Indiana 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1438
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Report Pass
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/28/23
Refer
3/6/23
Report Pass
3/20/23
Enrolled
3/28/23
Passed
4/20/23
Chaptered
4/20/23
Passed
4/20/23
Publication of local government notices. Provides that a towing service is subject to the same public notice advertising rates as a government agency if the service: (1) acts as an agent of a government agency; and (2) provides the notice required to dispose of abandoned vehicles or parts. Provides for the creation of a public notice task force (task force) to study notice publication statutes for the purpose of streamlining the process and maximizing value to Indiana citizens. Provides the following: (1) The task force must publish a report with its determinations and recommendations for legislation not later than December 1, 2023. (2) The task force expires December 31, 2023.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1439
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Oversight of redevelopment commission spending. Requires a city council to approve all expenditures of a city redevelopment commission.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1440
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Involuntary commitment for addiction treatment. Establishes a proceeding for the commitment of an individual who suffers from substance abuse. Provides that the petitioner must agree to pay the cost of the respondent's commitment. Establishes requirements before the court may issue an order for commitment. Allows the court to order the respondent to receive treatment and to appear at an evaluation.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1441
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Property tax assessments. Repeals the provision that requires the county surveyor to make a survey of certain land, if an assessor and a landowner fail to agree on the amount of land included in assessments involving rights-of-way, levees, and public drainage ditches. Provides that a survey must be done if an assessor and a landowner fail to agree on the amount of land in those circumstances, and: (1) requires the landowner to provide written notice of the disagreement to the assessor; (2) requires the survey to be completed within six months from the date of the landowner's notice; (3) allows the landowner to elect to choose the surveyor to conduct the survey (if the landowner does not choose a surveyor, the county surveyor is required to conduct the survey); and (4) specifies the party who is required to pay for the survey. Provides that the attorney general, upon written request of a county assessor, may authorize the chief administrative officer of the office of judicial administration to hire private counsel to represent the county assessor: (1) in a judicial review initiated by the county assessor for review of a final determination of the Indiana board of tax review regarding the assessment or exemption of tangible property; and (2) in a judicial review seeking relief from the tax court to establish that the Indiana board of tax review rendered a decision that was: (A) an abuse of discretion; (B) arbitrary and capricious; (C) contrary to substantial or reliable evidence; or (D) contrary to law (the office of the attorney general may not represent the assessor in these actions under current law).
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1442
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Outdoor refreshment areas. Allows a municipality to create an outdoor refreshment area (area) in which persons may consume alcoholic beverages purchased within the area with the approval of the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission). Allows minors within the area. Prohibits an area located within 200 feet of a school or church unless the school or church does not object. Makes it a Class C misdemeanor for a person to do any of the following: (1) Carry an alcoholic beverage into an area that was not purchased from a participating retailer or vendor. (2) Carry an alcoholic beverage into an area without wearing a wristband identification. (3) Carry an alcoholic beverage outside the area. Makes it a Class C misdemeanor for a participating retailer or vendor to: (1) sell a person more than one alcoholic beverage at a time or an alcoholic beverage that exceeds the volume limitations; or (2) allow a person who is not wearing a wristband identification to enter an area with an alcoholic beverage.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1443
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Utility personal property. Establishes appeal rights and procedures for political subdivisions with regard to utility company personal property assessments.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1444
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Interstate teacher mobility compact. Adopts the interstate teacher mobility compact. Sets forth the requirements of a compact state. Sets forth the duties of the interstate teacher mobility compact commission. Provides that a receiving state determines equivalency standards. Amends the definition of "unencumbered license" in the compact. Removes certain provisions concerning compensation from the compact. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1445
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Report Pass
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Refer
3/6/23
Refer
3/30/23
Report Pass
4/13/23
Enrolled
4/18/23
Passed
5/4/23
Chaptered
5/4/23
Passed
5/4/23
Audit of Medicaid program prescription drug costs. Amends the requirements for a physician to provide office based opioid treatment. Provides that the attorney general may issue a request for proposal to audit the prescription drug programs within the state employee health plan and the Medicaid program. Provides that the attorney general may evaluate and determine whether to include specified metrics in the request for proposal. Provides that the audit look back period must be the previous five state fiscal years. Provides that the results of the audits must be provided to the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services before September 1, 2024. Provides that a practitioner is not required to obtain information about a patient from the Indiana scheduled prescription electronic collection and tracking program (INSPECT) data base or through the patient's integrated health record before prescribing certain medications if the patient is enrolled in a hospice program.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1446
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Case management after family reunification. Provides that if the dispositional decree entered in the case of a child who is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian provides for reunification of the child with the parent, guardian, or custodian, the department of child services (department) shall conduct random, unannounced, in-home, face-to-face assessments of the child not less than once each week for the first six months following the child's return to the home. Provides that: (1) if the dispositional decree entered in the case of a child who is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian: (A) provides for reunification of the child with the parent, guardian, or custodian; and (B) requires the parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in an addiction treatment program; the dispositional decree must require the parent, guardian, or custodian to submit to weekly, random drug testing for the first six months following the child's return to the home; and (2) if the parent, guardian, or custodian tests positive for a controlled substance or fails to submit to a required drug test after the child's return to the home, the department shall change the placement of the child and file an emergency motion with the court or request the court to issue a temporary order for an emergency change in the child's placement. Provides that if a child who is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian is returned to the home of the parent, guardian, or custodian for purposes of a trial home visit, the department shall conduct