A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Senator Phil Boots upon his retirement from the Indiana Senate.
A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Senator Erin Houchin upon her retirement from the Indiana Senate.
Requires school coaches, assistant coaches, marching band leaders, and extracurricular activity leaders to ensure that an automated external defibrillator (AED) is present at each athletic activity conducted by the individual. Requires the AED to be: (1) located on the premises where the athletic activity occurs; (2) easily accessible; and (3) present for the duration of the athletic activity. Allows two or more athletic activities to share an AED if certain conditions are met. Requires coaches, assistant coaches, marching band leaders, and extracurricular activity leaders to, at each athletic activity, inform all individuals who are overseeing or supervising the activity of the location of the AED. Requires each school corporation, charter school, and state accredited nonpublic school to: (1) ensure that each required AED is properly maintained; (2) develop a response plan for sudden cardiac arrest; and (3) share the response plan with coaches, assistant coaches, marching band leaders, extracurricular activity leaders, and applicable students.
Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the topic of availability and affordability of child care in Indiana. Requires the interim study committee to which the topic is assigned to: (1) consider means by which the availability and affordability of child care services in Indiana can be increased; and (2) not later than November 1, 2022, submit to the general assembly a strategic plan for increasing the availability and affordability of child care services in Indiana.
Increases the adjusted gross income threshold for an individual at least 65 years of age to obtain a deduction from the assessed value of the individual's real property from $30,000 to $40,000. Increases the threshold for an individual at least 65 years of age filing a joint return from $40,000 to $50,000. Increases the maximum assessed value of the real property from $200,000 to $300,000 to be eligible for the deduction. Provides that an individual is not entitled to a refund for the deduction for any previous year in which the assessed value of the individual's real property would have qualified for the deduction for that year due to a subsequent increase in the assessed value threshold.
A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Senator Tim Lanane for his years of service to the Indiana State Senate and Senate District 25.
Defines "vulnerable road user". Provides that it is a criminal offense if a person commits a moving traffic offense that results in the serious bodily injury or death of a vulnerable road user. Urges the legislative council to assign certain topics to an existing study committee.
A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Senator Ron Grooms upon his retirement from the Indiana Senate.
Provides the following with regard to a township that fails to fix its budget, tax rate, and tax levy, or submit its estimated budget and other information to the department of local government finance's computer gateway: (1) The township's most recent annual tax levy continues for the ensuing budget year. (2) The township board must adopt and the township trustee must approve a resolution to continue the township's most recent annual appropriations for the ensuing budget year. (Current law provides that both levy and appropriations continue for the ensuing budget year without any action by the township board and trustee.) Provides that if a resolution is not adopted and approved, all appropriations during the ensuing budget year must be approved by the township board on a monthly basis.
Provides for a thirteenth check in 2022 for certain members of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (4) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (5) state police 1987 benefit system.
