Indiana 2022 Regular Session All Bills (Page 21)

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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1170

Introduced
1/6/22  
Arrestee publicity. Prohibits a law enforcement agency that has arrested a person from: (1) sharing the arrestee's name or booking photo on social media; (2) publishing the arrestee's name or booking photo on the agency's Internet web site; or (3) disclosing the arrestee's name or booking photo during a press conference. Allows disclosure if: (1) the arrestee is a fugitive; (2) the arrestee presents an imminent threat to public safety; (3) a court orders the disclosure; or (4) exigent circumstances necessitate disclosure.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1190

Introduced
1/6/22  
Refer
1/6/22  
Report Pass
1/24/22  
Engrossed
1/28/22  
Refer
2/10/22  
Report Pass
2/24/22  
Enrolled
3/2/22  
Passed
3/15/22  
Chaptered
3/15/22  
Free speech at state educational institutions. Provides that a state educational institution may not: (1) designate an outdoor area on campus as an area where protected expressive activities are prohibited; (2) deny any benefit or privilege to, or discriminate against, a religious, political, or ideological student organization for its protected expressive activity; and (3) deny a benefit to or discriminate against a religious, political, or ideological student organization based on the protected expressive activity or a requirement of the student organization. Allows a state educational institution to enforce reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions that comply with certain requirements. Requires a state educational institution to create and publish protected expressive activity policies. Provides that a student or student organization may bring a cause of action for a violation of free speech rights. Allows a court to award injunctive relief, compensatory damages, reasonable court costs, and attorney's fees to an aggrieved student or student organization if the court finds that a violation occurred. Allows a court to award compensatory damages up to $50,000. Provides that a state educational institution is not immune from certain liability. Requires the commission for higher education to create a form for a state educational institution to submit information on an alleged violation of this chapter. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1067

Introduced
1/4/22  
Child care. Requires the division of family services to continue waiving copays for eligible families and reimburse eligible providers using funds allocated under the federal CRRSAA and CCDF until the federal pandemic emergency ends. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services a study concerning matters related to child care in Indiana. Requires the committee to report to the legislative council by September 30, 2022.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0157

Introduced
1/4/22  
Refer
1/4/22  
Report Pass
1/11/22  
Engrossed
1/19/22  
Refer
1/31/22  
Report Pass
2/10/22  
Enrolled
2/16/22  
Passed
3/7/22  
Chaptered
3/7/22  
Disposition of real property by INDOT. Provides that an agency real estate professional may determine the fair market value of real property the department of transportation (INDOT) owns and is seeking to sell under certain conditions. Makes conforming changes. Provides that real property shall be appraised prior to acquisition by INDOT, except under certain conditions concerning donation and valuation of the real property. Requires INDOT to prepare a waiver valuation if an appraisal is unnecessary. Suspends certain rules for persons preparing or reviewing a waiver valuation. Provides that INDOT may sell real property without advertising or competitive bids under certain circumstances. Extends the sunset of certain public-private agreement provisions from June 30, 2023, to June 30, 2031.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1065

Introduced
1/4/22  
Cultural awareness and competence training. Provides that the state health data center (center) shall maintain statistics concerning race and ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status. (Under current law, the center is required to maintain statistics concerning gender and ethnicity.) Requires the center to adopt and implement the data collection standards established by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Provides that a health care professional and a community health worker must complete two hours of cultural awareness and competence training every two years. Establishes certain requirements for the training. Provides that the state department of health may grant an exemption from the training requirements under certain circumstances.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0171

Introduced
1/6/22  
Teachers and counselors. Requires the department of education (department) to establish and maintain a data base of information concerning employees of public schools who were physically injured while on the job by students of the public schools. Requires public schools to provide information concerning an employee of a public school who was physically injured while on the job by a student of the public school. Requires: (1) teacher preparation programs to include content within the curriculum regarding; and (2) certain teacher training to include training on; conflict deescalation techniques and conflict prevention and intervention strategies. Provides that each school corporation and charter school that receives or has received funds from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER funds) shall prioritize the use of any ESSER funds the school corporation or charter school, after June 30, 2022, has or receives for hiring additional: (1) licensed school counselors; (2) licensed social workers; or (3) licensed school psychologists. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on education the task of studying the impediments that may exist for underrepresented groups in seeking to become teachers and other licensed school employees.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1059

Introduced
1/4/22  
Refer
1/4/22  
Report Pass
1/11/22  
Engrossed
1/19/22  
Indiana guard reserve. Provides that the Indiana guard reserve (guard) is comprised of volunteer citizens. Provides that the adjutant general (general) may adopt policies for the guard. Requires the general to establish certain structures, processes, and organizational controls for the guard. Repeals a provision concerning the guard serving outside Indiana. Repeals a provision regarding military forces in fresh pursuit. Repeals a provision regarding the oath of officers for guard members. Provides that, if called for voluntary service, the guard must follow the rules and procedures of the Indiana national guard and those set by the general. Amends a provision to specify that the general may obtain insurance for the guard under certain circumstances. Repeals a provision regarding quarterly pay for the guard.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1096

