Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 19)

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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1195

Introduced
1/8/25  
Pornographic material. Requires a specified school to adopt policies and procedures concerning material alleged to be pornographic, obscene, or harmful to minors. Provides that a specified school or an employee, a contractor, or a third party vendor of a specified school may not knowingly make available or provide pornographic material, obscene matter, or matter harmful to minors to a student.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1197

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/29/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Report Pass
3/31/25  
Enrolled
4/16/25  
Passed
5/1/25  
Chaptered
5/1/25  
Election matters. Requires particular candidates for selection for an appointment pro tempore to an office to: (1) comply with qualification requirements imposed on candidates for election to the office; and (2) if the individual is a candidate for selection by a caucus, be affiliated with the political party holding the caucus. Allows an individual or entity with authority to select a candidate for an appointment pro tempore to remove a candidate from consideration if the candidate does not meet these requirements. Specifies additional grounds on which certain county officers or a township executive may be charged and deprived of office following a hearing. Provides that if an accused party does not appear before the court, the court may proceed to hear and determine the accusation in the accused party's absence. Includes a member of the county executive, if the county does not contain a consolidated city, in a provision concerning the initiation of an action for removal of a county officer. Exempts a member of the county executive from a requirement concerning physical presence in the county officer's office. Provides that a city-county legislative body may declare the seat of a member vacant by a two-thirds vote if the member fails to perform the duties of the member's office.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0223

Introduced
1/8/25  
Compensation for victims of violent crime. Increases the compensation payable to victims of violent crimes: (1) for funeral, burial, or cremation expenses from $5,000 to $7,500; and (2) as an award to a claimant from $15,000 to $20,000.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1177

Introduced
1/8/25  
Home ownership. Provides that Indiana law regulating telephone sales calls applies to a telephone solicitation that: (1) is made by a telephone solicitor that is not a licensed real estate broker; and (2) communicates to a consumer: (A) an offer to purchase; (B) an offer to broker, or otherwise assist or act as an intermediary in, the sale of; or (C) an inquiry regarding the consumer's interest in selling; residential real property that was not publicly offered for sale, or advertised as being for sale, at any time during the 30 days preceding the date on which the telephone solicitation is made (unsolicited home purchase inquiries). Provides that a telephone solicitor that is not a licensed real estate broker may not make more than one unsolicited home purchase inquiry to the same consumer in a single calendar year. Provides that an investment firm may not enter into an executory contract for the purchase of a single family residence until not less than 90 days after the residence is listed for sale. Requires an investment firm to be represented by a licensed real estate broker who is not an employee of the investment firm or any of its subsidiaries to enter into an executory contract for the purchase of a single family residence. Makes a technical correction.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HCR0003

Introduced
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/28/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  
Urging regional transmission organizations, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the United States Department of Energy, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and the United States A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging regional transmission organizations, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the United States Department of Energy, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and the United States Congress to take such actions as necessary to enact reform processes to expedite the approval of electric transmission and generation projects.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1113

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Enrolled
4/16/25  
Passed
5/1/25  
Chaptered
5/1/25  
Fire protection districts. Provides, in certain circumstances, for the expansion of the purposes for which a fire protection district may be established.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1147

Introduced
1/8/25  
Bias crimes. Adds gender identity to the definition of "bias crime".
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1172

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Engrossed
2/12/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Office of entrepreneurship and innovation. Establishes the office of entrepreneurship and innovation (office). Requires the office to: (1) develop and administer programs to support the growth of small business, entrepreneurship, and innovation in Indiana; (2) direct and oversee programs and sources of funding related to the growth of small business, entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation in Indiana; (3) work to strengthen policies and programs supporting the growth of entrepreneurship in Indiana; (4) coordinate with state agencies and other state funded entities to align services and programs related to entrepreneurship and starting and scaling a business; (5) work with funded entities on identifying strategies and metrics around the disbursement of funds to measure funds reaching rural communities and other underrepresented socioeconomic communities; (6) work with stakeholders and organizations supporting entrepreneurship to enhance learning and skills, provide technical support, and expand access to resources for entrepreneurs across Indiana; and (7) develop and administer programs to support and encourage youth entrepreneurship, including supporting students and teachers in fostering entrepreneurial skills.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1143

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
1/29/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Enrolled
3/25/25  
Passed
4/16/25  
Chaptered
4/16/25  
Licensure of accountants. Revises the education and experience requirements for licensure as a certified public accountant. Repeals language allowing various substitutions for licensure requirements.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1142

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Enrolled
3/18/25  
Passed
5/6/25  
Chaptered
5/6/25  
Fiscal matters. Extends the expiration of provisions concerning a county with a single voting bloc and the allocation of votes for a local income tax council. Removes provisions enacted in HEA 1001-2025 that treated the local government investment pool as a financial institution and considered the seven day yield published weekly by the treasurer of state to be a quote for purposes of the law governing the deposit and investment of public funds. Provides that money in the Pokagon Band Tribal-state compact fund is continuously appropriated for the purposes of the fund. Extends by five years provisions enacted in HEA 1001-2025 requiring termination of the compact related to the establishment of the Chicago-Gary Regional Airport Authority. Resolves a conflict between SEA 425-2025 and HEA 1005-2025. Makes conforming amendments consistent with changes made to statutes concerning advisory plan commissions in SEA 425-2025.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1171

Introduced
1/8/25  
Self-defense. Specifies that "reasonable force" includes the pointing of a loaded or unloaded firearm for purposes of arrest or to prevent an escape, or for self-defense.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1184

Introduced
1/8/25  
State chemist. Moves the office of the state chemist to the department of agriculture beginning January 1, 2027. Provides that employees of the state chemist will become employees of the state. Removes funds currently going to Purdue University to carry out the functions of the state chemist. Establishes several funds to carry out the functions of the state chemist within the department of agriculture.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1217

Introduced
1/8/25  
Prosecuting attorneys. Provides that the prosecuting attorney of a county in which is located an institution operated by the department of correction that houses between 100 and 1,500 offenders may appoint one additional deputy prosecuting attorney. Repeals a provision that allows the prosecuting attorney of Cass County to appoint one additional deputy prosecuting attorney.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0191

Introduced
1/8/25  
Confidentiality of termination of pregnancy reports. States that a health care provider's report concerning the performance of an abortion that is submitted to the Indiana department of health is a medical record, confidential, and not subject to disclosure as a public record.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0194

Introduced
1/8/25  
Assessment of certain commercial property. Establishes certain assessment requirements for commercial property with a structure that is not more than 100,000 square feet in area and that is: (1) used for retail purposes; (2) a maintenance or service shop; and (3) detached or offsite storage property or facilities used in relation to those uses. Requires the assessor to annually determine the assessed value of those properties using each of the following approaches: (1) Cost approach. (2) Sales comparison approach. (3) Income capitalization approach. Requires the assessor to use the department of local government finance cost schedules without additional modifiers, adjustments, or other trending factors beyond the location cost multiplier adjustments developed by the department. Prohibits the use of locally developed cost schedules, location cost multipliers, and market or trending adjustments. Requires the assessor to report to the taxpayer each of the values under the three approaches. Provides that the assessor has the burden of proof to establish that the assessed value of the property is the lowest value under the three approaches. Requires the assessor making the assessment to personally provide an explanation to the taxpayer concerning how the assessed value of the property was calculated if requested.