Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0326
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Enrolled
4/1/25
Refer
4/24/25
Offenses against children. Replaces the term "child pornography" with the term "child sex abuse material" throughout the Indiana Code. Provides that it is a defense to prosecution of child exploitation and possession of child sex abuse material if a school employee, department of child services employee, or attorney acting in the attorney's capacity as legal counsel: (1) promptly and in good faith notified law enforcement about the image or matter depicting the sexual conduct; and (2) did not duplicate, upload, download, or otherwise transfer the image or matter. Provides that a governmental entity may not organize or host an obscene performance or fund an obscene performance using public funds, and authorizes a person to seek injunctive relief as a remedy for a violation. Specifies the intent of the general assembly concerning P.L.115-2023.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0327
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Refer
2/6/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
3/3/25
Marion County small claims fees. Requires a clerk to collect a small claims service fee of $26 in each action filed in a Marion County small claims court. Establishes the small claims fund. Requires the court to distribute certain fees to the county auditor for distribution to the small claims fund. Provides that the fees in the small claims fund are to be distributed equally among the townships and the fees must fund the operation of the small claims court located within the township.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0329
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Water safety curricula and drowning reporting. Requires the Indiana department of health to collect and publish certain information concerning drowning deaths in Indiana. Requires the department of education to develop curricula regarding water safety. Requires a school corporation to provide instruction on water safety as a part of the health education curriculum for students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0330
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
School air quality study. Requires the Indiana department of health to conduct an air quality study of every school located in Indiana.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0331
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/15/25
Passed
5/6/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Amended registration. Provides that if a person changes the exterior color or appearance of their passenger vehicle from the color listed in the vehicle's registration through certain methods, the person must apply to amend their vehicle registration, and that a law enforcement officer shall issue a warning to a person who does not update the person's registration to reflect the color changes. Provides that a person commits a Class C misdemeanor if the person changes the color of a passenger vehicle after it was used in the commission of a crime and fails to amend the vehicle registration. Requires the BMV to require a person renewing a registration to indicate if the vehicle's color has changed.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0332
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Insulin price cap. Requires an insurer to cap the total amount an insured is required to pay for a 30 day supply of prescription insulin drugs at an amount not to exceed $35, regardless of the number of prescriptions and different types of insulin prescribed and filled during that period.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0333
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
State loans for property tax revenue shortfall. Forgives loans made to certain qualified taxing units in Lake County. Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate interim study committee during the 2025 legislative interim the task of studying whether to create an insurance fund to be used to make payments to political subdivisions that issue refunds for the overpayment of property taxes to political subdivisions as a result of successful property tax appeals.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0334
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Refer
1/28/25
Higher education benefits for military service. Provides that a child of a disabled veteran may be eligible for a tuition exemption if the person's mother or father served in the armed forces of the United States. (Current law requires the person's mother or father to serve in the armed forces of the United States during a war or perform duty equally hazardous that was recognized by the award of a service or campaign medal of the United States.) Repeals a provision that reduces a child of a disabled veteran tuition exemption if the individual's father or mother suffered a disability as determined by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs with a rating of less than 80%.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0335
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Teacher retention grant program. Creates the teacher retention grant (grant). Provides that certain schools qualify for a grant if one or more licensed teachers employed by the school or directly providing virtual education were rated as effective or highly effective. Requires certain schools to create and submit policies to the department of education (department) in order to receive a grant. Provides that the amount of a grant is equal to $37.50 multiplied by a school's current ADM. Provides that the department shall distribute the grant in accordance with the following priorities: (1) to the extent possible, to achieve geographic balance throughout Indiana and to include urban, suburban, and rural schools; and (2) to address a documented need for teacher retention grants based on a low teacher retention rate as determined by the department. Makes conforming changes treating teacher retention grants in the same manner as teacher appreciation grants.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0336
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Property tax revenue shared with charter schools. Removes and repeals provisions that require school corporations located in certain counties to share operations fund property tax levy, operating referendum tax levy, and school safety referendum tax levy funds with charter schools. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0337
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Hospital charity care. Specifies charity care that certain nonprofit hospitals and county hospitals must provide concerning patients.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0338
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Department of insurance reports. Requires the department of insurance, before November 1 of each year, to submit to the legislative council and the interim study committee on financial institutions and insurance: (1) a report regarding the total number of homeowner's insurance complaints received by the department during the immediately preceding calendar year and any open homeowner's insurance complaints from the immediately preceding calendar year; (2) a report regarding homeowner's insurance claims and policies during the immediately preceding calendar year; and (3) a report regarding the Indiana FAIR Plan. Specifies the information to be included in each report.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0339
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Caregiver tax credit. Provides that a qualified taxpayer is entitled to a credit against the qualified taxpayer's state income tax liability in a taxable year equal to the lesser of: (1) the value of qualified services that the qualified taxpayer performed in the immediately preceding taxable year; or (2) $10,000 (or $5,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return). Provides that "qualified services" means services, as determined by the office of the secretary of family and social services (FSSA), that a qualified taxpayer performs in caring for an ill or aging qualified family member that the qualified taxpayer otherwise would have compensated a third-party caregiver to perform. Provides that the term does not include services that would otherwise be required to be performed by a licensed physician, a licensed nurse, or other medical professional. Requires the FSSA to: (1) develop criteria that a service must satisfy to be considered a qualified service; (2) derive a formula, using published industry data and standards, to determine the value of the qualified services performed by a qualified taxpayer during a taxable year; and (3) adopt any other guidelines necessary to allow or disallow a credit. Requires a qualified taxpayer to submit to the FSSA all relevant information regarding the performance of qualified services necessary for the FSSA to determine the value of the qualified services. Requires the FSSA to notify a qualified taxpayer in writing the value of the services that the qualified taxpayer performed for purposes of claiming the credit.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0340
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Maximum increase of homestead property tax bill. Caps the year over year increase of property tax liability on a homestead at 2%.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0341
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Medical cannabis. After marijuana is removed as a federal schedule I controlled substance, permits the use of medical cannabis by a person with a serious medical condition if certified by the person's physician and establishes a procedure for the production and distribution of medical cannabis. Makes conforming amendments.