. Authorizes the waiver of certain training requirements for law enforcement officers with experience in other states. Provides that a person confined to a county jail may be required to make a copayment in an amount of not more than $30 (current law is $15). Provides that a person confined to a county jail is not required to make a certain copayment if, among other things, the person does not have funds in the person's commissary account or trust account within 180 days after the service is provided (current law is 60 days). Requires certain water vessels to include an engine cut-off switch. Provides that a sailing vessel at least seven meters in length must comply with federal regulations. Makes changes to the employment eligibility requirements for employees of the Indiana department of veterans' affairs (department). Makes changes to the purpose of the military family relief fund (fund). Provides that the department shall report to the Indiana veterans' affairs commission (commission), at least quarterly, as to the status of all applications regarding assistance from the fund during the previous quarter. Adds provisions indicating who is eligible for a grant from the fund. Provides that the department shall make a comprehensive assessment of an applicant's financial condition and needs when making a determination regarding an award from the fund. Provides that an applicant may not be eligible for assistance from the fund if the applicant's federal gross income, or the combined federal gross income of the applicant and the applicant's spouse, exceeds two times the poverty guideline unless the commission approves an income waiver. Provides that an applicant must establish that the applicant has incurred a genuine hardship to be eligible to receive assistance from the fund. Provides that the department or commission may impose stipulations or conditions concerning an applicant seeking an award from the fund. Makes changes to the subject matter that must be included in administrative rules established by the commission. Makes certain changes relating to the review of grants from the fund to employees of the department. Provides that an applicant may appeal a denied request for short term financial assistance from the fund. Authorizes the adjutant general of the Indiana National Guard (adjutant general) to establish a military police force of the Indiana National Guard. Provides that a member of the military police force of the Indiana National Guard has police powers: (1) when the member is called to state active duty; and (2) if the individual successfully completes either army or air military police occupational training and receives qualifying instruction on Indiana law enforcement prescribed by the adjutant general. Requires the military police force of the Indiana National Guard, upon authorization, to respond in accordance with the National Incident Management System and in coordination with the Indiana state police. Makes changes to the authorized duties and responsibilities of the adjutant general in which the state armory board (board) may make contributions. Provides that the board may utilize any and all appropriate methods to lease or purchase real estate. Provides that an armory may not be erected on land that is leased for less than 25 years. (Current law provides that an armory may not be erected on land that is leased for less than 50 years.) Provides that the board may adopt policies or procedures for the use and governance of armories. (Current law authorizes the board to adopt rules for the use and governance of armories.) Specifies the types of donated property that the board may reconvey if the board determines that the property is no longer usable. Provides that if the board receives from the adjutant general information of the disbandment of the organization of the armed forces of Indiana occupying and using an armory, the board shall take charge of the armory. Makes various changes to provisions relating to the sale of property owned by the board. Establishes the Indiana civilian cyber corps program (program) as a subdivision of the Indiana guard reserve. Provides that the program includes civilian volunteers who have expertise in addressing cybersecurity incidents and who volunteer at the invitation of the adjutant general. Provides that the work product of a civilian cyber corps volunteer or adviser, including any information voluntarily submitted to the volunteer or adviser, is exempt from disclosure. Provides that a civilian cyber corps volunteer or adviser is immune from tort liability for an injury to a person or damage to property that occurs while the volunteer or adviser is deployed and acting on behalf of the adjutant general if certain conditions are met. Provides that the adjutant general may appoint additional general officers. (Current law authorizes the appointment of assistant adjutants general.) Changes the definitions of \"veteran\" for purposes of provisions relating to: (1) the governor's commission on supplier diversity; (2) the state civil service system; and (3) authorizing preference points for the appointment of veterans. Removes a requirement that the National Guard tuition supplement grant must be used within eight years after the date the individual first applies and becomes eligible for benefits. Repeals: (1) the Indiana cyber civilian corps program advisory board; (2) a provision relating to contracts to use Stout Field as a commercial runway; (3) a definition of \"qualified service member\"; (4) a provision requiring a muffler or underwater exhaust for a boat; and (5) a provision prohibiting the use of a boat motor equipped with a muffler cutout or bypass. Makes it a Class B misdemeanor for a person to knowingly or intentionally possess an imitation firearm: (1) in or on school property; or (2) on a school bus. Makes technical corrections and conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1343/2026","subjects":["it","education","housing","public_safety","labor","energy","veterans","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065758,"bill_number":"HB1344","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Funding of prosecuting attorney operations.","description":"Funding of prosecuting attorney operations. Establishes the public prosecution fund and a prosecuting attorney compensation fee (a court fee) of $10 for certain actions and $50 for certain actions which will be deposited in the state general fund. Provides that a county may be reimbursed for certain prosecutorial expenses from the fund, unless the prosecuting attorney in the county is a noncompliant prosecuting attorney. Requires the Indiana prosecuting attorney's council to set standards for reimbursement.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1344/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065775,"bill_number":"HB1345","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various food matters.","description":"Various food matters. Establishes the Indiana food protection panel (panel). Provides that a recipient of an enforcement action taken by a local health officer following a food establishment inspection may appeal the action to the panel. Prohibits the health and hospital corporation or a local health department from imposing requirements or standards that exceed the minimum sanitary standards adopted by the Indiana department of health (state department). Requires the state department to: (1) provide local health departments with guidelines concerning the interpretation of the state department's rules; (2) designate an employee as the point of contact for local health departments on sanitary standards for food establishments; and (3) distribute the contact information of the designated employee to the local health departments. Requires the state department to create a business model determination worksheet and distribute the worksheet to all the local health departments. Permits an individual vendor at a farmers' market or roadside stand to sell certain meat products. Adds provisions concerning limited custom exempt meat product sales. Prohibits a person from misbranding a food product containing insect protein and selling a misbranded food product containing insect protein as a food product. Requires a person selling a food product containing insect protein to label the food product with a label stating \"THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS INSECT PROTEIN\". Prohibits a county, city, or town (unit) from adopting or enforcing an ordinance that prevents a person from cultivating a vegetable garden on certain property. Allows a unit to adopt or enforce an ordinance or regulation that imposes the same standards and requirements as those imposed on certain property.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1345/2026","subjects":["health","transportation","agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065843,"bill_number":"HB1346","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Low THC hemp extract.","description":"Low THC hemp extract. Defines \"hemp\" as a cannabis plant that contains not more than 0.3% total THC. Defines \"low THC hemp extract\" as a substance that: (1) is derived from hemp; (2) does not contain more than 0.3% total THC; (3) does not contain synthetic or synthesized cannabinoids; (4) contains no other controlled substances; and (5) is not sold in a container that contains more than 0.4 milligrams of total THC. Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1346/2026","subjects":["agriculture","cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065728,"bill_number":"HB1347","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Lake County Convention Center.","description":"Lake County Convention Center. Makes changes to the amount of supplemental wagering tax that the treasurer of state is required to pay to each riverboat operating in Gary. Makes changes to the distribution of wagering tax revenue to the city of Gary. Legalizes and validates bonds, notes, evidences of indebtedness, leases, or other written obligations issued or executed by or in the name of the: (1) Indiana finance authority; (2) development authority; and (3) Lake County Convention Center Authority (authority); as authorized or approved by resolution or ordinance adopted before February 28, 2026. Provides that the authority is established when the construction of the convention and event center is substantially completed so that the convention and event center can be used for its intended purpose. (Current law provides for the establishment of the authority upon the adoption of the proposal for the development, operation, and ownership of the Lake County convention and event center.) Requires a member appointed to the authority to be an Indiana resident. Provides that an attorney in active standing may not be appointed to the authority. Provides that the Lake County convention and event center reserve fund shall be administered by the Lake County commissioners until the authority is established. Repeals a provision that allocates deposits of Gary riverboat graduated wagering tax revenue.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1347/2026","subjects":["housing","finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065791,"bill_number":"HB1348","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Regulation of grease control equipment.","description":"Regulation of grease control equipment. Establishes a statewide regulatory scheme for grease control equipment. Provides that a waste water treatment plant must continue to accept septage under certain circumstances. Creates a process for septage haulers to resolve disputes with wastewater treatment plants with respect to accepting septage.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1348/2026","subjects":["environment","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065854,"bill_number":"HB1349","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prohibition of certain abortion funding.","description":"Prohibition of certain abortion funding. Prohibits an Indiana governmental entity from making a payment from any fund under its control for the costs associated with procuring an abortion, including travel expenses, unless the abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant woman. Specifies that the prohibition does not apply to a payment made by an Indiana governmental entity to provide group health insurance for employees of the Indiana governmental entity.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1349/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065715,"bill_number":"HB1350","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Exclusionary rule.","description":"Exclusionary rule. Prohibits the exclusion of otherwise admissible evidence based on a violation of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, the Constitution of the United States, or the laws of the United States or Indiana unless certain conditions apply. Provides that an appeal from a court's order excluding evidence may be taken directly to the supreme court.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1350/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067165,"bill_number":"HB1352","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"County fire protection.","description":"County fire protection. Requires each county, excluding a county containing a consolidated city or a county that is entirely within a fire protection district, to establish a county fire and emergency service board (board). Requires the board to develop a county fire and emergency service plan (county plan). Requires the board, on January 1, 2028, to establish a county fire and emergency service district (district) to provide fire protection to: (1) the unincorporated territory of each township located in the county in which the township provides fire protection; and (2) any other territory within the county that is transferred to the district in accordance with the county plan. Provides that a township, excluding a township in a county containing a consolidated city, may not impose a property tax levy for fire services for property taxes first due and payable after December 31, 2027. Provides that a fire protection district that includes all of the unincorporated area of the county may establish a nine member governing board.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1352/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067118,"bill_number":"HB1353","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Bedford food and beverage tax.","description":"Bedford food and beverage tax. Authorizes the city of Bedford to impose a food and beverage tax.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1353/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067297,"bill_number":"HB1354","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Employee health plans for county elected officials.","description":"Employee health plans for county elected officials. Requires a county to offer a program of group insurance to each county elected official if the county offers the program of group insurance to county employees and at least one county elected official.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1354/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067283,"bill_number":"HB1355","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Confined feeding operations.","description":"Confined feeding operations. Creates a preapplication process for the approval of confined feeding operations. Provides that the department of environmental management (department) must refund a confined feeding operation application fee under certain circumstances. Provides that certain confined feeding operations do not need to use certain equipment for solid manure produced by livestock. Prohibits the department from requiring an existing confined feeding operation permit holder, who is applying to expand an operation, to update a previously approved facility or structure. Establishes certain requirements for earthen berms at manure storage facilities. Requires the department to: (1) designate an employee as the point of contact for information on confined feeding operation applications; and (2) distribute the contact information of the designated employee to all operating confined feeding operations.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1355/2026","subjects":["environment","agriculture"],"agencies":["Environmental Management"]},{"bill_id":2067475,"bill_number":"HB1356","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Conservation of agricultural land.","description":"Conservation of agricultural land. Requires each board of county commissioners to adopt an ordinance to allow landowners to apply to have land included in an agricultural resource area within the county. Specifies certain procedures and requirements for the agricultural resource area programs. Provides provisions that apply to land within a program, including eminent domain provisions, a prohibition against annexation for nonagricultural purposes, certain priority provisions for specified funding, and authorization for a county option property tax deduction for land located within agricultural resource areas in the county. Authorizes the Indiana state department of agriculture (department) to receive and hold agricultural conservation easements acquired by gift, bequest, or devise and to enter into agreements with nongovernment entities to monitor those easements. Establishes the farmland advisory board for the purpose of advising the department on developing standards for accepting, monitoring, and enforcing agricultural conservation easements it may hold, creating a model agricultural resource area ordinance, collecting feedback on agricultural resource areas, and supporting education and outreach about agricultural resource areas.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1356/2026","subjects":["education","environment","finance","agriculture","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066928,"bill_number":"HB1357","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Child services provider background checks.","description":"Child services provider background checks. Requires an employee of: (1) a preventative provider that operates a child welfare program; (2) a provider of home based family preservation services; (3) a child caring institution; (4) a group home; or (5) a child placing agency; to undergo a background check once every four years. Provides that the employee is not required to complete a separate federally required background check to provide additional child welfare services for the same employer.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1357/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066964,"bill_number":"HB1358","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana department of health.","description":"Indiana department of health. Changes the statewide standing order for the dispensing of a smoking cessation product to a tobacco, vaping, or nicotine cessation product. Amends the date by which a hospital must submit the hospital's fiscal report and patient information report to the state department. Removes a requirement that a home health aide competency evaluation program include at least 75 hours of training and 16 hours of classroom training before supervised practical training. Adds Parkinson's disease to the definition of \"chronic disease\" for provisions concerning the chronic disease registry. Requires: (1) the state department to maintain a trauma registry; and (2) certain health care facilities to submit data to the registry. Establishes requirements for the handling and transporting of infectious waste. Sets forth factors the state department must consider in determining the nature of and civil penalty for a violation of infectious waste requirements. Expands provisions concerning epinephrine, including provisions allowing a pharmacist to dispense and an entity to prescribe epinephrine rather than auto-injectable epinephrine. Removes the expiration of provisions concerning lead screening for children. Requires a registered manufacturer, processor, repackager, or wholesale distributor of food, drugs, or cosmetics to comply with federal regulations concerning good manufacturing practices. Allows the state health commissioner to enter and inspect the premises of the manufacturer, processor, repackager, or wholesale distributor. Permits a local health department to conduct inspections of certain manufacturers, processors, repackagers, or wholesale distributors. Amends the information a local child fatality review team and the statewide child fatality review committee may review in conducting a child fatality review. Allows a suicide and overdose fatality review team and a fetal-infant mortality review team to provide records to the state department. Requires the state department to maintain the confidentiality of these records. Requires a medical school to: (1) include nutrition education in the school's curriculum; and (2) require students to complete a rural health rotation. Voids administrative rules concerning infectious waste and the state trauma registry.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1358/2026","subjects":["health","education","environment","finance","agriculture","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066832,"bill_number":"HB1359","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Scanning ballots.","description":"Scanning ballots. Specifies a process by which certain counties may scan voted optical scan ballot cards during the early voting period and on election day without using secrecy envelopes. Makes conforming amendments. Reduces the period during which in person absentee voting may occur at the office of the circuit court clerk or a satellite office from 28 days to a 16 day period ending at noon on the day before election day.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1359/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067404,"bill_number":"HB1360","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Access to public records.","description":"Access to public records. Allows a public agency to establish and maintain an electronic portal for submission of public records requests that: (1) incorporates CAPTCHA or an equivalent mechanism for ensuring that a requestor is a human; (2) requires verification of a requestor's physical address; (3) indicates to the public agency whether the requestor is a resident of Indiana; and (4) automatically tracks and reports submissions suspected to be automated or to have originated from known sources of phishing or data scraping. Provides that a public agency may deny a public record request if the request: (1) is made by a person that is a party to pending or ongoing litigation; and (2) is duplicative of a discovery request made by the person in the pending or ongoing litigation. Provides that: (1) a public agency may decline to respond to a public records request if the public agency suspects: (A) the request to be data scraping or phishing activity; or (B) that responding to the request electronically may: (i) expose the public agency's electronic systems or data to unauthorized access or alteration; or (ii) otherwise jeopardize the security of the public agency's electronic systems or data; and (2) if the public agency declines to respond to the request, the public agency must report: (A) the request; and (B) the public agency's reason for declining to respond to the request; to the public access counselor. Allows a public agency to collect a supplemental fee for processing public records requests submitted by non-Indiana residents or out-of-state entities. Allows a public agency to give priority in fulfilling public records requests to: (1) Indiana residents; and (2) requests submitted for civic, journalistic, academic, or personal use. Requires public agencies to report to the public access counselor regarding public records requests suspected of being automated, data scraping activity, or phishing activity (suspect public records requests). Provides that the general assembly may establish reasonable and narrowly tailored procedural safeguards to preserve the integrity and availability of public agency resources. Requires the public access counselor to: (1) take specified actions with regard to identifying excessive and suspect public records requests; and (2) include in the public access counselor's annual report: (A) information regarding the volume and nature of public records requests received by public agencies, including information regarding suspect public records requests reported by public agencies; and (B) recommendations to the general assembly regarding statutory or administrative remedies to excessive and suspect public records requests.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1360/2026","subjects":["it","education","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066954,"bill_number":"HB1361","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Fertilizer.","description":"Fertilizer. Codifies commercial fertilizer administrative rules. Defines or amends certain terms. Codifies certain requirements and processes for commercial fertilizer with respect to: (1) label format; (2) registration; (3) sampling and analysis; (4) primary containment of fluid bulk fertilizer at storage facilities; (5) operational area containment for fluid fertilizers; (6) diked secondary containment of fluid bulk fertilizers; (7) storage and handling of dry bulk fertilizers; and (8) storage facility location registry.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1361/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067429,"bill_number":"HB1362","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Privacy protections in public institutions.","description":"Privacy protections in public institutions. Requires each public school, state educational institution, correctional facility, juvenile detention facility, and certain governmental entities to designate a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area as follows: (1) For the exclusive use of the male sex. (2) For the exclusive use of the female sex. Provides, with exceptions, that an individual may only use a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area that is designated for the sex that is the individual's sex, as determined at birth in accordance with the individual's genetics and reproductive biology. Establishes a civil action for a violation of these provisions. Prohibits each public school, correctional facility, state educational institution, juvenile detention facility, and certain governmental entities from requiring certain individuals to share sleeping quarters with a member of the opposite sex, as determined at birth in accordance with the individual's genetics and reproductive biology, unless the individual who is a member of the opposite sex is a family member. Establishes a civil action for a violation of these provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1362/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067048,"bill_number":"HB1363","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various public safety matters.","description":"Various public safety matters. Provides that the law enforcement training board (board) shall select an executive director to serve at the pleasure of the board. Provides that a person confined to a county jail may be required to make a copayment in an amount of not more than $30 (current law is $15). Provides that a person confined to a county jail is not required to make a certain copayment if, among other things, the person does not have funds in the person's commissary account or trust account within 180 days after the service is provided (current law is 60 days). Provides that a correctional professional is considered a public safety officer for purposes of determining eligibility for line of duty death benefits. (Current law provides that a correctional officer is considered a public safety officer for determining eligibility for line of duty death benefits.) Provides a process for certain sex and sex or violent offenders to submit certain information to the department of correction (department) regarding sex offender status in other states or jurisdictions. Provides that a person who is a: (1) sex offender; or (2) sex or violent offender; shall register for the period required by another jurisdiction or the period in Indiana, whichever is longer. Repeals the integrated public safety commission. Establishes the Indiana department of emergency communications. Changes the name of the \"integrated public safety communications fund\" to the \"emergency communications fund\". Provides that if: (1) the department releases a child who is a ward of the department; and (2) the child is less than 18 years of age; the department's wardship of the child ends. Provides that if a child who is a ward of the department is released and no parent or guardian allows the child to live with them, the department must immediately notify a certain court that the child needs to be a ward of the department of child services. Provides that the department is not required to send certain notices sent by offenders within the jurisdiction of the department by registered or certified mail. Makes it a Class B misdemeanor for a person to knowingly or intentionally possess an imitation firearm: (1) in or on school property; or (2) on a school bus. Provides that the department of emergency communications shall issue a request for proposals (RFP) for the purchase, or before issuing a change order, of any communications systems and equipment by the department that may be made available to public safety agencies. Provides that the communications equipment must be compatible with existing communications equipment used by public safety agencies. Provides that proposals shall be evaluated and awarded on a competitive basis using a scoring rubric established by the department. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1363/2026","subjects":["education","housing","public_safety"],"agencies":["Child Services","Correction"]},{"bill_id":2066844,"bill_number":"HB1364","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Food labeling requirements.","description":"Food labeling requirements. Requires a food manufacturer that offers certain food products for sale in Indiana to ensure that each food product includes a warning label disclosing specified ingredients in the food product. Sets forth labeling requirements. Allows the attorney general to bring an action for a violation of these provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1364/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067024,"bill_number":"HB1365","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"FSSA report on managed care organization contracts.","description":"FSSA report on managed care organization contracts. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to, not later than March 1, 2026, provide a written report to the budget committee with specified information concerning any termination of a managed care organization's Medicaid contract in 2025.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1365/2026","subjects":["health","finance","trade"],"agencies":["Secretary Of Family And Social Services"]},{"bill_id":2066881,"bill_number":"HB1366","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Workforce development incentives.","description":"Workforce development incentives. Provides for a nonrefundable apprenticeship tax credit (credit) for an eligible employer. Provides that the amount of the credit is $2,500 for each apprentice employed. Specifies procedures for claiming the credit. Requires a board to issue a license, certificate, registration, or permit to an individual to allow the individual to practice the individual's occupation in Indiana if the individual satisfies certain conditions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1366/2026","subjects":["housing","finance","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067082,"bill_number":"HB1367","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Involuntary treatment of substance use disorder.","description":"Involuntary treatment of substance use disorder. Allows an individual's spouse, legal guardian, friend, relative, or medical service provider to petition a court for involuntary substance use disorder treatment. Requires a petition to include certain information and allows a court to dismiss a petition, without prejudice, if it does not contain the required information. Requires the court to appoint a public defender if the individual subject to a petition seeking involuntary substance use disorder treatment is not represented by an attorney. Requires a court to order the individual to be evaluated by a medical provider if the court finds that: (1) the individual has a substance use disorder; (2) because of the individual's substance use disorder, the individual is experiencing impaired judgment and is unable to independently maintain the individual's activities of daily living or is a danger to self or others; and (3) the individual refuses to voluntarily participate in substance use disorder treatment. Allows a court to order a local law enforcement agency to consider whether an individual meets the criteria for emergency detention under certain circumstances. Requires a medical provider who completes an evaluation concerning an individual's need for substance use disorder treatment to submit the evaluation to the court. Specifies that after receiving an evaluation from a medical provider, the court may dismiss the petition or set a hearing for further evidence to be presented about the individual's need for substance use disorder treatment. Requires a court to order involuntary outpatient substance use disorder treatment for a period, not to exceed 90 days, if medical evidence supports that the individual requires immediate treatment for a substance use disorder and the individual has refused treatment.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1367/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067071,"bill_number":"HB1368","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Carbon.","description":"Carbon. Requires a utility to accept certain methods of payment from the department of natural resources (department) for utility service provided to a property owned by the department. Prohibits a utility from limiting or restricting the: (1) dollar amount to less than $10,000; or (2) number of allowable payment transactions for a singular invoice to less than five; with respect to a payment made by one of the specified payment methods. Provides that for any singular property owned by the department, the department may request from a utility a consolidated bill for the property. Requires a utility that receives such a request to provide the department with a singular invoice for the entire property, unless the utility is unable to do so because of billing limitations or other operational constraints. Requires the natural resources commission to obtain primary enforcement authority from the United States Environmental Protection Agency to regulate Class VI underground injection wells. Grants the natural resources commission authority to adopt rules to regulate Class VI underground injection wells. Provides a mechanism and regulatory scheme for underground storage of carbon dioxide in Indiana but excludes the carbon sequestration pilot project from application of the new requirements. Specifies that the carbon sequestration pilot project's Class VI wells are not experimental.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1368/2026","subjects":["environment","energy","water"],"agencies":["Natural Resources"]},{"bill_id":2067037,"bill_number":"HB1369","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various property tax matters.","description":"Various property tax matters. Expires various property tax exemptions allowed in current law. Provides that certain property tax abatements may not be granted after December 31, 2030. Authorizes a county fiscal body to adopt an ordinance that exempts certain homesteads owned by an individual who is at least 65 years of age from property taxation. Makes corresponding changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1369/2026","subjects":["housing","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067272,"bill_number":"HB1370","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Payment of claims for emergency services.","description":"Payment of claims for emergency services. Prohibits a utilization review entity from requiring prior authorization for ambulance services provided: (1) to a covered individual; (2) by a nonparticipating ambulance service provider; and (3) within 12 hours after the ambulance services are requested. Prohibits a utilization review entity from requiring prior authorization for emergent response services or urgent response services that are provided: (1) to a covered individual; (2) in good faith; and (3) within 24 hours after the emergent response services or urgent response services are requested. Provides that a policy of accident and sickness insurance that provides coverage for emergency medical services must provide reimbursement for emergency medical services that are, among other things, performed or provided during a response initiated through the 911 system or an equivalent telephone number, a texting system, or any other method of summoning emergency medical services. Provides that a policy of accident and sickness insurance that provides coverage for emergency medical services must provide reimbursement for emergency medical services that are, among other things, performed or provided when an individual is determined to require emergency medical services by a physician. Provides that an individual contract and a group contract that provide coverage for emergency medical services must provide reimbursement for emergency medical services that are, among other things, performed or provided during a response initiated through the 911 system or an equivalent telephone number, a texting system, or any other method of summoning emergency medical services. Provides that an individual contract and a group contract that provide coverage for emergency medical services must provide reimbursement for emergency medical services that are, among other things, performed or provided when an individual is determined to require emergency medical services by a physician. Repeals certain code provisions addressing advanced life support services.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1370/2026","subjects":["health","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066820,"bill_number":"HB1371","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Background colors for licenses and permits.","description":"Background colors for licenses and permits. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles to apply a unique background color to a driver's license, a learner's permit, or an identification card issued after December 31, 2026, to an individual who: (1) is an alien with lawful status; or (2) is not registered to vote at the time of issuance.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1371/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067381,"bill_number":"HB1372","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Commercial property services contracts.","description":"Commercial property services contracts. Defines a \"commercial property services contract\" as a contract that: (1) is initially entered into by a service provider and a property owner after June 30, 2026; and (2) provides for the provision of services and any personal property related to providing, or necessary to provide, those services; with respect to the property owner's commercial property. Provides that any automatic renewal clause included in a commercial property services contract: (1) may not provide for a renewal term that is longer than 12 months; and (2) must specify a time frame during which the property owner may give notice to the service provider of the property owner's intent to terminate the contract, or any subsequent renewal of the contract, at the end of the contract term or renewal term. Specifies that the time frame during which the property owner may give notice of the property owner's intent to terminate the contract or a renewal of the contract must: (1) begin at least 120 days before; and (2) end not later than 30 days before; the expiration of the contract term or renewal term. Provides that an automatic renewal clause that does not conform to the bill's requirements is void and may not be enforced. Provides that a service provider that does not comply with the bill's requirements commits a deceptive act that is actionable by the attorney general and the property owner under the statute concerning deceptive consumer sales.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1372/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067331,"bill_number":"HB1373","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Breast reconstruction coverage.","description":"Breast reconstruction coverage. Repeals provisions requiring a state employee health plan, policy of accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organization contract to provide certain post-mastectomy coverage. Requires a state employee health plan, policy of accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organization contract to: (1) provide coverage for breast reconstruction surgery and all modalities, types, and techniques of a health care service provided for the breast reconstruction surgery; and (2) provide access to an adequate breast reconstruction surgeon network. Prohibits a utilization review entity from denying a claim for breast reconstruction surgery for which prior authorization was granted unless the utilization review entity provides a formal declaration of compelling evidence of health care provider fraud in the prior authorization or claim submission process.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1373/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066867,"bill_number":"HB1374","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Requirements for incentive recipient employers.","description":"Requirements for incentive recipient employers. Specifies additional conditions pertaining to the use of secret ballot elections in unionization efforts and employee personal contact information that an employer must comply with to be eligible to receive a tax credit, tax deduction, grant, loan, or loan guarantee (job creation incentive) from the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC). Requires the IEDC to enter into a separate agreement with a recipient of a job creation incentive to recover the value of the job creation incentive if the recipient does not comply with the conditions added by the bill. Specifies the term of the separate agreement in relation to the value of the job creation incentive. Requires the IEDC to investigate reports of noncompliance with the conditions added by the bill during the period when the separate agreement is in effect and to provide those findings to the office of the attorney general for the initiation of proceedings for recovery of job creation incentives.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1374/2026","subjects":["finance","labor","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067260,"bill_number":"HB1375","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Repeal of involuntary firearm removal process.","description":"Repeal of involuntary firearm removal process. Repeals provisions concerning the: (1) confiscation and retention of firearms from a dangerous person; (2) compilation and publication of statistics related to the confiscation and retention of firearms from a dangerous person; and (3) making of a false report that a person is dangerous. Modifies a provision concerning a petition to find that an individual is no longer dangerous.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1375/2026","subjects":["public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067357,"bill_number":"HB1376","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prohibited food additives.","description":"Prohibited food additives. Prohibits the use of various food additives in Indiana.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1376/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067200,"bill_number":"HB1377","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Straight ticket voting.","description":"Straight ticket voting. Repeals provisions that prohibit counting straight party votes for candidates for election to an at-large district to which more than one person may be elected. Removes a provision requiring particular ballot placement when more than one candidate may be elected to an office. Provides that if a voter votes a straight party ticket and also selects one or more individual candidates for an office to which more than one person may be elected, the: (1) individual votes shall be counted unless the total number of individual votes is greater than the number of persons to be elected to the office; (2) straight party votes for the office shall not be counted; and (3) straight party votes for other offices on the ballot shall be counted. Makes conforming amendments. Specifies how a vote is counted with a straight ticket on a paper ballot.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1377/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067211,"bill_number":"HB1378","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Child care tax credits.","description":"Child care tax credits. Provides a child and dependent care refundable tax credit against an individual's Indiana adjusted gross income tax for employment related child and dependent care expenses based on the percentage of the federal child and dependent care tax credit the taxpayer claimed for the taxable year for federal income tax purposes. Provides a child tax credit against an individual's Indiana adjusted gross income tax. Provides that costs incurred: (1) for the operating costs of a child care facility operated for a taxpayer's employees; or (2) under a contract with a child care facility to provide child care services to employees of the taxpayer, or under a contract with an intermediate entity that contracts with one or more child care facilities for child care services; are qualified expenditures for purposes of the employer child care expenditure income tax credit.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1378/2026","subjects":["education","finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067012,"bill_number":"HB1379","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Ground water.","description":"Ground water. Establishes the ground water and aquifer preservation task force to recommend water regulations to the legislative council. Creates a two year moratorium on the establishment of certain major ground water withdrawal facilities during the period beginning May 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2028. Provides an exception to the moratorium.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1379/2026","subjects":["water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066904,"bill_number":"HB1380","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Women veteran recognition day.","description":"Women veteran recognition day. Provides that the governor shall issue a proclamation annually setting apart and designating June 12 as Women Veteran Recognition Day.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1380/2026","subjects":["veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067247,"bill_number":"HB1381","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Removal of city or town fiscal officer.","description":"Removal of city or town fiscal officer. Allows the legislative body of a city or town (municipality) to petition a court for removal of the municipality's fiscal officer for any of the following: (1) Charging illegal fees for services. (2) Failing to perform official duties. (3) With certain exceptions, failing to be present in the officer's office. (4) Failing to participate in four consecutive meetings of the legislative body of the municipality.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1381/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066941,"bill_number":"HB1382","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"County option gasoline tax.","description":"County option gasoline tax. Allows a county to adopt an ordinance to impose a county option gasoline tax. Specifies procedures for imposition and collection of the county option gasoline tax. Provides that a county may not concurrently impose a county option gasoline tax and a: (1) county wheel tax; and (2) county vehicle excise tax. Specifies requirements for a municipality within a county that wishes to receive a distribution of revenue from the county option gasoline tax.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1382/2026","subjects":["housing","transportation","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066987,"bill_number":"HB1383","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Military health care personnel pathways.","description":"Military health care personnel pathways. Provides that an institution may develop academic career pathways and integrated academic bridge programs (program) for military health care personnel that are designed to enable current and former military health care personnel to achieve credentialing outcomes in reduced time. Creates program parameters and requirements. Requires a participating institution to submit certain program information to the legislative council. Requires an institution that participates in a program to coordinate with the United States Department of Labor and the Indiana department of veterans' affairs. Provides that the Indiana professional licensing agency shall collaborate with participating institutions to integrate academic career pathways and academic bridge programs for military health care personnel into the agency's licensure requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1383/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing","transportation","labor","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067392,"bill_number":"HB1384","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Nonprofit hospital property taxes.","description":"Nonprofit hospital property taxes. Provides that real property purchased before July 1, 2026, directly or indirectly owned by a nonprofit hospital (other than a critical access hospital or a county hospital) is not exempt from property taxation if, after 10 years from the date of purchase of the property by the nonprofit hospital, the property directly or indirectly owned by the nonprofit hospital is not being used for the performance of revenue producing health care services by the nonprofit hospital that directly or indirectly owns the property. Provides that real property directly or indirectly owned by a nonprofit hospital purchased after June 30, 2026, is not exempt from property taxation if the property directly or indirectly owned by the nonprofit hospital is not being used for the performance of revenue producing health care services by the nonprofit hospital that directly or indirectly owns the property. Provides that the disallowance of an exemption does not apply to a parking garage, parking lot, equipment facility area, or any other similar property that actively serves a nonprofit hospital. Provides that a determination as to whether a parking garage, parking lot, equipment facility area, or any other similar property actively serves a nonprofit hospital shall be made by the board of zoning appeals with jurisdiction over the property.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1384/2026","subjects":["health","housing","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067452,"bill_number":"HB1385","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various hospital matters.","description":"Various hospital matters. Requires (rather than allows) the development of programs designed to increase Medicaid reimbursement. Specifies that the reimbursement rates for a state directed payment program must be at least the Medicare reimbursement rates. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to perform a reconciliation of the capitation attributable to the incremental hospital fee. Prohibits money in the incremental hospital fee fund from being used to fund Medicaid. Amends the permissible use of funds collected under the hospital assessment fee. Removes language that allowed the hospital assessment fee to be used to fund a state directed payment program that depended upon the collection of the managed care assessment fee. Changes the definition of \"prices\" concerning the hospital statewide average rate study and pricing (study). Amends the requirements to conduct the study and the date by which the study must be completed.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1385/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067441,"bill_number":"HB1386","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Massage establishment liability insurance.","description":"Massage establishment liability insurance. Makes it a Class A misdemeanor if a person operates a massage establishment and knowingly or intentionally employs an individual who: (1) is providing massages; and (2) does not have certain professional liability insurance.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1386/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067153,"bill_number":"HB1387","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Release and sale of cemetery plots.","description":"Release and sale of cemetery plots. Provides that if a burial space in a cemetery: (1) has remained unused for a period of at least 100 years from the date of sale or last recorded designation or transfer; and (2) has no improvements on the burial space, including the placement of a monument, memorial, or other permanent appurtenance; the person or entity having jurisdiction over the cemetery may terminate the rights and interests of the owner of the burial space if certain conditions are met. Provides that in the case of a cemetery owned by a unit, any funds generated from the resale of a burial space shall be used to maintain the cemetery.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1387/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067141,"bill_number":"HB1388","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Initial practitioner license.","description":"Initial practitioner license. Provides that certain teaching examinations are waived for an individual who is a graduate of a teacher preparation program, unless the individual fails to obtain a teaching license within three (3) years of graduation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1388/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067221,"bill_number":"HB1389","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Adoption and foster care matters.","description":"Adoption and foster care matters. Prohibits a governmental entity from discriminating against a person in adoption and foster care matters based on the person's sincerely held religious belief, unless the discriminatory act as applied to the person is required to advance a compelling government interest and is the least restrictive means of advancing the interest. Specifies that a governmental entity may consider whether a person involved in adoption or foster care matters shares the same religion or faith tradition as a child or the child's parent when considering placement of a child. Allows a person to bring a cause of action against a governmental entity for discriminating against the person, or raise a violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding, and allows for certain remedies. Provides that there is a two year statute of limitation for a discrimination claim.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1389/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066975,"bill_number":"HB1390","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Eminent domain.","description":"Eminent domain. Requires the Indiana department of transportation (department) to make an original offer that is equal to 125% of the fair market value of a property when purchasing the property for a project. Provides that a person having an interest in a property that is damaged as a result of a public use is entitled to bring an inverse condemnation claim.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1390/2026","subjects":["transportation","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066856,"bill_number":"HB1391","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Use of telecommunications device while driving.","description":"Use of telecommunications device while driving. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally violates the statute prohibiting use of a telecommunications device while operating a moving motor vehicle commits a Level 5 felony if the violation is the proximate cause of serious bodily injury to another person.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1391/2026","subjects":["it","transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067105,"bill_number":"HB1392","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Involuntary substance use disorder treatment.","description":"Involuntary substance use disorder treatment. Allows an individual's spouse, legal guardian, friend, or relative to petition a court for involuntary substance use disorder treatment. Requires a petition to include certain information and allows a court to dismiss a petition, without prejudice, if it does not contain the required information. Requires the court to appoint a public defender if the individual subject to a petition seeking involuntary substance use disorder treatment is not represented by an attorney. Requires a court to order the individual to be evaluated by two medical providers, one of which must be a licensed physician, if the court finds that: (1) the individual has a substance use disorder; (2) because of the individual's substance use disorder, the individual is experiencing impaired judgment and is unable to independently maintain the individual's activities of daily living or is a danger to self or others; and (3) the individual refuses to voluntarily participate in substance use disorder treatment. Allows a court to order a local law enforcement agency to consider whether an individual meets the criteria for emergency detention under certain circumstances. Requires a medical provider who completes an evaluation concerning an individual's need for substance use disorder treatment to submit the evaluation to the court. Specifies that after receiving an evaluation from a medical provider, the court may dismiss the petition or set a hearing for further evidence to be presented about the individual's need for substance use disorder treatment. Requires a court to order involuntary substance use disorder treatment for a period of between 60 and 360 days if medical evidence supports that the individual requires immediate treatment for a substance use disorder and the individual has refused treatment. Requires the petitioner to pay all medical expenses that result from a respondent receiving court ordered involuntary substance use disorder treatment. Specifies that a respondent may be subject to contempt proceedings for a failure or refusal to comply with a court order issued in response to the petition for involuntary substance use disorder treatment.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1392/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067236,"bill_number":"HB1393","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Health care debt and duty to provide care.","description":"Health care debt and duty to provide care. Prohibits a health care provider from refusing to provide necessary care solely on the basis of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by the consumer to the health care provider for health care services, products, or devices provided by the health care provider to the consumer or to a minor or an incapacitated individual who is under the responsibility of the consumer. Provides that a person that violates this prohibition commits a deceptive act that is actionable under the Indiana statute concerning deceptive consumer sales by the attorney general only.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1393/2026","subjects":["health","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067343,"bill_number":"HB1394","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Social service benefit kiosk pilot program.","description":"Social service benefit kiosk pilot program. Requires the division of family resources (division) of the office of the secretary of family and social services to establish a pilot program under which the division develops, deploys, and determines the effectiveness of electronic kiosks that allow an individual to do any of the following: (1) Determine the balance remaining in the individual's SNAP or TANF account. (2) Apply to the family and social services administration for a new EBT card. (3) Apply for SNAP or TANF benefits, subject to verification through in person communication with the division.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1394/2026","subjects":["it"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067320,"bill_number":"HB1395","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Hospice care.","description":"Hospice care. Prohibits a health facility from including in a contract entered into, renewed, or amended after June 30, 2026, a provision prohibiting a person from transferring a resident to a different facility for hospice care.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1395/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067095,"bill_number":"HB1396","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Abandoned local roadways.","description":"Abandoned local roadways. Extinguishes certain easements and encumbrances on a vacated right-of-way.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1396/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067129,"bill_number":"HB1397","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Redevelopment tax credits.","description":"Redevelopment tax credits. Provides that $50,000,000 of the $300,000,000 of the Indiana economic development corporation's annual certifiable tax credit amount must be allocated to the small town opportunity initiative (initiative). Establishes the initiative. Provides that the purpose of the initiative is to undertake qualified community projects within local government units that have a project budget of at least $15,000,000 per project to do the following: (1) Advance historic preservation. (2) Redevelop or rehabilitate distressed buildings or underutilized property. (3) Redevelop or rehabilitate sites where distressed buildings once stood. Allows a redevelopment tax credit for: (1) a for-profit taxpayer undertaking a qualified community project under the initiative equal to 20% of the taxpayer's cost of the project; and (2) a nonprofit taxpayer undertaking a qualified community project under the initiative equal to 30% of the taxpayer's cost of the project. Provides that initiative projects are not subject to any statutory or administrative repayment obligation. Provides for certain items that are included in a nonprofit taxpayer's qualified investment.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1397/2026","subjects":["finance","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067187,"bill_number":"HB1398","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Agricultural programs.","description":"Agricultural programs. Creates the pork market development program (pork program) and the soybean market development program (soybean program). Specifies that the pork program and soybean program apply only if assessments are not levied and collected under federal law. Requires the Indiana Pork Producers Association, Inc., to administer the pork program and the Indiana Soybean Alliance to administer the soybean program. Establishes various procedures and requirements for operating the pork program and the soybean program. Makes technical corrections.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1398/2026","subjects":["public_safety","agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067418,"bill_number":"HB1399","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine products.","description":"Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine products. Requires the state police department (department) to oversee an electronic logging system (system) to: (1) record and monitor real time purchases of products containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine; (2) monitor ephedrine and pseudoephedrine purchases to prevent or investigate the illegal purchase of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine; and (3) block illegal purchases of ephedrine and pseduoephedrine. Requires the department to contract with a third party vendor to operate the system. Requires each manufacturer of products that contain ephedrine and pseudoephedrine to demonstrate to the department that they have a valid contract with the vendor to provide electronic tracking of purchases in Indiana. Replaces \"NPLEx system\" references with \"electronic logging system\". Removes current restrictions on the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine products to individuals who do not have a relationship on record with a pharmacy or have not completed a consultation with a pharmacy to determine if there is a legitimate medical or pharmaceutical need for the products.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1399/2026","subjects":["it","health","housing","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067061,"bill_number":"HB1400","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"MEWA for child care facilities.","description":"MEWA for child care facilities. Allows a group or association of child care facilities to establish a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA). Requires the department of insurance to: (1) create a survey requesting certain information from child care facilities; (2) facilitate communication between child care facilities that express an interest in establishing a MEWA; and (3) advise the child care facilities on best practices for lowering insurance costs. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to send a direct link to the survey by electronic mail to each child care facility.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1400/2026","subjects":["it","education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067177,"bill_number":"HB1401","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Employee childcare assistance partnership program.","description":"Employee childcare assistance partnership program. Establishes the employee child care assistance partnership program. Makes an appropriation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1401/2026","subjects":["education","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066893,"bill_number":"HB1402","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Restrictions on location of tobacco and vaping shops.","description":"Restrictions on location of tobacco and vaping shops. Amends a provision to prohibit the operation of a tobacco and vaping business within 3,520 feet of certain school buildings. (Current law requires 1,000 feet.)","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1402/2026","subjects":["education","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066917,"bill_number":"HB1403","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"First time home buyer savings program.","description":"First time home buyer savings program. Establishes the first time home buyer savings program (program) for the purpose of assisting first time home buyers who seek to open a first time home buyer savings account (account) at a financial institution to save money for the purchase of a single family residence. Requires the Indiana housing and community development authority to administer the program, to prepare and supervise the issuance of public information concerning the program, and to prescribe various forms for use by financial institutions that choose to offer accounts. Specifies that: (1) money in an account (including all earnings or interest on an account) is exempt from taxation in Indiana; and (2) withdrawals from an account used for a down payment and allowable closing costs for the purchase of a single family residence; are exempt from state adjusted gross income taxation. Creates a state adjusted gross income tax credit for contributions to an account (credit) in an amount equal to the lesser of: (1) 20% multiplied by the amount of the total contributions made to the account during a taxable year; or (2) $5,000. Requires repayment of all or a part of the credit in a taxable year in which the taxpayer withdraws funds from an account for purposes other than payment of a down payment and allowable closing costs.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1403/2026","subjects":["housing","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067001,"bill_number":"HB1404","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Workplace violence restraining orders.","description":"Workplace violence restraining orders. Provides that the chapter regarding the limitation on the issuance of injunctions for labor disputes does not apply to a case to obtain a workplace violence restraining order to protect an employee from unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence solely related to a dispute arising between two employees over their own personal controversy if the dispute does not involve claims governed by a collective bargaining agreement.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1404/2026","subjects":["public_safety","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067308,"bill_number":"HB1405","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prescription drug assistance program for the elderly.","description":"Prescription drug assistance program for the elderly. Establishes the prescription drug assistance program for the elderly (program) to be administered by the division of aging. Sets forth requirements of the program. Establishes the prescription drug assistance program for the elderly fund. Creates a Class A misdemeanor for fraud under the program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1405/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067464,"bill_number":"HB1406","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tax and fiscal matters.","description":"Tax and fiscal matters. Provides, in a county that uses a property tax statement as the notice of assessment, that the county treasurer must send a property tax statement to all property owners regardless of whether the property has any liability. Requires the county treasurer to indicate on the property tax statement whether a taxpayer's property tax liability for property taxes first due and payable in 2027 is less than the taxpayer's property tax liability for property taxes first due and payable in 2026. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) to report to the budget committee concerning any purchase or sale of land. Amends provisions regarding budget committee review of tax credits in determining the annual aggregate tax credit cap and specifies allocation of the credits. Provides that real property owned by certain Indiana nonprofit hospital systems is not exempt from property taxation under certain circumstances and unmet conditions. Provides that certain transfer fee covenants are limited only to transfers that involve the sale of property and do not include transactions where the property is gifted, donated, or transferred. Provides that personal property owned by certain entities remains subject to minimum valuation limitations. Amends provisions and revises the effective date for the rounding provisions for cash transactions with regard to the penny phaseout for payments to business entities in ESB 243-2026. Amends the percentage increase in a public library's proposed budget that determines whether the public library's proposed budget is subject to binding review by the applicable county, city, or town fiscal body. Allows the Delaware County executive to adopt an ordinance to consolidate the functions of a board, bureau, commission, authority, or any other similar entity authorized to administer funds received from the Delaware County: (1) innkeeper's tax; or (2) food and beverage tax; into a single, consolidated entity as designated in the consolidating ordinance. Adds certain organizations to the list of organizations for which conducted sales are exempt from state gross retail and use tax. Allows the city of Bedford to impose a food and beverage tax. Requires the IEDC to award $35,000,000 to development authorities each fiscal year that may be granted to taxpayers proposing a qualified investment in a qualified redevelopment site pursuant to a development plan. Establishes the small town opportunity initiative. Amends the venture capital investment tax credit (tax credit) to specify: (1) that certain investment policies of funds that qualify as a \"qualified Indiana investment fund\" apply only to investable capital, excluding management fees, legal fees, and other expenses incurred in the operation of the fund; (2) that a taxpayer is not prevented from combining individual tax credits of less than $10,000 for assignment; and (3) qualified business eligibility. Prohibits the IEDC from awarding an applicable tax credit to a taxpayer that is organized under the laws of a country that is a foreign adversary or that is otherwise related under certain circumstances to a country that is a foreign adversary. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services and division of family resources to require a vendor to offer certain technology solutions to prevent theft of SNAP benefits when issuing a request for proposals. Provides that if a Level 2 certified technology park (park): (1) has reached the limit of deposits for a Level 2 park; (2) maintains its certification; and (3) is located within a qualified military base enhancement area; the park shall become a Level 3 park and may receive an additional annual incremental income tax deposit of up to $250,000 until July 1, 2029. Allows the budget agency to augment the appropriation to the grain buyers and warehouse licensing agency from the grain buyers and warehouse licensing agency license fee fund.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1406/2026","subjects":["it","health","housing","public_safety","finance","elections","veterans","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2067368,"bill_number":"HB1407","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Contest based raffles.","description":"Contest based raffles. Allows qualified organizations to conduct contest based raffles for charity gaming. Specifies the manner in which contest based raffles must be conducted. Provides that a sport horse competition may be used to determine the winners of a contest based raffle.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1407/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068326,"bill_number":"HB1408","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Education matters.","description":"Education matters. Includes the general assembly in the list of state entities to which the management performance hub (MPH) must make available certain government information. Provides that the MPH's annual data product: (1) must include certain sources of information; and (2) must be made available to the general assembly. Amends the definition of \"workforce focused agency\" to include the state workforce development board. Provides that certain workforce related programs include apprenticeship programs, unless the apprenticeship program receives certain funding. Requires a regional representative appointed to the Ivy Tech Community College (college) state board of trustees (state board of trustees) to serve as a nonvoting member of the college campus board (campus board) for the region the member represents. Requires each college campus to review building utilization data prior to approving capital requests or requests for proposals. Requires the state board of trustees to create and approve evaluation tools for campus boards to provide annual feedback on the performance of the campus chancellors. Requires the college to annually provide: (1) certain program and student metrics information; and (2) an analysis of market labor outcomes; to each campus board. Requires each college campus to: (1) prepare a campus strategic plan that connects to the college's strategic plan; and (2) submit the campus strategic plan to the state board of trustees for approval. Provides that, when a vacancy occurs in the position of a campus chancellor, a member of the campus board, selected by the campus board, shall serve on the search committee appointed by the president of the college. Establishes requirements and restrictions regarding adolescent use of social media. Makes a violation of the requirements and restrictions a deceptive act.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1408/2026","subjects":["education","housing","labor","elections"],"agencies":["Trustees"]},{"bill_id":2068234,"bill_number":"HB1409","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Mobile retail food establishment operations.","description":"Mobile retail food establishment operations. Provides that provisions establishing a statewide mobile retail food establishment license may not be construed to prohibit an owner or operator of a mobile retail food establishment from complying with: (1) the collection and reporting requirements relating to food or beverage taxes; or (2) obtaining applicable municipal business permits or complying with municipal ordinances or requirements regulating the business operations of mobile retail food establishments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1409/2026","subjects":["finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068249,"bill_number":"HB1410","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Law enforcement officer training requirements.","description":"Law enforcement officer training requirements. Provides that, on or before July 1, 2027, the law enforcement training board shall establish a program to allow a law enforcement officer who has successfully completed the Tier II basic training requirement to subsequently complete the additional Tier I basic training requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1410/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068165,"bill_number":"HB1411","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tax sale procedures.","description":"Tax sale procedures. Reduces the period to redeem tax sale property as follows: (1) For real property sold to a land bank, the redemption period is six months (rather than one year). (2) For real property on which the county executive acquires a lien (including an assignment of the lien to a political subdivision or to a land bank) and the certificate of sale is not sold, the redemption period is 90 days (rather than 120 days). (3) For real property on which the county executive acquires a lien and the certificate of sale is sold or assigned to a land bank, the redemption period is 90 days (rather than 120 days). (4) For real property that a court determines is not suitable for tax sale, the redemption period is 90 days (rather than 120 days). Modifies the length of time in which notice must be provided to: (1) the owner of record; and (2) any person with a substantial interest of public record in the real property; for purposes of seeking a tax deed to account for the reductions to the redemption periods. For property that a court determines is not suitable for tax sale, provides that if the property is disposed within one year (rather than three years) after the conclusion of the tax sale at which the property would have been offered for sale, any amount received in excess of the amount of the minimum bid will be disbursed in the same manner as if the property had been sold in the tax sale. Makes a related change to the period to make a claim for any surplus in the tax sale surplus fund for properties certified as not suitable for sale. Specifies that a county auditor shall not issue or record a tax deed unless certain requirements are met not later than 90 days (rather than 150 days) after the date of the hearing at which a court grants the tax sale buyer's petition for the tax deed.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1411/2026","subjects":["housing","finance","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068353,"bill_number":"HB1412","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Coverage for cognitive rehabilitation services.","description":"Coverage for cognitive rehabilitation services. Requires a policy of accident and sickness insurance and a health maintenance organization to provide coverage for medically necessary acquired brain injury treatment provided to certain individuals.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1412/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068344,"bill_number":"HB1413","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Report on infant and maternal care.","description":"Report on infant and maternal care. Requires the Indiana department of health to prepare an annual report with specified statistics that compare data from 2021 before abortion restrictions were enacted with data from each subsequent calendar year.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1413/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068102,"bill_number":"HB1414","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Forest management.","description":"Forest management. Requires the department of natural resources (department) to establish recreational fees for the access and use of state forest land. Provides that the department shall ensure that at all times: (1) 10% of state forest land consists of forests that are 100 years or older; and (2) 10% of state forest land consists of forests that are 20 years or younger. Provides that money in the state forestry fund does not revert to the state general fund. Establishes various restrictions on landowner liability to recreational users.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1414/2026","subjects":["environment"],"agencies":["Natural Resources"]},{"bill_id":2068203,"bill_number":"HB1415","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Limits on nuisance actions against racetracks.","description":"Limits on nuisance actions against racetracks. Provides that a racing facility or racetrack or any of its appurtenances is not and does not become a nuisance, public or private, within the area of the racing facility or racetrack, in an action brought by a person who purchased or improved property within the area of the racing facility or racetrack or its appurtenances after the racing facility or racetrack initially commenced operation as a racing facility or racetrack.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1415/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068289,"bill_number":"HB1416","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Preemption of local regulation.","description":"Preemption of local regulation. Provides that unless expressly authorized by another statute, a municipality or county may not adopt, enforce, or maintain an ordinance, order, or rule regulating conduct in a field of regulation that is occupied by a provision in specified titles of the Indiana Code. Establishes a cause of action for a person who has sustained an injury in fact, actual or threatened, from a municipal or county ordinance, order, or rule adopted or enforced by a municipality or county.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1416/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068093,"bill_number":"HB1417","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-02-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Causes of action and damages.","description":"Causes of action and damages. Establishes a tort reform commission. Limits a civil cause of action concerning a public nuisance.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1417/2026","subjects":["water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068299,"bill_number":"HB1418","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Teacher licensing requirements.","description":"Teacher licensing requirements. Provides that certain individuals seeking an initial practitioner license are exempt from certain licensing requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1418/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068084,"bill_number":"HB1419","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Self-service storage facilities.","description":"Self-service storage facilities. Requires an owner of a self-service storage facility to implement adequate security measures to prevent the theft of a renter's personal property that is stored in a rented space at the owner's self-service storage facility. Provides that an owner of a self-service storage facility who engages in false, deceptive, or misleading advertising relating to security measures implemented or not implemented at the owner's self-service storage facility, commits a deceptive act.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1419/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068241,"bill_number":"HB1420","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Assignment of public employee pensions.","description":"Assignment of public employee pensions. Permits a court to order in an action for dissolution of marriage the assignment or garnishment of the monthly benefits that a member of the public employees' retirement fund is entitled to receive to another party in the dissolution action.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1420/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068111,"bill_number":"HB1421","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Ban on employer use of automated decision systems.","description":"Ban on employer use of automated decision systems. Prohibits an employer from: (1) relying exclusively on an automated decision system in making an employment related decision with respect to a covered individual; (2) using an automated decision system output in making an employment related decision with respect to a covered individual unless certain conditions are met; and (3) discriminating or retaliating against a covered individual for exercising rights under these provisions. Sets forth disclosure requirements for an employer that uses or intends to use an automated decision system output in making an employment related decision. Allows the department of labor to take certain enforcement actions. Allows a covered individual or labor organization to bring a civil action for a violation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1421/2026","subjects":["it","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068359,"bill_number":"HB1422","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Immigration matters.","description":"Immigration matters. Requires certain state agencies to give hiring preference to an individual who is a citizen or national of the United States over another individual who is an alien if the two individuals are equally qualified. Provides that the state agencies may not sponsor an individual for a new H-1B visa after July 1, 2026, unless certain information is submitted to the attorney general and the attorney general approves the state agency sponsoring the individual. Requires the state agencies to prepare and submit a report that includes certain information regarding each employee the state agency sponsored for a new H-1B visa during the immediately preceding state fiscal year. Requires the attorney general to post the reports on its website. Prohibits the state or a political subdivision from directly or indirectly funding services related to an immigration proceeding to an individual with unlawful status or to an entity that is a party to a legal action for the purpose of challenging, obstructing, or delaying the enforcement of certain federal immigration laws. Provides a private right of action for a violation of this prohibition.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1422/2026","subjects":["finance","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068307,"bill_number":"HB1423","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indianapolis public education corporation.","description":"Indianapolis public education corporation. Establishes the Indianapolis public education corporation (corporation) and board (corporation board). Establishes the duties and powers of the corporation and corporation board. Provides that the Indianapolis public schools school corporation (school city) is not subject to building closure or certain transfer of school building laws. Allows only certain authorizers to grant or renew charters for charter schools located within the geographic boundaries of the school city. Specifies authority and duties of the corporation related to imposition of property taxes. Provides that the corporation is authorized to pursue a controlled project, operating referendum, or school safety referendum (instead of the school city). Requires the county auditor to transfer to the corporation a percentage of the amount of revenue collected from the operations fund property tax levy that would otherwise be distributed to the school city and applicable charter schools. Establishes the corporation operations fund and corporation debt service fund. Provides that the corporation may issue bonds, enter leases, or otherwise incur indebtedness after March 31, 2026, and before July 1, 2027, only if the board of school commissioners of the school city first adopts a resolution approving the issuance of the bonds, entering into the lease, or incurring of indebtedness. Provides, beginning April 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027, the reduction of distributions to pay for debt service obligations issued by the corporation must be made from reductions of distributions to the school city for failure to pay debt service obligations.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1423/2026","subjects":["education","finance","energy","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068318,"bill_number":"HB1424","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Farm and homestead food sales.","description":"Farm and homestead food sales. Allows the executive board of the Indiana department of health to adopt rules concerning time temperature control for food safety, but provides that the rules may not be applied to a homestead vendor or small farm vendor. Provides that homestead vendors and small farm vendors are exempt from specified health regulations applicable to food establishments. Provides that the Indiana department of health, a local unit of government, the health and hospital corporation of Marion County, or a local health department may not impose any rules, regulations, certifications, or licensing requirements on a homestead vendor or small farm vendor that are not required under federal law, but may investigate complaints against a homestead vendor or small farm vendor regarding a foodborne illness derived from the homestead vendor's or small farm vendor's food products. Permits homestead vendors and small farm vendors to sell specified meat products and other foods from: (1) the property of the homestead vendor or small farm vendor; or (2) a farmers market. Requires a homestead vendor or small farm vendor to provide consumers with specified information regarding the homestead vendor's or small farm vendor's food products through signage or labeling. Provides for conditions under which a homestead vendor or small farm vendor may ship or deliver a food product directly to a consumer. Imposes handling, refrigeration, transportation, and storage requirements for homestead vendor and small farm vendor food products. Provides that public buildings used by homestead vendors and small farm vendors are exempt from certain public building and safety regulations. Provides that buildings, structures, or stands used for sale of  homestead vendor or small farm vendor food products are subject to specified fire safety, building, and equipment laws.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1424/2026","subjects":["health","transportation","agriculture","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068131,"bill_number":"HB1425","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Social service provider tax credit.","description":"Social service provider tax credit. Allows a qualified taxpayer to claim a credit against the taxpayer's state tax liability for designated contributions to qualified nonprofit organizations that provide: (1) comprehensive case management services for at risk families; (2) family support services; (3) in-school programs, community based events, or online resources to assist fathers in learning and improving parenting skills; or (4) programs that provide mutual support systems among mothers in raising children or information for mothers to enhance child development.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1425/2026","subjects":["education","housing","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068195,"bill_number":"HB1426","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Training concerning Alzheimer's disease and dementia.","description":"Training concerning Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Requires firefighters and persons who are certified or licensed providers of emergency medical services to complete training on Alzheimer's disease and dementia.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1426/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068149,"bill_number":"HB1427","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Reporting on gender transition procedures.","description":"Reporting on gender transition procedures. Requires practitioners who perform gender transition procedures to report on a quarterly basis certain information to the practitioner's regulating board concerning the gender transition procedures. Requires the submitted reports to be provided to the professional licensing agency (agency) to be compiled as an annual report. Requires the agency to post the annual report on the agency's website and submit the report to the general assembly.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1427/2026","subjects":["transportation","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068269,"bill_number":"HB1428","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Swimming pools in senior neighborhoods.","description":"Swimming pools in senior neighborhoods. Allows a senior neighborhood to not have a lifeguard on duty if certain conditions are met except for during visiting hours when minors are allowed to use the pool. Requires the senior neighborhood to post signs at each pool entrance and inform the senior neighborhood's residents of the rules for the pool. Allows the Indiana department of health (state department) to assess a fine for each violation. Requires the state department to amend the Indiana Administrative Code rule concerning the regulating of pools and inform local health departments concerning the changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1428/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068075,"bill_number":"HB1429","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Appraiser statute of limitations.","description":"Appraiser statute of limitations. Provides with regard to an appraisal or appraisal service performed after June 30, 2026, a civil action against a licensed or certified real estate appraiser or registered appraisal management company must be commenced not later than five years after the appraisal service date.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1429/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068212,"bill_number":"HB1430","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Referenda on preschool funding levies.","description":"Referenda on preschool funding levies. Allows the legislative body of a county and certain cities to adopt a resolution to place a referendum on the ballot to impose a local preschool referendum tax levy (levy) to fund administration of a preschool program and provide tuition and other assistance. Allows a unit to impose a levy if approved by a majority of the voters. Provides that voters may not approve a levy that is imposed for more than eight years. Specifies procedures for the referendum. Provides that a unit that imposes a levy must establish a preschool education program and a local preschool education referendum tax levy fund.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1430/2026","subjects":["education","finance","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068259,"bill_number":"HB1431","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Street camping.","description":"Street camping. Prohibits an individual from camping, sleeping, or using for long term shelter land owned by the state or a political subdivision, unless the land has been authorized for that use by law. Provides, if certain elements are met, that a person who knowingly or intentionally uses land owned by the state or a political subdivision for unauthorized camping, sleeping, or long term shelter commits a Class C misdemeanor. Allows an individual to be referred to a problem solving court program for a violation. Prohibits a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing any policy that prohibits or discourages the enforcement of any order or ordinance prohibiting public camping, sleeping, or other obstruction of a sidewalk. Authorizes a resident of the political subdivision, an owner of a business located in the political subdivision, or the attorney general to bring a civil action to enjoin a political subdivision that adopts or enforces such a policy.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1431/2026","subjects":["housing","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068122,"bill_number":"HB1432","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Death sentence and intellectual disabilities.","description":"Death sentence and intellectual disabilities. 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Provides that a: (1) candidate for election as a member of the IURC; or (2) candidate's committee of a candidate for election as a member of the IURC; may not solicit or accept a contribution from a utility, or from a person with an interest in a utility, for the duration of the candidate's candidacy for election as a member of the IURC.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1433/2026","subjects":["energy","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068224,"bill_number":"HB1434","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Utility votes at RTO meetings.","description":"Utility votes at RTO meetings. Beginning in 2027, requires certain public utilities that provide electric utility service to file with the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) an annual report that: (1) lists, or otherwise provides access to information on, each recorded vote cast by the public utility, and any affiliate of the public utility, at a meeting of the PJM Interconnection, LLC regional transmission organization (RTO), regardless of whether the vote is disclosed by the RTO; and (2) includes a brief description explaining how each vote identified supports the provision of electric utility service with the attributes set forth in Indiana's state energy policy. Provides that for purposes of this requirement, a meeting means a meeting of: (1) specified permanent standing committees of the RTO; or (2) any senior task force of the RTO that is active during the calendar year with respect to which a report is submitted by a public utility under the bill's provisions. Requires the IURC to post on the IURC's website the reports received under the bill's provisions. Requires the IURC to adopt rules to implement these provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1434/2026","subjects":["energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068185,"bill_number":"HB1435","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Landlord-tenant matters.","description":"Landlord-tenant matters. Requires a landlord to provide and maintain a rental premises that is free from the following: (1) Pests, including rodents and invasive insects. (2) Mold. (3) Rot. Sets forth a procedure for a tenant to use to initiate a request for repairs. Requires, under certain circumstances, a landlord to repair or replace an essential system not later than 72 hours after being notified by a tenant that the tenant's rental unit is without essential services. Defines \"essential services\" and \"essential system\". Allows for certain remedies to the tenant for the landlord's noncompliance, including a procedure for the deposit of rent that is due with the clerk of the court if the landlord fails or refuses to make repairs or take remedial action. Provides that, after June 30, 2026, a landlord may not manage a rental property in Indiana unless the landlord: (1) is authorized to do business in Indiana; (2) maintains an office at one or more physical locations in Indiana; or (3) appoints an Indiana licensed real estate broker or broker company to manage the rental property.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB1435/2026","subjects":["housing","agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2072103,"bill_number":"HB1436","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-13","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. 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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION encouraging the United States Congress to require the United States Secretary of State to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0013/2026","subjects":["housing","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2102570,"bill_number":"HCR0014","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-11","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Recognizing the Indiana University Hoosiers football team for winning the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship and for achieving an undefeated season.","description":"Recognizing the Indiana University Hoosiers football team for winning the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship and for achieving an undefeated season. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the Indiana University Hoosiers football team for winning the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship and for achieving an undefeated season.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0014/2026","subjects":["education","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2102689,"bill_number":"HCR0015","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Recognizing Wednesday, February 4, 2026, as a day to honor the work and mission of the Indiana Region of the American Red Cross.","description":"Recognizing Wednesday, February 4, 2026, as a day to honor the work and mission of the Indiana Region of the American Red Cross. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing Wednesday, February 4, 2026, as a day to honor the work and mission of the Indiana Region of the American Red Cross.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0015/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2104538,"bill_number":"HCR0016","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Recognizing and honoring volunteer firefighters with 50 years or more of services.","description":"Recognizing and honoring volunteer firefighters with 50 years or more of services. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing and\nhonoring volunteer firefighters with 50 years or more of services.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0016/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2108631,"bill_number":"HCR0017","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-02-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Urging Indiana's federal congressional delegation and the United States government to place price floors for farmers and break up agricultural monopolies.","description":"Urging Indiana's federal congressional delegation and the United States government to place price floors for farmers and break up agricultural monopolies. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging Indiana's federal congressional delegation and the United States government to place price floors for farmers and break up agricultural monopolies.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0017/2026","subjects":["housing","agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2108502,"bill_number":"HCR0018","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-13","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Recognizing Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza.","description":"Recognizing Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0018/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2108597,"bill_number":"HCR0019","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-13","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Indianapolis Children's Choir.","description":"Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Indianapolis Children's Choir. