Voters May Eliminate Remaining Township Assessors HB 1035 / Chamber Supports Representative Jim Pressel (R-Rolling Prairie) and Rep. Karen Engleman (R-Georgetown) team up again to revive a bill that was heard but didn’t receive a vote during the 2021 legislative session. The House narrowly approved a similar bill in 2020, but the legislation wasn’t advanced out of the Senate [...]
Battery Energy Storage Systems Bill Provides Regulatory Certainty HB 1173 / Chamber Supports Representative Jim Pressel (R-Rolling Prairie) introduced sighting and safety legislations for utility scale battery energy storage that would be subject to approval by the Department of Homeland Security. The bill requires the operator of the battery storage to offer annual training that provides the fire department [...]
Legendary football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant is attributed the phrase, “Defense wins championships.” We can relate as many times the Indiana Chamber needs to engage on bills to stop them from becoming law. This session, there are numerous bills that could have an adverse effect on employers in Indiana. In the employment law area, it’s abundantly clear the Chamber [...]
Indiana lawmakers are considering changes to the state’s property tax system due to high assessments last spring that may result in high tax bills this year. The Association of Indiana Counties reported that assessed values increased by 15% from 2021 to 2022, compared to a 5% increase the year before. Legislators are proposing bills that range from mild tweaks [...]
House Bill 1002, authored by Rep. Chuck Goodrich (R-Noblesville), features a number of provisions that include expanding work-based learning opportunities, making high school graduation requirements more relevant to real-world expectations and creating funding flexibility for students to complete on-the-job-training and postsecondary credentials. The Chamber-supported bill was heard by the House Education Committee this week and a committee vote is [...]
For Indiana Chamber members that have an interest in environmental affairs or are in a heavily regulated industry, you have long heard me complain about lack of regulatory certainty surrounding the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. The changes in the definition and interpretations by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWFVRSQVup0 It may be early in this legislative session, but much activity is taking place by the Indiana Chamber’s government affairs team on your behalf. Of the utmost is advocating for our top policy priorities to better the state’s economic climate for your business. Our President and CEO Kevin Brinegar discusses these key policies. For more on the Indiana Chamber's [...]
Indiana Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Chris Johnston and State Budget Director Zachary Jackson recently presented Gov. Eric Holcomb’s FY 2024-25 budget plan (HB 1001) to the House Ways and Means Committee. The budget is balanced and provides flexibility in both years for the General Assembly to fund the Governor’s priorities and add in their own. The [...]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its intent January 5 to ban the use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts by initiating a rulemaking. A non-compete clause is a contractual term between the employer and an employee that prohibits the employee, under certain circumstances, from going to work for a competing employer or starting a competing business, typically within [...]
As anticipated, Sen. Liz Brown (R-Fort Wayne) reintroduced data privacy legislation that would be a win for both technology companies and Indiana consumers concerned about where their data goes online and how it is used. Her bill, Senate Bill 5, is a priority for Senate leadership. Currently, Hoosiers – and all Americans for that matter – have no federal data [...]
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