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1 of 2 Minority Leader Phil GiaQuinta, D-Fort Wayne, highlights the Democratic priorities encompassed in the final budget Thursday, the unofficial end of session, from the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Whitney Downard | CNHI Statehouse Reporter INDIANAPOLIS In one of the last bills of the 2021 session, the two-year state budget received some of the most bipartisan support in recent years. Across both chambers, just five members voted against the Republican-sponsored bill after a last-minute $1.9 billion infusion of new money into K-12 education. Two House Republicans and three Senate Democrats voted against the bill, with Democrats acknowledging it would pass but trying to draw attention to the continual diversion of public education funds to charter schools. ....
The measure didn t go as far as social conservatives in the Statehouse had wanted. House Republicans had introduced and passed a so-called constitutional carry bill earlier in the legislative session that would have nixed the permit requirement altogether. But despite more than half of the Senate Republican caucus signing on as cosponsors, Senate leaders declined to give the bill a hearing before the deadline on the Senate side, effectively killing the legislation. Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray, R-Martinsville, posted on Facebook earlier this month defending that decision. His main concern was a provision that requires various government agencies to create a database detailing who cannot carry a firearm. He, and others, argued creating that database by the deadline in the bill is not doable. ....
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Indiana bill approved to ban government vaccine passports April 22, 2021 GMT INDIANAPOLIS (AP) State or local governments in Indiana will be prohibited from issuing or requiring COVID-19 vaccine passports under a bill approved by state lawmakers. The Republican-dominated House and Senate voted Thursday by wide margins to approve a wide-ranging health care and insurance bill that included the vaccine passport ban. Vaccine passports in use or development in other countries are typically a cellphone app with a code that verifies whether someone has been vaccinated or recently tested negative for COVID-19. The Biden administration has ruled out a national vaccine passport, saying it is leaving it to the private sector to develop such a system. ....