All Bills - Indiana 2024 Regular Session
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1388
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Use of digital assets. Provides an income tax deduction for short term or long term capital gain that is attributable to the sale or exchange of digital assets in a transaction and that is included in federal adjusted gross income, in an amount not to exceed $200 per transaction for the 2024 taxable year, and adjusted annually for inflation each taxable year thereafter. Provides that a county or municipality may not: (1) impose a tax that is assessed based on use of a digital asset as payment in a transaction; or (2) impose a tax on transactions at a different rate based on the use of a digital asset for payment in the transaction. Prohibits the Indiana utility regulatory commission (commission) from approving a rate schedule for electricity supplied by an electricity supplier to digital asset mining businesses that is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory as compared to the rate schedule approved by the commission for electricity supplied by the electricity supplier to industrial customers. Provides that a person is not required to be licensed as a securities broker-dealer solely because the person provides, or offers to provide, specified services with respect to transactions involving digital assets. Provides that specified operations conducted with respect to maintenance of a blockchain do not constitute money transmission for purposes of statutes regarding licensure of money transmitters. Provides immunity from civil liability for a person that performs specified actions with respect to validation of a transaction on a blockchain network. Prohibits a county, municipality, or township from adopting or enforcing an ordinance that would have the effect of prohibiting, restricting, or impairing an individual's ability to: (1) use digital assets to purchase legal goods and services; or (2) use a hardware wallet or self-hosted wallet to store the individual's digital assets. Provides that use of a property for digital asset mining is a permitted industrial use under any applicable zoning ordinance of a unit and may not be disallowed by a zoning ordinance in a zoning district that permits industrial use. Prohibits a unit from applying the unit's zoning ordinances in specified ways to regulate digital asset mining. Makes conforming amendments and technical corrections.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1389
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
School based health services and report. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the United States Department of Health and Human Services to allow school corporations to seek Medicaid reimbursement for medically necessary school based Medicaid covered services (program). (Current law allows for the state plan amendment.) Sets forth requirements of the state plan amendment and program. Specifies how school corporations can expend the funds. Requires the office and the department of education (department) to each employ one employee for the program and to train school corporations concerning the program. Requires the department to conduct a study concerning workload levels for school based health providers who are licensed occupational therapists and licensed physical therapists. Specifies components to consider in determining a methodology and requirements of the study. Requires the department to submit a report of the study to the legislative council before November 1, 2024, and to post the report on the department's website.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1390
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Coverage for living organ donors. Prohibits an insurer that issues a policy of life insurance, disability insurance, or long term care insurance from taking certain actions with respect to the coverage of individuals who are living organ donors. Specifies that certain actions constitute an unfair and deceptive act and practice in the business of insurance when taken against a living organ donor by an insurer.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1391
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
CHINS dispositional hearing data. Requires the department of child services to prepare an annual report containing certain information for all cases in which a parent, guardian, or custodian has been ordered to participate in the plan of care for a child.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1392
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Medicaid work requirements. Sets forth work requirements for certain individuals in order to be eligible for Medicaid. Makes exceptions. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for any state plan amendment or Medicaid waiver necessary and to continue to apply for the plan amendment or waiver request if the plan amendment or waiver is denied by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1393
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Managed care and hospital assessment fee. Authorizes the managed care assessment fee to be assessed against specified insurers and administered by the office of the secretary of family and social services. Establishes the managed care assessment fee committee. Sets forth requirements of the managed care assessment fee. Establishes the high risk pool fund. Expires the managed care assessment fee on June 30, 2025. Allows certain providers to contractually agree to a different reimbursement rate with a managed care organization as part of a value based services contract. Excludes hospitals and private psychiatric hospitals. Provides for payments to hospitals out of the phase out trust fund and expires the fund. Exempts: (1) physician owned hospitals; and (2) hospitals that only provide respite care to certain individuals; from the hospital assessment fee. Makes