General Assembly
Huston not pleased with process, status
NIKI KELLY | The Journal Gazette
INDIANAPOLIS – House Speaker Todd Huston on Thursday killed a bill surrounded by confusion that was being pushed by a Fort Wayne representative.
Huston moved House Bill 1519 to the Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee and declared it dead after Rep. Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne, tried to amend the bill multiple times in recent weeks.
First, Morris added language severely limiting state and local health emergency orders in the future. One of those provisions was put in another House bill so then Morris this week tried to change it into a bill banning social media companies from blocking content.
Indiana lawmakers are pulling the plug on a bill that would prohibit employers from requiring workers from getting immunizations against COVID-19 or any other disease.
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General Assembly
NIKI KELLY | The Journal Gazette
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana House members Tuesday unanimously embraced a police reform bill brought following summer protests on racial injustice.
The chamber gave the bill s author, Rep. Greg Steuerwald R-Avon, a standing ovation while he stood to the side with tears in his eyes.
“This summer you all came together,” House Speaker Todd Huston said. “This is the way the body is supposed to work.”
House Bill 1006 now moves to the Senate.
It does the following:
• Defines and bans chokeholds in all but deadly force situations;
• Makes it a misdemeanor for a police officer to turn off a body camera to conceal a criminal act;