HB 1461 / Chamber Supports The House Ways and Means Committee recently heard House Bill 1461, focused on enhancing funding for state and local road and bridge projects. Representative Jim Pressel (R-Rolling Prairie), the bill’s author, explained that the bill modifies the existing Community Crossings Matching Grant program by capping the total annual funding at $200 million, split evenly [...]
HB 1090 / Chamber Supports The last time seat belt admissibility legislation made it this far was in 2005 when the Indiana General Assembly passed Senate Bill 218, authored by former Sen. Johnny Nugent (R-Lawrenceburg). However, that bill met its demise after Gov. Mitch Daniels’ veto. That measure would have allowed juries to hear whether a victim was wearing [...]
INDIANAPOLIS – Hamilton is pleased to announce their involvement in a $500 million investment by the Indiana Department of Transportation and the United States Federal Highway Administration. The investment will be used to rebuild ten welcome centers located at different entry points to the state along the interstate. The first is the Clear Creek Welcome Center near Terre Haute, [...]
The Interim Committee on Roads and Transportation, chaired by Rep. Jim Pressel (R-Rolling Prairie), heard testimony from more than 40 witnesses during a four-hour committee hearing last week. The topic: driving cards for undocumented individuals. Driving cards are a substitute for drivers licenses and can aid in obtaining automobile insurance, but they cannot be used to vote, board an [...]
Earlier this month, the Indiana Chamber held its annual D.C. Fly-in event. This year was heavily agency focused, as a number of high-level administration and international speakers discussed issues. Indiana native Ted McKinney, United States Department of Agriculture undersecretary of agriculture for trade and foreign agriculture affairs, opened with remarks on agribusiness and the impacts of tariffs on agriculture. [...]
(via The New York Times) When Paine Field, about 25 miles north of Seattle in Everett, Washington, was born in the 1930s as a New Deal project, it was envisioned as a major commercial airport for the region. But that never happened. Instead, it became known as the place where Boeing offers “North America’s only publicly available commercial jet [...]
Senate Bill 517 – Utility Relocation for Road Projects Authored by Sen. Randy Head (R-Logansport) This bill provides that if a utility hasn’t acted – to comply, apply for a waiver or appeal – within 90 days after receiving an order from the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) to relocate utility facilities that will interfere with a planned construction [...]
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell addresses our Fly-in audience as Sen. Todd Young awaits his time at the podium. The Indiana Chamber’s annual trip to Washington coincided with all eyes on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing involving the Supreme Court nominee. On Wednesday night at the dinner portion of our event, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell [...]
Another Hoosier is headed to Washington, D.C. to work in the Trump administration. This week, President Trump announced his pick for Secretary for Health and Human Services: Alex Azar, a former Eli Lilly executive. A lawyer by trade, Azar has spent the past 10 years focusing his time on government health care regulation.The most recent secretaries of this agency [...]
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