Governor Admits Mistakes Made

Governor Mitch Daniels appears to be changing his tune somewhat in the continuing saga of the TaJanay Bailey case.  TaJanay was in foster care until approximately three weeks ago when she was allowed to return to the home of her Mother, Charity Bailey, and her Boyfriend, Lawerence Green.  A Department of Children’s Services minimized concerns and allowed her to return.  She was killed, 11/27/07, allegedly by Green and Bailey. 

The Governor made the following comments at a regularly scheduled press conference on Friday.  The remarks were reported in a story from the Indianapolis Star.

“Gov. Mitch Daniels said someone made the wrong call in the TaJanay Bailey case but that he didn’t know whether anyone should lose their job over the girl’s death.

“The system was very active on behalf of this little girl, and yet someone with the best of intentions — someone who has given a career to the protection of children — finally had to make a call and made the wrong one,” Daniels said Friday at his regularly scheduled meeting with reporters.

Daniels’ press secretary, Jane Jankowski, said the governor wasn’t referring to one particular person.

She also said Daniels had not spoken to any Department of Child Services officials about the case.

“The governor’s role is to build a better-funded, better-operated child services organization. He’s had no direct conversations with DCS about this or any other case,” said Jankowski.

Asked whether anyone should be fired over the case, Daniels responded: “I don’t know the answer to that,” adding that DCS still is working on its internal investigation surrounding TaJanay’s death.

The governor said he still had confidence in DCS Director James W. Payne, a judge he hand-picked for the job.”

 The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette is reporting the press conference somewhat differently.

INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mitch Daniels said Friday that state child welfare workers clearly made the wrong call in the case of a 3-year-old girl beaten to death while under state supervision, declaring it a “tragic error in judgment.”

“Human judgment will always enter in, and I guess we will always have to accept that occasionally mistakes like this will be made.”

…”after a lot of discussions someone made a tragic error in judgment and whoever made that error is probably the most heartbroken person around right now,” he said.

Most of these issues have already been addressed by the Blogmeister.  Please see those older posts by searching for “Tajanay Bailey” in the upper right hand corner.

Going After the Owners of Phoenix Apartments

The Indianapolis Star reports in this story that the Indianapolis Housing Authority is going after the company that owns Phoenix Apartments.  This was the apartment complex where three year old TaJanay Bailey was allegedly beaten to death by her mother, Charity Bailey and her boyfriend, Lawrence Green.  Her death followed a return from foster care three weeks earlier and led to the Department of Child Services releasing her records.  Those records showed a supervisor minimized concerns, including those about Phoenix, and returned her to her mother.

The housing authority “wants Connecticut-based RCM Phoenix Partners to return more than $300,000 in federal welfare rent payments for failing to evict unruly tenants and disclose business problems in other cities.”

“Phoenix Apartments, the Northeast side complex that includes the residential block with the most violent crime in the city, was being scrutinized by the agency before TaJanay’s death last week.”

But they still allowed people to live there.  Nice. 

An agency study shows police have received 421 crime reports from residents of the Phoenix Apartments in the past 18 months.

Police say it’s a haven for wanted criminals and stolen cars. Bullets holes have been visible on exterior walls, and residents describe units with mice and cockroaches and frequent plumbing problems.

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Among the 421 crime reports at the Phoenix compiled by the Housing Agency are 26 assaults, three with a gun, along with 18 burglaries, 10 drug investigations, 26 vandalism reports and 61 warrant arrests.

In recent years, the Housing Agency has taken administrative actions against about 55 landlords, Myers said. Of those, half have returned the federal welfare rent payments, a quarter have been prosecuted for criminal acts and the remainder dropped out as welfare landlords.

There is a great story here with extensive background and photos.   The Blogmeister can’t understand how the Housing Authority could allow anyone to live there after seeing these photos.

Lilly Hires Firm to Soothe Psychiatrists’ Concerns

According to the Indianapolis Star, Eli Lilly’s antipsychotic drug Zyprexia is the target of thousands of legal claims.   Lilly is attempting to reassure psychiatrists they do not face higher malpractice risk for prescribing the best selling drug.

“The company has hired a medical education company, Professional Risk Management Services of Virginia, to help spread the message that psychiatrists can manage risk.

The company recently mailed a 14-page brochure to psychiatrists across the U.S. with the message that the best way to avoid malpractice claims is to provide good care and document it carefully.

The program includes a 21-minute online slide show. The program does not mention Zyprexa or other drugs by name.

Lilly acknowledged Friday that some psychiatrists are concerned about being dragged into lawsuits.

“Psychiatrists have an increasing level of anxiety about malpractice and medication prescribing, and a lot of this is heightened by all the plaintiffs’ lawyers running everywhere,” said Lilly spokeswoman Marni Lemons.