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Indianapolis Children's Choir.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0019/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2115307,"bill_number":"HCR0020","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-18","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Honoring Sergeant Terry Frye.","description":"Honoring Sergeant Terry Frye. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Sergeant Terry Frye.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0020/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2117494,"bill_number":"HCR0021","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-02-16","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Recognizing and commending GAP26 for its efforts to promote prayer, faith, and community across the United States.","description":"Recognizing and commending GAP26 for its efforts to promote prayer, faith, and community across the United States. Recognizing and commending GAP26 for its efforts to promote prayer, faith, and community across the United States.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0021/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2118512,"bill_number":"HCR0022","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Honoring Don Fischer.","description":"Honoring Don Fischer. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Don Fischer.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0022/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2118350,"bill_number":"HCR0023","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Congratulating Michelin North America, Inc., upon the occasion of the 65th anniversary of its BFGoodrich tire production facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana.","description":"Congratulating Michelin North America, Inc., upon the occasion of the 65th anniversary of its BFGoodrich tire production facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating Michelin North America, Inc., upon the occasion of the 65th anniversary of its BFGoodrich tire production facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0023/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2118430,"bill_number":"HCR0024","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Recognizing the 70th anniversary of The Arc of Indiana and honoring its enduring leadership and advocacy for Hoosiers with intellectual and developmental disabilities.","description":"Recognizing the 70th anniversary of The Arc of Indiana and honoring its enduring leadership and advocacy for Hoosiers with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the 70th anniversary of The Arc of Indiana and honoring its enduring leadership and advocacy for Hoosiers with intellectual and developmental disabilities.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0024/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2120213,"bill_number":"HCR0025","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Congratulating Eli Lilly and Company on 150 years of advancing health, science, and a better future for Hoosiers and people around the world.","description":"Congratulating Eli Lilly and Company on 150 years of advancing health, science, and a better future for Hoosiers and people around the world. Congratulating Eli Lilly and Company on 150 years of advancing health, science, and a better future for Hoosiers and people around the world.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HCR0025/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057095,"bill_number":"HJR0001","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Impeachment of a judge or prosecutor.","description":"Impeachment of a judge or prosecutor. Provides that circuit court judges and prosecuting attorneys may be impeached for crime, incapacity, or negligence, or impeached or removed from office as prescribed by law. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HJR0001/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065062,"bill_number":"HJR0002","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"County officers.","description":"County officers. Removes the: (1) auditor; (2) recorder; (3) treasurer; (4) coroner; and (5) surveyor (officers); from the list of elected county officers who are to be elected in each county. Requires the general assembly to prescribe, by law, the duties of the officers to the county executive. Provides a schedule for the officers to complete their terms. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HJR0002/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065205,"bill_number":"HJR0003","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Membership of the general assembly.","description":"Membership of the general assembly. Increases the membership of the Indiana senate to 100 members and the membership of the Indiana house of representatives to 200 members. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HJR0003/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065722,"bill_number":"HJR0004","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Ratification of amendment to the Constitution of the United States.","description":"Ratification of amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Provides for ratification of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States concerning congressional apportionment.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/HJR0004/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066563,"bill_number":"SB0001","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Human services matters.","description":"Human services matters. Establishes the Indiana rural health transformation fund and makes allotments and expenditures from the fund subject to budget committee review before the allotment and expenditure may occur. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to report biannually to the budget committee concerning the use of the money in the fund. Prohibits recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from using SNAP benefits to purchase candy and soft drinks. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a waiver or authorization to implement the prohibition if a waiver or authorization from a federal agency is required. Terminates the state's participation in the use of expanded categorical eligibility within the federal SNAP. Specifies gross income standards and countable resources for SNAP eligibility. Establishes immigration eligibility requirements for SNAP and requires the division of family resources to verify compliance with the requirements and submit information to the federal government about individuals for whom the division could not verify the immigration status. Specifies the time frame for Medicaid eligibility redeterminations. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to transmit certain information to the federal government to prevent multiple state Medicaid enrollment. Specifies the time frame concerning the initial date of Medicaid assistance based on the application date. Sets forth additional countable income requirements for Medicaid. Modifies immigration status requirements for Medicaid, including presumptive eligibility and the healthy Indiana plan (HIP), and requires the office to verify compliance of the requirements and report information to the federal government. Modifies work and exemption requirements for HIP and requires the conditions to be met in the three preceding months before an individual applies to HIP. Requires the office to verify compliance with the work requirements on an ongoing basis and at least quarterly. Prohibits the office from expanding the medically frail exemption beyond the federal definition of the term. Removes the 12 month eligibility period for HIP and requires semiannual renewal. Sets forth additional copayments for the use of an emergency room setting for nonemergency services and other services under HIP.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0001/2026","subjects":["health","transportation","finance","agriculture","trade"],"agencies":["Secretary Of Family And Social Services"]},{"bill_id":2066474,"bill_number":"SB0002","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Bail procedures.","description":"Bail procedures. Provides that offenses other than murder are not bailable if the state proves: (1) by a preponderance of the evidence that the proof is evident or the presumption strong; and (2) by clear and convincing evidence that the arrestee is dangerous and that no conditions of release will reasonably protect the safety of other persons or the community. Establishes procedures for a bail hearing. Removes duplicative provisions concerning repeat violent arrestees. Permits a court to retain cash bail for the payment of certain costs without an indigency hearing if the defendant has executed an agreement permitting the court to retain the cash bail for these purposes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0002/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066520,"bill_number":"SB0003","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Constitutional amendment ballot language.","description":"Constitutional amendment ballot language. Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning bail.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0003/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068520,"bill_number":"SB0004","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various fiscal matters.","description":"Various fiscal matters. Requires the legislative services agency to perform a fiscal impact analysis for all executive orders issued by the governor within seven days of an order's issuance. (Under current law, this requirement only applies to a governor's declaration of a disaster emergency by executive order.) Provides that if the implementation and compliance costs of a proposed rule are expected to exceed $500,000 (instead of $1,000,000) over a two year period, the publisher may not publish the proposed rule until the budget committee has reviewed the rule. Amends the Pokagon Indiana Education Fund to allow payments to be made to both public and private Indiana institutions of higher learning for the purposes of the fund. Makes the following changes (effective July 1, 2028) regarding community mental health centers (CMHC): (1) Allows a county to meet CMHC funding requirements from any funding source in lieu of or in combination with property taxes but excluding federal funds. (2) Adds provisions concerning the location where certain CMHC services may be provided. (3) Specifies additional items that are required to be reported by a CMHC in its annual report. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on courts and the judiciary the task of undertaking a comprehensive study of all court fees and fines. Allows the budget agency, subject to budget committee review, to use the appropriation to the financial responsibility and opportunity growth fund (fund) in HEA 1001-2025 or augment the fund for the purpose of providing funding to the Child Care and Development Fund voucher program in addition to the uses for the appropriation as authorized in HEA 1001-2025.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0004/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing","finance","emergency","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068882,"bill_number":"SB0005","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Suspension of permit.","description":"Suspension of permit. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) to refuse to grant or renew or to suspend or revoke a retailer's permit if a licensed premises becomes a public nuisance or the scene of certain acts or prohibited conduct. Allows the chairman of the commission to temporarily suspend an alcoholic beverage retail permit if all of the following apply: (1) The chairman has a reasonable belief that a felony has been committed on the licensed premises. (2) The permit holder failed to take reasonable action to prevent the occurrence of a crime. (3) Multiple crimes or violations have occurred on the licensed premises in the last 12 months. (4) The continued operation of the licensed premises would pose a clear and immediate danger to the safety of the surrounding community or general public. Requires the commission to: (1) provide immediate notice to the permit holder of a factual basis for the suspension and the time and place of a hearing on the suspension; and (2) hold the hearing not later than three business days after the permit is suspended.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0005/2026","subjects":["public_safety","cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056216,"bill_number":"SB0006","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Extension of water or wastewater mains.","description":"Extension of water or wastewater mains. Provides that before a municipally owned utility (utility) may condemn land for the extension of a water main or a wastewater main that is located outside: (1) the corporate boundaries of the municipality; or (2) the existing service territory of the utility; the utility must provide, by mail, written notice to each landowner whose land is needed for the extension and to the county plan commission for the county in which the extension project is proposed. Sets forth the information that must be included in the required notices. Requires the: (1) utility to post on the utility's website; and (2) county in which the extension project is proposed to post on the county's website; certain information about the proposed extension project. Provides that a landowner or a county plan commission that receives a notice from a utility under the bill's provisions may, not later than 30 days after receiving the notice, request in writing a meeting with the utility regarding the proposed extension project. Provides that upon receiving such a request, the utility shall offer to meet with the landowner or county plan commission not later than 30 days after the utility's receipt of the request. Authorizes a utility to proceed with a proposed extension project if the utility has satisfied the bill's notice requirements. Beginning in 2027, requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to include in its annual report the following information with respect to the most recently concluded state fiscal year: (1) Any reported delays in an extension project that a utility attributes to any of the bill's requirements. (2) Any complaints or disputes arising under the bill's provisions that are submitted to the IURC. (3) Any action taken by the IURC with respect to any reported delays, complaints, or disputes arising under the bill's provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0006/2026","subjects":["environment","finance","energy","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056439,"bill_number":"SB0007","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Carbon sequestration.","description":"Carbon sequestration. Provides that a storage operator may not operate a carbon sequestration project that transports or stores carbon dioxide outside the county where the carbon dioxide is generated unless the project is approved by the appropriate county legislative body or plan commission. Exempts certain projects from the provisions of the bill. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0007/2026","subjects":["environment","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056436,"bill_number":"SB0008","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-27","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Library budgets.","description":"Library budgets. Amends the percentage increase in a public library's proposed budget that determines whether the public library's proposed budget is subject to binding review by the applicable county, city, or town, fiscal body.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0008/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056346,"bill_number":"SB0009","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Victim impact statements.","description":"Victim impact statements. Requires a defendant to be present in the courtroom while a victim makes a statement concerning the crime and the sentence, unless the defendant presents a safety risk or causes a significant disruption. Provides that if a defendant fails to appear at sentencing and is later taken into custody, the court may hold a hearing to permit the victim to makes a statement concerning the crime and the sentence in the presence of the defendant.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0009/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056251,"bill_number":"SB0010","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"State employee retirement benefits.","description":"State employee retirement benefits. Requires the state to make contributions after December 31, 2026, that match, dollar for dollar, each state employee's deferred compensation contributions, not to exceed $28 per paycheck. Specifies limitations on state contributions, including the availability of biennial appropriations. Allows in certain circumstances the budget agency to suspend contributions, resume contributions, and make contributions that were missed due to suspension. Specifies a process by which portions of the funding sources for the retirement medical benefits account must be transferred to the state comptroller for the purpose of making matching contributions. Provides as a default rule that after December 31, 2026, each participant's membership in the retirement medical benefits account is terminated, participant subaccounts are forfeited, and subaccount amounts must be transferred to the state general fund. Specifies exceptions. Requires the state comptroller to transfer certain amounts from the state general fund to each participant's defined contribution plan. Specifies a time frame within which a participant in the retirement medical benefits account may elect to remain a participant. Establishes the 2027 retiree health benefit trust. Provides that the retiree health benefit trust fund will be terminated when certain conditions are met. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.)","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0010/2026","subjects":["health","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056372,"bill_number":"SB0011","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Firing squad.","description":"Firing squad. Authorizes the death penalty to be carried out by firing squad: (1) if execution by lethal injection cannot be carried out due to the unavailability of a required drug; or (2) upon request by the condemned person. Establishes a procedure for execution by firing squad. Makes conforming amendments and technical corrections.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0011/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056443,"bill_number":"SB0012","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prohibition of ranked choice voting.","description":"Prohibition of ranked choice voting. Prohibits the use of ranked choice voting.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0012/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056266,"bill_number":"SB0013","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-17","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Motor vehicle equipment requirements.","description":"Motor vehicle equipment requirements. Adds an exception to certain motor vehicle equipment requirements for vehicle chassis that are a part of a vehicle manufacturer's work in process and are towed for a distance of less than 40 miles.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0013/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056382,"bill_number":"SB0014","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Pension matters.","description":"Pension matters. Modifies the definition of \"average of the annual compensation\" for a member of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) who retires after December 31, 2027. Specifies that compensation received in contemplation of retirement is excluded from the average of the annual compensation for particular members of PERF and the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (TRF). Repeals a provision requiring the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system (board) to maintain separate accounts for each unit of local government. Provides that amounts forfeited under the public employees defined contribution plan must be used as determined by the board. Specifies a process by which a fully vested member of the public employees' defined contribution plan or the teachers' defined contribution plan may irrevocably elect to participate in PERF or TRF, as applicable. Modifies the information that must be included in a delinquency notice to a delinquent political subdivision. Modifies the requirements that apply to certain PERF members purchasing and claiming years of service credit in PERF. Allows, subject to particular requirements, certain TRF members to purchase and claim years of service credit in TRF. Allows a PERF or TRF member's employer to pay all or part of the member's contributions required for purchase of service credit. Allows a wage assignment to be made for the purpose of paying voluntary contributions of an employee of a political subdivision to a tax deferred retirement account. Provides that a municipality, a unit, an airport authority, a school corporation, or a charter school may require certain members of PERF to continue as members of that fund instead of the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (1977 fund). Requires, subject to certain limitations, the state to make contributions after December 31, 2026, that match, dollar for dollar, each state employee's deferred compensation contributions, not to exceed $28 per paycheck. Specifies a process by which portions of the funding sources for the retirement medical benefits account must be transferred to the state comptroller for the purpose of making matching contributions. Provides as a default rule that after December 31, 2026, each participant's membership in the retirement medical benefits account is terminated, participant subaccounts are forfeited, and subaccount amounts must be transferred to the state general fund. Requires the state comptroller to transfer certain amounts from the state general fund to each participant's defined contribution plan. Specifies a time frame within which a participant in the retirement medical benefits account may elect to remain a participant. Establishes the 2027 retiree health benefit trust. Provides that the retiree health benefit trust fund will be terminated when certain conditions are met. Increases the lump sum death benefit payable to the heirs or estate of a 1977 fund member. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.)","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0014/2026","subjects":["health","education","public_safety","transportation","finance","labor","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056378,"bill_number":"SB0015","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Foster youth.","description":"Foster youth. Requires the department of child services to: (1) create a statement called \"the foster youth bill of rights\", which is to summarize a foster youth's rights and responsibilities; (2) update the statement periodically; (3) distribute the statement to specified individuals; and (4) publish the statement on the department's website. Defines \"foster youth\" for purposes of the foster youth bill of rights. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0015/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":["Child Services"]},{"bill_id":2056244,"bill_number":"SB0016","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Privately made firearms.","description":"Privately made firearms. Defines a \"privately made firearm\" and other related terms. Makes it a Level 5 felony to possess a privately made firearm. Makes it a Level 5 felony to alter, obliterate, or remove certain marks of firearm identification or to possess a firearm on which those marks of identification have been altered, obliterated, or removed.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0016/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056445,"bill_number":"SB0017","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Air quality.","description":"Air quality. Authorizes a town, city, or county to establish or designate an agency to act for the town, city, or county as a local air pollution control agency (agency). Requires the commissioner of the department of environmental management (department) to enter into a contract with the agency of a town, city, or county if the agency is willing to enter into the contract. Provides that a contract between the department and the agency of a town, city, or county must: (1) require the department to advise, consult, cooperate with, and provide technical assistance to the agency; (2) authorize the agency to undertake air pollution control activities on behalf of the department or initiate enforcement of ordinances of the town, city, or county; and (3) provide for the payment of fair monetary compensation for the air pollution control activities performed by the agency. Provides that: (1) the compensation paid to an agency under a contract must be at least sufficient to cover the agency's staffing and operating costs; and (2) the rate of compensation must be adjusted each year according to changes in the Consumer Price Index.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0017/2026","subjects":["environment"],"agencies":["Environmental Management"]},{"bill_id":2056311,"bill_number":"SB0018","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"East Chicago school board elections.","description":"East Chicago school board elections. Changes the election process for the governing body of the East Chicago school corporation, so that all members are elected at large by the voters of the school corporation. (Current law provides that three members are elected from certain districts, and two members are elected at large.) Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0018/2026","subjects":["education","housing","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056237,"bill_number":"SB0019","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Election of Lake County superior court judges.","description":"Election of Lake County superior court judges. Provides that the superior court judges of Lake County are elected in the same manner as other superior court judges. Provides that the change to the election of a judge does not occur until the general election that occurs immediately before the expiration of the term of a judge sitting on the court under current law. Repeals superseded provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0019/2026","subjects":["housing","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056350,"bill_number":"SB0020","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Voluntary family leave insurance program.","description":"Voluntary family leave insurance program. Requires the department of insurance (department) to establish, not later than January 1, 2027, a voluntary family leave insurance program (program) for the purpose of providing benefits to employees who elect to participate in the program. Sets forth requirements for the program. Allows the department to contract with an outside vendor to administer the program. Requires the department, not later than November 1, 2026, to submit a report to the legislative council and the budget committee concerning the proposed program. Establishes the voluntary family leave insurance program trust fund (trust fund) for the purpose of paying program benefits. Provides that the trust fund consists of employer or employee contributions, appropriations from the general assembly, and money received from any other source. Provides that certain employers are entitled to an adjusted gross income tax deduction equal to the total amount of contributions made by the employer to the trust fund during the taxable year multiplied by 200%.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0020/2026","subjects":["finance","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056273,"bill_number":"SB0021","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-14","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"State sandwich.","description":"State sandwich. Designates the breaded tenderloin sandwich as the official state sandwich of Indiana.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0021/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056361,"bill_number":"SB0022","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Dissolution of human remains.","description":"Dissolution of human remains. Expands the definition of \"cremation\" to include alkaline hydrolysis as a means for the dissolution of human remains. Requires the state board of funeral and cemetery service to adopt rules governing the operation of alkaline hydrolysis facilities. Adds alkaline hydrolysis to statutes that allow for burial or cremation. Specifies that a person may request alkaline hydrolysis in statutes that allow for burial or cremation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0022/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056321,"bill_number":"SB0023","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Alcoholic beverage permits for county fairs.","description":"Alcoholic beverage permits for county fairs. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission to issue a permit for the sale of alcoholic beverages on the grounds of a county fair conducted by a local board, subject to certain limitations and requirements. Adds participation in an event sponsored by a local board to the activities permissible within the scope of a permit held by a farm winery, a small brewer, an artisan distiller, a beer retailer, a liquor retailer, and a wine retailer. Adds the state fair and a county fair that is issued a permit to the exceptions to the minor loitering statute.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0023/2026","subjects":["agriculture","cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056385,"bill_number":"SB0024","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"State administered retirement program.","description":"State administered retirement program. Establishes a board to design, establish, and operate a state administered retirement program (program) that automatically enrolls specified private sector employees. Requires program compliance by certain employers that have not, in the previous two calendar years, offered a qualified retirement plan to employees. Specifies the powers and duties of the board. Specifies program requirements, including default contribution levels and program fees. Requires the board to contract with investment managers, private financial institutions, or other service providers to invest money and administer the program. Limits the liability of particular parties associated with the program. Specifies board requirements for disclosure, audits, and reports. Requires the board to adopt certain rules. Makes an appropriation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0024/2026","subjects":["finance","energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056471,"bill_number":"SB0025","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"School board candidates.","description":"School board candidates. Specifies that if there is more than one candidate for a school board office within certain designated groups of candidates, the candidates shall appear in a certain order and within the grouping and in alphabetical order according to surname.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0025/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056305,"bill_number":"SB0026","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0026/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056332,"bill_number":"SB0027","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-26","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Stadium authority.","description":"Stadium authority. Establishes the northwest Indiana stadium authority (stadium authority) for the purpose of acquiring and financing certain facilities. Sets forth the powers and duties of the stadium authority. Establishes the northwest Indiana stadium board (stadium board) for the purpose of financing, constructing, equipping, operating, and maintaining a capital improvement. Specifies the composition of the stadium board and sets forth the powers and duties of the stadium board, including the issuance of bonds and notes to finance a capital improvement. Amends and adds provisions that apply to the Indiana finance authority. Amends provisions in the Lake County and Porter County food and beverage tax chapter. Amends provisions in the Lake County innkeeper's tax chapter. Authorizes the city of Hammond to impose an admissions tax. Requires amounts collected from the city admissions tax to be distributed to the stadium board or its designee. Authorizes a redevelopment commission of the city of Hammond to establish a professional sports development area in the city designated as the northwest Indiana professional sports development area and tax area. Authorizes the city of Hammond to establish a northwest Indiana stadium development district. Specifies the duties and authorities of the district and the uses of the incremental tax revenue captured in the district. Requires the Indiana Sports Corporation, beginning July 1, 2027, to ensure that 20% of the money received by the Indiana Sports Corporation each biennium is used for events supported by the northwest Indiana stadium authority and that not less than 20% (instead of 30%) of the money received by the Indiana Sports Corporation each biennium is used for events that are conducted outside of both Marion County and Lake County. Requires certain projects to be reviewed by the budget committee before the Indiana department of transportation proceed with contract letting.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0027/2026","subjects":["transportation","finance","energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056291,"bill_number":"SB0028","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0028/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056270,"bill_number":"SB0029","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0029/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056234,"bill_number":"SB0030","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0030/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056403,"bill_number":"SB0031","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0031/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056280,"bill_number":"SB0032","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0032/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056406,"bill_number":"SB0033","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0033/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056298,"bill_number":"SB0034","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0034/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056354,"bill_number":"SB0035","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0035/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056416,"bill_number":"SB0036","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0036/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056240,"bill_number":"SB0037","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0037/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056255,"bill_number":"SB0038","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0038/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056205,"bill_number":"SB0039","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0039/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056276,"bill_number":"SB0040","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0040/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056328,"bill_number":"SB0041","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0041/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056364,"bill_number":"SB0042","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0042/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056339,"bill_number":"SB0043","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0043/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056325,"bill_number":"SB0044","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0044/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056263,"bill_number":"SB0045","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0045/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056368,"bill_number":"SB0046","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0046/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056283,"bill_number":"SB0047","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0047/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056399,"bill_number":"SB0048","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0048/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056467,"bill_number":"SB0049","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0049/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056259,"bill_number":"SB0050","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Hard credit inquiries by landlords.","description":"Hard credit inquiries by landlords. Prohibits a landlord from doing the following in connection with an applicant's application for the rental of a rental unit: (1) Making a hard inquiry to a consumer reporting agency or to a specialty consumer reporting agency for an applicant's consumer report or for information in an applicant's consumer report. (2) Obtaining or using a tenant screening report that includes information that is obtained through a hard inquiry to a consumer reporting agency or to a specialty consumer reporting agency for an applicant's consumer report or for information in an applicant's consumer report. Defines \"hard inquiry\" for purposes of these provisions as an inquiry that: (1) is noted on the consumer report of the applicant for a period of time following the inquiry; and (2) negatively impacts the applicant's credit score. Provides that a landlord that violates the bill's provisions commits a deceptive act that is actionable by an applicant and the attorney general under the Indiana statute concerning deceptive consumer sales.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0050/2026","subjects":["housing","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056230,"bill_number":"SB0051","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Postpartum care for new mothers on Medicaid.","description":"Postpartum care for new mothers on Medicaid. Requires that: (1) certain health care providers; (2) hospitals; and (3) the office of the secretary of family and social services or a managed care organization that has contracted with the office under the Medicaid program; ensure that a Medicaid recipient or an individual eligible for Medicaid who gives birth schedules a follow-up appointment for postpartum care that is not later than 60 days from the date the woman gives birth. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services.)","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0051/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056456,"bill_number":"SB0052","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Grandparent visitation.","description":"Grandparent visitation. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate study committee certain topics related to grandparent visitation rights.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0052/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056247,"bill_number":"SB0053","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Redistricting.","description":"Redistricting. Prohibits the general assembly from establishing or modifying house districts, senate districts, or congressional districts at a time other than the first regular session of the general assembly convening immediately following the United States decennial census.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0053/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056301,"bill_number":"SB0054","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Zoning overlay districts for solar projects.","description":"Zoning overlay districts for solar projects. Provides that after December 31, 2025, a permit authority may not establish in a unit a zoning overlay district in which one or more commercial solar energy projects (CSE projects) will be located unless each underlying zoning district across which the proposed overlay district will extend is zoned for a use that, under the unit's existing zoning ordinance at the time the overlay district is proposed, permits the location of a CSE project within that underlying district. Provides that if one or more underlying zoning districts across which the proposed overlay district will extend is not zoned for a use that permits the location of a CSE project within that underlying district, each such underlying zoning district, or part of the zoning district, must be rezoned for a use that permits the location of a CSE project within all or part of the underlying zoning district.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0054/2026","subjects":["energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056335,"bill_number":"SB0055","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Agricultural programs.","description":"Agricultural programs. Creates the pork market development program (pork program) and the soybean market development program (soybean program). Specifies that the pork program and soybean program apply only if assessments are not levied and collected under federal law. Requires the Indiana Pork Producers Association, Inc., to administer the pork program and the Indiana Soybean Alliance to administer the soybean program. Establishes various procedures and requirements for operating the pork program and the soybean program. Makes technical corrections.~","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0055/2026","subjects":["public_safety","agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056428,"bill_number":"SB0056","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Veterinary licensing.","description":"Veterinary licensing. Provides that the board of veterinary medicine may issue a license or registration to a qualified applicant without an examination if the qualified applicant: (1) satisfies the requirements for reciprocity of health care professionals; and (2) otherwise meets the requirements to become a licensed veterinarian or a registered veterinary technician.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0056/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056478,"bill_number":"SB0057","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Historic sites.","description":"Historic sites. Establishes the division of historic sites (division) in the department of natural resources. Transfers management of historic sites from the Indiana state museum and historic sites corporation to the division. Makes conforming changes. Makes an appropriation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0057/2026","subjects":["environment","finance"],"agencies":["Natural Resources"]},{"bill_id":2056212,"bill_number":"SB0058","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"School curriculum.","description":"School curriculum. Requires each school corporation, charter school, and state accredited nonpublic elementary school to include print handwriting, cursive handwriting, and spelling in its curriculum.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0058/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056318,"bill_number":"SB0059","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Notice of annexation outreach meetings.","description":"Notice of annexation outreach meetings. Requires a municipality to mail notice of the date, time, and location of annexation outreach meetings to: (1) the county executive of each county; (2) the township executive of each township; and (3) any plan commission; in which the annexation territory is located.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0059/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056420,"bill_number":"SB0060","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Advanced practice registered nurses.","description":"Advanced practice registered nurses. Removes the requirement that an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) have a practice agreement with a collaborating physician. Removes a provision requiring an APRN to operate under a collaborative practice agreement or the privileges granted by a hospital governing board. Removes certain provisions concerning the audit of practice agreements. Allows an APRN with prescriptive authority to prescribe a schedule II controlled substance for weight reduction or to control obesity. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0060/2026","subjects":["health","finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056208,"bill_number":"SB0061","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Information and disclosures concerning radon.","description":"Information and disclosures concerning radon. Establishes that, before signing a purchase agreement to sell or transfer residential property, an individual or entity issued a broker's real estate license by the Indiana real estate commission representing a seller shall ensure that the seller: (1) provides a radon warning statement to the buyer; (2) discloses in writing to the buyer any knowledge the seller has of radon concentrations in the dwelling; and (3) provides the buyer with a guide on radon, testing, and mitigation published by the Indiana department of health.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0061/2026","subjects":["water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056453,"bill_number":"SB0062","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Unlawful possession of a firearm by a child.","description":"Unlawful possession of a firearm by a child. Adds felony unlawful possession of a firearm by a child to the list of crimes for which a juvenile court shall, upon motion of the prosecuting attorney, waive jurisdiction under certain circumstances. Removes certain crimes concerning children and firearms from the list of crimes in which a juvenile court does not have jurisdiction for an alleged violation. Removes language in the unlawful carrying of a handgun statute prohibiting a person less than 18 years of age from carrying a handgun. Provides that the unlawful carrying of a handgun statute applies to a person who has been adjudicated as a delinquent child under the statute, and is at least 18 years of age but less than 23 years of age. Renames the \"dangerous possession of a firearm\" crime to \"unlawful possession of a firearm by a child\" and provides that the enhanced penalty applies if the offense was committed: (1) on or in school property; (2) within 500 feet of school property; or (3) on a school bus. Removes the reckless mens rea for unlawful possession of a firearm by a child. Makes technical changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0062/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056424,"bill_number":"SB0063","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Thirteenth check.","description":"Thirteenth check. Provides for a thirteenth check in calendar year 2026 for certain members, participants, or beneficiaries of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) Indiana public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (4) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (5) state police 1987 benefit system.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0063/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety","environment"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056343,"bill_number":"SB0064","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Call center worker and consumer protection.","description":"Call center worker and consumer protection. Requires an employer to notify the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) if the employer intends to relocate a call center. Requires, for all contracts entered into or renewed on or after July 1, 2026, that all call center or customer service work for the state be performed entirely within the United States. Requires the IEDC to compile a list of all employers that relocate a call center to a foreign country and to disqualify employers on that list from state grants, loans, and tax credits.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0064/2026","subjects":["finance","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056227,"bill_number":"SB0065","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Seizure training requirements.","description":"Seizure training requirements. Provides that school corporations and charter schools shall require all applicants for employment and school employees who will have direct, ongoing contact with children within the scope of the applicant's or school employee's employment to attend training concerning recognition of the signs and symptoms of seizures and the appropriate steps to be taken to respond to these symptoms.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0065/2026","subjects":["education","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056432,"bill_number":"SB0066","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Kindergarten readiness indicators.","description":"Kindergarten readiness indicators. Requires the early learning advisory committee to establish and publish kindergarten readiness indicators (indicators). Establishes requirements regarding the indicators, including publication of the indicators on a single and easy to access website page. Requires the department of education, the office of early childhood and out of school learning, and the Indiana department of health to display on certain website pages a link to the indicator web page.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0066/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056357,"bill_number":"SB0067","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-28","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Studies relating to natural lands.","description":"Studies relating to natural lands. Requires the department of natural resources to study and issue a report on the following topics: (1) opportunities to leverage public land to improve public health outcomes; (2) options for a consistent visitor fee collection system at state fish and wildlife areas; and (3) a plan to mitigate and recover from natural disasters affecting public land.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0067/2026","subjects":["health","environment","emergency","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056294,"bill_number":"SB0068","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Accelerated graduate degree programs.","description":"Accelerated graduate degree programs. Requires each state educational institution that offers a two year graduate degree program in mental or behavioral health to evaluate the graduate degree program to determine the feasibility of providing the program in a specifically structured manner to allow full-time students to complete the program within: (1) one year; or (2) five years if the program is combined with a baccalaureate degree program. Requires certain state educational institutions to offer at least one graduate degree program in one or more certain disciplines that is structured to allow full-time students to complete the program within: (1) one year; or (2) five years if the program is combined with a baccalaureate degree program. Requires certain state educational institutions to report to the commission for higher education (commission) regarding the graduate degree programs. Requires the commission to post the submitted reports on the commission's website.