Indiana 2023 Regular Session All Bills (Page 37)
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1543
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Student behavior. Establishes the behavioral health fund (fund) for the purpose of improving funding for individualized educational programs that have a behavioral intervention plan component for certain schools. Provides that the department of education, in coordination with the Indiana 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 inschool suspension.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1544
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/7/23
Refer
2/23/23
Mixed beverages. Adds a definition of "mixed beverage". Allows the holder of a wine wholesaler's permit to take certain actions concerning mixed beverages and flavored malt beverages. Provides that a wine wholesaler may possess, transport, sell, and deliver mixed beverages to person who holds a particular permit. Repeals a provision concerning a wine wholesaler that also holds a liquor permit.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1545
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Youth sports and tourism development areas. Allows the legislative body of a city to adopt an ordinance 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 an ordinance. Requires the legislative body to submit an ordinance 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 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) $1,000,000 per tax area per state fiscal year; and (2) a total of $10,000,000 per tax area. Provides that a tax area terminates not later than 20 years after incremental tax revenues are first allocated to the tax area.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1546
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Art and music therapy. Provides that art therapy services provided by a licensed art therapist to an individual who receives mental health services or to an individual who receives services from a community mental health center are reimbursable under Medicaid. Provides for the licensure of music therapists, art therapists, and art therapist associates. Adds music therapists and art therapists to the behavioral health and human services licensing board (board). Creates the music therapist and art therapist sections of the board. Requires music therapists to be licensed. Establishes requirements and procedures for an individual to be licensed as a music therapist, art therapist, and art therapist associate. Prohibits a person who is not licensed as a music therapist, art therapist, or an art therapist associate from using certain titles or certain words in a title. Makes technical and conforming changes.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1547
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Finance charges for supervised loans. Provides that for a supervised loan that is made under the Uniform Consumer Credit Code (UCCC) and that: (1) is entered into after June 30, 2023; and (2) is not secured by: (A) an interest in land; or (B) personal property used or expected to be used as the principal dwelling of the debtor; a supervised lender may contract for and receive a loan finance charge not exceeding 36% per year on the unpaid balances of the principal. Retains the current blended loan finance charge (in which different rates apply to different ranges of the unpaid balances of the principal) for the following: (1) A supervised loan entered into before July 1, 2023. (2) A supervised loan that is secured by: (A) an interest in land; or (B) personal property used or expected to be used as the principal dwelling of the debtor; regardless of when the supervised loan is entered into. Provides that, based on information contained in annual composite reports filed with the department of financial institutions (department) by creditors required to be licensed under the UCCC, the department shall publish on the department's website, on an annual basis, a report that contains specified information concerning supervised loans made after June 30, 2023, by nondepository licensees during the reporting period covered by the composite reports. Makes conforming amendments to: (1) the UCCC; and (2) the statutes governing: (A) pawnbrokers; and (B) loansharking.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1548
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Video gaming terminals. Authorizes wagering on video gaming terminals in certain establishments. Establishes a licensing structure for participants in video gaming. Imposes a video gaming wagering tax of 30% of adjusted gross receipts.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1549
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
1977 pension and disability fund. Modifies the definition of "salary of a first class patrolman or first class firefighter" for the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (fund). Increases the fund's maximum annual cost of living adjustment from 3% to 5%.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1550
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Educational costs exemption. Provides that an eligible applicant is entitled to enter, remain, and receive instruction in an approved postsecondary educational institution (institution) upon the same conditions, qualifications, and regulations prescribed for other applicants for admission to or scholars in the institution without the payment of any educational costs for a certain number of credit hours at the institution. Provides that the maximum amount that an eligible applicant is exempt from paying for a semester hour is an amount equal to, if the applicant enrolls in an institution, the cost of an average of an undergraduate semester credit hour at all state educational institutions not including Ivy Tech Community College, as determined by the commission for higher education.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1551
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
State police and conservation officer salaries. Provides that before July 1, 2023, the state police board (board) shall establish a new salary matrix for police employees. Provides that the base salary of a police employee with the rank of trooper (excluding longevity increases) must be equal to or greater than the average of the 10 highest base salaries (excluding longevity increases) for a nonpromoted patrolman employed by any law enforcement department in Indiana. Requires the natural resources commission to categorize conservation officer years of service through the fifteenth year after June 30, 2023, rather than through the twentieth year. Provides that the department of natural resources shall adjust the salaries of conservation officers in accordance with changes made by the board. Requires the department of workforce development to provide certain information relating to salaries to the board. Provides that, after June 30, 2023, the number of salary increase increments for each rank for state police officers and conservation officers is reduced from 20 years to 15 years.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1552
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Local income tax funding for EMS services. Removes provisions that require a county to meet certain qualifications before it is authorized to adopt an emergency medical services local income tax rate (EMS LIT rate). (Under current law, only counties that provide emergency medical services for all local units in the county and pay 100% of the costs to provide those services are authorized to adopt an EMS LIT rate.)
