Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0116
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Unemployment benefits. Amends the definition of "wage credits". Specifies the rate for unemployment insurance benefits for initial claims filed by an individual who is totally unemployed for any week beginning after June 30, 2025. Specifies, for initial claims filed for any week beginning after June 30, 2025: (1) the maximum weekly benefit amount; and (2) an additional weekly benefit for eligible and qualified individuals with dependents.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0117
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Compassionate release. Allows certain convicted persons who have a chronic medical condition or are terminally ill or gravely disabled to file a petition for sentence modification, without the consent of the prosecuting attorney. Defines "chronic medical condition" and "terminally ill or gravely disabled" for purposes of filing a petition for sentence modification. Specifies that a court may not, without the consent of the prosecuting attorney, reduce or suspend a convicted person's sentence: (1) that was not authorized by a plea agreement; or (2) that is below the sentence that the court was authorized to impose at the time of sentencing. Provides certain criteria that the court must consider when ruling on a petition for sentence modification. Allows the court to grant or deny a petitioner's request for sentence modification, summarily dismiss the petition, or hold a hearing.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0118
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Engrossed
2/5/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/25/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Passed
5/6/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
340B drug program report. Requires certain entities authorized to participate in the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program to annually report specified data to the Indiana department of health (state department). Requires the state department to submit a report of the aggregated data to the legislative council and post the report on the state department's website.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0119
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Enrolled
4/8/25
Passed
4/22/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Certificate of public advantage. Prohibits the submission of an application for a certificate of public advantage (application) after May 13, 2025. Changes the time frame in which the Indiana department of health has to review and make a determination on an application filed during a specified time frame.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0120
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Engrossed
2/11/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/21/25
Passed
4/10/25
Chaptered
4/10/25
Passed
4/10/25
DNA samples at time of arrest. Requires a sheriff to take a DNA sample of a person taken into custody for a felony. Provides that it is a Class C misdemeanor if a person refuses to provide a DNA sample to a sheriff.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0121
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/14/25
Engrossed
1/31/25
Refer
3/3/25
Restrictions on using nets or traps for minnows. Prohibits the use of specific devices to take minnows from a waterway unless certain conditions are met. Provides an exemption for bait dealers and individuals with a scientific purposes license. Requires, not later than July 1, 2030, that the department of natural resources submit a report to legislative council regarding Sugar Creek's environmental condition and the status of the fish and wildlife population at Sugar Creek.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0122
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Nonprofit loan center loans for state employees. Provides that not later than: (1) September 1, 2025, in the case of a state agency other than a state educational institution or a school corporation; (2) September 1, 2026, in the case of a state agency that is a state educational institution; or (3) September 1, 2027, in the case of a state agency that is a school corporation; a state agency shall partner with each nonprofit loan center (NLC) operating in Indiana to become a participating employer in the NLC's nonprofit loan center program (NLC program) by offering voluntary payroll deductions for eligible full-time employees to make payments toward the balance of a nonprofit loan center loan (NLC loan) made by a nonprofit loan center lender (NLC lender). Provides that after becoming a participating employer in an NLC program, a state agency shall allow an eligible employee to: (1) voluntarily request and establish payroll deductions for an NLC loan at any time; and (2) revoke the employee's authorization for payroll deductions for an NLC loan at any time; including any time that falls outside a designated open enrollment period for benefits. Defines an "NLC loan" as a loan that meets certain requirements with respect to the principal amount, loan term, finance charge, authorized fees, method of repayment, and other loan terms. Authorizes the state comptroller to authorize the electronic transfer of funds from the state treasury to a designated NLC lender in payment of an NLC loan on behalf of an eligible employee who has voluntarily given the state comptroller written authorization to make the transfer. Specifies that: (1) a loan made under the bill's provisions; or (2) a person that makes a loan under the bill's provisions; is subject to the requirements of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code chapter governing consumer loans. Provides that a depository institution may make a loan under the same terms and conditions that apply with respect to a nonprofit loan center loan to an employee of: (1) a state agency; or (2) any other employer; as long as the loan is made in compliance with any applicable law. Allows a wage assignment to be made for the purpose of making payment to a depository institution in repayment of a loan that is made to the employee by the depository institution under the same terms and conditions that apply with respect to an NLC loan. Authorizes the electronic transfer of funds from the state treasury on behalf of an employee of a state agency in payment of a loan made by a depository institution to the employee under the same terms and conditions that apply to an NLC loan.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0123
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Unemployment compensation. Reduces the maximum amount of regular unemployment benefits to 14 times the individual's weekly benefit. (Under current law, the maximum amount of regular unemployment benefits is 26 times the individual's weekly benefit or 28% of the individual's wage credits, whichever is less.) Provides for additional benefits in an amount not to exceed two times the individual's weekly benefit if the individual meets certain conditions. Removes outdated provisions. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0124
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Firefighting apparatus lights. Allows a firefighting apparatus owned or operated by a political subdivision or volunteer fire department to be equipped with signal lamps that are capable of displaying flashing, rotating, or oscillating beams of red and blue lights. (Current law allows a firefighting apparatus to display red or red and white lights.)
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0125
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Gasoline and special fuel taxes. Provides that July 1, 2025, (rather than July 1, 2027, under current law) is the last date for the index factor adjustment of the gasoline tax rate and the special fuel tax rate.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0126
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
2/3/25
Engrossed
2/11/25
Refer
3/3/25
Annexation. With certain exceptions, requires a municipality that initiates an annexation to file with the court an annexation petition approved by the signatures of: (1) at least 51% of the owners of non-tax exempt land in the annexation territory; or (2) the owners of at least 75% in assessed valuation of non-tax exempt land in the annexation territory. Requires the court to hold a hearing if the petition has enough signatures. Adds provisions for determining the validity of signatures. Eliminates the following: (1) Remonstrances and remonstrance waivers. (2) Reimbursement of remonstrator's attorney's fees and costs. (3) Adoption of a fiscal plan for voluntary annexations requested by 100% of landowners in the annexation territory. (4) Settlement agreements in lieu of annexation. (5) Provisions regarding contiguity of a public highway.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0127
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/13/25
Engrossed
1/22/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Enrolled
3/26/25
Passed
4/9/25
Chaptered
4/9/25
Passed
4/9/25
Battery charged security devices. Prohibits a county, city, or town from adopting or enforcing an ordinance or resolution that prohibits or imposes requirements on certain battery charged security devices.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0128
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
1/30/25
Compensation for business losses. Provides that a person operating a business on a property may be compensated for business losses resulting from a condemnation of the property. Provides that a municipality may not acquire property using an alternative condemnation procedure if the municipality is notified of the person's intent to claim compensation for business losses.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0129
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
1/21/25
Landlocked property. Defines "landlocked property" as real property that has been shut off from all public highways as a result of the vacation of one or more public highways. Provides that if an action of the state, or an agency or political subdivision of the state, causes real property to become landlocked property, the county assessor of the county in which the landlocked property is located must assess the value of the landlocked property at the same rate that native forest land, a forest plantation, or wildlands are assessed for as long as the property qualifies as landlocked property.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0130
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Short term placement of endangered adults. Requires the division of aging, in consultation with the prosecuting attorneys council of Indiana, to: (1) establish an emergency short term placement option for the emergency placement of endangered adults in need of protective services; and (2) identify possible settings for the short term placement.