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| HB1006 -Welfare Funding |
| HB1012 -University Contracting Procedures |
| HB1013 -Cultural Diversity Training and Corrections |
| HB1014 -Restrictions on the Sale of Sexually Explicit Material |
| HB1016 -Grounds for Expulsion or Suspension of Students |
| HB1023 -Landlord and Tenant Law |
| HB1032 -Tobacco Settlement Health Services Trust Fund |
| HB1033 -Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund |
| HB1038 -Limit on Child Support for Post-Secondary Expense |
| HB1039 -County Inmate Public Works Crews |
| HB1040 -ISTEP Waiver for Children with Disabilities |
| HB1041 -Threats on School Property |
| HB1044 -Respect by Students |
| HB1046 -Presumptive Joint Legal Custody |
| HB1048 -Transfer of Welfare Costs to the State |
| HB1050 -Worker's Compensation |
| HB1051 -Operating a Vehicle while Intoxicated and a Minor |
| HB1053 -Passengers in Truck Cargo Areas |
| HB1055 -Military Reserve Employment Matters |
| HB1057 -Elective Study of the Bible in Public Schools |
| HB1058 -High School Transcripts |
| HB1061 -Foreign Adoption Agencies |
| HB1070 -Approval of Placement in Proposed Adoptive Home |
| HB1074 -Confidentiality of School Safety Plans |
| HB1116 -Military Access to Student Information |
| HB1117 -Medically Accurate Education |
| HB1119 -School Bus Trespass |
| HB1122 -Kindergarten Enrollment Date |
| HB1163 -State Textbook Funding for School Corporations |
| HB1164 -Permits a Parent to Choose to Transfer a Student to a Different Public School |
| HB1165 -Minority Contractors, Indiana Farm Products |
| HB1166 -Housing Trust Fund |
| HB1168 -Long Term Foster Parent Party Status |
| HB1176 -ISTEP Diploma |
| HB1180 -Display of Ten Commandments on Public Property |
| HB1185 -Distribution of Tobacco Settlement Funds |
| HB1189 -Various Insurance Matters |
| HB1191 -Domestic Violence |
| HB1192 -Domestic Battery |
| HB1193 -Child Fatality Study Committee |
| HB1197 -Medicaid Waiver Proposals |
| HB1203 -Reduction of Child Support Arrearages |
| HB1207 -School Corporation Police Force |
| HB1210 -Sexual Misconduct with a Minor |
| HB1212 -School Funding Formula |
| HB1220 -Graduation Examinations |
| HB1223 -Repeals ISTEP Examination |
| HB1224 -Reporting Crimes Against Children |
| HB1246 -Protective Orders in Real Property Disputes |
| HB1253 -Medicaid Disability |
| HB1261 -Economics Requirement |
| HB1264 -Religious Freedom Restoration Act |
| HB1266 -Housing Authority Jurisdiction |
| HB1267 -School Bus Identification Markings |
| HB1269 -Textbook Financing and Funding Shortfalls |
| HB1270 -Elective Study of Bible in Public Schools |
| HB1281 -Health Professions Standards |
| HB1284 -Secondary School Vocational Education Study |
| HB1288 -Health Insurance Waivers |
| HB1290 -Driving While Intoxicated |
| HB1299 -Domestic Violence |
| HB1300 -School Safety and Employee Matters |
| HB1301 -Establishes Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation |
| HB1303 -Incarcerated Children |
| HB1306 -Expungement of Juvenile Records |
| HB1309 -Teacher License Renewal Examination |
| HB1317 -Programs for Suspended and Expelled Students |
| HB1324 -Grandparent Visitation Rights |
| HB1328 -Public Access to Information |
| HB1333 -Tuition Exemptions for Stepchildren of Veterans |
| HB1335 -Alternative Education Programs |
| HB1356 -Teaching of Creation Science |
| HB1357 -Obscenity and Matter Harmful to Minors |
| HB1358 -Covenant Marriage |
| HB1406 -Sales Tax on College Textbooks |
| HB1407 -Higher Education LIFE Scholarship Program |
| HB1408 -Murder Sentencing Study Committee |
| HB1409 -Unemployment Compensation |
| HB1416 -Alternative Teacher Certification |
| HB1417 -Statutory Rape |
| WELFARE FUNDING Eliminates the authority of a county to impose a property tax levy for the county family and children's fund beginning in 2004. Last Action |
| CULTURAL DIVERSITY TRAINING AND CORRECTIONS Requires the law enforcement training board to implement a cultural diversity awareness course that must be required for each person accepted for training at a law enforcement training school or academy. Last Action |
| RESTRICTIONS ON THE SALE OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL Imposes restrictions on the sale of sexually explicit material. Last Action |
| PRESUMPTIVE JOINT LEGAL CUSTODY Establishes presumptive joint legal custody of children. Last Action |
| WORKER'S COMPENSATION Increases the compensation benefits per degree of permanent impairment for worker's compensation and occupational disease over a three year period. Last Action |
| OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED AND A MINOR Specifies that a juvenile court must recommend the immediate suspension of a child's driving privileges if the child is alleged to have committed an act that would be an offense under the law concerning operating a vehicle while intoxicated if committed by an adult. Last Action |
| PASSENGERS IN TRUCK CARGO AREAS Makes it a Class C infraction to operate a truck while a person less than 18 years of age is in the open bed of the truck. Last Action |
| MILITARY RESERVE EMPLOYMENT MATTERS Provides that the leave of absence that a public employer is required to grant a public employee who is called into state active duty in the national guard is to be without loss of time or pay for the public employee. Last Action |
| HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPTS Requires a school corporation to include immunization information on a student's high school transcript as taken from the immunization record the student's school is required to keep under current law. Last Action |