The drug maker has paid more than $1 billion to settle tens of thousands of patient claims that it hid or downplayed the side effects of Zyprexa. Many patients said the drug gave them diabetes symptoms, including weight gain and higher blood sugar levels. Lilly has steadfastly denied that, despite agreeing to several rounds of settlements.

Lemons declined to say how much Lilly spent to hire the medical education company.

Lilly faces lawsuits from several states, including Alaska, Mississippi, Louisiana and West Virginia, that seek to recoup Medicaid money spent caring for Zyprexa patients.

The antipsychotic is Lilly’s top-selling drug, generating $4.2 billion in sales last year. But sales growth has been slowing, and Lilly executives told analysts this week that the company’s dependence on Zyprexa will diminish gradually as other products grow faster.

Lilly and the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare announced in June the results of a survey of 400 psychiatrists. The survey showed that more than half had patients who stopped taking antipsychotic medication or reduced their dosages based on fears raised by law firm advertising.

Lemons said initial feedback from psychiatrists who have participated in the program has been “overwhelmingly positive.”

But not all psychiatrists are sold. Dr. Daniel Carlat, a Massachusetts psychiatrist, criticized the program on his blog this week as “one of the more devious drug marketing campaigns in recent memory.”

“No psychiatrist who sees this is foolish or naive enough not to realize that the reason Lilly is doing this is because they’re having serious trouble with Zyprexa,” he said in an interview. “It’s obvious Lilly is just trying to do some damage control.”

More Indiana Kids Poor (part deux)

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette carries this story today.  The Blogmeister first posted on this on 11/26/07, but these statistics are even more clear.

More Indiana children faced hunger and poverty issues this year than last, according to data released by the Indiana Youth Institute this week.

While the percentage of children living in poverty in Allen County has risen slightly since 2004, from 16 percent to 16.8 percent, the institute said the rising number of public school students receiving free and reduced-price lunches indicates an increasing problem.

Students from families with annual incomes less than $26,845 qualify for free lunches, and since 2000, the number of children involved in the lunch program has increased 40 percent, according to the Indiana Youth Institute.

The number of children receiving reduced-price lunches has risen 30 percent during that time period. Students from families with incomes between $26,845 and $38,203 qualify for reduced-price lunches.

Hungry children are more likely to receive lower grades, be suspended or expelled, suffer from depression and have suicidal thoughts, said Bill Stanczykiewicz, president and chief executive officer of the Indiana Youth Institute.

The most recent numbers show that hunger is not limited to unemployed or homeless people. A quarter of working families in Indiana are considered low-income, and the majority of Indiana families who receive food stamps have one of more workers in them, Stanczykiewicz said.

As the numbers have risen, so too have the number of working poor seeking aid from Community Harvest Food Bank – many families that have never needed assistance before, Executive Director Jane Avery said.

“I have never seen it this tough,” said Avery, who has been with the food bank for more than 11 years.

About 77 percent of Indiana households receiving food stamps include at least one worker, and 25 percent of those households have two or more workers, according to the Indiana Youth Institute.

Nearly half the food stamp recipients in Indiana are children under 18, one of many statistics that trouble Avery.

“You look at hungry kids and the percentages, and you have to remember, every percent has a face with it,” she said.

Get Nichols, director of elementary administration for Fort Wayne Community Schools, said hunger is just one of many issues facing children in poverty.

More than half of FWCS students qualify for free lunches, and the district also sees that those children sometimes aren’t properly dressed for cold weather and may have to fend for themselves after school, Nichols said.

What’s more, low-income families tend to choose the cheapest foods, which are generally higher in calories and carbohydrates, she said.

Rep. Mae Dickinson to Retire, Effective Immediately

Most of the major papers are carrying news today of the retirement of State Rep. Mae Dickinson.  This one if from the South Bend Tribune.

Rep. Dickinson has represented the 95th District in the Indiana House since 1992.  Her resignation, effective immediately was brought on by wanting to spend more time with her family.

 ”The past 15 years have been an enjoyable and rewarding experience, and I leave with many fond memories,” Dickinson, 74, wrote in a letter to House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend. “Through your leadership and our team work, we have had a positive impact on the citizens of Indiana, particularly those in my central Indiana district.”

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“Her husband, Valjean Dickinson, served in the Indiana House in 1965, representing St. Joseph County. Her father-in-law, Jesse Dickinson, represented St. Joseph County as a member of the Indiana House from 1943-45 and 1951-57 and the Indiana Senate from 1959 to 1961.

Earlier this year, she authored a new state law that will help develop greater use of kinship care projects, which assist in situations where a relative or non-relative provides care for a child in the absence of a parent.

