INDIANAPOLIS— Assistant Senate Minority Leader Andrea Hunley (D-Indianapolis) gave the following statement upon the State Senate adjourning sine die.

“As we leave the 2025 Legislative Session, I am first and foremost overwhelmed with gratitude for every single person who has made their voice heard within our statehouse walls with testimony, protest or other advocacy; I am also grateful for every call, email or letter that was sent.

“The legislative process only works with the active participation of those who are represented.

“I am grateful to every member of my caucus who spent this session, and months leading up to it, listening, delivering results and never forgetting that we work for the people of Indiana first and foremost.

“Unfortunately, this is something that was too often forgotten other places in the Statehouse this year.

“We just finished deliberation on a budget that disregards working-class Hoosiers by cutting relief for special education in our state, creating restrictions on child care assistance, eliminating funding for services for our aging parents and grandparents, and much more.

“Despite these cuts, we still found the funds, while facing a $2.4 billion shortfall, to expand school choice vouchers for our wealthiest families.

“This disregard for the working-class is compounded by the Senate’s priority bill, SB 1, that was promised to deliver meaningful property tax relief for Hoosiers.

“Instead of fulfilling that promise, it instead sets up a framework where our poorest Hoosiers, those with a property value under $150,000, will end up paying more in property taxes while our state’s wealthiest reap the real benefit.

“I stand alongside my colleagues in the Indiana Senate Democratic Caucus in unequivocal support for the futures, families and freedoms of every person who calls this state home.

“I will never cease in my advocacy to create an Indiana that my daughters, and the generations that come after them will be proud of.

“We aren’t there yet, but trust that we are already preparing for the 2026 Legislative Session and will work tirelessly to get one step closer.”