Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0206
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment program. Requires the Indiana department of veterans' affairs to establish and administer a hyperbaric oxygen treatment program (program) to make grants to certain providers to provide diagnostic testing and hyperbaric oxygen treatment to qualified service members. Establishes program requirements. Requires the Indiana department of health to: (1) issue a request for proposals to offer treatment under the program; and (2) adopt rules to implement these provisions, including rules concerning program eligibility, treatment plan requirements, criteria for approving payments for treatment, and confidentiality. Provides that funding for the program is paid from the military family relief fund. Makes conforming amendments related to the sunset of the hyperbaric oxygen treatment pilot program.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0207
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Adverse possession. Provides that a cause of action based on adverse possession may not be commenced in a court in Indiana after June 30, 2025. Makes conforming changes.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0208
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Mandatory notification of the presence of firearms. Requires a child care home, if there is a firearm on the premises, to disclose to a custodial parent or guardian certain details about how the firearm is being stored. Provides that the disclosure to a custodial parent or guardian does not prevent an individual from lawfully exercising the individual's right to keep and bear arms.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0209
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/5/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/25/25
Enrolled
4/1/25
Passed
4/16/25
Chaptered
4/16/25
Passed
4/16/25
Electronic pull tabs in charity gaming. Allows for the use of electronic pull tab games, electronic pull tab devices, and electronic pull tab systems in charity gaming by certain organizations. Provides for a maximum number of electronic pull tab devices that may be present, for purposes of charity gaming, in a permitted location.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0210
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Steuben County courts. Repeals a provision allowing the judges of the Steuben circuit and superior courts to appoint a full-time magistrate. Establishes a second Steuben superior court.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0211
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/14/25
Engrossed
1/27/25
Engrossed
1/24/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/21/25
Passed
4/1/25
Chaptered
4/1/25
Passed
4/1/25
Clean water Indiana program. Permits the use of funds from the clean water Indiana fund to manage invasive plant species.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0212
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Natural gas and electric utility infrastructure. Provides that an applicant that seeks: (1) the installation or extension of electric or natural gas utility infrastructure; (2) electric or natural gas utility service; or (3) both; in connection with certain development projects is entitled to request and convene, before commencing construction on the project, at least one technical advisory meeting with each utility whose service area includes the project site. Defines a "technical advisory meeting" as a meeting that: (1) includes as participants the applicant and one or more utilities: (A) whose service area includes the project site; and (B) from whom utility infrastructure, utility service, or both, will be required for the project; and (2) is held: (A) in preparation for, or in connection with, certain advance planning activities related to the project; and (B) for the purpose of: (i) sharing planning documents and drawings; (ii) determining the utility infrastructure, utility service, or both, required to serve the project; and (iii) discussing the terms of a potential extension agreement between the utility and the applicant. Sets forth the procedures and time frame for requesting and holding a technical advisory meeting. Requires an applicant and a utility to enter into an extension agreement before construction commences on a project, regardless of whether a technical advisory meeting is requested or held. Defines an "extension agreement" as an agreement that: (1) is entered into between an applicant and a utility whose service area includes the project site of the applicant's project; and (2) sets forth the obligations and commitments of: (A) the utility and the applicant with respect to the extension of utility infrastructure to the project site; and (B) the utility and the customers to be initially served by the extension upon its installation. Sets forth the required elements of an extension agreement. Provides that before agreeing to extend utility infrastructure to a project site in connection with the project, a natural gas utility must provide the applicant with a written summary that explains the obligations and commitments that apply to: (1) the utility; (2) the applicant; and (3) the customers to be initially served by the extension of the utility infrastructure upon its installation; under the Indiana utility regulatory commission's (IURC) rule on the extension of gas distribution mains. Sets forth the information required to be included in the summary. Provides that an applicant or a utility may submit an informal complaint to the IURC's consumer affairs division in connection with the bill's provisions concerning technical advisory meetings and extension agreements. Provides that if the IURC determines that it requires additional staff to handle the volume of informal complaints submitted, the IURC may impose a fee on a party against whom a decision is rendered. Provides that the fee may not exceed the lesser of: (1) the IURC's actual costs in handling the informal complaint; or (2) $750. Authorizes the IURC to adopt rules to implement the bill's provisions.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0213
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
