Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 2)

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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1317

Introduced
1/13/25  
Surrender of firearms for domestic violence crimes. Provides that a person who: (1) has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence; and (2) knowingly or intentionally possesses a firearm; commits a Class A misdemeanor. Specifies certain defenses. Requires a court to issue an order, upon entry of a judgment of conviction for domestic battery or a crime of domestic violence, that: (1) prohibits ownership or possession of a firearm; (2) requires the defendant to surrender: (A) any firearm owned or possessed by the defendant; and (B) any license or permit to carry a handgun (license) owned or possessed by the defendant; and (3) requires confiscation, within 72 hours, of any firearm or license owned or possessed by the defendant. Provides that a domestic batterer who knowingly or intentionally fails to surrender a certain firearm or license commits a Class A misdemeanor, enhanced to a Level 6 felony in specific instances. Provides certain defenses. Specifies how a confiscated firearm or license shall be returned or disposed of if a person's right to possess a firearm is restored. Defines certain terms. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1326

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
1/29/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Scholarships. Provides that a scholarship granting organization must include certain information in its annual public report to the department of education. Provides that applicants enrolled in a transition to teaching program after June 30, 2024, may qualify for certain scholarships if the applicant is a member of a household with an annual income of not more than 400% of the amount required for the applicant to qualify for the federal free or reduced price lunch program. (Currently, the annual income threshold is $100,000 or less.) Permits the commission for higher education to use the remaining balance allocated to certain teaching scholarships or in certain teaching scholarship funds to fund additional specified teaching scholarships.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1322

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Report Pass
3/20/25  
Enrolled
3/26/25  
Passed
4/10/25  
Chaptered
4/10/25  
Blockchain technology. Provides that not later than March 1, 2026, the department of administration (department) may issue a request for information for purposes of exploring how the use of blockchain technology could be used by a state agency to: (1) achieve greater cost efficiency and cost effectiveness; and (2) improve consumer convenience, experience, data security, and data privacy. Requires the department to compile a report concerning the request for information and submit the report to the legislative council not later than October 1, 2026.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1282

Introduced
1/13/25  
Age of compulsory attendance. Provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student is six years of age on August 1 of that school year. (Current law provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1319

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Elkhart County courts. Allows the judges of the Elkhart circuit and superior courts to appoint five full-time magistrates. (Current law allows for the appointment of two magistrates.)
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1325

Introduced
1/13/25  
Medical education on abortion laws. Requires the Indiana department of health (state department) to: (1) create a video for practitioners concerning the state's abortion laws and the standard of care for treating pregnant women with life threatening conditions; and (2) publish the video on its website. Specifies the information to be included in the video. Requires a hospital and ambulatory outpatient surgical center to: (1) review its protocol for abortion; (2) require certain practitioners to watch the video; and (3) certify to the state department compliance with these provisions.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1314

Introduced
1/13/25  
Deferred retirement option plan. Allows a member of the 1925 police pension fund, 1937 firefighters' pension fund, 1953 police pension fund (Indianapolis), or 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund to withdraw from the deferred retirement option plan (DROP) and make an election to enter the DROP for a second time not earlier than three years after the date the member withdraws from the DROP. Provides that a member may make an election to enter the DROP only twice in the member's lifetime.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1309

Introduced
1/13/25  
Pediatric mental health. Establishes the pediatric mental health professional recruitment pilot program. Provides that the purpose of the pilot program is to increase the availability of pediatric mental health care services for residents of Indiana by providing incentives to students who agree to provide pediatric mental health services in a pilot program county immediately after becoming pediatric mental health professionals. Specifies that the pilot program counties include Lake County, Marion County, and a county having a population of less than 65,000. Requires an applicant for a scholarship to execute a written agreement with the commission for higher education promising to provide pediatric mental health care services in a pilot program county for at least four years after graduation. Appropriates $1,000,000 per state fiscal year for the pilot program.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1281

Introduced
1/13/25  
Criminal penalties. Increases the penalty for reckless homicide and criminal recklessness if a person commits aggressive driving that results in the death or catastrophic injury of another person.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1290

Introduced
1/13/25  
Election division software updates. Requires the election division to gather information necessary to consider the purchase of an upgraded campaign finance computer system.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SJR0024

Introduced
1/13/25  
Initiatives and referendums. Provides that the people of Indiana may propose and adopt amendments to the Constitution of the State of Indiana through an initiative. Provides that the people of Indiana may approve or reject any statute or part of any statute enacted by the general assembly through a referendum. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0259

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Engrossed
2/11/25  
Refer
3/3/25  
Report Pass
4/3/25  
Enrolled
4/9/25  
Passed
5/1/25  
Chaptered
5/1/25  
Law enforcement procedures. Requires an affidavit for probable cause, or a person testifying at a probable cause hearing, to make certain disclosures relating to a possible conflict of interest. Specifies that a probable cause affidavit must be redacted under certain circumstances. Prohibits a law enforcement officer from directing, encouraging, or knowingly permitting a person who is not a law enforcement officer to question a person in custody under certain circumstances.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0284

Introduced
1/13/25  
Refer
1/13/25  
Early voting. Reduces the period during which in person absentee voting may occur at the office of the circuit court clerk or a satellite office established by the county election board to a 14 day period ending at noon on the day before election day.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0265

Introduced
1/13/25  
Vehicle Bill. None
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0256

Introduced
1/13/25  
Ground water. Establishes the ground water and aquifer preservation task force to recommend water regulations to the legislative council. Creates a two year moratorium on the establishment of certain major ground water withdrawal facilities during the period beginning May 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027. Provides an exception to the moratorium.