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Lawmakers in Indiana, across the nation consider drug tests for welfare recipients
By Tim Grimes The Statehouse File Lawmakers in Indiana and across the nation are studying whether to require drug tests of welfare and food stamp recipients, even though there are questions about the constitutionality of the move. This year, legislators in at least 25 states proposed bills to implement some sort of drug testing system [...]
Lawsuit settlement helps low-income Hoosiers pay energy bills
By Jessica Wray The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana is beefing up funding for a program that helps low-income Hoosiers pay their heating bills thanks to its share of a major national lawsuit’s settlement. A new law will have the state spend about $4 million per year over the next eight years out of the [...]
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State will have more money for LIHEAP program under bill signed into law
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – The state will have roughly $4 million more annually to help low-income families pay their utility bills under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Mitch Daniels. The General Assembly sent House Bill 1141 to Daniels last week. It would use money from Indiana’s share of a [...]
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General Assembly sends governor legislation to help low-income families with utility bills
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – The General Assembly has sent Gov. Mitch Daniels a bill that will mean more money for a program that helps low-income Hoosiers pay their utility bills. The bill – which Daniels can now veto or sign into law – will put about $3.7 million to $4.4 million [...]
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Senate passes bill to spend more on low-income energy assistance
Staff report The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – The Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that will make more money available to help low-income Hoosiers pay their utility bills. If House Bill 1141 becomes law, the state will put about $3.7 million to $4.4 million more into the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program annually. That’s [...]
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Bill to drug test welfare recipients, lawmakers fails in Senate committee
By Timothy Cox The Statehouse File The House version of a bill that would force drug testing on welfare recipients in three counties failed in a Senate committee by a 5-5 vote on Wednesday, although the language could be revived later this session. House Bill 1007, which also calls for drug testing of lawmakers, passed [...]
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House passes bill to require drug tests of welfare recipients, lawmakers
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – The House approved a bill Tuesday that will impose drug testing requirements on the poorest Hoosiers in three counties who receive assistance from a state welfare program. House Bill 1007 – which passed 72-23 and moves to the Senate for consideration – also creates a drug testing [...]
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Video: One-on-One with Rep. Peggy Welch on a utility break for poor families
Today The Statehouse File goes One-on-One with Rep. Peggy Welch, D-Bloomington, who talks about her legislation to eliminate the sales taxes on utility bills for poor families. Watch now: 1-on-1: Rep. Peggy Welch talks a tax exemption for the home energy assistance program from The Statehouse File on Vimeo.
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Committee passes sales tax exemption for poor Hoosiers
By Jacie Shoaf The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – The House Ways and Means Committee passed a bill Tuesday that would help low-income Hoosier families better afford their utility services. House Bill 1141 makes families who qualify for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to be exempt from paying the 7 percent sales tax on [...]
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Bill would give break on utility bills to poor families
Listen to the radio version of our story: By Jacie Shoaf The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Poor Indiana families could get a little extra help on their utility bills under a bill the House Ways and Means Committee considered Monday. The committee debated but did not vote on House Bill 1141, which would exempt those [...]
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