2012 Indiana Bill Tracker – Fifth Freedom
| Issue | Number | Sponsor | Position | Activity |
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| Benefits | SB 13 | Senator Miller | Law Enacted | 02/23/2012 - Signed by the Governor |
| SB 13 Summary: Adds adult entertainment locations to the list of places where Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) beneficiaries cannot use EBT at the ATM. Full text | ||||
| Brain injuries | SB 15 | Senators Miller and Becker | Signed by President of Senate | 03/12/2012 - Signed by the President of the Senate |
| SB 15 Summary: Brain injury services study and committee. Requires the state department of health (state department) and the office of the secretary of Family and Social Services (office) to study how to implement brain injury services and neurobehavioral rehabilitation programs. Requires the state department and the office to report orally and in writing to the health finance commission before October 1, 2012. Establishes the brain injury treatment committee to assist the state department and the office with the required study. Full text | ||||
| Veterans | SB 86 | Senator Steele | In Committee | 01/04/2012 -First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources |
| SB 102 Summary: Veterans with disabilities hunting and fishing licenses. Establishes a reduced fee lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping license for veterans with disabilities who are Indiana residents. Full Text | ||||
| Benefits | SB 102 | Senator Broden | In Committee - first House | 01/04/2012 - First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters |
| SB 102 Summary: Food stamp eligibility after drug conviction. Allows people who were convicted of a drug offense but have gone five years without an additional drug conviction to receive food stamps. Permits individuals who have a conviction in the last five years but who are receiving treatment and drug and alcohol testing to receive food stamps. Currently, federal law makes people convicted of felony drug convictions ineligible for food stamps. This bill would opt out of that law. Full Text |
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| Health Insurance | SB 195 | Senators Waltz and Gard | In Committee - first House | 01/19/2012 - reassigned to Committee on Appropriations |
| SB 195 Summary: Insurance coverage for diagnostic mammograms. Prohibits dollar limits, deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance for certain diagnostic mammograms under a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, or a health maintenance organization contract, that are less favorable than those allowed for breast cancer screening mammography. Appears to be designed to bring Indiana law in line with federal health care reform bill. Full text |
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| Voting | SB 206 | Senators Breaux, Arnold and Broden | In Committee - first House | 01/04/2012 - First reading: referred to Committee on Elections |
| SB 206 Summary: Early voting. Allows a county election board (board) to adopt a resolution by the majority vote of the board's entire membership in order to establish satellite locations for early voting. (Currently, a resolution to establish satellite voting locations must be adopted unanimously by the board.) | ||||
| Veterans | HB 1021 | Representative Mahan | In Committee - first House | 01/13/2012 - Representatives Baird, Gutwein and Moseley added as coauthors |
| HB 1021 Summary: Property tax deductions for veterans with disabilities. Under current law, a veteran who has a total disability or is at least 62 years old and has at least a 10% disability may qualify for a $12,480 property tax deduction. This bill would eliminate a provision in the law that disqualifies veterans from the deduction if the assessed value of the veteran's tangible property exceeds $143,160. Full Text | ||||
| Health Insurance | HB 1050 | Representative Koch | Law Enacted | 02/29/2012 - Signed by the Governor |
| HB 1050 Summary: Health care sharing ministries. Specifies requirements for a health care sharing ministry. Exempts a health care sharing ministry from requirements of the insurance law. Full Text | ||||
| Public Transportation | HB 1073 | Representative Espich | Did not pass committee vote, likely dead for the session | 01/09/2012 - First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means |
| HB 1073 Summary: Public mass transportation. Gives local communities several new options to fund public transportation. Specifies that a county or city council (other than the city-county council of Marion County) may pass an ordinance to fund a public transportation corporation with the city's or the county's share of county adjusted gross income taxes, county option income taxes, or county economic development income taxes. Authorizes the establishment of a regional transit authority and a metropolitan transit district by specified eligible counties through local public questions. Authorizes the metropolitan transit district to: (1) construct or acquire any public transportation facility; (2) provide public transportation service by operating public transportation facilities; and (3) issue bonds and otherwise incur indebtedness. Authorizes the Indiana finance authority to issue bonds and use the proceeds to acquire any obligations issued by a metropolitan transit district. Full Text | ||||
| Deaf and Hearing Impaired Education Services | HB 1367 | Representative Noe | Signed by the President Pro Tempore | 03/07/2012 - Signed by the President Pro Tempore, on Governor's desk awaiting signature |
| HB 1367 Summary: Deaf and Hearing Impaired education services. Establishes the Center for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Education to ensure that children who are Deaf or Hearing Impaired acquire optimal communication and academic abilities. Requires the Office of Management and Budget to determine an appropriate agency to provide office space and staff support for the center. Transfers the outreach services and consultative services to local education agencies to assist in meeting the needs of locally enrolled students with hearing disabilities of the Indiana School for the Deaf to the Center for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Education. Provides that the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Indiana School for the Deaf are subject to accountability provisions for performance and improvement, but are not subject to sanction provisions. | ||||
