Indiana 2022 Regular Session All Bills (Page 26)

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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1287

Introduced
1/10/22  
Climate change commission. Establishes the Indiana climate change mitigation and resilience commission.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0312

Introduced
1/11/22  
Health care information privacy. Creates a civil cause of action against a person who discloses an image or information that indicates health care services or treatment that an individual has sought, considered, or obtained without the individual's express permission. Provides that a prevailing plaintiff may recover the greater of: (1) economic and noneconomic damages; or (2) statutory damages not to exceed $10,000; plus attorney's fees, court costs, and other relief, including injunctive relief. Establishes criteria to be used by the trier of fact in determining damages. Provides that an interactive computer service may not be liable for disclosing content.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0331

Introduced
1/11/22  
Refer
1/11/22  
Refer
1/20/22  
Report Pass
1/27/22  
Engrossed
2/2/22  
Refer
2/8/22  
Report Pass
2/17/22  
Report Pass
2/21/22  
Enrolled
3/1/22  
Passed
3/15/22  
Chaptered
3/15/22  
Education matters. Provides that, for purposes of determining the funding floor for teachers of a school corporation, the amount a school corporation expends for full-time teacher salaries shall include the amount the school corporation expends for participating in a special education cooperative or a career and technical education cooperative that is directly attributable to the salaries of full-time teachers employed by the cooperative, as determined by the department of education (department). Requires the department to annually report to the legislative council and the state budget committee on certain matters regarding full-time teacher salaries and benefits and the issuance of waivers of the requirement that a school corporation expend a specified percentage of tuition support for full-time teacher salaries. Authorizes the treasurer of state (treasurer) to deduct up to 10% of funds made available for the Indiana education scholarship account program (program) to cover costs of administering the program in the first year and up to 5% of funds made available in each year thereafter. Establishes the Indiana education scholarship account administration fund (fund) to support the administration of the program. Requires any amounts deducted by the treasurer for administration costs to be deposited in the fund. Removes a requirement for certain participating entities in the program to post a surety bond. Makes technical corrections.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1350

Introduced
1/11/22  
Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system. Requires the Indiana department of health (department) to establish an Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system (IVAERS) for reporting the occurrence of adverse events relating to childhood vaccines. Provides that IVAERS must enable a health care provider to report the occurrence of an adverse event experienced by a child residing in Indiana who is under the care of the health care provider. Requires the department to create a searchable Internet data base for publishing information reported through IVAERS. Provides that the health information of a particular individual is confidential. Specifies to whom and the requirements for releasing health information of a particular individual. Provides that a person who knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly discloses confidential information received through IVAERS in violation of the statute commits a Class A misdemeanor. Authorizes the department to adopt rules concerning IVAERS. Makes an appropriation.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0197

Introduced
1/10/22  
Cannabis regulation. Establishes the cannabis compliance advisory committee to review and evaluate certain rules, laws, and programs. Establishes the cannabis compliance commission to regulate all forms of legal cannabis in Indiana, including hemp and low THC hemp extract. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0288

Introduced
1/10/22  
Refer
1/10/22  
Report Pass
1/27/22  
Engrossed
2/2/22  
Eminent domain proceedings. Defines a "pipeline company" and a "public utility" for purposes of the statute governing the general procedures to be used in acquiring property by eminent domain. Provides that in an eminent domain action filed by a public utility or a pipeline company after June 30, 2022, if a defendant files written exceptions to the assessment of the court appointed appraisers, the defendant may file a request for mediation at the same time the exceptions are filed. Provides that if the defendant files a request for mediation: (1) the court shall appoint a mediator not later than 10 days after the request is filed; (2) the plaintiff shall engage in good faith mediation with the defendant; (3) the mediation must be concluded not later than 90 days after the appointment of the mediator; and (4) the plaintiff shall pay the costs of the mediator. Provides that if the parties are unable to reach an agreement as to the assessment of the damages in a mediation, the case shall proceed to trial. Provides that in any trial of exceptions in an eminent domain proceeding: (1) the court appointed appraisers' report; and (2) the amount of the court appointed appraisers' assessment of damages upon which the exceptions in the trial are based; are not admissible as evidence in the proceedings. Provides, however, that a court appointed appraiser may: (1) testify at trial without reference to the report of the court appointed appraisers or to the appraiser's previous appointment in the case; and (2) be examined as to the value of the property sought to be acquired independent of the report and without reference to it; as set forth in existing Indiana case law. Changes the amount of litigation expenses a court shall allow a defendant in any trial in an eminent domain proceeding in which the amount of damages awarded to the defendant by the judgment is greater than the amount specified in the plaintiff's last offer of settlement.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0273

