Indiana Legislative Insight

FUnintended consequences

Brace for a long special and short regular session; strange fallout? After realizing that they can’t stop the Hoosier Special Session Train from departing the station, the engineers are working to implement some safety measures as the engine warms [...]

2025-09-12T08:27:28-05:00September 12th, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|

District work period

Mapping out what to expect to expect going forward As U.S. House members returned to Washington, D.C. this week following the end of the August recess – the scheduled summer “district work period” –  speculation ramped up on just [...]

2025-09-05T11:04:19-05:00September 5th, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|

Mapping out a strategy . . .

A tough decision foisted upon Hoosier GOP lawmakers Redistricting Indiana’s congressional districts at mid-decade was initially raised as a tentative proposition of sorts, and didn’t even seem to gain steam when Vice President JD Vance (R) paid a hastily [...]

2025-08-22T09:25:30-05:00August 22nd, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|

EV-related activity recharges

IEDC: Elevate Ventures August 4 partial payment = default Following a lull in activity related to Indiana Economic Development Corporation ancillary entities as the six-figure, gubernatorially mandated forensic audit of Elevate Ventures plays out, early August bustled with a [...]

2025-08-08T08:13:33-05:00August 8th, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|

Coulda been worse . . .

Close-out not a blow-out; better than expected, but taps ’26 taxes This was a fiscal year close-out that – a few months ago – many had feared. After the mid-April fiscal outlook had portended gloom for state coffers as [...]

2025-08-01T11:36:37-05:00August 1st, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|

Therapy session for Guv

Signs on in tough times, but how does the environment stack up? Some quasi-random thoughts to ponder about the first legislative session for the Braun Administration . . . Someone in the hallway with experience in 206 under a [...]

2025-05-29T11:54:23-05:00May 29th, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|

A need to Elevate transparency

$25M in state money goes where? Audits, OIG probes pending Governor Mike Braun (R) on April 8 signed an executive order that will require increased transparency for non-profit foundations and corporations created to assist state government agencies. But we [...]

2025-04-22T07:50:09-05:00April 22nd, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|

Gaming out the budget

Gaming bills back; can gaming help to boost the budget, too? Following a muti-year informal moratorium on gaming legislation imposed by legislative leadership due to an ongoing federal grand jury investigation of the relationship between the gaming industry and [...]

2025-04-11T08:51:04-05:00April 11th, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|
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