Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1201
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/27/25
Engrossed
1/31/25
Refer
2/18/25
Education matters. Defines "chronically absent". Requires the department of education (department) to do the following: (1) Create a list of best practices to reduce student discipline and chronic absenteeism. (2) Study and prepare a report regarding the basis for the categorization of certain suspensions and expulsions. (3) Establish a categorization framework to distinguish between excused and unexcused absences based on the reason for the absence. (4) Collect certain information regarding absences from school corporations and charter schools. (5) Prepare and post a report regarding the information on the department's website. Provides that the absence policy adopted by the governing body of a school corporation must provide for the categorization of excused and unexcused absences in accordance with the categorization framework established by the department. Allows a prosecuting attorney to conduct a meeting, collaborate, and make reasonable efforts to secure appropriate support services for a child and the child's family before filing an affidavit with regard to a violation of compulsory school attendance requirements. Requires a public school to hold an attendance conference not later than 10 instructional days (instead of five instructional days) after the student's fifth absence. Prohibits a public school from expelling or suspending a student solely because the student is chronically absent or a habitual truant.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1202
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Medicaid coverage for treatment of obesity. Requires Medicaid coverage for the treatment of obesity, including specified services and medication approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Requires written notice regarding the coverage to be provided annually to Medicaid recipients, providers, and prescribers.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1203
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Reservist tuition supplement program. Establishes the reservist tuition supplement program fund (fund). Requires the commission for higher education to administer the fund and use money in the fund to award scholarships to eligible applicants.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1204
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Digital alert pilot program. Establishes the digital alert pilot program administered by the department of homeland security to provide grants to fire service providers for the use of digital alert technology to notify motorists regarding the location of fire apparatuses. Establishes the digital alert pilot program grant fund.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1205
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Fertility insurance coverage. Requires a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract to provide coverage for fertility preservation services. Requires a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract to provide coverage for fertility treatment if certain conditions are satisfied.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1206
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Reimbursement of ambulatory surgical centers. Requires, beginning January 1, 2026, Medicaid reimbursement for dental procedures performed where the patient is under anesthesia at an ambulatory outpatient surgical center at a rate that is equal to 100% of the Medicare reimbursement rate for the same service.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1207
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Space science and technology grant program. Establishes the space science and technology grant program to provide grants to eligible entities to develop and implement high quality, innovative educational opportunities in schools, with a focus in atmospheric and outer space exploration. Provides a procedure for eligible entities to apply to the department of education (department) to receive a grant. Establishes the space science and technology fund. Provides that the department shall develop criteria to award grants to eligible entities.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1208
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/28/25
Engrossed
2/4/25
Refer
2/18/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Enrolled
3/19/25
Passed
4/10/25
Chaptered
4/10/25
Passed
4/10/25
Administration of sheriff's commissary fund. Requires the state board of accounts to establish annual or biennial training requirements for a sheriff and the sheriff's designee responsible for the oversight or administration of a jail commissary fund (fund). Requires a sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body on a quarterly basis. (Current law requires the sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body semiannually.) Provides that the fund may be used to pay for an audit or review of the fund by an independent certified public accountant for years in which the fund is not audited by the state board of accounts or otherwise required to be audited by an independent certified public accountant in a manner approved by the state board of accounts.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1209
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Conservancy district board elections. Provides that, after the appointment of the initial board, members of the board of directors of a conservancy district shall be chosen by vote of the freeholders of the conservancy district in the general election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. Establishes qualifications for candidates for conservancy district board positions and establishes a procedure by which an individual may become a candidate. Makes candidates for conservancy district board positions subject to certain requirements concerning campaign committees and contribution limits that apply to other candidates for elective office. Makes provisions for the voting for and election of conservancy district board members. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1210
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Student behavior. Establishes the behavioral health fund (fund) for the purpose of improving funding for individualized education programs that have a behavioral intervention plan component for certain schools. Provides that the department of education, in coordination with the behavioral health commission, shall administer the fund. Creates an application and review process for the disbursement of a grant from the fund. Defines certain terms. Provides a procedure for a principal to place an aggressive student, who has been removed from a class, into the aggressive student's original class, another appropriate class or placement, or in-school suspension.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1211
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Prevention of elder abuse. Precludes certain individuals who have been convicted of a battery offense or neglect of a dependent from providing certain types of in-home care for compensation.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1212
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Prohibition of certain abortion funding. Provides that except when the state or a political subdivision is allowed to use funds under its control for the performance of an abortion necessary to preserve the life of a pregnant woman, an Indiana governmental entity is prohibited from doing any of the following: (1) Making a payment from any fund for the performance of or costs associated with procuring an abortion. (2) Allowing the use of funds controlled by a hospital or ambulatory outpatient surgical center affiliated with the Indiana governmental entity for the performance of or costs associated with procuring an abortion. (3) Making 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 public funds for the performance of or costs associated with procuring an abortion. Provides that the prohibition does not apply to a private entity's funds controlled by the private entity.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1213
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Engrossed
2/11/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Passed
3/25/25
Chaptered
3/25/25
Passed
3/25/25
Insurance and transfer on death deeds. Removes language regarding coverage under a casualty insurance policy or liability insurance policy on property transferred by a transfer on death deed. Specifies that a provision regarding insurance coverage on property transferred by a transfer on death deed does not apply to a commercial lines property insurance policy. Makes corresponding changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1214
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/5/25
Refer
2/18/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Passed
4/16/25
Chaptered
4/16/25
Passed
4/16/25
Worker's compensation. Provides that, after June 30, 2025, a party may not prohibit an employer from bidding on a contract solely on the basis of the employer's experience rating.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1215
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
LaGrange County innkeeper's tax. Authorizes LaGrange County to increase the county's innkeeper's tax rate from 5% to not more than 8% under the uniform innkeeper's tax statute.