Lawmakers are eliminating barriers for medical providers to address an industry-wide shortage of health workers. Legislation headed to the Gov. Eric Holcomb would also establish requirements for the states new Medicaid program.

Pet stores will be able to sell dogs anywhere in Indiana, even in communities where those sales are banned by local ordinances, under a bill Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law Monday.

An amended House bill that requires school corporations to release students for religious education during the school day passed the Senate this week. However, both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly need to agree on a final version of the bill before it can be sent to the governor.

Senate lawmakers approved the Houses amendments to a reading retention bill this week. It now goes to the governor to sign into law.

A bill that would have decriminalized a common harm reduction tool used to test for the presence of fentanyl in other substances is likely dead this session after it did not receive a committee hearing in the Senate.

Language to disqualify candidates for attorney general if they face certain sanctions to their law license was removed from a bill on the Senate floor this week.

The higher education bill that academics say guts tenure protections heads to the desk of Gov. Eric Holcomb.

It passed the Senate Thursday 33 to 12.

Indiana lawmakers passed legislation Thursday that expands the power of the state to verify voters' addresses and adds an additional residency requirement for first-time voters.

Legislation headed to the governors desk will provide state and local election officials more ways to potentially remove people from the voter rolls.

The House approved several amendments to a fiscal bill Thursday to address transparency concerns around the Family and Social Services Administration. The amendments expand reporting requirements for the agency, but some of them may not make it into the final bill.