Indiana 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0342
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
2/7/23
Refer
2/28/23
Report Pass
3/23/23
Enrolled
3/31/23
Passed
5/1/23
Chaptered
5/1/23
Passed
5/1/23
Teacher hiring. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to consider using a more comprehensive expanded criminal history background check for employment. Repeals current law concerning a school corporation or charter school's employment of, or contracting with, certain individuals, and establishes a new section that: (1) prohibits a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school from employing or contracting with specified individuals; (2) after June 30, 2023, allows a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school to employ or contract with certain other individuals with a majority vote of the school board, or the equivalent for a charter school, or with a notification of the appointing authority. Specifies that "misconduct" includes certain specified acts. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school that receives a reference request from another school to disclose specified incidents to the requesting school. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0343
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/23/23
Engrossed
3/1/23
Refer
3/6/23
Report Pass
3/30/23
Enrolled
4/11/23
Passed
5/4/23
Chaptered
5/4/23
Passed
5/4/23
Various criminal law matters. Makes it organized retail theft, a Level 6 felony, for a person to exercise unauthorized control over the property of a retail merchant with the intent to directly or indirectly distribute the property for resale, and increases the penalty to a Level 5 felony if certain circumstances exist. Permits a person to petition for expungement of an arrest if no charges have been filed within one year of the arrest. (Under current law, the arrest is expunged without a petition after 180 days.) Requires a court, in granting a petition for expungement, to include in the order statutory language specifying that the person's civil rights are restored. Allows disclosure of expunged records to a school in connection with the employment of a person likely to have contact with a student. Specifies that an expunged record may not be destroyed or deleted. Repeals the requirement that certain acts taken by a prosecuting attorney are invalid without a seal. Makes conforming amendments and a technical correction.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0344
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
2/9/23
Refer
2/28/23
Report Pass
4/6/23
Enrolled
4/12/23
Passed
5/4/23
Chaptered
5/4/23
Passed
5/4/23
Northeast Indiana strategic development commission. Establishes the northeast Indiana strategic development fund (fund) administered by the northeast Indiana strategic development commission (commission). Prohibits money in the fund from being used for the purposes of expanding or increasing access to broadband. Adds additional purposes to be carried out by the commission in the development area. Expands the membership of the commission to include two additional voting members to be appointed by the mayors and commissioners caucus of the northeast Indiana regional development authority and specifies certain qualifications for the appointments.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0345
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
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
Termination of parental rights. Defines "safe haven infant". Provides that a licensed child placing agency may not take certain actions against an individual based upon the individual's immunization status. Allows the emergency medical services provider to notify either the department of child services (department) or a licensed child placing agency to take custody of a safe haven infant. Requires the department and a licensed child placing agency to contact certain agencies to determine if the safe haven infant has been reported missing. Provides that a safe haven infant is presumed eligible for Medicaid. Establishes procedures for termination of parent-child relationship involving a safe haven infant. Requires the department's attorney or a licensed child placing agency to file a petition to terminate the parent-child relationship not later than 15 days after taking custody of the safe haven infant. Requires a licensed child placing agency to place the safe haven infant with a preapproved adoptive parent. Provides that both parents' consent to termination of the parent-child relationship is irrevocably implied without further court action if, after at least 28 days, neither parent petitioned the court for custody. Requires that a putative parent notice be published and provides specific language for the notice. Requires an affidavit of publication of the putative parent notice to be filed with the court. Prohibits the court from inquiring about the reason for the parents' absence. Provides that a prospective adoptive family may only be charged certain costs by the licensed child placement agency.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0346
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Heritage commerce district. Establishes the Indiana heritage commerce district program. Permits a municipality with a population of not more than 50,000 and that has been designated as an Indiana main street program area for not less than two years to establish a heritage commerce district. Establishes the heritage commerce district fund. Provides that the office of community and rural affairs may make grants not exceeding $500,000 annually to qualified districts. Provides that grant applicants must provide local matching funds. Specifies sources from which a grant applicant may solicit and accept local matching funds for purposes of a grant. Makes an appropriation.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0347
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Refer
2/9/23
Work sharing unemployment benefits program. Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program (program). Requires an employer that desires to participate in the program to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce development. Establishes the work sharing benefit as equal to an affected employee's unemployment benefit reduced by a percentage equal to the percentage of the employee's normal weekly work hours that the employee works under the approved work sharing plan. Makes a technical correction.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0348
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Refer
2/28/23
Residential harassment. Makes it residential harassment, a Class C misdemeanor, to picket or protest before or about a person's dwelling with the intent of harassing the person in the person's dwelling. Specifies that a person may only be taken into custody for the offense if the person refused an order to disperse.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0349
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Refer
