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Indiana will set aside 200 child care vouchers for foster families if the governor signs a bill sent to his desk Monday.

Indiana Medicaid paid more than $14 million for Applied Behavioral Analysis, or ABA, therapy service in 2017. But just two years later, it paid $120 million. Gov. Mike Braun signed an executive order to convene a work group to address improper payments.

House Republicans rejected every effort by Democrats Wednesday to adjust the state budget bill. Some of the proposed changes to HB 1001 would’ve provided more dollars for pre-K, child care and teacher salaries.

Indiana has collected $342 million less than its budget plan expected through four months of the 2025 fiscal year.

Republicans maintained their supermajorities in the Indiana House and Senate in the 2024 election.

The Indiana General Assembly passed 172 laws during this year’s legislative session. Several centered on various topics in education like reading, religious instruction and cell phones in class.

Rep. Rita Fleming (D-Jeffersonville), a retired OB-GYN, helped lead the fight at the Statehouse to expand access to contraceptives.

Mom lawmakers grow in visibility, but their proportional representation is still lacking.

It's not unusual for pieces of legislation to take multiple sessions to finally become law.

Workers this week assembled a massive crane outside the Statehouse for a $12.5 million project that includes cleaning the copper dome.