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HB 1049: Crimes involving fraud.
2024 · Authored · not reported from House committee
Increases the penalty for fraud to a Level 4 felony if the pecuniary loss is at least $100,000 or if the pecuniary loss is at least $50,000 and the victim is an endangered adult or less than 18 years of age.
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HB 1050: Concurrent jurisdiction of juvenile court.
2024 · Authored · not reported from House committee
Provides concurrent jurisdiction over adoption proceedings to the juvenile court in which a child in need of services (CHINS) proceeding, termination of parental rights (TPR) proceeding, or a juvenile delinquency proceeding is open or pending.
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HB 1052: Statute of limitations for certain sex crimes.
2024 · Authored · not reported from House committee
Allows the prosecution of Level 1 and Level 2 felony sex offenses to be commenced at any time.
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HB 1320: Building regulation.
2024 · Authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Defines, for purposes of the unsafe building law, a "building or structure".
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HB 1321: Tax sale procedures.
2024 · Authored · not reported from House committee
Provides immunity from civil liability and civil and criminal trespass to a person who is a tax sale certificate holder or an applicant for a tax deed who enters an abandoned or vacant property during the statutory redemption period to perform routine maintenance in order to remedy an existing or anticipated ordinance violation imposed by a political subdivision.
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HB 1001: Education and higher education matters.
2024 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Amends the definition of "eligible student" to include a sibling of a student with a disability with regards to the education scholarship account program (ESA).
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HB 1002: Enforcement of equal educational opportunity.
2024 · Co-authored · passed both chambers; vetoed by the Governor
Defines "antisemitism", specifies that the public policy of the state is to provide educational opportunities free of religious discrimination, and provides that antisemitism is discrimination on the basis of race, creed, religion, or national origin.
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HB 1004: Pension matters.
2024 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that a state employee may affirmatively elect to enroll in the deferred compensation plan prior to the auto enroll date on day 31 of the state employee's employment.
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HB 1158: County contracts.
2024 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that for counties other than Marion County, contracts entered into by the county (including contracts executed by county elected officers) must meet certain requirements.
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HB 1163: Certificates of public convenience and necessity.
2024 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that: (1) a rural electric membership corporation (REMC); (2) a nonprofit corporation that is an electric cooperative and that has at least one member that is an REMC; and (3) certain corporations resulting from a merger or consolidation of an REMC and a telephone cooperative corporation; are exempt from the requirement that a public utility obtain a certificate of public convenience and
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HB 1204: Publication of public notices.
2024 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Allows a political subdivision to publish notice in the print or electronic edition of a newspaper or locality newspaper that issues a print edition not more than three times a week.
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HB 1206: Voting by small water and wastewater utilities.
2024 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Amends as follows the statute setting forth the procedures by which certain small water or wastewater utilities may withdraw from and return to the jurisdiction of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC): (1) Specifies that a sewage disposal company that is subject to the jurisdiction of the IURC for having been issued more than one enforcement order from the department of environmental m
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HB 1207: Maximum levy determination.
2024 · Co-authored · not reported from House committee
Provides that Washington Township in Decatur County may increase its maximum township property tax levy for 2025 and thereafter.
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HB 1240: Criminal law issues.
2024 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Makes numerous changes to the criminal law, including: (1) changing references from "county prosecuting attorney" to "prosecuting attorney"; (2) specifying the membership of county school safety commissions; (3) removing and replacing the organized theft statute; (4) increasing the penalty for fraud and battery under certain circumstances; and (5) defining "abusive head trauma" and permitting it t
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HB 1277: State administration of federal BEAD program.
2024 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Specifies that the existing Indiana statute concerning the awarding of grants by the office of community and rural affairs for certain eligible broadband projects does not apply to subgrants awarded by the Indiana broadband office (office) under the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program (program).
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HB 1281: Vulnerable road users.
2024 · Co-authored · reported from House committee; no House third-reading vote
Requires the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) to suspend or revoke the current driver's license or driving privileges of an individual who is convicted of a moving traffic offense that causes the serious bodily injury or death of a vulnerable road user.
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HB 1300: Deadline to apply for standard deduction.
2024 · Co-authored · not reported from House committee
Provides that to obtain the homestead standard deduction for a desired calendar year in which property taxes are first due and payable, the statement to obtain the deduction must either be completed and dated in the immediately preceding calendar year and filed with the county auditor on or before January 5 of the calendar year in which the property taxes are first due and payable or, subject to a
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HB 1429: Low water crossings.
2024 · Co-authored · not reported from House committee
Defines "low water crossing" as a place where a road crosses a stream having a water level that is normally well below the level of the road but may in times of heavy rain rise above the level of the road to a depth that is difficult for the driver of an oncoming automobile to judge, creating the risk that the driver will attempt to cross at the crossing and the driver's automobile will become buo
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SB 238: Innkeeper's tax.
