Articles tagged as: 2025 legislative session
February 5, 2025
Committee approves bill to assess math teacher prep programs, student performance
A national assessment shows Indiana students have not made significant gains in math in recent years. The proposed interventions are similar to what lawmakers approved last year in an effort to boost low reading scores.
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HSE, IPS, Carmel schools face huge cuts under Gov. Braun’s tax plan. Here’s how much your district could lose
Look up how much funding your school cloud lose if Gov. Mike Braun's property taxes reform plan is approved by lawmaker.
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2025
Legislation would tackle barriers for assisted living services — including Medicaid waiver waitlist
More than 10,000 Hoosiers are waiting for home- and community-based services through Medicaid waivers, including those waiting to go into assisted living facilities. A House committee approved a bill that aims to eliminate as many barriers to assisted living for older Hoosiers as possible.
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2025
One year later, lawmakers return to FSSA transparency language on attendant care
Last year, families of medically complex children found themselves at the center of the Family and Social Services Administration’s response to the 2023 Medicaid forecasting error. A House committee approved legislation that could provide more transparency as the agency makes changes to an important Medicaid waiver.
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2025
Housing advocates saw promise in a new evictions bill. Now they aren’t sure.
Housing advocates saw promise in a bill that would make it easier for renters to get some evictions sealed from their record. But they aren’t nearly as excited now after legislators in the Indiana Senate made a key change to the Republican-authored bill. Some worry the legislation wouldn’t make much of a difference at all.
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2025
Braun to local leaders on negative impact of property tax cut: 'Prove it'
Gov. Mike Braun sent a message Tuesday to local leaders who say his property tax proposal would decimate their budgets: “Prove it.”
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2025
Senate passes bills subsidizing small nuclear reactor development
The bills would allow utilities to pass along some of the costs of developing small modular nuclear reactors to their customers — even if the plants never get built or completed. So far, none of the ones in the U.S. have.
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2025
These 13 bills would change Indiana's K-12 education system
There are more than 30 bills in the Indiana General Assembly that could reshape the state's K-12 education system.
Read MoreFebruary 3, 2025
Faith leaders, bipartisan lawmakers rally support to end Indiana’s death penalty
Faith leaders and a bipartisan group of lawmakers gathered Monday at the Statehouse to rally support for a measure to repeal Indiana’s death penalty.
Read MoreFebruary 3, 2025
Indiana Senate passes bill to decriminalize fentanyl test strips, eliminate legal ‘gray area'
Indiana law classifies tools that test the “strength, effectiveness, or purity of a controlled substance” as paraphernalia. This created a “gray area” for fentanyl test strips. The Senate passed legislation to clarify tools that check for the presence of a substance would no longer be considered paraphernalia.
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