County councilors are now banned from individually selecting which road repairs to prioritize after Gov. Mike Braun signed House Bill 1200, where the provision was slipped in last-minute, into law.
The effort appears to be yet another example of the Indiana General Assembly’s fixation with Indianapolis: the city decided in 2024 to give each city-county councilor $1 million in leftover local income tax funds to spend on road projects in their district. But some officials used their one-time spend on roads near their homes or workplaces, Mirror Indy reported in 2025. Those city-county councilors say they were merely responding to constituent feedback.
The ban is just a small piece of the bill, which started as an agency bill before quickly becoming a vehicle for new restrictions on immigrant truck drivers. It would allow the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles to revoke a commercial driver’s license if the person no longer has legal status, require a person to pass a skills exam in English to drive a commercial vehicle and would make it a Level 6 felony, punishable up to two and a half years in jail, to pass off a fake commercial driver’s license as real. That violation would come with a $50,000 fine for the company…