Indiana 2024 Regular Session All Bills (Page 51)
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0223
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/18/24
Engrossed
1/26/24
Refer
2/6/24
Construction workforce task force. Establishes the building Indiana's construction workforce task force (task force). Establishes quorum and voting rules for the task force. Provides that the task force is otherwise subject to the law governing study committees and the policies and rules of the legislative council. Specifies topics for the task force to review. Provides that the task force expires December 31, 2027.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0224
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
School funding. Increases the income cap of a family, from 150% to 185% of the federal poverty level, that may participate in the On My Way prekindergarten program. Increases the maximum grant amount under the prekindergarten program from $6,800 to $10,000. Provides that a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal CCDF voucher program may continue to participate unless the child's family income exceeds 185% of the federal income poverty level. Provides that, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year. (Current law provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Requires the department of education (department) and the office of the secretary of family and social services to adopt procedures to simplify and streamline the certification process for establishing early childhood education programs within existing school districts. Limits the number of choice scholarships that may be awarded for the 2024-2025 school year. Appropriates $300,000,000 of additional funding to traditional public schools under the funding formula to address inflation and support teacher pay increases. Appropriates $100,000,000 to the department for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year to be used to provide early intervention grants to local school corporations under an early intervention program to be administered by the department. Appropriates $100,000,000 to the prekindergarten program fund for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year to be used to fund the increase in the income cap and the increase in the grant amount under the prekindergarten program. Appropriates $100,000,000 to the office of the secretary of family and social services for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year to be used to fund the expansion of the CCDF voucher program. Appropriates $50,000,000 to the department for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year from the state general fund to be used by the department to distribute supplemental funding to school corporations to be used for the employment or retention of school counselors in the school corporation. Appropriates $25,000,000 to the department for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year to eliminate the funding gap and provide full reimbursement for the actual costs to schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost. Requires the state comptroller to transfer to the state general fund from the total appropriated amounts made to the Indiana economic development corporation in the 2023 state budget bill and that remain unencumbered on the effective date of the bill, $150,000,000 first to be transferred from unencumbered amounts in the deal closing fund, and if the unencumbered amounts in that fund are insufficient, then from unencumbered amounts in the corporation's land acquisition fund or account, and if those two transfers are insufficient, then from any other fund administered by the Indiana economic development corporation to which money was appropriated. Repeals a $380,000,000 portion of the total appropriations made to the department of correction in the both the 2021 and 2023 state budget bills for correctional facility upgrades and requires that amount to be deposited in the state general fund and used to fund the appropriations made in this bill. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0225
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
1/18/24
Engrossed
1/24/24
Refer
2/6/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Enrolled
2/21/24
Passed
3/11/24
Chaptered
3/11/24
Passed
3/11/24
Exchange of insurance information after accident. Provides that a law enforcement officer present at the scene of an accident shall ensure that each operator complies with the duties required of an operator of a motor vehicle after an accident regardless of the apparent extent of the total property damage resulting from the accident.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0226
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Engrossed
2/7/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Report Pass
2/22/24
Enrolled
2/28/24
Passed
3/13/24
Chaptered
3/13/24
Passed
3/13/24
Attorney's fees. Increases: (1) the amount of attorney's fees that may be incurred by an offeror to $250 per hour; and (2) the total amount of attorney's fees, costs, and expenses that may be awarded to not more than $5,000; with respect to a qualified settlement offer.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0227
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Directory of approved vaping products. Requires manufacturers of alternative nicotine products and vapor products to annually certify their products with the department of state revenue (department). Requires the department to establish and maintain a directory on the department's website of all manufacturers of alternative nicotine products and vapor products. Provides that, if an alternative nicotine product or vapor product is removed from the directory, each retail dealer, distributor, or wholesaler has 21 days from the day the product is removed from the directory to remove the product from its inventory and return the product to the manufacturer for disposal. Provides that, after the 21 day period, the alternative nicotine products or vapor products of a manufacturer identified in the notice of removal are contraband and are subject to seizure, forfeiture, and destruction and may not be purchased or sold in Indiana. Provides the department with certain enforcement authority. Provides that all fees and penalties collected by the department must be used by the department to administer the directory and enforce the requirements associated with the directory. Provides that any alternative nicotine products or vapor products offered for sale in violation of the directory requirements are declared to be contraband and may be seized without a warrant by the department or by any law enforcement agency in Indiana if directed by the commissioner of the department. Provides that a person may not advertise, distribute, market, offer for sale, or sell a vapor product by using, in a trademark of the product or in the product's advertising branding, design, marketing, or packaging, certain terminology that is attractive to minors. Requires the department to submit an annual report to the general assembly. Provides that a violation of the directory requirements constitutes a deceptive act that may be enforced by the attorney general.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0228
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
1/30/24
Engrossed
2/6/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Enrolled
3/5/24
Passed
3/13/24
Chaptered
3/13/24
Passed
3/13/24
Various tax matters. Amends the economic threshold for sales tax nexus to remove the number of sales transactions in the state as one of the two current triggers that require retail merchants to collect and remit sales tax. Allows a retail merchant that receives 75% or more of its receipts from the sale of prepared food to elect to claim a sales tax exemption on transactions involving electricity equal to 50% of the tax imposed on the transactions. Makes certain changes to statutes of limitations provisions. Requires sheriffs to transfer funds collected through executions of tax warrants twice a month electronically through the department of state revenue (department) payment portal. Specifies that the service of process fee for postjudgment service can only be assessed one time per case. Authorizes the department to disclose a taxpayer's name and other personal identification information with a tax preparer or tax preparation software provider in cases where the department suspects that a fraudulent return has been filed on behalf of a taxpayer and that the system of a taxpayer's previous year tax preparer or tax preparation software provider has been breached. Specifies the pass through entity tax liability for pass through entities in certain circumstances. Repeals an outdated provision that requires an owner of a truck stop to obtain a license from the department. Reorganizes certain retail merchant certificate provisions. Makes clarifying and technical changes.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0229
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Recreational vehicle dealers. Sets forth requirements for recreational vehicle dealer agreements for the sale of recreational vehicles in Indiana. Prohibits Sunday sales of recreational vehicles. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0230
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Human or sexual trafficking. Provides that before or at the initial hearing regarding a petition alleging that a child is a child in need of services, the court shall appoint an attorney for the child if the child is alleged to be a child in need of services as a result of the child being a victim of human or sexual trafficking. Provides that if a petition alleges that a child is a child in need of services as a result of the child being a victim of human or sexual trafficking: (1) the juvenile court shall make a determination on the petition; (2) the child shall not be required to admit or deny the allegation; and (3) the petitioner must prove the allegation by a preponderance of the evidence.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0231
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
CHOICE program. Prohibits the division of aging from requiring a community and home options to institutional care for the elderly and disabled program (CHOICE) provider to be certified under a Medicaid waiver program. Requires a local area agency on aging to negotiate and set reimbursement rates for the CHOICE program. (Current law requires the office of secretary to negotiate the rates in consultation with the local area agencies on aging.)
