FROM INDIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston (R-Fishers) said the Statehouse is entering a “new time” ahead of the 2025 legislative session.

Lawmakers gathered Tuesday for Organization Day, the ceremonial start to the session in which all newly-elected members are sworn in.

It’s custom for the House Speaker to lay out his caucus’s agenda — but Huston broke with tradition, instead focusing on advice for legislators, particularly the new ones.

His biggest piece of advice: avoid hyperbole.

“And focus on productive, sensible solutions that actually help the people we represent,” Huston said.

Huston did mention property tax reform as an area of focus for the 2025 session, a sentiment shared by Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray (R-Martinsville).

“We’ve heard that loud and clear,” Bray said. “We need to make some changes to that and we will work through that and do it in a substantive way.”

Lawmakers will return to the Statehouse for the legislative session in January.