Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0296
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Driving privilege cards. Provides that an individual who is an Indiana resident and cannot provide proof of identity and lawful status in the United States may apply for a driving privilege card to obtain driving privileges. Sets forth the requirements to obtain a driving privilege card. Provides that a driving privilege card may not be used as identification for any state or federal purpose (other than to confer driving privileges), for the purpose of voting, or to verify employment. Requires an individual who holds a driving privilege card and operates a motor vehicle to verify and continuously maintain financial responsibility on any motor vehicle operated by the individual who holds the driving privilege card in the amount required by law. Provides that the bureau of motor vehicles may not disclose certain information unless presented with a lawful court order or judicial warrant. Requires an applicant for a driving privilege card or driving privilege card renewal to sign up for selective service. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles to submit an annual report to the legislative council and the interim study committee on roads and transportation. Makes conforming amendments. Makes technical corrections.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0297
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Film and media production tax credit. Provides that a taxpayer may assign all or part of the taxpayer's film and media production tax credit.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0298
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Governmental entity limited liability. Provides that a governmental entity operating an activity on land leased by the governmental entity from the federal government is entitled to certain immunities from a tort claim. Expands the definition of "extreme sport area" to include an obstacle course.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0299
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Local public questions. Makes certain changes to the language for the public question required for a controlled project referendum, school operating levy referendum, and school safety referendum. Makes corresponding changes. Makes technical corrections.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0300
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
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. Allows for certain remedies to the tenant for the landlord's noncompliance, including a procedure for the deposit of rent that is due with the clerk of the court if the landlord fails or refuses to make repairs or take remedial action. Provides that, during the pendency of a court action brought by a tenant, the court may order the tenant to make the regular rental payments otherwise due under the rental agreement to the clerk of the court or an attorney trust account, to be held in trust for disbursal to the prevailing party, as ordered by the court. Requires a clerk to collect a $30 fee from the landlord if the court finds that an escrow account is needed for the regular rental payments held by the clerk of the court. Provides that a landlord may apply for release of rent deposits. Provides that, after June 30, 2025, a landlord may not manage a rental property in Indiana unless the landlord: (1) is authorized to do business in Indiana; (2) maintains an office at one or more physical locations in Indiana; or (3) appoints an Indiana licensed real estate broker or broker company to manage the rental property. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0301
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Eligibility for benefits. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, in determining the Medicaid eligibility of an individual who has a community spouse, the office of the secretary of family and social services (the office of the secretary) may not consider the following as a countable resource if held by the individual's community spouse: (1) An individual retirement account. (2) A work related pension plan. Requires the office of the secretary to apply, before January 1, 2026, for any state plan amendment necessary to implement this provision.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0302
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Absentee ballots. Provides that absentee ballots may be processed, counted, and tabulated before 6 p.m. on election day, but vote totals for a precinct, a county, or an election district may not be released before 6 p.m. on election day. Describes the process of processing, counting, and tabulating early voting absentee ballots. Requires a county election board to use the procedures relating to voting and processing of ballots by voters who vote in person at a precinct or vote center on election day, to the extent that such procedures are applicable in the context of early voting. Provides that an absentee ballot card voted during early voting may be scanned using an optical scan ballot scanner beginning 28 calendar days before election day. (Under current law, scanning may begin not earlier than seven days before election day.) Requires that a feature of a voting system that enables the retraction of a ballot must be approved before being used in an election. Provides that a voting system retraction process must be designed to minimize the possibility that the retracted votes on a voter's ballot can be linked to the identity of the voter. Relocates statutes applicable to early voting absentee ballots and mail absentee ballots. Repeals superseded statutes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0303
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Dependent child exemptions. Provides that a fetus is considered a dependent child for purposes of the dependent child state adjusted gross income exemptions.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0304
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
3/3/25
Food and beverage taxes. Authorizes the city of Marion and the city of Richmond respectively to impose a food and beverage tax of not more than 1% of the gross retail income received from a taxable transaction. Allows the fiscal body of the town of Shipshewana to increase its food and beverage tax. Specifies that the provisions authorizing the imposition of a food and beverage tax and the increase to a food and beverage tax expire January 1, 2047. Repeals the Indiana Code chapter authorizing the imposition of food and beverage taxes in Wayne County.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0305
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Rural communities. Establishes the saving rural Indiana program (program) for the purpose of building additional local capacity allowing innovative communities to create solutions for challenges facing rural Indiana. Establishes the saving rural Indiana matching grant fund to carry out the purpose of the program.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0306
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Engrossed
2/11/25
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
Film and media production tax credit. Provides that a taxpayer may assign any part of the film and media production tax credit (credit) that the taxpayer may claim. Sets forth the procedure for a taxpayer to make the assignment. Establishes a limit of $250,000 for any single tax credit provided. Limits the aggregate amount of tax credits that may be provided to $2,000,000. Extends the credit's expiration date from July 1, 2027, to July 1, 2031.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0307
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
1/27/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
3/3/25
Environmental waste inventory and grant program. Allows the Indiana brownfields fund to be used to pay for: (1) studies conducted under the Indiana brownfields program; and (2) the creation of an inventory of brownfields in Indiana (inventory). Authorizes the Indiana finance authority (authority) to create and maintain the inventory. Authorizes the authority to: (1) contract with one or more state supported colleges or universities for assistance in creating and maintaining the inventory; and (2) pay costs arising from the creation and maintenance of the inventory with funds appropriated to the Indiana brownfields fund. Provides that, if the inventory is created, the authority shall report the contents of the inventory to the interim study committee on environmental affairs in 2026 and in each even-numbered calendar year thereafter. Provides for confidentiality regarding documents and information submitted to the authority.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0308
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Intimidation. Provides that intimidation is a Level 6 felony if the subject of the threat is a public school, a state accredited nonpublic school, or a charter school.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0309
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
3/3/25
Substitute system of worker's compensation. Provides that an employer who is a member in good standing with the Small Business Aid, Inc., and provides a substitute system of worker's compensation and worker's occupational diseases compensation as established by the Small Business Aid, Inc., is not required to seek the approval of the worker's compensation board in order to provide the substitute system of compensation in lieu of compensation and insurance provided under the worker's compensation and worker's occupational diseases compensation laws. Makes corresponding changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0310
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
1/27/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/24/25
Feasibility study of energy audit of state government campus. Allows the Indiana department of administration to award a contract not later than December 31, 2025 for a feasibility study concerning conducting an energy audit on the: (1) Indiana state capitol building; and (2) Indiana government center north and south buildings. Provides that the study's cost must be less than $100,000.