US EditionSTATEHOUSE: Here’s what died – and got dropped in – during the final hours of the Indiana legislative session
- Indiana lawmakers approved House Enrolled Act 1427 near the session's end on April 30, 2025, in the statehouse.
- The act removes a previously authorized raise in the exemption amount for business personal property taxes originally scheduled for 2025, maintaining the exemption at $80,000 instead of allowing it to increase to $1 million.
- Lawmakers failed to pass regulations on marijuana-like products and language criminalizing homelessness, with critics including the attorney general opposing expansions of loopholes.
- Rodric Bray, serving as the Senate’s president pro tempore, described the process as challenging to perfect, emphasizing the need to avoid advancing measures that wouldn’t serve the state’s best interests.
- The session’s outcomes included a postponement of some reforms to 2026, while advocates celebrated avoided criminalization of homelessness and noted ongoing challenges in health and tax policy.
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Here’s what died – and got dropped in – during the final hours of the Indiana legislative session
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