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0068/2026","subjects":["health","education","trade"],"agencies":["Higher Education"]},{"bill_id":2056308,"bill_number":"SB0069","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-28","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"1977 pension and disability fund.","description":"1977 pension and disability fund. Increases the lump sum death benefit payable to the heirs or estate of a 1977 fund member. Provides that a 1977 fund member may extend their deferred retirement option plan (DROP) retirement date up to 60 months after the member entered the DROP. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0069/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056413,"bill_number":"SB0070","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Riverboat relocation.","description":"Riverboat relocation. Provides that the licensed owner of the riverboat located in the city of Rising Sun (licensed owner) may relocate gaming operations to a casino in Allen County or Fort Wayne if certain conditions are met. Requires the licensed owner to pay a fee of $50,000,000 if the licensed owner sells or transfers the licensed owner's interest in the licensed owner's license within 10 years of the approval of relocation. Provides for the distribution of wagering tax revenue and supplemental wagering tax revenue from a casino in Allen County or Fort Wayne. Provides that a board is established for the purpose of making collaborative decisions for tax revenue.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0070/2026","subjects":["finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056475,"bill_number":"SB0071","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various probate matters.","description":"Various probate matters. Establishes the guardianship code revision task force (task force) to study a recodification of the current guardianship code with any necessary changes. Allows a person indebted to a minor or having possession of property belonging to a minor to pay the debt or deliver the property without a court order in an amount up to $25,000 and to pay the debt or deliver the property to a custodian under the Indiana Uniform Transfers to Minors Act. Specifies that a court may do the following when issuing a protective order: (1) authorize delivery of property to a custodian under the Indiana Uniform Transfers to Minors Act; and (2) order a trustee, custodian, or other person to file periodic reports concerning certain property transactions of a minor. Allows a person having the care and custody of a minor with whom the minor resides to petition a court to compromise a claim on behalf of the minor. Requires a court to hold a hearing on certain petitions concerning a proposal to compromise a claim on behalf of a minor and allows a court to appoint a guardian ad litem, an attorney, or other representative to represent the best interest of the minor in the proceeding. Provides that, under the Indiana Uniform Transfers to Minors Act, a trustee or administrator of certain plans may transfer funds due under a plan to the custodian of a minor who is designated as a beneficiary. Allows a custodian to transfer part or all of the minor's custodial property out of the custodial form under the Indiana Uniform Transfers to Minors Act to certain types of trusts or accounts without a court order. Provides that when a power of appointment in a trust (earlier power) is exercised to create another power of appointment (subsequent power) or another nonvested property interest, then the subsequent power or nonvested property interest created through the exercise of the earlier power is considered to have been created at the time of the creation of the earlier power, unless: (1) the instrument creating the earlier power; or (2) the instrument exercising the earlier power; explicitly provides that the subsequent power or nonvested property interest is considered to have been created at the time of the irrevocable exercise of the earlier power. Specifies that language conferring general authority in a power of attorney with respect to personal or family maintenance authorizes an attorney in fact to take certain actions on behalf of the principal for the benefit of the principal and the principal's spouse, children, and other persons customarily supported by the principal. Removes the authorization to employ or contract with servants or companions from the description of health care powers. Provides that the application is only to a lifetime or inter vivos transfer of property to a trust or similar arrangement under which the spouse of the transferor is granted an earlier power that can be exercised during the spouse's lifetime or upon the spouse's death to create a subsequent limited power of appointment or another nonvested property interest. Provides that the exercise of the earlier power or another nonvested property interest is considered to have been created at the time of the creation of the earlier power by the transferor. Specifies that certain written agreements executed between an owner of residential real property and a family member, attorney in fact, health care representative, or guardian that provide for an ownership interest in the residential real property are not prohibited residential real estate service agreements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0071/2026","subjects":["health","housing","public_safety","finance","energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056389,"bill_number":"SB0072","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Coverage of orthotic and prosthetic devices.","description":"Coverage of orthotic and prosthetic devices. Sets forth requirements for coverage of orthotic devices and prosthetic devices by a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract. Requires, not later than October 1, 2027, the state personnel department, an insurer that issues a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization to submit a report to the insurance commissioner regarding the total number of claims and the total amount of claims paid for orthotic devices and prosthetic devices during the preceding plan year. Requires the insurance commissioner to: (1) aggregate the data received in the reports regarding coverage of orthotic devices and prosthetic devices; and (2) report the aggregated data, not later than December 1, 2027, to the standing committees of the house of representatives and the senate that consider insurance matters. Makes corresponding changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0072/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056314,"bill_number":"SB0073","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Masks at public assemblies.","description":"Masks at public assemblies. Makes wearing a mask at a public assembly a Class C misdemeanor, and increases the penalty to a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense. Provides a defense under certain circumstances. Increases the penalty for rioting and disorderly conduct to a Level 6 felony if the offense is committed while wearing a mask.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0073/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056223,"bill_number":"SB0074","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Plug-in home solar units.","description":"Plug-in home solar units. Provides that electricity generated by a plug-in home solar unit is exempt from Indiana law regarding distributed generation. Prohibits an electricity supplier from requiring a customer to: (1) obtain the electricity supplier's approval before installing or using; (2) pay any fee or charge related to the customer's use of; (3) make modifications to; or (4) install additional equipment as a result of the customer's installation or use of; a plug-in home solar unit that meets specified requirements. Requires a plug-in home solar unit to incorporate functionality that, in the event of a power outage, disconnects the plug-in home solar unit from the electrical system of the building to which the plug-in home solar unit is connected. Provides that an electricity supplier is not liable for any injury or damages caused to a customer by a plug-in home solar unit.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0074/2026","subjects":["energy","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056410,"bill_number":"SB0075","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Drive-through safety lanes.","description":"Drive-through safety lanes. Requires certain drive-through facilities constructed or renovated after December 31, 2026, to have a separate bypass lane adjacent to the specified drive-through lanes. Makes certain exceptions. Requires the fire prevention and building safety commission to adopt administrative rules.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0075/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056576,"bill_number":"SB0076","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Immigration matters.","description":"Immigration matters. Provides that if a law enforcement officer, governmental body, or postsecondary educational institution is made a party to a civil suit and the attorney general determines that the suit has arisen out of certain immigration matters, the attorney general may defend the law enforcement officer, the governmental body, or the postsecondary educational institution if representation is requested and the actions subject to the suit do not violate federal or state law. Provides that the prohibition on governmental bodies or postsecondary educational institutions limiting or restricting the enforcement of federal immigration law applies regardless of whether the enforcement related activity is carried out by a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency. Removes the mens rea standard in the statute concerning governmental bodies or postsecondary institutions violating the citizenship and immigration status information and enforcement of federal laws chapter. Provides that if the attorney general determines that probable cause exists that a governmental entity has not complied with certain requests, the attorney general may bring a court action to: (1) enjoin an act or practice constituting a violation; (2) impose a civil penalty for noncompliance; and (3) and obtain other such relief as is necessary. Provides that before bringing an action against a county jail for certain violations, the attorney general shall consult with the department of correction concerning the most recent inspection report and provide the county jail with notice of the attorney general's probable cause determination. Provides that a governmental body that has the custody of an individual who is the subject of an immigration detainer request shall: (1) provide the judge authorized to grant or deny the individual's release on bail notice that the individual is subject to an immigration detainer request; (2) record in the individual's case file that the individual is subject to an immigration detainer request; (3) comply with the immigration detainer request; and (4) inform the individual that the individual is being held pursuant to an immigration detainer request. Provides immunity to a governmental body or an employee of a governmental body for any action taken concerning an immigration detainer request as long as the action does not violate federal or civil law. Requires a judge who receives notice that an individual is subject to an immigration detainer request to ensure that the notice of the immigration detainer request is recorded in the court's record. Provides that the department of correction shall, in consultation with the attorney general, identify options for training concerning minimum standards for county jails. Provides that compliance with certain standards and the results of an inspection do not preclude and are not a defense to the attorney general bringing an action under IC 5-2-18.2. Provides that the department shall submit to the state budget committee status update reports. Requires the office of the secretary to submit a report to the legislative council concerning certain immigration matters. Provides that each hospital shall, not more than one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each calendar quarter, file with the state department beginning January 1, 2027, in cases where Medicaid is the patient's payor, the form of identification, if any, used by the patient when the patient was admitted. Specifies that it is unlawful for an employer to knowingly or intentionally recruit, hire, or continue to employ an unauthorized alien in Indiana. Allows the attorney general to bring an enforcement action against an employer if the attorney general determines that probable cause exists that the employer has violated certain recruitment and hiring restrictions concerning an unauthorized alien. Prohibits an employer from discharging or discriminating against an employee because the employee communicated or cooperated with the attorney general.Provides that indecent nuisance means a place in which human trafficking is conducted and is not limited to a public place. Provides that a governmental entity that employs a prosecuting official is entitled to investigative costs, court costs, and reasonable attorney's fees incurred in an indecent nuisance action if the existence of an indecent nuisance is admitted or established in the action. Makes technical changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0076/2026","subjects":["health","education","public_safety","transportation","finance","trade"],"agencies":["Correction"]},{"bill_id":2056610,"bill_number":"SB0077","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sale of school buildings.","description":"Sale of school buildings. Provides that a governing body of a school corporation located in a county with a population of less than 150,000 has one year from the date the governing body determines at a public meeting to cease using a covered school building for classroom instruction on student instructional days to sell the covered school building to a county or municipal government at a mutually agreed upon price before the covered school building must be made available for lease or purchase to a charter school or state educational institution. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0077/2026","subjects":["education","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056593,"bill_number":"SB0078","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Wireless communication device policy.","description":"Wireless communication device policy. Amends definitions, requirements, restrictions, and exceptions regarding wireless communication device policies adopted and implemented by school corporations and charter schools. Requires the department of education to publish model policy language and implementation guidance. Provides that, with exceptions, a school corporation, a school maintained by a school corporation, and a charter school, including school personnel, are immune from civil liability for any actions taken in good faith to comply with the school's wireless communication device policy.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0078/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056628,"bill_number":"SB0079","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Data center development.","description":"Data center development. Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (commission) to establish a working group to: (1) determine an estimate of the future electricity demands of the data center industry in Indiana; and (2) report to the general assembly regarding the working group's findings and recommendations not later than October 31, 2026. Requires: (1) a person that operates a data center in Indiana to submit to the commission a quarterly report of the amount of electricity used by the data center in the immediately preceding quarter; and (2) the commission to publish a summary of the reported information on the commission's website. Provides that a county, municipality, or township shall, before issuing a permit to a person for construction of a data center: (1) require the person to disclose the projected power and water usage of the facility; and (2) perform a site assessment to determine the possible effects of the data center.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0079/2026","subjects":["energy","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056460,"bill_number":"SB0080","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Code publication.","description":"Code publication. Addresses unresolved amend-repeal conflicts created during the 2025 legislative session. Repeals and relocates the specific definitions chapters for organization of defined terms by alphabetical order and to provide for future expansion of those chapters. Makes conforming cross-reference updates. Resolves technical conflicts between SB 80-2025 and HB 1088-2025 (the annual Technical Corrections bill) and technical conflicts between various enrolled acts passed during the 2026 legislative session. Makes no substantive change to law.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0080/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056666,"bill_number":"SB0081","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various tax matters.","description":"Various tax matters. Provides that the overall local income tax (LIT) rate cap (excluding certain special purpose LIT rates) is 3.75% beginning in 2028.~ (Under current law, the overall rate cap is 3.75% in every county other than Marion County and 4.0% in Marion County and is scheduled to be reduced to 2.9% in all counties in 2028.) Repeals provisions that require counties and municipalities to readopt their LIT rate each year beginning in 2031. Requires LIT revenue from a fire protection and emergency medical services rate adopted by a consolidated county to be distributed to the fire special service district established under the UNIGOV statute. Specifies that an included town that is part of the consolidated city under the UNIGOV statute is not a separate municipality for purposes of the LIT provisions enacted in SEA 1 in the 2025 session. Decouples the special purpose LIT rate for central Indiana public transportation projects from the LIT expenditure rate. (Under current law, the special rate for transportation projects is included in a county's total expenditure rate.) Repeals a provision regarding Marion County's allocation of LIT revenue. Expands the population threshold parameters under which a municipality may elect to be treated as if it were not eligible to adopt a municipal LIT (and instead potentially receive a LIT distribution under a county adopted LIT rate). Requires the population count for purposes of the LIT to include any federal special census count\nrequested by a city or town. Makes changes to LIT distribution provisions. Restores the standard deduction for homestead property in the case of a homestead with an assessed value of $125,000 or less, and retains the supplemental homestead deduction as enacted in SEA 1 in the 2025 session. Amends the calculation of the maximum levy growth quotient (MLGQ) to provide an increased MLGQ for those taxing units with assessed value growth over a three year average that exceeds 20%. Caps the total operating referendum tax that may be levied by a school corporation for referendums approved by the voters after December 31, 2025, to not more than the school corporation's maximum operating referendum tax levy in the immediately preceding year, multiplied by the maximum levy growth quotient. Removes project costs as a determination threshold under the controlled projects statute. Provides for an increase in the tax rate thresholds under the controlled projects statute based on any increase in a political subdivision's tax rate that results solely from the statutory changes to property tax deductions and exemptions enacted in SEA 1 in the 2025 session. Provides a property tax liability credit to freeze the homestead property tax liability for low income seniors. Repeals provisions enacted in SEA 1 in the 2025 session that require a political subdivision to hold a separate public hearing before increasing its tax levy from the preceding year. Reinstates provisions regarding excess tax levies that were repealed in SEA 1 in the 2025 session. Repeals the debt limitation for political subdivisions. Amends revenue distribution provisions for certain debt service levies to include the supplemental homestead credit and the local property tax credits for disabled individuals and seniors added in SEA 1 in the 2025 session for purposes of the distribution determination. Amends provisions added in SEA 1 in the 2025 session that require the department of local government finance to neutralize the effect of certain property tax provisions enacted in that bill. Clarifies provisions added in SEA 1 in the 2025 session that place restrictions on the issuance of certain general obligation bonds. Provides a property tax deduction for permanently disabled veterans based on the percentage of the permanently disabled veteran's service connected disability. Increases the maximum renter's deduction for income tax purposes from $3,000 to $6,000 per taxable year. Provides an income tax credit for first time home buyers with a mortgage applicable for the first taxable year in which the home buyer first takes ownership of a homestead with respect to which a first time home buyer mortgage is granted. Provides that the tax credit is equal to $3,000 for that taxable year and may not be carried forward to a succeeding taxable year, carried back to a preceding taxable year, or refunded. Provides an income tax credit for households whose income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines for a household of its size. Provides that the tax credit is equal to $3,000 for the taxable year and may not be carried forward to a succeeding taxable year, carried back to a preceding taxable year, or refunded. Provides an income tax credit for small businesses that make contributions to a qualified employee for use toward a qualified employee's cost for child care. Provides that the tax credit may not be carried forward to a succeeding taxable year, carried back to a preceding taxable year, or refunded. Provides an income tax deduction for theft losses that result from certain financial transactions induced by third parties and that cause the individual to incur federal gross income as a result of the theft. Requires the department of state revenue to first certify the theft loss deduction before a taxpayer may claim the deduction in a taxable year.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0081/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing","public_safety","transportation","finance","elections","veterans","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056667,"bill_number":"SB0082","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local regulation of firearms in Marion County.","description":"Local regulation of firearms in Marion County. Provides that certain restrictions on the local regulation of firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories may not be construed to prevent a county containing a consolidated city from regulating firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories in a manner more restrictive than Indiana law if the regulation is recommended by a law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction in the county. Specifies regulations that meet these parameters. Requires compliance with the federal and state constitutions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0082/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056672,"bill_number":"SB0083","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various utility matters.","description":"Various utility matters. Provides that a transaction involving the sale of utility service, as reflected in the total amount billed by a utility in a customer bill that is issued after December 31, 2026, is exempt from the state gross retail tax. Provides that this exemption applies to: (1) the sale of electric, natural gas, water, or wastewater service; and (2) a customer bill issued by a utility after December 31, 2026, regardless of whether the bill includes any fees or charges for utility service provided to the customer before January 1, 2027. Repeals the sales and use tax exemption for certain data centers enacted in the 2025 session in HEA 1601. Provides that after March 14, 2026, the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) may not issue a final order in a base rate case filed by an electricity supplier if the final order, once fully implemented, would result in an average increase of 3% or greater in the total monthly bill of a residential customer of the electricity supplier. Specifies that a municipality includes a consolidated city for purposes of the existing statute authorizing a municipality to purchase, condemn, and operate a utility in the municipality for the purpose of providing utility service to the municipality or the public: (1) without the consent of the IURC; and (2) even if a public utility is engaged in a similar service in the municipality. Provides that the existing statute prohibiting a municipality, public utility, or rural electric membership corporation from bringing an action against a public utility for the condemnation of the public utility's electric utility property does not apply to a municipality that seeks to purchase the electric utility property of a public utility for use of the property in providing electric utility service if: (1) the municipality and the public utility are unable to agree upon a price to be paid for the electric utility property; and (2) the municipality by ordinance declares that a public necessity exists for the condemnation of the electric utility property. Provides that a municipality that adopts such an ordinance may: (1) bring an action in the circuit or superior court of the county where the municipality is located against the public utility for the condemnation of the electric utility property; and (2) exercise the power of eminent domain in accordance with the existing eminent domain statute. Prohibits the IURC from issuing before July 1, 2028, a final order in a base rate case filed by an electricity supplier with the IURC, regardless of the date of filing of the electricity supplier's base rate case with the IURC. Provides that this provision expires July 1, 2028. Provides that existing law providing that the rates and charges of a municipally owned utility may include a reasonable return on the utility plant of the municipality if the legislative body of the municipality so elects does not apply to rates and charges established or amended by a municipal legislative body after March 14, 2026.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0083/2026","subjects":["environment","finance","energy","agriculture","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056669,"bill_number":"SB0084","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prekindergarten and child care.","description":"Prekindergarten and child care. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services to amend the state plan for the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) voucher program to increase the maximum initial eligibility limit for purposes of initial eligibility to 150% of the federal poverty level. Requires the office to fully fund: (1) each eligible applicant for a CCDF voucher payment; and (2) eligible CCDF provider reimbursement rates at a specified rate. Provides that the office may not place an eligible CCDF applicant on a waiting list. Provides that an eligible child for the prekindergarten program is an individual who, among other conditions, is a member of a household with an annual income that does not exceed 150% of the federal poverty level (instead of 135% for individuals enrolled on or after May 1, 2025, under current law). Removes the limitation on state money that may be used for a prekindergarten voucher during a state fiscal year. Requires the office of family and social services to establish reimbursement rates for prekindergarten providers that are equal to or greater than the rates established that were in effect on January 1, 2025. Makes an appropriation to the prekindergarten program fund.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0084/2026","subjects":["education","housing","finance"],"agencies":["Secretary Of Family And Social Services"]},{"bill_id":2056671,"bill_number":"SB0085","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Health care debt and costs.","description":"Health care debt and costs. Authorizes the attorney general to enforce provisions concerning health care debt wage garnishment and principal residence lien restrictions and establish a complaint process. Requires hospitals to do the following: (1) Offer a person who meets certain income guidelines and has received health services the opportunity to pay the charges through a payment plan that satisfies certain requirements. (2) Develop a written notice about a charity care program operated by the hospital, provide the notice to patients, and post the notice. (3) Include certain information concerning financial assistance on a billing statement. (4) Requires a hospital that reports an annual gross patient revenue of at least $20,000,000 to provide written notice and information to a person who has requested an eligibility determination concerning a payment plan or charity care. Provides that the unpaid earnings of a consumer who meets specified income eligibility requirements may not be attached by garnishment if an individual makes 200% of the federal income poverty level or less, and limits the amount to be garnished over a certain amount of the individual's disposable earnings in satisfaction of: (1) health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by the consumer; or (2) any amount of the judgment that represents health care debt determined to be owed by the consumer. Provides that: (1) health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer; or (2) in an action against a consumer in which a judgment has been entered, the amount of the judgment that represents health care debt determined to be owed by the consumer; does not constitute a lien against the consumer's principal residence for a consumer. Requires the disclosure of whether a debt is a health care debt in the execution of a judgment. Provides that in any action filed in Indiana for the recovery of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer, the principal residence of the consumer is not liable to judgment or attachment or to be sold on execution against the consumer.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0085/2026","subjects":["health","finance","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056665,"bill_number":"SB0086","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Charter schools.","description":"Charter schools. Provides that provisions regarding the following apply to charter schools: (1) Child suicide awareness and prevention policy requirements. (2) Staff performance evaluation plan requirements. (3) Curriculum. (4) Student discipline. (5) Criminal organization activity. (6) Student safety reporting. (7) Government funds and accounts. (8) Certain notice requirements regarding convictions of licensed employees. Removes the charter board, state educational institutions, and nonprofit college or university governing boards from the definition of an authorizer. After June 30, 2026, provides that the charter board, state educational institutions, and governing boards may not issue new charters or renew existing charters. After June 30, 2026, establishes a five year moratorium that prohibits an authorizer from granting a charter to an organizer to establish and operate a charter school in Indiana. Requires charter schools to provide transportation services to all students who reside within the public school district within which the charter school is located. Exempts school corporations subject to certain property tax sharing requirements from the dollar law. Changes the maximum charter school contract term to five years. Provides that a charter must contain a provision to appoint certain persons to the governing board of the charter school. Requires any public meeting of a charter school governing board where the annual budget is adopted to be held in the county in which the charter school is located. Prohibits certain charter schools from receiving state funding, or from receiving funding from operation fund property tax levies, operating referendum tax levies, and school safety referendum tax levies. Removes, expires, and repeals provisions that require school corporations to share operation fund property tax levy, operating referendum tax levy, and school safety referendum tax levy funds with charter schools. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0086/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety","transportation","finance","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056670,"bill_number":"SB0087","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"E-Verify requirements for public works projects.","description":"E-Verify requirements for public works projects. Provides that a public agency may not enter into or renew a contract for a public works project with a contractor unless, among other requirements, the contractor signs a notarized affidavit affirming that the contractor does not knowingly employ an unauthorized alien. Provides that a contractor for a public works project must take certain actions with respect to the immigration status of employees. Provides that a contractor may not employ an individual for a public works project if the person has no E-verification number, except under certain circumstances. Provides civil immunity for a contractor that in good faith misidentifies the immigration status of a worker to comply with certain provisions of this bill. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0087/2026","subjects":["labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2056668,"bill_number":"SB0088","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Education matters.","description":"Education matters. Amends good citizenship instruction requirements. Includes the Classic Learning Test in certain references to nationally recognized college entrance examinations. Requires a state educational institution (SEI) to accept the Classic Learning Test examination to the same extent the SEI accepts the ACT or SAT examination with respect to admission criteria. Requires the department of education to identify schools that allow students who are not enrolled in the school to take certain examinations at the school and present the information in a manner that can be conveniently and easily accessed from the department's website.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0088/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057762,"bill_number":"SB0089","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Three-way permits.","description":"Three-way permits. Provides the alcohol and tobacco commission may issue not more than: (1) three new three-way permits to the town of Schererville; (2) three new three-way permits to the city of Lafayette; (3) two new three-way permits to the city of West Lafayette; (4) eight new three-way permits to restaurants located within a transit development district located in the city of Michigan City; (5) two new three-way permits to the city of Delphi; and (6) two new three-way permits to the city of Bloomington.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0089/2026","subjects":["transportation","cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057726,"bill_number":"SB0090","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Consent for pelvic, prostate, and  rectal exams.","description":"Consent for pelvic, prostate, and  rectal exams. Prohibits health practitioners and other specified individuals from performing pelvic, prostate, or rectal examinations on an anesthetized or unconscious patient except in specified circumstances. Specifies the requirements of a notice of informed consent.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0090/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057562,"bill_number":"SB0091","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-10","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Syringe exchange program.","description":"Syringe exchange program. Prohibits a qualified entity that operates a syringe exchange program (program) from establishing or operating a fixed site for the distribution or exchange of a syringe or needle within 1,000 feet of specified facilities. Creates an exception. Allows the Indiana department of health to deny, suspend, or revoke a qualified entity's annual registration for a violation. Amends the duties of a qualified entity that operates a program. Establishes requirements for program participation. Prohibits a qualified entity that operates a program from providing chemical reagents or precursors. Requires the state health commissioner to investigate any complaint regarding a qualified entity's noncompliance with the qualified entity's duties concerning the operation of a program. Permits the state health commissioner to suspend or terminate the approval of a qualified entity for noncompliance. Extends the expiration of the program to July 1, 2031.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0091/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057740,"bill_number":"SB0092","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Community corrections trust funds.","description":"Community corrections trust funds. Authorizes a county that operates a community corrections program to establish a county community corrections trust fund (fund). Specifies the funding sources and permissible uses of the fund. Specifies reporting and auditing requirements relating to the administration of the fund. Makes technical corrections to a reference to community corrections programs located in the civil procedure law.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0092/2026","subjects":["public_safety","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057810,"bill_number":"SB0093","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0093/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057582,"bill_number":"SB0094","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0094/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057783,"bill_number":"SB0095","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0095/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057610,"bill_number":"SB0096","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0096/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057617,"bill_number":"SB0097","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0097/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057574,"bill_number":"SB0098","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0098/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057804,"bill_number":"SB0099","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0099/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057746,"bill_number":"SB0100","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0100/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057655,"bill_number":"SB0101","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0101/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057633,"bill_number":"SB0102","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0102/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057682,"bill_number":"SB0103","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0103/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057691,"bill_number":"SB0104","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Landlord nexus.","description":"Landlord nexus. Provides that, after June 30, 2026, a landlord may not lease a property in Indiana unless the landlord: (1) is authorized to do business in Indiana; (2) maintains a residence or an office at one or more physical locations in Indiana; (3) appoints an Indiana licensed real estate broker or broker company to manage the rental property; or (4) owns five or less properties in Indiana. Allows the attorney general to take enforcement action if a landlord improperly leases a property.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0104/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057756,"bill_number":"SB0105","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0105/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057627,"bill_number":"SB0106","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0106/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057718,"bill_number":"SB0107","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Vehicle Bill.","description":"Vehicle Bill. None","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0107/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057647,"bill_number":"SB0108","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Township shelter assistance.","description":"Township shelter assistance. Amends the definition of \"shelter\" to include any other form of dwelling accommodation that the township trustee determines is safe, decent, and sanitary.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0108/2026","subjects":["housing","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057676,"bill_number":"SB0109","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Confidentiality of pregnancy termination reports.","description":"Confidentiality of pregnancy termination reports. States that a health care provider's report concerning the performance of an abortion that is submitted to the Indiana department of health is a medical record, confidential, and not subject to disclosure as a public record.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0109/2026","subjects":["health","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057568,"bill_number":"SB0110","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana University board of trustees.","description":"Indiana University board of trustees. Amends the membership of the board of trustees of Indiana University.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0110/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":["Trustees"]},{"bill_id":2061510,"bill_number":"SB0111","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Family access for youth in detention.","description":"Family access for youth in detention. Establishes minimum standards for resident visitation at a juvenile detention facility or juvenile detention center, subject to certain exceptions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0111/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057734,"bill_number":"SB0112","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Candidacy documents.","description":"Candidacy documents. Provides that when an individual files a notice of withdrawal listing an address different from the address on the individual's voter registration record, the individual's signature on the notice of withdrawal constitutes a request to the county voter registration office that the address on the individual's voter registration record be the same as the address on the notice of withdrawal.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0112/2026","subjects":["housing","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057639,"bill_number":"SB0113","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Elections matters.","description":"Elections matters. Requires each county election board to provide to the election division through a module of the computerized list, not later than 14 days after each election, the votes cast for each candidate and on each public question in each precinct at the last election. Requires the election division to promptly publish these election results on the website maintained by the election division. Specifies that starting on January 1, 2026, the period within which certain election material must be preserved is extended from 22 months to 34 months.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0113/2026","subjects":["it","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057595,"bill_number":"SB0114","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Election of IURC commissioners.","description":"Election of IURC commissioners. Provides for nonpartisan election of the five members of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC). Provides that: (1) one member of the IURC must reside in and represent the central one-third of the state (central district); (2) two members of the IURC must reside in and represent the northern one-third of the state (northern district); and (3) two members of the IURC must reside in and represent the southern one-third of the state (southern district). Provides that at the 2028 general election and every four years thereafter: (1) the member representing the central district shall be elected by residents of the central district; (2) one member representing the northern district shall be elected by residents of the northern district; and (3) one member representing the southern district shall be elected by residents of the southern district. Provides that at the 2030 general election and every four years thereafter: (1) one member representing the northern district shall be elected by residents of the northern district; and (2) one member representing the southern district shall be elected by residents of the southern district. Provides that a candidate for election to the IURC: (1) must have resided in Indiana for at least one year before the election; and (2) may not have any official or professional relationship or connection with, hold any stock or securities in, or have any pecuniary interest in a utility or a person with an interest in a utility. Provides that a: (1) candidate for election as a member of the IURC; or (2) candidate's committee of a candidate for election as a member of the IURC; may not solicit or accept a contribution from a utility, or from a person with an interest in a utility, for the duration of the candidate's candidacy for election as a member of the IURC. Provides for assignment of a case that would potentially affect retail utility rates to a member of the IURC representing the district containing the largest number of affected customers.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0114/2026","subjects":["energy","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061487,"bill_number":"SB0115","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Driver instructions of law enforcement procedures.","description":"Driver instructions of law enforcement procedures. Requires the driver education advisory board to consult with the commissioner of the bureau of motor vehicles (commissioner) and the state police department, and advise the commissioner in the administration of the policies of the commission and the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) regarding driver education in: (1) the procedures of a law enforcement officer during a traffic stop; and (2) the actions a person should take during a traffic stop, including appropriate interaction with a law enforcement officer. Requires the bureau to include in any driver education manual published by the bureau the following: (1) A description of the procedures of a law enforcement officer during a traffic stop. (2) An explanation of the actions a person should take during a traffic stop, including appropriate interaction with a law enforcement officer. Provides that driver education curriculum must include instruction about actions to take during a traffic stop and the appropriate interaction with a law enforcement officer during a traffic stop.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0115/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety","transportation"],"agencies":["Motor Vehicles"]},{"bill_id":2057816,"bill_number":"SB0116","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Medicaid matters.","description":"Medicaid matters. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to post information concerning the criteria for being determined to be medically frail and examples of notices on the office's website. Specifies requirements for a notice of Medicaid termination. Requires the office and managed care organizations to review all timely submitted information in a Medicaid redetermination before terminating coverage of a recipient. Requires a managed care organization to report information concerning: (1) claim denials under the Medicaid program on a quarterly basis; and (2) certain information on a monthly basis. Requires the office to post the reports on the office's website. Provides that the healthy Indiana plan includes at least 30 days of retroactive coverage.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0116/2026","subjects":["health","transportation","trade"],"agencies":["Secretary Of Family And Social Services"]},{"bill_id":2057662,"bill_number":"SB0117","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sales tax exemption for menstrual discharge collection devices.","description":"Sales tax exemption for menstrual discharge collection devices. Provides a sales tax exemption for menstrual discharge collection devices.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0117/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057769,"bill_number":"SB0118","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-28","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Self-service storage facilities.","description":"Self-service storage facilities. Provides that the owner of a self-storage facility may tow or remove a motor vehicle, trailer, or watercraft if the renter is in default for at least 60 days. Specifies that a rental agreement is considered accepted if a person does not return the signed rental agreement but continues to use the storage space for at least 30 days. Provides that an owner of a self-service storage facility may terminate or choose not to renew a contract with a renter if certain conditions are met. Allows an owner of a self-service storage facility to dispose of a former renter's personal property not less than 30 days after terminating the rental agreement. Provides that a rental agreement may be delivered and executed electronically.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0118/2026","subjects":["it","housing","transportation","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057697,"bill_number":"SB0119","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Grooming.","description":"Grooming. Adds a facility or event that provides entertainment or programming primarily directed toward a child less than 18 years of age to the list of facilities at which a sexually violent predator or an offender against children may not work or volunteer. Adds entering a facility or location holding an event that provides entertainment or programming primarily directed toward a child less than 18 years of age by a serious sex offender to the crime of unlawful entry by a serious sex offender. Renames the offense of \"inappropriate communication with a child\" to \"sexual grooming\", and provides (in addition to the current elements of the offense) that a person commits the offense if the person engages in a pattern of repeated or continuous contact with an individual whom the person believes to be a child less than 14 years of age, with the intent to condition the individual to be less resistant to future sexual conduct or sexual activity. Specifies that \"computer network\" includes cellular telephones.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0119/2026","subjects":["it","housing","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057798,"bill_number":"SB0120","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Proposition bets.","description":"Proposition bets. Prohibits a certificate holder or vendor from accepting a proposition bet from a collegiate athlete in the sport the collegiate athlete plays. Provides that the Indiana gaming commission may impose a civil penalty upon an individual who: (1) is a collegiate athlete; and (2) attempted to place or placed a proposition bet on a game in the sport that the individual plays.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0120/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057589,"bill_number":"SB0121","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Educational information on type 1 diabetes.","description":"Educational information on type 1 diabetes. Requires the department of education (department) to develop informational materials concerning type 1 diabetes for the parents of students and to publish the materials on the department's website. Requires public schools, including charter schools, to provide the informational materials concerning type 1 diabetes to a student's parent each year upon the student's enrollment.