A bill that aims to simplify school management by cutting obsolete or duplicate rules in education could also change how public records are handled by all types of Indiana agencies.

Indiana lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty or life without parole for anyone who commits a murder on school grounds or in places of worship.

Indiana could soon become the first state to prohibit taxes on Internet access - a move supporters say is necessary given an unstable environment in the nation's capitol.

If the bill passes, Indiana companies couldn't include microbeads in their products beginning in 2018 and they would have to stop selling personal care products containing the beads by 2019.

The bill's Senate sponsor Ed Charbonneau says it makes sense to let people with fatal conditions try medications even if they haven't received final FDA approval.

U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly is introducing three more bills aimed at increasing the quality of mental health care given to the country's armed forces and veterans.

Coats issued the statement after being one of only seven Republican Senators who did not sign the open letter to Iranian officials yesterday regarding the negotiations.

Public transportation advocates gathered at the Statehouse Tuesday to urge lawmakers to dramatically increase statewide funding for public transit.

Environmental advocates say the most encouraging environmental bill this session would help protect drinking water from contamination. The bill deals with large above ground storage tanks near the source of a public water system.

Attorney General Greg Zoeller made regulating e-cigarettes one of his priorities this session. And while proposed legislation aims to regulate the makers and sellers of e-liquids, which are used in e-cigs, the bill does nothing regarding e-cigarettes themselves.