The Clean Water Indiana Program usually provides matching dollars to help farmers and landowners implement practices like cover cropping and no-till agriculture — to keep the soil from eroding and getting into local waterways.

Indiana’s Lifeline Law — which provides immunity from underage drinking charges for people who seek police or medical help — has been in place for more than a decade.

A measure proposed by state lawmakers and endorsed by the Indiana secretary of education would raise teacher pay to a minimum of $45,000 and provide teachers with up to 20 days of paid parental leave.

Hoosiers on unemployment insurance could see the maximum length of benefits cut nearly in half under a new proposal heard in a Senate committee.

Legislation proposing a change to how farmland property taxes are calculated could reduce farmers’ bills by more than $100 million a year.

New Gov. Mike Braun unveils his budget proposal. House Republicans release their agenda. And the Black Legislative Caucus discusses its priorities for 2025.

Braun hopes to get more money for academics in the classroom, not for operations and administrators, in the 2025-27 budget.

Nearly 90% of kids who go into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital die. But many Indiana schools aren’t equipped to respond if it happens. But a bill introduced this legislative session would require schools to be prepared if someone’s heart stops.

Senate Republicans want to overhaul the Healthy Indiana Plan, or HIP, citing concerns around the Medicaid forecast. Lawmakers might need support from the federal government to implement part of the bill — but even with that support, it would likely have no impact on the forecast.

A measure that would ban children under 16 from accessing social media without parental permission passed the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. However, some committee members who support the idea behind the bill say they are concerned about how it will be implemented.