Bill to stop drug offenders from buying cold meds advances
Indiana drug offenders won't be able to buy cold medicine containing a common ingredient to make methamphetamine without a prescription under a bill passed by a Senate panel Thursday.
Indiana drug offenders won't be able to buy cold medicine containing a common ingredient to make methamphetamine without a prescription under a bill passed by a Senate panel Thursday.
A bill that would extend civil rights protections to lesbian, gay and bisexual—but not transgender—people is expected to be voted on by the Indiana Senate next week, even if it goes down in defeat.
A bill moving through the Senate and another introduced in the House are designed to encourage fantasy wagering in Indiana.
Farmers across Indiana would get a big property tax cut under legislation moving through the General Assembly that would reduce their assessed land values an estimated $4.2 billion for taxes paid in 2018 and $8.9 billion for 2019.
The Department of Workforce Development finds that 30 percent of people move off unemployment after they receive notice that they must visit a Work One center. In most cases, the worker finds a new job; in a few cases, the culprit is fraud.
A future 5 percent cut in Indiana's individual income tax rates is being added to a legislative proposal that would boost gasoline and cigarette taxes to increase road funding.
A bill regulating daily fantasy sports games such as FanDuel and DraftKings received unanimously support from an Indiana Senate committee Wednesday.
Under the revised proposal, pharmacists will have the option of requiring a pseudoephedrine prescription for some customers.
A Senate committee on Wednesday narrowly advanced a bill that would extend civil rights protections to gay and lesbian Hoosiers but punt the issue of transgender discrimination to a study committee, as well as offer religious exemptions for clergy and other groups.
An Indiana House committee has narrowly advanced a bill that would prohibit state agencies from enacting environmental rules and standards tougher than federal regulations.
Sen. Mike Young, an Indianapolis Republican, said critics who “fear monger” had mischaracterized his proposal, which would have thrown out the state’s religious freedom law and replaced it with more robust protections for worship, speech and bearing arms.
A proposal giving Indiana law enforcement agencies broad authority to withhold police body camera video is advancing in the state Legislature.
Supporters of a proposal to allow pharmacists to require prescriptions to buy medicine with pseudoephedrine say the requirement is the only way to curb Indiana's methamphetamine problem.
Indiana might have lost as much as $60 million in hotel profits and other economic benefits when a dozen groups decided against hosting conventions in Indianapolis last year possibly because of the controversy surrounding the religious freedom law.
Proceeds from its sale will support the Indiana Recycling Coalition’s statewide recycling programs and efforts to educate Hoosiers about environmental sustainability.
Renaissance Electronic Services said it will invest $14.9 to expand five existing Indianapolis facilities and a new location in the former Gerdt Furniture store in Southport.
The decision allows Zionsville to remain merged with Perry Township and keep the position of mayor.
The new version of the Indiana bill would classify pseudoephedrine in a way that most consumers would be able to buy it, but pharmacists could require a prescription from suspicious customers.
Democratic candidate for governor John Gregg took aim at Gov. Mike Pence in a speech Thursday after months of keeping a low profile.
There’s no question that tolling one of Indiana’s interstates could generate serious cash to help maintain the state’s roads. But are taxpayers willing to pay a few bucks to travel highways that now are free?