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0121/2026","subjects":["education","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057669,"bill_number":"SB0122","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various immigration matters.","description":"Various immigration matters. Provides that if a law enforcement officer, governmental body, or postsecondary educational institution is made a party to a civil suit and the attorney general determines that the suit has arisen out of certain acts, the attorney general shall defend the law enforcement officer, governmental body, or postsecondary educational institution throughout the action. Clarifies that the enforcement of federal immigration laws may be carried out by federal, state, or local law enforcement. Removes the mens rea standard in the statute concerning governmental bodies or postsecondary institutions violating the citizenship and immigration status information and enforcement of federal laws chapter. Provides that a governmental body that has the custody of an individual who is the subject of an immigration detainer request shall: (1) provide the judge authorized to grant or deny the individual's release on bail notice that the individual is subject to an immigration detainer request; (2) record in the individual's case file that the individual is subject to an immigration detainer request; (3) comply with the immigration detainer request; and (4) inform the individual that the individual is being held pursuant to an immigration detainer request. Provides immunity to a governmental body or an employee of a governmental body for any action taken concerning an immigration detainer request. Prohibits a political subdivision from taking certain actions to aid, assist, incentivize, or facilitate the migration of any alien or class of aliens into Indiana. Provides that if the attorney general determines that probable cause exists that a governmental entity has not complied with an immigration detention request, the attorney general may bring a court action to: (1) enjoin an act or practice constituting a violation of an immigration detention request; and (2) impose a civil penalty for noncompliance with an immigration detention request. Requires a judge who receives notice that an individual is subject to an immigration detainer request to ensure that the notice of the immigration detainer request is recorded in the court's record. Prohibits an employer from knowingly or intentionally recruiting, hiring, or employing an unauthorized alien. Provides that if the attorney general determines that probable cause exists that an employer has recruited, hired, or employed an unauthorized alien, the attorney general may enjoin the action and seek the suspension of the employer's operating authorizations. Provides that a governmental entity that employs a prosecuting official is entitled to investigative costs and costs in an indecent nuisance action.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0122/2026","subjects":["education","public_safety","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2057777,"bill_number":"SB0123","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-09","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Student water safety.","description":"Student water safety. Requires public schools, including charter schools, to present an informational video on water safety to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12. Requires the department of education to approve an informational video on water safety for various grade levels.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0123/2026","subjects":["education","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2058272,"bill_number":"SB0124","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-11","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Age for compulsory school attendance.","description":"Age for compulsory school attendance. Provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year. (Current law provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0124/2026","subjects":["education","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2058273,"bill_number":"SB0125","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-11","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Marion County small claims court jurisdiction.","description":"Marion County small claims court jurisdiction. Requires the following cases to be filed in a Marion County small claims court: (1) A possessory action between a landlord and a tenant in which the past due rent does not exceed $10,000. (2) An action for the possession of property where the value of the property does not exceed $10,000.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0125/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2058274,"bill_number":"SB0126","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-11","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Possession of a syringe.","description":"Possession of a syringe. Repeals the crime of possession of a syringe in the health code (possession of a syringe remains a crime as possession of paraphernalia in the criminal code).","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0126/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2058275,"bill_number":"SB0127","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-11","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Landlord-tenant matters.","description":"Landlord-tenant matters. Provides that a landlord may not sell a residential rental property that is subject to an unexpired written lease unless the landlord gives written notice to the tenant not less than 60 days before the landlord lists the property for sale, unless certain exceptions apply. Requires a buyer of a residential rental property to honor an unexpired written lease between the previous owner and a tenant unless the buyer of the residential rental property: (1) gives to the tenant, not less than 30 days before the lease is terminated, written notice that the buyer intends to terminate the lease; and (2) pays the tenant an amount equal to one monthly rental payment plus the full security deposit. For purposes of a residential rental unit, defines: (1) \"essential services\" as certain utility services needed for the safe and habitable occupation by a tenant of the tenant's rental unit; and (2) \"essential systems\" as certain systems used to deliver essential services to a rental unit. Requires a landlord to repair or replace an essential system not later than 48 hours after being notified by a tenant that the tenant's rental unit is without essential services as a result of: (1) a malfunction in the essential system; or (2) the landlord's failure to maintain the system in good and safe working condition. Provides that, during the pendency of a court action brought by a tenant to enforce a statutory obligation of a landlord, the court may order the tenant to make the regular rental payments otherwise due to the landlord under the rental agreement to: (1) the clerk of the court; or (2) an attorney trust account; to be held in trust for disbursal to the prevailing party, as ordered by the court. For purposes of the rights of tenants who are victims of certain crimes, provides that evidence showing a tenant engaged in a protected activity not more than six months before the landlord's alleged retaliatory conduct creates a rebuttable presumption that the purpose of the landlord's conduct was retaliation. Specifies the evidence a landlord may show to rebut the presumption. Requires a landlord to pay all penalties or fines imposed by a political subdivision for violation of the landlord's obligations with regard to a rental premises. Requires a landlord to pay all penalties or fines and make all repairs required by a political subdivision before the landlord may deliver the rental premises to a tenant.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0127/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","energy","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2058276,"bill_number":"SB0128","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-11","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Improper supervision of a dangerous child.","description":"Improper supervision of a dangerous child. Includes teachers in the definition of \"public safety official\" for purposes of certain battery offenses. Provides that, if a child commits an offense involving the use of a firearm or that results in bodily injury to another person on school property or a school bus, and the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child: (1) knew or reasonably should have known that the child intended to commit an unlawful act involving the use of a firearm or that might result in bodily injury to another person; and (2) failed to notify law enforcement; the parent, guardian, or custodian commits improper supervision of a dangerous child, a Class A misdemeanor. Increases the penalty to a Level 6 felony if the act results in serious bodily injury to another person.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0128/2026","subjects":["education","housing","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2058277,"bill_number":"SB0129","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-11","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Age verification for access to social media.","description":"Age verification for access to social media. Requires a social media operator to restrict a minor user's viewing of social media without first obtaining verifiable parental consent for the minor user. Defines a \"minor user\" as an individual who is less than 16 years of age. Allows the attorney general to: (1) bring an action against a social media operator that fails to implement a verifiable parental consent method; and (2) issue a civil investigative demand if the attorney general has reasonable cause to believe that any person is engaged in a violation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0129/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2058278,"bill_number":"SB0130","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-11","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Firearm storage.","description":"Firearm storage. Provides that a person having the care of a dependent who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally fails to secure a loaded firearm in the person's residence or vehicle commits neglect of a dependent, a Level 6 felony, if the dependent uses the firearm to cause bodily injury or death to any person. Enhances the offense to a Level 5 felony in particular instances. Specifies exceptions and defenses. Specifies sign requirements for retail dealers. Requires the Indiana department of health to develop educational resources and training concerning secure firearm storage for pediatric health care practitioners. Allows certain practitioners, at each well-child visit, to ask the child's parent or guardian about firearm safety and provide information concerning secure firearm storage practices. Defines terms and makes conforming amendments. Makes an appropriation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0130/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing","transportation","finance","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061452,"bill_number":"SB0131","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Psychiatric care ombudsman.","description":"Psychiatric care ombudsman. Requires: (1) the division of mental health and addiction to establish the psychiatric care ombudsman office (office); and (2) the office of the secretary of family and social services to appoint the psychiatric care ombudsman. Sets forth the powers and duties of the office concerning psychiatric hospitals and patients of psychiatric hospitals. Creates a criminal penalty.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0131/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety","energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061472,"bill_number":"SB0132","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Restriction on noncompete agreements.","description":"Restriction on noncompete agreements. Prohibits an employer and an employee from entering into a noncompete agreement if the employee's annual compensation is less than $150,000.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0132/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2058279,"bill_number":"SB0133","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2025-12-11","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Protection from immigration status disclosure.","description":"Protection from immigration status disclosure. Provides that a law enforcement officer may not request verification of the citizenship or immigration status of an individual from federal immigration authorities if the law enforcement officer determines that the individual: (1) has requested emergency medical assistance; or (2) acted in concert with another person who requested emergency medical assistance for an individual who reasonably appeared to be in need of medical assistance. Provides that the individual shall cooperate with emergency medical assistance personnel and law enforcement.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0133/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061469,"bill_number":"SB0134","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Speed control in school zones.","description":"Speed control in school zones. Authorizes a county or municipality to adopt and enforce an ordinance that regulates the use of a school zone speed control system (system) to detect certain violations. Provides a civil penalty for a violation. Specifies that a civil penalty must first be applied to defray the cost of the installation, operation, and maintenance of the system. Specifies the manner in which the remaining money from the civil penalty must be distributed. Requires a county or municipality to report data to the interim study committee on roads and transportation. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0134/2026","subjects":["education","transportation","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061508,"bill_number":"SB0135","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Alkaline hydrolysis for animal remains disposal.","description":"Alkaline hydrolysis for animal remains disposal. Authorizes alkaline hydrolysis as a lawful method of animal remains disposal in Indiana. Requires the state board of animal health to adopt standards for construction, operation, and biosecurity of alkaline hydrolysis. Requires the Indiana department of environmental management to adopt various regulations on alkaline hydrolysis. Defines zoning powers of a local unit regulating the disposal plant performing alkaline hydrolysis.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0135/2026","subjects":["environment","energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061480,"bill_number":"SB0136","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Assistance in obtaining veteran benefits.","description":"Assistance in obtaining veteran benefits. Provides that a person may not receive compensation for services related to veterans' benefits matters except as permitted under federal law. Provides that a person may not receive compensation for referring an individual to another person to provide services related to veterans' benefits matters. Provides that a person seeking to receive compensation for services related to veterans' benefits matters must, before rendering any services, memorialize in a written agreement that is signed by both parties and that complies with federal regulations all terms regarding the payment of fees for services rendered. Provides that a person may not receive excessive or unreasonable fees for services related to veterans' benefits matters. Provides that a violation constitutes a deceptive act under the law concerning deceptive consumer sales.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0136/2026","subjects":["veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061432,"bill_number":"SB0137","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Involuntary treatment of substance use disorder.","description":"Involuntary treatment of substance use disorder. Allows an individual's spouse, legal guardian, friend, relative, or medical service provider to petition a court for involuntary substance use disorder treatment. Requires a petition to include certain information and allows a court to dismiss a petition, without prejudice, if it does not contain the required information. Requires the court to appoint a public defender if the individual subject to a petition seeking involuntary substance use disorder treatment is not represented by an attorney. Requires a court to order the individual to be evaluated by a medical provider if the court finds that: (1) the individual has a substance use disorder; (2) because of the individual's substance use disorder, the individual is experiencing impaired judgment and is unable to independently maintain the individual's activities of daily living or is a danger to self or others; and (3) the individual refuses to voluntarily participate in substance use disorder treatment. Allows a court to order a local law enforcement agency to consider whether an individual meets the criteria for emergency detention under certain circumstances. Requires a medical provider who completes an evaluation concerning an individual's need for substance use disorder treatment to submit the evaluation to the court. Specifies that after receiving an evaluation from a medical provider, the court may dismiss the petition or set a hearing for further evidence to be presented about the individual's need for substance use disorder treatment. Requires a court to order involuntary outpatient substance use disorder treatment for a period, not to exceed 90 days, if medical evidence supports that the individual requires immediate treatment for a substance use disorder and the individual has refused treatment.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0137/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061512,"bill_number":"SB0138","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"School chaplains.","description":"School chaplains. Allows a principal or superintendent of a public school, including a charter school, to employ, or approve as a volunteer, a school chaplain if certain requirements are met. Allows a school chaplain to provide: (1) secular advice, guidance, and support services; and (2) nonsecular advice, guidance, and support services if certain conditions are met. Provides that, with exceptions, communications made by a student to a school chaplain are privileged and confidential.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0138/2026","subjects":["education","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061457,"bill_number":"SB0139","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Jury duty exemption for women breastfeeding.","description":"Jury duty exemption for women breastfeeding. Exempts a woman who is breastfeeding from jury duty. Sets forth requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0139/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061462,"bill_number":"SB0140","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Public safety.","description":"Public safety. Amends the definition of \"threat\" in the intimidation statute to include posting a person's personal information on a social media platform with the intent to cause: (1) bodily injury to the person; (2) damage to the person's property; or (3) the commission of a crime against the person. Increases the penalty for intimidation if committed against a legislator.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0140/2026","subjects":["public_safety","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064835,"bill_number":"SB0141","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Administration of do not call list.","description":"Administration of do not call list. Requires a monthly listing of telephone numbers of Indiana consumers who request not to be solicited by telephone to be established, maintained, and published (current law requires a quarterly listing). Provides that certain actions may not be brought more than five years after the occurrence of the deceptive act (current law provides that the action may not be brought more than two years after the occurrence of the deceptive act). Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0141/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061528,"bill_number":"SB0142","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-27","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local hospitality boards.","description":"Local hospitality boards. Allows the Delaware County executive to adopt an ordinance to consolidate the functions of a board, bureau, commission, authority, or any other similar entity (former entity) authorized to administer funds received from the Delaware County: (1) innkeeper's tax; or (2) food and beverage tax; into a single, consolidated entity as designated in the consolidating ordinance. Specifies that if a consolidating ordinance is adopted, each former entity is abolished on the date the ordinance is adopted, the term of a member serving on each former entity ends on the date the ordinance is adopted, and a subsequent ordinance may not be adopted to restore a former entity and transfer the powers, duties, and responsibilities of innkeeper's tax and food and beverage tax administration back to the former entity. Sets forth transitional provisions that must be included in the ordinance.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0142/2026","subjects":["health","transportation","finance","energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061489,"bill_number":"SB0143","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Statute of limitations.","description":"Statute of limitations. Allows the prosecution of Level 3 felony rape and child molesting offenses to be commenced at any time.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0143/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061526,"bill_number":"SB0144","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tobacco, e-liquid, and vapor devices.","description":"Tobacco, e-liquid, and vapor devices. Increases the penalty for a person who: (1) makes a delivery sale of an e-liquid to an individual less than 21 years of age; (2) sells or distributes a tobacco product to a person less than 21 years of age; and (3) purchases a tobacco product for a person less than 21 years of age; from a Class C infraction to a Class B infraction. Makes it a Class B infraction for a person to make a delivery sale of a vapor device to an individual less than 21 years of age. Makes it a Class B infraction for a person to: (1) sell or distribute a vapor device to a person less than 21 years of age; and (2) purchase a vapor device for a person less than 21 years of age. Makes it a Class C infraction for a person less than 21 years of age to purchase, accept, or possess a vapor device. Prohibits a person from advertising an e-liquid or a vapor product, by any medium, within 1,000 feet of school property.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0144/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064880,"bill_number":"SB0145","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Law enforcement services in Indianapolis downtown.","description":"Law enforcement services in Indianapolis downtown. Establishes a downtown district (district) within the city of Indianapolis. Provides that after December 31, 2026, the governor has the duty and responsibility to provide adequate law enforcement services within the district. Requires the governor and executive of the consolidated city and county to take steps to negotiate and execute a mutual assistance agreement. Provides that if an agreement is not executed, the state police department shall provide all law enforcement services within the district after December 31, 2026, and unless or until a mutual assistance agreement is executed. Requires the governor to appoint a district special prosecutor that has concurrent jurisdiction with the prosecuting attorney of the judicial district. Provides after December 31, 2026, the district special prosecutor has primary jurisdiction and the prosecuting attorney of the judicial district has secondary jurisdiction to prosecute a crime committed in the district. Requires the treasurer of state to deduct the state's costs in providing law enforcement services and offices and staff for the special prosecutor from revenue held by the state that would otherwise be available for distribution to the consolidated city.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0145/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061497,"bill_number":"SB0146","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Electric utility affordability; TDSIC plans.","description":"Electric utility affordability; TDSIC plans. Provides that affordability is the most important attribute of electric utility service that must be considered in decisions concerning Indiana's electric generation resource mix, energy infrastructure, and electric service ratemaking constructs. Provides the following with regard to a public electric or gas utility's transmission, distribution, and storage system improvement charge (TDSIC) plan: (1) The public utility's petition for Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) approval of the TDSIC plan must include an executive summary that provides specified information. (2) The public utility and the IURC shall publish the TDSIC plan, and each annual update to the TDSIC plan, on the public utility's and IURC's respective websites. (3) Provides that the public utility shall recover the deferred 20% of the public utility's approved capital expenditures and TDSIC costs under the TDSIC plan only upon the public utility's completion of the eligible transmission, distribution, and storage system improvements included in the TDSIC plan.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0146/2026","subjects":["energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064834,"bill_number":"SB0147","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Transit development district license.","description":"Transit development district license. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission to issue new three-way permits: (1) that are not subject to the permit quota; and (2) within a transit development district. Requires the maximum number of new permits issued within a district to be determined by written agreement of the legislative body of the municipality within the district and the northwest Indiana regional development authority board.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0147/2026","subjects":["transportation","cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064855,"bill_number":"SB0148","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana crime guns task force.","description":"Indiana crime guns task force. Beginning July 1, 2027, adds LaPorte County and Porter County to the task force area of the Indiana crime guns task force (task force), and specifies the number required for a quorum and to take official action in the event of a tie vote.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0148/2026","subjects":["public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064862,"bill_number":"SB0149","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tolling transponders.","description":"Tolling transponders. Allows a person who: (1) lives or works in a county where there is a toll road or tollway; and (2) pays for tolls assessed while driving on the toll road or tollway with a transponder; to apply for a credit to be added to the person's qualifying account for use towards future tolls. Provides that a person who pays for tolls using a transponder that is connected to a qualified account that is not registered to: (1) the person; (2) the person's employer; (3) a car rental company that owns the car being driven by the person; or (4) another person with the same permanent residence as the person; commits a Class B misdemeanor.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0149/2026","subjects":["housing","transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064877,"bill_number":"SB0150","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Insulin price cap.","description":"Insulin price cap. Requires an insurer to cap the total amount an insured is required to pay for a 30 day supply of prescription insulin drugs at an amount not to exceed $35, regardless of the number of prescriptions and different types of insulin prescribed and filled during that period.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0150/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064871,"bill_number":"SB0151","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Participation in community eligibility provision.","description":"Participation in community eligibility provision. Requires the department of education to provide technical assistance to a school corporation that is eligible to participate in and elects to participate in the federal community eligibility provision to provide free school breakfast and lunch to all students.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0151/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064873,"bill_number":"SB0152","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Utilities matters.","description":"Utilities matters. Allows an electric or gas utility to establish a customer assistance program for qualified residential customers. Requires the approval of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) before a public utility may sell stock, enter into certain contracts, effect a reorganization, or acquire control of another public utility. Provides that if a public utility requests IURC approval of the sale, assignment, or transfer of the public utility's franchise, works, or system, the IURC shall grant a right of first refusal to: (1) a municipality in which the public utility's works or system is located; or (2) a public charitable trust; for the purchase or acquisition of the public utility's franchise, works, or system. Provides that the IURC may not authorize a public utility that: (1) provides retail electric or natural gas service; and (2) is under the IURC's jurisdiction for the approval of rates and charges (energy utility); to recover through the energy utility's retail rates and charges any direct or indirect costs associated with specified expenses and activities related to lobbying, legislative action, political activities, charitable giving, litigation, investor relations, and other specified activities and expenses. Requires an energy utility, beginning in 2026, to file with the IURC an annual report that includes specified information concerning costs to: (1) the energy utility; or (2) an affiliate of the energy utility; that are related to these expenses or activities and that are directly billed or allocated to the energy utility. Requires the IURC to make available on the IURC's website a direct link to the annual reports provided by all energy utilities under these provisions. Provides that on any customer bill issued by an energy utility after December 31, 2026, the energy utility must include a break down of the charges and fees that make up the total amount owed, including a description of the service or cost associated with each charge or fee. Sets forth certain charges and fees that must be delineated as specific line items on each customer bill.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0152/2026","subjects":["energy","agriculture","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064878,"bill_number":"SB0153","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Utility disconnections and customer data reports.","description":"Utility disconnections and customer data reports. Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, an electric or gas utility may not, from June 21 through September 23 (in addition to the period from December 1 through March 15, under current law), terminate residential electric or gas service for an individual who is eligible for and has applied for assistance from a home energy assistance program administered by the lieutenant governor. Prohibits an electric, gas, or water utility from terminating service for any residential customer on any of the following days: (1) A Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. (2) A legal holiday. (3) Any day, or after noon on the day preceding any day, during which customer service representatives of the utility are not available to respond to customer inquiries during regular business hours. Repeals a provision that authorizes the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to establish a reasonable rate of interest that a utility may charge on the unpaid balance of a delinquent customer bill. Prohibits an electric, gas, or water utility from charging or collecting a deposit or reconnection fee as a condition of, or in connection with, restoring service to a residential customer after a termination of service for nonpayment. Requires the IURC to amend, not later than December 31, 2026, its administrative rules as necessary to conform the rules to these provisions. Requires a utility to: (1) amend its residential tariffs as necessary to bring the tariffs into conformance with these provisions; and (2) file with the IURC a petition for approval of each amended tariff; not later than June 15, 2026. Requires a utility that: (1) is under the jurisdiction of the IURC for the approval of rates and charges; and (2) provides residential electric, natural gas, water, or wastewater utility service at retail to customers and low income customers in Indiana; to report to the IURC on a quarterly basis certain data concerning customer accounts and low income customer accounts. Provides that the first reports submitted to the IURC must include the required information with respect to the third calendar quarter of 2026. Provides that: (1) a utility shall report all required information in the aggregate and in a manner that does not identify individual customers and low income customers; and (2) the IURC may not require utilities to disclose confidential and proprietary business information without adequate protection of the information. Requires the IURC to adopt rules to implement these provisions. Provides that, beginning in 2027, the IURC shall annually compile and summarize the information received from utilities for the previous calendar year and include the summary in the IURC's annual report.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0153/2026","subjects":["housing","environment","energy","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064864,"bill_number":"SB0154","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Prohibition of race based hair discrimination.","description":"Prohibition of race based hair discrimination. Prohibits race discrimination based on traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0154/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064870,"bill_number":"SB0155","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Doula program.","description":"Doula program. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to develop and implement a doula program that includes specified components.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0155/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":["Secretary Of Family And Social Services"]},{"bill_id":2064874,"bill_number":"SB0156","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Dating app aggravator.","description":"Dating app aggravator. Makes it an aggravating circumstance for purposes of sentencing that the person: (1) committed a sex offense; and (2) used an online platform designed for dating to meet the victim.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0156/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064882,"bill_number":"SB0157","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-27","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Disclosures related to prescription drugs.","description":"Disclosures related to prescription drugs. Requires certain pharmacists or pharmacies to provide the amount of the national average drug acquisition cost for a generic drug on the written materials provided to an individual at the point of sale of the generic drug.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0157/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064849,"bill_number":"SB0158","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Lake County rounding of local taxes pilot program.","description":"Lake County rounding of local taxes pilot program. Establishes the Lake County rounding of local taxes pilot program. Requires a local unit to round a tax amount payable to the local unit: (1) downward in the case of a tax amount with one, two, six, or seven in the second decimal place to the next amount divisible by $0.05; or (2) upward in the case of a tax amount with three, four, eight, or nine in the second decimal place to the next amount divisible by $0.05.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0158/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064856,"bill_number":"SB0159","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-27","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"School technology plans and policies.","description":"School technology plans and policies. Requires school corporations and charter schools (schools) to include in the school's technology plan a description of the school's plan to: (1) ensure the appropriate use of technological devices in schools; and (2) enable parents of students to exercise control over a student's technological devices while the student is not in school or engaged in virtual instruction or remote learning. Not later than January 1, 2027, requires a school to include in the school's Internet use policy a provision that enables the parent of a student to increase the strength of certain filters, block access to websites or content, and limit the use of certain devices. Creates an exemption from the Internet use policy requirement. Requires a school to include in the school's wireless communication device policy a provision that prohibits a student from using school supplied technological devices for a noneducational purpose during instructional time.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0159/2026","subjects":["it","education","housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064841,"bill_number":"SB0160","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Public safety.","description":"Public safety. Makes wearing a mask during the commission of a criminal offense a sentencing aggravator. Makes it malicious littering, a Class A misdemeanor, for a person to place refuse on the property of another person with the intent to cause the owner or occupant of the property to reasonably fear for their physical safety.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0160/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064853,"bill_number":"SB0161","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-27","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Education matters.","description":"Education matters. Requires the Indiana department of education to elect to participate as a covered state in the federal tax credit scholarship program for elementary and secondary education under Section 25F of the Internal Revenue Code (enacted in Public Law 119-21, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025). Makes conforming changes to the school scholarship tax credit in current law. Requires the governor and the department of workforce development, in consultation with the commission for higher education, to: (1) establish a process to identify eligible workforce training programs; (2) establish a process for institutions and programs to apply for recognition as an eligible workforce training program; (3) coordinate certain workforce training matters; and (4) require eligible workforce training programs to provide certain datasets to the department. Provides that the department of workforce development must maintain alignment with federal rules governing workforce Pell grants.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0161/2026","subjects":["education","housing","finance","labor"],"agencies":["Higher Education","Workforce"]},{"bill_id":2064866,"bill_number":"SB0162","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Department of workforce development.","description":"Department of workforce development. Removes vacation pay and sick pay from the definition of \"deductible income\". Amends the definition of \"suitable work\" to apply solely to extended benefit claims. Amends the definition of \"employment\" with respect to certain religious, charitable, or educational organizations. Provides that the department of workforce development may make certain direct deposit disbursements under limited circumstances. Provides that the date a determination of eligibility is sent is prima facie evidence of proper service. Codifies certain administrative rules with respect to benefit payments, the filing of claims, and notice. Removes outdated or expired provisions. Removes references to dependents' allowances for purposes of calculating extended benefits. Provides that an individual who files a disaster unemployment assistance claim may be eligible for additional benefits under certain circumstances. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0162/2026","subjects":["education","labor","emergency"],"agencies":["Workforce"]},{"bill_id":2064867,"bill_number":"SB0163","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various property tax matters.","description":"Various property tax matters. Provides that a county board or assessing official shall not enter a property to conduct a physical inspection without first receiving the permission of the taxpayer to enter the property. Provides that under specific circumstances, that  an individual may serve as a tax representative of any taxpayer concerning property subject to property taxes. Changes the expiration date for the county option circuit breaker tax credit. Describes elements that must be included in a report that must be prepared by the department of local government finance and presented to an interim study committee regarding automated valuation systems.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0163/2026","subjects":["it","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064860,"bill_number":"SB0164","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Study of community or urban microfarming.","description":"Study of community or urban microfarming. Requires the department of agriculture (department) to conduct a study to evaluate the feasibility of establishing community or urban microfarm zones statewide. Requires the department to submit a report to the general assembly containing certain findings and recommendations not later than December 1, 2027.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0164/2026","subjects":["agriculture","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064852,"bill_number":"SB0165","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Hobart counter-cyclical fund loan.","description":"Hobart counter-cyclical fund loan. Cancels a 2023 loan or loans from the state of Indiana from the counter-cyclical revenue and economic stabilization fund for the purpose of providing funds to be applied to refunding certain bonds of the city of Hobart and the city of Hobart redevelopment district and offsetting property tax revenue shortfalls incurred and to be incurred by the city of Hobart. Provides that the city of Hobart is not required to make any further payments to the state of Indiana in satisfaction of the loan or loans.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0165/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064884,"bill_number":"SB0166","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Eligibility for veteran's benefits.","description":"Eligibility for veteran's benefits. Changes references relating to military discharges to require discharges under honorable conditions. (Current law provides that a veteran is eligible for benefits except under certain conditions designated by the Indiana department of veterans' affairs.) Excludes references used to determine eligibility for grants from the military family relief fund.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0166/2026","subjects":["housing","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064842,"bill_number":"SB0167","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Relocation of outdoor advertising signs.","description":"Relocation of outdoor advertising signs. Provides that the Indiana department of transportation or a zoning authority may not apply zoning standards or require a permit to relocate certain outdoor advertising signs. Provides that an existing outdoor advertising sign located within the boundaries of an excluded city may not be relocated outside the excluded city unless the county or municipality to which the outdoor advertising sign will be relocated approves of the relocation. Allows a zoning authority to permit or inspect a relocated outdoor advertising sign if the purpose is to ensure compliance with certain safety standards.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0167/2026","subjects":["transportation","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064848,"bill_number":"SB0168","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Electric generation asset reports.","description":"Electric generation asset reports. Prescribes additional information that an electricity supplier must include in the electricity supplier's annual accounting filing with the Indiana utility regulatory commission.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0168/2026","subjects":["energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2061430,"bill_number":"SB0169","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Reorganization of consumer lending laws.","description":"Reorganization of consumer lending laws. Repeals the statutes governing first lien mortgage lending, small loans, mortgage rescue protection fraud, and home loan practices and the Uniform Consumer Credit Code. Recodifies the repealed statutes in a new title of the Indiana Code concerning consumer lending (Title 37). Conforms the structure and organization of the recodified statutes to the requirements of the general assembly's drafting manual. Makes conforming changes to cross-references.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0169/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064859,"bill_number":"SB0170","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Local public work project bidding.","description":"Local public work project bidding. Provides additional considerations that a local public works board may consider in determining the lowest responsible and responsive bidder for a public work project costing at least $300,000.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0170/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064838,"bill_number":"SB0171","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Family and children matters.","description":"Family and children matters. Requires the local office of the department of child services to provide notice of an adoption petition to the court in which a CHINS proceeding is open or pending. Provides that the consent to adoption may be executed or acknowledged at any time after the birth of the child in the presence of an attorney, in person, or by video conferencing.\nProvides that a court may grant postadoption contact privileges if the child is at least 12 months of age. (Current law requires the child to be at least two years of age.) Provides certain exceptions to confidentiality requirements. Requires the department of child services (department) to consider certain factors when evaluating an out-of-home placement for a child in a child in need of services (CHINS) case. Provides that a placement with whom a child has resided with for at least 12 months, consecutively or nonconsecutively, is presumed to be an individual who has a significant relationship with the child. Requires a court to write a formal order in certain circumstances and include specific information in the order. Provides that the objectives of the dispositional decree are not considered met solely because a court is prohibited from changing a child's placement under IC 31-34-23-6(g) and prohibits the court from considering certain information when deciding whether the objectives of the dispositional decree are met. Requires any party seeking a change in placement for certain children to file a motion with the court, provide notice to all persons affected, and inform all persons affected of the right to file a written objection within 15 days. (Current law only allows the department to file the motion for a change of placement.) Allows a court to rule on a party's motion for the change in placement without delay if exigent circumstances are alleged in the party's motion. Provides that, with certain exceptions, if a child is the subject of an adoption petition, the adoption petitioner is the child's current placement, and the adoption petitioner has been the child's placement for at least 12 months, the court shall not change the child's placement until the adoption petition has been ruled on. Provides that if the party seeking a change of placement is a parent, guardian ad litem, or a court appointed special advocate, the party must provide notice to the department of child services, and the department shall then provide notice of the motion to the child's out-of-home placement.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0171/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":["Child Services"]},{"bill_id":2064837,"bill_number":"SB0172","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-28","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Administrative rulemaking.","description":"Administrative rulemaking. Provides that if the implementation and compliance costs of a proposed rule, provisional rule, or interim rule exceed $100,000 (instead of $1,000,000) over a two year period: (1) the rule cannot be published in the Indiana Register until the budget committee has reviewed the rule; (2) the budget agency and the office of management and budget may not approve any part of the proposed rule prior to review by the budget committee; and (3) in the case of a provisional rule or an interim rule, the governor may not approve a rule prior to the budget committee's review of the rule. Provides that an agency may adopt a rule only if the agency has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the governor that certain circumstances exist. Specifies that provisional and interim rulemaking may be used only under specified circumstances if the combined implementation and compliance costs would not exceed $500,000 for businesses, units, and individuals if effective over a two year period.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0172/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064846,"bill_number":"SB0173","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Health care matters.","description":"Health care matters. Prohibits: (1) the state employee health plan; (2) the Medicaid program; (3) an accident and sickness insurance policy; and (4) a health maintenance organization individual or group contract; from imposing a time limit on the amount of anesthesia time for a medical procedure or otherwise restricting or excluding coverage or payment of anesthesia time. Modifies the definitions of \"charity care\" and \"community benefits\" for purposes of certain hospital reporting requirements. Requires additional reporting of information by nonprofit hospitals to the Indiana department of health (state department). Requires the report to be posted on the nonprofit hospital's website and the state department's website. Increases the penalty for failure to file the report and changes the time frame in which the penalty may be assessed. Specifies that any penalty be deposited in the local public health fund. Allows for certain practitioners to provide neuroplastogen treatment concerning qualified patients with life threatening conditions if certain requirements are met. Allows for research to be conducted on neuroplastogen access. Requires reporting of adverse events and annual reporting of patient statistical information concerning the neuroplastogen treatment. Provides for immunity when treating using neuroplastogens. Requires a clinical peer to disclose certain information for a peer to peer review of an adverse determination. Prohibits a utilization review entity from using artificial intelligence as the primary means for making adverse determinations. Prohibits a health insurer from engaging in certain downcoding practices and sets forth conditions for downcoding a claim. Authorizes the department of insurance to enforce the downcoding requirements and impose certain penalties for a violation. Prohibits an insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, or other administrator of pharmacy benefits from designating a prescription drug as a specialty drug unless certain conditions are met.