random, unannounced, in-home, face-to-face assessments of the child not less than once each week for the duration of the trial home visit. Provides that: (1) if a child is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian and the child's dispositional decree requires the child's parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in an addiction treatment program, the dispositional decree must require that the parent, guardian, or custodian submit to weekly, random drug testing for the duration of a trial home visit; and (2) if the parent, guardian, or custodian tests positive for a controlled substance or fails to submit to a required drug test during a trial home visit, the department shall terminate the trial home visit. Provides that a trial home visit must be at least three months in duration, subject to circumstances necessitating removal of the child from the home. Provides that if a dispositional decree requires a child's parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in a program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation and the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian has failed to make consistent and timely progress toward the goals set forth in the dispositional decree: (1) the department: (A) shall not allow the parent, guardian, or custodian supervised visitation with the child until the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian is making consistent and timely progress toward the goals set forth in the dispositional decree; and (B) shall not return the child to the home of the parent, guardian, or custodian, including for purposes of a trial home visit, or allow the parent, guardian, or custodian unsupervised visitation with the child, until the parent, guardian, or custodian completes the services required under the program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation; and (2) the court shall not modify the dispositional decree to reduce the number of services in which the parent, guardian, or custodian is required to participate unless the court finds that a compelling reason exists for the modification.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1447
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/23/23
Enrolled
4/4/23
Passed
5/4/23
Chaptered
5/4/23
Passed
5/4/23
Education matters. Provides that, if a school corporation or qualified school uses a third party vendor in providing certain personal analyses, evaluations, or surveys, the third party vendor and the school corporation or qualified school may not record, collect, or maintain the responses to or results of the analysis, evaluation, or survey in a manner that would identify the responses or results of an individual student. Provides that, if a school corporation or qualified school uses a third party vendor in providing the personal analysis, evaluation, or survey, the school corporation or qualified school must provide parents or students, as applicable, two requests for written consent before administering the analysis, evaluation, or survey. Provides that the school corporation or qualified school may administer the personal analysis, evaluation, or survey if a parent or student, as applicable, does not decline the analysis, evaluation, or survey. Requires each school corporation or qualified school to: (1) post a copy of a personal analysis, evaluation, or survey on the school corporation's or qualified school's website; and (2) send with each notice an explanation of the reasons that the school corporation or qualified school is administering the personal analysis, evaluation, or survey. Requires each qualified school to establish and maintain a grievance procedure for complaints regarding a violation of this provision. Provides that, if a state agency, school corporation, or qualified school or an employee of a state agency, school corporation, or qualified school requires, makes part of a course, awards a grade or course credit, or otherwise incentivizes a student to engage in: (1) political activism; (2) lobbying; or (3) efforts to persuade members of the legislative or executive branch at the federal, state, or local level; the state agency, school corporation, or qualified school or the employee of the state agency, school corporation, or qualified school shall not require the student to adopt, affirm, affiliate, or take any action that would result in favoring any particular position on the issue or issues involved without offering an alternative option for the student to complete the assignment or receive extra credit or other incentivization that allows for the favoring of an alternative position. After June 30, 2023, requires certain contracts between a school corporation or a qualified school and a third party vendor concerning a personal analysis, survey, or evaluation to contain a breach of contract provision. Requires schools to adopt policies and procedures concerning material alleged to be obscene or harmful to minors. Removes schools from the list of entities eligible for a specified defense to such criminal prosecutions.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1448
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Sales tax exemption for agricultural equipment. Provides that a transaction involving a person's acquisition of agricultural machinery, tools, or equipment is exempt from the application of the state gross retail tax regardless of whether the person also intends to use the property for a nonexempt purpose and that such a transaction may not be prorated. Requires the department of state revenue to amend the administrative rules to conform with the provision added by the bill.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1449
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Refer
2/27/23
Refer
3/16/23
Report Pass
4/6/23
Enrolled
4/12/23
Passed
5/4/23
Chaptered
5/4/23
Passed
5/4/23
Twenty-first century scholars program. Provides that the commission for higher education shall do the following: (1) In cooperation with the department of education, identify students who meet the requirements to participate in the twenty-first century scholars program (program). (2) Notify the student and the custodial parent or guardian of the student, if the student is an unemancipated minor, that: (A) the student is eligible to participate in the program; (B) the student must agree to the conditions required to participate in the program; and (C) the student has the right to opt out of the program at any time.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1450
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Tiny home senior village. Appropriates money for the development of a tiny home senior village in the city of Gary.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1451
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Refer
2/28/23
Report Pass
3/16/23
Enrolled
3/22/23
Passed
4/20/23
Chaptered
4/20/23
Passed
4/20/23
Unemployment compensation. Amends the definition of "deductible income" for purposes of the unemployment compensation laws. Provides that, subject to certain exceptions, the department of workforce development may accept an offer in compromise from an employer or claimant to reduce past due debts arising from contributions or benefit overpayments. Provides that an individual is ineligible for benefits for any week that the individual receives payments equal to or exceeding the individual's weekly benefit amount in pension, retirement, or annuity payments under any plan of an employer where the employer contributes all of the money. (Under current law, the disqualification provision applies under any plan of an employer where the employer contributes a portion or all of the money.) Provides that the state of Indiana is not required to participate in or precluded from ceasing to participate in any offered or enacted voluntary, optional, special, or emergency federal program. Makes corresponding changes.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1452
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Exclusion of discharged student loans as income. Provides that the Indiana adjusted gross income add back of forgiven federal student loan debt that is excluded under the Internal Revenue Code applies only to the 2021 taxable year and does not apply to federal student loan debt forgiven in subsequent taxable years.