Introduced
1/4/22  
Accountability. Establishes provisions that require greater transparency in state and local government actions related to incentives received by the Indiana economic development corporation or the Indiana destination development corporation (a corporation). Provides that a covered business shall disclose the source and amount of a success fee in relation to the award of incentives. Provides that a covered person shall disclose the source and amount of third party compensation made in connection with the covered person's performance in state or local government. Provides that a corporation shall disclose the source and amount of any economic development expenses paid for by a nongovernmental third party for the benefit of the corporation. Provides that a corporation shall disclose the terms of any contract for, or payment of, incentives made by a political subdivision that is not already covered under another provision. Provides that the disclosures must be made quarterly to the auditor of state and on the Indiana transparency portal Internet web site. Provides that failure to comply with the disclosure requirements results in the disgorgement of all undisclosed compensation and incentives which will be paid to the treasurer of state for deposit in the state general fund. Provides that the auditor of state may prescribe forms, rules, and procedures to implement the chapter and that the office of the attorney general shall enforce the chapter.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0134

Introduced
1/4/22  
Refer
1/4/22  
Report Pass
1/18/22  
Engrossed
2/1/22  
Refer
2/7/22  
Report Pass
2/17/22  
Enrolled
2/23/22  
Passed
3/11/22  
Chaptered
3/11/22  
Appropriation of donated money. Adds language specifying that a political subdivision that conducts or administers an election may not accept private money donations to prepare, administer, or conduct elections or to employ individuals on a temporary basis for preparing, administering, or conducting elections, including registering voters. Requires all state agencies to submit to the budget agency a report of each individual state employee employed by the state agency whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money. Provides that if the donation of money is to the secretary of state, the report shall specify whether the money was or will be distributed to political subdivisions for preparing, administering, or conducting elections, and, if so, the specific types of uses for which the donated money will be used by those political subdivisions. Requires the budget agency to annually submit to the budget committee a report of the information that specifies and identifies each individual state employee whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money, which must be posted and made available on the Indiana transparency portal. Requires all local units of government to submit to the state board of accounts (SBA) a report of each individual local unit of government employee employed by the local unit of government whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money. Requires the SBA to annually submit to the budget committee a report of the information that specifies and identifies each individual local unit of government employee whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money, which must be made available to the public. Defines "local unit of government" for purposes of the reporting requirement. Specifies that the term does not include hospitals.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1048

Introduced
1/4/22  
Refer
1/4/22  
Report Pass
1/20/22  
Report Pass
1/24/22  
Engrossed
1/28/22  
Refer
2/7/22  
Refer
2/14/22  
Report Pass
2/22/22  
Enrolled
3/2/22  
Passed
3/14/22  
Chaptered
3/14/22  
Sheriff's sale in mortgage foreclosure action. Allows the sheriff to conduct a public auction electronically. Prohibits certain persons and entities from purchasing a tract at a sheriff's sale. Requires each person bidding at a sheriff's sale to sign a statement containing a notice of the law and certain affirmations. Raises the amount that a sheriff can charge for administrative fees from $200 to $300. Makes a conforming amendment. Makes a technical correction.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1040

