Articles tagged as: IPB
February 26, 2025
Experts, advocates challenge misinformation from lawmakers on Medicaid, HIP overhaul bill
Indiana lawmakers want to address Medicaid spending by overhauling the state’s Medicaid expansion program. However, testimony and discussion so far has included misinformation and misleading information on the Healthy Indiana Plan, or HIP. Medicaid experts and advocates break down the facts about the state and federal program.
Read MoreFebruary 26, 2025
Lawmakers want to study relocating Indiana's poorest performing casino
Indiana’s poorest performing casino, in the southeast corner of the state, wants to move. A bill to allow them to relocate to northeastern Indiana couldn’t get a vote this session.
Read MoreFebruary 25, 2025
Medical debt protections against wage garnishment, primary residence liens fail in Senate
Hoosiers have an estimated $2.2 billion of medical debt in collections — with even more on payment plans and credit cards. A proposal to introduce consumer protections against medical debt failed to advance in the Senate.
Read MoreFebruary 25, 2025
Gov. Mike Braun predicts 'wrestling match' over property tax reform in session's second half
Gov. Mike Braun is looking ahead to a “wrestling match” over property tax reform in the second half of the legislative session.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2025
Lawmakers propose solution to help address Indiana's skilled worker shortage
The proposed legislation would allow the Indiana Department of Workforce Development to create a skills training pilot program, available for eligible Hoosiers on the state’s unemployment insurance program.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2025
Several major election reform bills scaled back or fail to advance in Indiana Senate
Several major Indiana election reforms advanced by the Senate Elections Committee this session either failed to get approval by the full Senate or were significantly scaled back.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2025
Bill would let new power plants in 'energy production zones' override some local laws
Utilities that want to build a new power plant on the site of an old one — or a former coal mine — could bypass local zoning and land use laws under a Senate bill that passed on Thursday.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2025
Terre Haute federal prisoner sentenced to life for murdering cellmate in 2019
A federal judge in Indianapolis has imposed a life sentence on a prisoner who murdered his cellmate at a U.S. prison in Indiana in 2019.
Read MoreFebruary 21, 2025
Gov. Braun tasks First Lady to keep Dolly Parton Imagination Library alive in Indiana
Gov. Braun said his wife Maureen Braun — a longtime small business owner — will lead an effort to identify other funding sources to keep the free book program alive.
Read MoreFebruary 21, 2025
Weekly Statehouse update: House GOP budget, immigration enforcement, collegiate trans sports ban
House Republicans advance their budget proposal. A controversial immigration bill quickly clears the House chamber. And a ban on transgender women competing in college sports heads to the Senate.
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