| CONFIDENTIALITY OF SCHOOL SAFETY PLANS Provides that an executive session may be held to discuss the assessment, design, and implementation of school safety measures, plan, and systems and that such measures, plans and systems are confidential at the discretion of the public agency. Last Action |
| HOUSING TRUST FUND Establishes a property tax exemption for certain real property located in Marion County that was constructed, rehabilitated, or acquired to provide housing to income eligible persons under the federal low income housing tax credit program. Permits the city-county council in Marion County to enter into agreements concerning payments in lieu of taxes for the same real property, and provides that the payments are to be deposited in the housing trust fund. Permits the Marion County metropolitan development commission to establish a supplemental housing program and a tax increment allocation area for the purpose of providing financial assistance to low-income individuals and families to enable them to purchase or lease residential units. Requires the Marion County metropolitan development commission to establish a housing trust fund. Restricts the use of the proceeds of the trust fund to individuals and families who are at or below certain income levels. Provides for the administration of the trust fund. Creates the low income housing trust fund advisory committee. Last Action |
| LONG TERM FOSTER PARENT PARTY STATUS Defines "long term foster parent" as a person who has been a child's foster parent for at least 12 consecutive months or 15 of the most recent 22 months. Provides that a long term foster parent is a party to a child in need of services proceeding. Requires the office of family and children to notify the court when an individual becomes a party as a long term foster parent. Last Action |
| DISPLAY OF TEN COMMANDMENTS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY Authorizes the display of the Ten Commandments on real property owned by the state or a political subdivision. Last Action |
| VARIOUS INSURANCE MATTERS Provides that a hospital and a physician must ensure compliance with a hold harmless clause in a health maintenance organization (HMO) provider contract. Allows a wage assignment for the purpose of paying a premium on a policy of insurance. Increases penalties for unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the business of insurance. Provides requirements for cancellation or non renewal of residential insurance policies. Requires an insurer to notify a residential policyholder regarding coverage for flood damage. Requires an insurer to provide certain information with a premium rate change filing when a policy of accident and sickness insurance form is no longer actively marketed. Requires an insurer to issue a confirmation number when health care services are preauthorized. Requires an insurer to establish and maintain an internal grievance procedure and an external grievance review procedure. Amends the Indiana HMO law concerning: (1) assumption of a corporate name; (2) reinsurance; (3) powers of domestic HMOs; (4) annual and other filings; (5) uncovered health care expenditures; (6) receivership; and (7) voluntary dissolution. Last Action |
| DOMESTIC BATTERY Requires a court to order a person who commits domestic battery to pay a domestic violence prevention and treatment fee of $50 if the victim is a spouse or former spouse of the person who commits the domestic battery. Allows a law enforcement officer to arrest a person for domestic battery without obtaining a warrant. Last Action |
| MEDICAID WAIVER PROPOSALS Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to develop proposals to do the following: (1) Fund adult foster care and assisted living services through the Medicaid waiver program. (2) Expand adult day care services available through the Medicaid aged and disabled waiver. Requires that these proposals be reviewed by the community and home options to institutional care for the elderly and disabled (CHOICE) advisory board and submitted to the federal Health Care Financing Administration before October 1, 2000. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to report to the legislative council, the governor, and the CHOICE board before January 1, 2001, regarding implementation of the proposals. Last Action |
| MEDICAID DISABILITY Amends the Medicaid definition of disabled person to include a person who has a physical or mental impairment, disease, or loss that appears reasonably certain to result in death or that has lasted or appears reasonably certain to last for a continuous period of at least 12 months without significant improvement. (Current law requires that the impairment continue throughout the individual's lifetime.) Last Action |
| SCHOOL BUS IDENTIFICATION MARKINGS Requires the state school bus committee to adopt and enforce rules requiring each school bus to bear: (1) the name of the school district on the top of the school bus; and (2) the number of the school district on the back of the school bus in black letters that are four to six inches high. Provides that a school bus driven on a highway that is divided into two roadways of at least two lanes each is not required to stop before crossing at grade a track of a railroad. Last Action |
| TEXTBOOK FINANCING AND FUNDING SHORTFALLS Allows a school corporation to appeal to the state board of tax commissioners (which uses the school property tax control board) for recommendations on appeals to use the debt service fund to pay textbook purchase obligations for textbooks that will be used for more than one year. Allows a school corporation to appeal to transfer money in its capital project fund in 2000 through 2004 to offset negative balances and obligations in the textbook rental fund. Last Action |
