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passed · Indiana · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 236: Eligibility for senior property tax deduction.

Increases the adjusted gross income threshold for an individual at least 65 years of age to obtain a deduction from the assessed value of the individual's real property from $30,000 to $40,000. Increases the threshold for an individual at least 65 years of age filing a joint return from $40,000 to $50,000. Increases the maximum assessed value of the real property from $200,000 to $300,000 to be eligible for the deduction. Provides that an individual is not entitled to a refund for the deduction for any previous year in which the assessed value of the individual's real property would have qualified for the deduction for that year due to a subsequent increase in the assessed value threshold.
Shelli Yoder (D) Dr. Tim Brown (R) Travis Holdman (R) Fady Qaddoura (D) · 5 co-sponsors
passed · Indiana · Senate Feb 7, 2022

SB 230: Enforcement of habitability standards.

Allows a city, county, or town to bring a nuisance action against a tenant or other person responsible for a nuisance. Defines "essential services" as certain utility services needed for the safe and habitable occupation by a tenant of the tenant's rental unit. Defines "essential systems" as certain systems used to deliver essential services to a rental unit. Requires a landlord to repair or replace an essential system not later than 24 hours after being notified by a tenant that the tenant's rental unit is without essential services under certain circumstances. Provides that a tenant may enforce a statutory obligation of a landlord by providing notice of the landlord's noncompliance and allows for certain remedies to the tenant for the landlord's noncompliance. Provides that, during the pendency of a court action brought by a tenant to enforce a statutory obligation of a landlord, the court may order the tenant to make the regular rental payments otherwise due under the rental agreement to the clerk of the court or an attorney trust account, to be held in trust for disbursal to the prevailing party, as ordered by the court.
Greg Walker (R) Shelli Yoder (D) Fady Qaddoura (D) Ed Clere (I) · 3 co-sponsors
passed · Indiana · Senate Feb 7, 2022

SB 242: County treasurer duties.

Provides that a charitable nonprofit foundation established to hold the proceeds of the sale of certain county hospitals may provide for compensation of the foundation's chairperson. (Under current law, the county treasurer is the foundation's chairperson and the members of the board of the foundation serve without compensation.) Provides that: (1) the county treasurer's service as the board's chairperson is considered to be part of the county treasurer's duties as county treasurer; (2) the chairperson may not vote on, or otherwise participate in, any board action relating to the compensation of the chairperson; (3) if the board provides for the payment of compensation to the chairperson, the compensation is considered to be part of the county treasurer's compensation as county treasurer; and (4) the amount of compensation paid by the foundation is in addition to the salary paid by the county to the chairperson as county treasurer.
Kevin Boehnlein (R) Vaneta Becker (R) Ed Clere (I) · 1 co-sponsor
passed · Indiana · Senate Feb 7, 2022

SB 165: Noncompliant prosecutor.

Permits the attorney general to request the appointment of a special prosecuting attorney if a prosecuting attorney is categorically refusing to prosecute certain crimes, and establishes a procedure for the appointment of a person to serve as a special prosecuting attorney to prosecute cases that the county prosecuting attorney is refusing to prosecute.
Mike Young (R) Jack E. Sandlin (R) Chris Jeter (R) Aaron Freeman (R) · 1 co-sponsor
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