2024 · Sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Authorizes Jefferson County to impose its innkeeper's tax at a rate of 8% (instead of 5% under current law).
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SB 104: Veterinary medicine.
2024 · Co-sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Requires the state police department to disclose to the board of veterinary medicine (board) the criminal history or activity of veterinary license or certificate holders or applicants.
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SB 14: Right of certain persons to carry a handgun in the statehouse and state capitol complex.
2024 · Co-sponsored · passed the Senate only; did not pass the House (not reported from House committee)
Allows: (1) certain statewide elected officials; (2) members of the general assembly; (3) members of the Indiana lobby registration commission; (4) professional staff of the general assembly; and (5) employees of certain statewide elected offices; to carry a handgun in the statehouse or on the property of the state capitol complex under certain circumstances.
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SB 151: Statute of limitations.
2024 · Co-sponsored · passed the Senate only; did not pass the House (not reported from House committee)
Allows the prosecution of Level 3 felony rape and child molesting offenses to be commenced at any time.
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SB 20: Municipal riverfront development district permits.
2024 · Co-sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Specifies that the alcohol and tobacco commission may issue restaurant permits for a municipal riverfront development district established by a town.
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SB 5: Lead water line replacement and lead remediation.
2024 · Co-sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Specifies that, for purposes of the statute concerning the replacement of customer owned lead service lines by water utilities, a municipally owned utility includes a utility company owned, operated, or held in trust by a consolidated city.
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HB 1014: Public safety.
2025 · Authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Limits the total of the consecutive terms of imprisonment to which a defendant is sentenced for misdemeanor convictions arising out of an episode of criminal conduct.
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HB 1015: Qualified real property orders.
2025 · Authored · not reported from House committee
Defines a "qualified real property order".
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HB 1079: Property matters.
2025 · Authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that if a tenant does not claim the tenant's property within 45 days after receiving a certain notice, a warehouseman or storage facility may sell the tenant's property (current law requires a warehouseman or storage facility to wait 90 days).
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HB 1113: Fire protection districts.
2025 · Authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides, in certain circumstances, for the expansion of the purposes for which a fire protection district may be established.
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HB 1114: Driving without a license.
2025 · Authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Adds the following criminal offenses for an individual who knowingly or intentionally operates a motor vehicle on a highway and has never received a valid driver's license: (1) A Class A misdemeanor if the operation of the motor vehicle results in bodily injury.
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HB 1266: Statute of limitations for certain sex crimes.
2025 · Authored · not reported from House committee
Allows the prosecution of Level 1 and Level 2 felony sex offenses to be commenced at any time.
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HB 1267: Statute of limitations.
2025 · Authored · not reported from House committee
Allows for the prosecution of: (1) child molesting to be commenced before the date the alleged victim reaches 51 years of age; and (2) rape to be commenced within 15 years after the commission of the offense.
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HB 1477: Mobile home communities and manufactured homes.
2025 · Authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that, for purposes of the Indiana department of health's enforcement of statutes governing mobile home communities, if the owner of a mobile home community is provided written notice from a water utility that the mobile home community will be disconnected from water service, the mobile home community is in violation of the mobile home community's statutory obligation to provide water as o
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HB 1478: Pro bono legal services fee.
2025 · Authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Removes the sunset provision for pro bono legal services fees.
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HB 1623: Juvenile court matters.
2025 · Authored · not reported from House committee
Provides that, when a petition is filed for the appointment of a guardian for two or more minors or incapacitated persons who are children of a common parent, parent and child, or husband and wife, a separate petition must be filed for each minor or incapacitated person.
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HB 1007: Energy generation resources.
2025 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides a credit against state tax liability for expenses incurred in the manufacture of a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) in Indiana.
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HB 1066: Public work projects.
2025 · Co-authored · not reported from House committee
Provides that a board of aviation commissioners and an airport authority are subject to the same procedures as a school corporation for certain public work projects.
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HB 1088: Various probate matters.
2025 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Clarifies that a personal representative or the personal representative's agent shall serve a written or electronic copy of the notice of the estate administration on a creditor of the decedent within one month of the notice being published.
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HB 1107: Funding for family recovery courts.
2025 · Co-authored · reported from House committee; no House third-reading vote
Establishes the family recovery court fund and provides that money in the fund is continuously appropriated for the purpose of funding family recovery courts.
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HB 1115: Emergency possessory orders.
2025 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that under certain circumstances a landlord may file a petition for an emergency possessory order.
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HB 1167: Exceptions to paraphernalia statutes.
2025 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that the controlled substance paraphernalia statutes do not apply to items marketed to detect the presence of a drug or controlled substance.
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HB 1312: Public notices.
2025 · Co-authored · passed the House only; did not pass the Senate (not reported from Senate committee)
Requires the Indiana office of technology (office) to establish a state public notice website not later than July 1, 2026.
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HB 1384: Public defender benefits.
2025 · Co-authored · reported from House committee; no House third-reading vote
Allows an attorney who: (1) performs court appointed legal services on a full-time or full-time equivalent basis; (2) regularly performs court appointed legal services in more than one county that receives reimbursement from the Indiana commission on court appointed attorneys; and (3) is not eligible to join an employee health plan in any state or local unit; to participate in the state employee h
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HB 1466: Various agency administrative procedures.
2025 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that the department of natural resources is subject to the jurisdiction of the office of administrative law proceedings.
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HB 1496: State educational institution administration.
2025 · Co-authored · not reported from House committee
Prohibits use of public funds by a state educational institution for policies or programs and campus activities outside the classroom that: (1) advocate for campus diversity, equity, and inclusion; or (2) promote or engage in political or social activism.
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HB 1507: Low water crossings.
2025 · Co-authored · passed the House only; did not pass the Senate
Authorizes a local county road and bridge board to undertake low water crossing projects.
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HB 1554: Driving with suspended driving privileges.
2025 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Specifies that the penalty for a operating a motor vehicle while under a lifetime forfeiture of driving privileges is: (1) a Level 6 felony, if the forfeiture occurred before July 1, 2015; and (2) a Level 5 felony, if the forfeiture occurred after June 30, 2015.
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HB 1641: County government matters.
2025 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Allows an executive session to be held to communicate with an attorney, subject to the attorney client privilege.
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HB 1687: Probation transfers for sex or violent offenders.
2025 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Prohibits the transfer of a sex or violent offender's probation jurisdiction to another county in Indiana while the offender is required to register as an offender unless certain conditions are met.
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SB 142: Eviction issues.
2025 · Sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Allows a court to order, upon its own motion, that certain eviction records may not be disclosed.
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SB 151: Statute of limitations.
2025 · Sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Specifies that a prosecution for rape as a Level 3 felony that is barred by the statute of limitations may still be brought within 10 years from the discovery of DNA evidence.
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SB 222: Civil legal aid fund.
2025 · Co-sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Limits how a legal services provider may use funds from the civil legal aid fund.
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SB 281: Expungement.
2025 · Co-sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Specifies that certain records relating to juvenile offenses are accessible to a law enforcement officer acting within the scope of the officer's duties, and requires persons having custody of these records to take steps to ensure that these records are available in a timely manner.
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SB 292: Short line railroad tax credit.
2025 · Co-sponsored · passed the Senate only; did not pass the House (not reported from House committee)
Allows a taxpayer to claim a credit against state income tax liability for certain qualified railroad expenditures and qualified new rail infrastructure expenditures.
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HB 1025: County policies.
2026 · Authored · passed both chambers in some form; final version not enacted
Specifies that county residency requirements do not apply to: (1) public defenders (except for the chief public defender); (2) employees of a public defender office; (3) judicial officers; or (4) court personnel.
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HB 1118: Expungement.
2026 · Authored · passed the House only; did not pass the Senate (not reported from Senate committee)
Repeals and replaces the existing adult expungement statute with a new expungement process that makes certain changes to: (1) time periods for filing expungement; (2) crimes that are eligible for expungement; and (3) other procedural matters relating to expungement.
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HB 1249: Various criminal law matters.
2026 · Authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that if a person has one prior OWI conviction, the court shall order that the person be imprisoned for at least 10 days or perform community service, and if a person has two prior OWI convictions, the court shall order that the person be imprisoned for at least 20 days or perform community service.
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HB 1283: Public notices.
2026 · Authored · reported from House committee; no House third-reading vote
Requires the Indiana office of technology (office) to establish a state public notice website not later than July 1, 2028.
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HB 1284: Local income taxes.
2026 · Authored · not reported from House committee
Provides that within a county's total expenditure rate, the county may adopt: (1) up to a 0.7% rate (instead of a 1.2% rate) for county general purpose revenue; (2) up to a 0.2% rate (instead of a 0.4% rate) for fire protection and emergency medical services; (3) up to a 0.2% rate for nonmunicipal civil taxing unit general purpose revenue; and (4) up to a 1.9% rate (instead of a 1.2% rate) for cer
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HB 1032: Redistricting.
2026 · Co-authored · passed the House; defeated on third reading in the Senate
Allows the general assembly to amend congressional districts at a time other than the first regular session of the general assembly convening immediately following the United States decennial census.
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HB 1045: Restricted access of certain offenders to parks.
2026 · Co-authored · not reported from House committee
Provides that the offense of unlawful entry by a serious sex offender includes a serious sex offender knowingly or intentionally entering a public park.
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HB 1055: Municipal elections.