| ELECTIVE STUDY OF BIBLE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Provides that a school corporation may include in its curriculum as an elective a study of world literature, including the Bible and other similar great works of literature. Requires the Indiana state board of education and the professional standards board to jointly develop and report to the legislative council by January 1, 2001, a plan to implement the "Academic Study of Religion in Secondary Schools", which was implemented in Indiana in 1978, 1979, and 1980. Last Action |
| SECONDARY SCHOOL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION STUDY Establishes a secondary school vocational education study committee to study issues related to secondary school vocational education programs. Last Action |
| DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED Provides an additional term of imprisonment for conviction of operating while intoxicated when a child is a passenger in the vehicle. Increases the minimum additional term of imprisonment when a person has at least one previous conviction of operating while intoxicated. Allows forfeiture of a vehicle used by the owner to violate laws prohibiting driving while intoxicated if the violator has at least two previous convictions of driving while intoxicated. Last Action |
| SCHOOL SAFETY AND EMPLOYEE MATTERS Requires consultation with a teacher before action is initiated to suspend or expel a student or to take other disciplinary action against a student. Requires a one year expulsion for bringing a deadly weapon to school property or possessing a deadly weapon on school property. (Current law provides this penalty for a firearm only, not for other deadly weapons.) Requires the reporting of a threat or intimidation of a school employee. Requires the department of education to establish and seek the adoption as a local school policy of a parental declaration of responsibilities concerning the education of the parent's child. Removes a provision that allows a governmental entity to refuse to pay a judgment, compromise, or settlement of a claim or suit against an employee when the entity determines that paying is in the best interest of the entity. Establishes a specific actionable offense for communicating a threat by using school or other governmental property, including electronic equipment or systems. Last Action |
| ESTABLISHES BIRTH AND ADOPTION UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION Allows insured workers who have left employment from insured work to be with a child during the first year of life of the child or during the first year following placement of a minor for adoption to receive payment of unemployment compensation. Allows a maximum of 12 weeks of birth and adoption unemployment compensation. Provides that payment of birth and adoption unemployment compensation is not charged against the experience of reimbursable accounts of employers. Requires the state personnel director and unemployment insurance board to establish rules concerning birth and adoption unemployment compensation. Last Action |
| INCARCERATED CHILDREN Provides that whenever a child is committed to an adult correctional facility or program, the department of correction shall restrict the child to an area of the facility or program where the child has complete sight separation at all times from criminal offenders who are: (1) at least 18 years of age; and (2) charged with, imprisoned for, or incarcerated for offenses. Applies regardless of whether the child is a criminal or a delinquent offender. Requires the department of correction to enroll each: (1) criminal offender who is less than 18 years of age; and (2) delinquent offender who is committed to or a ward of the department of correction; in an appropriate educational program. Requires that whenever staff who carry out administrative and security functions on behalf of the department of correction serve a population of offenders that includes criminal offenders who are less than 18 years of age or delinquent offenders, the staff must be trained to serve the criminal offenders or delinquent offenders. Makes an exception for certain specialized services staff. Last Action |
| PROGRAMS FOR SUSPENDED AND EXPELLED STUDENTS Requires a school corporation to provide an educational program for students who receive suspensions and expulsions. Provides that the educational program may include assignment to attend an alternative school, an alternative educational program, a homebound educational program, or an educational program that the school corporation designs. Provides that the student's absence from the educational program to which the student is assigned because of suspension or expulsion is a violation of the compulsory school attendance laws. Provides for the payment of transfer tuition for transfer students who are suspended or expelled. Includes in the ADM of a school corporation those suspended or expelled students who receive educational services. Last Action |
| PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION Provides that a voter registration form must require an applicant to provide the last four digits of the applicant's Social Security number. Provides that a public agency may not disclose a Social Security number or a personal identification number unless expressly authorized by state or federal statute. Provides that when a state or local agency, office, or officer is allowed under state or federal statute to disclose a voter registration form to another agency, officer, or office for voter registration purposes, the last four digits of the applicant's Social Security number may be disclosed to the agency, office, or officer. Allows a member to participate in a public meeting by telephone or video conferencing. Prohibits the public access counselor from issuing an advisory opinion or a written response to an informal inquiry concerning a record or meeting that is: (1) the subject of a pending lawsuit under the open door law or the access to public records law; or (2) the subject of discovery in pending litigation in any court. Last Action |
| UNIVERSITY CONTRACTING PROCEDURES Requires state educational institutions to analyze their purchasing, construction and contracting practices relating to minority business enterprises, small business enterprises and women's business enterprises. Last Action |
| Grounds for Expulsion or Suspension of Students Removes the requirement that an activity must be unlawful before a student may be suspended or expelled for the activity. Last Action |
| LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW Establishes obligations of landlords and tenants involving dwelling units that are let for rent Last Action |
| TOBACCO SETTLEMENT HEALTH SERVICES TRUST FUND Creates the tobacco settlement health services trust fund and advisory board to make recommendations regarding grant proposals for use of interest from the fund for purposes relating to health services. Last Action |
| TOBACCO SETTLEMENT TRUST FUND Creates the tobacco settlement trust fund and establishes that interest accrued through the fund is annually appropriated to the employer sponsored health plan assistance program and the pharmaceutical assistance for the aged and disabled program. Last Action |
| LIMIT ON CHILD SUPPORT FOR POST-SECONDARY EXPENSE Limits the amount of child support that a court may order a noncustodial parent to pay for post-secondary educational expenses to the cost of the state educational institution closest to the child's home, minus the portion of the expenses to be borne by the child. Last Action |
| COUNTY INMATE PUBLIC WORKS CREWS Allows a county sheriff to establish a program that allows county jail inmates to perform work outside the jail on county inmate public work crews. Last Action |
| ISTEP WAIVER FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES Changes certain requirements for a student with a disability to receive a waiver to graduate from high school without passing the graduation examination. Last Action |
| THREATS ON SCHOOL PROPERTY Makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a person, while on or in school property, to knowingly or intentionally: (1) threaten to commit an offense likely to result in death, serious bodily injury, or substantial property damage; or (2) make false statements that cause the evacuation of certain places. Provides for enhancement to Class D felony if committed by means of a deadly weapon. Last Action |
| RESPECT BY STUDENTS Requires a student to use an appropriate respectful term when addressing or responding to a principal, member of the administrative staff, teacher, or other school personnel while on school property or attending a school sponsored event. Last Action |
| TRANSFER OF WELFARE COSTS TO THE STATE Eliminates the remaining property tax levies for public welfare (family and children's levy, county medical assistance to wards levy, county hospital care for the indigent levy, children with special health care needs levy), except for property tax levies needed to repay loans and bonds issued before January 1, 2001. Last Action |
| Elective Study of the Bible in Public Schools Requires a school corporation to include in its curriculum as an elective a study of world literature including the Bible and other similar great works of literature. Requires the Indiana state board of education and the professional standards board to jointly develop and report to the general assembly by January 1, 2001, a plan to implement the "Academic Study of Religion in Secondary Schools" which was implemented in Indiana in 1978, 1979, and 1980. Last Action |
| FOREIGN ADOPTION AGENCIES Requires a person who offers advice, information, or assistance regarding the adoption of a child who is not a citizen of the United States to be licensed by the division of family and children as a child placing agency and to maintain the director's and officer's insurance policy of at least $1,000,000.00. Makes it a Class D felony for the person to provide adoption services without a license or to otherwise violate the provisions governing child placement agencies. Last Action |
| APPROVAL OF PLACEMENT IN PROPOSED ADOPTIVE HOME Provides that a licensed child placing agency or a county office of family and children shall approve the placement of a child in a proposed adoptive home if the proposed adoptive home has been approved in writing by another licensed child placing agency or county office of family and children not more than 12 months before the placement of the child and there has been no substantial change in the proposed adoptive home since the previous approval. Last Action |
| MILITARY ACCESS TO STUDENT INFORMATION Requires a high school to provide access to the high school campus and student directory information to official recruiting representatives of the armed forces, the Indiana Air National Guard, the Indiana Army National Guard, and the service academies of the armed forces of the United States. Provides for exceptions. Allows high schools to charge official recruiting representatives a fee to cover copying and mailing costs. Last Action |
