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March 09 2022

Sine die: Landmark tax bill, constitutional carry legislation await governor’s action as 2022 session ends

The Indiana General Assembly adjourned sine die after midnight Wednesday, sending a slate of bills to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s desk and signaling the end of the 2022 legislative session. Debate went on through Tuesday evening and into early Wednesday, much of it in the Senate on the “...”

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March 09 2022

Lee Hamilton commentary: Democracy takes it on the chin in redistricting

Around the country, states have been taking on the task of coming up with new lines for congressional districts. And with about two-thirds of the districts for the next decade mapped out, a recent New York Times analysis found something discouraging. The people drawing redist “...”

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March 08 2022

House concurs with Senate amendment removing new restrictions on absentee voting, sending HB 1116 to Gov. Holcomb

UPDATE: Stripped by the Senate of its most criticized provisions to discourage absentee voting, House Bill 1116 went to the governor’s desk Monday after the House concurred with the Senate amendment. A conference committee had been appointed to try to resolve the difference “...”

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March 06 2022

Legislators rush to send bills over finish line of 2022 session

As the General Assembly reaches the final week of the 2022 session, legislators are trying to finalize bills in conference committees. These committees, which are intended to iron out differences between the Senate-passed and House-passed versions of bills, are legislators’ las “...”

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March 04 2022

Senate leaves Holcomb veto intact while House sends legislation to end emergency order

Both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly sent some good news to Gov. Eric Holcomb Thursday—the Senate upholding his veto of last year’s ethanol gas labeling bill and the House sending him the legislation that he had requested to allow him to end the COVID-19 emergency or “...”

March 02 2022

‘We’re going to see a lot more people in Walmart open carrying:’ Constitutional carry provisions return in conference committee

As time and bill numbers dwindle on the 2022 session of the Indiana General Assembly, some legislators are flip-flopping legislation to give a permitless carry bill another chance. Republican conference committee members are pushing to make Senate Bill 209, regarding drug schedul “...”

March 02 2022

John Krull commentary: Behning, education and evasion

One of the most disheartening things about the education war in Indiana is that so little of the fighting is about learning. You know, the thing education is supposed to be about. Most of the jousting, in fact, now is about either control or finding someone else to blame. And mos “...”

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March 02 2022

“We are all God’s children:” Despite outcry, transgender youth athlete bill heads to governor

With Democrats offering passionate objections, the Indiana Senate Tuesday passed a much-debated bill that would prohibit transgender girls from participating on sports teams that match their gender identity, sending it to Gov. Eric Holcomb to veto or sign into law. Upon its third “...”

March 01 2022

‘Divisive concepts’ House Bill 1134 misses 2nd reading deadline, dies in Senate

Indiana teachers unexpectedly got what they have been advocating for during the General Assembly’s 2022 session—the death of House Bill 1134. After hours of Senate Republicans meeting in caucus and the bill being moved to the end of the Senate calendar twice, Senate sponsor “...”

February 27 2022

These incumbent legislators currently face no opposition in the primary or general elections

INDIANA SENATE Rick Niemeyer (R-Lowell) Liz Brown (R-Fort Wayne) Andy Zay (R-Huntington) Travis Holdman (R-Markle, Majority Caucus Chair) James Buck (R-Kokomo) Ron Alting (R-Lafayette) Jon Ford (R-Terre Haute) Eric Bassler (R-Washington) Clyde “Chip” Perfect (R-Lawren “...”