A state Senate fiscal analysis estimates illegal immigration costs the state up to $130 million a year.

Senate Republicans said they hoped to study LGBT issues further after last session's failed legislation.

The committee created by lawmakers to rewrite Indiana's standardized assessment, the ISTEP, met for the first time Tuesday. No decisions were made, yet it became clear to the educators, policymakers and lawmakers gathered that a vast amount of work lies ahead before their deadline just six months away.

The groups filed a lawsuit last year to gain access to emails between a House Republican lawmaker and utility companies, but the Indiana Supreme Court ruled the emails were not covered by the state's open records law.

As a follow-up to a lawsuit the state attorney general filed last month, the Legislature passed a bill aiming to protect homeowners from tax sale fraud.

New legislation extends more privacy rights to sexual assault and domestic abuse victims on college campuses. It also closes a legal loophole that didn't protect personal information given to victims' advocates.

The 2016 General Assembly Thursday voted to get rid of the current ISTEP.

Despite passing more than 100 bills, and resolving issues that had lingered in the the legislature for years, the 2016 session of the Indiana General Assembly may be remembered more for what lawmakers couldn't get done.

This year's road funding package does not include the tax increases originally proposed by House Republicans, but it does give counties and cities some ability to raise taxes to pay for their roads.

The House sent a bill Wednesday to the governor that bans abortions performed solely because of a fetus' sex, race or disability.