Advocacy Update | 05.07.25

The Indiana General Assembly concluded their 2025 legislative sessions, which ended as both houses adjourned in the early hours of Friday, April 25, 2025. Below you will find the bills and their ending status. In 2025, 1si and our advocacy agenda wanted to make progress towards strengthening the workforce pipeline for Southern Indiana residents, supporting diversified and affordable housing developments, increasing availability and affordability of childcare and eldercare, and improving access to and affordability of basic utilities. 

As we conclude our advocacy season, we still look forward to advocating for businesses all year long. You can stay engaged by attending events with local elected officials, reading our 2025 advocacy agenda, or attending other 1si events that will help you stay plugged into our communities. 

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:  
• 5/01/2025- Signed by the Governor 
• 4/23/2025- Signed by the President of the Senate 
• 4/22/2025- Signed by the Speaker 
• 4/22/2025- Signed by the President Pro Tempore 
• 4/17/2025- Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 473: 
  • Yeas: 35 
  • Nays: 6 

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:   
• 3/13/2025- Representative Judy added as cosponsor 
• 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  

HB-1172: Office of entrepreneurship and innovation 

• Status:  
• 4/8/2025- Senator Zay added as cosponsor 
• 4/7/2025- Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor 
• 4/3/2025- Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations 
• 2/20/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology 

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:   
• 4/10/2025- Signed by the Governor 
• 4/3/2025- Signed by the President of the Senate 
• 3/27/2025- Signed by the Speaker 
• 3/24/2025- House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 304 
  • Yeas: 95 
  • 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:  
• 4/15/2025- Public Law 68 
• 4/15/2025- Signed by the Governor 
• 4/15/2025- Signed by the President of the Senate 
• 4/15/2025- Signed by the Speaker 
• 4/15/2025- Signed by the President Pro Tempore 
• 4/15/2025- Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 417: 
  • Yeas: 27 
  • Nays: 22 

SB-423: Small modular nuclear reactor pilot program 

• Status:  
• 5/1/2025- Signed by the Governor 
• 4/23/2025- Signed by the President of the Senate 
• 4/22/2025- Signed by the Speaker 
• 4/22/2025- Signed by the President Pro Tempore 
• 4/17/2025- Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 471: 
  • Yeas: 34 
  • Nays: 12 

SB-426: Water utilities 

• Status:  
• 4/3/2025- Public Law 24 
• 4/3/2025- Signed by the Governor 
• 3/27/2025- Signed by the President of the Senate 
• 3/24/2025- Signed by the Speaker 
• 3/24/2025- Signed by the President Pro Tempore 
• 3/21/20- Returned to the Senate without amendments 

SB-488: Skills training pilot program  

• Status:  
• 3/20/2025- Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3 
• 3/20/2025- Committee report: do pass, adopted 
• 3/3/2025- First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions 

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

The official descriptions of HB 1003 & HB 1004 below were from early in the session and do not necessarily reflect the details in the passed version of the bills. For analysis on the impact locally, please read the article below from The News & Tribune, for which 1si board member, Michael Schroyer from Baptist Health Floyd, was interviewed.  

CLICK HERE FOR NEWS & TRIBUNE ARTICLE 

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:
• 4/29/2025- Signed by the President of the Senate 
• 4/24/2025- Signed by the Speaker 
• 4/24/2025- Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 513 
  • Yeas: 30 
  • Nays 20 
• 4/24/2025- Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 544 
  • Yeas: 67 
  • Nays: 25 
• 4/24/2025- Signed by the President Pro Tempore

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: 
• 4/29/2025- Signed by the President of the Senate 
• 4/28/2025- Signed by the President Pro Tempore 
• 4/25/2025- Signed by the Speaker 
• 4/24/2025- Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 528 
  • Yeas: 37 
  • Nays: 13 
• 4/24/2025- Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 566 
  • Yeas: 68 
  • Nays: 23 

HB-1214: Workers’ compensation  

• Status:  
• 4/16/2025- Signed by the Governor 
• 4/9/2025- Signed by the President of the Senate 
• 4/8/2025- Signed by the President Pro Tempore 
• 4/7/2025- Signed by the Speaker 
• 4/3/2025- House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 363 
  • Yeas: 90 
  • Nays: 0 

HB-1226: Medicare supplement insurance  

• Status:  
• 4/10/2025- Signed by the Governor 
• 4/3/2025- Signed by the President Pro Tempore 
• 3/27/2025- Signed by Speaker 
• 3/26/2025- Returned to the House without amendments 
• 3/25/2025- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 283 
  • Yeas: 45 
  • Nays: 2 

HB-1347: Real estate matters 

• Status:  
• 5/1/2025- Signed by the Governor 
• 4/23/2025- Signed by the President of the Senate 
• 4/21/2025- Signed by the President Pro Tempore 
• 4/17/2025- Signed by the Speaker 
• 4/16/2025- House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 470: 
  • Yeas: 82 
  • Nays: 0 

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