Articles tagged as: 2022 legislative session
January 17, 2022
Bill aimed at easing employer liability for high school apprentices advances to Senate
An Indiana bill that would have the state arrange for a staffing agency to employ high school apprentices passed the House and is on the way to the Senate.
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Bill sets earlier deadline for counties to add voting machine paper trails
Lawmakers want to move up the deadline for counties to add a critical election security measure to their voting machines.
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Indiana lawmakers consider easing of nursing school rules
A proposed loosening of Indiana’s regulations on nursing education programs is advancing in the Legislature, with supporters saying the step is needed to help address a statewide nursing shortage.
Read MoreJanuary 14, 2022
Bill would give local governments more control over fireworks
Right now, there are 12 days during the year inIndiana when local governments aren't allowed to restrict fireworks at all during the evening – New Year's Eve and 11 days around July 4. HB 1053 would shrink that down to just four days – New Year's Eve and July 3, 4 and 5.
Read MoreJanuary 14, 2022
Indiana Senate kills controversial school curriculum bill after finding 'no path forward'
The Indiana Senate will no longer consider a controversial school curriculum and transparency bill.
Read MoreJanuary 14, 2022
Weekly Statehouse update: State of the State address, partisan school board races testimony
Lawmakers debated whether to make local school board races partisan. A House committee easily advanced a billion-dollar tax cut. And the governor delivered his State of the State. Here's what you might have missed this week at the Statehouse.
Read MoreJanuary 13, 2022
Bill aims to encourage energy storage technology at old mines, quarries
Pumped storage hydropower generates energy by passing water through a turbine as it moves from a higher reservoir to a lower one.
Read MoreJanuary 13, 2022
Employer penalty removed as Indiana vaccine mandate bill moves ahead in the House
The Indiana House scrapped a proposal to raise unemployment insurance taxes as a penalty to employers unwilling to grant vaccine exemptions.
Read MoreJanuary 12, 2022
House Republican tax cut bill easily clears committee, heads to House floor
A major tax cut package that will eventually cost the state $1 billion a year easily cleared a House committee Wednesday.
Read MoreJanuary 12, 2022
Indiana House committee changes, approves controversial school curriculum bill
House Bill 1134 increases parents' authority over school content and would limit how teachers talk about things like race, religion and politics in their classrooms.
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