2025 IN Legislative Scorecard

SB326 would prohibit a government entity from organizing, hosting, or funding an obscene performance.

The House passed SB326 on March 31, 2025, by a vote of 72 to 20. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because “Drag Queen Story Hour” should be illegal. No person has a right to sexually “groom” or abuse a child using the pretext of LGBTQ+ ideology, let alone force their neighbor to pay for it. Indeed, the government has a duty to prohibit public displays of obscene, indecent, or profane activity. Prior to the counter-cultural “gay rights” movement of the 1960s, many states had laws against not only homosexual conduct, but “cross dressing.” Conflation of biological sex and fictional “gender identity” constructs (e.g., “nonbinary,” “intersex,” or “two-spirit”) is absurd, and results in grossly illicit acts of sexual perversion contrary to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” The right of the people to protect both themselves and their children from “transanity” is retained under the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment.

SB120 requires a sheriff to take a DNA sample of a person who is arrested for, not just charged with or convicted of, a felony.

The House passed SB120 on March 20, 2025, by a vote of 80 to 10. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill unconstitutionally subjects even innocent persons to mandatory DNA collection, thereby dangerously expanding the statewide DNA database system and the threat it poses to justice and individual privacy. In America, “due process of law” requires that a person be presumed innocent “until proven guilty.” Indiana lawmakers should support, not undermine, the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

SB457 establishes certain guidelines for companies to receive a carbon sequestration project permit or a carbon dioxide transmission pipeline certificate of authority from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

The House passed SB457 on March 20, 2025, by a vote of 56 to 36. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the recent growth of carbon-capture storage systems in the United States is closely connected to the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for “sustainable development,” which seeks to codify extreme “environmental justice” measures into state law. Its push for a “green” or “decarbonized” economy on behalf of “vulnerable populations” is nothing other than a fanatical attempt by globalist elites to increase their taxing power and authority. The abuse of eminent domain for these carbon-capture pipelines encroaches upon constitutionally protected property rights. If America is to truly remain the “land of the free,” then the States and the people must reject the hoax of “climate change” and put an end to the global war on farmers.

SB314 provides various tax exemptions for the Women’s National Basketball Association All-State Game, and related events, when held in Indiana.

The House passed SB314 on March 20, 2025, by a vote of 83 to 6. We have assigned pluses to the nays because government has absolutely no business subsidizing women’s basketball or other sports. The owners of billion-dollar professional sports organizations can more than afford to pay their taxes, and deserve no special carve-out from the immoral and anti-constitutional forms of taxation (e.g., corporate or personal income taxes) that steal from citizens the wages they have rightfully earned. Policies that involve the government picking economic “winners” and “losers” violates the basic principles of free-market enterprise. “Economic opportunity” is too often simply a cliché or code word used to finance these types of crony, corporate-sponsored “pork-barrel” projects that exist entirely outside the limited purpose and scope of government. The U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment were written to promote the “general Welfare” of all Americans by preventing undue deprivations of every person’s “property.”

SJR21 applies to “call a convention” under Article V of the U.S. Constitution for the purpose of proposing an amendment to set term limits on members of Congress.

The House passed SJR21 on March 17, 2025, by a vote of 67 to 29. We have assigned pluses to the nays because term limits conflict with the right of the American people to choose their representatives. Moreover, efforts to “call a convention” under Article V must be resisted. A constitutional convention (Con-Con) would have the ability to make major changes to the U.S. Constitution, or even completely rewrite it. Instead of risking the danger of a “runaway convention,” which could act as a “Trojan horse” to destroy many of the Constitution’s limitations on government power, state legislators should simply uphold their oath of office. In other words, the problem is not the Constitution, but lawmakers’ failure to follow it. Article V was designed to correct potential errors or defects in the Constitution, not to “misconstrue or abuse its powers.” Whenever the federal government assumes undelegated powers, in violation of the 10th Amendment, nullification of such lawless acts is the proper remedy. State legislators should use Article VI to enforce the Constitution, rather than use Article V to alter or abolish it.