Senator Pol represents Senate District 4 encompassing portions of Porter and LaPorte counties, including Portage, Chesterton, and Michigan City.
Chesterton, Indiana
Joined October 2021
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Indiana remains just one of 13 states without any form of legal cannabis. Tomorrow, we start a golden opportunity to change that with the first Interim Study Committee on Cannabis. I will be fighting for us to join those other 37 states with modernized cannabis laws.
In the upcoming session, I will be authoring a bill that guarantees unemployment benefits for workers who have been locked out for demanding fair pay and safe working conditions. (4/5)
It cannot be our state’s policy to empower mega-corporations to bully working families, and this bill will provide a clearly needed layer of protection for the working families who power our state.
🔗Read the full statement here: tinyurl.com/5n77bmc7 #INForAll (5/5)
🚨 ICYMI: BP is trying to claw back unemployment benefits from locked-out workers 🚨
Friends, it is unconscionable that a $100 billion corporation is resorting to these shady business practices at the expense of our Hoosier families. (1/5)
❌After refusing a fair contract and locking out over 800 hardworking Hoosiers from USW Local 7-1, BP is coming after some of the resources allowing these families to get by. (2/5)
Last year I authored a bill that would have provided a meaningful increase to workers’ compensation benefits through 2032 and thereafter, protecting Hoosier workers for years to come.
It never got a hearing, and there are no increases on the books after this year.
No person should have to fear losing their car or their home because of an injury they got while trying to make a living. I hope that this session we make that promise closer to a reality. #INForAll
In the Study Committee on Employment and Labor, we received updates on the status of workers' compensation in Indiana.
Did you know that over the last 16 years, Hoosiers have seen workers’ compensation benefits in only 7 of those years?
And though we have seen an annual 3% increase for the last four years, that increase was doing double duty; trying to make up for lost time and keep up with inflation, barely able to do either.
In Northwest Indiana, our electric bills have risen over 90% in the last decade, leaving working families with difficult choices when trying to make ends meet.
At the same time, when our Region needed it most, the reliability we’ve been told we were investing in was not there.
I have heard from so many families in our community about their concerns and frustrations with NIPSCO, not just in the last month, but for years. This is a chance to voice those concerns to your statehouse representatives as we work to draft legislation for the upcoming session.
⚠️ ATTENTION NEIGHBORS & SMALL BUSINESSES AFFECTED BY THE STORMS: As a result of the August 11 storms, any Indiana resident, business, nonprofit organization, faith-based organization, or agricultural cooperative that was impacted can apply for Low-interest
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2️⃣ Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) for businesses that need capital to meet certain financial obligations (payroll, accounts payable, etc). Applications are due May 25, 2027. (4/5)
🔗To apply, and for more information on the two types of loans the SBA is offering Indiana residents, click here: bit.ly/4gH3weT (5/5)
⚠️ Heads Up, South Haven ⚠️
Aqua Indiana, which owns South Haven Sewer Works, has a pending rate case with the IURC.
Rate case #46425 would raise Aqua Indiana’s wastewater utility rates across the board, resulting in a 32.55% system-average increase.
🔗 WHAT YOU CAN DO: Participate in the public comment on the pending rate case by visiting in.gov/oucc/contact-us/.
I will share more updates about any public hearings or more ways to engage as those are provided. #INForAll