On List: Enhancing Childcare and Career Readiness (INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce unveiled its upcoming priorities at the 2024 Indiana Legislative Preview today. A panel discussion featuring General Assembly caucus leaders from both parties headlined the event. “Enhancing our talent pipeline remains a critical focus,” says Indiana Chamber President and CEO-elect Vanessa Green Sinders. "We look forward to [...]
State lawmakers debated and passed two separate measures (Senate Bills 1 and 4) to improve the health metrics of Hoosiers this year. The debate quickly turned to how to fund these important pieces of legislation. From the onset, the Indiana Chamber believed the best way to improve in these areas – directly and with a dedicated funding stream – [...]
Gov. Holcomb and leaders of the Indiana General Assembly recently released their priorities for the 2023 legislative session. Included in these are much needed investments in Hoosiers’ physical and mental health. This past summer, the Governor’s Public Health Commission released an extensive report detailing Indiana’s lack of investment in health funding that has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the [...]
On List: Talent Attraction/Retention, Health Care Access, State Energy Plan (INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce is pushing for various efforts to help attract and retain talent in its 2023 policy agenda, which was unveiled today at the group’s annual legislative preview. A panel discussion featuring General Assembly caucus leaders from both parties headlined the event. “We hope [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iU7y9tQJ1c The 2021 version of the Indiana Vision 2025 Report Card is now available. Read the press release. The results: Both good (more improvements than not in raw scores) and not so good (declines in state rankings outnumber gains). Adam Berry has the overview. Full Report Two-page narrative Rankings summary
(INDIANAPOLIS) — Indiana’s generally attractive business climate remains a primary bright spot as outlined in the Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s Indiana Vision 2025 Report Card. However, lagging numbers in educational achievement, health care and new business formation leave much room for improvement. Furthermore, a per capita income ranking of 41st only improves to a middle-of-the-pack 24th when the state’s [...]
House Bill 1001, authored by Rep. Tim Brown (R-Crawfordsville), 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. The House Ways and Means Committee transformed the introduced budget bill, representing the budget devised and proposed by the administration, into a bill reflecting the [...]
(INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce is asking the state General Assembly to take steps in 2021 to reinforce Indiana’s status as an economic leader in order to help businesses and their workers emerge from the prolonged pandemic. At its virtual legislative preview today, the organization unveiled the specific policy actions it believes will have the most impact [...]
SB 1 – Tobacco and Vaping Smoking Age Authored by Sen. Ed Charbonneau (R-Valparaiso) Sponsored by Rep. Cindy Kirchhofer (R-Beech Grove) Prohibits a person who is less than 21 years of age from buying or possessing: (1) tobacco; (2) e-liquids or (3) electronic cigarettes. Makes conforming changes regarding enforcement provisions, sales certificates, prohibition of delivery sales and notices posted [...]
Senate Bill 202 (Worker’s Compensation), authored by Sen. Karen Tallian (D-Portage), cleared the Senate Pensions and Labor Committee by a vote of 5-1. This measure would increase benefits for injuries and disablements by 2% each year for three years, beginning on July 1, 2020. The Chamber believes that this is a very reasonable increase. However, this must be paired [...]
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