Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1650
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Vapor products and e-liquids matters. Repeals statutory language that the vapor pens and e-liquid article does not apply to a manufacturer of a closed system vapor product. Requires a manufacturer of vapor products that contain nicotine and e-liquid that contains nicotine to certify that the manufacturer is going to comply with certain manufacturing and safety requirements and that the manufacturer has received from or submitted certain documents to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Requires a manufacturer to submit certain information to the alcohol and tobacco commission. Requires the commission to create a directory that lists all: (1) vapor products and e-liquid manufacturers; and (2) vapor products and e-liquid in which certification forms have been submitted to the commission. Provides that vapor products and e-liquid not included in the directory cannot be sold to consumers in Indiana. Provides penalties for violations. Requires certain nonresident or foreign manufacturers of vapor products or e-liquids to appoint an agent for service of process and to submit to the commission a surety bond. Requires the commission to submit a report to the general assembly each year regarding the status of the directory, information regarding the collection of fees, enforcement activities, and other information.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1651
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Elimination of state individual income tax. Eliminates the state individual adjusted gross income tax by reducing the rate to 0%. Provides that in calculating the local income tax (LIT), which is imposed based on a local taxpayer's state adjusted gross income, the calculation of a taxpayer's state adjusted gross income for LIT purposes shall be calculated under the adjusted gross income tax provisions as if those provisions, and the most recent adjusted gross income tax rate before its elimination, were still in effect.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1652
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Choice scholarships. Amends the definition of "eligible choice scholarship student".
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1653
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
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.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1654
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Legalization of cannabis. Legalizes the sale and use of cannabis by a person at least 18 years of age. Requires the Indiana department of health to establish a program to issue a medical cannabis identification card to a patient whose physician has recommended cannabis to treat a medical condition. Permits the sale of cannabis to a person less than 18 years of age if the person has been issued a medical cannabis identification card, and exempts purchases by a medical cannabis cardholder from sales tax. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1655
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Prohibited food ingredients. Prohibits the use of various food additives in Indiana.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1656
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Property tax freeze for persons 65 and older. Freezes the property tax liability on a homestead of an individual who is at least 65 years of age.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1657
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Second amendment protection. Provides that no person or entity has the authority to enforce, attempt to enforce, or participate in any way in enforcing particular federal laws concerning firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition against a law abiding citizen. Specifies penalties and causes of action concerning a political subdivision or law enforcement agency that: (1) employs a law enforcement officer who knowingly violates these provisions; or (2) knowingly employs a federal official who knowingly takes certain actions concerning the enforcement or implementation of federal firearms laws. Specifies exceptions. Makes findings and defines terms.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1658
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Residential property assessment. Eliminates elections for the office of county assessor and township assessor after 2026 and phases out the offices of county assessor and township assessor as the terms of those elected to the offices expire. Transfers the duties of the assessor to the county auditor at the expiration of each assessor's term. Requires the department of local government finance (DLGF) to develop an automated valuation model system (AVM system) to be used by the DLGF to annually run all qualifying residential property through the AVM system and provide the values determined to the county auditor. Requires county auditors to use the values to determine the fair market value of qualified residential property. Defines "qualified residential property". Specifies the elements and functionality that must be included in the AVM system. Requires the DLGF to start running all qualifying residential property through an AVM system beginning with the first assessment date that an AVM system is operational for use, but not later than the 2031 assessment date. Eliminates qualified residential property from cyclical reassessments and annual adjustments (or "trending") and ratio studies. Allows taxpayers to elect to receive notices of assessment (Form 11) by electronic mail. Makes corresponding changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1659
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Ethics implementation fund. Establishes the ethics implementation fund (fund) for the purpose of providing grants to course providers that offer ethics training courses for teachers. Charges the department of education (department) with administering the fund. Requires the department to create authorization and approval processes. Requires the department to create guidelines to provide professional development credit to teachers who have successfully completed an ethics training course. Makes an appropriation.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1660
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Passed
4/16/25
Chaptered
4/16/25
Passed
4/16/25
Excused absence from school. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation or the chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school system shall authorize the absence and excuse of a school student if the student participates in certain events offered by the National FFA Organization, the Indiana FFA Association, or a 4-H club. Provides that a student's excused absences may not exceed six days in a school year. Provides that the student must be in good academic standing.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1661
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Healthy forests and hardwoods expansion. Requires the department of natural resources to create the landowner forest management program. Requires the Indiana state department of agriculture to: (1) conduct an inventory of all forest land lost in Indiana from 2010 to 2024; and (2) conduct an economic impact study based on the findings of the lost forest land report. Makes an appropriation.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1662
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
State and local policies on homelessness. Specifies that a person who owns or operates a private camping facility funded under the bill's provisions is immune from civil liability. 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 under 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. Establishes an affirmative defense to such a prosecution. 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. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1663
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Engrossed
2/11/25
Refer
3/3/25
Collaborative distilling. Allows the holder of an artisan distiller's permit (artisan distiller) to: (1) manufacture liquor, including blending liquor sourced from another licensed manufacturer with liquor the artisan distiller manufactures; and (2) redistill, age, or bottle liquor, including liquor sourced from another licensed manufacturer; in accordance with certain provisions. Allows an artisan distiller to manufacture liquor for another artisan distiller if certain conditions are met. Allows an artisan distiller to blend or sell liquor from another licensed manufacturer as liquor that the artisan distiller manufactures if the artisan distiller's aggregate annual sales, in gallons, is made up of not less than 70% of liquor that was fermented and distilled from raw materials by the artisan distiller at the licensed premises of the artisan distiller. Specifies that brandy or liquor transferred in bond counts, for the calendar year in which the transfer occurs, toward the gallonage limit for the permit holder that receives the liquor or brandy transferred in bond. Provides that a transfer in bond of liquor or brandy that occurred before July 1, 2025, between the holder of an artisan distiller's permit, a farm winery brandy distiller's permit, or a distiller's permit: (1) is not subject to a provision that restricts the amount of sourced liquor that an artisan distiller may sell; and (2) does not, for purposes of that provision, count toward the amount of sourced liquor that an artisan distiller may sell.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1664
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Due-on-sale clauses. Prohibits a lender from exercising a due-on-sale clause upon the transfer of property under certain conditions.