| MEDICALLY ACCURATE INFORMATION Requires the provision of medically accurate information at the various times that health, AIDS, HIV, or abstinence education is required by statute. Last Action |
| SCHOOL BUS TRESPASS Last Action |
| KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT DATE Provides that a child must be at least five years of age on the following dates to officially enroll in a kindergarten program offered by a school corporation: (1) July 1 of the 2001-2002 school year. (2) August 1 of the 2002-2003 school year. (3) September 1 of the 2003-2004 school year or any subsequent school year. (Current law requires that a child must be at least five years of age on June 1 to officially enroll in a kindergarten program.) Allows the governing body of a school corporation to adopt a procedure for a parent to appeal to the school superintendent for kindergarten enrollment of a child who is not at least five years of age on the statutory date. (Current law requires a school corporation to adopt the procedure.) Last Action |
| STATE TEXTBOOK FUNDING FOR SCHOOL CORPORATIONS Provides an annual state textbook grant to school corporations of $85 per ADM for providing textbooks to students. Abolishes the textbook rental program and the school textbook library program. Redefines "textbook" to include the various kinds of instructional materials currently eligible for state reimbursement under the textbook assistance program for students from low income families. Continues the textbook reimbursement program for nonpublic school students from low income families. Requires a school corporation to establish a textbook fund and to appropriate money from the fund to acquire textbooks to loan to all students without charge. Makes conforming changes and adds transitional provisions. Last Action |
| PERMITS A PARENT TO CHOOSE TO TRANSFER A STUDENT TO A DIFFERENT PUBLIC SCHOOL from the school that Begins in school year 2001-2002 with school choice within the school corporation of legal residence, extends school choice in the 2003-2004 school year to all school corporations in the county of legal residence, and ends implementation in school year 2005-2006 with school choice at any public school in Indiana. Provides that the transferor school corporation is responsible for providing transportation and for paying transfer tuition under the school choice program. Makes numerous administrative provisions. Last Action |
| MINORITY CONTRACTORS, INDIANA FARM PRODUCTS Requires the Indiana horse racing commission to develop a strategic assessment and recommend targeted priorities for the use of Indiana produced agricultural commodities, goods, products, and services within the equine industry. Requires a person issued a riverboat owner's license to establish goals of expending at least 12% of the dollar value of the licensee's contracts for goods and services with minority business enterprises and at least 7% of the dollar value of the licensee's contracts for goods and services with women's business enterprises. (Current law requires a licensee to establish goals of expending at least 10% and 5% of the dollar value of the licensee's contracts with minority and women's business enterprises, respectively.) Requires the Indiana gaming commission to conduct a biennial audit of riverboat licenses to determine compliance with the 12% and 7% expenditure goals. Last Action |
| ISTEP DIPLOMA .Provides that a student is not required to pass the grade 10 ISTEP examination in order to graduate from high school. Provides for the placement of an ISTEP+ diploma seal on the high school diploma of a graduate who passes the grade 10 ISTEP examination. Provides that a student who does not pass the grade 10 ISTEP examination may be retested in any school year with the consent of the student's parent. Repeals references to the graduation examination and the obsolete grade 12 examination. Last Action |
| DISTRIBUTION OF TOBACCO SETTLEMENT FUNDS Provides that $8,000,000 of the money received by the state under the tobacco settlement agreement between the state and tobacco companies shall be transferred from the tobacco settlement fund to the Indiana tobacco settlement rural health fund each year. Provides for the distribution of $8,000,000 per year of tobacco settlement money for rural health programs. Provides that $16,000,000 of the money received by the state under the settlement agreement shall be transferred from the tobacco settlement fund to the rural Indiana tobacco settlement fund each year. Provides for the distribution of $16,000,000 per year of tobacco settlement money for former tobacco producers, development of other agricultural enterprises, and offsetting the impact to communities where tobacco will no longer be a commodity. Last Action |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Allows a court to place a person who commits a misdemeanor in which any part of the person's sentence for the misdemeanor is suspended on probation for not more than two years if the court finds that domestic violence is a contributing factor or material element of the offense. (Under current law the probationary period for a misdemeanor may not exceed one year unless the use of alcohol, drugs, or other harmful substances is a contributing factor or material element of the offense.) Last Action |
| CHILD FATALITY STUDY COMMITTEE Creates the interim study committee on child fatalities. Provides that the committee operates under the policies governing study committees adopted by the legislative council. Specifies issues for the committee to consider. Requires the committee to submit a report to the legislative council by October 31, 2000. Last Action |
