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Our VP Adam Berry Touts Senate Bill 4 to Benefit Workforce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjFS1rjASUY Our VP Adam Berry discusses the importance of Senate Bill 4 (authored by Sens. Travis Holdman and Jeff Raatz) in boosting workforce recruitment and retention efforts. The Chamber believes this will help give our communities the resources to attract talent and leave a lasting economic impact. Learn more about the bill: Senate Bill 4 - Local workforce recruiting [...]

2022-01-26T12:40:36-05:00January 20th, 2022|

EPA’s Intention to Revise Waters of the United States Definition; Sen. Young Leading Way on U.S. Emerging Technologies to Best China

On June 9, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army concluded their review of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule defining the term “waters of the United States” or WOTUS. As a result, the agencies have announced their intention to initiate a new rulemaking process that restores the protections in place prior to the 2015 WOTUS [...]

2021-07-01T08:55:25-04:00July 1st, 2021|

Senate Presents Own Budget; Let the Talks Begin

HB 1001 – State Budget Authored by Rep. Tim Brown (R-Crawfordsville) The budget bill appropriates money for the operation of the state, K-12 and higher education, the delivery of Medicaid and other services, and various other distributions and purposes. Chamber position: Support in Part The latest: The Senate Appropriations Committee finished reworking the House budget bill yesterday. Basically, it spends the [...]

2021-04-09T13:28:47-04:00April 9th, 2021|

Chamber Pushes Higher Cigarette Tax in Budget Bill Testimony; Senate Leader Later Nixes Tax Hike

HB 1001 – State Budget Authored by Rep. Tim Brown (R-Crawfordsville) The budget bill appropriates money for the operation of the state, K-12 and higher education, the delivery of Medicaid and other services, and various other distributions and purposes. Chamber position: Support in Part The latest: The Senate Appropriations Committee took public testimony on the budget this week. After earlier meetings [...]

2021-04-02T14:41:35-04:00April 2nd, 2021|

Federal Relations: Is the Filibuster Ripe for Change in Today’s Senate?

We’ve heard lot of discussion recently about efforts to end the filibuster in the United States Senate. The Indiana Chamber opposes such action because it can lead to those with a very slim majority not trying to work with the other party – whichever it may be – and ramming through more extreme policies that didn’t benefit from trying [...]

2021-03-26T14:19:30-04:00March 26th, 2021|

Senate Begins Work on Budget

HB 1001 – State Budget Authored by Rep. Tim Brown (R-Crawfordsville) The budget bill appropriates money for the operation of the state, K-12 and higher education, the delivery of Medicaid and other services, plus various other distributions and purposes. Chamber position: Support in part The latest: The Senate Appropriations Committee began hearings of the House-formed budget bill this week. The opening [...]

2021-03-19T13:17:05-04:00March 19th, 2021|

Federal Relations: Young Says Senate Republicans Committed to Getting Substantive Work Done

This week, U.S. Senator Todd Young spoke about his top priorities for 2020 during the weekly Senate Republican leadership press conference. “Hoosiers, like so many other Americans, want us to get substantive work done. … So, my priorities moving forward are going to be to deal with lowering health care costs, making sure that housing is more affordable for [...]

2020-01-10T13:23:10-05:00January 10th, 2020|

Budget Fireworks? … Don’t Count on Big Show

Let’s face it, there isn’t really that much disagreement between the Governor’s budget, the House budget and now the Senate budget. This is because they are all “balanced” and “maintain strong reserves.” They all fund schools and support teachers, etc. We shouldn’t be surprised that they are similar in most regards because these folks all work together throughout the [...]

2019-04-12T14:01:55-04:00April 12th, 2019|

Indiana Chamber Comments on Final Passage of Bias Crimes Bill 

(INDIANAPOLIS) — Indiana Chamber President and CEO Kevin Brinegar on the final passage of Senate Bill 198 containing hate crimes language: “The bias crimes legislation heading to the Governor is a big step in the right direction. Though the list is not as comprehensive as we had advocated for, what the Legislature has passed is still a meaningful hate crimes [...]

2019-04-02T17:04:54-04:00April 2nd, 2019|

Senate Majority Fails to Follow Will of Voters, Passes Generic Bias Crimes Bill

Senate Bill 12  – Sentencing and Bias Crimes Authored by Sen. Mike Bohacek (R-Michigan City) and Sen. Ron Alting (R-Lafayette) As amended, says the court may consider bias in imposing a criminal sentence. The Latest: Approved by the Senate Public Policy Committee 9-1 on Monday. On second reading on Tuesday, the list of protected categories was removed via a Senate [...]

2019-02-22T12:37:25-05:00February 22nd, 2019|