A student in a nutrition class makes a smoothie for a class assignment. (Justin Hicks/IPB News)
High school courses in areas like culinary arts and cosmetology could lose state funding if a budget proposal from Republican lawmakers passes. Educators worry thousands of students would miss career opportunities without the state support.
Sen. Mike Young (R-Indianapolis) claims his bill is not about the Marion County prosecutor's decision not to charge people for simple marijuana possession. (Lauren Chapman/IPB News)
Some Indiana Senate Republicans want the state to take over prosecution of crimes that a local prosecutor won’t charge.
Critics of the rioting bill say it's an overreaction to the Black Lives Matter protests in summer of 2020. (Lauren Chapman/IPB News)
People involved in protests that turn violent would face new or harsher criminal penalties under legislation easily approved by the Indiana Senate Tuesday.
Several bills on the move during the 2021 legislative session are reactions to executive orders issued by Gov. Eric Holcomb during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Lauren Chapman/IPB News)
The governor’s authority to declare disaster emergencies would be severely restricted under legislation unanimously approved by a Senate committee Tuesday.
Gov. Eric Holcomb and the Indiana Election Commission pushed back Indiana's 2020 primary election from May to June and expanded vote-by-mail to anyone who wanted it. (Brandon Smith/IPB News)
Indiana’s governor and Election Commission would be blocked from ever again changing how and when an election is conducted under a bill passed by a Senate committee Monday.
Rep. Jim Pressel's (R-Rolling Prairie) bill bans local governments and homeowners associations from shutting down stands – operated by someone under age 18 – that are selling nonalcoholic beverages. (Brandon Smith/IPB News)
Indiana lawmakers want to make sure local governments don’t ban children from operating lemonade stands. And there's a bill unanimously approved by the House and on its way to the Senate that does just that.
The bill from Sen. Mike Bohacek (R-Michiana Shores) is a reaction to calls to “defund the police” seen across the country over the last year. (Lauren Chapman/IPB News)
Legislation that would tie the hands of local governments from shifting money away from public safety agencies easily passed a Senate committee.
Democratic and Republican candidates for U.S. Senate and governor must get 4,500 voter signatures to get on the ballot. Libertarians are not subject to that requirement in current law. (Justin Hicks/IPB News)
An effort to make it harder for Libertarian U.S. Senate and governor candidates to make it onto the ballot is likely dead this session.
