Indiana law limits Hoosier small brewers to 30,000 barrels each year. Most businesses aren't even close to that, but Sun King Brewery in Indianapolis and Muncie's 3 Floyds Brewing Company are both near that mark.

Speaker Brian Bosma says the House Ethics Committee will meet next week to finalize its proposal for changes to the House ethics rules.

Indiana Department of Education officials presented their two-year budget proposal to the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday, which included large increases to the Non-English Speakers Fund, textbook relief funding, and tuition support.

The lawmakers say the goal is to identity reading struggles earlier so schools can provide additional remediation time - and reduce the chances that students could be retained for failing the test in third grade. The change could also provide more instructional time to teachers and students in grade three.

Under House Bill 1100, the state would create the School Efficiency Grant Fund, supplying schools with one-time grants up to $500,000 to help cover consolidation costs.

For Julie Ahlrichs and her family, diabetes has been a part of their lives for more than 40 years. While she is thankful that she and her family are educated about diabetes, Ahlrichs wishes there was more information out there for the millions of other Hoosiers who are not.

Under current law, schools can permit students to transfer from other districts but are not required to allow it.

A House committee unanimously passed legislation Thursday that expands consumer protections for veterans and individuals with mental, physical or developmental disabilities.

Changes to Indiana's redistricting system likely won't take place until at least 2017 under a new proposal from House legislative leaders. The proposed legislation would create a redistricting study committee.

House Bill 1129 and Senate Bill 344 recommend extending the plan to include the 13 counties originally selected as finalists that weren't chosen as one of the final five.