AZ

Alex Zimmerman R

State Representative
State House District 67 (IN)

Committee Memberships

Courts and Criminal Code (house)
Judiciary (house) Vice Chair
Rules and Legislative Procedures (house)
Courts and Criminal Code (house)
Judiciary (house) Vice Chair
Rules and Legislative Procedures (house)

On Record (25)

Bill County GovernmentFIREFIGHTERS; Fire Departments and Districts
Provides, in certain circumstances, for the expansion of the purposes for which a fire protection district may be established.
Apr 05, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill AGENCIES; Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV)AGENCIES; Department of Corrections (DOC)CORRECTIONS; Adult Inmates and FacilitiesCRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; SentencingLAW ENFORCEMENT; GenerallyTRANSPORTATION; Licenses, Plates, Registration, and Titles
Adds the following criminal offenses for an individual who knowingly or intentionally operates a motor vehicle on a highway and has never received a valid driver's license: (1) A Class A misdemeanor if the operation of the motor vehicle results in bodily injury. (2) A Level 6 felony if the operation of the motor vehicle results in serious bodily injury. …
Apr 05, 2026 · source · details / share
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Local income taxes. Provides that within a county's total expenditure rate, the county may adopt: (1) up to a 0.7% rate (instead of a 1.2% rate) for county general purpose revenue; (2) up to a 0.2% rate (instead of a 0.4% rate) for fire protection and emergency medical services; (3) up to a 0.2% rate for nonmunicipal civil taxing unit …
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Public notices. Requires the Indiana office of technology (office) to establish a state public notice website not later than July 1, 2028. Prohibits the office from charging a fee for publishing or viewing notices. Allows a person to satisfy any notice statute by publishing notice in any of the following forms of media: (1) Newspaper, including print edition or electronic …
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Expungement. Repeals and replaces the existing adult expungement statute with a new expungement process that makes certain changes to: (1) time periods for filing expungement; (2) crimes that are eligible for expungement; and (3) other procedural matters relating to expungement. Adds a provision concerning the expungement of juvenile arrest records.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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County policies. Specifies that county residency requirements do not apply to: (1) public defenders (except for the chief public defender); (2) employees of a public defender office; (3) judicial officers; or (4) court personnel.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill HEALTH; Emergency Medical Services (EMS)TAXES; Local Income Taxes
Provides that within a county's total expenditure rate, the county may adopt: (1) up to a 0.7% rate (instead of a 1.2% rate) for county general purpose revenue; (2) up to a 0.2% rate (instead of a 0.4% rate) for fire protection and emergency medical services; (3) up to a 0.2% rate for nonmunicipal civil taxing unit general purpose revenue; …
Mar 30, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Juvenile court matters. Provides that, when a petition is filed for the appointment of a guardian for two or more minors or incapacitated persons who are children of a common parent, parent and child, or husband and wife, a separate petition must be filed for each minor or incapacitated person. Provides that when a separate petition is required in certain …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
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 the mobile home community will be disconnected from water service, the mobile home community is in violation of the mobile …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Restricts the governor from deploying the Indiana National Guard for law enforcement purposes, with limited exceptions. Prevents the Guard from being used as a domestic police force without proper authorization.
