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About 1 in 10 Hoosier families face food insecurity. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – also known as SNAP or food stamps – can help them get food on the table. But requirements to repeatedly reapply for SNAP can be difficult. This week, legislators gave the governor the opportunity to sign a bill alleviating that difficulty for a few people, but not all.
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House Republicans rejected an amendment to protect transgender youth from being forcibly de-transitioned by the state. The bill to ban medicinal and surgical gender-affirming care for transgender youth includes a six-month deadline to halt puberty blockers and hormone therapy treatments.
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The bill originally would have cost state pensioners about $6.7 billion worth of returns over the next decade. But amendments to the bill brought that loss down to about $5.5 million.
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House lawmakers passed a bill this week to require state agencies to review occupational regulations. The bill requires agencies to remove or modify any that aren’t necessary to protect health and safety or prevent fraud and harm.
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Forcing school board candidates to declare a political party took a step closer to reality in the Indiana House Elections Committee Wednesday
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British engine maker Rolls Royce is working to develop a nuclear reactor that’s larger than what Indiana state law allows. Lawmakers are working to change the law to accommodate the company — even though it could be a decade before the reactor is ready for launch.
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It now moves to the state Senate for consideration.
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People with HIV would no longer be subject to harsher criminal penalties under legislation that advanced out of a House committee Wednesday.
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The Indiana House rejected an effort Thursday to eliminate rape and incest exceptions from the proposed abortion ban.
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A House committee made significant changes to the proposed abortion ban Tuesday, including slightly expanding some of the bill’s exceptions.