| REDUCTION OF CHILD SUPPORT ARREARAGES Allows a court to reduce or revoke the amount of child support arrearages owed if the parties agree to the reduction or revocation or if the court finds that the reduction or revocation is necessary to prevent a manifest injustice. Applies in both paternity and dissolution cases. Last Action |
| SCHOOL CORPORATION POLICE FORCE Provides that the governing body of a school corporation may establish a school corporation police force that is staffed with police officers who have full police powers and whose survivors are eligible for death benefits. Requires school corporation police officers to have law enforcement academy education and basic training and to participate in local continuing education programs. Last Action |
| SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH A MINOR HB12101 Sexual misconduct with a minor. Provides that a person at least 18 years of age who, with a child at least 14 years of age but less than 18 years of age: (1) performs or submits to sexual intercourse or deviate sexual conduct; or (2) performs or submits to any fondling or touching of either the child or the older person with intent to arouse or to satisfy the sexual desires of either the child or the older person commits sexual misconduct with a minor. (Current law provides the child with whom the offense is committed must be at least 14 years of age but less than 16 years of age.) Last Action |
| SCHOOL FUNDING FORMULA Equalizes target property tax rates for school general funds. Provides that local property tax levies statewide for school corporations will increase the same as the statewide average for civil units. Provides that the state tuition support appropriation is to be allocated among all school corporations using an equal state tuition support amount per ADM. Provides an additional amount equal to 50% of the target revenue per ADM (state and local) for each special education and at-risk pupil. Repeals conflicting provisions. Last Action |
| GRADUATION EXAMINATIONS Prohibits the inclusion in the ISTEP graduation examination of questions that are used only to allow comparison of a student's achievement with national and international academic standards. Last Action |
| REPEALS ISTEP EXAMINATION Repeals the statewide assessment testing program (ISTEP). Makes conforming amendments to related statutes. Last Action |
| REPORTING CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN Makes it a Class D felony for a person who believes or has reason to believe that a child is the victim of a violent crime to fail to immediately report the crime to the local child protection service or local law enforcement agency. Specifies that the reporting requirement does not apply to the reporting of reasonable corporal punishment. Provides that a person making the report in good faith is immune from civil or criminal liability. Last Action |
| PROTECTIVE ORDERS IN REAL PROPERTY DISUPUTES Requires the division of state court administration to prescribe or approve a nonconfidential form to be used by a petitioner: (1) to describe the allegations on which a request for a protective order is based; and (2) if a petitioner is requesting that the court order the respondent to refrain from entering or damaging real property, to indicate whether the petitioner knows or believes that the petitioner and the respondent are disputing who owns, or has a lease or easement to use, the real property. Requires the clerk of the court to separate the nonconfidential form from the remainder of the petition and serve a copy of the form on the respondent. Allows a court discretion to limit the scope of a protective order if the court determines that the petition arises from a dispute involving ownership rights, leasehold rights, or easement rights concerning real property. Last Action |
| ECONOMICS REQUIREMENT Requires school corporations to offer economics advanced placement courses in secondary schools. Provides that a student must complete at least one academic year's studies in economics to receive an academic honors diploma. Last Action |
| RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT Allows the state, a political subdivision, or another government entity to substantially burden a person's exercise of religion only if the government entity can demonstrate that the application of the burden to the person is essential to further a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of imposing the burden. Allows a person with standing in an administrative or judicial proceeding to assert as a claim or defense that a government entity has unlawfully burdened the exercise of religion in violation of this law. Allows reasonable costs and attorney's fees to a person who prevails in asserting the claim or defense. Allows a court, upon finding that a person has filed a frivolous or fraudulent claim under this law, to enjoin the person from filing further claims under the law without leave of court. Last Action |
| HOUSING AUTHORITY JURISDICTION Provides that if a municipal housing authority is located in a county that has a county housing authority: (1) the municipal housing authority has jurisdiction within the municipality's boundaries; (2) the county housing authority has jurisdiction in the area that is within the county and is located outside the five mile area surrounding the municipality; and (3) the municipal housing authority and the county housing authority share jurisdiction of the area that is within the county and is located within five miles of the corporate boundaries of the municipality. Last Action |
