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Carrier incentives deal a rarity for IndianaLast week, the board of the Indiana Economic Development Corp. approved the incentives package pledged to Carrier Corp. for keeping some of its operations in Indianapolis. The deal is unusual for Indiana, in that it rewards the company for simply retaining some employees, rather than the typical goal of leveraging new jobs. Indianapolis Business Journal’s Susan Orr took an in-depth look at Indiana’s rare use of job-retention incentives a few months back. |
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| AIM legislative summary
In the Indiana Legislature, today is the last day for bills to be heard in committee and Thursday will be a busy day as the third reading deadline will pressure legislators to finalize several complex bills.. The pressure is on for many bills to stay alive. Check out the latest tracking list from Accelerate Indiana Municipalities (AIM) featuring additional bills of interest or concern to municipal government to see where the bills are currently sitting. |
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| Many annexation waivers will be void under HB 1450
Last week in the Senate’s Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee HB 1450 was amended with language potentially harmful to many Indiana communities. The language makes void any annexation remonstration waivers signed after 1995 and where an annexation was not started prior to 2006. This bill is on the 2nd reading calendar today, Monday, April 3rd. Click here for message points from AIM, which opposes the amendment. |
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| U.S. Supreme Court rejects bid to revive ballot selfies ban
New Hampshire voters can keep taking pictures of themselves and their completed ballots. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the state’s bid to revive a law prohibiting voters from taking such pictures. The justices left in place lower court rulings that struck down the law as an unconstitutional restriction on voters’ free-speech rights. The state had argued the ban was necessary to prevent vote buying and voter coercion. In the most recent ruling, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called it an overly broad solution to an unsubstantiated and hypothetical danger.
Roughly two dozen states prohibit voters from sharing photos of themselves with their ballots. But those laws are under legal attack, with mixed results. Just before the November election, a judge in New York upheld that state’s prohibition on ballot selfies, while a judge in Colorado said voters could take pictures of themselves with their ballots. Indiana’s voting booth selfie ban was struck down in 2015 in Indiana Civil Liberties Union v. Indiana Sec. of State. |
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Joshua Claybourn
Joshua is Counsel in Jackson Kelly’s Evansville office. He advises clients in matters of business and corporate law, governmental services, and public finance. Learn more here. |
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