assessment of the hospital assessment fee subject to federal approval of changes made by this act. Requires the hospital assessment fee committee to: (1) review and approve the quality program; and (2) be guided to ensure hospitals are reimbursed at a rate that meets specified requirements. Specifies components of a state directed payment program. Specifies uses of the hospital assessment fee and that hospital assessment fees will not be used for disproportionate share payments if the state directed payment program is implemented. Reduces the hospital fee assessment by the managed care assessment fee and the payment from the phase out trust fund. Requires the commissioner of the department of insurance to revoke or suspend the authority of a managed care organization to do business in Indiana if the managed care organization fails to pay the managed care assessment fee. Repeals language concerning the hospital care for the indigent program. Repeals language specifying the distribution of the hospital assessment fee.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1394
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
DNR best available flood hazard data. Defines "DNR best available data" as: (1) flood hazard mapping data that were created by the department of natural resources (department) and are available on January 1, 2024, on the Indiana Floodplain Information Portal; or (2) any other mapping data created by the department after October 2018 at least in part through the use of techniques other than direct observation and measurement by individuals physically present on the land that is the subject of the mapping data. Amends the law under which a person applying to a county or municipality for a permit authorizing a structure or construction activity in or near a floodplain must be allowed to make an election as to the mapping data to be used by the local floodplain administrator when reviewing the person's permit application to provide that the person may elect to have the local floodplain administrator use the applicable flood insurance rate map (FIRM) if the county or municipality participates in the National Flood Insurance Program. Amends the law giving the holder of an interest in a parcel of property the right to obtain, at no cost, a detailed hydraulic modeling method review by the department of the DNR best available data applying to the parcel to provide that, if a review results in a revision of the DNR best available data applying to the parcel, the department: (1) shall incorporate the revised data applying to the parcel into the DNR best available data accessible on the Indiana Floodplain Information Portal; and (2) shall ensure that the revised DNR best available data is used in the preparation by the department of any new preliminary FIRM. Provides that, after March 31, 2024, when the department makes public any new DNR best available data, the department shall provide a written notice about the new DNR best available data by first class mail to the owners of parcels of property that were not previously included in a floodway or flood hazard area under the applicable FIRM or other mapping data but may be so included under the new DNR best available data, or that were previously included in a floodway or flood hazard area under the applicable FIRM or other mapping data but may not be so included under the new DNR best available data. Provides that, after March 31, 2024, the department may not participate in an action to prepare a new FIRM for a county or municipality participating in the National Flood Insurance Program based on DNR best available data unless the department has: (1) provided a written notice by first class mail to an owner of each parcel that was not previously included in a floodway or flood hazard area under the existing FIRM but may be so included under the new FIRM based on the DNR best available data, or was previously included in a floodway or flood hazard area under the existing FIRM but may not be so included under the new FIRM based on the DNR best available data; and (2) held a public meeting about the DNR best available data. Provides that a parcel owner who is provided a written notice from the department about the potential preparation of a new FIRM based on the DNR best available data may request a department review of the DNR best available data applying to the parcel, but must do so not more than 120 days after the department holds the public meeting about the DNR best available data. Provides that if a review by the department of the DNR best available data applying to a parcel is requested, the department may not prepare a new FIRM based on the DNR best available data applying to the parcel until the review is concluded.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1395
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Youth sports and tourism development areas. Allows the legislative body of a city or town to adopt a resolution establishing a youth sports and tourism development area (tax area). Requires that the tax area include a facility or complex of facilities used by youth sports teams and organizations for practice or competitive sporting events. Requires the legislative body to make findings when adopting a resolution. Requires the legislative body to submit a resolution establishing a tax area to the budget committee and budget agency for review and approval. Allows a tax area to receive incremental state and local income tax revenue and incremental sales tax revenue attributable to the tax area. Requires a city or town that establishes a tax area to establish a youth sports and tourism development area fund. Limits the amount of incremental tax revenue that may be allocated to $1,000,000 per tax area per state fiscal year. Provides that a tax area terminates not later than 25 years after the date on which the first obligation payable from tax revenues allocated to the tax area is incurred.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1396
