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Bill Tracking List for the 2004 Session
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2004 |
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Senate
Bill Tracking List for the 2004 Session
SR
04 Early Graduation from High School
with Sufficient Credits
Author/Co-Authors: Dillon
(Committee on Education and Career Development)
A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the department of education to
study the possibility of early graduation from high school
for students with sufficient credits and the advancement of
elementary school students at a pace in accordance with their
abilities.
1/22/04
DP 9-0
1/26/04 Senator Wyss added as coauthor
1/26/04 Senators Lubbers and Ford added as coauthors
2/02/04 Second reading: adopted Voice Vote
SR
23 Asking IDEM to Notify Schools of Unsafe
Waters
Author/Co-Authors: Gard
(Committee on Environmental Affairs)
A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the Indiana Department of Environmental
Management to ensure that faculty, staff, students, and parents
are promptly notified when contaminants that are potentially
dangerous to the public health are found in the drinking water
at their school.
3/03/04
DP
3/04/04 Second reading: adopted Voice Vote
3/04/04 Senators Landske and Hershman added as coauthors
SB
01 Property Taxes
Author/Co-Authors: Borst, Hume
(Committee on Finance)
Authorizes investment of state funds, including the common
school fund, in certain obligations of the Indiana bond bank.
Authorizes the department of local government finance (DLGF)
to take over the 2003 general reassessment process (including
the equalization study) in a county if the county's equalization
study was not submitted to the department before October 20,
2003 or if DLGF determines that the county's reassessment
is likely to be inaccurate. Provides that after December 31,
2004, the sales disclosure forms and data forwarded by local
assessors to DLGF and the legislative services agency must
be provided in electronic format. Provides that money in the
assessment training fund may be used to cover expenses incurred
by DLGF for training and examination programs. For property
taxes and special benefits taxes payable after 2003 and based
on the most recent general reassessment, adjusts maximum rates
that were not adjusted for taxes payable in 2003. Provides
for an adjustment of the maximum rate each time an annual
assessed value adjustment or a general reassessment takes
effect. Eliminates the banking of unused levy allowances in
calculating the maximum permissible property tax levy for
a civil taxing unit and for certain funds. Eliminates authority
to adjust assessed values to reflect the effects of appeals
of assessments. Provides that the initial step in the appeal
of a property assessment is a written request by the taxpayer
for a preliminary conference with a county or township assessing
official. Provides that the written request need not be on
a DLGF form. Notwithstanding a property assessment agreed
to by the township assessor and the taxpayer in resolution
of an appeal to the county property tax assessment board of
appeals, permits the board to determine its own assessment
under its authority to assess property for the current year.
Eliminates the requirement for a taxpayer to file a claim
for refund after a successful assessment appeal. Eliminates
the property tax appeal provision that permits local units
to reallocate CAGIT property tax replacement credits for a
purpose other than property tax relief. Provides for deposit
in a taxing unit's levy excess fund of property tax collections
in excess of 100% (instead of 102%) of the unit's levy. Requires
the state board of accounts to design a standard form of the
petition that is used to initiate the petition and remonstrance
procedure. Provides that the petition requires the signatures
of the lesser of 100 or 5% of the property owners in the political
subdivision (instead of 250 or 10%). Prohibits a political
subdivision (including a school corporation) from taking certain
actions to promote a position on a petition for or remonstrance
against a bond issue or lease. Prohibits a person from soliciting
or collecting signatures for a petition or remonstrance on
property owned by a political subdivision. With respect to
the review of budgets and levies of taxing units that have
a governing body comprised primarily of appointed members
and propose to increase their property tax levies by more
than 5%, adds library districts to the entities subject to
review and authorizes reduction of the proposed levy to an
amount that is less than the maximum permissible levy. Allows
counties to issue provisional tax statements if the abstract
is not delivered in a timely manner. Authorizes DLGF to waive
the provisional tax statement requirement under certain circumstances.
