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Gov. Pence fought hard to end for 10 percent tax cut
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Two nights before the end of the legislative session – with time ticking away for a budget deal to be done – Republican Gov. Mike Pence finally accepted that he wouldn’t be getting his 10 percent income tax cut. He’d been meeting for weeks with legislative leaders around [...]
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Speaker kills ‘ag gag’ bill
By Megan Banta & Tim Grimes TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – A bill to make it a crime to secretly shoot photos or video on private property with the goal of harming a business owner died Friday when the leader of the House pulled it from consideration Friday in the middle of a contentious debate. Supporters of [...]
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Budget includes 5 percent income tax cut, more spending on schools and roads
By Samm Quinn and Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Lawmakers will vote Friday on a two-year, $30 billion budget that phases in a 5 percent cut in the individual income tax rate, eliminates the inheritance tax and boosts money for roads and schools. House Speaker Brian Bosma, a Republican, said the tax cuts will “impact [...]
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Lawmakers near final deals on budget, vouchers, gambling and more
By Megan Banta TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Legislative leaders say they’re closing in on deals to cut taxes, boost school spending and expand the state’s private school voucher program just days before the General Assembly is to adjourn for the year. House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said lawmakers want to include the “largest single tax cut [...]
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Lawmakers mull details of private school voucher expansion
By Samm Quinn TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – A little more than a week from the end of Indiana’s 2013 legislative session, House leaders are pushing their Senate colleagues to accept a broader expansion of the state’s two-year-old private school voucher program. House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said that even though the Senate scaled back the voucher [...]
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Gov. Pence signs workforce development bills into law
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mike Pence signed bills Monday that are meant to bolster economic development in Indiana by boosting vocational training in high schools and matching job training to business needs. One of the bills – Senate Bill 465 – was a key part of Pence’s legislative agenda and his campaign [...]
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Works council bill heads to Gov. Pence for consideration
By Tim Grimes TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – A bill pushed by both leaders of the House is on its way to Gov. Mike Pence to be signed into law. House Bill 1002 would establish a council of 16 leaders from private industry and from the legislature. House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said the group aims to [...]
Speaker Bosma to return to House on Wednesday
Staff report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Speaker Brian Bosma plans to return to the Statehouse on Wednesday – just more than a week after undergoing surgery to deal with an infection in his knee. The Republican plans to preside over the session from the rostrum for at least part of the day but will also rest [...]
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Analysis: Pence, Bosma moving farther apart on tax cuts
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – A month or so ago, it seemed Republican Gov. Mike Pence would have a tough time convincing the GOP-controlled General Assembly to pass his proposed 10 percent income tax cut into law. Now, it just feels like an impossibility. Pence and House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, are far apart [...]
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Video & analysis: This session showed a kinder, gentler legislature
Indiana lawmakers say the 2013 session had better tone from TheStatehouseFile.com on Vimeo. By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – In the last hours before adjournment – as tired lawmakers debated a budget and voucher expansion and a controversial utility measure – it might be easy to assume that this had been just another in a [...]