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The effort appears to be yet another example of the Indiana General Assembly's fixation with Indianapolis: the city decided in 2024 to give each city-county councilor $1 million in leftover local income tax funds to spend on road projects in their district. But some officials used their one-time spend on roads near their homes or workplaces, Mirror Indy reported in 2025. Those city-county councilors say they were merely responding to constituent feedback. The ban is just a small piece of the bill, which started as an agency bill before quickly becoming a vehicle for new restrictions on immigrant truck drivers.