| HEALTH PROFESSIONS STANDARDS Adds to the health professions standards a prohibition against engaging in or soliciting sexual contact with a patient who is not the practitioner's spouse. Last Action |
| HEALTH INSURANCE WAIVERS Provides that an individual policy of accident and sickness insurance or a group policy of accident and sickness insurance under which a certificate of coverage is issued to an individual member of an association or a discretionary group may contain a multiple year waiver of coverage that does not exceed ten years for a specified condition, if the insurer meets certain requirements. Specifies that an offer of coverage under a policy that includes a waiver does not preclude eligibility for an Indiana comprehensive health insurance association policy for an individual who is otherwise eligible. Last Action |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Requires a law enforcement agency to hold a person arrested for domestic battery, harassment, or stalking: (1) for at least 48 hours; or (2) until a court makes a bail determination and enters a no contact order, if appropriate, between the arrested person and the victim; whichever occurs earlier. Last Action |
| EXPUNGEMENT OF JUVENILE RECORDS Prohibits a person who is less than 23 years of age from petitioning a court for the expungement of juvenile records relating to the person's involvement in delinquency proceedings. Makes a person ineligible to petition for the expungement of juvenile records relating to the person's involvement in delinquency proceedings if the person, after becoming 18 years of age, has committed a felony, a Class A or Class B misdemeanor, or two Class C misdemeanors. Provides that if a criminal charge is pending against a person and the person, if convicted of the criminal charge, would be ineligible to petition for the expungement of juvenile records, the court is required to stay proceedings on the person's petition for the expungement of juvenile records until the criminal charge against the person is disposed of. Last Action |
| TEACHER LICENSE RENEWAL EXAMINATION . Requires individuals who wish to renew a license to teach to demonstrate area proficiency within the two year period immediately preceding the date of the application for renewal on a written examination or through other procedures prescribed by the professional standards board. Requires that the examination include testing of basic skills and subject matter knowledge plus other areas that the professional standards board may require. Provides that the professional standards board shall administer the examination program. Last Action |
| GRANDPARENT VISITATION RIGHTS Expands grandparent visitation rights to allow a grandparent to petition a court for visitation rights with a grandchild regardless of the marital status of the child's parents, unless a paternal grandparent is seeking visitation with a child born out of wedlock and the child's father has not established paternity. Expands the factors that the court may consider when determining whether the grandparent visitation is in the best interests of the child. Provides for appointment by the court of a guardian ad item or court appointed special advocate for a child who is the subject of a proceeding for grandparent visitation. Last Action |
| TUITION EXEMPTIONS FOR STEPCHILDREN OF VETERANS Specifies that the following persons are eligible to receive tuition exemptions as the relatives of veterans: (1) A person whose stepmother or stepfather served in the armed forces of the United States, if the stepmother or stepfather received the Purple Heart decoration or was wounded as a result of enemy action and received any discharge or separation from the armed forces other than a dishonorable discharge. (2) A person whose stepmother or stepfather served before July 1, 1999, in the armed forces of the United States during any war or performed duty equally hazardous that was recognized by the award of a service or campaign medal of the United States, if the stepmother or stepfather suffered a service connected death or disability and received any discharge or separation from the armed forces other than a dishonorable discharge. Last Action |
| ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS Provides that the minimum length of the student instructional day applying to accredited public and nonpublic schools does not apply to an alternative education program. Requires an alternative education program to provide at least 250 minutes of instructional time each week. Requires the scheduling of at least two instructional periods each week during which a student participating in an alternative education program is required to meet with teachers. Authorizes the termination of a student's participation in an alternative education program if the student fails to attend at least 90% of the scheduled instructional periods. Provides that for school funding purposes, a school corporation that establishes an alternative education program or participates in an area alternative education program may include students in the alternative education program in the school corporation's: (1) average daily membership; (2) average daily attendance; and (3) additional pupil count. Last Action |
| TEACHING OF CREATION SCIENCE Specifies that the governing body of a school corporation may require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life, including creation science, within the school corporation. Last Action |