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0173/2026","subjects":["it","health","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065558,"bill_number":"SB0174","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various health matters.","description":"Various health matters. Prohibits a person from adding a chemical to a public water supply in certain circumstances. Defines \"medical intervention\" and provides that a person may not require an individual to accept, undergo, or engage in a medical intervention in or on the individual's body as a condition of employment, entrance, admission, compensation, benefits, or participation. Provides that a person may not take a punitive measure against an individual because the individual refused to accept, undergo, or engage in a medical intervention in or on the individual's body. Allows an individual who suffers bodily injury as a result of a violation of these provisions to file an action. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally causes bodily injury to another person by violating these provisions commits battery, a class B misdemeanor, enhanced to a level 5 felony if the offense constitutes a violation of the right to bodily integrity. Allows an individual to sell certain meat products from the individual's primary residence. Establishes various requirements for an individual to sell certain meat products from the individual's primary residence. Exempts a stand or another retail building used only for the sale of certain food products or meat products from the definition of a Class 1 structure. Provides that a student enrolled in a health profession education program may not be required to receive an immunization as a condition of: (1) participating in; or (2) obtaining; clinical training or clinical experience required by the program if receiving the immunization is against the student's conscience. Amends the information that the statewide child fatality review committee and statewide maternal mortality review committee must include in each committee's annual report. Provides that a physician may not be required to receive an immunization if receiving the immunization is against the physician's conscience. Provides that a health care provider, health care entity, and a health carrier may not be required to provide or refer an individual for a health care service that violates the conscience of the health care provider, health care entity, or health carrier. Establishes an exception for a health carrier. Specifies that a health care provider, health care entity, or a health carrier may not be subject to discrimination and certain other acts and liability for declining to provide the health care service. Establishes a civil action for a violation of these provisions. Provides that a person who prevails in a civil action is entitled to certain relief. Requires a licensed child care center, school, and person that operates a before or after school program to report the ingredients of each food product provided to a child or student. Requires the division of family resources and the department of education to publish the information on each agency's website. Allows a school corporation to contract with a health care provider, health system, or community partner to establish a school based health center (center). Sets forth requirements to establish a center. Provides that, notwithstanding state or federal law, a school may not conduct a physical or mental assessment or treatment of a student unless the physical or mental assessment or treatment is related to an illness or accident that occurred during school hours or on or near school property. Repeals certain superseded laws, including provisions concerning immunizations, communicable diseases, potentially disease transmitting offenses, quarantine, medical testing, disqualification for unemployment benefits, and COVID-19 immunization requirements. Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0174/2026","subjects":["health","education","labor","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2064844,"bill_number":"SB0175","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Dangerous excessive speeding.","description":"Dangerous excessive speeding. Creates the crime of excessive speeding, a Class C misdemeanor. Provides that the offense is a Class B misdemeanor if the person has a prior unrelated conviction and provides that two convictions within five years shall result in the court's recommendation for immediate suspension of driving privileges. Provides that a sentencing court shall impose a fine of $5,000 and recommend the suspension of driving privileges for six months for a person convicted of resisting law enforcement using a vehicle. Provides that a sentencing court shall impose a fine of $10,000 and recommend the suspension of driving privileges for one year if a person uses a vehicle to commit the offense and the person has a prior unrelated conviction.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0175/2026","subjects":["public_safety","transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065154,"bill_number":"SB0176","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Shooting ranges.","description":"Shooting ranges. Provides that the maintenance, repair, renovation, modernization, or expansion of buildings, structures, or facilities used in connection with a shooting range, including improvements to safety, security accessibility, or environmental controls, is a continuation of a permitted use and may not be treated by a local unit of government as: (1) an expansion of a nonconforming use; or (2) a basis to deny, delay, or condition approval of any permit that is otherwise required under applicable building codes or safety regulations. Provides that if an area is zoned for commercial use, a retail sporting goods store is a permitted use on each lot or parcel. Provides that if a property is zoned for commercial, industrial, or agricultural use, an indoor shooting range is permitted on any lot or parcel if certain conditions are satisfied.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0176/2026","subjects":["environment","agriculture","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065128,"bill_number":"SB0177","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Return of firearm to rightful owner.","description":"Return of firearm to rightful owner. Provides that a person may not waive certain requirements concerning the return of a firearm to the rightful owner as part of a plea agreement. Specifies that any purported waiver is invalid and unenforceable as against public policy.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0177/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065185,"bill_number":"SB0178","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Payment of insurance claims.","description":"Payment of insurance claims. Provides that an insurer may not adjust a subsequent claim filed by a provider as a method of obtaining reimbursement of an overpayment made by the insurer on a prior claim by the provider. Provides that a health maintenance organization may not adjust a subsequent claim filed by a provider as a method of obtaining reimbursement of an overpayment made by the health maintenance organization on a prior claim by the provider. Provides that an insurer may not, more than one year after the date on which an overpayment on a provider claim was made to the provider by the insurer, request that the provider repay the overpayment (current law is two years). Provides that a health maintenance organization may not, more than one year after the date on which an overpayment on a provider claim was made to the provider by the health maintenance organization, request that the provider repay the overpayment (current law is two years). Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0178/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065170,"bill_number":"SB0179","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana department of transportation.","description":"Indiana department of transportation. Allows the Indiana department of transportation (department) to assume the responsibilities and duties of the United States Department of Transportation with respect to certain federal environmental laws. Provides that the department waives its civil immunity and consents to the jurisdiction of the federal courts for responsibilities and duties assumed under certain federal environmental laws. Amends language regarding a local unit's eligibility for: (1) a grant from the local road and bridge matching grant fund (fund); and (2) a distribution from the fund based on the local unit's share of total lane mileage. Provides limitations for an overweight truck permit that is issued for a single trip. Provides for the use of the Indiana Plane Coordinate System as a means to describe real property. Provides that the department may give preference in awarding grants from the fund to local units that have adopted an enhanced asset management plan. Provides that a county may impose a vehicle excise tax or wheel tax on a vehicle that is registered in the county and not registered in a municipality in the county where a vehicle excise tax or wheel tax went into effect after December 31, 2026. Amends certain requirements for township capital improvement plans.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0179/2026","subjects":["housing","environment","transportation","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065113,"bill_number":"SB0180","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various health care matters.","description":"Various health care matters. Eliminates a requirement that home health aide competency evaluation program training include at least 75 hours of training and 16 hours of classroom training before supervised practical training. Amends the educational requirements for dental hygienists. Amends the requirements for administration of nitrous oxide by a dental hygienist. Allows the state board of dentistry to establish additional requirements for an applicant who has failed the licensure examination at least three times. Amends the licensure and temporary permit requirements for respiratory care practitioners. Provides that a current or former police officer or firefighter (first responder) may recover medical benefits from the first responder's employer for an employment related injury or illness without first proceeding with a worker's compensation claim. Provides that if a first responder pursues a worker's compensation claim for medical benefits and the claim is withdrawn or denied, the first responder is not precluded from recovering medical benefits from the employer. Repeals the penalty in Title 16 concerning the crime of transferring contaminated semen. (Current statute contains a transferring of contaminated body fluids crime in Title 35 remains in law.)","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0180/2026","subjects":["health","education","housing","public_safety","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065107,"bill_number":"SB0181","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Notice of eviction.","description":"Notice of eviction. Requires a landlord to provide notice at least five days before filing an eviction that includes the following: (1) The amount owed. (2) A calculation of late fees. (3) Acceptable methods of payment.  (4) The date the landlord intends to file an eviction if charges remain unpaid. Provides methods of written notice. Provides that notice is not required to terminate a lease if the landlord has met other notice requirements. Requires a landlord to complete required repairs issued by an eligible enforcement authority and meet standards required by a county health department. Repeals a provision concerning refusal or neglect to pay rent and corresponding notice requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0181/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065087,"bill_number":"SB0182","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-28","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Gender issues.","description":"Gender issues. Defines \"female\", \"male\", \"gender\", and \"sex\" for all Indiana statutes. Provides that the department of correction shall assign an offender, including a delinquent offender, to a facility or program that is based on the offender's sex. States that a local health officer shall mark the sex of an individual as male or female on a birth certificate. Provides that the Indiana department of health may make an addition to a birth certificate, for purposes of paternity, in certain situations. Provides the circumstances for when the sex designation on a birth certificate can be amended. Requires public schools, including charter schools, and state educational institutions to designate a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area as follows: (1) For the exclusive use of the male sex. (2) For the exclusive use of the female sex. Provides, with exceptions, that an individual shall only use a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area that is designated for the sex that is the individual's sex. Establishes a civil action for a violation of these provisions. Prohibits public schools, including charter schools, and state educational institutions from requiring a student to share sleeping quarters with a member of the opposite sex, unless the individual who is a member of the opposite sex is a family member. Establishes a civil action for a violation of these provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0182/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065108,"bill_number":"SB0183","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Income tax deduction for health insurance premiums.","description":"Income tax deduction for health insurance premiums. Provides that a taxpayer who is covered by a health insurance plan may deduct from the taxpayer's adjusted gross income an amount equal to the total amount of premiums on the health insurance plan the taxpayer paid for coverage during the taxable year.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0183/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065134,"bill_number":"SB0184","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sales tax on utility service.","description":"Sales tax on utility service. Phases down in equal reductions over four years the state gross retail tax rate imposed on the sale of the following utility services to a person for domestic consumption: (1) Electrical energy. (2) Natural or artificial gas. (3) Water. (4) Steam. (5) Steam heating service.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0184/2026","subjects":["finance","energy","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065149,"bill_number":"SB0185","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Alcohol and tobacco matters.","description":"Alcohol and tobacco matters. Specifies, with respect to a tobacco sales certificate (certificate), that a permitted premises may not include sleeping or living quarters. Provides that a person may not sell a tobacco product or electronic cigarette at wholesale without a certificate. Adds additional information an applicant must provide to the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) when applying for a certificate. Provides, with one exception, that the commission shall not issue a certificate to a retail location where a certificate was revoked within one year prior to the application. Specifies the circumstances under which the commission must either suspend or revoke a certificate if the certificate holder's employees violate employee identification requirements three or more times in one year. Makes it a Class C infraction for a certificate holder or employee to violate particular identification requirements. Modifies the application of certain statutes concerning vapor pens and e-liquid. Establishes various requirements and penalties applicable to e-liquid, e-liquid products, and vapor devices, including restrictions on the manufacture, sourcing, possession, sale, and distribution of foreign adversary products. Specifies that certain provisions concerning vapor pens and e-liquid do not authorize the manufacturing, sale, possession, or use of a controlled substance or any product containing a controlled substance. Amends the requirements for an initial and renewal application to manufacture e-liquids or e-liquid products. Requires, in a provision concerning the sale of cigarettes, that a buydown be considered in determining the cost to the retailer or cost to the distributor. Specifies an exception. Adds the sale of alcohol without a permit to the violations which may constitute racketeering activity. Changes the infraction of the habitual illegal sale of tobacco products from six violations in a year to three violations in a year. Changes the infraction of the habitual illegal entrance by a minor from six violations to three violations in a year. Specifies that a prohibition on the sale, use, or distribution of flavored nitrous oxide does not apply to a law enforcement agency disposing of flavored nitrous oxide by donation to a nonprofit organization.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0185/2026","subjects":["it","public_safety","cannabis"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065034,"bill_number":"SB0186","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Hoosier family leave insurance program.","description":"Hoosier family leave insurance program. Establishes the Hoosier family leave insurance program (program) to provide wage replacement benefits to covered individuals during periods of qualified family leave. Establishes the Hoosier family leave insurance trust fund. Requires the department of workforce development to administer the program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0186/2026","subjects":["labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065560,"bill_number":"SB0187","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-27","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Regional sewer districts.","description":"Regional sewer districts. Specifies that a board of trustees of a regional water, sewage, or solid waste district (board) must notify the district authority in writing before taking certain actions. Provides that a trustee appointed to a board serves at the pleasure of the appointing authority. Prohibits a regional water, sewage, or solid waste district (district) created after June 30, 2026, from incurring any indebtedness without first obtaining the approval of the county fiscal body.\nSpecifies that if a district created after June 30, 2026, contains territory in more than one county, the district must first obtain the approval of each county fiscal body in which the district contains territory before incurring any indebtedness. Establishes a timeline for the county fiscal body to approve or deny a district's request to incur indebtedness.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0187/2026","subjects":["environment","finance","labor","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065860,"bill_number":"SB0188","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Parking at Lake Michigan beaches.","description":"Parking at Lake Michigan beaches. Prohibits a municipality from charging parking fees at a municipally owned parking lot at a municipal park beach on Lake Michigan, unless the municipality has: (1) a lifeguard on duty at the beach during the hours that swimming is allowed; and (2) public rescue equipment installed on any pier or public access site of the municipality. Allows a municipality to charge parking fees without satisfying the lifeguard requirement while notes, bonds, leases, or other obligations are outstanding that the municipality: (1) issued, incurred, or entered into before July 1, 2026; and (2) pays or pledged to pay from parking fee revenues. Prohibits a municipality from pledging or using parking fees to pay bonds, leases, or other debt obligations issued, incurred, or entered into after June 30, 2026.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0188/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065861,"bill_number":"SB0189","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Nonparticipating providers.","description":"Nonparticipating providers. Requires an initiating party that submits a request for independent dispute resolution to provide written notice to the facility not later than three business days after submitting the request. Allows a health carrier to provide notice to an out of network provider and a facility if, during any 90 day period, an initiating party submits requests for independent dispute resolutions that, in the aggregate, include 25 or more qualified disputes. Provides that if a health carrier provides the notice, the health carrier, the out of network provider, and the facility shall engage in good faith efforts to negotiate a resolution. Prohibits a health carrier from assessing a facility or a provider an administrative fee or penalty related to the provision of care to an individual that involves an out of network provider. Provides that if a health carrier assesses a facility or a provider an administrative fee or penalty related to the provision of care to an individual that involves an out of network provider, the health carrier commits an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0189/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065862,"bill_number":"SB0190","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Crimes concerning gift cards.","description":"Crimes concerning gift cards. Establishes the offenses of gift card theft, a Class A misdemeanor, and gift card fraud, a Level 6 felony.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0190/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065065,"bill_number":"SB0191","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Electronic record of confidential address.","description":"Electronic record of confidential address. Exempts a county recorder from the requirement of accepting an electronic document for recording if the electronic document contains identifying information of a person in the address confidentiality program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0191/2026","subjects":["it"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065111,"bill_number":"SB0192","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Military protection order.","description":"Military protection order. Requires a party to a protective order proceeding to inform the court of any military protective orders issued by a military commander in effect between the parties. Allows a party to file a military protective order as evidence in a protective order proceeding and provides that the court may issue an ex parte protective order based upon this evidence.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0192/2026","subjects":["public_safety","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065863,"bill_number":"SB0193","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Governmental entity limited liability.","description":"Governmental entity limited liability. Provides that a governmental entity operating an activity on land leased by the governmental entity from the federal government is entitled to certain immunities from a tort claim. Expands the definition of \"extreme sport area\" to include an obstacle course.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0193/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065864,"bill_number":"SB0194","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Redistricting standards.","description":"Redistricting standards. Establishes redistricting standards for state legislative congressional districts. Requires the initial proposed plans for congressional and state legislative districts to comply with the redistricting standards. Allows the general assembly, during the process by which the initial proposed plans become effective by being enacted as a law, to consider and adopt modifications to the initial proposed plans that deviate from the redistricting standards as long as the reason or reasons for each deviation are publicly explained and documented. Specifies that the general assembly may not establish or modify legislative or congressional districts other than at the first regular session of the general assembly convening immediately following the federal decennial census, except in response to a court order that has invalidated some part of a redistricting plan.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0194/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065865,"bill_number":"SB0195","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Eligibility for SNAP benefits.","description":"Eligibility for SNAP benefits. Eliminates the countable asset limitation for resources with respect to expanded categorical eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0195/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065866,"bill_number":"SB0196","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Community energy facilities.","description":"Community energy facilities. Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (commission) to adopt rules governing community energy facilities not later than July 1, 2028. Provides that, not later than 180 days after adoption of the rules, an electricity supplier shall begin: (1) allowing interconnection of the electricity supplier's facilities with community energy facilities with which at least three of the electricity supplier's customers have entered into a subscription; and (2) crediting the electricity supplier's subscribing customers for the amount of electricity from the community energy facility to which the customer subscribes. Requires the commission to: (1) establish an interconnection working group composed of representatives of electricity suppliers and other stakeholders with respect to electric utility service; and (2) implement the working group's recommendations regarding creation, revision, or elimination of policies, processes, tariffs, rules, or standards relating to the interconnection of community energy facilities and electricity suppliers as necessary for transparent, accurate, and efficient implementation of community energy facilities. Prohibits an investor owned utility from: (1) owning a community energy facility; or (2) offering incentive programs to community energy facilities.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0196/2026","subjects":["housing","energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065867,"bill_number":"SB0197","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-28","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Garnishment.","description":"Garnishment. Amends the limitation on garnishment provided in the Uniform Consumer Credit Code. Requires a garnishment order or attachment order that requires an employer to make deductions from a debtor's disposable earnings to provide certain information to the employer. Provides that tangible personal property, including choses in action, deposit accounts, and cash (but excluding debts owing and income owing), of $1,500 is exempt from bankruptcy (current law is $300). Removes provisions in code requiring the department of financial institutions to adopt rules that establish or adjust exemption amounts for purposes of bankruptcy proceedings.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0197/2026","subjects":["housing","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065868,"bill_number":"SB0198","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-06","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Pregnancy and childbirth matters.","description":"Pregnancy and childbirth matters. Requires a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract to: (1) grant an exception to a step therapy protocol for a prescription drug prescribed for the treatment of postpartum depression that is not indicated by the federal Food and Drug Administration for postpartum depression on the prescription drug's approved labeling; (2) provide coverage for biomarker testing for preeclampsia, doula services, mental health screenings, and treatment for maternal mental health; and (3) develop a maternal mental health program. Requires Medicaid pregnancy services to include reimbursement for doula services and biomarker testing for preeclampsia. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to develop and implement a program for pregnant women and children with a substance use disorder. Requires the office of women's health to: (1) develop, maintain, and disseminate certain information concerning resources that are available to pregnant women and new mothers; and (2) provide continuing education courses concerning postpartum depression and other related mental health disorders. Requires a hospital or birthing center to, before a patient's discharge from the hospital or birthing center following birth, providethe patient with information concerning postpartum depression and other related mental health disorders. Sets forth requirements for screening for preeclampsia using biomarker testing. Establishes the Hoosier family leave insurance program and the Hoosier family leave insurance trust fund. Prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee who has a condition related to pregnancy or childbirth. Repeals a chapter regarding pregnancy and childbirth accommodation. Requires certain health care practitioners to screen caregivers for signs and symptoms of postpartum depression or other related mental health disorders and provide a referral for the caregiver if the screening is positive for a mental health disorder.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0198/2026","subjects":["health","education","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065066,"bill_number":"SB0199","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various education matters.","description":"Various education matters. Makes changes to the composition of the case review panel established by an interscholastic athletic association. Requires the secretary of education, not later than December 1, 2026, to identify key metrics and activities concerning civic literacy and to submit the information to the general assembly. Requires the secretary of education, not later than December 1, 2026, to identify and make certain recommendations concerning paid leave for employees following certain events and to submit the findings to the general assembly. Provides that certain requirements apply to schools in which, over the course of three consecutive years, fewer than 75% of students achieved a valid passing score on the determinant evaluation of reading skills. Requires the commission for higher education (commission), not later than December 1, 2026, to evaluate accrediting agencies of state educational institutions and to report the commission's findings and recommendations to the general assembly. Provides that state educational institutions with degree programs that meet the definition of a low earning outcome program under federal law must request approval from the commission to continue the degree program.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0199/2026","subjects":["education","labor","trade"],"agencies":["Higher Education"]},{"bill_id":2065869,"bill_number":"SB0200","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Public school matters.","description":"Public school matters. Provides that certain: (1) indemnity; (2) choice of law; and (3) automatic renewal; provisions contained in contracts entered into, amended, or renewed after June 30, 2026, between the governing body of a school corporation or the equivalent authority for a charter school and a vendor are against public policy and are void and unenforceable. Provides that certain youth organizations may submit a grievance to the department of education if a public school refuses to allow the organization to provide information to students under certain conditions. Provides that, if a public school allows a postsecondary educational institution to provide certain information to students, the public school shall allow military personnel to provide certain information to students.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0200/2026","subjects":["education","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066613,"bill_number":"SB0201","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Protecting children from family violence.","description":"Protecting children from family violence. Amends the definition of \"domestic or family violence\" to include additional acts or behaviors that are not necessarily physical. Prohibits a court from returning certain children to the child's parent, guardian, or custodian unless appropriate safety conditions are ordered. Requires the office of judicial administration to develop a training program, which must include certain topics relating to domestic or family violence. Makes technical and conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0201/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066455,"bill_number":"SB0202","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Taxation of remittances.","description":"Taxation of remittances. Requires a money transmitter (entities licensed under the Money Transmission Modernization Act) to collect and remit an international money wiring fee from senders of a money transmission transaction to a location outside of the United States. Provides an income tax credit to an individual who is a citizen or national of the United States, or an alien who has lawful permanent resident status or conditional permanent resident status, and paid an international money wiring fee during the taxable year. Requires the revenue from the international money wiring fee to be deposited in the state general fund. Includes the international money wiring fee under the definition of \"listed taxes\" that the department of state revenue is required to collect and administer.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0202/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066636,"bill_number":"SB0203","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana economic development corporation.","description":"Indiana economic development corporation. Requires the state board of accounts to act as the economic development ombudsman (ombudsman) for the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) and a nonprofit subsidiary of the IEDC (nonprofit subsidiary) and to designate an individual to serve as the ombudsman. Sets forth the ombudsman's duties, including the recommendation of policies to the general assembly concerning economic development and transparency matters. Allows the ombudsman (subject to the state examiner's approval) to employ or contract with assistants necessary to assist the ombudsman in carrying out the ombudsman's duties. Establishes circumstances under which the ombudsman is required to adopt a budget before the ombudsman's costs, including the costs of any assistants, in carrying out the ombudsman's duties are paid from appropriations made to the IEDC and when the ombudsman may bill the IEDC for those costs without using the budget procedure added by this bill. Provides for appointment to the board of the IEDC of two nonvoting, advisory members who are members of the general assembly. Requires the IEDC to establish a dashboard that includes longitudinal representations of certain economic development data derived from elements required to be included in the economic incentives and compliance report. Requires the IEDC to analyze the potential impact of a proposed economic development investment on the costs to provide the following utility services to ratepayers: (1) Water. (2) Wastewater. (3) Electricity. (4) Natural gas. Specifies that in performing the analysis, the IEDC must consider each of the following: (1) The existing utility infrastructure available to serve the project. (2) Any new utility infrastructure needed to serve the project. (3) Water resource availability for the project. Provides that if a proposed economic development investment is projected to negatively impact ratepayers, the IEDC is required to develop and implement a mitigation plan. Allows the IEDC to consult with certain state agencies, utilities providing utility services to the project area, local units of government, and consumer and ratepayer advocates in performing the analysis and mitigation requirements added by this bill.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0203/2026","subjects":["environment","finance","energy","elections","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068716,"bill_number":"SB0204","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various education matters.","description":"Various education matters. Provides that an individual who has obtained a license to teach in a charter school may be eligible to obtain an initial practitioner professional educator license under certain conditions. Removes a requirement that an individual must hold a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics as a component of certain pathways to receive an initial practitioner license. Provides that academic needs based salary increases may not: (1) apply to all eligible teachers in a bargaining unit uniformly; or (2) be based on certain other factors. Repeals the: (1) state educational institution (institution) annual report to the legislative council (council) and commission for higher education (commission) concerning financial aid; (2) commission report to the general assembly concerning certain institution information; (3) student athlete cardiac arrest provisions; and (4) Ivy Tech Community College report to the budget committee concerning campus information. Expires certain physical facilities reporting requirements on June 30, 2029. Provides that a state educational institution that has been denied approval to continue a degree program may: (1) permit students to enroll in the degree program until June 1 of the year following the denial; and (2) provide students enrolled in the degree program with the opportunity to finish their degree prior to the degree program's closure. Requires the commission to submit an annual report concerning degree program closures to the general assembly. Changes the reporting of disclosable gifts to January 31 and July 31 of a given year (current law requires disclosure on January 1 and July 1 of a given year). Changes certain amounts concerning construction, land purchases, and repair and rehabilitation by an institution to $3,000,000. Voids a provision in the Indiana Administrative Code. Requires each institution to submit a report annually to the budget committee and the commission for higher education listing certain capital projects for the immediately preceding full calendar year that did not receive review by the commission. Specifies the contents of the report. Provides that a student enrolled in a health profession education program may not be required to receive an immunization as a condition of: (1) participating in; or (2) obtaining; clinical training or clinical experience required by the program if a parent of the student or student objects on religious grounds. Adds requirements regarding the principles of the core transfer library.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0204/2026","subjects":["it","health","education","housing","finance","trade"],"agencies":["Higher Education"]},{"bill_id":2066497,"bill_number":"SB0205","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Development of affordable housing.","description":"Development of affordable housing. Requires a local zoning ordinance to allow for residential housing developed by a religious developer as a permitted use in all residential or commercial zones if specified conditions are satisfied.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0205/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068652,"bill_number":"SB0206","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Protection of underground facilities.","description":"Protection of underground facilities. Provides that the following are exempt from the law governing demolitions and excavations in the area of underground facilities: (1) Excavation that is performed: (A) only with a hand tool; (B) by a communications service provider; and (C) to a depth not greater than 12 inches; for the purpose of connecting a communications service customer's home or business to the communications service provider's own communications network. (2) Excavation performed using only high pressure air. (3) Excavation performed solely by: (A) injecting water into soil; and (B) removing the resulting mixture of soil and water with a vacuum.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0206/2026","subjects":["water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066589,"bill_number":"SB0207","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Key fob emulators.","description":"Key fob emulators. Provides (with certain exceptions) that a person who knowingly or intentionally manufactures, sells, offers to sell, possesses, operates, or uses a motor vehicle key programming device commits unlawful use of a motor vehicle key programming device, a Class A misdemeanor.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0207/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068813,"bill_number":"SB0208","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Firefighter cancer insurance.","description":"Firefighter cancer insurance. Requires a group health insurance program for firefighters to provide coverage for the screening of certain forms of cancer. Requires a local unit public employer to provide cancer insurance for active firefighters, retired firefighters, and firefighters who are receiving disability benefits. Allows the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system to enter into agreements with one or more insurance companies to provide group cancer insurance for active firefighters, retired firefighters, and firefighters who are receiving disability benefits. Requires the department of homeland security to develop a firefighter cancer awareness and prevention program to provide relevant information to fire department personnel and volunteers concerning best practices for reducing the risk of cancer.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0208/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068462,"bill_number":"SB0210","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Article V convention of the states compact.","description":"Article V convention of the states compact. Adopts the compact for a safe and equal convention of the states. Specifies compact requirements. Provides that each state that adopts the compact intends to ensure that the following rules are followed at a convention under Article V of the Constitution of the United States: (1) All voting is conducted on the basis of one-state, one-vote. (2) The convention shall not consider any proposed amendment on any topic other than the topics or subjects specifically enumerated in the applications of 2/3 of the several states which formed the basis for the call of the convention.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0210/2026","subjects":["elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068754,"bill_number":"SB0211","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-23","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Cancellation of caucus meeting.","description":"Cancellation of caucus meeting. Allows a person who wishes to be a candidate for a pro tempore appointment to certain local offices or school board offices to file a declaration of candidacy with the chair of the caucus or the circuit court clerk. Requires a circuit court clerk to send a copy of a declaration of candidacy filed with the clerk to the chairman of the caucus on the same day the declaration of candidacy is received. Allows a notice of a caucus meeting to be rescinded if only one candidate seeks to fill a vacancy in a local office or a school board office held by a major party.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0211/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2065561,"bill_number":"SB0212","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"State income tax conformity.","description":"State income tax conformity. Amends the definition of \"Internal Revenue Code\" to conform with certain provisions enacted in Public Law 119-21 (H.R. 1) (commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025).","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0212/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068844,"bill_number":"SB0213","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-27","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Income tax deduction for theft loss.","description":"Income tax deduction for theft loss. Provides an income tax deduction for theft losses that result from certain financial transactions induced by third parties and that cause the individual to incur federal gross income as a result of the theft. Requires the department of state revenue to first certify the theft loss deduction before a taxpayer may claim the deduction in a taxable year.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0213/2026","subjects":["public_safety","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068594,"bill_number":"SB0214","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Department of workforce development.","description":"Department of workforce development. Defines or amends certain terms. Codifies certain administrative rules with respect to: (1) experience accounts; (2) reporting; (3) contribution rates and payment; (4) seasonal workers; (5) benefit payments to the deceased; (6) part-time workers; (7) work searches; (8) partial unemployment; (9) the filing of claims; (10) interstate claimants; (11) administrative law proceedings; and (12) notice. Alters the powers of the department of workforce development with respect to administrative cooperation agreements. Changes when the department may issue a civil penalty with respect to unauthorized postsecondary proprietary educational institutions. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0214/2026","subjects":["education","labor","energy","trade"],"agencies":["Workforce"]},{"bill_id":2068681,"bill_number":"SB0215","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Gender matters.","description":"Gender matters. Defines \"sex\" and \"gender\" for purposes of the Indiana Code. States that the definitions of \"sex\" and \"gender\" are meant to be synonymous in the Indiana Code unless specifically defined otherwise and is clarifying language. Sets forth requirements of a short form birth certificate and a long form birth certificate. Specifies when a short form birth certificate may be amended. Requires the Indiana department of health to: (1) update the definition of \"sex\" used by the agencies; (2) identify birth certificates issued with a change in sex classification by court order; (3) change the sex on the birth certificate back to the originating sex and reissue the birth certificate; and (4) void the superseded document. Allows for the sharing of certain information among specified agencies for the purpose of reissuing a birth certificate. Requires public buildings, certain schools, state educational institutions, and certain businesses to designate multiple occupancy restrooms or changing areas for the exclusive use of the male sex or the exclusive use of the female sex and provides, with exceptions, that an individual may only use a multiple occupancy restroom or changing area designated for the individual's sex. Provides specified remedies for a violation of these requirements, including criminal penalties or civil actions. Provides that a school may not promote or encourage the use of, or require, compel, or coerce a student, an employee of the school, or a staff member of the school to use: (1) a pronoun, title, or other word to identify a student, school employee, or other individual that is inconsistent with the student's, employee's, or individual's biological sex; or (2) a name or nickname to identify a student that is inconsistent with the student's name on the student's birth certificate. Creates an exception. Prohibits the department of correction (department) and each county jail from housing incarcerated individuals in a facility that does not align with the incarcerated individual's sex. Creates a civil cause of action for the department's or a county jail's failure to comply with the prohibition.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0215/2026","subjects":["education","housing","public_safety"],"agencies":["Correction"]},{"bill_id":2068662,"bill_number":"SB0216","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Eminent domain.","description":"Eminent domain. Provides that if a unit of local government (unit) provides forgivable loans, the unit must (as a condition of providing forgivable loans) require that a person operating a business on a property may be entitled to compensation for business losses resulting from a condemnation of the property.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0216/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068850,"bill_number":"SB0217","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Circuit breaker credit for homesteads.","description":"Circuit breaker credit for homesteads. Limits the year over year increase in property tax liability for homesteads to not more than 4%.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0217/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068641,"bill_number":"SB0218","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Circuit breaker credits for homesteads.","description":"Circuit breaker credits for homesteads. Authorizes the fiscal body of a county, city, or town (municipality) to reduce its homestead property tax cap. Requires the reduced property tax cap to apply only in determining the net property tax revenue of the municipality that adopted it and not to any other taxing unit within the taxing district. Authorizes a municipality that has adopted a reduced homestead property tax cap to adopt any of the following local option taxes, either singly or in combination, the revenue from which must be used as property tax replacement revenue due to the reduced homestead property tax cap: (1) Local option sales tax. (2) Supplemental local income tax. (3) Supplemental innkeeper's tax. (4) Supplemental food and beverage tax. Makes conforming changes and removes obsolete provisions. Makes an appropriation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0218/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068446,"bill_number":"SB0219","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-28","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Uniform Antitrust Pre-merger Notification Act.","description":"Uniform Antitrust Pre-merger Notification Act. Incorporates into Indiana's law governing businesses and other associations the Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act (Act), as approved and recommended for enactment in all states by the Uniform Law Commission. Specifies that the Act does not limit or replace certain reporting requirements of a health care entity. Provides that not later than one day after filing a pre-merger notification under the federal Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, a person shall file a complete electronic copy of the form required under that act with the attorney general if: (1) the person's principal place of business is in Indiana; or (2) the person conducts a specified level of sales in Indiana with respect to the goods or services involved in the proposed merger transaction. Requires the attorney general to provide a secure means to receive and store materials submitted. Provides that: (1) a form or additional documentary material under the federal act; and (2) other specified information related to the proposed merger transaction; are confidential for purposes of Indiana's public records act and may not be disclosed or made public by the attorney general. Provides an exception to this confidentiality requirement if: (1) the attorney general's disclosure is made pursuant to a protective order issued by an agency, court, or judicial officer in an administrative proceeding or judicial action; and (2) the proposed merger transaction is relevant to the proceeding or action. Authorizes the attorney general to: (1) share information with; and (2) disclose a form or additional documentary material under the federal act to; the attorney general of another state that has enacted the Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act or a substantively equivalent act. Requires the attorney general to receive assurance from the attorney general of another state that information shared with the other state will remain confidential. Requires the attorney general to destroy or return all documents submitted with a specified period of time. Requires the attorney general to send a written notice to a person that violates the bill's filing requirement. Allows the attorney general to impose a civil penalty if the violation is not remedied within three days of the notice.