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House bills (selected)

- House Bill 12 92 — Northwest Indiana Professional Sports Development Commission. Creates a locally funded, 17‑member regional commission to attract professional sports franchises; Senate third‑reading passage recorded 46 ayes, 2 noes.

- House Bill 13 76 — Amends definition of emergency medication allowable in schools to replace a specific nasal spray name with “a federal Food and Drug Administration‑approved opioid overdose reversal medication, including a nasal spray”; sponsor said the change removes specific references and permits FDA‑approved products; final recorded vote: 49 ayes, 0 noes.

- House Bill 13 90 — Bureau of Motor Vehicles/agency cleanup bill. Includes technical updates on credentials, license plates and transfer of the slow‑moving vehicle program to the BMV; final passage recorded 38 ayes, 11 noes.

- House Bill 14 57 — Department of Health agency bill (technical cleanups, background checks, epinephrine training etc.); final passage recorded 48 ayes, 1 no.

- House Bill 14 68 — Creates a supplemental cigar sales certificate for temporary cigar sales at public events and allows regulated in‑restaurant cigar rooms where locally permitted; final passage recorded 41 ayes, 8 noes.

- House Bill 15 55 — Allows certain foreign‑trained physicians who complete approved residencies and meet licensing requirements to practice under supervision for up to five years as a stopgap to address provider shortages; final passage recorded 48 ayes, 1 no.

- House Bill 15 95 — Request to FSSA to reapply for a Medicaid plan amendment by a statutory deadline; final passage recorded 49 ayes, 0 noes.

- House Bill 16 34 — Math proficiency/early screening and interventions: requires screeners and targeted interventions and automatic enrollment in advanced middle‑school math for students meeting certain scores and grade criteria; final passage recorded 38 ayes, 11 noes.

- House Bill 16 89 — Clarifies oversight, reporting and stakeholder engagement for Medicaid home‑and‑community‑based services and ombudsman coverage for certain waivers; final passage recorded 47 ayes, 1 no.

Senate concurrence motions and other actions

- Motion to concur with House changes for Senate Bill 4 — Passed on the floor, recorded 45 ayes, 2 noes (concurrence motion). Sponsor noted mainly minor technical changes from the House, with one substantive notice requirement related to long‑haul water pipeline ownership transfers.

- Motion to concur with House changes for Senate Bill 119 — Passed on the floor, recorded 46 ayes, 1 no (COPA bill re consolidation of hospitals; House changed a date).

- Motion to concur with House changes for Senate Bill 143 — Passed on the floor, recorded 43 ayes, 4 noes (concurrence on parental‑rights measure as amended by the House).

Notes and context

- Where the transcript records only committee placement, amendment activity, or an amendment roll call but not final engrossment or final passage for a specific bill, this roundup reports only the recorded actions shown on the Senate floor transcript.

- The transcript shows other bills called for second or third reading but not all had contested votes in the excerpted record; items with recorded roll‑call tallies above are the items that produced a floor vote or concurrence action in the provided transcript.

- Several bills were presented as agency cleanup or technical changes; the transcript includes short sponsor explanations and recorded roll calls for each.

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Senator Mitcheller, the bill’s sponsor on the floor, told colleagues the commission would include 17 members from East Chicago, Gary, Hammond, Michigan City, La Porte, Portage and South Bend and would be funded locally. “It's a local commission to be funded locally, so we took out the state appointees except for the IEDC because we figured they would be working with this group in the future,” Mitcheller said.

Mitcheller said transportation improvements, specifically new double‑tracking that connects South Bend to Chicago, had prompted interest from parties discussing bringing professional teams to the region. He described the measure as giving local governments the ability to pursue development and infrastructure projects tied to sports franchises.

The roll‑call on final passage recorded 46 ayes and 2 noes. The Senate then instructed the secretary to inform the House of the bill’s passage.

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Supporters of the amendment, led from the floor by Senator Poll, said they sought to preserve the balance that came from the House. “What amendment number 1 does is returns the bill to the original state that it was in when it came to us, from the house,” Poll said, arguing the change would prevent a dominant majority from overwhelming the review process. Poll urged colleagues that a 3–2 composition would encourage members to “look our own parties in the eye and say, this is just wrong.”

Opponents, including Senator Freeman, argued that the amendment would be impractical given current party distribution among elected prosecutors. “Not everybody is engaged with IPAC. … 82 or so prosecutors in Indiana are Republican, currently. Of the 91, and there are 91 prosecutors, not 92,” Freeman said, adding that requiring a 3–2 split could make staffing the board difficult in practice.

Other senators pressed on statutory details and implementation. Senator Taylor clarified the appointing authority: “The prosecuting attorney council would create this board. … This would be a new board. It doesn't matter who's on the Prosecutor Attorney's Council board. They could appoint any member from the 90 with amongst the 91, prosecutors in the state of Indiana.” Senator Glick directed attention to bill text on appointments, saying, “Page 4, lines 9 through 13. The board of directors, the prosecuting attorneys council of Indiana shall appoint 5 members of the board. These 5 members must also be members of the board of directors, the Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Indiana.”

After floor debate and questioning about how appointments would be made and whether the council could be dominated by a single party, the Senate voted on the amendment to restore the 3–2 makeup; the amendment failed, 15 ayes to 34 noes. The clerk then recorded that the bill was ordered to engrossment.

The debate highlighted tensions over partisan balance, local elections (the relative partisan makeup of county prosecutors), and whether an appointed review body should reflect political diversity or the present partisan distribution among elected prosecutors. No further amendments were adopted on the floor during the period covered by the transcript.

The bill will proceed in the legislative process with the amendment rejected; further committee or floor action could follow as the bill moves toward final passage or additional consideration.

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