All Bills - Indiana 2024 Regular Session
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0253
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Report Pass
1/29/24
Engrossed
2/7/24
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
Lake Michigan rescue equipment. Requires the owner of a pier or public access site on Lake Michigan to install public rescue equipment, including at least one ring life buoy, on the pier or public access site. Establishes requirements concerning ring life buoys installed on piers and public access sites. Provides that the end of the buoy line must not be secured to the shore. Requires a unit of local government that owns one or more piers or public access sites on Lake Michigan, at least twice per year, to publish on the unit's website a report on lakefront drownings that occur within 50 feet of the unit's piers or public access sites. Provides that if more than one fatal drowning occurs not more than 50 feet from a particular pier or public access site in a span of five years, the owner of the pier or public access site shall: (1) disseminate in the area of the pier or public access site a water safety plan pertaining to the pier or public access site; and (2) upgrade the public rescue equipment installed on the pier or public access site, such as by installing equipment that automatically contacts the local 911 service in an emergency.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0254
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Transit development district three-way permits. Provides for the issuance of 25 new three-way alcoholic beverage permits to restaurants located: (1) within a transit development district; or (2) not more than 1,500 feet from the boundary of a transit development district.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0255
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Education accounts. Expires the Indiana choice scholarship program and Indiana education scholarship account program on June 30, 2025. Beginning July 1, 2025, establishes the Indiana funding students first grant program (program) as a pilot program through June 30, 2027. Provides that the treasurer of state shall administer the program. Allows the parents of eligible students who are homeschooled or who attend a public school or a nonpublic school to apply to the treasurer of state to establish an account for purposes of the program. Defines "eligible student". Specifies the annual grant amount to the eligible student's account. Provides that the parent of an eligible student may use money in a program account for any qualified expense. Defines "qualified expense" for purposes of the program. Requires all students who participate in the program to take the statewide assessment. Makes conforming changes and technical corrections.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0256
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Report Pass
1/18/24
Engrossed
1/31/24
Refer
2/6/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Enrolled
3/5/24
Passed
3/13/24
Chaptered
3/13/24
Passed
3/13/24
Fiscal matters. Provides that money in the attorney general contingency fee fund is continuously appropriated and is not subject to allotment. Reinstates provisions concerning meetings of the budget committee. Provides that money in the high tech crimes unit fund is continuously appropriated for purposes of the fund. Allows the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) to designate territory located in an existing allocation area as an innovation development district if certain conditions are met. Removes the sunset provision for when the IEDC may designate an innovation development district. Provides that if an existing allocation area is located in territory subsequently designated as an innovation development district, property tax increment revenue continues to be allocated to the existing allocation area and provides that the allocation area may not be renewed or extended until the term of the innovation development district expires. Extends the funding Indiana's roads for a stronger, safer tomorrow task force for one additional year. Provides that transfers may not be made by the budget agency, the state board of finance, or any entity from any source to the Indiana gaming commission without prior budget committee review. Provides that certain appropriations from the state gaming fund in the most recent biennial budget act may not be augmented. Amends certain language in the Medicaid oversight committee provisions in House Enrolled Act 1026.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0257
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Fiduciary duty in health plan administration. Provides that any third party administrator, pharmacy benefit manager, employee benefit consultant, or insurance producer acting on behalf of a plan sponsor owes a fiduciary duty to the plan sponsor.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0258
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Physician referrals and reimbursement rates. Prohibits a referring physician from receiving compensation or an incentive from a health care entity or another physician, who is in the same health care network as the referring physician, for referring a patient to the health care entity or other physician. Provides that the rules adopted by the department of insurance regarding the all payer claims data base must include a requirement that health payers report physician reimbursement rates for each contract and specify a process for health payers to report the physician reimbursement rates. Requires the all payer claims data base to publish the physician reimbursement rates as a separate line item for each contract instead of in the aggregate.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0259
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Local wastewater and clean energy districts. Authorizes the metropolitan development commission of a consolidated city or city plan commission of a city other than a consolidated city (commission), following a written recommendation from the board of public works or board of public works and safety (works board) of the city, and subject to the approval of the city legislative body, to adopt a resolution designating a wastewater facility improvement district (district) as an allocation area for purposes of the allocation and distribution of property taxes, allowing incremental property tax revenue to be captured to connect properties in the district to the municipal sewer system. Provides that, before making a recommendation to the commission to establish a district, a works board must: (1) establish the boundaries of the district; (2) identify the owners of property in the district; (3) create a proposed plan; and (4) hold a public hearing. Requires the establishment of a wastewater facility improvement fund (fund) for each wastewater facility improvement district and requires the commission to administer the fund. Provides that the incremental property tax revenue from a district shall be deposited in the fund and may be used only to connect properties in the district to the municipal sewer system. Authorizes the issuance of bonds payable from the fund. Requires the commission to make an annual report on each district to the fiscal body of the city and the department of local government finance. Authorizes a local governmental unit (or two or more local governmental units) to: (1) designate an area as a clean energy improvement financing district; (2) establish a voluntary property assessed clean energy program in the district under which qualified clean energy improvements will be made in eligible properties to lower utility costs to consumers through efficient generation and consumption of energy or generate energy through local sources such as community solar facilities; (3) designate a clean energy improvement financing district; and (4) authorize within the financing district the financing of qualified clean energy improvements. Defines "qualified clean energy improvement". Defines "eligible property" as including commercial, industrial, and agricultural property, school buildings, and local government buildings, and provides that a residential property may also be an eligible property for the purposes of connecting the property to a sanitary sewer system. Makes property owner participation in a clean energy improvement program voluntary. Provides for property owners to pay for qualified clean energy improvements to their properties through assessments. Allows liens to be imposed for unpaid assessments. Allows the funding of a clean energy improvement program by the issuance of bonds or through commercial lenders, federal or state grants and loans, or local government sources. Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission to establish technical guidelines for the administration of clean energy improvement programs.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0260
