Indiana 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0432
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Regulation of short term rental properties. Repeals provisions that restrict a local government's authority to regulate short term rental properties.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0433
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Refer
2/6/23
Medicaid services for northwest Indiana. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning (office) to establish a program for northwest Indiana Medicaid recipients to enhance access to medical services closer to the recipient's residence with a priority on trauma care and pediatric services. Requires the office to submit a state plan amendment implementing enhanced access. Requires the office to review and analyze certain Medicaid reimbursement rates, statistics, and information concerning the Illinois Medicaid program in comparison to Indiana. Appropriates $20 million to northwest Indiana hospitals in state fiscal year 2024 for disproportionate share eligible hospitals that apply for funds to offset federal law changes in the disproportionate share program.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0434
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
3/1/23
Refer
3/6/23
Report Pass
4/6/23
Enrolled
4/13/23
Passed
5/4/23
Chaptered
5/4/23
Passed
5/4/23
Economic development in Lake County. Establishes the blighted property demolition fund (demolition fund). Provides that money in the demolition fund is to be used for costs associated with demolishing a qualified property located in the territory of a current or future transit development district or in the area surrounding the Gary Metro Center. Allows the Lake County fiscal body to adopt an increase in the county innkeeper's tax. Establishes the Lake County economic development and convention fund (convention fund). Provides that money in the convention fund may be used for purposes related to a convention center in Lake County. Establishes a local county fund known as the Lake County convention and event center reserve fund (reserve fund). Provides that the revenue received from an increase in the innkeeper's tax is deposited in the reserve fund. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2023, proposals may be submitted for construction and operation of a Lake County convention and event center to the Lake County board of commissioners. Provides minimum requirements for a proposal. Provides that if a proposal is approved, the Lake County convention center authority is established to provide general oversight. Establishes the Gary Metro Center station revitalization fund (metro center station fund). Establishes the Gary Metro Center station revitalization project board to provide oversight of the ongoing maintenance and operation of the Gary Metro Center station. Beginning after June 30, 2025, requires the department of state revenue to deposit certain amounts in each state fiscal year of the riverboat wagering tax revenue collected from a riverboat operating within the city of Gary in the demolition fund, the convention fund, and the metro center station fund.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0435
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Refer
2/16/23
Twenty-first century scholars program enrollment. Amends the twenty-first century scholars program (program) eligibility requirements for certain students. Requires the commission for higher education to notify an emancipated student, or the custodial parent or guardian of a student if the student is an unemancipated minor, of the student's eligibility to participate in the program and right to opt out of the program.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0436
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Gary Community School Corporation. Terminates the Gary Community School Corporation's (school corporation) status as a distressed political subdivision on June 30, 2024. Provides that the members of the governing body of the school corporation shall be elected at the municipal general election held on November 7, 2023, and take office upon taking the oath required by the Constitution of the State of Indiana not later than November 14, 2023. Requires the governing body to select a superintendent not later than February 1, 2024. Requires the emergency manager and chief financial officer to consistently inform the superintendent of the school corporation regarding the day to day operations of the school corporation. Requires the emergency manager to provide monthly financial and academic reports to the governing body. Provides that the current emergency manager's appointment terminates on June 30, 2024. Provides that the elected governing body assumes all powers, rights, duties, and obligations of the school corporation on July 1, 2024. Provides that, before the governing body sells real property, a building, or another structure owned by the school corporation, the governing body shall: (1) provide written notice to the mayor of the city of Gary at least 30 days before selling the real property, building, or other structure; and (2) provide public notice and hold at least one public hearing within the geographic boundaries of the school corporation to hear public testimony on the proposed sale. Transfers, not later than July 1, 2023, to the common school fund from the state general fund an amount sufficient to pay off all debts from advances and loans that were made to the school corporation from the common school fund. Removes or repeals provisions regarding the establishment and use of a school improvement fund.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0437