Other laws authored by Dickinson provided protections for people testifying in criminal trials, toughened penalties against people convicted of domestic battery, and required school corporations to obtain criminal history information for individuals seeking employment.

It will be up to Democratic precinct committee members in District 95 to choose Dickinson’s successor.”

Cleaning out the RSS Feed Barrel

 Most days, the Blogmeister doesn’t get to all the news stories he wants to.  Here are all the stories and posts the Blogmeister either didn’t get to, or were deemed interesting, but not worthy of the Blog, over the past week.

Foster mother of 45 gets help in time of need  
Read This Story: What The Guv’s Tax Plan May Mean For Marion County 
The Fallen Mighty: Allen County GOP Short On Cash After Election  
Kenley Has Devoted Years To Tax Reform, Proposals 
County executive concept develops  :Commissioners back idea; plan may go to legislature.  
Harper’s findings 
Report Ready on Trimming Government
Late filings cost Burton’s PAC $4,450 
Supreme Court will decide Indianapolis case 
Daniels appeals FEMA aid decision 
Suicidal molester sentenced 
Gloomy Hoosiers Opinion 
Senators urging welfare overhaul 
Children dying for lack of child-sized drugs   
Always aroused: A good thing gone awry
Indiana lawmakers consider bill to eliminate township assessors office               
Senate skeptical about appointed assessors IndyStar.com        
Republican lawmaker’s support for Daniels’ tax plan is wavering?       
Local Concern: Kenley Cautious In Light Of New Circuit Breaker Data       
Now What? Tully Asks Readers To Chime In With Ways To Fix Phoenix       
Property tax plan to get another look     
Teacher’s post on blog leads to arrest, debate    
Dobson criticizes tax plan:  Commissioner says St. Joseph wouldn’t be able to function under Daniels’ proposal. 
Working ‘10 til 2′ aids at-home professionals 
Lawmaker calls for balance on taxes  
Coming to terms with conflict at the office
Losing virginity early or late tied to health risks 
How depressed is your state?    
Child abuse death isn’t the fault of system 
Brain glitch behind distortion of self-image 
Smaller babies grow up to be sadder adults 
Anorexia risk may start before birth 
Fever can unlock autism’s grip     

Kids Health, Bone Health Down

From the South Bend Tribune comes this story related to children’s health.  Apparently bone density is decreasing.

“Way back … as in rickets, the soft-bone disease of the 19th century — a condition that was supposedly eradicated with milk fortification.

Once you get past the initial shock, the reasons behind such disturbing news are all too clear: In this era of unhealthy fast-food diets, shortened or eliminated gym classes and summer days spent watching TV instead of playing outdoors, children simply are not drinking enough milk nor getting enough exercise or sunshine. Those three realities add up to children who aren’t building as much strong bone as they need. African-American children are especially at risk, given that skin pigment alters sun absorption.

The consequences are far-reaching, with bone specialists warning of the possibility of an increased risk of osteoporosis later in life.

On the heels of this discouraging news comes another study that may offer a bit of hope. Contrary to popular opinion, a University of Minnesota study has found that school lunch sales don’t suffer when healthier meals are on the menu.

The bottom line: Kids will eat healthy foods.”

12/7 Remembering Pearl Harbor

This isn’t mental health, and only a little politically related, but the Blogmeister was surprised at the dirth of remembrance information of the attack on Pearl Harbor yesterday.  Please try to remember those who were killed in the attack and thank a WWII veteran for their service.  It seems very timely to remember those who protected our country then, as now. 

Current Bills and Resolutions

Here are the current Bills and Resolutions members of the legislature have filed so far.  As the legislative season gears up, this list will get longer, so check back often.

You can also see the list on the www.in.gov site.

More details are provided if you click on the bill or resolution.

