Advocacy Update | 03.13.25

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Current List of Bills 1si Supports:  

SB-463: Child Care Matters  

Explanation:  Adds additional qualified childcare for purposes of the employer childcare expenditure tax credit and extends the credit availability through July 1, 2027. The bill will help support adequate funding and staffing for Indiana childcare centers. The bill strongly ties to 1si’s call to action which emphasizes the affordability and quality of childcare.  

• Status:  
• 3/3/2025-First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs 
• Referred to the House 
• 2/21/2025- Referred to the House 
• 2/20/2025- House sponsor: Representative DeVon 
• 2/20/2025- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 198 
  • Yeas: 44 
  • Nays: 5 

SB-443: Business personal property tax  

Explanation: The bill proposed to increase business tax exemption by $20,000. This change should help reduce the administrative burden on small businesses, especially those with few fixed assets. However, the impact of the increase is expected to be minor, as it is a relatively small adjustment.  

• Status:   
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means 
• 2/14/2025- Referred to the House  
• 2/13/2025- House sponsor: Representative Snow  
• 2/13/2025- Third reading passed; Roll Call 127: 
  • Yeas: 39 
  • Nays: 7  

  HB-1172: Office of entrepreneurship and innovation  

• Status:  
• 2/20/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology 
• 2/12/2025- Referred to the Senate  
• 2/11/2025- Senate sponsor: Senator Buchanan  
• 2/11/2025- Third reading passed; Roll Call  
  • Yeas: 131  
  • Nays: 7  

 HB-1248: Child Care and Development Fund  

Explanation: The bill will help prioritize foster parents to gain assistance through the Childcare Development Fund. The bill strongly connects to 1si’s call to action to increase the availability and affordability of childcare.  

• Status:   
• 3/10/2025- Committee report: amend do pass, adopted 
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services 
• 2/21/2025- Referred to the Senate 
• 2/20/2025- Senate sponsors: Senators Brown L and Charbonneau 
• 2/20/2025- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 244 
  • Yeas: 89 
  • Nays: 0 

Current List of Bills 1si is Monitoring:  

Senate Bills:  

SB-1: Property Tax Relief  

Explanation: We are closely monitoring this bill because the changes to residential and personal taxes significantly impact infrastructure, municipal funding, and workforce education. Based on the reports from the Association of Indiana Counties, you can see the impact of SB-1 here. In light of the bill, we are strongly advocating for the clarity of the expected impacts of this bill on businesses and individuals from our local government officials and elected state officials. We strongly advise our members to understand the bill’s effect within our communities.  

• Status:  
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means 
• 2/19/2025- Representatives Snow and Jordan added as cosponsors 
• 2/18/2025- Referred to the House 

SB-314: Pass through entity tax  

• Status:  
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means 
• 2/11/2025- Referred to House  
• 2/10/2025- Third reading passed, roll call 90:  
  • Yeas: 45  
  • Nays: 4  
• 2/10/2025- Senate Bills on Third Reading  

SB-423: Small modular nuclear reactor pilot program 

• Status:  
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications 
• 2/4/2025- Referred to House  
• 2/3/2025- House sponsor: Representative Soliday  
• 2/3/2025- Third reading passed; Roll Call 60  
  • Yeas: 41  
  • Nays: 7   

SB-426: Water utility infrastructure 

Status:  

• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications 
• 2/12/2025- Referred to the House  
• 2/11/2025- Third reading passed; Roll Call 108  
  • Yeas: 46  
  • Nays: 3  

 SB-488: Skills training pilot program  

• Status:  
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions 
• 2/21/2025- Referred to the House 
• 2/20/2025- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 205: 
  • Yeas: 45 
  • Nays: 2 

SB-518: School property taxes 

• Status: 
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means 
• 2/21/2025- Referred to the House 
• 2/20/2025- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 210 
  • Yeas: 28 
  • Nays 21 

House Bills 

HB-1003: Health matters. 

Explanation: Addresses site-neutral payment requirements, burdensome 340B requirements, the extension of site-neutral payments to nonprofit hospital settings, and hospital billing requirements.  

• Status 
• 3/3/2025- Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Health and Provider Services 
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions 
• 2/19/2025- Referred to the Senate 
• 2/18/2025- Third reading passed; Roll Call 201 
  • Yeas: 66 
  • Nays: 32 

HB-1004: Nonprofit Hospitals  

Explanation: Loss of non-profit status is any charge item is in excess of 300% of Medicare and includes an excise tax to be imposed upon a hospital each time the hospital charges a patient a facility fee that exceeds 265% of Medicare. 

• Status: 
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services 
• 2/21/2025- Referred to the Senate 
• 2/20/2025- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 239 
  • Yeas: 68 
  • Nays: 26 

HB-1214: Worker’s compensation 

• Status:  
• 2/18/2025- First Reading: Referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions 
• 2/5/2025- Referred to the Senate 
• 2/04/2025- Senate sponsor- Senator Zay  
• 2/4/2025- Third Reading passed; Roll Call 85:  
  • Yeas: 89  
  • Nays: 0  

HB-1226: Medicare supplement insurance  

• Status:  
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions 
• 2/18/2025- Referred to the Senate  
• 2/17/2025- Senate Sponsors: Senators Walter K and Qaddoura  
• 2/17/2025- Third Reading: Passed; Roll Call:  
  • Yeas: 94  
  • Nays: 0  
• 2/13/2025- Amendment #1 (Dant Chesser) prevailed; voice vote  

HB-1347: Real estate matters 

• Status:  
• 2/18/2025- First Reading- Referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions  
• 1/29/2025- Referred to the Senate  
• 1/28/2025- Third reading: passed; Roll call 33:  
  • Yeas 91 
  • Nays 1   

You can find a copy of the 1si 2024 Advocacy Agenda by visiting https://1si.org/advocacy/ or downloading a PDF copy here.