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| Issue | Number & Name | Summary | Text | Sponsor | Position | Last Activity |
| Voting | HB 1109 | Accessibility of voting locations. Requires that locations where a voter is entitled to cast an absentee ballot in person before election day meet the same accessibility requirements that apply to a polling place for a precinct. | Link to full text | Battles | Law Enacted | 03/17/2010: Signed by the Governor |
| Public Transportation | HB 1025 | Northwest Indiana transportation study commission. Establishes the northwest Indiana transportation study commission. Requires the commission to: (1) monitor the development of commuter transportation and rail service in the Lowell-Chicago and Valparaiso- Chicago corridors; (2) study all aspects of regional mass transportation and road and highway needs in northwest Indiana; (3) study northwest Indiana transportation, infrastructure, and economic development issues; and (4) study other topics as assigned by the legislative council. Provides that the commission consists of 14 voting members: six senators from northwest Indiana; six members of the house of representatives from northwest Indiana; one nonlegislator appointed by the northwestern Indiana regional planning commission; and one nonlegislator appointed by the Michiana Area Council of Governments. Provides that the commission does not expire. | Link to full text | Niezgodski | In Committee | 01/25/2010: Representative Harris added as coauthor, Reread second time: ordered engrossed |
| Civil Rights | SB 0190 | Discriminatory practice definition. Makes it a "discriminatory practice" to take adverse action against someone because they attempted to oppose a civil rights violation. (For example, it appears this bill would make it "discrimination" to fire someone because they opposed discriminatory hiring practices. This would allow multiple charges to be brought against them, making it easier to win a case.) | Link to full text | Boots | In Conference Committee | 03/01/2010: Senator Tallian removed as conferee; Senator Randolph removed as advisor; Senator Randolph added as conferee; Senator Skinner added as advisor |
| Veterans with disabilities. | HB 1121 | Establishes the Governor's Commission on Service Disabled Veteran Small Business, which would establish programs and set annual goals for the use of such businesses in government contracts. | Link to full text | Goodin | In Committee | 01/19/2010: Representative Barnes added as coauthor |
| Health coverage | SB 360 | Long term care services. Gives area agencies on aging flexibility in managing program funding. Allows spouses and parents of individuals who are at risk of being institutionalized to provide attendant care services. Prohibits a patient from being discharged from a hospital to a nursing facility in which certain representatives of the hospital have a financial interest unless the patient consents. Allows an area agency on aging to make presumptive eligibility determinations for the aged and disabled Medicaid waiver under specified circumstances. | Link to full text | Becker | In Committee | 01/14/2010: Senators Leising, Errington and Broden added as coauthors |
| Health coverage | HB 1114 | Requires local government units to provide and pay for health coverage for police officers who acquire disabilities in the line of duty, and for their spouse and children. | Link to full text | L. Lawson | In Committee | 01/12/2010: Representative Barnes added as coauthor |
| Voting | SB 0146 | Accessibility of voting locations. Requires that locations where a voter is entitled to cast an absentee ballot in person before election day meet the same accessibility requirements that apply to a polling place for a precinct. | Link to full text | Miller | In Committee | 01/05/2010 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections |
| 211 Funding | HB 1283 | 211 Funding. If a local government has excess funding for 911 services, they would be allowed to transfer funds to 211 services. (211 is a free phone number for information and referral, and helps connect people to services like health insurance, Medicaid and Medicare, food banks, and transportation. For more on 211, click here.) | Link to full text | VanDenburgh | In Committee | 01/12/2010: First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce, Energy, Technology and Utilities |
| Parking Placards | HB 1248 | Parking placards. Requires that a parking placard issued by the bureau of motor vehicles to a person with a physical disability must contain the final four digits of the person's driver's license or unique identification number. Makes it a Class C misdemeanor for a person, other than the person to whom a parking placard is issued, to use the parking placard to park in a parking space for persons with physical disabilities. | Link to full text | Neese | In Committee | 01/12/2010: First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code |
