Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and St. Patrick's Day.
Requires the department of state revenue (department) to annually provide each resident individual taxpayer who paid adjusted gross income taxes in the immediately previous taxable year a taxpayer receipt statement in an electronic format explaining how the individual taxpayer's taxes are being used. Requires the department, in consultation with the budget agency, to create and administer an Internet web page on which individual taxpayers may access an estimate of the allocation of their adjusted gross income taxes to various expenditure categories for the most recent state fiscal year based on the adjusted gross income taxes paid by the taxpayer. Specifies the information that the must be provided on the web page. Requires the department to include a link to the web page on the Indiana individual income tax return, Form IT-40.
Memorializing Representative Sally J. Siegrist.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating Katrina Skirvin on being named Outstanding Agricultural Education Teacher for Region 4 by the National Association of Agricultural Educators.
Establishes an additional sentencing modification procedure for certain individuals and requires that the department of correction annually review inmate records and transmit certain information to specified persons.
Establishes the meat processing investment grant program fund to provide grants to eligible applicants. Provides that the fund is administered by the Indiana state department of agriculture. Makes an appropriation.
Provides that a person may circulate a petition to create a tourism improvement district (district) within the territory of a county, city, or town. Specifies the contents of the tourism improvement district plan that must be filed with a petition to establish a district. Excludes property that receives a homestead standard deduction from inclusion within a district. Provides that owners of real property or businesses located within a district may be charged a special assessment to fund improvements and other district activities. Provides that, after a hearing on a petition to establish a district, a county, city, or town legislative body may adopt the ordinance establishing the district only if it determines that the petition has been signed by at least 50% of the owners of real property or businesses within the district who will pay the special assessment. Specifies the contents of the ordinance establishing a district and the length of time for which a district may exist. Allows a district to issue bonds. Requires the county, city, or town legislative body to contract with a nonprofit district management association to administer and implement the district's activities and improvements.
Removes the requirement that a decal or sticker issued by the bureau of motor vehicles must be displayed on a vehicle as proof of registration of the vehicle.
Requires the auditor of state (auditor) to engage internal or third party assistance to perform a risk assessment of executive branch agency internal controls for administering and disbursing federal: (1) pandemic relief funds; (2) economic stimulus funds; or (3) loan funds. Provides that upon engaging internal or third party assistance, the auditor shall consult with the state board of accounts (SBOA) and executive branch agencies that are conducting similar risk assessments or audits of federal funds regarding the scope of work being performed by the SBOA and executive branch agencies. Requires the auditor, before December 31 of each year, to compile its findings and provide a report to the governor and to the legislative council. Appropriates $800,000 to the auditor of state from money received by the state from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program (program) pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, to be used for those purposes. Provides that the office of management and budget shall certify that each executive branch agency and local governmental unit directly receiving: (1) pandemic relief funds; (2) economic stimulus funds; or (3) loan funds; use a portion of the funds to engage an independent third party firm to perform a risk assessment over the executive branch agency's or local governmental unit's controls in administering the program and audit the disbursement of funds. Requires the office of management and budget, before December 31 of each year, to compile and submit a report with findings to the governor and to the legislative council.
Provides that a transaction involving a person's acquisition of agricultural machinery, tools, or equipment is exempt from the application of the state gross retail tax regardless of whether the person also intends to use the property for a nonexempt purpose and that such a transaction may not be prorated. Requires the department of state revenue to amend the administrative rules to conform with the provision added by the bill.