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Government boards, councils, and commissions. Repeals, merges, consolidates, or otherwise modifies various boards, commissions, committees, councils, authorities, and funds. Removes certain appointed members from various boards, commissions, and districts. Modifies the appointing authority for particular funds, boards, and councils.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1397
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Emergency powers. Provides that in the event of a disaster emergency, an emergency order issued by a state agency must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling public health or safety interest. Entitles a person to relief if a court determines that the person seeking judicial relief has been prejudiced by an agency action issued during a disaster emergency that has not been: (1) applied equally to a similarly situated person; and (2) narrowly tailored to serve a compelling public health or safety interest. Provides that the orders, rules, and regulations made, amended, or rescinded by the governor must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling public health or safety interest. Requires any state or local agency, including the Indiana department of health and local boards of health, to only impose a restriction that is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling public health or safety interest. Provides that any order or proclamation declaring, continuing, or terminating a local disaster emergency must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling public health or safety interest. Provides that, if the disaster that is the basis of the emergency order impacts an area of the state that does not exceed the lesser of: (1) 31 counties; or (2) an area that is inhabited by less than 33 1/3% of the population of Indiana; the state of emergency expires in 30 days. Provides that the governor may renew the emergency declaration in 30 day increments not to exceed a period of 12 months. Provides that all other emergency declarations expire 30 days after the initial date of the governor's executive order and may not be renewed or extended by the governor without the approval of the general assembly. Removes the governor's ability to suspend certain provisions relating to the general assembly, judicial relief of an agency action during an emergency declaration, or provisions relating to emergency management disasters.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1398
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Child care centers. Provides that the results of a national criminal history background check of an individual conducted for purposes of the individual's presence on the premises of a provider's child care center apply for purposes of the individual's presence on the premises of any child care center operated by the provider. Allows a child care center to allow an individual to work, while supervised, at the child care center during the period after submission of requests for any required preemployment verification of the individual but before the child care center receives the results of the preemployment verification. Provides that a child care center may allow an employee of the child care center who: (1) is at least 18 years of age; and (2) has successfully completed all criminal background checks and educational requirements required for employment by a licensed child care center; to be the sole supervisor of a classroom or area for children of any age. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to amend the office's rules to provide that, for the purposes of staffing child care centers: (1) "infant" means a child who is less than 12 months of age; and (2) "toddler" means a child who is at least 12 months of age but less than 24 months of age.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1399
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Report Pass
1/18/24
Engrossed
1/24/24
Refer
1/25/24
PFAS chemicals. Defines "PFAS chemicals" and requires the environmental rules board to use the definition in certain rules concerning industrial processes and research and development.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1400
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Bullion depositories and legal tender. Defines "bullion" as refined silver or gold, in any shape or form, that has certain specified characteristics. Defines "specie" as bullion that is fabricated into products that are: (1) of uniform shape, size, design, content, weight, and purity; and (2) suitable for, or customarily used as, currency or a medium of exchange. Defines "specie legal tender" as: (1) specie coin issued by the United States government at any time; or (2) any other specie that a federal court determines to be within state authority to make or designate as legal tender under Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution of the United States. Authorizes the treasurer of state (treasurer) to establish one or more bullion depositories to provide a secure location for the storage of bullion. Provides that if the treasurer establishes one or more bullion depositories, the treasurer shall designate or engage an administrator to oversee the operation and management of the bullion depositories established. Provides that a person may: (1) establish a bullion depository account with a bullion depository by entering into a depository agreement with the bullion depository; and (2) purchase, sell, deposit, or withdraw bullion through the holder's bullion depository account. Provides that a bullion depository qualifies as a state depository and is eligible to receive public funds of: (1) the state; or (2) a political subdivision; on deposit. Requires the administrator to perform certain record keeping and retention duties with respect to: (1) bullion depository accounts; and (2) transactions associated with bullion depository accounts. Requires a bullion depository to: (1) adopt and implement certain security measures; and (2) maintain insurance coverage to cover the full value of all bullion stored at each of its physical locations. Requires each bullion depository to be audited by an independent third party auditor on a semiannual basis. Requires the treasurer to establish an electronic currency backed by: (1) specie legal tender; or (2) other bullion designated by the treasurer; to the extent of the treasurer's authority to do so under Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution of the United States. Requires the treasurer to maintain enough specie legal tender or other designated bullion to provide for the redemption in specie legal tender or other designated bullion of all units of the electronic currency issued. Requires the administrator to determine, at the time of each transaction involving the issuance or redemption of electronic currency, the value of a unit of electronic currency in legal tender (other than specie legal tender) based on market price. Provides that a bullion depository established under these provisions may not be terminated or transferred to a private entity unless the termination or transfer is: (1) executed in a manner to protect: (A) the security of the bullion on deposit; (B) the rights of bullion account holders; and (C) the financial interests of the state and any affected political subdivision; and (2) authorized by an act of the general assembly. Establishes certain reporting requirements for: (1) the administrator; and (2) the treasurer; concerning bullion depositories established under these provisions. Requires the treasurer to adopt guidelines to implement and administer these provisions. Provides that: (1) specie legal tender; and (2) electronic currency; are recognized as legal tender in Indiana. Provides that except as otherwise specifically provided by law or contract, a person may not compel any other person to tender or accept specie as legal tender. Provides that a prevailing party in an action for breach of any contract provision that expressly designates a type or form of specie as tender is entitled to specific performance of the contract provision. Provides that bullion is: (1) not subject to assessment and taxation under Indiana's property tax statute; and (2) exempt from the state gross retail tax. Provides that the exchange of one type or form of legal tender for another type or form of legal tender is exempt from the state gross retail tax.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1401
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Report Pass
1/18/24
Report Pass
1/25/24
Engrossed
1/31/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/20/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Enrolled
3/5/24
Passed
3/13/24
Chaptered
3/13/24
Passed
3/13/24
Various natural resources matters. Pauses all tax sales on mineral interests for one year. Increases the maximum dry weight for a "recreational off-highway vehicle". Provides that certain fees established by the natural resources commission (commission) do not constitute a rule. Adds language to youth hunting and trapping license provisions providing that the nonresident youth turkey licenses include all yearly stamps to hunt wild turkeys and that the resident and nonresident youth license remains valid for the remainder of the license period even after the license holder turns 18 years of age. Provides that certain licenses may still be used if the license holder moves out of state. Provides that a person may perform certain activities without obtaining a permit from the department of natural resources (department). Allows the commission to adopt rules regarding certain activities that are permitted without a license. Establishes requirements for constructing certain structures in a floodway. Requires the department to take certain steps before: (1) making a determination when the department is reviewing the department mapping data being applied to a parcel of real property; and (2) submitting department mapping data in preparation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency flood hazard map. Allows certain persons to request a review by the department of the department mapping data applying to the parcel of real property. Requires the department, in reviewing the department mapping data applying to a parcel of real property, to use a detailed hydrologic modeling method and perform a site investigation. Requires the department to notify certain persons within 90 days after determining that a parcel of real property: (1) is included in a flood plain or floodway; or (2) is no longer included in a flood plain or floodway. Establishes the STREAM act fund. Makes technical and conforming changes. Makes an appropriation.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1402
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Local government permits for shoreline structures. Amends the law concerning public freshwater lakes to provide that a person who intends to construct a boathouse or any other permanent structure that has both walls and a roof over, along, or lakeward of the shoreline or water line of a public freshwater lake must obtain a construction permit from the local building department of the county or municipality in which the construction would take place and need not obtain a permit from the department of natural resources (department). Amends the law concerning construction in floodways to provide that a person who intends to construct a boathouse or any other permanent structure that has both walls and a roof at the edge of a body of water in a floodway must obtain a construction permit from the local building department of the county or municipality in which the construction would take place and need not obtain a permit from the department.