Senate

• SB 0001 — Limits on school and child welfare levies.
• SB 0012 — Credit for excessive property taxes.
• SB 0013 — Standardized public school building plans.
• SB 0014 — Elimination of state property tax levies.
• SB 0015 — Property tax credit and deduction filing deadlines.
• SB 0016 — Property tax assessing duties.
• SB 0017– Redevelopment commissions and TIF.
• SB 0018 — Limitations on debt.
• SB 0019 — Income tax withholding.
• SB 0020 — Eliminate certain levy limit exclusions.
• SB 0021 — Additional 2007 homestead credit.
• SB 0021 — Additional 2007 homestead credit.
• SB 0022 — Teacher licensing.
• SB 0023 — Animal fighting contests.
• SB 0024 — Teachers on school committees.
• SB 0025 — Ordinances regulating confined feeding.
• SB 0026 — Smoke detectors in rental properties.
• SB 0027 — Cooling off period for domestic battery.
• SB 0028 — Fire safe cigarettes.
• SB 0029 — Shooting ranges and discharging a firearm.
• SB 0030 — Special death benefit for chaplains.
• SB 0031 — State highway rights-of-way.
• SB 0032 — PERF vesting period.
• SB 0033 — State police supplemental benefit.
• SB 0034 — Daylight saving time.
• SB 0035 — Public work projects.
• SB 0036 — Taxation of civil service annuities.
• SB 0037 — Rights-of-way for state highways.
• SB 0038 — School year.
• SB 0039 — Responsibility for implementing natural resources doctrine.
• SB 0040 — Permits for shoreline activities.
• SB 0041 — Public freshwater lakes.
• SB 0042 — Select joint commission on Medicaid oversight.
• SB 0043 — Environmental matters.
• SB 0044 — Confined feeding operations.
• SB 0045 — Great Lakes Compact.
• SB 0046 — Environmental restrictive covenants.
• SB 0047 — Death penalty.
• SB 0048 — Grandparent visitation.
• SB 0049 — Academic progress test.
• SB 0050 — Public employees’ retirement fund multiplier.
• SB 0051 — Reemployment of retired teachers.
• SB 0052 — Free and reduced fee library cards.
• SB 0053 — Temporary traffic control zone speed limits.
• SB 0054 — Representation of judges in mandate litigation.
• SB 0055 — Average of the annual compensation for PERF.
• SB 0056 — Flag protocol for combat deaths.
• SB 0057 — Forensic diversion funding.
• SB 0058 — Time limit for use of higher education grants.
• SB 0059 — Legislative gift reports.
• SB 0060 — Presidential electors.
• SB 0061 — Concentrated animal feeding operation construction.
• SB 0062 — Posting notice of foreclosure sale.
• SB 0063 — State funding for HIV/AIDS prevention.
• SB 0064 — Public employees’ retirement fund multiplier.
• SB 0065 — Possession of handguns.
• SB 0066 — Firearms in locked vehicles.
• SB 0067 — Uniform common interest ownership act.
• SB 0068 — Absentee voting.
• SB 0069 — Parental leave for school conferences.
• SB 0070 — Qualified child care expenditure tax credits.
• SB 0071 — School year.
• SB 0072 — PERF annuity savings accounts.
• SB 0073 — Penalties for overweight vehicles.
• SB 0074 — Police and firefighter merit systems.
• SB 0075 — License suspensions for gang or graffiti offenses.
• SB 0076 — Review of privatization plans.
• SB 0077 — Funeral planning.
• SB 0078 — Probate and trust matters.
• SB 0079 — Sexual predators and networking sites.
• SB 0080 — Length of school year.
• SB 0081 — Transfer on death conveyances.
• SB 0082 — Taxation of civil service annuities.
• SB 0083 — Motor vehicle violations report.
• SB 0084 — Sex offender notification.
• SB 0085 — Ballistic knives.
• SB 0086 — Sex and violent offender registry.
• SB 0087 — Type II gaming.
• SB 0088 — Lake management work group.
• SB 0089 — Regulation of loan brokers.
• SB 0090 — Operating while intoxicated offenses and procedures.
• SB 0091 — Foster care sibling visitation.
• SB 0092 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0093 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0094 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0095 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0096 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0097 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0098 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0099 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0100 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0101 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0102 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0103 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0104 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0105 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0106 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0107 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0108 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0109 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0110 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0111 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0112 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0113 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0114 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0115 — Vehicle Bill.
• SB 0116 — Vehicle Bill.

SB 0117 — Parole issues.

SB 0118 — DOC superintendent qualifications.

SB 0119 — Cell phone use while driving.

SB 0120 — Employer immunity for hiring offenders.

SB 0121 — Donations by local units to community foundations.

SB 0122 — Coverage for stereotactic radiotherapy.

SB 0123 — Grading and certification of meat products.

SB 0124 — Child seduction.

SB 0125 — Reentry courts and community transition.

SB 0126 — License plate cycle for certain plates.

SB 0127 — Local port authority eminent domain procedures.

SB 0128 — Equivalent jobs and wage discrimination.

SB 0129 — Notice of meetings.

SB 0130 — Conversion by failure to return rented property.

SB 0131 — Jurisdiction of university and college police.

SB 0132 — Definition of “serious bodily injury”.

SB 0133 — PERF COLA and thirteenth check.

SB 0134 — Consolidation of certain environmental and natural resources proceedings.

SB 0135 — Relocation of a riverboat.

SB 0136 — Challenges to a candidate’s eligibility.

SB 0137 — Public safety employees.

