After promising property tax relief on the campaign trail, Gov. Mike Braun’s tax plan passed out of the Indiana Senate with major rewrites. “I’d like to see some amendments that kind of put the governor’s language back in the bill.

It started with more than 1,250 bills. And after last week’s chamber-swapping deadline, the Indiana General Assembly is down to about 340 pieces of legislation that can move forward into law.

House Bill 1008 from Republican House Speaker Todd Huston would create a commission to study how 33 Illinois counties could join Indiana.

Indiana lawmakers are on break this week, having made it to the halfway point of the legislative session. Why it matters: The path to crossover — the midway point when House bills head to the Senate and vice versa — is littered with dead bills.

A bill aiming to explore the possibility of a land exchange between Illinois and Indiana took a step closer to reality in the Indiana legislature.

Imagine Indiana and Illinois using the strengths of their economies to help both states grow, even as they compete. Consider the potential to improve the quality of life for Illinoisans and Hoosiers if the two neighbors collaborated on ways to upgrade school buildings,

Several major Indiana election reforms advanced by the Senate Elections Committee this session either failed to get approval by the full Senate or were significantly scaled back.

An Indiana House committee has approved House Bill 1008, sponsored by Speaker Todd Huston, to establish an Indiana-Illinois boundary adjustment commission, which would be tasked with researching the possibility of redrawing the states' boundaries.

An Indiana bill would set up a commission to evaluate changing the state’s boundary with Illinois to welcome counties who have approved exploring seceding from the Land of Lincoln.

House Bill 1008, authored by Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, has been panned by Illinois leaders as a stunt. On the House floor before the vote, Huston once again emphasized Indiana’s tax rates and rattled off economic statistics and framed his measure as a way to highlight the state’s progress.

The Indiana House gave a stamp of approval to Republican House Speaker Todd Huston’s bill that creates a commission to discuss how Illinois counties could secede from their state and join Indiana.