Congressman Brad Ellsworth, D-Indiana, who led storm-relief efforts after the tornado as Vanderburgh County sheriff, introduced a national version of the bill on Thursday.

A case of mistaken identity led to a new law that requires coroners to use one of four methods to identify a dead person: fingerprints, DNA analysis, dental records or positive identification by an immediate family member.

None of those methods was used after a crash in April 2006 that killed four students and a staff member from Taylor University. After the wreck, the Grant County coroner’s office said Whitney Cerak had died and that classmate Laura VanRyn was severely injured. VanRyn’s parents sat by the injured woman’s hospital bed for five weeks, only realizing that she was not their daughter when Cerak emerged from her coma.

Renters tired of landlords letting themselves in unannounced also will get some relief. A new law will now require landlords to give tenants reasonable notice before entering a rental unit, except in emergencies.

“There is a tendency to think that renters deserve to have the same kind of rights that property owners have, but the old saying about your home being a castle should be true whether you write a monthly check to a mortgage company or a landlord,” said Rep. Matt Pierce, D-Bloomington.

In all, the General Assembly enacted more than 230 laws during the session that ended on April 29.

Other new laws will:

— Prohibit so-called serial meetings — separate gatherings by less than a quorum of a government board to discuss the same subject with the purpose of conducting official business.

— Tie the state’s minimum wage to the federal minimum wage. They are both $5.15 per hour now, but under a law recently enacted by Congress, the rate will increase to $7.25 over three years.

— Require new teachers to be certified in CPR.

— Allow certain relatives of activated soldiers about to be deployed overseas to take 10 days of unpaid leave to spend more time with their families.

— Allow active-duty military personnel stationed in Indiana to pay in-state tuition rates at Indiana’s public colleges and universities.

— Create a database of meth lab locations.

— Require people convicted of murder, voluntary manslaughter and possession of child pornography to enroll in the state’s sex offender registry upon their release.