Lawmakers advanced two key transgender-related bills, a constitutional amendment on bail, birth control legislation.
. An amendment was adopted, lowering the estimated cost to $550,000 annually. The bill, carried by Rep. Ethan Manning, R-Logansport, is priority legislation for the House Republicans caucus.Another bill,
The bill would establish a framework to strengthen the state's community mental health centers and 988 suicide and crisis hotline. A $30 million appropriation to these clinics was stricken from the bill and will become a Senate budget request instead. The Legislative Services Agency estimates revenue loss to the state would grow up to $22 million by 2028. But's author, Rep. Randy Frye, R-Greensburg, believes the impact wouldn't be so severe because, as it stands today, these active duty military often abandon Indiana as their home state to avoid the income tax.
Laws on the books since the 1980s single out people living with HIV and give them stiffer penalties for certain acts, from donating blood or semen to spitting on another individual. The modern scientific consensus today is that HIV cannot be transmitted through spitting, and people living with HIV can safely give blood if they're being treated and have an undetectable trace of the virus.
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