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After a five-week long stay in Urbana, Ill., Indiana House Democrats returned to the Statehouse Monday afternoon ready to return to work.

Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, imposed fines on the boycotting Democrats on Thursday in an attempt to convince them to return from Illinois.

Though its Democratic members are still in Illinois, the Indiana House of Representatives remains in operation.

Despite opposition from union workers who packed into meeting, an Indiana House panel approved a measure that allows workers to opt out of paying union dues Monday.

House Republicans rejected persistent Democratic efforts to make a bill intended to repay the $2 billion Indiana's unemployment insurance fund has borrowed more friendly to those drawing benefits.

A bill that would make it easier for adults who were adopted as children to find their birth parents took a step toward becoming law Wednesday.

Legislation that would allow Indiana State Police to keep the federally allowable part of the federal fee for a national fingerprint based criminal history check has won the unanimous approval of an Indiana House committee.

The Indiana House of Representatives passed a bill that would require state official documents to be printed only in English.

House passes bills pertaining to off-road vehicles, college board of trustees and military veterans. All bills passed through the House successfully.

The Indiana House of Representatives opened its 2011 session Wednesday. The house majority and minority argued about rule 115 and 116. Bipartisan efforts were not apparent.

A new bill introduced to the House Roads and Transportation Committee could make mini-trucks street legal on Indiana state highways by next year.

At the House Labor and Employment Committee meeting on Thursday, unemployed Hoosiers expressed their anger to the legislators.

Leaders in the Indiana House discussed their agendas for this year's legislative session as it opened Wednesday.