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Indiana Senate Bill 101, titled the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ( RFRA ), [1] is a law in the U.S. state of Indiana, which allows individuals and companies to assert as a defense in legal proceedings that their exercise of religion has been, or is likely to be, substantially burdened. [2] [3]
Indiana Senate Bill 480 (SB 480) introduced into the Indiana General Assembly in 2023. The bill prohibits physicians from providing gender affirming care to minors. [ 1] The bill passed the state Senate on February 28, 2023, and the House on March 27, 2023. Governor Eric Holcomb signed the bill on April 5, 2023.
The General Assembly meets annually at the Indiana State House in Indianapolis. Members of the General Assembly are elected from districts that are realigned every ten years. Representatives serve two-year terms; senators serve four-year terms. [1] Both houses must pass a bill before it can be submitted to the governor and enacted into law. [2]
Senate Bill 202 (SB 202), a controversial bill to overhaul the tenure process for professors and strengthen legislative oversight at Indiana’s public universities passed the Indiana Senate ...
Shortly after Indiana's House of Representatives passed the controversial tenure reform bill, Purdue University released a statement.
A proposed Indiana Senate bill would establish a fund to further the study whether psilocybin – the psychoactive compound in psychedelic mushrooms – could be used to treat certain mental ...
The Indiana Senate was established in 1816 along with the Indiana House of Representatives in 1816, when Indiana became a state. [3] In 1897, the Indiana House passed a bill rounding the value of pi to 3.2. However, the intervention of State Senator Orrin Hubbel postponed the voting of the bill indefinitely, effectively rejecting it. [4]
Indiana's current U.S. senators are Republicans Todd Young (serving since 2017) and Mike Braun (serving since 2019). Richard Lugar was the state's longest serving senator (1977–2013). Indiana is one of fifteen states, alongside Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada ...