Westfield resident Scott Willis says it’s not an ideal time for him to be running for an Indiana Senate seat. But after he spent time in the fall canvassing the 20th district, he decided he couldn’t keep waiting to see if six-term Republican Sen. Luke Kenley would retire.
Kenley, a former grocery store owner who was first elected in 1992, said he is running for office again because he wants to work on a long-term funding solution for shoring up Indiana’s roads and infrastructure.
IEDC’s decision to leave all three winning regions in limbo about funding meant many more cheerleaders when the issue went to the General Assembly.
GOP leaders said Wednesday that the deal will be a two-year agreement expected to pump about $1 billion into highway and road spending while allowing local governments to implement their own vehicle registration taxes.
House Bill 1386, which would also tweak a 2015 law that deals with regulations for the vaping industry, was passed by Senate 63-30 on Monday.
Efforts by the Indiana House to finance infrastructure improvements by raising taxes increasingly appear to be doomed during the legislative session that wraps up this week.
Voters and politicos around the state have long called for Indiana to move up its presidential primary. But doing so requires solving logistical issues that have not been tackled.
The Indiana Senate on Tuesday cleared out the last of the measures it had on the calendar. The details of other more contentious bills will be negotiated between House and Senate leaders in the coming days in the hopes of reaching agreement.
Lawmakers have advanced a compromise that seems to appease both small poultry producers who are part of Indiana’s “farm-to-fork” movement and those who say they are worried about protecting public health.
A Senate committee stripped tax increases out of a road funding bill, but the House speaker says the legislature needs to look beyond just the next election.
One proposal that would give school districts authority to negotiate higher pay with individual teachers faces an uncertain fate after the Republican Senate leader pronounced it dead Thursday. Another measure is still alive in the House.
For years, the people concerned with drug abuse and alcoholism nibbled at it only on the margins. Most states, including Indiana, have been far more likely to throw drug users in prison than to get them treatment.
The proposed amendment would have made it legal for payday companies to offer six-month loans of up to $1,000 at an annual interest rate of 180 percent.
Legislators have approved replacing all the male pronouns in laws describing the duties of Indiana's statewide officeholders with gender-neutral terms.
Meth and heroin dealers in Indiana will face harsher penalties if they are convicted and have a criminal history under a bill passed by a state Senate panel Tuesday.
A bill long sought by Hoosiers who were adopted between 1941 and 1994 and denied their birth records passed the Indiana General Assembly on Monday and awaits the signature of Gov. Mike Pence.
Indiana would keep its authority to make its own environmental rules after a Senate committee passed an overhaul to a bill that would have let the federal government set all standards.
Sen. Michael Young, who's sponsoring the bill in the Senate, said the fetus provision is needed in light of state regulators’ recent fine against an Indianapolis-based medical waste disposal company that violated its state permit by accepting fetal remains.
The Indiana Election Commission is set Friday to hear a challenge to U.S. Rep. Todd Young's place on the ballot for the state's open U.S. Senate seat, after Democrats and his tea party-backed Republican primary opponent filed objections.
The measure is stalled in the Ways and Means Committee, but Speaker Brian Bosma says the governor’s help on a long-term road funding bill could get it moving.