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0219/2026","subjects":["it","health","public_safety","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068742,"bill_number":"SB0220","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-28","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Health care shopping and decision support program.","description":"Health care shopping and decision support program. Requires, beginning January 1, 2028, a health carrier to: (1) implement a shopping and decision support program; and (2) provide incentives for covered individuals in a health plan who elect to receive a comparable health care service from a network provider that is paid less than the average allowed amount paid by the health carrier to network providers for the comparable health care service. Requires, beginning December 1, 2027, a health carrier to make available an interactive member portal that enables a covered individual to request and obtain certain information. Allows a health carrier to make the information available through a toll free telephone number. Sets forth reporting requirements for health carriers and the department of insurance concerning incentive payments made to covered individuals.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0220/2026","subjects":["health","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068748,"bill_number":"SB0221","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Pharmacist treatment by standing order.","description":"Pharmacist treatment by standing order. Requires the state health commissioner to issue a standing order, prescription, or protocol to allow a pharmacist to test, treat, or prescribe, if specified requirements are met. Provides a pharmacist with civil immunity in the testing, treating, or prescribing unless the pharmacist's actions constitute gross negligence, willful or wanton misconduct, or intentional wrongdoing. Requires the Indiana board of pharmacy to adopt rules concerning a pharmacist testing, treating, or prescribing for individuals.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0221/2026","subjects":["health"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068629,"bill_number":"SB0222","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Family and social services administration matters.","description":"Family and social services administration matters. Adds the 9-8-8 crisis response center and a mobile crisis team as first responders. Requires certified peers to be trained and certified by the division of mental health and addiction or an approved nationally accredited certification body. Amends the definition of \"qualified provider\" concerning the Medicaid program. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to limit presumptive eligibility determinations to qualified providers and sets forth requirements. Requires rules to be adopted concerning the implementation and administration of certification requirements for specified entities and amends standards. Allows a home health agency that meets certain conditions to continue to provide services to a Medicaid recipient and receive Medicaid reimbursement while the home health agency's application for Medicare enrollment is pending if the home health agency submitted the application or initiated the enrollment process before April 1, 2026. Changes the name of the division of disability and rehabilitative services to the division of disability, aging, and rehabilitative services. Repeals the division of aging and moves existing statutes and administrative rules to other locations. Renames the bureau of aging and in-home services to the bureau of better aging (bureau) and designates the bureau to perform certain duties once performed by the division of aging. Eliminates the requirement of a preferred drug list report. Extends the expiration of the micro facility pilot program. Authorizes the legislative services agency to prepare any legislation necessary to conform with the changes made.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0222/2026","subjects":["health","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068424,"bill_number":"SB0223","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-28","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Workforce related programs.","description":"Workforce related programs. Requires a state provider of a workforce related program (state provider) to include the following information in an annual report concerning the workforce related program: (1) The number of participants who participated in another workforce related program after completing the program. (2) The average increase in a participant's wages after the participant's completion of the workplace related program. Requires, not later than November 1, 2026, a state provider to: (1) develop a plan to collect information from participants in a workforce related program for the purpose of monitoring outcomes for the participants; and (2) submit a report describing the plan to the legislative council.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0223/2026","subjects":["labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068612,"bill_number":"SB0224","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Department of natural resources.","description":"Department of natural resources. Defines various terms. Amends and removes various  definitions. Makes various changes to natural resources commission procedures. Makes various changes to the department of natural resources (department) powers and duties. Removes the hometown Indiana grant program. Amends various boating and wakeboard regulations. Raises the financial threshold for certain actions in a boating accident from $750 to $2,000. Raises the financial threshold for certain actions in an off-road vehicle accident from $750 to $2,500. Establishes various restrictions on landowner liability to recreational users. Provides that various restrictions on landowner liability do not apply to a parcel of land assessed as residential land. Removes the penalty for a person who acts as a hunting guide without a guide license. Allows the division of water to perform certain functions on behalf of the natural resources commission. Requires the natural resources commission to coordinate with the department for purposes of a reporting requirement regarding conservancy districts. Establishes a consolidated chapter for river basin commission administration. Repeals existing, separate chapters for the Maumee River basin commission, the St. Joseph River basin commission, and the Upper Wabash River basin commission. Creates a new chapter for a river basin commission's conversion into a watershed development commission. Makes technical and conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0224/2026","subjects":["environment","transportation","energy","water","trade"],"agencies":["Natural Resources"]},{"bill_id":2066659,"bill_number":"SB0225","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Health matters.","description":"Health matters. Amends the definition of \"ambulatory outpatient surgical center\" to remove the requirement that a surgical procedure is permitted to be performed only by a physician, dentist, or podiatrist who has certain hospital privileges. Prohibits a hospital, debt collector, or other third party from pursuing medical debt collection if the hospital is noncompliant with specified statutes. Requires the Indiana department of health (state department) to determine on a semiannual basis whether a hospital is in compliance with the statutes and notify a hospital concerning the state department's compliance determination. Authorizes the attorney general to suspend the authority of a hospital to pursue medical debt collection when the state department has made a final determination that the hospital is noncompliant. Creates an affirmative defense for a debtor if the collection attempt occurred while the hospital was noncompliant. Requires a hospital to provide the state department with 60 days written notice if the hospital plans to: (1) close and permanently terminate all hospital operations; or (2) completely eliminate a service line for longer than 90 days. Allows for a waiver of the notification requirements in specified circumstances.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0225/2026","subjects":["health","finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068577,"bill_number":"SB0226","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana department of administration.","description":"Indiana department of administration. Allows the Indiana department of administration (department) to implement category management for purchasing and contracting by state agencies. Amends the nomination and appointment process for a state agency's purchasing representative. Requires the department to establish and maintain an independent verification and validation oversight program for contracts entered into by state agencies. Requires state agencies to submit an annual procurement and purchasing plan to the department and the budget agency. Repeals provisions concerning the ability of the Indiana war memorials commission to enter into contracts.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0226/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":["Administration"]},{"bill_id":2068759,"bill_number":"SB0227","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-04","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Counter action against unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).","description":"Counter action against unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Provides that the state police department is the statewide coordinating agency for counter-UAS activities authorized under federal law. Provides that the bill's provisions apply: (1) if a federal law is enacted that authorizes state or local law enforcement personnel to detect, track, identify, or mitigate a UAS under federal approval, certification, or oversight; and (2) after the governor publishes a notice in the Indiana Register that includes a description of the authorization and identifies the federal statute or program that provides the authorization. Provides that the state police department may designate a law enforcement agency of a political subdivision as a participating agency if the agency satisfies federal requirements for personnel training and operational readiness. Provides that the state police department may designate Indianapolis as a pilot project location due to the concentration of high-risk sites and special event assessment rating events. Provides that mitigation activities may not be performed unless expressly authorized under federal law.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0227/2026","subjects":["public_safety","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068796,"bill_number":"SB0228","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Midwest continental divide commission.","description":"Midwest continental divide commission. Makes the following changes to the law regarding the Midwest continental divide commission (commission): (1) Amends the definition of a \"land use and zoning plan\" (plan) to provide that it is a plan and not an overlay district. (2) Requires the commission to consider any change or variance in zoning to be consistent with the plan that is: (A) inconsistent with the plan; and (B) not more than 1/2 mile from a trail project approved by the commission and the eligible county or city.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0228/2026","subjects":["transportation"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068861,"bill_number":"SB0229","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various transaction matters.","description":"Various transaction matters. Provides that certain conditions must be met before a person may sign a sales contract to purchase an interest in a time share unit. Provides that a purchaser has the right to cancel a camping club membership or time share purchase within 14 days after the execution of the sales contract, excluding Sundays and legal holidays (current law is 72 hours). Prohibits a notary public from performing a notarial act for a transaction when the notary public is an: (1) interest holder; or (2) officer, director, manager, or other agent; of a party to the transaction.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0229/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068705,"bill_number":"SB0230","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Department of agriculture.","description":"Department of agriculture. Makes various amendments to the role of supervisors on soil and conservation boards. Removes a requirement that an individual who conducted an inspection of a landfill in a soil and conservation district (district) submit a copy of the report to the division of soil conservation. Provides that a district that fails to provide a copy of each annual financial statement of the district to the soil conservation board by March 31 shall have its funding withheld until the requirements are satisfied. Repeals the Indiana land resource council.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0230/2026","subjects":["environment","agriculture","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068711,"bill_number":"SB0231","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Assistance in obtaining veterans' benefits.","description":"Assistance in obtaining veterans' benefits. Provides that a person may not receive compensation for: (1) the preparation, presentation, or prosecution of; or (2) advising, consulting, or assisting an individual regarding; a veterans' benefits matter, except as permitted under federal law. Provides that a person may not receive compensation for referring an individual to another person to provide services related to veterans' benefits matters. Provides that a person may not receive excessive or unreasonable fees for services related to veterans' benefits matters. Provides that a person may not condition the repayment of fees: (1) upon the opening of a joint account with the recipient of veterans' benefits from which the person may make withdrawals; (2) upon the use of electronic funds transfers; or (3) by requiring an individual to act, in any manner, in violation of federal requirements relating to preauthorized transactions. Provides that a person may not collect, or attempt to collect, any fee for services rendered after receipt of benefits by a veteran or any other individual eligible for the benefits, if the person participated in the veterans' benefits matter prior to the issuance of veterans' benefits, and if the transaction was structured with an intent to avoid prohibited acts. Provides that a person seeking to receive compensation for services related to veterans' benefits matters must, before rendering any services, enter into a written agreement that is signed by both parties and that complies with federal regulations, including all terms regarding the payment of fees for services rendered. Requires a person to provide certain disclosures when entering into a business relationship with an individual or advertising for compensation services. Provides that a violation constitutes a deceptive act under the law concerning deceptive consumer sales and senior consumer protection provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0231/2026","subjects":["it","veterans"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068493,"bill_number":"SB0232","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Real property appraisals.","description":"Real property appraisals. Allows the city of Gary to hire an appraiser to conduct appraisals of residential and commercial properties to assist the city with disposing of the city's real property. Prohibits an employee or appointed or elected official of the city from purchasing property that is appraised by the appraiser.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0232/2026","subjects":["housing"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068545,"bill_number":"SB0233","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Powers and duties of the election commission.","description":"Powers and duties of the election commission. Separates out the procedures for how a county election board and the Indiana election commission (commission) may administratively disband certain committees into two different sections of the Indiana Code. Allows the commission to administratively disband a committee if: (1) the committee has not filed a report of expenditures during the previous calendar year; (2) the committee has never filed a report of expenditures or the last report filed reported cash on hand that did not exceed $1,000; and (3) the election division has attempted to contact the committee but the communication was returned or otherwise undeliverable. Removes the discretion of the commission with respect to certain civil penalties that may be imposed and instead requires the commission to impose the civil penalties. Requires the commission to assess a civil penalty of $1,000 or $500, plus investigative costs, for certain violations. Provides that a $500 civil penalty shall be assessed for a violation of certain electronic filing requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0233/2026","subjects":["it","housing","energy","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068606,"bill_number":"SB0234","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Energy utility matters.","description":"Energy utility matters. Provides that any standard tariff offered by an energy utility after March 14, 2026, to a large load customer of the energy utility must include a provision that requires reimbursement by the large load customer of all project costs reasonably allocable to the large load customer, regardless of whether the large load customer ultimately takes service in any anticipated amount and within any anticipated time frame. Makes a conforming amendment to the existing statute that allows an energy utility to petition the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) for approval of a project to serve a large load customer. Provides that in a proceeding that is filed with or pending before the IURC after December 31, 2025, for a change in an energy utility's basic rates and charges, the IURC may not issue an order in the proceeding that would result, upon full implementation, in an increase in the energy utility's basic rates and charges, for any customer class, that exceeds the average monthly percentage increase in seasonally adjusted electricity prices for the United States over the course of a specified period that ends with the last month of the energy utility's 12 month test period used in the proceeding. Provides that the IURC may not authorize a public utility that: (1) provides retail electric or natural gas service; and (2) is under the IURC's jurisdiction for the approval of rates and charges; (utility) to recover through the utility's retail rates and charges any direct or indirect costs associated with specified expenses and activities related to lobbying, legislative action, political activities, charitable giving, litigation, investor relations, and other specified activities and expenses. Beginning in 2026, requires a utility to file with the IURC an annual report that includes specified information concerning costs to: (1) the utility; or (2) an affiliate of the utility; that are related to these expenses or activities and that are directly billed or allocated to the utility. Requires the IURC to make available on the IURC's website a direct link to the annual reports provided by all utilities under these provisions. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications the task of studying, during the 2026 legislative interim, the use of trackers by public utilities providing electric or natural gas service.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0234/2026","subjects":["it","energy","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068617,"bill_number":"SB0235","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Intelligent speed assistance device.","description":"Intelligent speed assistance device. Defines an \"intelligent speed assistance device\" as an aftermarket device that uses technology to limit the speed of a motor vehicle to not more than the speed limit of the area being traveled. Allows a court to require a person who has been convicted of a crime for which the operation of a motor vehicle is an element of the offense to use an intelligent speed assistance device. Requires the court to notify the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) if an order is issued requiring the use of an intelligent speed assistance device and for the bureau to send a notice to the individual subject to the court order. Makes it a Class B misdemeanor to tamper with, or solicit another person to tamper with, an intelligent speed assistance device. Permits the bureau to establish rules related to the use of intelligent speed assistance devices and to approve vendors of intelligent speed assistance devices.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0235/2026","subjects":["it","public_safety","transportation"],"agencies":["Motor Vehicles"]},{"bill_id":2068855,"bill_number":"SB0236","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-28","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Abortion inducing drugs and abortion reports.","description":"Abortion inducing drugs and abortion reports. Modifies the definitions of \"abortion\" and \"abortion inducing drug\". Amends the information required to be reported to the Indiana department of health (state department) concerning an abortion complication. Requires the state department to send each abortion complication report to the office of the inspector general. Provides that a person who manufactures, distributes, mails, transports, delivers, prescribes, or provides an abortion inducing drug is jointly and severally liable for: (1) the wrongful death of an unborn child or pregnant woman from the use of an abortion inducing drug; and (2) personal injury of an unborn child or pregnant woman from the use of the abortion inducing drug. Allows the mother or father of an unborn child to bring a wrongful death action for the wrongful death of the unborn child from the use of abortion inducing drugs. Provides affirmative defenses. Allows for qui tam actions against certain persons. Adds an exception for the prohibition on abortion inducing drugs.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0236/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068735,"bill_number":"SB0237","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"PFAS chemicals.","description":"PFAS chemicals. Defines \"decision\", \"PFAS chemicals\", and \"state prioritized PFAS chemicals\". Prohibits the department of environmental management (department) from basing a decision primarily on federal risk values that have not been promulgated through federal rulemaking. Instructs the department to avoid the use of federal risk values that are at or below background concentrations in air, water, soil, or sediment. Provides that the department shall focus on state prioritized PFAS chemicals when PFAS chemicals are relevant to carrying out the department's duties.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0237/2026","subjects":["environment","water"],"agencies":["Environmental Management"]},{"bill_id":2068832,"bill_number":"SB0238","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Property and local income taxes.","description":"Property and local income taxes. Amends provisions added in SEA 1 in the 2025 session that require the department of local government finance to neutralize the effect of certain property tax provisions enacted in that bill. Amends the threshold for the business personal property tax exemption enacted in SEA 1 in the 2025 session. Reinstates excess tax levy appeal provisions that were repealed in SEA 1 in the 2025 session. Amends the various local income tax (LIT) rates that may be adopted under provisions added in SEA 1 in the 2025 session. Amends the population thresholds used to determine if a city or town is eligible to adopt a municipal LIT. Repeals provisions that require counties and municipalities to readopt their LIT rate each year. Moves the effective date for the local income tax changes enacted in SEA 1 in the 2025 session from 2028 to 2029. Makes corresponding changes to move the expiration date regarding a county with a single voting bloc enacted in HEA 1142 in the 2025 session.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0238/2026","subjects":["finance","elections"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2066542,"bill_number":"SB0239","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various education matters.","description":"Various education matters. Requires the department of education (department) to: (1) compile a list of business and industry partners that provide guaranteed incentives to high school students who earn the honors employment plus seal; and (2) publish the list on the department's website. Provides that, in addition to conditions established in current law to convert an existing public elementary or secondary school, an existing public elementary or secondary school may be converted into a charter school if certain other conditions apply. Allows, if the conditions are met, the governing body of a school corporation to: (1) convert more than one existing public elementary or secondary school within the school corporation; and (2) operate two or more conversion charter schools under a single charter. Allows participating innovation network charter schools to enter into an agreement with more than one school corporation. Establishes the following for or with regard to participating innovation network charter schools that entered into an agreement with more than one school corporation: (1) Requirements regarding the location of a participating innovation network charter school. (2) Terms of a participating innovation network charter school agreement. (3) Duties of the department. Amends certain requirements and procedures that apply to the closure and transfer of covered school buildings. Provides that a lease or sale of a covered school building to a charter school or state educational institution includes certain assets. Requires parental notification if a school determines a student is at risk of not achieving grade level proficiency in mathematics.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0239/2026","subjects":["education","housing","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068676,"bill_number":"SB0240","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Surplus interconnection service.","description":"Surplus interconnection service. Defines \"surplus interconnection service\" (SIS), with respect to established interconnection service connecting an electric generating facility with an electric transmission system, as any portion of that service that: (1) has not been used; and (2) is not reasonably expected to be needed; the use of which would result in the total amount of interconnection service at the point of interconnection remaining the same. Provides that an electric utility that is required to file integrated resource plans (IRPs) with the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) must include in any IRP filed after December 31, 2029, an analysis of the potential for SIS to meet immediate needs for capacity and energy at utility owned facilities. Provides that with respect to any petition filed with the IURC after December 31, 2029, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction, purchase, or lease of an electric generation facility, the IURC shall consider whether: (1) the petitioner has conducted an analysis of the use of SIS as an alternative to, or in conjunction with, the proposed construction, purchase, or lease of the facility; and (2) the proposed construction, use, or lease of the facility will make use of, or allow for the use of, SIS. Requires the IURC to conduct a study to evaluate the potential use of SIS by electric utilities. Sets forth specific topics that the IURC must evaluate as part of the study. Requires the IURC to include in its 2027 annual report its findings with respect to the topics evaluated in the study.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0240/2026","subjects":["energy","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068838,"bill_number":"SB0241","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Utility service enhancement improvement costs.","description":"Utility service enhancement improvement costs. Amends the statute that authorizes a conservancy district providing water service to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) if the conservancy district serves less than 2,000 customers, so as to authorize a withdrawal from the IURC's jurisdiction if the conservancy district serves less than 3,000 customers. Amends the existing statute authorizing alternative regulatory procedures for water or sewer utilities with customer bases not exceeding specified numbers to include within the scope of the statute a procedure that promotes economic development opportunities in rural areas while providing just and reasonable protections to a utility's existing ratepayers. Prohibits a water or wastewater utility (utility) from charging or collecting a capacity related fee or a tap fee to an eligible customer for connecting workforce housing to the utility's water or wastewater system (system) under certain circumstances. Provides that if the utility determines that the extension of service to the workforce housing will not result in a positive contribution to the utility's overall cost of service over a 20 year period, the utility may charge and collect from the eligible customer a capacity related fee or a tap fee that does not exceed the difference between: (1) the otherwise applicable capacity related fee or tap fee; minus (2) the contribution to the utility's overall cost of service over a 20 year period that will result from the extension of service to the workforce housing. Provides that for purposes of these provisions, an \"eligible customer\" means a not-for-profit organization that: (1) has entered into an agreement with the Indiana housing and community development authority under which the person will construct workforce housing in Indiana; and (2) seeks to connect the workforce housing to the system of a utility under the terms of a special contract with the utility. Authorizes a water or wastewater utility that is eligible under existing law to recover costs for service enhancement improvements (eligible utility) to adjust the statutory adjustment tracker to reflect certain per unit chemical and power costs if those costs have increased or decreased by more than 3% over the two most recent years. Provides that if the costs: (1) have increased by more than 3% over the two year period, the amount of the adjustment shall be included in the adjustment rider as an expense; or (2) have decreased by more than 3% over the two year period, the amount of the adjustment shall be included in the adjustment rider as a credit. Provides that an eligible utility is not required to seek preapproval of a plan from the IURC in order to seek recovery of the costs of chemicals and power. Requires an eligible utility for which the IURC has issued an order approving an adjustment rider for the recovery of chemical or power costs to file a petition for a change in its adjustment amount: (1) not later than 30 days after the end of each 12 month period after the date of the IURC's order approving the adjustment rider; and (2) until the IURC issues an order in the eligible utility's next general rate case. Specifies that the costs of chemicals and power may be recovered in full and without deferring 20% of the costs for recovery as part of the eligible utility's next general rate case.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0241/2026","subjects":["housing","environment","labor","energy","agriculture","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068635,"bill_number":"SB0242","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-27","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Innkeeper's tax.","description":"Innkeeper's tax. Authorizes the city of New Haven to impose an innkeeper's tax at a flat rate that does not exceed $5 per night. Amends provisions regarding distribution and uses of the Hamilton County innkeeper's tax. Makes corresponding changes to statutes concerning innkeeper's tax administration.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0242/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2070918,"bill_number":"SB0243","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various tax matters.","description":"Various tax matters. Amends and adds state income tax statutes to conform with certain provisions enacted in Public Law 119-21 (H.R. 1) (commonly known as One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025). Specifies rounding provisions for cash transactions with regard to the penny phaseout. Amends state income tax withholding provisions for gambling winnings. Amends the definition of \"contribution\" for purpose of the state income tax credit for contributions to an ABLE account. Amends provisions regarding computation of specified research or experimental expenditures. Authorizes the department of state revenue (department) to mail documents electronically through its online tax system. Allows taxpayers to request to receive all documents from the department through the department's online tax system. Makes changes to certain tax warrant procedures. Extends the deadline for filing revenue agent report (RAR) adjustments from 180 days to one year from the Internal Revenue Service's finalization of the federal adjustments. Amends the statute of limitations for issuing assessments and refunds based on an RAR to one year. Adds certain sales tax enforcement provisions regarding motor vehicles, cargo trailers, aircraft, and watercraft. Amends provisions regarding confidentiality of tax information. Makes various changes to the cigarette tax chapter, the petroleum severance tax chapter, and the alcoholic beverage excise tax chapters. Specifies the liability of responsible persons for trust fund taxes. Defines the term \"responsible person\" with regard to trust fund taxes. Specifies application of the Indiana adoption tax credit. Revises provisions in the pass through entity tax regrading credit for taxes paid to another state. Amends provisions in the tax amnesty program. Specifies the determination of estimated tax penalties. Makes amending changes to the aircraft license excise tax.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0243/2026","subjects":["it","transportation","finance","cannabis","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068588,"bill_number":"SB0244","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Relocation of casino to Marion County.","description":"Relocation of casino to Marion County. Provides that the licensed owner of the riverboat located in the city of Rising Sun (licensed owner) may relocate gaming operations to a casino in Marion County if certain conditions are met. Requires the licensed owner to pay a fee of $50,000,000 if the licensed owner sells or transfers the licensed owner's interest in the licensed owner's license within 10 years of the approval of relocation. Provides for the distribution of wagering tax revenue and supplemental wagering tax revenue from a casino in Marion County. Requires the licensed owner of a casino in Marion County to annually pay a community support fee to the city of Rising Sun and Ohio County.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0244/2026","subjects":["finance","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068583,"bill_number":"SB0245","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tip pooling.","description":"Tip pooling. Specifically authorizes the use of tip pooling arrangements under certain circumstances.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0245/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068872,"bill_number":"SB0246","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Redaction of court records.","description":"Redaction of court records. Requires the names and specified other information of child victims, child witnesses, and certain other persons to be redacted in criminal actions. Requires the use of an anonymous designator such as \"Child Witness No. 1\" when redacting a name, and prohibits  redaction that uses the person's initials or that describes the person in terms of a family relationship.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0246/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068565,"bill_number":"SB0248","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"South Bend Community school corporation.","description":"South Bend Community school corporation. Provides that members of the governing body for the South Bend Community school corporation (school corporation) serving on June 30, 2026, shall become on July 1, 2026, an advisory board to the governing body for the school corporation. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2026, members of the governing body for the school corporation shall be appointed by the secretary of education following a nomination process. Establishes a commission to nominate individuals for the governing body.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0248/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068623,"bill_number":"SB0249","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-24","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"State chemist.","description":"State chemist. Codifies animal food administrative rules. Defines or amends certain terms. Codifies certain requirements and processes for commercial feed and pet food with respect to: (1) label format; (2) label information; (3) express guarantees; (4) suitability; (5) ingredients; (6) directions for use and precautionary statements; (7) nonprotein nitrogen; (8) drug and feed additives; (9) adulterants; (10) good manufacturing practices; (11) payment of inspection fees; (12) interstate exclusion; and (13) commercial feed licenses.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0249/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068429,"bill_number":"SB0250","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Regulation of hemp.","description":"Regulation of hemp. Defines \"THC\" for purposes of Indiana alcohol and tobacco law. Expands certain crimes concerning alcohol and tobacco, including crimes regarding possession by minors and sales to minors, to include products containing THC. Provides that a violation of the hemp derived cannabinoid products chapter is a deceptive act. Provides that the offense of aiding unlawful possession includes unlawful possession of a product containing THC. Provides that the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) shall conduct random inspections of locations where products containing THC are sold. Allows law enforcement officers to engage minors who are at least 16 years of age to purchase THC products as part of a law enforcement action. Enacts provisions regulating the manufacture, distribution, sale, and transportation of hemp derived cannabinoid products (hemp derived cannabinoid products law). Requires the commission to enforce and administer the hemp derived cannabinoid products law. Provides for issuance of: (1) manufacturer permits; (2) distributor permits; (3) retail permits; and (4) carrier permits; for hemp derived cannabinoid products. Prohibits the sale of hemp derived cannabinoid products online or by delivery. Provides that a person issued a manufacturer permit may manufacture hemp derived cannabinoid products only in Indiana. Imposes packaging and labeling requirements for hemp derived cannabinoid products. Requires testing of hemp derived cannabinoid products and provides that the commission may spot test hemp derived cannabinoid products for compliance with the hemp derived cannabinoid products law. Specifies circumstances under which a hemp derived cannabinoid product shall be treated as if it is marijuana. Creates the hemp derived cannabinoid products fund and specifies purposes for which money in the fund shall be used. Imposes restrictions on advertising of hemp derived cannabinoid products. Imposes criminal penalties for violations of the hemp derived cannabinoid products law, and provides that a violation of the hemp derived cannabinoid products law is a deceptive act for purposes of Indiana law regarding deceptive consumer sales. Provides that for purposes of Indiana motor vehicle law: (1) \"intoxicated\" includes being under the influence of tetrahydrocannabinol; and (2) \"schedule I drug\" includes marijuana, hemp, and tetrahydrocannabinol. Provides that the state seed commissioner (commissioner) may issue hemp grower's licenses and hemp handler's licenses, and specifies licensure requirements and duties of licensees. Provides that the commissioner: (1) shall share information with the state police department regarding the commissioner's licensure of hemp growers and handlers; and (2) shall report specified information to the United States Secretary of Agriculture. Provides that Indiana's hemp growing programs may not operate above federal restrictions or limitations. Repeals chapters regarding: (1) distribution of low THC hemp extract; and (2) sale of low THC hemp extract. Provides that a retail establishment in which tobacco products and products containing THC (rather than tobacco products alone, under current law) account for 85% of the establishment's gross sales may not allow an individual under 21 years of age to enter the establishment. Adds federal definitions of certain hemp terms to the Indiana criminal code. Modifies definitions of \"marijuana\" and \"smokable hemp\" for purposes of the Indiana criminal code. Removes references to \"delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol\" and \"low THC hemp extract\" in certain crimes. Provides that nothing in Indiana: (1) alcohol and tobacco law; or (2) agriculture law; may be construed under the \"inclusio unius, exclusio alterius\" canon of construction as legalizing marijuana. Specifies situations in which a product shall be treated as if it is marijuana. Makes an appropriation.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0250/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","environment","transportation","finance","agriculture","cannabis","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068785,"bill_number":"SB0251","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"OWI penalties.","description":"OWI penalties. Provides that if a person has one prior OWI conviction, the court shall order that the person be imprisoned for at least 10 days or perform community service, and if a person has two prior OWI convictions, the court shall order that the person be imprisoned for at least 20 days or perform community service. Provides that a person receives good time credit while serving a sentence imposed under this statute (under current law, a person does not receive good time credit).Provides that this statute does not increase the maximum sentence for the offense as provided by either IC 35-50-2 or IC 35-50-3. Specifies that \"vehicle\", for purposes of the crime of operating while intoxicated, includes a watercraft, and repeals the separate crime of operating a motorboat while intoxicated. Provides that an initial hearing may be waived and allows a person to apply for a specialized driving privilege after an initial hearing. Adds operating while intoxicated due to use of a controlled substance to the habitual traffic violator statute. Authorizes the use of a roadside chemical test under certain circumstances. Specifies that ignition interlock devices may only be used when the underlying offense is operating while intoxicated resulting from the use of alcohol. Makes certain provisions concerning pretrial administrative suspension of driving privileges discretionary with the court.Provides that the budget director shall review and determine before December 31, 2026, whether federal highway administration funding to the state will or will not be reduced due to the amendment of provisions concerning administrative suspension of driving privileges. Requires the budget director to notify the budget committee of the determination and those provisions may not be implemented until after budget committee review. Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0251/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","environment","transportation","finance","cannabis","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068457,"bill_number":"SB0252","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Criminal law matters.","description":"Criminal law matters. Provides that a person who commits a criminal offense commits a separate offense for each victim of the offense. Requires the department of correction to weekly transport sentenced offenders from the Marion County adult detention center to the appropriate correctional facility. Removes a provision allowing an automatic change of judge when a judge rejects a plea agreement in a misdemeanor case. Allows the state to appeal a sentence in a criminal case. Makes sentences nonsuspendible for: (1) crimes of violence; and (2) persons charged with a felony who have a prior felony conviction. Provides that an inmate may earn not more than six months of educational credit for participating in an individualized case management plan. Increases the penalty for invasion of privacy if the crime is committed by a person against whom domestic battery charges are pending. Provides that crimes committed against different victims during the same episode of criminal conduct do not count against the sentencing cap that applies to crimes committed as part of the same episode of criminal conduct. Specifies that persons convicted of certain crimes may not participate in a community corrections program. Increases the penalty for: (1) reckless homicide; (2) involuntary manslaughter; and (3) reckless supervision; to a Level 4 felony. Establishes the public prosecution fund and a prosecuting attorney compensation fee of $40, which will be deposited in the public prosecution fund. Provides that a county may be reimbursed for certain prosecutorial expenses from the fund, unless the prosecuting attorney in the county is a noncompliant prosecuting attorney. Requires the Indiana prosecuting attorney's council to set standards for reimbursement. Makes it malicious littering, a Class A misdemeanor, for a person to place refuse on the property of another person with the intent to cause the owner or occupant of the property to reasonably fear for their physical safety.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0252/2026","subjects":["education","housing","public_safety","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068528,"bill_number":"SB0253","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Deed fraud.","description":"Deed fraud. Establishes the deed fraud task force. Provides that a county recorder may: (1) refuse to record a suspicious instrument, unless a court of competent jurisdiction finds that the county recorder's finding that the instrument is a suspicious instrument is erroneous; (2) report a suspicious instrument to the appropriate law enforcement agency; or (3) notify a notarial officer or notary public who has purported to acknowledge or prove a suspicious instrument of the reason for the county recorder's finding that the instrument is a suspicious instrument. Requires each county recorder to establish a property alert notification system. Requires each county recorder to establish an instrument alert notification system. Provides that a notarial officer may refuse to perform a notarial act if the notarial officer is not satisfied that the individual executing the record has provided sufficient information to conduct identity proofing. Requires a notary public to present proof of the notary public's commission to a person that sells or otherwise provides a stamping device to the notary public. Requires an applicant seeking a commission as a notary public to complete a background check administered by the secretary of state. Requires the secretary of state to establish certain security procedures and access controls with respect to the electronic data base of active notaries public. Provides that a person that alleges damages arising from the recording of a forged deed or mortgage has a cause of action against certain persons.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0253/2026","subjects":["it","housing","public_safety","elections","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068729,"bill_number":"SB0254","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Ivy Tech Community College.","description":"Ivy Tech Community College. Consolidates duties and responsibilities for Ivy Tech Community College (college). Includes logistics, information technology, and life sciences as areas of expertise for members of the college's board of trustees (board). Provides that members of a campus board may represent an employer that operates within the campus service area. Provides that the campus board, in collaboration with the campus chancellor, shall nominate and submit candidate names in the event of a campus board vacancy. Requires the campus board to: (1) develop and recommend certain plans to the  board; and (2) make certain budget recommendations to the campus chancellor. Realigns and consolidates the primary purposes of the college. Consolidates duties and responsibilities for the board. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation, not later than December 1, 2026, to: (1) develop an education to employment research program; and (2) create a framework for education to employment data analysis and data sharing. Repeals certain provisions regarding the purpose and requirements of the college.