Introduced
1/4/22  
Education matters. Defines "qualified school". Provides that a school corporation or qualified school is prohibited from subjecting any student to, or making available, disseminating, or providing to any student, any obscene matter or performance or certain matters or performances harmful to minors. Provides that each school corporation or qualified school shall provide for all students in grades 6 through 12 as part of required recitation concerning the system of government in Indiana and in the United States, instruction that socialism, Marxism, communism, totalitarianism, or similar political systems are incompatible with and in conflict with the principles of freedom upon which the United States was founded. Provides that a school corporation or qualified school may not provide instruction that socialism, Marxism, totalitarianism, or similar political systems are compatible with the principles of freedom upon which the United States was founded. Provides that a parent of a student or an emancipated student who attends a school corporation or qualified school may opt out of a face mask or face covering requirement. Requires the department of education (department) to develop a notice form that may be used by a parent or an emancipated student to indicate that the parent or emancipated student opts out of the face mask or face covering requirement. Provides that the governor, a state agency, a local health board or local health officer, or a school corporation or qualified school may not require a student of a school corporation or qualified school to quarantine against COVID-19 or other communicable disease if the student is asymptomatic. Provides that the governor, a state agency, a local health board or local health officer, or a school corporation or qualified school may not require, as a condition for employment, enrollment, attendance, or participation in a school corporation or qualified school or in a school extracurricular activity, a student to be immunized against COVID-19 or other communicable disease. Provides that, after December 31, 2020, the list of communicable diseases that require documentation of immunity for a student may be expanded or modified only by an act of the general assembly. Establishes certain consent requirements regarding students. Provides that, if the attorney general determines that a school corporation or qualified school: (1) discloses a student education record, or any information in a student education record; or (2) has a student who is less than 18 years of age and is not emancipated participate in any medical inspection, medical treatment, mental health assessment, mental health service, psychiatric or psychological examination or test, or psychiatric or psychological treatment without the informed written consent of the student's parent; the attorney general may assess a civil penalty against the school corporation, charter school, or laboratory school. Provides that the parent of a student or protected right petitioner may bring a civil action for certain violations. Defines "protected right violations". Defines "protected right petitioner". Establishes procedures for a protected right petitioner to file a complaint form alleging a protected right violation occurred within a school corporation or qualified school. Provides that a protected right petitioner may appeal a school corporation's or qualified school's findings to the department. Requires the department to appoint an administrative law judge to adjudicate appeals. Requires the department to issue a final order. Requires the attorney general or the attorney general's designee to review a school corporation's or qualified school's findings or the department's final order. Provides that the attorney general may assess civil penalties if the attorney general determines a protected right violation occurred. Provides that a school corporation or qualified school may not take retaliatory action against a protected right petitioner or an individual related to or associated with the protected right petitioner. Provides that, if a school corporation or qualified school uses a third party vendor in providing a personal analysis, evaluation, or survey that reveals or attempts to affect a student's attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings, the third party vendor and the school corporation or public school may not collect or maintain the responses to or results of the analysis, evaluation, or survey in a manner that would identify the responses or results of an individual student. Provides that the consent requirements for certain student personal analysis, evaluations, or surveys apply even if the analysis, evaluation, or survey is directly related to academic instruction. Requires, not later than June 30, 2022, and not later than June 30 each year thereafter, each qualified school to post on the qualified school's Internet web site, in a manner that is accessible by the public, certain information regarding learning materials and educational activities. Requires the department to develop and post on the department's Internet web site a model plan for presenting the learning material or educational activity information. Makes changes to information that must be included on a school corporation's annual performance report. Makes changes to information that must be included on a school's longitudinal dashboard. Reconciles versions of IC 10-21-1-2 that were enacted by the 2019 general assembly. Repeals provisions requiring the department to develop the children's social, emotional, and behavioral health plan. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1109

Introduced
1/4/22  
Refer
1/4/22  
Wholesale pricing of nonalcoholic beverages. Prohibits, with certain exceptions, a supplier of nonalcoholic packaged beverages (supplier) from discriminating among retailers as to a delivery method, price, discount, allowance, or service charge. Specifies restrictions concerning: (1) a distribution agreement to which a supplier is a party; (2) means of delivery; (3) communication by a supplier; and (4) the purchase and sale of beverages from one retailer to another.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1044

Introduced
1/4/22  
Tuition caps. Provides that the commission for higher education shall determine a tuition rate and mandatory fee cost of living adjustment for specified postsecondary educational institutions. Requires that, except for cost of living adjustments, the tuition rate and mandatory fees at specified postsecondary educational institutions may not increase from the time the student initially enrolls until the student graduates for an undergraduate student who is an Indiana resident.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0155

Introduced
1/4/22  
Refer
1/4/22  
Report Pass
1/18/22  
Engrossed
1/26/22  
Refer
1/31/22  
Report Pass
2/10/22  
Enrolled
2/18/22  
Passed
3/18/22  
Chaptered
3/18/22  
Human trafficking. Modifies the definition of "protected person" for purposes of the admission of a statement or videotape of an individual who is less than 14 years of age at the time of the offense but less than 18 years of age at the time of trial. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally: (1) pays, or offers or agrees to pay, money or other property; or (2) offers a benefit; for a human trafficking victim with the specific intent to induce or obtain the product or act for which the human trafficking victim was trafficked commits human trafficking, a Level 4 felony. Specifies that consent by the human trafficking victim is not a defense to a prosecution. Requires law enforcement agencies to report human trafficking investigations to the attorney general within 30 days after an investigation begins. Makes a technical correction.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0153

Introduced
1/4/22  
Annual customer reports by utilities. Requires a utility that: (1) is under the jurisdiction of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) for the approval of rates and charges; and (2) provides electric, natural gas, water, or wastewater utility service at retail to residential customers and low income customers in Indiana; to annually report to the IURC certain data concerning customer accounts and low income customer accounts. Provides that: (1) a utility shall report all required information in the aggregate and in a manner that does not identify individual customers and low income customers; and (2) the IURC may not require utilities to disclose confidential and proprietary business information without adequate protection of the information. Authorizes the IURC to adopt rules and emergency rules to implement these provisions. Provides that, beginning in 2023, the IURC shall annually compile and summarize the information received from utilities for the most recent reporting period and include the IURC's summary of the information in the IURC's annual report to the interim study committee on energy, utilities, and telecommunications.