The Senate's version of the road funding bill does not raise any taxes, unlike its House counterpart. Instead, it would spend down the state's surplus and give local governments more freedom to raise or create road funding taxes. It would also create a new task force compromised of lawmakers and state and local officials.

A bill regulating when police body camera videos are released to the public cleared one of its last major legislative hurdles Tuesday with the Senate's near-unanimous passage of the measure.

It's the GOP representatives' latest move to preserve a plan that is funded by contentious gas and cigarette tax increases.

The committee lowered fees and removed language requiring daily fantasy operators to withhold income tax from players' winnings.

In a last ditch effort to shore up concerns about the system's constitutionality, lawmakers will try again to reach an agreement on the last day this session for standing committee hearings.

At issue is a recent interpretation of state law that barred cosmetologists from shaving mustaches and beards.

But, there are still fundamental disagreements over whether the state should implement short or long term solutions this session.

The measure passed on a 38-10 vote Tuesday was dramatically different from a version of the bill approved by the House.

The Indiana Senate approved a measure banning local governments from taxing or restricting the use of disposable plastic bags by retailers, including grocery stores.

Senate Bill 313 -- banning abortions based on race, gender or disability -- passed the full Senate earlier this session, but it couldn't get a hearing in the House. So, a Senate committee revived 313 in the form of an amendment to a House bill that deals with the disposal of fetal tissue.