The following is a list of bills that have already passed the House and have moved on to the Senate:
HB 1013 In God We Trust License Plate.
HB 1021 Hay baling on Interstate rights of way. Requires the department of transportation to develop a pilot program to contract with bidders to harvest forage along the rights-of-way of interstate and state highways.
HB 1023 Allows a methadone clinic to be opened in a county contiguous with a county that already contains a methadone clinic if the new county has a population of at least 40,000.
HB 1040 Technical corrections bill.
HB 1103 Defines a dealer of trailers for transportation of watercraft as a watercraft dealer. Also gives drivers an extra day if their license expires on a day when the license branch is closed.
HB 1106 Automatic external defibrillators. Removes the requirements that a person or entity that acquires a defibrillator ensure that the users have completed certain courses and have enlisted a physician for medical direction.
HB 1111 Life insurance and Medicaid — allows the state to use Medicaid funds to pick up the premium on a Medicaid recipients life insurance policy if the recipient assigns the rights to the State. Such a life insurance policy would no longer be counted as the recipient’s asset for purposes of qualifying for Medicaid.
HB 1114 Among other things waters down of the privacy burdens imposed on a County Recorder with respect to recording documents containing social security numbers. It also eliminated the fee and associated fund designed to compensate the recorders for that burden.
HB 1134 Recodification of Title 21. Along with the technical corrections bills, the recodifications are an important part of making Indiana’s Code among the nation’s best. The goal of the recodifications is to provide better organization of a particular Title of the Indiana Code and simplify the language to the extent possible without making substantive changes to the law. Title 21 is the K-12 education finance law.
HB 1150 Antique license plates – allows for the use of antique license plates or replicas thereof on antique motor vehicles.
woo hoo! all speciality license plate bills all the time! I say let’s bury the new commissioner in administrative red tape, because it would serve him right.
I’m glad to see HB 1106: “Automatic external defibrillators” passed the first stage. If you have not seen one yet, those AED’s are as idiot-proof as can be made. I always thought requiring people to take a class for them was odd and cost lives since some places wouldn’t buy one with that requirement. As long as someone had CPR training, they would be just as effective as someone with CPR AND AED training.
With all the BS in the past year or two, I’m glad to see a few logical bills advance.