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0232
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Report Pass
1/23/24
Engrossed
1/31/24
Refer
2/6/24
Report Pass
2/26/24
Enrolled
3/1/24
Passed
3/13/24
Chaptered
3/13/24
Passed
3/13/24
Statewide 911 system. Removes references to "enhanced 911 service". Increases the penalty for false informing if the false report is that a person is dangerous and certain other circumstances exist. Changes references from the "enhanced prepaid wireless charge" to the "911 service prepaid wireless charge". Provides that information relating to security measures or precautions used to secure the statewide 911 system may be excepted from public disclosure at the discretion of the statewide 911 board. Makes changes to or repeals certain definitions relating to the state 911 system. Provides that all originating service providers that provide 911 service for their customers: (1) shall connect to the state 911 system using an industry standard or functional equivalent; and (2) must establish and maintain the connection in accordance with all applicable regulatory requirements requiring service continuity and ensure access to public safety assistance.Provides that an emergency communications center included in the definition of PSAP may not be construed to create an additional PSAP. Makes a technical correction. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0233
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Engrossed
2/7/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/13/24
Certified community behavioral health clinics. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services and the division of mental health and addiction to include each community mental health center that meets certain requirements in: (1) 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; or (2) if Indiana is not approved to participate in the program, a Medicaid state plan amendment or waiver to allow for Medicaid reimbursement for eligible certified community behavioral health clinic services by certain Medicaid providers.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0234
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Report Pass
1/18/24
Engrossed
1/24/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Enrolled
3/5/24
Passed
3/13/24
Chaptered
3/13/24
Passed
3/13/24
Disaster emergency. Provides that a state of disaster emergency declared by the governor: (1) that applies to the entire state may not continue for more than 60 days unless a renewal is authorized by the general assembly; and (2) that only applies to part of the state may not continue for more than 30 days unless renewed by the governor. Provides that the renewal of a statewide disaster emergency authorized by the general assembly may continue for not more than 60 days. Specifies that if a state of disaster emergency that applies to the entire state has ended, the governor may not call a new state of disaster emergency that applies to the entire state unless the new disaster is wholly unrelated to the earlier disaster. Defines "wholly unrelated".
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0235
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Landlord-tenant relations. Allows a city, county, or town to bring a nuisance action against a tenant or other person responsible for a nuisance. Requires a landlord to repair or replace an essential item not later than 24 hours after being notified by a tenant that the tenant's rental unit is without certain essential services. Provides that a tenant may bring an enforcement action against a landlord by providing notice of the landlord's noncompliance and allows for certain remedies to a prevailing tenant. Allows a court to order that a tenant's regular rental payments are paid into an attorney trust account or to the clerk of the court during the pendency of an enforcement action brought by the tenant.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0236
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Expungement and firearms. Specifies, for purposes of the expungement statute, that a person whose conviction for a misdemeanor involving the use of a firearm, or for a felony, is expunged is entitled to restoration of the person's right to possess a firearm only if the court finds, following a hearing, that restoration of the person's right to possess a firearm is unlikely to present a danger to the public.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session
Indiana Senate Bill SB0237
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Prior authorization for health care services. Amends the law on health care service prior authorizations: (1) to establish a standard by which to determine whether a health care service is "medically necessary"; (2) to require that the medical review or utilization review practices of a health plan be governed by this standard of medical necessity; (3) to require a health plan to employ a medical director who is responsible for reviewing and approving the health plan's policies on responses to requests for prior authorization; (4) to require a health plan to establish clear written policies and procedures for prior authorization for health care services; (5) to restrict a health plan's prior authorization requirements applying to: (A) physical medicine or rehabilitation services for a covered individual diagnosed with chronic pain; and (B) rehabilitative or habilitative services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, and chiropractic services; (6) to provide that, under certain circumstances (including the failure of a health plan to respond to a request within certain time limits), a request for prior authorization is conclusively considered to be approved by the health plan; (7) to require a health plan to provide a procedure under which providers and covered individuals may seek retroactive authorization for health care services that are medically necessary covered benefits; and (8) to prohibit a health plan from denying coverage for a health care service merely because prior authorization was not obtained for the health care service before it was provided to a covered individual if: (A) the health care service would have been a covered benefit if prior authorization had been obtained before the health care service was provided to the covered individual; (B) a determination of medical necessity can be made after the health care service is provided; and (C) it is determined that the health care service was medically necessary. Defines "medically necessary" for use in these provisions.