Fate of short-term rentals bill up in air after more changes
Changes made to a short-term rentals bill earlier in the week were erased in the Senate on Wednesday.
Changes made to a short-term rentals bill earlier in the week were erased in the Senate on Wednesday.
The Indiana Senate has approved a bill allowing government agencies to charge an hourly fee for public records requests that take more than two hours to complete.
Lawmakers worked Wednesday to keep legislation alive that addresses a legal loophole used by Ricker's convenience stores to sell cold beer at two of its 50 locations.
The Indiana Senate has passed a bill setting parameters for a yet-to-be picked test that will replace the ISTEP exam.
The measure likely will head next to a conference committee where differences with a House version can be ironed out.
Hundreds of Indiana restaurants seeking to renew their alcohol permits are now on hold due to a legislative kerfuffle that erupted when two Ricker's convenience stores started selling cold beer.
Indiana senators on Tuesday approved making the position of state superintendent of public instruction a job appointed by the governor and no longer elected by voters.
Republicans entertained a fresh White House offer to revise the party's failed health care bill Tuesday as the GOP tried to resuscitate the measure that crashed less than two weeks ago.
The Senate voted 39-7 to approve changes made in the House, sending the bill to the governor’s desk.
A top Indiana Republican is suggesting the Legislature may not be able to stop the convenience store chain Ricker's from selling cold beer before the end of session.
A legal loophole used by an Indiana convenience store chain to sell cold beer would be snapped shut under a proposal that was advanced Wednesday by the Senate Public Policy Committee.
A House education bill knocked by critics as reducing accountability for Indiana voucher schools cleared a Senate committee Wednesday.
The House panel’s changes address e-liquid labeling, including requiring an identifiable, trackable code and a nicotine warning.
Republican leaders have abruptly pulled their troubled health care overhaul bill off the House floor, short of votes and eager to avoid a defeat for President Donald Trump and GOP leaders.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday that after the initial congressional battle over health care, the administration plans to turn quickly to tax reform with the goal of getting a program approved by Congress by August.
Republicans muscled their capstone health care overhaul past an initial barrier and toward a climactic roll call Friday, plunging ahead despite uncertainty over whether they had the votes to prevail.
As currently written, the bill by Sen. Randy Head of Logansport effectively guts the troubled 2016 law, which created a monopoly and sparked an FBI investigation.
Indiana lawmakers are considering a measure that requires state officials to publicize the percentage of teachers who are union members and, in some cases, inform them that they can get rid of or change that representation.
The bill’s author, Rep. Matt Lehman, R-Berne, says it’s important to stop knee-jerk government regulation that would restrict anyone’s ability to “use our private property for what we want to use it for.”
A House bill that would increase state funding to send low-income children to preschool was gutted in an Indiana Senate committee, setting up a potential clash between the two chambers.