Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0525
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
4/8/25
Enrolled
4/16/25
Passed
5/6/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Annexation. Allows the Town of Plainfield in Hendricks County (town) to annex a noncontiguous residential development that meets certain requirements. Provides that the annexation is initiated by: (1) the homeowner's association board petitioning the town legislative body for annexation of the residential development; and (2) the town legislative body adopting a resolution approving initiation of the annexation process. Provides that the town may not do the following: (1) Use the annexation territory to annex additional territory. (2) Annex additional territory within the unincorporated area extending 1/2 mile from the boundaries of the annexation territory, unless the annexation is with the consent of all of the landowners within the area to be annexed. (3) Annex, under any type of annexation, within the area that extends from the boundary of the 1/2 mile area to the town. Provides that the town's redevelopment commission may only enact a housing tax increment financing district in Liberty Township in Hendricks County if the district is approved by a resolution passed by the Mill Creek School Corporation.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0526
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Passed
5/6/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Absentee ballot retraction. Requires a county election board to test certain voting machines to ensure that an absentee ballot can be retracted before tabulation of the ballot if the ballot is required to be rejected. Requires the public test of a voting system to test whether a rejected ballot is retracted. Voids a March 25, 2022, advisory opinion adopted by the Indiana election commission. Provides that, to be approved by the Indiana election commission for use in Indiana, a voting system must meet certain standards of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines adopted by the United States Election Assistance Commission on February 10, 2021. Allows a county to continue to use an optical scan ballot card voting system or an electronic voting system if certain matters concerning the voting system were approved before October 1, 2025. Allows a voting system to include a retraction feature concerning certain votes cast on absentee ballots.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0527
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Satellite offices for voting absentee. Specifies that if a county adopts a resolution to authorize the circuit court clerk to establish a satellite office for a voter to cast an absentee ballot, the resolution must establish at least one satellite office for every 50,000 people that reside within the county.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0528
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Election and duties of the lieutenant governor. Repeals a provision that requires a political party to nominate the candidate for the office of lieutenant governor at a state convention and instead requires the candidate for the office of lieutenant governor to be elected jointly in a primary election with a candidate for the office of governor. Specifies that the lieutenant governor shall discharge the powers and duties of the lieutenant governor's office that are designated to the lieutenant governor by the governor. Repeals all statutory duties of the lieutenant governor and designates these duties to the governor. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0529
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Refer
1/27/25
Eligibility for SNAP benefits. Eliminates the countable asset limitation for resources with respect to expanded categorical eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0530
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Transfers on death and spousal shares. Provides that a transfer on death transfer: (1) is subject to the spousal elective share; and (2) must be allocated to the estate of the decedent solely for the purpose of computing the spousal share.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0531
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Ban on corporal punishment in schools. Prohibits the use of corporal punishment on certain students. Allows the use of reasonable and necessary force in certain situations.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0532
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Ballot tracking commission. Establishes the ballot tracking commission to review data concerning technology to track an absentee ballot using real-time tracking information. Provides that the commission expires June 30, 2026.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0533
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Sexual assault victims' rights. Provides certain procedural protections for victims of sexual assault, including the rights guaranteed to a victim as they relate to: (1) a victim's ability to have a support person present during a forensic medical exam or an interview with a law enforcement officer, prosecuting attorney, or defense attorney; (2) a victim's right to be interviewed by a law enforcement officer of the gender of the victim's choosing; (3) the collection and analysis of sexual assault forensic evidence from the victim; (4) a victim's ability to obtain a copy of a law enforcement report concerning the sexual assault; (5) notice to victims; and (6) legal procedures provided to protect a victim during a legal proceeding. Creates a civil cause of action for a violation of a victim's rights. Establishes the rights of victims of sexual assault commission.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0534
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Medicaid waiver for reimbursement for food. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to allow for Medicaid reimbursement for food and meals.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0535
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Local road funding distributions. Provides that the amounts currently distributed from the motor vehicle highway account and the local road and street account to counties, cities, and towns based upon the proportionate share of road and street mileage shall instead be distributed based on the proportionate share of road and street vehicle miles traveled. Provides that the Indiana department of transportation shall establish guidelines outlining the procedures required to determine vehicle miles traveled.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0536
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Eligibility for SNAP benefits. Changes eligibility for expanded categorical eligibility within the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP).
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0537
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Hard credit inquiries by landlords. Prohibits a landlord from doing the following in connection with an applicant's application for the rental of a rental unit: (1) Making a hard inquiry to a consumer reporting agency or to a specialty consumer reporting agency for an applicant's consumer report or for information in an applicant's consumer report. (2) Obtaining or using a tenant screening report that includes information that is obtained through a hard inquiry to a consumer reporting agency or to a specialty consumer reporting agency for an applicant's consumer report or for information in an applicant's consumer report. Defines "hard inquiry" for purposes of these provisions as an inquiry that: (1) is noted on the consumer report of the applicant for a period of time following the inquiry; and (2) negatively impacts the applicant's credit score. Provides that a landlord that violates the bill's provisions commits a deceptive act that is actionable by an applicant and the attorney general under the Indiana statute concerning deceptive consumer sales.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0538
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
PFAS chemicals. Defines "PFAS chemicals" and requires the environmental rules board to use the definition in certain rules concerning industrial processes and research and development.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0540
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Local fiscal matters. Raises the acquisition cost threshold for purposes of the personal property tax exemption from $80,000 to $250,000. Limits the ability to seek an excess levy appeal to those units that have experienced a year over year population increase of 5% or more. Caps the allowable increase in the amount of property taxes first due and payable on a homestead in 2026, 2027, and 2028. Provides, beginning in 2027, that the office of the county assessor is an appointive office rather than an elective office. Specifies that the county executive shall appoint an individual to the office of the county assessor. Includes provisions to manage the conversion of the office of the county assessor to an appointive office upon the abolition of the office as an elective office.