With a vote Friday night in the Indiana Senate, a bill banning abortion with only a few narrow exceptions cleared its final legislative hurdle. Less than an hour later, Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Senate Enrolled Act 1 into law, making Indiana the first state to change its abortion “...”
By Whitney Downard Indiana Capital Chronicle August 5, 2022 The House and Senate reached a deal for distributing more than $1 billion in surplus accounts and providing $75 million in direct appropriations and discretionary funding for social service programs in the wake of an a “...”
The Indiana House Thursday repeatedly voted down amendments from Republicans and Democrats alike to Senate Bill 1, a total ban on abortion with exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother, sending the bill to a final floor vote on Friday. As in the Indiana Senate last w “...”
By Whitney Downard Indiana Capital Chronicle August 3, 2022 The Senate and House chambers seem to be on opposite sides when it comes to proposals for funding social services and providing inflation relief to Hoosiers. Just one day after a House committee stripped and replaced t “...”
U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., was killed Wednesday afternoon in a two-car traffic accident in Elkhart County, authorities said. According to preliminary reports from the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department, Walorski, 58, was travelling in a car with two others when the “...”
An Indiana House committee approved the Senate-passed abortion ban Tuesday, sending it to the House floor with amendments including an exception to protect the health of the mother. In a 8-5 vote – along party lines except for Republican Cindy Ziemke of Oldenburg joining Democr “...”
If the conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court intended to smash America into fragments by overturning Roe vs. Wade, their plan is working splendidly. The just-completed demolition derby in the Indiana Senate demonstrates that. During a special session Hoosier legislators “...”
Public testimony on Senate Bill 1, which provides for a ban on abortion with exceptions only for rape, incest and to save the life of the mother, will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday before the House Courts and Criminal Code Committee. The Indiana House of Representatives held a brief se “...”
Senate Bill 1, a ban on abortion with exceptions only for rape, incest and to save the life of the mother, was passed by the Indiana Senate Saturday by the narrowest margin possible – one vote. The bill, passed 26-20 and with 10 of the Senate’s Republicans supermajority “...”
“Let me tell you, this is the great debate. People will remember what we did.” That’s what Sen. Michael Young (above), R-Indianapolis, said while giving closing remarks Thursday night for his Amendment 58, which would get rid of the rape and incest exceptions included in Se “...”
