Landlord-tenant matters. 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, under certain circumstances, a landlord to repair or replace an essential system not later than …
Election of IURC commissioners. Provides for nonpartisan election of the five members of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) beginning with the 2026 general election. Provides that a candidate for election to the IURC: (1) must have resided in Indiana for at least one year before the election; and (2) may not have any official or professional relationship or connection …
Elimination of sales tax on household utility use. Provides that a power subsidiary or a person engaged as a public utility is not a retail merchant making a retail transaction when the subsidiary or person furnishes or sells electrical energy, natural or artificial gas, water, steam, or steam heating service to a person for domestic consumption.
Remediation of tax sale parcels. Permits a county treasurer to require purchasers of designated parcels of real property that are: (1) located in a consolidated city; and (2) subject to tax sale, and purchased at or as a separate part of a tax sale; to submit remediation plans describing how the purchasers will bring the parcels of real property into …
Medicaid coverage for health related social needs. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply, not later than October 1, 2026, for approval of a Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver to provide coverage for health related social needs.
Lets county treasurers require buyers of tax-sale properties in blighted areas to clean them up as a condition of purchase. Targets investors who buy cheap properties at tax sales and let them rot.
Digital sexual image abuse. Increases the penalty for the crime of distribution of an intimate image, from a Class A misdemeanor to a Level 6 felony, and increases the enhancement of this crime from a Level 6 felony to a Level 5 felony. Defines "digi...
Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system. Requires the Indiana department of health (department) to establish an Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system (IVAERS) for reporting the occurrence of adverse events relating to childhoo...
Removes the sales tax entirely from household utility bills — electric, gas, water, and steam. Unlike the phase-down bills from other legislators, this one eliminates the tax immediately. Your utility bill would drop by about 7% overnight. Multiple legislators from both parties have filed versions of this idea, which tells you how much pressure there is to lower utility costs.
Elections. Provides that the state of Indiana shall conduct all elections using secure, hand-marked paper ballots that are: (1) designed and made in Indiana; (2) embellished with a distinctive watermark; and (3) serialized numerically. Provides that ...
Medicaid coverage for health related social needs. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply, not later than October 1, 2026, for approval of a Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver to provide coverage for healt...
Use of SNAP benefits. Prohibits Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits recipients from using SNAP benefits to purchase accessory foods, including: (1) energy drinks; (2) sweetened beverages; (3) soft drinks; (4) corn or potato chip...
Updates Indiana's 529 college savings plan to match current federal tax rules. Technical fix — makes sure families saving for college get the tax benefits Congress intended.
Landlord-tenant matters. 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 req...
Makes the five IURC commissioners elected by voters in nonpartisan elections starting in 2026, instead of appointed by the governor. Candidates must live in the region they represent and can't have worked for a utility in the previous five years. The argument: appointed commissioners answer to the governor and his donors. Elected ones answer to the people paying the bills.
Lets you buy a small plug-in solar panel (up to 1,200 watts) and connect it to your home without needing your electric company's permission, inspection, or a special meter. Right now utilities can block or regulate even small solar setups. This bill says: if it plugs in and it's under 1,200 watts, it's your business. Bipartisan support.
Civil liability for child sexual abuse material. Permits an individual depicted in child sexual abuse material or obscene material on the Internet, or exposed to obscene material on the Internet, to bring a civil action against a person who knowingly...
Various animal related matters. Removes partial liability for damages when a person removes a domestic animal from a motor vehicle. Increases certain penalties for offenses involving animals, and establishes a defense for an uninvolved person attacke...
Tourism improvement districts. Provides that a person may circulate a petition to create a tourism improvement district (district) within the territory of a county, city, or town (local unit). Specifies the contents of the tourism improvement district plan that must …
Equine dentistry at horse racing tracks. Allows the horse racing commission (commission) to issue a license for certain individuals to provide teeth floating on a licensed horse race track in Indiana. Provides an exception to the licensing and special permits …
Mobile home communities and manufactured homes. Provides that, for purposes of the Indiana department of health's enforcement of statutes governing mobile home communities, if the owner of a mobile home community is provided written notice from a water utility that …
Regulation of payroll service providers. Requires a payroll service provider to provide the option to a business client that would allow the business client to hold the business client's funds in a bank account that is: (1) owned by the …
Tourism improvement districts. Provides that a person may circulate a petition to create a tourism improvement district (district) within the territory of a county, city, or town (local unit). Specifies the contents of the tourism improvement distric...
Release and sale of cemetery plots. Provides that if a burial space in a cemetery: (1) has remained unused for a period of at least 100 years from the date of sale or last recorded designation or transfer; and (2) …
Agricultural programs. Creates the pork market development program (pork program) and the soybean market development program (soybean program). Specifies that the pork program and soybean program apply only if assessments are not levied and collected...
Three-way permits. Provides the alcohol and tobacco commission may issue not more than: (1) three new three-way permits to the town of Schererville; (2) three new three-way permits to the city of Lafayette; (3) two new three-way permits to the …
Alcohol and tobacco matters. Specifies, with respect to a tobacco sales certificate (certificate), that a permitted premises may not include sleeping or living quarters. Provides that a person may not sell a tobacco product or electronic cigarette at...
FSSA fiscal matters. Amends the duties of the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) concerning home and community based services waivers (waiver). Requires: (1) a provider of waiver services to provide certain documentation t...
Suspension of permit. Allows the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) to refuse to grant or renew or to suspend or revoke a retailer's permit if a licensed premises becomes a public nuisance or the scene of certain acts or prohibited …
Creates a new government authority to build a stadium in northwest Indiana with public financing — while schools and roads in rural districts like HD-46 keep waiting for investment.
Local government matters. Provides that individuals who are appointed to certain boards, committees, or other bodies in a county that does not have a consolidated city, serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority as long as: (1) the officeholde...
Various administrative law matters. Adds conditions for which the horse racing commission (HRC) may revoke or suspend a license or deny a license application. Adds a reference to wagering on horse racing in a provision prohibiting certain individuals...
Community corrections trust funds. Authorizes a county that operates a community corrections program to establish a county community corrections trust fund (fund). Specifies the funding sources and permissible uses of the fund. Specifies reporting an...