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Education funding. Increases the federal poverty level threshold for the prekindergarten program from 127% of the federal poverty level for an eligible child, or 185% of the federal poverty level for a limited eligibility child, to 300% of the federal poverty level (removes the limited eligibility child category under the prekindergarten program). Increases the federal poverty level threshold for the twenty-first century scholars program from 185% of the federal poverty level to 300% of the federal poverty level. Requires the commission for higher education to: (1) coordinate with the department of education to identify each student who qualifies for a twenty-first century scholarship each year; (2) automatically enroll those students identified in the scholarship program without application; and (3) provide written notification of the approval to the student. Removes a provision that prohibits the commission for higher education from awarding a next generation Hoosier educators scholarship to more than 200 new applicants each academic year. Appropriates $10,000,000 from the state general fund to the next generation Hoosier educators scholarship fund each state fiscal year of the state budget biennium for purposes of the scholarship. Amends certain qualification requirements and the award amount for the primary care physician loan forgiveness program, and renames the program the physician loan forgiveness program. Appropriates $10,000,000 from the state general fund to the primary care physician loan forgiveness fund each state fiscal year of the state budget biennium for purposes of the loan forgiveness program, and renames the fund the physician loan forgiveness fund. Appropriates $10,000,000 from the state general fund to the medical residency education fund each state fiscal year of the state budget biennium for purposes of medical residency education grants.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0438
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Refer
2/28/23
Report Pass
4/11/23
Enrolled
4/18/23
Passed
5/1/23
Chaptered
5/1/23
Passed
5/1/23
Home health services. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to: (1) perform a comprehensive review of existing home health services for children with complex medical needs; (2) assess the home health services and policies for a person-centered approach; and (3) engage stakeholders in the assessment to solicit feedback on issues securing and maintaining home health services.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0439
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Alternate diplomas. Removes a provision that provides that not more than 1% of students of a cohort may receive the alternate diploma.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0440
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Area agencies on aging. Requires the area agencies on aging to: (1) provide individuals with comprehensive and coordinated information and access to long term services and supports through individual counseling; and (2) serve as the primary access point for individuals for home and community based services programs.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0441
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Visitation of juveniles in detention facilities. Imposes requirements on juvenile detention facilities with regard to contact and visitation of residents of juvenile detention facilities.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0442
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Public information regarding delinquent acts. Amends, with respect to provisions allowing public access to certain juvenile court records and records regarding allegations of certain delinquent acts: (1) the circumstances under which such records may be accessed by the public; and (2) the information in the records that may be accessed; without a court order.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0443
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/23/23
Engrossed
3/1/23
Refer
3/6/23
Report Pass
3/23/23
Report Pass
4/6/23
Enrolled
4/12/23
Passed
5/4/23
Chaptered
5/4/23
Passed
5/4/23
Various education matters. Requires the department of education to, not later than November 1, 2023, do the following: (1) Create a list of personal liability insurers that offer personal liability insurance policies for teachers. (2) Post the list on the department's website. Provides that the academic standards committee appointed by the secretary of education must include employers (in addition to other members under current law). Provides that a school psychologist may provide services on a private basis to an individual if the school psychologist receives a referral from the individual's parent and the individual is an unemancipated minor.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0444
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Judicial transparency. Requires the office of judicial administration to prepare, publish, and transmit the public safety and judicial accountability report containing certain information about judicial officers who exercise criminal jurisdiction.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0445
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/7/23
Engrossed
2/14/23
Refer
2/28/23
Report Pass
3/9/23
Enrolled
3/15/23
Passed
4/5/23
Chaptered
4/5/23
Passed
4/5/23
Electronic monitoring standards. Permits the justice reinvestment advisory council to develop electronic monitoring standards and to submit an annual report as to the standards. Permits the justice reinvestment advisory council to conduct a workload study of electronic monitoring and home detention, make certain findings, and submit a report to the legislative council not later than July 1, 2025. Provides that a contract employee of a supervising agency is required to notify the supervising agency of certain actions with respect to a tracked individual not later than 12 hours after the action occurs. Requires this notification to be sent within 15 minutes if the tracked individual is serving a sentence for a crime of violence or a crime of domestic or sexual violence, and additionally requires the supervising agency to notify a vulnerable victim and request law enforcement to perform a welfare check, if there is a vulnerable victim. Specifies that a supervising agency must include in a quarterly report the number of tracked individuals who are on parole supervision and the number of false location alerts, device malfunctions, or both. Provides that a local supervising agency shall report directly to the local justice reinvestment advisory council each quarter, and that the division of parole services shall report to the statewide justice reinvestment advisory council each quarter. Requires the statewide justice reinvestment advisory council to transmit an annual electronic report to the legislative council and to the judicial conference of Indiana not later than March 15 of each year.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0446
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Educational costs exemption. Amends the eligibility requirements for educational costs exemptions for children and spouses of certain members of the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund.