These are bills that failed to pass during Indiana’s most recent legislative session. These help show what gives our state a bad name:

  • House Bill 1204 woud have prohibited schools from starting the year any earlier than the week before Labor Day. So you’re going to require a set number of days, and then not let the schools start until the end of August, so the students can go until June? July?  I’m not understanding why this needs to be a law in the first place. Why do you care when school starts? We are no longer in the days where we go to school from after Labor Day to before Memorial Day.
  • House Bill 1087 would have set statewide dates for hunting squirrels. WHAT?!? I don’t want people running around hunting squirrles in my neighborhood, in season or out!
  • Setante Bill 88 would have requird occupants of pickup trucks, and those in the back seats of cars, to buckle up. This isn’t a law yet?
  • House BIll 1206 would have required public restrooms in license brances. They don’t have public restrooms? Considering how long you have to wait there, I would think they’d have to! But why does this have to be a law–isn’t this a Health Department issue?
  • House Bill 1014 would have required a public referendum on whether Indiana should observe Centeral Time. Can’t we just end the debate now? We’re finally doing Daylight Savings, so I can tell people on the East coast we’re on the same time with them ALWAYS now. Please don’t mess this up and confuse people more!