Indiana 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0480
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
4/8/25
Enrolled
4/15/25
Passed
5/1/25
Chaptered
5/1/25
Passed
5/1/25
Prior authorization. Sets forth requirements for a utilization review entity that requires prior authorization of a health care service. Prohibits a utilization review entity from requiring prior authorization for the first 12 physical therapy or chiropractic visits of each new episode of care. Provides that a claim for reimbursement for a covered service or item provided to an insured or enrollee may not be denied on the sole basis that the referring provider is an out of network provider. Repeals superseded provisions regarding prior authorization. Makes corresponding changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0481
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Real world and finance curriculum grant funds. Establishes the real world readiness grant program (program) to provide grants to eligible schools to better prepare students for life after graduation with or without the assistance of a partnering organization. Establishes the real world readiness fund (fund). Provides a procedure for eligible schools to apply to the department of education (department) to receive a grant from the fund. Requires the department to approve organizations that may partner with an eligible school to facilitate the program. Establishes the personal financial responsibility curriculum grant program to provide grants to eligible schools to develop or adopt personal financial responsibility curriculum. Establishes the personal financial responsibility curriculum fund (financial responsibility fund). Requires the department to establish guidelines: (1) an external organization must meet to be eligible to partner with an eligible applicant; and (2) to award grants to eligible applicants. Requires applicants that receive a grant from the financial responsibility fund to report student outcomes to the department, as developed by the department.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0482
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
1/30/25
Engrossed
2/5/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
4/9/25
Enrolled
4/16/25
Passed
5/6/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Absenteeism and student discipline. 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 absenteeism. (2) Study and prepare a report regarding the basis for the categorization of certain suspensions and expulsions. (3) Establish a categorization framework for excused absences based on the reason for the absence. (4) Collect certain information regarding absences from school corporations and charter schools and 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 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. Amends the definition of "absent student" for purposes of the truancy prevention policy provisions. 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 Senate Bill SB0483
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Regulation of homeschooling. Requires a parent who withdraws the parent's chronically absent child from a public school in order to homeschool the child to: (1) present to the school from which the child is withdrawing a plan regarding the curriculum and courses the child will complete while homeschooled; (2) meet with the superintendent of the school from which the child is withdrawing not less than two times each semester for the first full school year in which the student is homeschooled to provide a progress report; and (3) meet with the superintendent not less than two times annually for each subsequent school year. Requires a superintendent to designate a homeschooled student as a habitual truant and report the student to an intake officer of the juvenile court or the department of child services and the prosecuting attorney under certain conditions. Requires a superintendent to provide the parent of a homeschooled student with a notice of compulsory attendance violation under certain conditions.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0484
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Report Pass
1/21/25
Engrossed
1/28/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Enrolled
3/17/25
Passed
4/9/25
Chaptered
4/9/25
Passed
4/9/25
Recreational vehicle dealers. Sets forth requirements for recreational vehicle dealer agreements for the sale of recreational vehicles in Indiana. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0485
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Managed care assessment fee. Provides for the assessment of a fee on managed care organizations to pay the state's share of the cost of Medicaid services provided under the Medicaid program. Changes the use of hospital assessment fees in state fiscal years in which a managed care assessment fee is imposed. Extends the law governing the hospital assessment fee to June 30, 2027.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0486
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/21/25
Passed
4/3/25
Chaptered
4/3/25
Passed
4/3/25
Family and social services matters. Requires a sheriff to assist an individual who: (1) has been incarcerated for at least 30 days in a: (A) county jail; (B) community based correctional facility for children; (C) juvenile detention facility; or (D) secure facility other than a child caring institution; and (2) is eligible for Medicaid; in applying for Medicaid before the individual's release from the facility. Provides that if a child loses Medicaid coverage while confined in a juvenile detention facility or secure facility, the division of family resources shall, upon receiving notice that the child will be released, take action necessary ensure that the child is eligible to receive specified federally mandated services for 30 days before and after the child's release. Requires an insurer to respond within 60 days to an inquiry from the office of Medicaid policy and planning regarding a Medicaid claim that is made within three years from the date on which the service that is the subject of the claim was provided. Provides that an insurer other than Medicare, Medicare Advantage, or Medicare Part D may not deny a Medicaid claim solely due to lack of prior authorization in accordance with federal Medicaid law. Provides that the requirement that an individual who receives payment for medical expenses from Medicaid must cede to the state the individual's rights to third party payment for the medical expenses extends to settlement amounts for both past medical expenses and rights to payment of future medical expenses. Amends the duties, membership, and terms of office of the Medicaid advisory commission. Creates the Medicaid beneficiary advisory commission. Repeals a provision requiring that employees of a child care provider be tested for tuberculosis in order for the child care provider to be eligible to receive voucher payments under the federal Child Care and Development Fund program. Provides the following with regard to a licensed child care center, licensed child care home, or registered child care ministry (child care provider): (1) Requires all employees of a child care provider to be trained in pediatric first aid and pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation applicable to all age groups of children cared for by the child care provider. (2) Requires at least one adult who is certified in pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation applicable to all age groups of children cared for by the child care provider to be present at all times when a child is in the care of the child care provider. Amends the membership of the division of mental health and addiction planning and advisory council.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0487
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/16/25
Hospital assessment fee. Extends the expiration of the hospital assessment fee until June 30, 2027.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0488
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/13/25
Refer
1/23/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Skills training pilot program. Provides that the department of workforce development may establish a reemployment skills training pilot program (pilot program) to supplement an individual's receipt of weekly unemployment benefits. If a pilot program is established, would establish a reemployment skills training pilot program fund for the purpose of funding the program. Specifies program requirements for participants and eligible providers.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0489
Introduced
1/14/25
Refer
1/14/25
Address protection in recorded documents. Provides that a county recorder may not disclose recorded documents containing identifying information of an address confidentiality program participant, unless: (1) the participant provides written consent; and (2) the participant's name is redacted. Provides that a person seeking disclosure of a shielded document who: (1) is denied disclosure by the county recorder; or (2) requires an unredacted copy for the person's intended use in the normal course of business; must contact the attorney general to contact the program participant about consenting to disclosure. Provides that if the program participant does not take action within five days after being contacted by the attorney general, the request for disclosure is automatically denied.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0490
Introduced
1/14/25
Refer
1/14/25
Commercial motor vehicle defendant liability. Provides that noneconomic damages awarded in a civil suit involving a commercial motor vehicle may not be more than $1,000,000. Provides exceptions.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0491
Introduced
1/14/25
Refer
1/14/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
3/3/25
Report Pass
3/25/25
Enrolled
4/9/25
Passed
4/22/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Annexation of property for an industrial park. Allows the city of Alexandria in Madison County to annex noncontiguous property for use as an industrial park.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0492
Introduced
1/14/25
Refer
1/14/25
Restricted address program. Adds: (1) public safety telecommunicators; and (2) 911 emergency call dispatch center administrators; to the persons who may restrict access to their home address on a local government's public property data base website.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0493
Introduced
1/14/25
Refer
1/14/25
Medicaid value based contracting. Allows a managed care organization to enter into a value based contract with a Medicaid provider to provide services under a risk based managed care program.
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Indiana 2025 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0494
Introduced
1/14/25
Refer
1/14/25
State and local tax capture areas. Amends provisions concerning the designation of an innovation development district to add certain qualification requirements (grandfathers in those districts established under current law). Requires the Indiana economic development corporation to establish a maximum sales tax increment amount and state income tax increment amount that may be allocated for each innovation development district, which may not exceed a specified amount per state fiscal year. Adds related procedural provisions. Makes conforming changes.