Indiana House Republicans on Thursday, Jan. 8 announced a four-bill legislative agenda for the 2026 session focusing on housing affordability, utility costs and deregulation.
Read MoreLegislative Democrats want state government to do more to help Indiana families deal with rising costs.
Read MoreIndiana’s top legislative leaders on Thursday, Dec. 18 sketched out a restrained agenda – including tweaks to a contentious property tax law – ahead of an unusually short Statehouse session that is also expected to feature movement on health care, child care and utilities.
Read MoreA proposal to bring a casino to Allen County has returned to the Indiana General Assembly as state lawmakers begin an early start to the 2026 session. Rep. Chad Snow, R-Warsaw, filed House Bill 1038 on Monday, Dec. 1.
Read MoreThe prospects of Pres. Donald Trump getting a new Indiana congressional map have been revived as state Senate Republicans on Tuesday, Nov. 25 reversed their refusal to meet next month.
Read MoreGov. Mike Braun on Friday, Nov. 21 condemned a wave of threats against state lawmakers – including ones he said targeted him and his family – shortly after Republican Sen. Andy Zay confirmed a bomb threat at his Huntington vehicle rental business.
Read MoreIndiana legislative leaders signaled Monday, Nov. 17 that the 2026 General Assembly will center on adjustments to long-running policy areas including Medicaid spending, property taxes and economic development.
Read MoreIndiana lawmakers won’t meet to consider new congressional maps and tax code tweaks until the first two weeks of December, legislative leaders announced Monday, Nov. 3 – ending months of speculation.
Read MoreRepublican leaders in the Indiana Senate say they don’t currently have the votes needed to pursue a mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional map – a setback for Gov. Mike Braun and national Republicans who have been pushing for new lines ahead of the 2026 midterm election cycle.
Read MoreBy Whitney Downard and Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle Outrage from public school officials over dismal funding in the next two-year state budget prompted lawmakers to add a twelfth-hour K-12 spending boost in Indiana’s spending plan in a chaotic final day that yielded several so-called ‘final’ draft budgets. Even as … Read More
Democratic state lawmakers continue to decry education funding “inequities” in the state’s draft budget and are now mounting pressure on their Republican counterparts to “fully fund” Indiana’s traditional K-12 public schools in the next spending plan.
Read MoreThe Indiana Senate on Thursday passed a much-disputed proposal barring Indiana National Guard members from demanding a military trial — or court-martial — in lieu of non-judicial punishment.
Read MoreWhile hundreds of bills made it to the half-way point, two major themes rose to the forefront — disputes over transgender and gay youth and a Republican push for tax cuts.
Read MoreA slew of health care bills moving through the legislature target high prices for Hoosiers by encouraging competition and restructuring how the state pays for services under Medicaid.
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