SB 0138 — Income tax withholding.

SB 0139 — Violation of probation.

SB 0140 — Tort claims against governmental entities.

SB 0141 — Sales tax exemption for college textbooks.

SB 0142 — Teacher professional development days.

SB 0144 — Residency of police officers and firefighters.

SB 0145 — Voter identification.

SB 0146 — Information preceding an abortion.

SB 0147 — Abandoned embryo adoption.

SB 0148 — Repeal of expiration dates for state offices.

SB 0149 — Coroner and deputy coroner training.

SB 0150 — Physical therapists.

SB 0151 — Checkoff for cancer research.

SB 0152 — Automated external defibrillators in health clubs.

SB 0153 — Extension of dentist instructor license.

SB 0154 — Regulated occupation definition.

SB 0155 — Study on domestic violence program.

SB 0156 — Communicable disease rules.

SB 0157 — Opioid treatment programs.

SB 0158 — Possession of firearms at state universities.

SB 0159 — Third party health service agreements.

SB 0160 — Environmental legal actions.

SB 0161 — Airline consumer advocate.

SB 0162 — Joint legal custody.

SB 0163 — Civil penalties for littering.

SB 0164 — Medicaid claim payments.

SB 0165 — Lobbying by former legislators.

SB 0166 — Mandated benefit task force.

SB 0167 — Crossing arms on school buses.

SB 0168 — Vehicle Bill.

SB 0169 — Health insurance reports.

SB 0170 — Community investment tax credits.

SB 0171 — Crimes against persons with a disability.

SB 0172 — Covenant marriage.

SB 0173 — Investment deduction.

SB 0174 — Absentee voting.

SB 0175 — INDOT bidding procedures.

SB 0176 — Courthouse preservation advisory commission.

SB 0177 — Medical examiners.

SB 0178 — Underground storage tank corrective actions.

SB 0179 — Bail and recovery agent continuing education.

SB 0180 — Child abduction and seduction.

SB 0181 — Order of priority for health care decisions.

SB 0182 — Occupational safety and health (IOSHA) violations.

SB 0183 — Carrying a handgun without a license.

SB 0184 — Use of DNA evidence.

SB 0185 — State rainy day fund reserves.

SB 0186 — Foreclosure of rental properties.

SB 0187 — Fetal development curriculum.

SB 0188 — Recovery for restraint of trade.

SB 0189 — Various issues concerning agriculture and animals.

SB 0190 — Title 15 recodification.

SB 0191 — Toilet facility access.

SB 0192 — Truth in music advertising.

SB 0193 — Impoundment of animals.

SB 0194 — Tuition and fee exemption for children of veterans.

SB 0195 — Motorists and insurance.

SB 0196 — Local government matters.

SB 0197 — Minority and women businesses.

SB 0198 — Towing and storage of abandoned vehicles.

SB 0199 — Environmental crimes.

SB 0200 — Department of environmental management matters.

SB 0201 — Alternate polling places.

SB 0202 — Licensure of genetic counselors.

SB 0203 — Information concerning state spending and revenues.

SB 0204 — Production of driver’s license.

SB 0205 — Candidates’ consumer credit scores.

SB 0206 — Prohibiting retention of certain access device data.

SB 0207 — Public records and criminal offenders.

SB 0208 — Deduction of tax payments from checking account.

SB 0209 — Toll road.

SB 0210 — Teachers’ retirement fund issues.

SB 0211 — Electronic copies of sentencing information.

SB 0212 — Expense advances to driver employees.

SB 0213 — Regional sewer districts.

SB 0214 — Qualifications for health facility administrator.

SB 0215 — Various election law matters.

SB 0216 — Crisis intervention training.

SB 0217 — Human and sexual trafficking.

SB 0218 — Study commission for single payer health coverage.

SB 0219 — Lactation support in the workplace.

SB 0220 — Employment of unauthorized aliens.

SB 0221 — Warning to pregnant women of tobacco use.

SB 0222 — Definition of contraception.

SB 0223 — Coal gasification and substitute natural gas.

SB 0224 — Various utility matters.

SB 0225 — Student media.

SB 0226 — Disposal of municipal utility property.

SB 0227 — Sexual assault victim advocate standards board.

SB 0228 — Qualified zone business contract goals.

SB 0229 — Commercial fertilizer law.

SB 0230 — Riverboat admissions tax for mental health.

SB 0231 — Oversight of public money.

SB 0232 — Property exempt from execution of judgments.

SB 0233 — Streamlined sales tax conformity.

SB 0234 — Public school transfers.

SB 0235 — Vote centers.

SB 0236 — Driving privileges of minors who commit felonies.

SB 0237 — Automobile franchise practices.