Provides that county assessors, township assessors, and trustee
assessors who do not meet certain certification requirements
forfeit their offices. Requires DLGF to give the examinations
for certification in an open book format. Increases the cap
on the income tax deduction for property taxes paid on a principal
place of residence for homeowners who pay property taxes imposed
for the March 1, 2002 or January 15, 2003 assessment dates
in 2004. Legalizes and validates any action taken by DLGF
before January 1, 2004, to extend the deadline for filing
an assessment appeal to the county, to allow the payment of
property taxes in installments, or to waive a late payment
penalty. Permits an individual who was eligible for but did
not apply for a homestead credit or certain property tax deductions
for taxes payable in 2004 to apply before December 15, 2003.
Requires DLGF to study the feasibility of creating uniform
and common computer software programs for property tax assessment
purposes, including computer software programs that allow
the sharing and transfer of assessment data in a uniform format
by the state and all counties. Allows, for the assessment
years 2002, 2003, and 2004, an appeal of a real property assessment
that is filed within 45 days after a taxpayer receives the
notice of change in assessment or the related tax bill, whichever
occurs first, to apply to the taxes imposed for that assessment
date and payable in the next year even if the appeal is filed
after May 10 of the assessment year. Requires, for property
taxes payable on homesteads in 2004, DLGF to provide each
county treasurer with the wording of a statement of the amount
by which the property taxes in the county were reduced by
actions of the general assembly to mitigate the effects of
the general reassessment. Requires the county treasurer to
include the statement with each tax statement mailed or otherwise
transmitted. Requires the commission on state tax and financing
policy to study elimination of property taxes and alternative
sources of revenue.
11/21/03
DPA 13-1
11/24/03 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
11/25/03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 11; Yeas 43 and
Nays 6
11/25/03 Title amended
11/25/03 Referred to the House
11/25/03 House sponsor: Rep. Crawford
11/25/03 Cosponsor: Rep. Espich
11/25/03 First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and
Means
12/02/03 DP 26-1
12/04/03 Second reading: ordered engrossed
12/05/03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 12: Yeas 67 and
Nays 30
12/05/03 Returned to Senate without amendments
12/09/03 Signed by the Speaker
12/09/03 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
12/10/03 Signed by the President of the Senate
12/12/03 Signed by the Governor
SB194
CHINS
Author/Co-Authors:
Dillon
(Committee on Criminal, Civil, and Public Policy)
Provides that a child is a child in need of services (CHINS)
if the child: (1) lives in the same household as another child
who is the victim of certain sex offenses; (2) lives in the
same household as the adult who committed the sex offense;
(3) needs care, treatment, or rehabilitation that the child
is not receiving and that is unlikely to be provided or accepted
without the coercive intervention of the court; and (4) has
been placed in or has been considered for placement in an
informal adjustment program. Establishes a rebuttable presumption
that a child is a CHINS if: (1) another child in the same
household has been the victim of a sex offense; (2) the offense
was committed by an adult living in the household; and (3)
the offense resulted in the conviction of the adult or a CHINS
adjudication concerning the child victim. Provides that a
child presumed to be a CHINS may not be taken into custody
unless a court finds cause following a hearing.
1/13/04
Senators Broden and Waterman added as coauthors
1/13/04 DP 8-0
1/15/04 Senator Clark added as second author
1/15/04 Senator Skillman added as coauthor
1/27/04 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2/02/04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 113: Yeas 49 and
Nays 0
2/02/04 Referred to the House
2/02/04 House sponsor: Rep. Orentlicher
2/02/04 Cosponsor: Rep. Ruppel
2/04/04 First reading: referred to the Committee on Judiciary
2/18/04 DPA 12-0
2/25/04 Second reading: ordered engrossed
2/26/04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 229: Yeas 96 and
Nays 1
2/26/04 Returned to the Senate with amendments
3/01/04 Senate dissented from House amendments
3/01/04 Senate conferees appointed: Dillon and Broden
3/01/04 Senate advisors appointed: Clark and Skinner
3/02/04 House
conferees appointed: Orentlicher and Ruppel
3/02/04 House advisors appointed: Kuzman and Noe
3/03/04 Conference committee report 1: filed in the House
3/04/04 Conference committee report 1: adopted by the Senate;
Roll Call 315: Yeas 46 and Nays 0
3/04/04 Rules suspended
3/04/04 Conference committee report 1: adopted by the House;
Roll Call 277: Yeas 91 and Nays 0
3/09/04 Signed by the President of t |
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