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Legislative Breakfast January 14th 2023 and Local Legislator Information

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Legislative Breakfast 2023

Indiana State Legislators:

 Election bills introduced:

SB 188 and HB 1074 would require School Board candidates to declare a party. 

HB 1225, "Election Security", would prohibit ballot drop-boxes. 

HB 1183 would repeal the right to straight-ticket voting.

HB 1131 would establish a somewhat independent redistricting commission. (majority of       members would be appointed by the legislators)      

SB 14 would prohibit firearms at polling places and places where votes are being counted.

Some of the bills introduced by our legislators attending the Breakfast:


      Senator Bohacek:

SB 68 Core Curriculum Model      

SB 70 Would decriminalize possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana       

SB 81 would require counties to fund the establishment of community intellectual and developmental disability centers.       

SB 89 would enhance sentences for rape       

SB 22 removes certain limitations on punitive damages in civil rape cases


      Representative Boy:      

HB 1190 Closure of coal combustion residuals surface impoundments      

HB 1193 establishes grants for greenhouse gas emissions inventories      

HB 1192 raises minimum wage incrementally so that by 2026 it would reach $12.10 per hour.


      Representative Pressel:      

HB 1035 Township Assessors can be eliminated by public question votes      

HB 1049 Bike Traffic Control Signals      

HB 1175 Utility scale battery energy storage system

Indiana’s National Representatives in Congress:

 

To find bills the Representatives have introduced or are working on, go to

Congress.gov | Library of Congress (https://www.congress.gov)

Click on the pull down menu and choose “All Congresses” then search using his name.

 

United States Senate

Senator Mike Braun (R)

https://www.braun.senate.gov (https://braun.senate.gov)

Committee Assignments:

U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry

Budget

Appropriations

Health Education, Labor & Pensions

Special Committee on Aging

Priorities:

Could not find them listed on the Senators website.

 

Senator Todd Young (R)

Home | U.S. Senator Todd Young of Indiana (senate.gov) (https://www.young.senate.gov)

Committee Assignments

U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

U.S. Senate Committee on Finance

U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship

 

Priorities:

Housing Affordability

Serving Veterans

Encouraging Adoption and Loving Homes

Modernizing Education

Curbing the Opioid Crisis

Helping Farmers

Strengthening Infrastructure

Growing Jobs and Wages

Keeping Communities Safe and Healthy

Protecting Young Hoosiers

Foreign Policy

 

United States House of Representatives

Representative Frank Mrvan (D)

Indiana’s 1st Congressional  District

Representative Frank Mrvan | (house.gov) (https: //mrvan.house.gov)

Committee Membership

Veterans' Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Health, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Technology Modernization. 

Committee on Education and Labor  Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee, and Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee.

Member of the following caucuses and task forces: 

 

  • Bipartisan Task Force to End Sexual Violence
  • Career and Technical Education Caucus
  • Congressional Steel Caucus (Co-Chair)
  • Equality Caucus
  • Great Lakes Task Force
  • HBCU Caucus
  • Hellenic Caucus
  • Labor Caucus
  • Law Enforcement Caucus
  • Macedonian Caucus
  • Serbian Caucus
  • Slovak Caucus (Co-Chair) 

Mrvan was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

 

Rudy Yakym III (R)

 Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District

Congressman Rudy Yakym | Representing the 2nd District of Indiana (house.gov) (https://yakym.house.gov

 

Committee Membership:

Contact his office.

 

Caucuses:

Contact his office.