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1553
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Township fire and emergency services funding. Provides that the current township firefighting fund shall be referred to as the township firefighting and emergency services fund. Provides that a township may elect to establish a township firefighting fund and a township emergency services fund in lieu of the township firefighting and emergency services fund. Provides that a township may levy ad valorem property taxes for each fund. Provides that if a township elects to establish separate levies for the township firefighting fund and the emergency services fund, the levies are combined for purposes of calculating a township's maximum permissible levy. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1554
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Consumer data protection. Establishes in the Indiana Code a new article concerning consumer data protection, to take effect January 1, 2024. Sets forth the following within the new article: (1) Definitions of terms that apply throughout the article. (2) Exemptions for certain: (A) persons; and (B) types of information and data; from the bill's requirements concerning the personal data of Indiana consumers (consumers). (3) The rights of a consumer with respect to personal data relating to the consumer. (4) The responsibilities of controllers of consumers' personal data (controllers). (5) The roles of: (A) controllers; and (B) processors of consumers' personal data (processors); with respect to a consumer's personal data. (6) Requirements for data protection assessments by controllers. (7) Requirements for processing de-identified data or pseudonymous data. (8) Limitations as to the scope of the new article. (9) The establishment, maintenance, and publication by the attorney general's consumer protection division of a quarterly listing of electronic mail addresses of consumers who request that their personal data not be sold. (10) Requirements for brokers of consumers' personal information (data brokers) to: (A) provide notification of security breaches; and (B) register annually with the attorney general. (11) The authority of the attorney general to investigate and enforce suspected or actual violations of the new article. (12) The establishment of the consumer privacy account within the state general fund to support the work of the attorney general in enforcing the new article. (13) The authority of the attorney general to: (A) to adopt rules to administer the new article; and (B) issue opinion letters and interpretive guidance to develop an operational framework for persons subject to the new article. (14) The preemption of local rules, regulation, and laws regarding the processing of personal data.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1555
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/8/23
Refer
2/27/23
Report Pass
3/20/23
Enrolled
3/28/23
Passed
4/20/23
Chaptered
4/20/23
Passed
4/20/23
Military family occupational licenses. Provides that a military service applicant who has held an occupational license, certification, registration, or permit (license) in another jurisdiction for at least one year may qualify for an Indiana license. Removes the requirement that an applicant have a license for at least two of the five years preceding the date of the application. Provides that an applicant may not have a complaint or investigation pending before an occupational licensing board (board) that relates to unprofessional conduct or an alleged crime. Provides that a military member's dependent may apply for an occupational license under the same conditions as a military member's spouse. Requires the board to issue a license to an applicant upon application based on work experience in another state if certain conditions are met. Provides that the requirement that a nonresident is entitled to the same rights and subject to the same obligations as required of a resident who is issued a license by a board does not apply to a member of the military, a military spouse, or a dependent who applies for a real estate broker or appraiser license. Allows an applicant to appeal a final determination of the board. Makes a technical correction.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1556
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Water rights. Allows the department of natural resources (department) to issue a permit to a person proposing to do work that requires withdrawal of 10,000,000 or more gallons of ground water per day, following the department conducting a feasability study examining the watershed and replenishment. Requires the department to determine how to inform persons of the need for a permit to perform certain work related to ground water withdrawal and to undertake certain activities related to streamlining the permitting process. Provides that the law governing ground water rights does not supersede or affect the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact or related law, rules, duties, actions, immunities, or obligations.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session
Indiana House Bill HB1557
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/7/23
Refer
2/23/23
Report Pass
3/13/23
Enrolled
3/21/23
Passed
4/20/23
Chaptered
4/20/23
Passed
4/20/23
Inventory of lost farmland. Directs the state department of agriculture to conduct an inventory of farmland lost in Indiana from 2010 to 2022.