Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1275
Alcohol and tobacco commission matters. Makes the following changes: (1) Expands the purpose of the Richard D. Doyle tobacco education and enforcement fund. (2) Amends type II gambling game prize limits to include sports themed gaming. (3) Replaces a reference in the definition of a "Type II gambling game" to an Indiana gaming commission memorandum with a substantive definition. (4) Eliminates the requirement that a farm winery or artisan distiller annually submit excise tax returns to the alcohol and tobacco commission (ATC). (5) Allows the ATC to collect reasonable labor costs of investigating a permit holder or employee charged with providing an alcoholic beverage to an intoxicated person. (6) Amends local alcoholic beverage board members' duties to reflect electronic record keeping. (7) Requires an employee or contractor who controls entry into age restricted premises or otherwise checks an individual's proof of age to complete alcohol server training. (8) Specifies the required minimum liquor liability insurance coverage that applies to the liquor liability endorsement to a general policy. (9) Prohibits charging an individual a cover fee to access unlimited alcoholic beverages. Allows the sale of event packages. (10) Replaces, in statutes regarding unlawful sales to minors, references to "tobacco", "e-liquid", or "electronic cigarette" with the inclusive term "tobacco product". (11) Allows a person to participate electronically in an online auction or raffle but requires alcoholic beverage prices to be collected in person. Repeals statutes that do the following: (1) Allow the ATC to require registration of alcoholic beverage brands and other information used in advertising. (2) Require attachment of an identification marker to a keg at the time of sale. (3) Make it a Class C misdemeanor to transport an alcoholic beverage to a retailer or dealer on Sunday.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1276
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Engrossed
2/14/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
4/10/25
Enrolled
4/16/25
Passed
5/1/25
Chaptered
5/1/25
Passed
5/1/25
Various alcoholic beverage matters. Allows a craft manufacturer to participate in a farmers' market, subject to certain conditions. Allows a liquor retailer and a liquor dealer to serve samples of mixed beverages. Increases, from 45 to 75 days, the number of days in a calendar year the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) may approve for a craft manufacturer to participate in a trade show or exposition. Repeals a provision prohibiting a beer dealer from selling and delivering beer for carry-out, or for delivery to a customer's residence or office, in a quantity that exceeds 864 ounces in a single transaction. Repeals a limitation on the maximum quantity of liquor that a liquor dealer may deliver to a customer's residence or office at any one time. Repeals a provision that allows the holder of a farm winery permit to sell the winery's wine to consumers by the bottle at a farmers' market that is operated on a nonprofit basis. Repeals a limitation on the maximum quantity of wine that a wine dealer may sell in a single transaction. Provides that the commission may issue a three way permit: (1) to a theater within the historic district of a city with a certain population; and (2) that is not subject to the quota. Requires a permittee to obtain written permission from the appropriate local or state agency to locate a restaurant or hotel patio or terrace in the public right-of-way. Allows the commission to issue a food hall master permit to a food hall that meets certain requirements.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1277
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Regulation of child care centers. 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. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1278
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Restrictions on train length. Prohibits a railroad from operating a train longer than 8,500 feet in length on a main line or a branch line.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1279
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Sexual predator employment. Prohibits a sexually violent predator or an offender against children from working in any setting where the offender: (1) has more than incidental and occasional contact with a child who is not accompanied by the child's parent, guardian, or custodian; (2) has supervisory or disciplinary power over a child; or (3) is expected to touch a child on a more than incidental and occasional basis.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1280
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Enrolled
3/25/25
Passed
4/10/25
Chaptered
4/10/25
Passed
4/10/25
Taxation of military income. Exempts military pay for members of the United States Space Force, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps from the individual income tax. Exempts military pay earned by members of an active component of the United States Space Force, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps from the individual income tax. Adds members of the United States Space Force, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps for purposes of eligibility for the income tax deduction for income from military retirement or survivor's benefits.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1281
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Criminal penalties. Increases the penalty for reckless homicide and criminal recklessness if a person commits aggressive driving that results in the death or catastrophic injury of another person.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1282
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Age of compulsory 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 six 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.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1283
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
U.S.S. Indianapolis CA-35 Day. Establishes July 30 each year as "U.S.S. Indianapolis CA-35 Day".
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1284
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Background checks of maintenance workers. Requires a landlord to adopt a policy requiring individuals who apply for certain employment positions that include access to the rental premises during the term of a tenant's lease to submit to a national criminal history background check before the landlord may hire the prospective employee.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1285
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Enrolled
3/31/25
Passed
5/1/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Chaptered
5/1/25
Passed
5/1/25
Education matters. Prohibits a school corporation from doing the following: (1) Removing a student's property without providing the student's parent with the opportunity to collect the student's property if the student has died, transferred, dropped out, or otherwise withdrawn from enrollment in the school corporation for any reason. (2) Adopting a policy or otherwise preventing a parent of a student from recording a meeting concerning the student's individualized education program. Requires each school corporation to ensure at least one employee in each school building that is used for classroom instruction: (1) has obtained nonviolent crisis intervention training; and (2) is present in the school building during the school year while school is in session. Establishes requirements regarding the employee. Requires the department of education to review nonviolent crisis intervention training programs and make recommendations to school corporations regarding the training of employees.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1286
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
PFAS chemicals. Requires the department of environmental management to publish a registry of persons that discharge PFAS chemicals into waters of the state.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1287
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Display of political signs on certain properties. Amends as follows the statute governing the display of political signs on property subject to restrictive covenants or homeowners association rules: (1) Expands the scope of the statute to include additional communities. (2) Replaces the term "homeowners association" with the term "community association" and makes similar conforming changes to the statute's terminology. (3) Extends the beginning of the period within which a community association may not prohibit a community member from displaying a political sign on the community member's property from 30 days to 60 days before the date of the election to which the sign relates. (4) Removes the provision that authorizes a community association to adopt and enforce rules restricting the number of political signs that may be displayed on a community member's property. (5) Prohibits a community association from restricting the number of political signs that a community member may display on the community member's property, subject to specified exceptions. (6) Removes an exemption for gated communities from the statute's prohibition against community association rules or covenants that prohibit candidates or elected officials (or their spouses or volunteers) from entering onto community association property to conduct political activity. (7) Provides that a member of a homeowners association who is aggrieved by an alleged violation of the statute by a homeowners association may assert a claim against the homeowners association or its board under the grievance resolution procedures set forth in the statute governing homeowners associations. (8) Provides that: (A) a community member; or (B) a candidate or an elected official; who is aggrieved by an alleged violation of the statute may seek any remedy available to the person under applicable law, including an action for damages or injunctive relief in a court with jurisdiction.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1288
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Public purchasing. Provides that the purchasing agency of a governmental body must use a purchasing procedure when purchasing services. Provides that a purchasing agent may only make a purchase without soliciting bids or proposals if the purchase qualifies for a special purchase. Requires a contract between a state elected official's office and a contractor to include language disclosing if, in the 12 months preceding the execution of the contract, the contractor or an officer or director of the contractor made a contribution to the state elected official's campaign. Requires a state elected official's office to execute an addendum to a contract if the contractor or an officer or director of the contractor makes a contribution to the state elected official's campaign after the contract is executed and before the end of the contract's term.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1289
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Passed
3/25/25
Chaptered
3/25/25
Passed
3/25/25
Employment social enterprises. Defines "employment social enterprise" as a nonprofit or for-profit organization that meets certain criteria. Amends the definition of "workforce related program" to include a work based learning program or transitional jobs program that: (1) is through an employment social enterprise; and (2) meets certain other criteria.