SB 0238 — Education service centers.

SB 0239 — Alcoholic beverage issues.

SB 0240 — Purchases of recycled components.

SB 0241 — Department of homeland security funds.

SB 0242 — Tax delinquent properties.

SB 0243 — Vehicle Bill.

SB 0244 — Vehicle Bill.

SB 0245 — Area plan commission executive director.

SB 0246 — Recreational trail liability.

SB 0247 — Home medical equipment licensing.

SB 0248 — Scholarship granting organization tax credit.

SB 0249 — Emergency medical services commission.

SB 0250 — Indiana Veterans’ Home.

SB 0251 — Local unit contracts for imported drugs.

SB 0252 — Disaster relief fund.

SB 0253 — Vehicle Bill.

SB 0254 — Vehicle Bill.

SB 0255 — Incentive payment reporting.

SB 0256 — Silicosis.

SB 0257 — Mechanic’s liens.

SB 0258 — Discharge of long term inmates.

SB 0259 — State and local spending caps.

SB 0260 — Finance in a consolidated city.

SB 0261 — False informing and DNA collection.

SB 0262 — Student attendance in former school corporation.

SB 0263 — Property tax deduction for the blind and disabled.

SB 0264 — County executive.

SB 0265 — Criminal gangs.

SB 0266 — Child support obligations of inmates.

SB 0267 — Income tax deduction or credit for property tax.

SB 0268 — Disposal of state owned real estate.

SB 0269 — Coverage for prosthetic devices.

SB 0270 — Jail inmate health care.

SB 0271 — Commercial driver’s license violations.

SB 0272 — Property tax benefits for trusts.

SB 0273 — Reimbursement of jail costs.

SB 0274 — Renames the department of workforce development.

SB 0275 — Mortgage lending issues.

SB 0276 — School debt.

SB 0277 — Dispensing drugs by pharmacies.

SB 0278 — Secretary of state investigations.

SB 0279 — Property tax assessment.

SB 0280 — Marion County government.

SB 0281 — Convictions and elections.

SB 0282 — Adult education programs.

SB 0283 — Online or mail renewal of driver’s license.

SB 0284 — Purchase price of certain medications.

SB 0285 — Removal of child receiving foster care.

SB 0286 — Ballast water and sediment in oceangoing vessels.

SB 0287 — Building standards.

SB 0288 — Various election matters.

SB 0289 — Property tax exemption for certain entities.

SB 0290 — Keys and lead safety.

SB 0291 — Labeling consumer commodities.

SB 0292 — Reporting of campus crime to neighboring law enforcement.

SB 0293 — Expungement of arrest records.

SB 0294 — Trustee duties concerning life insurance.

SB 0295 — Renewable energy standards.

SB 0296 — Madison County courts.

SB 0297 — Local government matters.

SB 0298 — Cost effectiveness analysis of state agencies.

SB 0299 — Victim confidentiality.

SB 0300 — Historic rehabilitation income tax credit.

SB 0301 — Power of attorney for a decedent’s body.

SB 0302 — Professional and occupational licensing.

SB 0303 — Native American Indian affairs commission.

SB 0304 — Arrest records.

SB 0305 — Controlled substances.

SB 0306 — Bias crimes.

SB 0307 — Various business matters.

SB 0308 — Safe distance when overtaking a bicycle.

SB 0309 — Restructuring county and township government.

SB 0310 — Death penalty and mental illness.

SB 0311 — Use of medically accurate information in school instruction.

SB 0312 — County executives.

SB 0313 — Animal cruelty.

SB 0314 — Department of agriculture.

SB 0315 — Long term care screening and counseling.

SB 0316 — Practice of veterinary medicine.

SB 0317 — Bail.

SB 0318 — Use of library capital projects fund.

SB 0319 — Determination of high school graduation rates.

SB 0320 –

SB 0321 — Veteran’s lifetime license to hunt, fish, and trap.

SB 0322 — Reporting of deaths to coroner.

SB 0323 — Retirement benefit adjustment.

SB 0324 –

SB 0325 — Election day registration.

SB 0326 — Credit time for tutoring inmates.

SB 0327 — Parental notice of abstinence-only education.

SB 0328 — Grading system for use in food establishment inspections.

SB 0329 — Judges’ pensions.

SB 0330 — Eligibility for long term care policy deduction.

SB 0331 — Health coverage for dependents.

SB 0332 — Medicaid disproportionate share providers.

SB 0333 — Government reorganization.

SB 0334 — Severe weather warning sirens.

SB 0335 — Illegal alien matters.

SB 0336 — Stroke prevention task force.