2026 · Co-authored · passed the House only; did not pass the Senate
Moves, as a general rule, elections of town officers to even-numbered years.
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HB 1056: Resisting law enforcement conflict resolution.
2026 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Resolves a conflict between HEA 1014-2025 and HEA 1637-2025.
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HB 1161: Local government matters.
2026 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that individuals who are appointed to certain boards, committees, or other bodies in a county that does not have a consolidated city, serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority as long as: (1) the officeholder who appointed the individual continues to hold the office; or (2) the board, committee, or body that appointed the individual retains all of the same members who served when
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HB 1163: Prosecuting attorneys retirement fund COLA.
2026 · Co-authored · not reported from House committee
Provides for an annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) for participants of the prosecuting attorneys retirement fund based on the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.
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HB 1186: Restrictions on the sale of public utilities.
2026 · Co-authored · not reported from House committee
Prohibits a public utility from: (1) selling, assigning, transferring, leasing, or encumbering its franchise, business, or property; or (2) selling, assigning, or transferring any shares of its stock; to a prohibited person.
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HB 1250: Public safety procedures.
2026 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Requires the department of correction to electronically notify, at least seven days in advance, the: (1) county sheriff; (2) prosecuting attorney; and (3) chief of police; of the county or municipality into which the department will release a serious violent felon, including a juvenile adjudicated for an act that would be a serious violent felony, and of the county or municipality where the seriou
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HB 1269: Unlawful proposition penalties.
2026 · Co-authored · passed the House only; did not pass the Senate (not reported from Senate committee)
Provides that at the time of sentencing for a person convicted of making an unlawful proposition the court may require the person to complete a prostitution offender program approved by the court.
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HB 1286: Military protective order.
2026 · Co-authored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Specifies that a party to a protective order proceeding has a duty to inform the court of any military protective orders issued by a military commander in effect between the parties.
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HB 1311: Obtaining copies of recorded documents.
2026 · Co-authored · passed the House only; did not pass the Senate (not reported from Senate committee)
Prohibits a person from using the person's own equipment to copy a recorded document.
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HB 1344: Funding of prosecuting attorney operations.
2026 · Co-authored · reported from House committee; no House third-reading vote
Establishes the public prosecution fund and a prosecuting attorney compensation fee (a court fee) of $10 for certain actions and $50 for certain actions which will be deposited in the state general fund.
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HB 1411: Tax sale procedures.
2026 · Co-authored · not reported from House committee
Reduces the period to redeem tax sale property as follows: (1) For real property sold to a land bank, the redemption period is six months (rather than one year).
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HB 1417: Causes of action and damages.
2026 · Co-authored · passed the House only; did not pass the Senate
Establishes a tort reform commission.
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HB 1432: Death sentence and intellectual disabilities.
2026 · Co-authored · passed the House only; did not pass the Senate (not reported from Senate committee)
Establishes a procedure to determine pretrial whether a defendant in a death penalty case has an intellectual disability.
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SB 140: Public safety.
2026 · Sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Amends the definition of "threat" in the intimidation statute to include posting a person's personal information on a social media platform with the intent to cause: (1) bodily injury to the person; (2) damage to the person's property; or (3) the commission of a crime against the person.
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SB 197: Garnishment.
2026 · Sponsored · passed the Senate only; did not pass the House (not reported from House committee)
Amends the limitation on garnishment provided in the Uniform Consumer Credit Code.
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SB 284: Law enforcement civilian oversight boards.
2026 · Sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Provides that any type of law enforcement civilian oversight board or commission or any other entity established by a county, municipality, or township to provide civilian oversight over a law enforcement agency, excluding merit boards and commissions, may operate only in an advisory capacity to the applicable law enforcement agency and does not have binding authority over the law enforcement agen
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SB 285: Housing matters.
2026 · Sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Requires the Indiana housing and community development authority (authority) to establish eligibility criteria for a potential recipient to be included in the authority's application for funding under the federal continuum of care program (program).
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SB 246: Redaction of court records.
2026 · Co-sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Requires the names and specified other information of child victims, child witnesses, and certain other persons to be redacted in criminal actions.
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SB 250: Regulation of hemp.
2026 · Co-sponsored · passed the Senate only; did not pass the House
Defines "THC" for purposes of Indiana alcohol and tobacco law.
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SB 27: Stadium authority.
2026 · Co-sponsored · enacted: signed by the Governor
Establishes the northwest Indiana stadium authority (stadium authority) for the purpose of acquiring and financing certain facilities.
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SB 91: Syringe exchange program.
2026 · Co-sponsored · enacted: became law without the Governor's signature
Prohibits a qualified entity that operates a syringe exchange program (program) from establishing or operating a fixed site for the distribution or exchange of a syringe or needle within 1,000 feet of specified facilities.