| OBSCENITY AND MATTER HARMFUL TO MINORS Makes numerous changes to penalty provisions for crimes involving: (1) sending or bringing into Indiana or sending or taking out of Indiana obscene matter for sale or distribution; (2) distributing, offering to distribute, sending or bringing into Indiana, or exhibiting to another person obscene matter; and (3) engaging in, participating in, managing, producing, sponsoring, presenting, exhibiting, photographing, filming, or videotaping an obscene performance. Makes it a Class D felony for a person to knowingly or intentionally sell, distribute, or display for sale or distribution to any person matter that is harmful to minors within 500 feet of the nearest property line of a school, library, licensed day care center, church, or facility used to provide activities for persons less than 16 years of age after school hours. Provides that a person who commits certain acts of disseminating matter harmful to minors or engages in certain conduct harmful to minors commits a Class C felony instead of a Class D felony if the person has a prior unrelated conviction for committing the acts or engaging in the conduct. Last Action |
| COVENANT MARRIAGE Defines "covenant marriage" Provides that a couple may designate a covenant marriage when applying for a marriage license or after marriage. Requires a marriage license to indicate if the marriage is a covenant marriage. Establishes the procedure for declaring a covenant marriage. Requires the state department of health to maintain records of covenant marriage declarations. Provides limited grounds for legal separation or dissolution of a covenant marriage, including a requirement of marital counseling. Requires the state department of health to develop an informational pamphlet regarding covenant marriage. Last Action |
| SALES TAX ON COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS Provides that sales of textbooks are exempt from the state gross retail tax if: (1) the textbooks are required for an undergraduate course at an accredited college or university; and (2) the purchaser is a student enrolled in an accredited college or university or the parent or guardian of a student enrolled in an accredited college or university. Last Action |
| HIGHER EDUCATION LIFE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM Establishes the Indiana lifelong learning incentive for excellence (LIFE) scholarship program to provide scholarships to Indiana residents for post secondary education. Provides for administration of the program by the state student assistance commission. Sets forth the amount of a scholarship award, subject to appropriations of the general assembly. Provides eligibility criteria for potential recipients to meet. Last Action |
| MURDER SENTENCING STUDY COMMITTEE Establishes an eight member murder sentencing study committee to review and analyze all trials that involved murders committed in Indiana after July 1, 1976, and before July 1, 2000. Specifies that the review and analysis must examine: (1) the facts, including mitigating and aggravating circumstances; (2) the race, gender, religious preference, and economic status of the defendant and murder victim; (3) the result of the judicial proceeding; and (4) the sentence imposed on the defendant. Allows the committee to make legislative recommendations based on the review and analysis if appropriate. Requires the committee to issue a final report to the legislative council before July 1, 2001. Last Action |
| UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION Increases the earnings base used to compute unemployment compensation to a maximum of $7,200 in a calendar quarter. Decreases the unemployment compensation contribution rate schedules for employers with a merit rating by 15%. Decreases the unemployment compensation contribution rate schedule for employers with a penalty rating to the lowest amount allowed under federal law. Makes conforming amendments. Last Action |
| ALTERNATIVE TEACHER CERTIFICATION Establishes the transition to teaching program, and requires the professional standards board to administer the program to facilitate the entry into the teaching profession of competent professionals who have not obtained a teacher license by traditional means. Requires each accredited teacher training school and department to establish a course of study that constitutes the higher education component of the program. Requires a program applicant to successfully participate in the higher education component, a teacher internship program, and an examination before being issued an initial standard teacher license. Last Action |
| STATUTORY RAPE Establishes the offense of statutory rape as a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that a person who engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual conduct with an unemancipated child who is at least ten years younger than the person commits statutory rape. Requires a court to order a person convicted of statutory rape resulting in a pregnancy to pay restitution to the victim for any reasonable and necessary expenses relating to the pregnancy and childbirth. Specifies that the lack of a prosecution or conviction for statutory rape does not bar a person from initiating a paternity action and seeking child support and payment for expenses relating to the pregnancy and childbirth. Provides that consent to an adoption is not required from a biological father of a child born out of wedlock who: (1) was conceived as the result of a statutory rape; and (2) is the subject of an adoption. Last Action |
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