Last week on 1/9/2023, the 2023 session of the Indiana General Assembly reconvened. This year is the long session where state lawmakers adopt a new bi-annual budget for the State of Indiana.
The first task for the session is for members of the Indiana House and Indiana Senate to introduce proposed legislation for consideration. The deadlines for introduction were as follows:
- Thursday, January 12 at 2:00 pm for the Indiana House; and
- Friday, January 13 at 4:00 pm for the Indiana Senate.
The next step is for introduced bills to be assigned to Committee. This is known as First Reading. The introduced bills, with their respective bill numbers and committee assignments then become posted to the Indiana General Assembly website and can be found here: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/
The two committees usually of most interest to IndianaDG.net readers are: