The Indiana Senate on Tuesday cleared out the last of the measures it had on the calendar. The details of other more contentious bills will be negotiated between House and Senate leaders in the coming days in the hopes of reaching agreement.
New rules block manufacturers from the market if the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission doesn’t approve them by June 30. But manufacturers say the law is impossible to comply with.
The deal is a result of an investigation into the sale of mortgage-backed securities in Indiana and losses suffered by the Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund.
Senate Bill 109 would give oversight of nearly 400 privately owned deer farms and seven preserves to the Board of Animal Health. The board would have control over all records and requirements.
Medical malpractice victims would be able to receive more compensation under a bill passed on Monday by an Indiana House committee
The Indiana Senate last month approved the bill that would have allowed legislative employees to carry weapons in the Statehouse, but it was effectively shelved after the House didn’t take action.
A House Education committee on Monday advanced a contentious proposal to give Indiana school districts authority to negotiate higher pay with individual teachers.
Indiana House Republicans are tying Gov. Mike Pence’s extra Regional Cities funding to the bill, along with a 13th check for pensioners.
Lawmakers have advanced a compromise that seems to appease both small poultry producers who are part of Indiana’s “farm-to-fork” movement and those who say they are worried about protecting public health.
A Senate committee stripped tax increases out of a road funding bill, but the House speaker says the legislature needs to look beyond just the next election.
One proposal that would give school districts authority to negotiate higher pay with individual teachers faces an uncertain fate after the Republican Senate leader pronounced it dead Thursday. Another measure is still alive in the House.
For years, the people concerned with drug abuse and alcoholism nibbled at it only on the margins. Most states, including Indiana, have been far more likely to throw drug users in prison than to get them treatment.
Rick Hite served as police chief during former Mayor Greg Ballard’s administration.
The proposed amendment would have made it legal for payday companies to offer six-month loans of up to $1,000 at an annual interest rate of 180 percent.
Tesla Motors Inc. prevailed Thursday in Indiana, where lawmakers sidelined a bill that would have kicked the company out of the state unless it establishes dealerships.
An amendment approved by a house panel puts the Indiana Gaming Commission in charge of regulating the games and jacks up operator licensing fees.
Legislators have approved replacing all the male pronouns in laws describing the duties of Indiana's statewide officeholders with gender-neutral terms.
States say the federally-imposed fee—which cost Indiana $17.4 million in 2014—violates a constitutional ban on intergovernmental taxes.
Tesla Motors Inc., which has long skirmished with auto dealers over its practice of selling cars directly to consumers, has accused General Motors Co. of being the driving force behind a bill to kick Tesla out of Indiana.
Planners thought most of the $53.5 million earmarked for projects would come from leasing excess space on the state’s 310 cellphone towers. But the Legislative Services Agency estimates those leases will bring $10 million to $12 million over the next 10 years.