 House

• HB 1001 — Property tax relief.
• HB 1010 — Tax procedures.
• HB 1011 — Homestead circuit breaker.
• HB 1012 — Property tax relief.
• HB 1013 — Military service credit for teachers’ retirement fund members.
• HB 1016 — Unclaimed money.
• HB 1018 — Senior citizen property tax freeze.
• HB 1019– TRF cost of living adjustment.
• HB 1023 — Payment of solid waste disposal fee to county.
• HB 1024 — Renewal of consumer contracts.
• HB 1025 — Operating while intoxicated causing death.
• HB 1026 — Funeral trust funds.
• HB 1027 — Written informed consent in Spanish and English to abortion.
• HB 1028 — Phase out of property taxes for welfare expenses.
• HB 1029 — Reserve police officer training.
• HB 1030 — Tax deduction for stillborn child.
• HB 1031 — Public works projects.
• HB 1032 — Child seduction.
• HB 1034 — Age discrimination.
• HB 1038 — Time zone referendum.
• HB 1039 — Sales tax holiday.
• HB 1040 — Hidden compartments in vehicles.
• HB 1041 — Child and dependent care tax credit.
• HB 1042 — Intent to sell sexually explicit products.
• HB 1043 — Regulation of firearms during an emergency.
• HB 1044 — Livestock waste anaerobic digestion systems.
• HB 1045 — Courthouse preservation advisory commission.
• HB 1047 — Local time zone public question.
• HB 1048 — TRF pension credit for out-of-state service.
• HB 1049 — Time limit for use of higher education grants.
• HB 1050 — Income tax credit for textbook fees.
• HB 1051 — School corporation donations to foundations.
• HB 1052 — Motorist duties at accident scenes.
• HB 1054 — Coverage for individuals less than 24 years of age.
• HB 1055 — Assignment of benefits.
• HB 1056 — Smoking in passenger vehicles.
• HB 1057 — Smoking ban in certain public places.
• HB 1058 — Sex offender procedures.
• HB 1059 — Commercial fertilizer law.
• HB 1060 — Great Lakes compact.
• HB 1061 — Application of landlord-tenant statutes.
• HB 1062 — Architectural salvage material dealers.

HB 1064 — Partition fences.

HB 1065 — PERF beneficiary change after divorce.

HB 1066 — Recovery for indirect injury in restraint of trade.

HB 1067 — United States flag protocol for Indiana soldiers.

HB 1068 — Drivers of vehicles carrying school children.

HB 1069 — Local ordinances to reduce speed limits.

HB 1070 — Legislators’ defined contribution plan.

HB 1071 — Funding for voting machine replacement.

HB 1072 — Unlimited lifetime handgun permit endorsements.

HB 1073 — Sales tax exemption for college textbooks.

HB 1074 — Disarming a law enforcement officer.

HB 1075 — Abandoned embryo adoption.

HB 1077 — Funding for local Memorial Day celebrations.

HB 1078 — Redistricting commission.

HB 1079 — Subjects of educational discussion and bargaining.

HB 1080 — Homeowners associations.

HB 1081 — Resisting law enforcement.

HB 1083 — Hoosier Inland Port study.

HB 1084 — Taxation of civil service annuities.

HB 1085 — Whistle stop signs.

HB 1086 — Penalties for failure to pay state taxes.

HB 1088 — Student mobility rates.

HB 1089 — Fire sprinkler contractors and installers.

HB 1090 — Climate registry.

HB 1091 — Growth and development study committee.

HB 1092 — School starting and ending dates.

HB 1093 — Charity gaming.

HB 1094 — Sales tax exemption for vending machine sales.

HB 1096 — Various provisions concerning courts.

HB 1098 — Net metering and interconnection rules.

HB 1099 — Shortfall loans from the common school fund.

HB 1100 — Halloween enticement.

HB 1101 — Utility receipts tax.

HB 1104 — Fire protection district excess property tax levy.

HB 1105 — Transfer of property to fire departments.

HB 1107 — Cultural competency.

HB 1108 — Sheriff’s compensation.

HB 1112 — Learner’s permits and driver’s licenses.

HB 1113 — Birth certificate fraud.

HB 1114 — Town police officer residency.

HB 1115 — Wabash River heritage corridor commission.

HB 1116 — State agency fines and penalties.

HB 1117 — Coal gasification and substitute natural gas.

HB 1118 — Alcoholic beverages.

