Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 7)

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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1565

Introduced
1/21/25  
Social service provider tax credit. Allows a qualified taxpayer to claim a credit against the taxpayer's state tax liability for designated contributions to qualified nonprofit organizations that provide: (1) comprehensive case management services for at-risk families; (2) family support services; (3) in-school programs, community based events, or online resources to assist fathers in learning and improving parenting skills; or (4) programs that provide mutual support systems among mothers in raising children or information for mothers to enhance child development.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1596

Introduced
1/21/25  
Richmond food and beverage tax. Authorizes the city of Richmond to impose a food and beverage tax.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1646

Introduced
1/21/25  
Local option sales taxes. Allows counties, cities, and towns to adopt a local sales tax applicable to tangible personal property delivered (not by common carrier) within the geographic boundaries of the political subdivision. Provides that the local option sales tax revenue may be used for infrastructure improvements. Provides that the department of state revenue shall maintain several data bases of local sales tax data associated with the local option sales tax, in accordance with the requirements of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. Adds the local option sales tax to the list of local taxes that may be captured by the state in the case of a local unit failing to make timely debt payments and sources of revenue that may be used by the local unit to make debt service payments.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1622

Introduced
1/21/25  
Referenda on prekindergarten funding levies. Allows a county government, in each even-numbered calendar year, to impose a prekindergarten education referendum tax levy for children three and four years of age to be implemented under the guidance of an Indiana United Way entity or the early learning advisory committee, which may distribute the funds to entities that operate preschool facilities such as county governments, charter schools, private schools, churches, and other existing nonprofit preschool centers. Establishes the prekindergarten education referendum tax levy fund.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1619

Introduced
1/21/25  
Sale of venison. Permits a person to sell venison from a deer taken in Indiana if certain requirements are met.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1623

Introduced
1/21/25  
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 cases, the court may only charge one filing fee for the proceeding. Requires a petition for adoption to include information about the juvenile court if the child is the subject of an open or pending child in need of services (CHINS), termination of parental rights (TPR), or juvenile delinquency proceeding. Provides that the department of child services (department) shall file a notice with the juvenile court in which the open or pending CHINS or TPR proceeding was filed. Requires the department to file a report each year with the legislative council, the office of judicial administration, and the public defender council.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1685

Introduced
1/21/25  
Tax credit for teacher professional development. Provides a tax credit against the state adjusted gross income tax liability of a teacher for amounts expended for professional development.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1621

Introduced
1/21/25  
Building and public works matters. Requires a proposed rule with implementation and compliance costs of at least $1,000,000 for businesses, units, and individuals over any two year period to be authorized by legislation passed by the general assembly. Requires the state to give political subdivisions that enact certain land use policies first priority in receiving housing and housing infrastructure grants and loans. Provides that a public agency awarding a contract for a construction manager as constructor project may not take certain actions based on a bidder's, offeror's, or contractor's entering into, refusing to enter into, adhering to, or refusing to adhere to an agreement with a labor organization. Prohibits a political subdivision or agency of a political subdivision from imposing a requirement inconsistent with, in addition to, or more stringent or restrictive than the requirements of the public works statute.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1639

Introduced
1/21/25  
Stillbirths. Amends the definition of "stillbirth" to mean a birth after 12 weeks of gestation that is not a live birth, or if the gender of the child can be visually determined, a birth after 10 weeks of gestation that is not a live birth.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1658

Introduced
1/21/25  
Residential property assessment. Eliminates elections for the office of county assessor and township assessor after 2026 and phases out the offices of county assessor and township assessor as the terms of those elected to the offices expire. Transfers the duties of the assessor to the county auditor at the expiration of each assessor's term. Requires the department of local government finance (DLGF) to develop an automated valuation model system (AVM system) to be used by the DLGF to annually run all qualifying residential property through the AVM system and provide the values determined to the county auditor. Requires county auditors to use the values to determine the fair market value of qualified residential property. Defines "qualified residential property". Specifies the elements and functionality that must be included in the AVM system. Requires the DLGF to start running all qualifying residential property through an AVM system beginning with the first assessment date that an AVM system is operational for use, but not later than the 2031 assessment date. Eliminates qualified residential property from cyclical reassessments and annual adjustments (or "trending") and ratio studies. Allows taxpayers to elect to receive notices of assessment (Form 11) by electronic mail. Makes corresponding changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1659

Introduced
1/21/25  
Ethics implementation fund. Establishes the ethics implementation fund (fund) for the purpose of providing grants to course providers that offer ethics training courses for teachers. Charges the department of education (department) with administering the fund. Requires the department to create authorization and approval processes. Requires the department to create guidelines to provide professional development credit to teachers who have successfully completed an ethics training course. Makes an appropriation.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1556

Introduced
1/21/25  
Free state park admission for veterans. Requires the department of natural resources to provide free admission to state parks to veterans with the proper identification.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1586

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Medicaid funding. Makes changes in Medicaid payment formulas and assessment of the hospital assessment fee. Extends the law governing the hospital assessment fee to June 30, 2027. Authorizes a managed care organization assessment fee.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1633

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
1/30/25  
Engrossed
2/7/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Report Pass
3/31/25  
Enrolled
4/8/25  
Passed
4/22/25  
Chaptered
4/22/25  
Study of election issues. Requires the secretary of state to do the following: (1) Study scheduling of local elections and requiring all counties to use vote centers. (2) Conduct at least three public meetings on the topics studied. (3) Report the results of the studies to the legislative council before November 1, 2025.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1540

Introduced
1/21/25  
Chronic absenteeism. Requires the department of education (department) to: (1) study and make recommendations concerning the categorization of student absences; (2) create a list of best practices to reduce student discipline related to student absenteeism and the number of chronically absent students; (3) develop guidelines and requirements for certain intervention strategies and school attendance improvement plans; (4) submit a report concerning attendance to the legislative council; and (5) develop attendance improvement targets for certain schools. Requires a school to implement an early warning system and assemble a school based team to monitor the system. Provides the duties and obligations of a school attendance coordinator and a child study team. Requires the governing authority of a school to adopt an attendance policy and develop an attendance improvement plan aligned with department guidelines and requirements. Requires a school to collect and document certain information concerning absences.