Indiana 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0462
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Marion County taxes for excluded cities. Provides that if there are no current or future obligations owed by the capital improvement board of managers to the Indiana stadium and convention building authority, tax revenue from the auto rental excise tax, the Marion County innkeeper's tax, and the Marion County food and beverage tax may be distributed to the excluded cities of: (1) Beech Grove; (2) Lawrence; and (3) Southport; and to the excluded town of Speedway. Provides that the distributions shall be made upon the basis that the population that each excluded city or town bears to the total population of Marion County. Lists permissible capital improvement projects that the excluded city or town may undertake with the revenue. Makes a conforming change.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0463
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Prevention of health care associated infections. Requires the Indiana department of health (department) to establish and implement a health care associated infection prevention pilot program (program) to evaluate the effectiveness of hand hygiene monitoring technology in preventing and reducing health care associated infections in Indiana. Sets forth criteria for hand hygiene monitoring technology. Makes an appropriation to the department to establish and implement a program.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0464
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Refer
2/28/23
Report Pass
3/30/23
Enrolled
4/5/23
Passed
5/1/23
Chaptered
5/1/23
Passed
5/1/23
Jurisdiction. Provides that an adult criminal court has jurisdiction over a person at least 21 years of age who committed an offense as a child (an adult child offender), if the offense could have been waived to adult court, and provides that the juvenile court has jurisdiction over an adult child offender if the offense could not have been waived. Specifies that an adult child offender may be required to register as a sex offender in the same manner as a delinquent child, and permits a court to remove the obligation for an adult child offender and a delinquent child to register after the completion of sex offender treatment. Specifies when a child commits a delinquent act. Allows a court, in sentencing an adult child offender, to consider as a mitigating factor that the person was a child at the time the person committed the offense. Provides an additional opportunity for an adult child offender to obtain sentence modification. Permits a court to suspend a sentence imposed on an adult child offender, except for murder.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0465
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Public defender reimbursement. Allows a county or multicounty public defender's office to submit a request for reimbursement from the public defense fund for an amount equal to 60% of the expenditures for indigent defense services provided in all cases except misdemeanors. (The current reimbursement rate is 40% for noncapital cases except misdemeanors and 50% for services provided to a defendant against whom the death sentence is sought under IC 35-50-2-9.)
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0466
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Communications infrastructure in utility easement. Provides that if an electricity supplier provides a property owner with notice of the electricity supplier's intent to: (1) install new communications infrastructure; or (2) allow: (A) an affiliated entity of the electricity supplier; or (B) a communications service provider; to install new communications infrastructure; within an electric easement on the property, the property owner shall allow the electricity supplier, affiliated entity, or communications service provider to access the electric easement for purposes of the attachment or installation of communications infrastructure within the electric easement. Provides that a property owner is not entitled to damages for a decrease in the value of the property caused by an electricity supplier's use of an electric easement on the property for communications infrastructure if an appraisal of the property cannot determine a value for the property due to a lack of comparable properties.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0467
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Age for compulsory school attendance. Provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year. (Current law provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0468
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/10/23
Refer
2/28/23
Report Pass
3/30/23
Enrolled
4/5/23
Passed
5/4/23
Chaptered
5/4/23
Passed
5/4/23
Uniform Commercial Code amendments. Incorporates into Indiana's Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) the Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code (2022) approved and recommended for enactment in all states by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) to address emerging technologies. Makes conforming amendments to general provisions and definitions that apply throughout the UCC. Makes conforming amendments to chapters of the UCC governing the following: (1) Sales. (2) Leases. (3) Negotiable instruments. (4) Fund transfers. (5) Letters of credit. (6) Documents of title. (7) Investment securities. (8) Secured transactions. Repeals the chapter in the UCC governing controllable electronic records. Amends the definition of "money" for purposes of Indiana's Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) to specify that money: (1) is a medium of exchange that is not in an electronic form; and (2) does not include a central bank digital currency that is currently adopted, or that may be adopted, by the United States government, a foreign government, a foreign reserve, or a foreign sanctioned central bank. Establishes a new chapter in the UCC that: (1) governs controllable electronic records; and (2) incorporates the provisions of the ULC's amendments governing controllable electronic records. Provides that a "controllable electronic record" does not include an electronic record that is currently authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government and is not a medium of exchange that was recorded and transferable in a system that existed and operated for the medium of exchange before the medium of exchange was authorized or adopted by a government. Establishes a new chapter in the UCC that: (1) addresses the validity, enforceability, and perfection of certain commercial transactions, including secured transactions, entered into before the effective date of the amendments on July 1, 2023; and (2) establishes July 1, 2025, as an "adjustment date" on or after which certain transactions must conform to the requirements of the amendments to remain valid, enforceable, or perfected. Adds language to incorporate into Indiana's UCC the Amendments to Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 (2018), as approved by the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws. Provides, through the incorporation of these amendments, that the provisions in the UCC providing that restrictions on the transfer of property pledged as collateral are ineffective do not apply in the case of a security interest in an ownership interest in a general partnership, limited partnership, or limited liability company.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0469
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
County or city service officers. Provides that a county executive or mayor of a city may waive certain active duty or residency requirements for a service officer if the unit is unable to find a candidate that meets those requirements.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0470