2/28/23
Overlapping allocation areas. Permits counties and municipalities in a case in which a municipality annexes an area in the county after the county has established a redevelopment district in that area to approve ordinances regarding the allocation of property tax proceeds derived from the municipality's component of the tax rate applied to the allocation area to be transferred to the redevelopment commission of the annexing municipality.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0350
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Engrossed
3/1/23
Refer
3/6/23
Report Pass
3/30/23
Enrolled
4/5/23
Passed
5/1/23
Chaptered
5/1/23
Passed
5/1/23
Professional licensing. Provides that a unit may not regulate behavioral health and human services that are: (1) licensed or certified; or (2) exempted from licensure or certification; by the behavioral health and human services licensing board.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0351
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Designation of sex on birth certificate. Defines "sex" for purposes of birth certificates.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0352
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Construction of certain intersections. Provides that the Indiana department of transportation (department) may not engage in planning or perform construction to install a roundabout or a reduced conflict intersection until the department has received input and approval from the legislative body of the unit that has control over the intersection or junction where the roundabout or reduced conflict intersection would be located.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0353
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Report Pass
2/6/23
Engrossed
2/14/23
Refer
2/28/23
Report Pass
3/23/23
Report Pass
3/30/23
Enrolled
4/5/23
Passed
4/20/23
Chaptered
4/20/23
Passed
4/20/23
Risk management and catastrophic liability funds. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to cease operation of the political subdivision risk management fund upon a determination by the insurance commissioner that: (1) all political subdivisions that were members of the fund have withdrawn from the fund; and (2) all payment of the liabilities of former members of the fund have been determined and finalized. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to cease operation of the political subdivision catastrophic liability fund upon a determination by the insurance commissioner that: (1) all political subdivisions that were members of the fund have withdrawn from the fund; and (2) all payment of the liabilities of former members of the fund have been determined and finalized. Requires the insurance commissioner, when ceasing operation of one of the funds, to distribute the balance in the fund to former members of the fund, distributing to each former member an amount proportional to the total of assessments and (in the case of the political subdivision risk management fund) surcharges paid by the former member. Provides that the laws establishing the political subdivision risk management fund and the political subdivision catastrophic liability fund expire when the insurance commissioner certifies to the executive director of the legislative services agency that: (1) the funds have no remaining members; (2) all payments of liabilities of former members of the funds have been determined and finalized; and (3) the balances in the funds have been distributed to former members of the funds. Amends a provision of the law concerning tort claims against governmental entities to provide that giving notice of a tort claim against a political subdivision to the political subdivision risk management commission is not required if the law establishing the political subdivision risk management commission has expired.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0354
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Education matters. Provides that a: (1) school that seeks state accreditation; and (2) national or regional accreditation agency that seeks to be recognized by the state board of education (state board); must complete and submit the applicable application form established by the state board. Requires the state board to do the following: (1) Not later than six months after the date a completed application is submitted, approve or deny the accreditation or recognition. (2) If the state board denies an accreditation or recognition, send notice to the school or national or regional accreditation agency stating the reasons for the denial. Requires the department of education to post a copy of the application forms on the department's website. Requires a public school, including a charter school, to notify the parent of an unemancipated minor, if the student: (1) makes a certain disclosure concerning the student's gender identity or gender expression to an employee or staff member of the school; or (2) changes, expresses a desire to change, or makes a request to change the student's name, attire, or pronoun, title, or word to identify the student in a manner that is inconsistent with the student's biological sex at birth. Requires an employee or staff member of a school to report to the school a disclosure or information described in these provisions to the school.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0355
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Property tax matters. Repeals the property tax deduction for a surviving spouse of a WWI veteran. Makes certain changes to the qualification requirements and amounts for the deduction for individuals who are at least 65 years of age and the additional credit for certain homesteads. Requires the true tax value of a privately owned wastewater facility to be determined by applying the income capitalization approach. Provides that, if the application of the income capitalization method for an assessment year results in a zero or negative assessment, the privately owned wastewater facility is exempt from property taxation for that assessment year. Makes corresponding changes.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0356
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Workforce retention incentives. Provides that an individual who is enrolled in certain associate degree programs may be eligible for the high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant. Requires the commission of higher education (commission), in conjunction with the department of workforce development, to determine which associate degree programs are eligible, including associate degree programs in advanced manufacturing, information technology, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Establishes the workforce retention and brain gain loan forgiveness program (program). Provides that the commission shall administer the program. Establishes the workforce retention and brain gain loan forgiveness fund to provide annual student loan forgiveness payments to individuals who meet certain requirements.