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  • HB 1119 — Public safety retiree reemployment.
  • HB 1120 — Prohibitions on certain detergents.
  • HB 1121 — Natural resources matters.
  • HB 1122 — Juvenile offenders and detention facilities.
  • HB 1123 — 911 call mischief.
  • HB 1124 — Sheriffs’ and deputies’ surviving spouse pension.
  • HB 1125 — Update of references to the Internal Revenue Code.
  • HB 1126 — Wrongful death or injury of a child.
  • HB 1127 — Ban on use of cell phones while driving.
  • HB 1128 — Indiana defense development corporation.
  • HB 1129 — Archeology.
  • HB 1130 — Kernan-Shepard study committee.
  • HB 1131 — Development agreement with riverboat owner or operating agent.
  • HB 1132 — Drug testing of public works contractor employees.
  • HB 1133 — Disaster worker health coverage.
  • HB 1134 — Sex offender Internet offense.
  • HB 1135 — Uniform power of attorney act.
  • HB 1136 — Tourism.
  • HB 1137 — Technical corrections bill.
  • HB 1138 — Cable programming arbitration.
  • HB 1139 — Higher education accountability and reporting.
  • HB 1141 — Child molesting.
  • HB 1142 — Residency of police officers.
  • HB 1143 — Farm vehicles.
  • HB 1144 — Failure to report a dead body.
  • HB 1146 — Bankruptcy and motor vehicle accident judgments.
  • HB 1147 — Life insurance and Medicaid.
  • HB 1149 — License agent service fees.
  • HB 1150 — Bringing alcoholic beverages to an outdoor concert.
  • HB 1151 — Home detention.
  • HB 1152 — Certain sex offenders and school property.
  • HB 1153 — Gaming in bars.
  • HB 1154 — Senior citizen property tax credit.
  • HB 1155 — Parent’s intestate share of child’s estate.
  • HB 1156 — Police and firefighter death benefits.
  • HB 1157 — Underground storage tank corrective actions.
  • HB 1158 — Captive raised game birds.
  • HB 1159 — Media production tax credit.
  • HB 1160 — Study of interception of gaming winnings.
  • HB 1161 — Taxation of military pension benefits or salary.
  • HB 1162 — City council youth adviser.
  • HB 1163 — Vaccines containing mercury.
  • HB 1164 — Property tax deduction for model residences.
  • HB 1165 — Homelessness, foster youth, and education.
  • HB 1166 — Notice of foreclosure sales.
  • HB 1167 — Hand held mobile telephone use.
  • HB 1168 — Confined feeding operations and manure haulers.
  • HB 1170 — Civil rights commission proceedings.
  • HB 1171 — Autism training for EMS personnel.
  • HB 1172 — Various professions and occupations.
  • HB 1173 — Ignition interlock devices.
  • HB 1174 — Military leave for state employees.
  • HB 1175 — Display of new driver status on motor vehicle.
  • HB 1176 — License plate replacement cycle.
  • HB 1177 — Tax credit for anhydrous ammonia additives.
  • HB 1178 — Controlled substances.
  • HB 1179 — Recovery for restraint of trade.
  • HB 1180 — Reconnection charges.
  • HB 1181 — Rate adjustment mechanisms for utilities.
  • HB 1182 — Sales tax exemption for agricultural equipment.
  • HB 1183 — Historic rehabilitation income tax credit.
  • HB 1184 — Scholarships for teachers.
  • HB 1185 — Indoor air quality.
  • HB 1186 — Public safety officer survivor insurance.
  • HB 1187 — Nonprofit corporations.
  • HB 1188 — Animal fighting contests.
  • HB 1189 — Uniform county innkeeper’s tax.
  • HB 1190 — Contraband in penal facilities; public nuisances.
  • HB 1191 — Personal information.
  • HB 1193 — Funding for adult education.
  • HB 1194 — Hunting on rivers in an area of high population density.
  • HB 1195 — Assessment of fault and compensatory damages.
  • HB 1196 — Various election law matters.
  • HB 1197 — Data breaches.
  • HB 1198 — Admissions preference for Indiana residents.
  • HB 1199 — Formation of townships.
  • HB 1200 — Injuries to or death of an employee.
  • HB 1201 — Elimination of townships outside Marion County.
  • HB 1202 — Abraham Lincoln license plate.
  • HB 1203 — Registration of certain school buses.
  • HB 1204 — Emergency alert system advisory committee.
  • HB 1205 — Joint legal custody.
  • HB 1206 — Environmental permits.
  • HB 1207 — Lobbying by former legislators.
  • HB 1208 — Referenda for bond issues and lease rentals.
  • HB 1209 — Review of sentences of certain habitual offenders.
  • HB 1210 — Teacher certification.
  • HB 1211 — Various home loan matters.
  • HB 1212 — Collective bargaining for public employees.
  • HB 1213 — Occupational health and safety training.
  • HB 1214 — Vehicle protection products.
  • HB 1215 — Common construction wage.
  • HB 1216 — Forensic data base for missing children.
  • HB 1218 — Eminent domain issues.