2025 IN Legislative Scorecard

SB10 specifies that student documents may not be used as “proof of identification” for voting purposes, and that county voter-registration offices must remove disenfranchised criminals and non-citizens from their voter lists within 48 hours.

The Senate passed SB10 on April 7, 2025, by a vote of 39 to 9. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill improves Indiana’s voter ID requirements by closing a significant loophole that risks electoral fraud and disenfranchisement of qualified U.S. citizen voters. Article 2, Section 14, of the Indiana Constitution clearly grants the General Assembly power to provide by law for the “registration of all persons entitled to vote” in the state. Further, it the American people alone who retain the “right of Representation in the Legislature.” The General Assembly should perform its duty and exercise the full extent of its authority under Article 1, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the 14th and 26th Amendments, to implement free, fair, and secure elections, thus ensuring “the right of citizens of the United States to vote.”

SB306 amends Indiana's film and media production tax credit by making it transferable and extending the expiration date of eligible expenses to July 1, 2031.

The Senate passed SB306 on April 7, 2025, by a vote of 48 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because government has absolutely no business subsidizing the entertainment industry. Multi-millionaire Hollywood producers and leftist film artists can pay their own 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, elite-driven “pork-barrel” projects. 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.”

HB1393 requires state and local law enforcement to notify federal immigration officials upon making a criminal arrest if there is probable cause that the suspect is not legally present in the United States.

The Senate passed HB1393 on March 24, 2025, by a vote of 37 to 10. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because illegal aliens, with exception to those convicted of a capital or otherwise infamous crime, ought to be deported from the United States. Unlawful presence in the United States is, by definition, a civil violation, whereas illegal entry is, at the very least, a misdemeanor offense. Nevertheless, mass migration, which is nothing other than an “Invasion,” has become the most immediate and serious threat to our country. It’s an anti-American policy designed to destroy national unity, allegiance, and sovereignty, through a blatant undermining of the rule of law and an erosion of the value of citizenship. To save our Republic, “We the People” need to demand secure borders, the deportation of every illegal, and a moratorium on all immigration until this crisis ends.

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 Senate passed SB457 on February 11, 2025, by a vote of 27 to 21. 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.

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 Senate passed SJR21 on January 27, 2025, by a vote of 31 to 18. 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.