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Alcoholic beverages and THC hemp extract. Establishes a direct beer seller's permit to allow a brewer to ship beer directly to a consumer. Allows liquor retailers and catering halls to purchase alcoholic beverages from a package liquor store. Allows ...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Repair of residential rental properties. Requires a landlord to repair or replace an essential item not later than 24 hours after being notified by a tenant that the tenant's rental unit is without certain essential services. Provides that a tenant m...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Offender against children residency restrictions. Provides that an offender against children who: (1) is required to register as a sex offender for life; and (2) knowingly or intentionally resides within 500 feet of certain areas owned, maintained, a...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Local income taxes. Provides that within a county's total expenditure rate, the county may adopt: (1) up to a 0.7% rate (instead of a 1.2% rate) for county general purpose revenue; (2) up to a 0.2% rate (instead of a 0.4% rate) for fire protection an...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Pharmacist treatment by standing order. Requires the state health commissioner to issue a standing order, prescription, or protocol to allow a pharmacist to test, treat, or prescribe, if specified requirements are met. Provides a pharmacist with civi...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Domestic violence investigations. Requires a law enforcement officer to administer a lethality assessment for domestic violence incidents. Requires data to be transmitted to a local domestic violence fatality review team and the statewide domestic vi...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Public notices. Requires the Indiana office of technology (office) to establish a state public notice website not later than July 1, 2028. Prohibits the office from charging a fee for publishing or viewing notices. Allows a person to satisfy any noti...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Expungement. Repeals and replaces the existing adult expungement statute with a new expungement process that makes certain changes to: (1) time periods for filing expungement; (2) crimes that are eligible for expungement; and (3) other procedural mat...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Relocation of outdoor advertising signs. Provides that the Indiana department of transportation or a zoning authority may not apply zoning standards or require a permit to relocate certain outdoor advertising signs. Provides that an existing outdoor ...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Juvenile court jurisdiction. Specifies that a child charged with dangerous possession of a firearm may be tried by a juvenile court under certain circumstances. Makes dangerous possession of a firearm a Level 5 felony if the child: (1) has a prior co...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Coverage for certain cancer prescriptions. Prohibits a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization that provides coverage for advanced, metastatic cancer and associated conditions fro...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Alzheimer's disease and dementia education. Requires the Indiana department of health (state department) to: (1) collaborate with a national Alzheimer's disease and dementia organization in educating the public about Alzheimer's disease and dementia;...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
County policies. Specifies that county residency requirements do not apply to: (1) public defenders (except for the chief public defender); (2) employees of a public defender office; (3) judicial officers; or (4) court personnel.
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Department of education and education matters. Makes various changes to education provisions concerning the following: (1) Creating and updating a list of employers that have agreed to provide career support for or interview Indiana residents who gra...
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Local government & county operationsCourts & judicial system
Specifies that county residency requirements do not apply to: (1) public defenders (except for the chief public defender); (2) employees of a public defender office; (3) judicial officers; or (4) court personnel.
Feb 26, 2026 · source · details / share