K-12 education funding. Requires each school corporation to establish a minimum salary of $65,000 for each full-time teacher not later than July 1, 2027. Increases the income cap of a family that may participate in the On My Way prekindergarten program from 150% to 185% of the federal poverty level. Provides that a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal CCDF voucher program may continue to participate unless the child's family income exceeds 300% of the federal income poverty level. Increases school funding by 6% in 2026 and 6% in 2027 for the following categories: (1) Foundation amount. (2) Complexity. (3) Academic performance grants. (4) Special education. (5) Career and technical training. Appropriates approximately $50,000,000 in both 2026 and 2027 for non-English speaking program grants. Appropriates (and increases from the previous budget) funding for the following programs each year of the biennium beginning July 1, 2025: (1) $35,000,000 each year for Indiana secured school safety grants. (2) $30,000,000 each year for summer school programs. (3) $200,000,000 each year to the curricular materials fund for purposes of the fund. Establishes the student support services and teacher retention grant program (program) and fund (fund) to be administered by the department of education. Provides that the purpose of the program is to address the ongoing challenges with teacher attraction and retention and shortages in critical student support service areas. Appropriates $50,000,000 to the fund for purposes of the program and for recruitment, hiring, and retention strategies for educators and support staff. Requires the program to be administered in conjunction with the: (1) school intervention and career counseling development program; (2) elementary school counselors, social workers, and school psychologists program; and (3) grants for mental health counselor licenses for school counselors; in a manner that streamlines these under the overall purposes of the program. Provides that a school employer may discuss certain items with the exclusive representative of certificated employees with regard to expenditures for education service centers of a public school corporation and expenditures from the Indiana secured school fund for school safety purposes.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0214
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Residential landlord-tenant matters. Provides that the court may appoint a receiver upon request by a county, city, or town when the property owner of a multifamily residential property with more than four dwelling units has failed to pay damages, costs, or attorney's fees that have been incurred by the multifamily residential property in a nuisance action brought by the county, city, or town. Allows a city, county, or town to bring a nuisance action against a tenant or other person responsible for a nuisance. Defines "essential services" as certain services needed for the safe and habitable occupation by a tenant of the tenant's rental unit. Defines "essential systems" as certain systems used to deliver essential services to a rental unit. Requires a landlord to provide and maintain a rental premises that is free from the following: (1) Pests, including rodents and invasive insects. (2) Mold. (3) Rot. Sets forth a procedure for a tenant to use to initiate a request for repairs. Requires a landlord to repair or replace an essential system not later than 72 hours after being notified by a tenant that the tenant's rental unit is without essential services under certain circumstances. Provides, for purposes of the statutes regarding the rights of tenants who are victims of certain crimes, that evidence showing a tenant engaged in a protected activity not more than six months before the landlord's alleged retaliatory conduct creates a rebuttable presumption that the purpose of the landlord's conduct was retaliation. Specifies the evidence a landlord may show to rebut the presumption.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0215
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Local regulation of blasting. Allows the legislative body of a consolidated city to adopt an ordinance to regulate blasting operations to mitigate the impact on the health and safety of residential neighborhoods within a one mile radius of blasting operations in the consolidated city.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0216
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/16/25
Engrossed
1/27/25
Engrossed
1/24/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Enrolled
3/26/25
Passed
5/1/25
Chaptered
5/1/25
Passed
5/1/25
Mental health professionals. Allows certain individuals to take the examination for licensure as a social worker before having completed the bachelor's degree. Makes the following changes in regard to marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, addiction counselors, and clinical addiction counselors: (1) Provides that an individual must be licensed as an associate before obtaining the relevant experience hours, except in certain circumstances. (2) Amends provisions concerning experience hours and the expiration of a temporary license or permit. Removes certain provisions regarding first available examinations.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0217
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Expungement of addiction related convictions. Establishes a procedure to permit a person: (1) with an addiction disorder related conviction; and (2) who has completed a high intensity residential treatment program; to expunge the person's addiction disorder related conviction.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0218
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/21/25
Passed
4/3/25
Chaptered
4/3/25
Passed
4/3/25
Electronic monitoring. Amends the information that must be provided by a supervising agency in quarterly reports to the local justice reinvestment advisory council. Requires the statewide justice reinvestment advisory council to compile the quarterly reports and electronically transmit an annual report to the legislative council and to the judicial conference of Indiana not later than May 1(instead of March 15) of each year.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0219
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/21/25
Passed
4/3/25
Chaptered
4/3/25
Passed
4/3/25
Trespass. Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally enters the real property of another person after having been denied entry by the other person, that person's agent, or a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of the other person or their agent, commits criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally refuses to leave the real property of another person after having been asked to leave by the other person, that person's agent, or a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of the other person or the other person's agent, commits criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor.
IN
Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0220
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
State employee health plan coverage of Alzheimer's. Requires a state employee health plan to provide coverage for dementia treatments or medications that are determined to be medically necessary by the physician treating the covered individual.