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0254/2026","subjects":["it","education","finance","labor","trade"],"agencies":["Trustees"]},{"bill_id":2068819,"bill_number":"SB0255","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Property tax streamline.","description":"Property tax streamline. Abolishes the offices of county assessor and township assessor and transfers the duties of the assessor to the county auditor. Abolishes the office of township trustee and transfers the duties of the township trustee to the board of county commissioners. Requires the department of local government finance (DLGF) to develop an automated valuation model system (AVM system) to be used by the DLGF to conduct the assessment of all tangible property statewide, except for agricultural land. Requires the DLGF to conduct all assessments for tangible property, excluding agricultural land, using the AVM system beginning with the first assessment date that an AVM system is operational for use, but not later than 2037. Requires the DLGF to present a plan of implementation for an AVM system to the interim study committee on fiscal policy before November 1, 2026, and present an update on the AVM system before November 1 in subsequent years until the AVM system is operational for use. Except for agricultural land, provides that tangible property shall not be subject to assessment beginning with assessments in 2027 through the first assessment date for which the AVM system is applied. Freezes the assessed value of all taxable property, except agricultural land, during this time period at the assessed value determined for the property for the 2028 assessment date. Caps the property tax liability for all taxable property for taxes first due and payable in 2028 through the first date that taxes are first  due and payable based on assessments under the AVM system to not more than: (1) for taxes first due and payable in 2028, the property tax liability imposed on the taxpayer's property for taxes first due and payable in 2026; and (2) for taxes first due and payable in 2029 and thereafter, the property tax liability for the calendar year not to exceed a 3% increase from the taxpayer's property tax liability from the previous year. Requires the department of transportation (department) to develop and implement inspection criteria for local bridge inspections throughout the state with timelines, inspection standards, and milestones that ensure public safety, comply with state and federal inspection standards, and have the goal of reducing the cost of local bridge inspections within a county. Requires the department to exempt certain inspection regulations that the department determines will reduce costs while complying with state and federal inspection standard. Repeals a provision in current law requiring the department to ensure that Indiana's local bridge conditions are in the top quarter compared to other states (retains the requirement for state bridges). Requires the legislative services agency to prepare legislation for introduction in the 2027 regular session of the general assembly to make appropriate required changes in statutes. Makes corresponding changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0255/2026","subjects":["it","housing","public_safety","transportation","finance","agriculture","trade"],"agencies":["Local Government Finance"]},{"bill_id":2068765,"bill_number":"SB0256","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Foreign agent registration, foreign terrorist organizations, and foreign adversaries.","description":"Foreign agent registration, foreign terrorist organizations, and foreign adversaries. Provides that contracts entered into, amended, or renewed by a qualified entity for the provision of a technological product or service must contain a provision requiring the contractor to confirm that the contractor and any subcontractors working under the contract for the contractor are not prohibited persons. Requires certain persons acting on behalf of a hostile foreign country to register with the attorney general. Establishes a procedure to deny state benefits to persons who aid a foreign terrorist organization. Requires a state educational institution to meet certain requirements regarding the admission and enrollment of a foreign student into qualifying programs at state educational institutions. Requires an approved postsecondary educational institution to provide to the commission for higher education the number of foreign students currently enrolled in a qualifying program and the number of foreign students enrolled in a qualifying program for each academic year for the preceding 10 years. Prohibits certain individuals and business entities from acquiring real property located in Indiana. Provides that an agreement or cooperative agreement between a unit and a prohibited person is contrary to public policy and is void and unenforceable. Repeals existing statutes regarding foreign ownership of agricultural land.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0256/2026","subjects":["education","housing","agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068771,"bill_number":"SB0257","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Electricity rate increases due to data centers.","description":"Electricity rate increases due to data centers. Provides that the Indiana utility regulatory commission may not approve an increase in the rates and charges of an electric utility to the extent the increase is related solely to the electric utility's cost of providing electric utility service to: (1) a data center; or (2) a new or existing facility: (A) the electricity demand of which exceeds or will exceed a specified amount; and (B) that employs or will employ fewer than 50 full-time employees on the premises of the facility.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0257/2026","subjects":["energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068504,"bill_number":"SB0258","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-02-17","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Nuclear facility permits.","description":"Nuclear facility permits. Makes the following changes to the Indiana Code chapter concerning the issuance of permits for nuclear powered generating facilities and nuclear fuel reprocessing plants (facilities) by the department of environmental management (department): (1) Repeals a provision that prohibits a person from constructing or operating, or increasing the capacity of, a facility without a permit from the department. (2) Repeals a provision authorizing the environmental rules board (board) to adopt rules establishing: (A) conditions for the issuance of a permit for; and (B) requirements for the operation of; a facility. (3) Requires a person proposing to construct a facility to file with the department (instead of the board, under current law) an environmental feasibility report concurrently with the filing of documents (instead of the preliminary safety analysis, under current law) required to be filed with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (instead of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, under current law). (4) Repeals a provision authorizing the commissioner of the department to conduct a public hearing on the environmental effects of the proposed operation of a facility. (5) Repeals a provision: (A) requiring the board to adopt rules and standards to protect Indiana citizens from radiation hazards; and (B) setting forth requirements for required permits with respect to radioactive discharge.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0258/2026","subjects":["housing","environment","energy","trade"],"agencies":["Environmental Management"]},{"bill_id":2068806,"bill_number":"SB0259","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-03","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Partnership composite returns.","description":"Partnership composite returns. Removes penalty provisions that apply if a pass through entity fails to include in a composite return nonresident partners, nonresident shareholders, or nonresident beneficiaries that do not have distributive share income of greater than $0. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0259/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068825,"bill_number":"SB0260","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Carbon dioxide.","description":"Carbon dioxide. Specifies that an application for a carbon dioxide transmission pipeline certificate of authority must include: (1) a risk assessment; and (2) a carbon dioxide injection estimate. Provides that when determining compensation in certain eminent domain proceedings, the perceived risk of certain hazardous conditions must be taken into account. Establishes a carbon sequestration pilot project fee program, and specifies certain conditions in relation to the fee money. Provides that a transfer of ownership in regard to a carbon sequestration pilot project does not relieve a prior operator from liability for any negligence or willful misconduct that occurred before the transfer. Requires the department of natural resources to inspect a carbon sequestration pilot project. Alters the threshold of consent one must obtain in order to use eminent domain or integration in relation to carbon sequestration.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0260/2026","subjects":["environment","energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068791,"bill_number":"SB0261","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Criminal vandalism.","description":"Criminal vandalism. Renames the crime of \"criminal mischief\" to \"criminal vandalism\". Repeals: (1) institutional criminal mischief; (2) cemetery mischief; (3) railroad mischief; and (4) critical infrastructure facility mischief; places them in the \"criminal vandalism\" statute, and preserves the original penalties and defenses. Repeals and places provisions involving damage to a cave in the criminal vandalism statute. Repeals and places provisions involving depositing refuse in a cave in the littering statute. Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0261/2026","subjects":["public_safety","transportation","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068687,"bill_number":"SB0262","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"INSPECT program.","description":"INSPECT program. Sets forth the circumstances in which a dispenser is not required to transmit certain information to the INSPECT program (program). Requires an opioid treatment program to, before reporting patient information to the program, comply with federal regulations in obtaining patient consent. Allows the board of pharmacy to disclose prescription drug monitoring program data to a representative of the Indiana department of health and the office of the secretary of family and social services for specified purposes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0262/2026","subjects":["health","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068533,"bill_number":"SB0263","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Child and dependent care tax credit.","description":"Child and dependent care tax credit. Provides a refundable child and dependent care tax credit to taxpayers whose adjusted gross income for the taxable year is not more than 250% of the federal poverty level. Provides that the credit is equal to the lesser of: (1) an amount ranging from $200 to $1,000, depending on the extent to which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds the federal poverty level; or (2) 20% of the taxpayer's employment related expenses.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0263/2026","subjects":["finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068474,"bill_number":"SB0264","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-27","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Economic development tax credits.","description":"Economic development tax credits. Amends the economic development for a growing economy (EDGE) tax credit to: (1) authorize the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) to increase the value of an EDGE credit to a company for new job creation based on the amount of expenses of the company to relocate an individual to Indiana to fill the position; and (2) explicitly permit the IEDC to provide EDGE credits to a company that is retaining an employee through a minimum of a 25% increase in hourly wages paid to the individual. Clarifies provisions that apply to IEDC certification of a fund as a qualified Indiana investment fund.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0264/2026","subjects":["finance","labor","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068693,"bill_number":"SB0265","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Various employment matters.","description":"Various employment matters. Provides that, under certain circumstances, an employer who takes an adverse action against an employee commits an infraction. Specifies that, under certain circumstances, an adverse employment action is prima facie evidence of an unlawful retaliation. Provides that, under certain circumstances, an employer who knowingly or intentionally fails to pay an employee or former employee commits an infraction. Increases the amount of worker's compensation and worker's occupational diseases compensation benefits available for injuries and disablements: (1) in fiscal year 2027; (2) in fiscal year 2028; (3) in fiscal year 2029; (4) in fiscal year 2030; (5) in fiscal year 2031; and (6) in fiscal year 2032 and thereafter. Amends the definition of \"wage credits\". Specifies the rate for unemployment insurance benefits for initial claims filed by an individual who is totally unemployed for any week beginning after June 30, 2026. Specifies, for initial claims filed for any week beginning after June 30, 2026: (1) the maximum weekly benefit amount; and (2) an additional weekly benefit for eligible and qualified individuals with dependents.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0265/2026","subjects":["finance","labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068435,"bill_number":"SB0266","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Base rate cases for electricity suppliers.","description":"Base rate cases for electricity suppliers. Provides that in a base rate proceeding that is filed with or pending before the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) after December 31, 2025, for an increase in an electricity supplier's basic rates and charges, the IURC shall do the following: (1) Consider whether the requested increase would result, upon full implementation, in an average monthly residential bill that would represent more than 6% of a representative low income customer's monthly income. (2) Consider and compare the following: (A) The total amount of the electricity supplier's actual return that was distributed to shareholders in the form of dividends, or reinvested by the electricity supplier in its own stock, during the period extending back to the IURC's last order approving the electricity supplier's basic rates and charges (relevant period). (B) The sum of the total amount of the electricity supplier's actual return for the relevant period that was invested in infrastructure or improvements to the electricity supplier's system, plus the amount of capital investments that are associated with a set of discrete and identifiable capital spending projects that will be placed in service within a reasonable time after the end of the electricity supplier's 12 month test period in the proceeding. (3) Hold at least two public hearings in the electricity supplier's service area. Provides that in the IURC's final order in the proceeding, the IURC shall include: (1) the IURC's findings with respect to the considerations required under the bill; and (2) a discussion of how the IURC took those findings into account in reaching the decisions set forth in the order.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0266/2026","subjects":["energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068866,"bill_number":"SB0267","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Influence campaign reports.","description":"Influence campaign reports. Requires a person who provides another person with at least $500 in compensation to induce, support, aid, or otherwise encourage the other person to engage in an influence campaign to file a written report with the Indiana lobby registration commission. Specifies items that the report must include. Requires subsequent reporting.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0267/2026","subjects":["elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068515,"bill_number":"SB0269","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Youth peer support program.","description":"Youth peer support program. Permits a school corporation to establish a youth peer support program (program). Requires a program to: (1) be developed in consultation with one or more local mental health organizations serving the school's geographic area; (2) utilize evidence based training models approved by the department of education; (3) include written referral protocols to school based and community based mental health services; (4) provide ongoing supervision by a school counselor, school social worker, licensed mental health professional, or qualified community partner; and (5) include safeguards to protect student confidentiality and well-being. Provides that a program may not: (1) provide clinical diagnosis or treatment; (2) be established to replace school counselors or mental health professionals; or (3) require participation by a student. Requires a school corporation to provide certain students voluntary, online mental health screenings. Establishes parameters for certain partnerships between school corporations and local mental health organizations participating in the school corporation's program. Creates the youth peer support advisory committee.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0269/2026","subjects":["health","education","labor","water","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068451,"bill_number":"SB0270","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Township mergers.","description":"Township mergers. Requires the department of local government finance (department) not later than December 31, 2026, to compile data on each township (excluding townships in Marion County) and assign points based upon the township government's performance. Requires a township government that is assigned at least four points (designated township), with certain exceptions, to: (1) merge; or (2) for a township in which (A) at least 80% of the township's boundaries coincide with a municipality's boundaries; and (B) at least 51% of the township's population resides within the corporate boundaries of a municipality, reorganize with the municipality. Requires a merger to satisfy the following requirements: (1) A designated township must merge with at least one township that has less than four points (recipient township). (2) The merger must satisfy contiguity requirements under the township merger law. Provides that if all townships in a county have at least four points, the county executive must designate two townships to act as the recipient townships. Requires the county executive to designate which townships will merge taking into consideration: (1) the wishes of the designated townships and recipient townships; and (2) the contiguity requirements under the township merger law. Provides that all mergers in a county are effective not later than January 1, 2029. Establishes provisions for an interim township government for the new merged township government until a new township trustee and township legislative body are elected during the 2030 general election.\nRequires a designated township that is required to reorganize to adopt a resolution not later than October 1, 2027, that designates the municipality (recipient municipality) that will reorganize with the designated township. Requires the appointment of a joint board consisting of representatives of the designated township and the recipient municipality to prepare a plan of reorganization. Requires the county fiscal body to approve the budget, tax rate, and tax levy imposed by the recipient municipality within the boundaries of the rural township services district. Provides that a recipient municipality has all of the powers of the government modernization act in reorganizing the township. Amends the government modernization act to require a political subdivision to respond to a resolution that names the political subdivision as a participant in a proposed reorganization. Provides that a township merger does not affect the office of township assessor of a township participating in the merger. Amends the government modernization act to require a political subdivision to respond to a resolution that names the political subdivision as a participant in a proposed reorganization. Requires townships to annually provide certain information relating to fire protection to the department in a manner prescribed by the department using the department's computer gateway. Requires the department to share the information with the department of homeland security. Allows the county council, before January 2, 2027, to adopt a resolution to transfer the duties of a township assessor to the county assessor if: (1) the office of township assessor has been vacant for at least 90 days; (2) a caucus was held but failed to fill the vacancy; (3) the township board adopts a resolution approving the transfer of duties of the township assessor to the county assessor; and (4) the township trustee has approved, in writing, the transfer of duties of the township assessor to the county assessor. Prohibits the legislative body of a county from unilaterally requiring a unit participating in a reorganization that commenced after November 1, 2025, and before November 30, 2025, from being added to an existing fire protection district: (1) during negotiations regarding the reorganization among the participating units; (2) after the date on which a plan of reorganization is finally adopted by all participating units; or (3) as part of a reorganization in a finally approved plan of reorganization. Establishes requirements for the transfer of duties. Repeals a law that allows township governments to dissolve a merger.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0270/2026","subjects":["it","finance","energy","agriculture","elections"],"agencies":["Local Government Finance","Homeland Security"]},{"bill_id":2068486,"bill_number":"SB0271","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Telecommunications wire and valuable metal dealers.","description":"Telecommunications wire and valuable metal dealers. Adds telecommunications network wire to the definition of \"valuable metal\" for purposes of Indiana law governing valuable metal dealers. Moves existing criminal penalties concerning valuable metals to the criminal code. Provides that a person may not sell or attempt to sell, and a valuable metal dealer may not purchase or attempt to purchase, telecommunications network wire in any amount unless specified conditions are satisfied. Provides that a person who suffers a pecuniary loss as a result of a violation of Indiana law governing valuable metal dealers may bring a civil action for specified damages against the person who caused the loss.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0271/2026","subjects":["it","public_safety","water"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068549,"bill_number":"SB0272","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Competitive electric supply service.","description":"Competitive electric supply service. Provides that beginning July 1, 2027, an eligible customer of an incumbent electricity supplier may elect to receive: (1) electric supply service directly from a competitive electricity supplier; and (2) transmission and distribution service from the incumbent electricity supplier. Defines for these purposes an \"eligible customer\" as a new or existing nonresidential customer of the incumbent electricity supplier, or an aggregation of two or more such customers, whose aggregate electricity demand during the most recently concluded calendar year exceeded one megawatt. Defines for these purposes an \"incumbent electricity supplier\", with respect to an eligible customer, as an investor owned utility that is under the jurisdiction of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) and whose assigned service area includes the eligible customer. Requires the IURC to establish by rule the following: (1) A system for establishing and periodically adjusting a cap on an incumbent electricity supplier's eligible customers receiving electric supply service from a competitive electricity supplier. (2) A queue process by which eligible customers of an incumbent electricity supplier that elect to receive electric supply service from a competitive electricity supplier are authorized to begin receiving that service as the incumbent electricity supplier's cap allows. Specifies the methods by which the IURC must establish and adjust an incumbent electricity supplier's cap. Sets forth requirements for advance notice that an eligible customer must provide to an incumbent electricity supplier before: (1) receiving electric supply service from a competitive electricity supplier; or (2) resuming electric supply service under the incumbent electricity supplier's applicable tariff upon discontinuing electric supply service from a competitive electricity supplier. Provides that on any customer bill issued by an incumbent electricity supplier after June 30, 2027, the incumbent electricity supplier must include a breakdown of the charges and fees that make up the total amount owed, including a description of the service or cost associated with each charge or fee. Sets forth certain charges and fees that must be delineated as specific line items on each customer bill. Requires the IURC to establish by rule requirements for an incumbent electricity supplier to provide to a competitive electricity supplier historical usage data for an eligible customer that seeks to receive electric supply service from the competitive electricity supplier. Sets forth certain metrics that the customer usage data must include. Requires the IURC to establish by rule a licensing process for competitive electricity suppliers that seek to provide electric supply service to eligible customers of incumbent electricity suppliers in Indiana. Sets forth certain requirements that a competitive electricity supplier must meet as a condition of receiving and maintaining a license. Provides that an incumbent electricity supplier that seeks to provide electric supply service outside its assigned service area must do so through a functionally separate, nonutility affiliate that is subject to the bill's licensing requirements. Requires the IURC to establish by rule a procedure by which a: (1) municipally owned utility; or (2) rural electric corporation; may elect to become subject to the bill's provisions so as to enable its eligible customers to receive electric supply service from a competitive electricity supplier. Provides that in any base rate case for an incumbent electricity supplier, the IURC shall: (1) ensure that electric supply service received by eligible customers from a competitive electricity supplier will not result in unreasonable cost shifting to other nonparticipating eligible customers or to other customer classes; and (2) consider the avoided generation and purchased power costs inuring to the benefit of the incumbent electricity supplier's ratepayers as a result of eligible customers receiving electric supply service from competitive electricity suppliers. Beginning in 2028, requires the IURC to include each year in its annual report specified information concerning the provision of electric supply service by competitive electricity suppliers to eligible customers of incumbent electricity suppliers. Requires the IURC to adopt rules to implement the bill's provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0272/2026","subjects":["energy","agriculture","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068539,"bill_number":"SB0273","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"911 telecommunications fees.","description":"911 telecommunications fees. Increases the: (1) 911 service prepaid wireless charge; and (2) monthly statewide 911 fee; from $1 to $2.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0273/2026","subjects":["it"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068600,"bill_number":"SB0274","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Disannexation of property.","description":"Disannexation of property. Provides that disannexation of certain property is effective upon filing a disannexation petition with the county auditor and recording the petition with the county recorder. Requires the property owner to file a petition requesting a municipality to annex the property not more than 48 months after the disannexation is effective.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0274/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068699,"bill_number":"SB0275","status":3,"status_name":"Enrolled","status_date":"2026-02-25","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"FSSA fiscal matters.","description":"FSSA fiscal matters. Amends the duties of the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) concerning home and community based services waivers (waiver). Requires: (1) a provider of waiver services to provide certain documentation to a waiver recipient; (2) a waiver recipient to review the documentation and report errors or inconsistencies; and (3) the recipient's case manager to provide assistance to the recipient in reviewing the documentation and reporting any errors or inconsistencies. Establishes a time frame in which the bureau of disabilities services must review and approve or deny requests for an increase in service units provided to certain individuals with a disability. Creates an exemption for presumptive eligibility standards. Provides reimbursement exemptions under certain Medicaid programs when operating under a value based health care reimbursement agreement. Provides that a provision prohibiting the office from reducing reimbursement for home health services expires June 30, 2027. Requires the office to collaborate with certain entities to develop a new reimbursement methodology for home health services. Specifies that public notice of at least six months (rather than one year) must be provided before a health facility service reimbursement that results in a reduction in reimbursement may be changed. Provides that a claim by the estate recovery unit of the office of Medicaid policy and planning (estate recovery unit) is forever barred unless the estate recovery unit files a claim in the court in which the decedent's estate is being administered not later than nine months after the date of death of the decedent.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0275/2026","subjects":["health","finance","labor","trade"],"agencies":["Secretary Of Family And Social Services"]},{"bill_id":2069268,"bill_number":"SB0276","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Farmers' market nutrition assistance programs.","description":"Farmers' market nutrition assistance programs. Requires, subject to federal approval of any necessary plan, amendment, or waiver, the Indiana department of health (state department) to provide for: (1) a recipient of benefits under the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to receive triple value for the recipient's SNAP benefits; and (2) a recipient of benefits under the federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC) to receive triple value for the recipient's WIC benefits; when used to purchase produce at a farmers' market that participates in one or more specified federal programs administered by the state department.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0276/2026","subjects":["agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2068440,"bill_number":"SB0277","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Indiana department of environmental management.","description":"Indiana department of environmental management. Amends, repeals, or adds certain terms. Makes certain changes concerning the purpose, structure, and powers of the department of environmental management (department) or the environmental rules board. Prohibits the department from basing a decision solely on federal risk values that have not been promulgated through federal rulemaking. Instructs the department to avoid the use of federal risk values that are at or below background concentrations in air, water, soil, or sediment. Makes certain changes to various boards or funds. Eliminates or amends rulemaking provisions. Makes certain changes to hearing and permitting processes. Changes or eliminates certain reporting requirements. Makes various changes to the water pollution statutes. Makes various changes to the solid waste and hazardous waste management statutes. Repeals or amends various sections regarding: (1) hazardous substances; (2) the voluntary remediation programs; (3) regional water districts; and (4) citizen lawsuits. Amends provisions concerning the establishment of certain fees and the use of fee schedules. Repeals the division of pollution prevention and the office of voluntary compliance. Makes conforming, stylistic, and technical changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0277/2026","subjects":["environment","energy","water","trade"],"agencies":["Environmental Management"]},{"bill_id":2068560,"bill_number":"SB0278","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-08","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tax increment financing.","description":"Tax increment financing. Provides for various tax increment financing neutralization procedures for certain tax increment financing areas. Specifically, provides that for certain tax increment financing districts, in an appeal of the assessed value of a property: (1) the county or township assessor in conjunction with the preliminary informal meeting; or (2) the county board in conjunction with an appeal hearing by the county board; may request a taxpayer to provide income data necessary to determine the assessed value under the income capitalization approach. If requested, a taxpayer shall provide income data within 60 days of the request. Provides that an adopting body must annually, on or before November 10, report to the department of local government finance (DLGF), in a manner determined by the DLGF: (1) the total amount of debt outstanding; (2) the annual amount of debt due for each remaining year the debt will be outstanding; and (3) the estimated payoff year for all debt backed by the local income tax. An adopting body shall provide an indication of all debt obligations outstanding that are not supported by any secondary backing source. Provides that the DLGF shall post the information required on the DLGF's computer gateway. Redefines \"residential property\" for certain tax increment financing districts. Provides that the DLGF may require a redevelopment commission (and other tax increment financing bodies) to submit required documentation to neutralize the base assessed value. Any supporting documentation the redevelopment commission is required to submit to support the base assessed value neutralization calculation must be completed and submitted to the DLGF by July 15 of each year. Provides that if the redevelopment commission does not submit the required documentation by the deadline in a given year, then 5% of the excess assessed value shall be allocated to the respective taxing units in the year the deadline is missed. Provides that the original owner of each nonowner-occupied residential property subject to the 2% tax cap, that is located in the tax increment financing area and is excluded from the base assessed value, shall upon completion of construction enter into a written agreement with the redevelopment commission indicating the owner shall be obligated to pay the property tax for the portion of outstanding bonds in the tax increment financing district attributable to the property until the term length of the original outstanding bond is retired. Provides that the written agreement with the redevelopment commission shall be considered a lien on the property and shall be included as part of the residential real estate sales disclosure. Provides that if the property is subsequently sold as a homestead property and becomes subject to the 1% tax cap, the new owner shall be responsible for the lien on the property attributable to the written agreement with the redevelopment commission, and the new homestead property owner shall be obligated to fulfill the terms of the written agreement including the payment of the property tax liability included in the agreement. Provides that, notwithstanding any other law, for taxing districts that include multiple tax increment financing districts, the original tax increment financing district does not expire and stays active only for the purpose of satisfying outstanding bonds issued by the subsequent tax increment financing district, only if the redevelopment commission completes the following requirements: (1) Provides written appeals to and receives the approval of the DLGF. (2) Provides written notice to the state board of accounts of the appeal.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0278/2026","subjects":["it","finance","trade"],"agencies":["Local Government Finance"]},{"bill_id":2069269,"bill_number":"SB0279","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Private credit funds.","description":"Private credit funds. Provides that after June 30, 2026, the responsible party or fund manager for a private credit fund (fund) shall deliver to: (1) an Indiana investor that has invested capital in the fund; and (2) the securities commissioner (commissioner); an investor report on at least a quarterly basis. Sets forth certain disclosures that an investor report must include. Provides that any investment information that is delivered or communicated to an Indiana investor after June 30, 2026, may not include language that positively describes the fund's risk profile unless a disclaimer is provided or the fund's assets are rated by an outside credit rating agency. Provides that the responsible party or fund manager for a fund shall, upon the written request of an Indiana investor or the commissioner, make available in writing the fund manager's policies with respect to specified investment and management practices. Requires the commissioner to adopt rules to implement and administer these provisions. Authorizes the commissioner to use any lawful means within the commissioner's authority to enforce these provisions.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0279/2026","subjects":["trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069270,"bill_number":"SB0280","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Crimes relating to bodily fluids and bodily waste.","description":"Crimes relating to bodily fluids and bodily waste. Removes certain sentencing enhancements for battery and malicious mischief that relate to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Amends the sentencing enhancement for battery against a public safety officer that relates to HIV.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0280/2026","subjects":["public_safety","environment"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069271,"bill_number":"SB0281","status":2,"status_name":"Engrossed","status_date":"2026-01-29","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Income tax credits.","description":"Income tax credits. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) to commit $35,000,000 in redevelopment tax credits each state fiscal year among development authorities, qualified nonprofit organizations, and certain local economic development organizations that may be granted to taxpayers for qualified investments. Provides that the IEDC and an operating partner shall administer the federal Unmanned Aircraft System Test Site program in Indiana. Requires that $15,000,000 of the $300,000,000 of the IEDC's annual certifiable tax credit amount must be allocated to the small town opportunity initiative (initiative). Establishes the initiative. Provides that initiative projects are not subject to any statutory or administrative repayment obligation. Amends the venture capital investment tax credit (tax credit) to specify: (1) that certain investment policies of funds that qualify as a \"qualified Indiana investment fund\" apply only to investable capital, excluding management fees, legal fees, and other expenses incurred in the operation of the fund; (2) that a taxpayer is not prevented from combining individual tax credits of less than $10,000 for assignment; and (3) qualified business eligibility. Provides that if a Level 2 certified technology park (park): (1) has reached the limit of deposits for a Level 2 park; (2) maintains its certification; and (3) is located within a qualified military base enhancement area; the park shall become a Level 3 park and may receive an additional annual incremental income tax deposit of up to $250,000 until July 1, 2029.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0281/2026","subjects":["it","finance","elections","veterans","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069272,"bill_number":"SB0282","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Compounding drugs; registration of medical spas.","description":"Compounding drugs; registration of medical spas. Sets forth drug compounding requirements.  Requires specified agencies to prepare a report concerning drug compounding and the risks and benefits of compounding. Beginning January 1, 2027, requires the registration of medical spas under the medical licensing board of Indiana (board). Requires the board to establish and maintain a public data base concerning registered medical spas. Requires a medical spa to designate a responsible practitioner that meets certain requirements and specifies duties of the responsible practitioner. Requires a medical spa to notify the board after a serious adverse event. Allows the board to investigate a responsible practitioner concerning an alleged violation and forward any substantiated claim to the governing board of the responsible practitioner. Prohibits a medical spa from providing health care services and cosmetic and lifestyle treatments in a location other than the medical spa. Requires a medical spa to comply with certain advertising requirements.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0282/2026","subjects":["health","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069273,"bill_number":"SB0283","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Regional development tax credit.","description":"Regional development tax credit. Amends and adds provisions regarding the regional development tax credit. Specifies the award of certain credits under the aggregate tax credit cap that the Indiana economic development corporation may certify each state fiscal year. Authorizes a county or city that is currently participating in a regional development authority to change its membership and instead participate in a new or different regional development authority.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0283/2026","subjects":["housing","finance","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069274,"bill_number":"SB0284","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Law enforcement civilian oversight boards.","description":"Law enforcement civilian oversight boards. Provides that any type of law enforcement civilian oversight board or commission or any other entity established by a county, municipality, or township to provide civilian oversight over a law enforcement agency, excluding merit boards and commissions, may operate only in an advisory capacity to the applicable law enforcement agency and does not have binding authority over the law enforcement agency.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0284/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069275,"bill_number":"SB0285","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Housing matters.","description":"Housing matters. Requires the Indiana housing and community development authority (authority) to establish eligibility criteria for a potential recipient to be included in the authority's application for funding under the federal continuum of care program (program). Requires a recipient of program funding to submit an annual report to the authority. Defines \"gravely disabled\" for purposes of involuntary commitment. Prohibits an individual from camping, sleeping, or using for long term shelter land owned by the state or a political subdivision, unless the land has been authorized for that use by law. Requires a law enforcement officer who discovers a person unlawfully using land owned by the state or a political subdivision for unlawful camping, sleeping, or long term shelter to determine if there are reasonable grounds for an emergency detention of the person, and, if reasonable grounds exist, to proceed under the emergency detention procedure and not the criminal law. Provides that, if there are not grounds for emergency detention and certain elements are met, a person who knowingly or intentionally uses land owned by the state or a political subdivision for unauthorized camping, sleeping, or long term shelter commits a Class C misdemeanor. Creates a defense to the crime if: (1) no beds are available in a shelter or treatment facility located within five miles; or (2) less than six months have passed since the person was released from a facility to which the person was involuntarily committed. Prohibits a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing any policy that prohibits or discourages the enforcement of any order or ordinance prohibiting public camping, sleeping, or other obstruction of a sidewalk. Requires: (1) each local law enforcement agency to provide to the state police department the number of arrests made for violations of the prohibition of street camping; and (2) the state police department to provide this information to the authority. Specifies that the bill does not prohibit a policy, program, or order of a political subdivision that encourages a diversion program or encourages or requires providing housing or shelter in lieu of a citation or arrest. Makes technical corrections.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0285/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","elections","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069276,"bill_number":"SB0286","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Cannabis regulation.","description":"Cannabis regulation. Permits the use of cannabis by: (1) a person at least 21 years of age; and (2) a person with a serious medical condition as determined by the person's physician. Establishes the adult use cannabis excise tax, and requires a retailer to transfer the tax to the department of state revenue for deposit in the state general fund. Exempts veterans from payment of the sales tax on medical or adult use cannabis. Establishes a cannabis program (program) to permit the cultivation, processing, testing, transportation, and sale of cannabis by holders of a valid permit. Establishes the Indiana cannabis commission (ICC) as a state agency to oversee, implement, and enforce the program, and establishes the ICC advisory committee to review the effectiveness of the program. Requires that permit holders take steps to prevent diversion of cannabis to unauthorized persons. Requires that cannabis and cannabis products be properly labeled, placed in child resistant packaging, and tested by an independent testing laboratory before being made available for purchase. Prohibits packaging cannabis in a manner that is appealing to children. Authorizes research on cannabis in accordance with rules set forth by the ICC. Establishes a procedure for the expungement of a cannabis related conviction if the act constituting the conviction becomes legal. Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0286/2026","subjects":["health","public_safety","transportation","finance","labor","cannabis","veterans","trade"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069277,"bill_number":"SB0287","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Tax matters.","description":"Tax matters. Provides a real and personal property tax exemption for Indiana nonprofit senior living communities beginning with property taxes that are first due and payable in 2027.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0287/2026","subjects":["finance"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069278,"bill_number":"SB0288","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Organ donation.","description":"Organ donation. Provides that an employee who has worked for an employer for at least a year is entitled to take an unpaid leave of absence for organ donation. Provides that a leave of absence may not exceed 30 working days per calendar year. Requires an eligible employee to provide notice to the employee's employer before taking a leave of absence. Provides that an employer may require an eligible employee to take other leave before using the leave of absence.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0288/2026","subjects":["labor"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069279,"bill_number":"SB0289","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Public depositories.","description":"Public depositories. Provides that if two or fewer financial institutions that have a branch or principal office in a county or in a county contiguous to the county that is located in Indiana are willing to accept public funds, the board of finance for the county may: (1) treat the financial institutions that are located within the county or a county contiguous to the county that is located in Indiana as if the financial institutions were not located within the county or a county contiguous to the county; and (2) designate certain financial institutions to receive public funds. Makes conforming changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0289/2026","subjects":["agriculture"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069280,"bill_number":"SB0290","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Sex with a minor.","description":"Sex with a minor. Adds the criminal offense of sex with a minor, which is committed when a person who is at least: (1) 24 years of age and who engages in sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct, fondling, or touching with a child who is 16 years of age; or (2) 25 years of age and who engages in sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct, fondling, or touching with a child who is 16 or 17 years of age. Makes conforming amendments.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0290/2026","subjects":["public_safety"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069282,"bill_number":"SB0291","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Court security.","description":"Court security. Establishes a procedure to prevent certain personal information of a protected judicial individual from being publically available by a public agency. Creates a civil cause of action against a public agency that fails to remove certain personal information of a protected individual. Repeals current code concerning the supreme court sheriff. Allows the supreme court and the court of appeals to each appoint a court marshal and allows each appointed court marshal to hire deputy court marshals. Requires a court marshal to ensure the safety and security of the court. Requires a supreme court marshal and a court of appeals court marshal to carry out certain responsibilities. Provides that a court marshal is entitled to qualified immunity for acts performed in the course of official duties. Specifies that a court marshal has limited police powers and is required to notify the local law enforcement agency as soon as practicable when a security threat is detected. Allows the marshal appointed by the court of appeals to provide for the safety and security of the tax court.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0291/2026","subjects":["housing","public_safety","finance","energy"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2069281,"bill_number":"SB0292","status":1,"status_name":"Introduced","status_date":"2026-01-12","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Loans from the common school fund.","description":"Loans from the common school fund. Reinstates retroactively provisions that apply with regard to an extension of the term of loans or advances from the common school fund for the Gary Community School Corporation, which expired January 1, 2025. Extends the expiration date to January 1, 2028.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0292/2026","subjects":["education"],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2070877,"bill_number":"SB0293","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-03-05","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Pharmacist licensure.","description":"Pharmacist licensure. Removes an examination requirement for certain pharmacists for license reciprocity. Requires an individual to pass the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination to be eligible for licensure as a pharmacist. Voids or requires the amendment of certain administrative rules. Makes technical changes.","url":"https://legiscan.com/IN/bill/SB0293/2026","subjects":[],"agencies":[]},{"bill_id":2080563,"bill_number":"SR0002","status":4,"status_name":"Passed","status_date":"2026-01-15","last_action_date":"","last_action":"","title":"Honoring Brad Eisenhart.","description":"Honoring Brad Eisenhart. 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