Crossposts (60)

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Provides that under certain circumstances a landlord may file a petition for an emergency possessory order. Requires a court to order a tenant to return possession of a dwelling unit to the landlord if the court finds by a preponderance …
Apr 05, 2026 · details / share
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Provides that the controlled substance paraphernalia statutes do not apply to items marketed to detect the presence of a drug or controlled substance.
Apr 05, 2026 · details / share
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Death sentence and intellectual disabilities. Establishes a procedure to determine pretrial whether a defendant in a death penalty case has an intellectual disability.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Tax sale procedures. Reduces the period to redeem tax sale property as follows: (1) For real property sold to a land bank, the redemption period is six months (rather than one year). (2) For real property on which the county …
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Obtaining copies of recorded documents. Prohibits a person from using the person's own equipment to copy a recorded document. Specifies that a county recorder is required to charge the fees in the county recorder's statutes for copying documents.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Municipal elections. Moves, as a general rule, elections of town officers to even-numbered years. Allows a town with a population of more than 10,000 to opt out of the general rule by resolution. Allows a city to pass a resolution …
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Redistricting. Allows the general assembly to amend congressional districts at a time other than the first regular session of the general assembly convening immediately following the United States decennial census. Specifies requirements that apply to any action challenging the apportionment …
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the public prosecution fund and a prosecuting attorney compensation fee (a court fee) of $10 for certain actions and $50 for certain actions which will be deposited in the state general fund. Provides that a county may be reimbursed …
Mar 30, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for an annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) for participants of the prosecuting attorneys retirement fund based on the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.
Mar 30, 2026 · details / share
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Provides that the offense of unlawful entry by a serious sex offender includes a serious sex offender knowingly or intentionally entering a public park.
Mar 30, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a tort reform commission. Limits a civil cause of action concerning a public nuisance.
Mar 30, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits a public utility from: (1) selling, assigning, transferring, leasing, or encumbering its franchise, business, or property; or (2) selling, assigning, or transferring any shares of its stock; to a prohibited person. Provides that the Indiana utility regulatory commission may …
Mar 28, 2026 · details / share
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Resolves a conflict between HEA 1014-2025 and HEA 1637-2025.
Mar 28, 2026 · details / share
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Energy generation resources. Provides a credit against state tax liability for expenses incurred in the manufacture of a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) in Indiana. Establishes procedures under which certain energy utilities may request approval for one or more of …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Bans convicted sex offenders from entering public parks, including playgrounds and recreational areas. Expands current restrictions that only cover certain types of parks.
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Public works projects. Provides that a contractor that employs 10 or more employees on a design-build public works project must provide its employees access to a training program applicable to the tasks to be performed in the normal course of …
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Redistricting. Allows the general assembly to amend congressional districts at a time other than the first regular session of the general assembly convening immediately following the United States decennial census. Specifies requirements that apply t...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Prosecuting attorneys retirement fund COLA. Provides for an annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) for participants of the prosecuting attorneys retirement fund based on the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Speed control in school zones. Authorizes a county or municipality to adopt and enforce an ordinance that regulates the use of a school zone speed control system (system) to detect certain violations. Provides a civil penalty for a violation. Specifi...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Flat-out prohibits selling a public utility to a private equity firm, hedge fund, or sovereign wealth fund. Period. No IURC approval process, no conditions — just a ban. Filed by Republicans who see the same risk Democrats are warning about: …
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Tax sale procedures. Reduces the period to redeem tax sale property as follows: (1) For real property sold to a land bank, the redemption period is six months (rather than one year). (2) For real property on which the county …
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Online lottery sales and voluntary exclusion. Authorizes the lottery commission (commission) to operate the sale of draw games and eInstant games over the Internet. Specifies rules the commission must adopt concerning the sale of digital lottery game...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Conservation of agricultural land. Requires each board of county commissioners to adopt an ordinance to allow landowners to apply to have land included in an agricultural resource area within the county. Specifies certain procedures and requirements ...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Youth peer support program. Permits a school corporation to establish a youth peer support program (program). Requires a program to: (1) be developed in consultation with one or more local mental health organizations serving the school's geographic a...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Firefighter cancer insurance. Requires a group health insurance program for firefighters to provide coverage for the screening of certain forms of cancer. Requires a local unit public employer to provide cancer insurance for active firefighters, reti...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Nonprofit hospital property taxes. Provides that real property purchased before July 1, 2026, directly or indirectly owned by a nonprofit hospital (other than a critical access hospital or a county hospital) is not exempt from property taxation if, a...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Funding of prosecuting attorney operations. Establishes the public prosecution fund and a prosecuting attorney compensation fee (a court fee) of $10 for certain actions and $50 for certain actions which will be deposited in the state general fund. Pr...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Child fatality information. Provides that the department of child services (department) shall disclose to the public certain information regarding child fatalities or near fatalities. Provides that, upon request, the department may provide additional...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Obtaining copies of recorded documents. Prohibits a person from using the person's own equipment to copy a recorded document. Specifies that a county recorder is required to charge the fees in the county recorder's statutes for copying documents.
