From the color of your headlights to holding schools accountable for reporting bullying data to the state – dozens of bills were signed into law by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb this year. Many of those bills took effect Sunday, July 1.
We’ll now be paying 1 cent more in tax per gallon of gas across Indiana as part of the yearly increase approved along with the 10 cent fuel tax increase the state’s legislature enacted last year. Another bill requires schools to ask parents for consent to teach their child sex education and give them 31 days to respond.
Four bills signed this year are meant to help combat Indiana’s opioid abuse problem. The bills will increase the number of opioid treatment locations, jack up criminal penalties for drug dealers and expand the system that monitors opioid prescriptions. Another measure will improve data collected from local coroners on overdose deaths.
Other new laws will effectively ban the practice of eyeball tattooing, protect the rights of homeowners to rent out property on websites like Airbnb and designate an official state insect.
