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This is worth celebrating! Some of the bad bills that would have rolled back voting rights, restricted reproductive freedom, dictated personal choices, and implemented Project 2025-style policies here in Indiana are dead this legislative session.


While language from these dead bills can be resurrected in live bills via amendments, it's still important to celebrate these wins, which are all thanks to your advocacy! Your emails and phone calls DO make a difference. 


Check out the status of all the bills we're tracking at MADVoters.org.


Legislators are on break next week and will reconvene on Monday, March 3 to begin the second half of the legislative session.

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These good bills are STUCK in committee, and won't have a chance to move forward in the legislative process unless they get a committee hearing. Contact the listed committee chairperson and ask them to bring the bill to their committee.

View all the bills we're tracking at MADVoters.org. See others you like still stuck in committee? You can contact the chairperson for them, too!

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Indiana has become a testing ground for Christian Nationalist legislation straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. The bills listed here represent efforts from extremist legislators of the supermajority to control and criminalize anything they don't agree with. Learn more and take action on our bill tracker at MADVoters.org.

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House Bills 1486 and 1505 do not consider the circumstances of those eligible for SNAP benefits. The average per person SNAP benefit is under $200 per month. That is not enough for anyone to be wasteful, nor does monitoring or restricting purchases do anything to solve the foundational issues, which includes Hoosiers living in food deserts, the unhoused population, fast rising utility costs, nor the medical needs of those with sensory sensitivities. No matter how much you starve someone with medical needs or offer them 'healthy alternatives' they cannot physically eat a variety of textures.

Not everyone has the time, skills, and equipment needed to provide unprocessed meals to their loved ones. As you can see with the graphic, premade foods are effective in saving time and money while making sure mouths are fed.

Unfortunately, State Representatives Ryan Lauer and Lindsay Patterson don't seem to care about Hoosier families in these positions and want to make their lives more difficult.

If you want to share your thoughts on the proposed bills, consider getting in touch with them at
Ryan Lauer email: h59@iga.in.gov phone: 317-232-9800
Lindsay Patterson email: h55@iga.in.gov phone: 317-232-9740

For more information on these bills use our Bill Tracker at www.madvoters.org/bill-tracker

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UPCOMING BILLS: take action by contacting the committee chairs linked on our bill tracker at MADVoters.org - especially for those high alert bills like HB 1002, which provides a pathway to eliminate many public school programs; and SB 235, which would end DEI at state institutions.

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Are these HIGH ALERT bills on your radar? Learn more about them at MADVoters.org/bill-tracker. The best way you can take action right now is to help stop them while they're in Committee. We've got the committee chairman's email linked for you on our bill tracker, so it's easy to contact them and urge them to stop these bills from moving forward.

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1 year ago | [YT] | 2

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We are pleased to report that 1136 will not be scheduled for committee hearing this week.

Thank you for calling and emailing the bill author and committee chair. If you were planning to head to the Statehouse on Wednesday to testify against this bill - don't change your plans. Another bad education bill (1002) is on the schedule. We recently posted about the dangers of this bill.

You can always see the latest updates on bills we're tracking at www.madvoters.org/bill-tracker

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🚩🚩🚩 Monster bill that GUTS public school programs and student services is up for a public hearing THIS WEDNESDAY at the 8:30am House Education Committee session. Get there early to sign in. It's first come, first served. Even if you can't come to the hearing, contact Representative Behning to share your thoughts on this bill.

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The 2025 Indiana legislative session begins today! Learn what the bills mean, track their progress, and contact your legislators at MADVoters.org

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In December, Michael Hicks, a distinguished economics professor at Ball State University, discussed a report from Indiana's Commission on Higher Ed. With notable highlights of his discussion on the report in the graphics below, it is clear that Indiana, after 20 years of single-party rule, is less successful, less competitive, and less educated.

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