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E-News 6-10-22 STATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Holcomb Announces Inflation Relief Plan On Thursday Gov. Eric Holcomb announced a plan to return $1 billion to Indiana taxpayers from current state reserves amid high inflation. Under the plan, each taxpayer would receive roughly $225 in addition to the $125 each taxpayer has already received through the automatic taxpayer refund statute. In order to facilitate this plan, the governor plans to call lawmakers back to Indianapolis for a special session. The special session is expected to occur by the end of June.   Register for 2022 IBA Regional...
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E-News 6-3-22 STATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Register for 2022 IBA Regional Meetings The IBA is once again hosting a series of regional meetings around the state to facilitate grassroots communication between the bankers we serve and the legislators who serve our state. The meetings will include an hour-long update on the IBA, including legislative information and advocacy opportunities. Following the update, local legislators from the Indiana General Assembly will meet for lunch with bankers from the community. Five regional meetings remain, each beginning at 11:00 a.m. local time. Below are the dates,...
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E-News 5-27-22 STATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Holcomb Preparing 'Inflation Relief' Gov. Eric Holcomb said Wednesday he was preparing a plan to potentially tap into the growing state budget surplus to help residents with the national inflation jump while rejecting calls for suspending state gas taxes. State Lawmakers Return for Technical Corrections Lawmakers gathered at the Statehouse Tuesday for what's called a "technical session." The legislature voted to override a veto from the governor and passed a technical corrections bill to correct unintended errors from the last session. Read the...
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E-News 5-20-22 STATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Director Fite Elected CSBS Chair Thomas C. Fite, director of the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions, was elected chair of the board of directors of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors during the organization’s annual membership meeting, held virtually on Wednesday. At the meeting, CSBS also elected new officers for 2022-23 and announced new committee chair appointments. “The annual meeting was long scheduled. As we mourn the loss of long time CSBS President and CEO John Ryan, who died suddenly of natural causes on Monday, CSBS leadership...
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