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R Indiana Senate · District 45 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Chris Garten

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Total votes
1,939
all sessions
Attendance
89%
217 missed
Lower than 95% of chamber peers
With party
97%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
2%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
478
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
4
assignments
478 bills and resolutions

Sponsored bills

Total
478
Primary
253
Co-sponsor
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Primary SC 47
Passed · Indiana Senate · Lead sponsor
Congratulating Michael Cleveland.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating Michael Cleveland for winning the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.

Passed Feb 19, 2020 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 144
Passed · Indiana Senate · Lead sponsor
Kids first trust fund board subsidiary corporation.

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.

Passed Feb 17, 2020 0 co-sponsors
Primary HB 1115
Passed · Indiana House · Lead sponsor
Physician noncompete agreements.

Requires an enforceable physician noncompete agreement to contain the following provisions: (1) A provision that requires the employer of the physician to provide the physician with a copy of any notice: (A) concerning the physician's departure; and (B) sent to any patient seen or treated by the departing physician during the two year period preceding the termination of the physician's employment or expiration of the departing physician's contract, as applicable. (2) A provision that requires the physician's employer to, in good faith, provide current or last known contact and location information to a patient seen or treated by the physician during the two year period preceding the termination of the physician's employment or expiration of the physician's contract. (3) A provision that provides the physician whose employment has terminated or whose contract has expired with the option to purchase a complete and final release from the terms of an enforceable noncompete agreement at a reasonable price. (4) A provision that prohibits medical records from being provided to the physician in a format that differs from the format used to create or store the medical record during the routine and ordinary course of business. Allows the person or entity responsible for copying or transferring a medical record to charge a reasonable fee for the service.

Passed Feb 17, 2020 0 co-sponsors
Primary HB 1347
Passed · Indiana House · Lead sponsor
Bureau of motor vehicles.

Requires the bureau to provide recommendations to the general assembly to move from physical certificates of registration and physical proofs of registration to electronic certificates of registration and electronic proofs of registration.

Passed Feb 17, 2020 0 co-sponsors
Primary SB 263
Passed · Indiana Senate · Lead sponsor
Specialized weapons training.

Provides that, before an employee or any other staff member of a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school, may carry a firearm in or on school property as authorized by a school board of the school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school, the employee or staff member shall do the following: (1) Successfully complete certain specialized weapons training or other firearm training. (2) Provide proof to the school board that the employee or other staff member has successfully completed the training. (3) Complete the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory 2 (MMPI-II) and provide the results from the inventory to the school board of the school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school. Establishes requirements for specialized weapons training. Requires an employee or any other staff member of a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to successfully complete sixteen hours of weapons training each year that the employee or staff member is authorized and intends to carry a firearm in or on school property. Provides that the specialized weapons training must be provided by a person or entity approved by the school board of the school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school. Allows a school to barricade or block a door during an active shooter drill or during an active shooter emergency occurring in a school building.

Passed Feb 13, 2020 0 co-sponsors
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