All Bills - Indiana 2024 Regular Session
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1055
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Elimination of lower speed limit for trucks. Increases the maximum speed limit for a vehicle having a declared gross weight greater than 26,000 pounds from 65 miles per hour to 70 miles per hour when the vehicle is operated on a highway that is: (1) on the national system of interstate and defense highways located outside an urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000; or (2) the responsibility of the Indiana finance authority. Reconciles the conflicting provisions regarding the maximum speed limit in an alley.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1056
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Representation of qualified foster children. Provides that a child in a child in need of services (CHINS) proceeding who meets certain requirements is entitled to be represented by counsel. Requires a juvenile court in certain circumstances to appoint counsel. Requires the attorney appointed to represent the child to continue representing the child throughout the entire duration of the CHINS case. Allows the county to apply for reimbursement under the public defense fund.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1057
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Offender against children residency restrictions. Provides that an offender against children who knowingly or intentionally resides within 1,000 feet of certain areas owned, maintained, and governed by a homeowners association or property owner's association commits a sex offender residency offense, a Level 6 felony. Provides an exception.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1058
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Report Pass
1/16/24
Engrossed
1/23/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Enrolled
2/21/24
Passed
3/4/24
Chaptered
3/4/24
Passed
3/4/24
Breast cancer screening and services. Specifies that coverage of breast cancer rehabilitative services and reconstructive surgery incident to a mastectomy includes chest wall reconstruction and aesthetic flat closure. Requires a facility performing a mammography examination to provide: (1) an assessment of the patient's breast tissue density using specified classifications; (2) written notice to the patient and the referring provider; and (3) concerning the notice to the patient, specified notification language depending on whether the facility determined the patient to have dense breast tissue or not dense breast tissue. Requires the medical licensing board of Indiana to amend an administrative code rule to remove references to "high breast density" and to align with the breast tissue density classifications in this act.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1059
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Advanced practice registered nurses. Removes the requirement that an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) have a practice agreement with a collaborating physician. Removes a provision requiring an APRN to operate under a collaborative practice agreement or the privileges granted by a hospital governing board. Removes certain provisions concerning the audit of practice agreements. Allows an APRN with prescriptive authority to prescribe a schedule II controlled substance for weight reduction or to control obesity. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1060
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Environmental scrutiny before property transfer. Requires a qualified inspector to inspect a residential onsite sewage system (residential system) before a sale of a dwelling connected to the residential system. Requires that the sales disclosure form must disclose if the inspection indicated that the residential system is failing. Provides that a failure of the owner of the dwelling to satisfy the notice requirement makes transfer of ownership of the dwelling voidable at the election of the buyer even after the closing. Requires a qualified inspector to inspect a commercial onsite sewage system (commercial system) before a transfer of the nondwelling structure connected to the commercial system. Requires that the results of the inspection must be disclosed to the local health department, the county recorder, and the transferee. Requires that the transferee must present to the county recorder an affidavit stating that the cause of the commercial system failure has been eliminated or will be eliminated before the transferee uses the nondwelling structure for the transferee's intended purpose. Provides that the county recorder may not record a deed transferring the nondwelling structure unless certain requirements are satisfied. Provides that the failure of the nondwelling structure owner to provide the required documents is a complete defense to an action for breach of contract to purchase the nondwelling structure and is a breach of a legal duty for which the transferee may bring civil action for compensatory damages. Requires water from a water well to be tested by a qualified tester before transferring a lot containing both a water well and a dwelling connected to a residential onsite sewage system. Requires that the test results must be disclosed to the local health department, the county recorder, and the transferee. Provides that the county recorder may not record a deed transferring the lot unless certain requirements are satisfied. Provides that the failure of the lot owner to provide the required documents is a complete defense to an action for breach of contract to purchase the lot and is a breach of a legal duty for which the transferee may bring civil action for compensatory damages. Makes certain exceptions. Requires the Indiana department of health to adopt rules to: (1) establish requirements and standards for inspections of residential onsite sewage systems and commercial onsite sewage systems and testing of water wells; and (2) establish qualifications for inspectors of residential onsite sewage systems and commercial onsite sewage systems and testers of well water.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1061
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Joint custody. Provides that a biological mother and biological father have joint legal custody unless otherwise provided by law. Requires a court to award joint legal custody unless it is in the child's best interest that sole legal custody be awarded. Provides that an award of joint legal custody creates a rebuttable presumption in favor of equal division of parenting time, and to rebut the presumption, a parent must prove that equal parenting time would be detrimental to the child.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1062
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Work exceptions for minors. Defines "exempted minor" for purposes of the law concerning employment of minors. Permits certain exempted minors to work at farm labor during school hours on a school day. Permits certain exempted minors to work during school hours on a school day with limitations.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1063
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Age verification. Requires an adult oriented website operator that displays material harmful to minors to use a reasonable age verification method to prevent a minor from accessing an adult oriented website. Creates a cause of action to permit: (1) the parent or guardian of a child harmed by a violation of the age verification requirement to obtain monetary damages, injunctive relief, and reasonable attorney's fees; and (2) the attorney general to bring an action based on a violation of the age verification requirement or data retention requirements to obtain injunctive relief, and, after providing notice and an opportunity to cure, a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 per day of violation. Prohibits a person that conducts age verification from: (1) retaining the identifying information of an individual seeking to access an adult oriented website; (2) using identifying information for a purpose other than age verification; or (3) collecting identifying information that is not reasonably necessary for purposes of age verification. Permits an individual whose identifying information is misused to bring an action to obtain monetary damages, injunctive relief, and reasonable attorney's fees.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1064
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Report Pass
1/18/24
Engrossed
1/24/24
Refer
2/5/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/22/24
Enrolled
2/28/24
Passed
3/11/24
Chaptered
3/11/24
Passed
3/11/24
DCS technical changes and adoption subsidies. Relocates the definition of "foster youth". Defines "licensed kinship caregiver". Makes the following changes with regard to state adoption subsidies: (1) Removes the age requirement for eligibility. (2) Provides that a child who is a ward of the department of child services (DCS) is considered hard to place for purposes of eligibility.
Removes language regarding medical passports. Provides that if a child in foster care receives medical care, the person having custody of the child shall inform the provider that the child is in foster care and require a copy of the medical treatment record to be sent to the DCS local office. Provides that DCS shall not make an out-of-home placement of a child in a home if a person residing in the home has been convicted of a nonwaivable offense. Makes technical and conforming changes.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1065
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Resident tuition rate. Provides that an individual who meets certain conditions is eligible for the resident tuition rate as determined by the state educational institution. Requires such an individual to verify that the individual meets the criteria to receive the resident tuition rate.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1066
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Hunger-free campus grant program. Establishes the hunger-free campus grant program (grant program) to provide grants to state educational institutions for purposes of addressing food insecurity among students enrolled in state educational institutions. Provides that the commission for higher education (commission) shall provide a grant under the grant program to a state educational institution, if at least one campus is designated by the commission as a hunger-free campus. Establishes criteria that a campus of a state educational institution must meet in order to be designated a hunger-free campus. Makes an appropriation.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1067
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Report Pass
1/30/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Enrolled
3/5/24
Passed
3/13/24
Chaptered
3/13/24
Passed
3/13/24
Human services matters. Establishes the special service review team to review denied applications and applications for which a determination has not been made for the community integration and habilitation waiver. Limits the geographical area of review. Establishes reporting requirements. Requires the division of disability and rehabilitative services to obtain consent from a waiver applicant in order to share the application and information accompanying the application with the review team. Provides immunity for an employee who obtains consent and provides the information in good faith. Provides that the review team expires December 31, 2026. Makes changes to the situations in which an emergency placement priority may be provided for individuals under a Medicaid waiver. Amends the membership of and provisions concerning: (1) the Indiana state commission on aging; and (2) the community and home options to institutional care for the elderly and disabled board. Requires the services for individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities task force (task force) to establish, not later than May 1, 2024, a subcommittee to make recommendations to the task force regarding the Medicaid buy-in program and benefit related barriers to employment for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Requires the subcommittee to prepare and submit recommendations to the task force. Changes the expiration date of the task force. Requires the division of disability and rehabilitative services to provide quarterly updates to the division of disability and rehabilitative services advisory council regarding the implementation of recommendations made by the task force. Authorizes the office of the secretary of family and social services (office of the secretary) to implement a risk based managed care program for certain Medicaid recipients. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to convene a workgroup and, with managed care organizations, to conduct a claims submission testing period before the risk based managed care program is established. Provides that, during the first 210 days after the risk based managed care program is implemented, a provider that experiences a financial emergency due to claims payment issues shall receive temporary emergency assistance from the managed care organizations with which the provider is contracted. Requires the office of the secretary and the division of mental health and addiction to include each community mental health center that meets certain requirements in the community mental health services demonstration program (program), if Indiana is approved to participate in the program and as a state plan amendment for specified reimbursement after the program. Allows the office of the secretary and the division of mental health and addiction to apply for a Medicaid state plan amendment or waiver to allow for Medicaid reimbursement for eligible certified community behavioral health clinic services by certain Medicaid providers, if Indiana is not approved to participate in the program.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1068
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Report Pass
1/25/24
Engrossed
1/31/24
Refer
2/7/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Enrolled
2/21/24
Passed
3/11/24
Chaptered
3/11/24
Passed
3/11/24
Unlicensed real estate solicitors. Defines an "unlicensed real estate solicitor". Requires an unlicensed real estate solicitor to include a specific disclosure on all solicitations promoting the unlicensed real estate solicitor's intent to purchase a residential, single-family home. Provides requirements for listing agreements and buyer agency agreements. Provides remedies to a homeowner that enters into an agreement with an unlicensed real estate solicitor. Provides that it is a deceptive act enforceable by the attorney general for an unlicensed real estate solicitor to solicit the sale or purchase of real estate without the required disclosure.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1069
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Prohibition of certain abortion funding. Provides that neither the state nor any political subdivision may: (1) make a payment from any fund for the performance of or costs associated with procuring an abortion; (2) allow the use of facilities or funds controlled by a hospital or ambulatory outpatient surgical center for the performance of or costs associated with procuring an abortion; or (3) make a payment or grant from any fund under its control to an organization that performs abortions, makes referrals for individuals to obtain abortions, or uses state or political subdivision funds for the performance of or costs associated with procuring an abortion. Provides an exception. Defines "private entity" and "political subdivision".