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Article V convention of the states compact. Adopts the compact for a safe and equal convention of the states. Specifies compact requirements. Provides that each state that adopts the compact intends to ensure that the following rules are followed at …
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
School technology plans and policies. Requires school corporations and charter schools (schools) to include in the school's technology plan a description of the school's plan to: (1) ensure the appropriate use of technological devices in schools; and...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Local hospitality boards. Allows the Delaware County executive to adopt an ordinance to consolidate the functions of a board, bureau, commission, authority, or any other similar entity (former entity) authorized to administer funds received from the ...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Garnishment. Amends the limitation on garnishment provided in the Uniform Consumer Credit Code. Requires a garnishment order or attachment order that requires an employer to make deductions from a debtor's disposable earnings to provide certain infor...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Death sentence and intellectual disabilities. Establishes a procedure to determine pretrial whether a defendant in a death penalty case has an intellectual disability.
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Unlawful proposition penalties. Provides that at the time of sentencing for a person convicted of making an unlawful proposition the court may require the person to complete a prostitution offender program approved by the court. Requires a person ord...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Land use and development. Requires a development that is sited on land: (1) in an area zoned agricultural; and (2) comprised of certain capability classes of soils; to be a permitted use. Extends governmental immunity to a private entity or …
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Municipal elections. Moves, as a general rule, elections of town officers to even-numbered years. Allows a town with a population of more than 10,000 to opt out of the general rule by resolution. Allows a city to pass a resolution …
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Causes of action and damages. Establishes a tort reform commission. Limits a civil cause of action concerning a public nuisance.
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Regulation of hemp. Defines "THC" for purposes of Indiana alcohol and tobacco law. Expands certain crimes concerning alcohol and tobacco, including crimes regarding possession by minors and sales to minors, to include products containing THC. Provide...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Public safety. Amends the definition of "threat" in the intimidation statute to include posting a person's personal information on a social media platform with the intent to cause: (1) bodily injury to the person; (2) damage to the person's property;...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Resisting law enforcement conflict resolution. Resolves a conflict between HEA 1014-2025 and HEA 1637-2025.
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Consent for pelvic, prostate, and rectal exams. Prohibits health practitioners and other specified individuals from performing pelvic, prostate, or rectal examinations on an anesthetized or unconscious patient except in specified circumstances. Spec...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
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...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Ivy Tech Community College. Consolidates duties and responsibilities for Ivy Tech Community College (college). Includes logistics, information technology, and life sciences as areas of expertise for members of the college's board of trustees (board)....
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Health matters. Amends the definition of "ambulatory outpatient surgical center" to remove the requirement that a surgical procedure is permitted to be performed only by a physician, dentist, or podiatrist who has certain hospital privileges. Prohibi...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
INSPECT program. Sets forth the circumstances in which a dispenser is not required to transmit certain information to the INSPECT program (program). Requires an opioid treatment program to, before reporting patient information to the program, comply ...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Housing matters. Revises the allocation of money available for making loans from the residential housing infrastructure assistance revolving fund. Adds requirements regarding the location of impact zones designated by a county, city, or town (unit) a...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Elections matters. Requires each county election board to provide to the election division through a module of the computerized list, not later than 14 days after each election, the votes cast for each candidate and on each public question in …
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Forces defendants to sit in the courtroom and listen while crime victims describe how the crime affected them. No more ducking out during victim impact statements unless there's a genuine safety risk.
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
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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.
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
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...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Redaction of court records. Requires the names and specified other information of child victims, child witnesses, and certain other persons to be redacted in criminal actions. Requires the use of an anonymous designator such as "Child Witness No. 1" ...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Military protective order. Specifies that a party to a protective order proceeding has a duty to inform the court of any military protective orders issued by a military commander in effect between the parties. Allows the court to consider evidence …
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Syringe exchange program. Prohibits a qualified entity that operates a syringe exchange program (program) from establishing or operating a fixed site for the distribution or exchange of a syringe or needle within 1,000 feet of specified facilities. C...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Public safety procedures. Requires the department of correction to electronically notify, at least seven days in advance, the: (1) county sheriff; (2) prosecuting attorney; and (3) chief of police; of the county or municipality into which the departm...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Housing matters. Requires the Indiana housing and community development authority (authority) to establish eligibility criteria for a potential recipient to be included in the authority's application for funding under the federal continuum of care pr...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Law enforcement civilian oversight boards. Provides that any type of law enforcement civilian oversight board or commission or any other entity established by a county, municipality, or township to provide civilian oversight over a law enforcement ag...
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Requires prisons to electronically notify the local sheriff, prosecutor, and police chief at least 7 days before releasing a serious violent felon into their community, including where the person plans to live.
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Requires parties in protective order cases to disclose any military protective orders between them. Courts can consider military protective orders as evidence when deciding civilian protective orders.
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Provides that at the time of sentencing for a person convicted of making an unlawful proposition the court may require the person to complete a prostitution offender program approved by the court. Requires a person ordered to complete a prostitution …
Feb 26, 2026 · details / share