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Basis for escape. Removes a violation of a home detention order as a basis for committing the crime of escape.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0471
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Universal child care and pre-k. Establishes a nonrefundable tax credit for an employer with 25 or fewer employees that makes contributions of at least $10,000 during the calendar year toward a qualified employee's cost for a qualified preschool program. Defines "qualified employee" and "qualified preschool program". Provides that the amount of the credit is equal to the lesser of: (1) $5,000; or (2) the taxpayer's adjusted gross income tax liability. Provides that a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal Child Care and Development Fund voucher program may continue to participate unless the child's family income exceeds 185% of the federal income poverty level. Increases the income cap of a family, from 125% to 185% of the federal poverty level, that may participate in the prekindergarten program (On My Way Pre-K program). Removes references in provisions pertaining to the On My Way Pre-K program as being a pilot program. Phases in a reduction in the age of compulsory school attendance, from seven years of age to four years of age. Establishes the prekindergarten capacity expansion grant program and fund. Provides that the program and fund are administered by the department of education (department). Provides that the department shall award grants to school corporations to increase the capacity of facilities to provide prekindergarten education. Repeals provisions defining a "limited eligibility child", "pilot fund" and "extended enrollment period" for purposes of the On My Way Pre-K program. Repeals the expiration date for the On My Way Pre-K program. Makes conforming amendments. Makes appropriations.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0472
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/7/23
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
Advanced recycling. Defines "advanced recycling" as a manufacturing process for the conversion of post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks into basic raw materials, feedstocks, chemicals, and other products. Defines "advanced recycling facility" as a manufacturing facility that: (1) receives, stores, and converts post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks resulting from advanced recycling; and (2) is subject to manufacturing regulation by the department of environmental management. Provides: (1) that post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks that are converted at an advanced recycling facility or held at an advanced recycling facility before conversion are not within the definition of "solid waste"; (2) that an advanced recycling facility is not within the definition of "solid waste disposal facility"; (3) that the activities undertaken at an advanced recycling facility are not within the definition of "solid waste management"; and (4) that an advanced recycling facility is not within the definition of "solid waste disposal facility" or the definition of "solid waste processing facility". Provides that certain solid waste management laws do not apply to advanced recycling facilities. Provides, for purposes of Indiana environmental law, that products sold as fuel are not considered recycled products.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0473
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/28/23
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
Limits on discharges into the Ohio River. Provides that if a community water system that discharges wastewater into the Ohio River demonstrates to the satisfaction of the department of environmental management that the discharged wastewater does not increase the mass of mercury in the Ohio River by an amount greater than the mass of mercury in the water withdrawn from the Ohio River by the community water system: (1) the community water system's discharge into the Ohio River shall not be considered to cause, have a reasonable potential to cause, or contribute to an excursion above any applicable water quality standard governing mercury in the Ohio River; and (2) no water quality-based effluent limitations for mercury shall be required in a new or renewal NPDES permit issued to the community water system.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0474
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/9/23
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 agencies. Allows a home health agency to: (1) provide services in any county in Indiana; and (2) satisfy supervising home health aide services requirements by complying with federal law. Allows: (1) the Indiana department of health (state department) to adopt rules concerning the oversight and supervision of the services a home health agency provides in noncontiguous counties; and (2) the state health commissioner to waive rules adopted concerning home health agencies if certain conditions are met. Provides that a home health agency is not required to conduct a preemployment physical on a job applicant before the individual has contact with a home health agency patient. Allows a registered home health aide to administer gastrointestinal and jejunostomy tube feedings to a specific patient if specified conditions are met. Requires the state department to approve at least one training curriculum concerning the administration of tube feedings. Repeals laws concerning drug testing of home health agency employees.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0475
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Senate president pro tempore. Provides that an individual who has previously served as president pro tempore for eight or more years may not be elected as president pro tempore when the senate organizes. Makes stylistic changes.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0476
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Transfer of replacement payment card information. Provides that after June 30, 2023, a payment card network may not provide to a vendor with whom the holder of a payment card (cardholder) has an automatic payment arrangement the new: (1) payment card number; (2) expiration date; or (3) card verification value code; for a replacement card that is issued to the cardholder after the cardholder's payment card has been lost, stolen, or compromised, unless the payment card network obtains the cardholder's authorization to do so. Provides that a payment card network may obtain the required authorization: (1) before each transfer of new payment card information that is necessitated by a lost, stolen, or compromised payment card; or (2) at the option of the cardholder, as a preauthorization given in advance of any required transfer of new payment card information necessitated by a lost, stolen, or compromised payment card. Prohibits a vendor from storing, after a payment authorization has processed, the card verification value code associated with a cardholder's payment card, as specified in certain regulations adopted by the payment card industry. Provides that this prohibition applies regardless of whether the vendor has entered into an automatic payment arrangement with a cardholder. Provides that a: (1) payment card network; or (2) vendor; that violates these provisions commits a deceptive act that is actionable by the attorney general or by a consumer under the deceptive consumer sales act (act) and is subject to the remedies and penalties set forth in the act.