A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the importance of the Indiana Farm Service Agency and its employees across the state of Indiana.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the importance of the Indiana Farm Service Agency and its employees across the state of Indiana.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing April as Parkinson's Awareness Month and April 11, 2024, as Parkinson's Awareness Day.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing April as Parkinson's Awareness Month and April 11, 2024, as Parkinson's Awareness Day.
Provides that a person may circulate a petition to create a tourism improvement district (district) within the territory of a county, city, or town (local unit). Specifies the contents of the tourism improvement district plan that must be filed with a petition to establish a district. Provides that, after a hearing on a petition to establish a district, the legislative body of a local unit may adopt the ordinance establishing the district only if it determines that the petition has been signed by at least: (1) 65% of the owners within the proposed district that will pay the assessments; and (2) the owners of 65% of the total net assessed value of the real property within the proposed district that will pay the assessments. Provides that owners located within a district may be charged a special assessment to fund improvements and other district activities. Defines the term "owner". Excludes from inclusion within a district: (1) property that receives a homestead standard deduction; (2) property used for single family residential housing; and (3) property used for multi-unit residential housing. 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. Requires a district management association to annually engage an independent certified public accounting firm to conduct an examination of the district's funds, accounts, and financial affairs and submit the examination to the legislative body and the fiscal body. Excludes Marion County from the provisions of the bill.
Provides that a state employee may affirmatively elect to enroll in the deferred compensation plan prior to the auto enroll date on day 31 of the state employee's employment. Removes a provision that sets a maximum employer surcharge for the legislators' defined benefit plan, state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan, public employees' retirement fund, and Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (fund). Requires the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system (board) to develop the technological and administrative capabilities sufficient to categorize fund members into separate groups in which: (1) certain members receive a service based thirteenth check; and (2) certain members receive a cost of living adjustment. Requires the board to set the surcharge rates at a level to actuarially prefund: (1) annual indexed thirteenth checks for all current retired members and beneficiaries retired before July 1, 2025; and (2) 1% annual cost of living adjustments to future in-payment members and beneficiaries retired on or after July 1, 2025. Provides that the board shall not reduce the surcharge rates from the prior year. Allows the board to increase the surcharge rates by not more than 0.1% of payroll from the prior year. Requires certain political subdivisions to present to the interim study committee on pension management oversight regarding a delinquent employee retirement plan offered by the political subdivision. Requires, effective July 1, 2025, the trustee of the state police pension trust to maintain a supplemental allowance reserve account for the purpose of paying postretirement benefit adjustments. Increases the maximum date that a member or participant of certain retirement funds can participate in the deferred retirement option plan from 36 to 60 months. Requires the member or participant to notify their employer if the member or participant elects to enter or extend the deferred retirement option plan.
Specifies that the horse racing commission (IHRC) may adopt rules that incorporate by reference the most current version of the model rules adopted by the Association of Racing Commissioners International. Removes certain obsolete references to emergency rules. Requires a permit holder to own the real property, including buildings, structures, and other improvements, on which a horse racing meeting is to be conducted. Prohibits a permit issued for a horse racing meeting from being leased. Provides that judges and stewards may suspend a license for not more than three years on behalf of the IHRC. (Current law allows judges and stewards to suspend a license for not more than one year on behalf of the IHRC.) Provides that the suspension of a license or the imposition of certain civil penalties must occur within 365 days after the date of the violation (instead of 180 days as required by current law). Provides that a horse's veterinary medical records and medical condition must be furnished within five business days without written client authorization to the IHRC as part of an investigation in which a horse under the care, control, or ownership of a licensee has been treated by a veterinarian.
Makes the following property tax changes for assessment dates occurring after December 31, 2024: (1) Increases the assessed value cap from $240,000 to $350,000 that applies to an individual's eligibility for the: (A) over 65 property tax deduction; and (B) over 65 circuit breaker credit; without altering the requirement in current law that any subsequent increases in assessed value are not considered unless the increase is attributable to substantial renovation or new improvements to the property. (2) Eliminates the assessed value cap that applies to the property tax deduction for a veteran who: (A) has a total disability; or (B) is at least 62 years of age and has at least a 10% disability.
Increases the assessed value cap, from $200,000 to $240,000, that applies to the property tax deduction for a veteran who: (1) has a total disability; or (2) is at least 62 years of age and has at least a 10% disability. Provides that for purposes of determining the assessed value of the real property, mobile home, or manufactured home for an individual who has received a deduction in a previous year, increases in assessed value that occur after December 31, 2024, are not considered for purposes of determining whether an individual is eligible to receive the deduction.
Provides that at a county auditor's discretion, the county auditor may choose not to require the inspection of certain items otherwise required to claim a disabled veteran's property tax deduction if the following criteria have been satisfied with regard to an individual seeking to claim the deduction: (1) The county auditor has inspected the individual's items in a previous year and approved the deduction for that year. (2) There has been no change to the individual's property or the individual's qualifying status since the last year that the county auditor approved the deduction. (3) The individual has signed a sworn statement, as prescribed by the Indiana department of veterans' affairs, subject to the penalty of perjury, affirming the requirement that there has been no change to the individual's property or the individual's qualifying status since the last year that the county auditor approved the deduction. (4) The county auditor has not disapproved the individual's claim for the deduction in a year since the county auditor most recently approved the deduction. Requires the proper officers of a political subdivision that desire to appropriate more money for a particular year than the amount prescribed in the budget for that year as finally determined to hold a public hearing after submitting the following information regarding the proposed additional appropriation to the department of local government finance's (DLGF) computer gateway (gateway): (1) The amount of the additional appropriation. (2) The name of the affected fund. (3) The name and account number of the affected account. (4) The date, time, and place at which the political subdivision will hold a public hearing on the proposed additional appropriation. Requires the proper officers of a political subdivision to submit the required information, in a manner prescribed by the DLGF, to the gateway at least 14 days prior to the public hearing. Requires the DLGF to make the information submitted by the political subdivision available to taxpayers through the gateway at least 10 days prior to the public hearing. Provides that if the date, time, or place of the public hearing changes following the original submission of the information to the gateway, the political subdivision shall submit the updated information to the gateway as soon as possible. Provides that a county fiscal body may establish a salary schedule that includes a stipend to be paid to the county auditor for the county auditor's duties when warranted as determined by the county fiscal body. Provides that the county fiscal body may consider factors such as: (1) required attendance at additional meetings; (2) meetings held outside of usual work hours; (3) increased workload volume; or (4) any other relevant factor as determined by the county fiscal body.
