Bills recently signed into law by Gov. Mitch Daniels

Senate Bill 107 — The bill increases the limit on annual wine sales in Indiana from 500,000 to 1 million gallons for farm winery and direct wine seller permit holders.

Senate Bill 159 — The bill specifies terms under which a third party may obtain access to a contractor’s rights and responsibilities relative to a provider’s delivery of health care services.

Senate Bill 192 — The bill prohibits a person from falsely or misleadingly advertising an affiliation between a performing musical group and a recording musical group.

Senate Bill 241 — The bill provides that revenue in the emergency planning and Right to Know fund may be used to maintain and repair equipment purchased for a hazardous materials response teams, among other items.

Senate Bill 316 — The bill provides that the veterinary drug restrictions do not apply to veterinary drugs that are not restricted by federal law, among other items.

Senate Bill 336 — The bill adds three members to the state’s stroke prevention task force.

Senate Bill 343 — The bill requires the Sentencing Policy Study Committee to study issues related to the theft of copper, including the effectiveness of recent statutory changes and the need to educate valuable metal dealers about new requirements for purchasing copper and other valuable metals.

Senate Bill 22 — The bill specifies that an applicant for a substitute teacher’s license is not required to receive CPR and Heimlich maneuver training. It also requires the Department of Education to grant an initial teacher’s license for a specific subject area in middle school or high school to an applicant who has earned a postgraduate degree in that field and has previous teaching experience in a middle school, high school, or college setting.

Senate Bill 45 — The bill reduces the waiting period that retired teachers may be reemployed and continue to receive a retirement benefit from 90 days to 30 days.

House Bill 1026 — The bill requires the owner of a cemetery to pay to a perpetual care fund or an endowment care fund any amount necessary to maintain the principal in the fund, among other changes to state funeral and cemetery regulation.

House Bill 1061 — The bill provides that the residential landlord-tenant statutes apply to a rental agreement that gives the tenant an option to purchase and that is entered into after June 30, 2008.

House Bill 1062 — The bill prohibits architectural salvage material dealers from obtaining materials from a minor. It also prohibits dealers from acquiring materials believed to be stolen, among other changes.

House Bill 1074 — The bill makes it a Class C felony for a person who takes or attempts to take a weapon from a law enforcement officer, among other changes.

House Bill 1114 — The bill establishes separate statutes that define general residency requirements for municipal police and fire departments.

House Bill 1121 — The bill makes a number of natural resources changes. It changes the membership of the board of trustees for the division of state museums and historic sites. It allows rifles to be used with certain yearly deer hunting licenses. It also allows the Department of Natural Resources to issue a duplicate license to any person who has lost a license.

House Bill 1122 — The bill provides that juvenile law does not apply to a child who allegedly committed a crime that would be a felony if committed by an adult; and has previously been waived to a court having felony jurisdiction. Under current law, the juvenile law does not apply to felonies and misdemeanors committed under these circumstances, among other changes.

House Bill 1137 — The bill corrects various technical problems in the Indiana Code.

House Bill 1144 — Under the bill a person who discovers a dead body and does not contact authorities within three hours commits a Class A misdemeanor.

House Bill 1162 — The bill allows the presiding officer of the legislative body of a municipality to appoint a minor to serve as an adviser to the municipal legislative body on matters affecting youth in the community.

House Bill 1164 — The bill, subject to certain restrictions, allows a 50 percent property tax deduction for tax first due and payable after 2009.

House Bill 1171 — The bill requires emergency medical personnel to complete a training course on autism beginning in 2009.

House Bill 1259 — The bill requires certain above ground swimming pools to be sold with an access ladder or steps that can be secured and locked or removed.

House Bill 1266 — The bill requires the Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning to apply to the US Department of Health and Human Services to amend certain waivers which will allow specific individuals to be given priority in receiving services.

House Bill 1276 — The bill defines “sexually violent predator defendant” as a person charged with the commission of a sex or violent offense who is a sexually violent predator. Allows such offenders to be released on bail only after a hearing in open court, and requires a court releasing one of these persons on bail to consider whether certain statutory factors warrant exceeding applicable court or county bail guidelines.

House Bill 1036 — The bill requires the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to establish a registry of previously uninsured motorists for random, periodic checks.

House Bill 1169 — The bill changes the term “cosmetology professional” in the law concerning beauty culture to “beauty culture professional.” It also exempts threading — a hair removal technique that twists thread around unwanted hair and pulls it from the skin — from cosmetology licensing laws.

House Bill 1185 — The bill expands indoor air quality inspections in schools to include state agencies and specifies that the program does not apply to colleges and universities, among other items.