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Report Pass
1/30/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/22/24
Enrolled
2/28/24
Passed
3/13/24
Chaptered
3/13/24
Passed
3/13/24
Neighborhood and individual development incentives. Defines a "community based organization" as a private, nonprofit corporation whose board of directors is comprised of business, civic, and community leaders, and whose principal purpose includes the provision of low income housing. (Current law limits administration, through a financial institution, of an account to community development corporations.) Provides that: (1) the first $1,500 (rather than $800) is eligible for a state deposit in an individual's account; (2) the allocation, for each account that has been established, for not more than five years, is $3 for each $1 of the first $1,500 (rather than the first $400) an individual deposited into the individual's account; and (3) the amount of the allocation may not exceed $4,500 (rather than $2,400) for each account. Makes various changes to the administration of and procedure for claiming the neighborhood assistance tax credit and the individual development account tax credit. Removes a reference to an obsolete tax.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0261
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Clinical social worker licensure. Provides that licensed physicians with training in psychiatric medicine or licensed clinical psychologists (qualified supervisors) may supervise individuals seeking a clinical social worker license. Permits 75% of supervised clinical social work experience hours to be accounted for through virtual supervision by qualified supervisors.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0262
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Licensure of naturopathic physicians. Provides for the licensure of naturopathic physicians. Specifies certain individuals who are not required to be licensed. Establishes the board of naturopathic medicine (board). Establishes license requirements. Requires licensed naturopathic physicians to obtain continuing education for license renewal. Establishes the naturopathic formulary council to establish a formulary for naturopathic physicians. Establishes the childbirth attendance advisory commission to provide recommendations concerning the practice of naturopathic childbirth attendance. Provides that an individual who is not licensed may not use certain descriptions, titles, or initials to indicate or imply that the individual is a licensed naturopathic physician. Establishes criminal penalties for certain violations.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0263
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Local income tax distributions. Provides for local income tax certified shares in Hamilton County and Johnson County to be allocated to civil taxing units according to the location and tax liability of each taxpayer.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0264
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Report Pass
1/25/24
Engrossed
1/31/24
Refer
2/6/24
Religious exemption from worker's compensation. Provides an exemption from worker's compensation and occupational diseases coverage for a member of certain religious sects or a division of a religious sect who meets certain requirements and obtains a certificate of exemption (certificate) from the worker's compensation board (board). Provides that if certain information about an individual who holds a certificate is no longer true: (1) the individual and the individual's employer must take certain steps; and (2) the certificate is no longer effective. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0265
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Elimination of property tax on homesteads. Changes the credit for excessive property taxes for homesteads from the amount by which a person's property tax liability attributable to the person's homestead exceeds 1% of the gross assessed value of the property that is the basis for determination of property taxes for the calendar year to an amount equal to the person's property tax liability attributable to the person's homestead. Excludes from the credit any portion of a person's property tax liability that was approved by voters in a referendum and that would not ordinarily be subject to a credit for excessive property taxes. Allows a county's adopting body to adjust the tax rate imposed on the adjusted gross income of local taxpayers in the county based on the actual property taxes that were due and payable during 2024 to compensate for the amount of any tax revenue shortfall incurred as a result of the reduction in tax revenue attributable to the increase in the credit amount. For years beginning after December 31, 2024, requires the department of local government finance (department) to, before July 1 of the year in which property taxes are first due and payable, estimate the amount of any tax revenue shortfall incurred by the county in the year in which the property taxes are first due and payable as a result of the reduction in tax revenue attributable to the increase in the credit amount. For years beginning after December 31, 2024, allows a county's adopting body to adjust the tax rate imposed on the adjusted gross income of local taxpayers in the county in accordance with the estimate to compensate for the amount of any property tax revenue shortfall incurred by the county in the year in which the property taxes are first due and payable as a result of the reduction in tax revenue attributable to the increase in the credit amount. Provides that the maximum tax rate that may be imposed on the adjusted gross income of local taxpayers in a county after an adjustment may not exceed 2.9% in addition to: (1) the maximum allowed property tax relief rate in the county; (2) the maximum allowed local income tax expenditure rate in the county; and (3) the maximum allowed special purpose tax rate in the county. Provides that a county's adopting body, at its discretion, may increase the adjustment by an additional rate of 0.25%. Requires the revenue collected as a result of the adjustment to the tax rate imposed on the adjusted gross income of local taxpayers in the county to be treated as property taxes for all purposes. Requires the department to approve, in a manner determined by the department, the estimate, the corresponding adjustment, and the use of the revenue for each county. Increases, from $3,000 to $9,000, the amount an individual who rents a dwelling for use as the individual's principal place of residence may deduct from the individual's adjusted gross income. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0266
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Video voyeurism. Provides that "peep", for purposes of the voyeurism statute, includes the use of a concealed camera with the intent of capturing an intimate image. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0267
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Marriage. Repeals statutory text that restricts a marriage to be between only a male and a female. Repeals statutory text that provides that a marriage between persons of the same gender is void in Indiana.