Provides that the annual permit fee for a micro market shall not exceed $60. Provides that the annual permit fee for a vending machine shall not exceed $8. Specifies that a political subdivision may not charge an installation fee for a micro market or vending machine. Provides that any provision of an ordinance, measure, enactment, rule, or policy or exercise of proprietary authority by a political subdivision or an employee or agent of a political subdivision acting in an official capacity that modifies or conflicts with the statutory requirements concerning: (1) annual micro market permit fees; (2) annual vending machine permit fees; or (3) micro market or vending machine installation fees; is void. Specifies that the annual renewal date for micro market and vending machine permit fees is June 1. Allows the person or entity responsible for the annual collection of micro market and vending machine permit fees to adjust or pro rate, as applicable, a micro market or vending machine permit fee for the purpose of synchronizing micro market and vending machine renewal cycles. Makes conforming amendments.
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Provides that attorney's fees may be awarded against a governmental entity in a case where a court finds that the claim brought by the governmental entity was frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless, but provides that the application of the law to governmental entities may not be interpreted to waive sovereign immunity. Includes individuals in the list of parties that may seek reasonable fees and expenses in a civil suit against a state agency. Increases the amount of fees and expenses awarded against a state agency from $10,000 to $25,000, and from $30,000 to $75,000, if more than three parties in a case are eligible for an award.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Judge John G. Baker upon his retirement from the Indiana Court of Appeals.
A SENATE RESOLUTION supporting Taiwan's signing of a Bilateral Trade Agreement with the United States, reaffirming support for increasing Taiwan's international profile and for strengthening ties between Indiana and Taiwan.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Indiana Senate and the Indiana House of Representatives to adopt the practice of recommitting all bills creating or amending a criminal penalty to the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee or the House Courts and Criminal Code Committee after the bill has passed the committee to which the bill was originally assigned. (The introduced version of this resolution was prepared by the interim study committee on corrections and criminal code.)
Establishes the cancer research account within the Indiana health care account. Provides that a taxpayer may designate all or a part of the taxpayer's state income tax refund to be paid over to the cancer research account. Provides that the budget agency shall distribute the money in the cancer research account in equal amounts to the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center and the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing FFA and all of its work to advance the quality of agricultural education both locally and nationally.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the 21st Century Scholars Program for 30 years of helping Hoosiers afford a college education.
Provides that the members of the Indiana kids first trust fund board (board) serve terms of four years (rather than two years under current law) and provides for the terms of the appointed members of the board to be staggered. Provides that at least two meetings of the board each year must be conducted with at least a quorum of the members of the board. Provides that not later than 10 days after a meeting of the board, the board shall post a draft of the minutes of the meeting on the board's Internet web site. Requires the board to study to the topic of establishing a nonprofit subsidiary corporation and provide a report to the general assembly with the board's findings. Allows the board to create a nonprofit subsidiary corporation to solicit and accept private funding, gifts, donations, bequests, devises, and contributions.
Provides that a township trustee of a township that has a population of more than 10,000, shall, if the trustee considers it advisable, place in the county home or provide township assistance to a homeless person whose legal residence: (1) is not in the township; or (2) cannot be ascertained. Provides that a township trustee of a township that has a population of less than 10,000, may, if the trustee considers it advisable, place in the county home or provide township assistance to a homeless person whose legal residence: (1) is not in the township; or (2) cannot be ascertained. Requires each township trustee in a county to collaborate and prepare a list of public and known private resources that is: (1) available to the homeless population for each township in the county; and (2) distributed and published on the county's Internet web site not later than March 1 of each year.