Introduced
1/10/22  
Refer
1/10/22  
Report Pass
1/24/22  
Engrossed
2/2/22  
Refer
2/8/22  
Report Pass
2/22/22  
Enrolled
3/1/22  
Passed
3/10/22  
Chaptered
3/10/22  
Financing of water and wastewater utility assets. Provides that the IURC may approve periodic tracking mechanisms for water or wastewater utilities to permit such utilities to recover the following: (1) Changes in property taxes. (2) With respect to customers located within the geographic boundaries of local units of government, incremental costs of operation and maintenance resulting from policies or ordinances that are adopted by those local units and that the IURC determines to be unusual but not necessarily unreasonable. Requires the IURC to adopt rules to define what is unreasonable with respect to road cut permits and other specifications or policies established by a local unit that imposes costs on water or wastewater utilities. Amends the statute concerning wholesale water sales between small water utilities by increasing from 5,000 to 8,000 the threshold number of customers served by a water utility (as either a purchaser or supplier) for purposes of the statute. Amends the statute governing infrastructure improvement charges for water or wastewater utilities as follows: (1) Specifies that an "eligible infrastructure improvement" includes: (A) a project to relocate existing utility plant, including projects to accommodate the construction, reconstruction, or improvement of a highway, street, or road; and (B) a project that does not increase revenues by connecting to new customers, even if the project provides greater available capacity with respect to an eligible utility's distribution or collection plant. (2) Sets forth distinctions for public utilities, municipally owned utilities, and not-for-profit utilities with respect to: (A) costs that are eligible for recovery under the statute; (B) the factors the IURC may consider in determining the amount of allowable cost recovery; and (C) the resetting of the adjustment amount after a base rate case. (3) Specifies that the limitation restricting total adjustment revenues to 10% of an eligible utility's most recently approved base revenue level does not apply with respect to property taxes associated with eligible infrastructure improvements. Amends provisions in the Indiana Code chapter concerning a utility company's acquisition of an offered water or wastewater utility, by providing that the rates charged by the acquiring utility company are not considered to increase unreasonably as a result of the acquisition if the net original cost of the acquired assets does not exceed 2% of the acquiring utility company's net original cost rate base as determined in the acquiring utility's most recent general rate case, plus any adjustments to the rate base resulting from: (1) an infrastructure improvement charge; or (2) an adjustment rider for service enhancement improvement costs; that have occurred after the rate case. Makes a similar change to the Indiana Code section concerning the sale of a municipally owned utility's nonsurplus utility property.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0302

Introduced
1/10/22  
Assessment of land of local importance. Authorizes a county legislative body to establish a local classified land program (program) to classify land as land of local importance for the purpose of providing preferential property tax valuation of the land to support extending the viability of the use of the land into the future. Specifies that agricultural land may be classified as land of local importance. Requires land that is classified as land of local importance be assessed at property tax rates that are established by the county legislative body in the resolution to adopt the program.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0323

Introduced
1/11/22  
Minimum wage and employment benefits. After December 31, 2022, increases the minimum wage paid to certain employees from $7.25 per hour to $12 per hour, then annually increases the minimum wage in $1 increments to $15 per hour through January 1, 2026. Repeals the prohibition of local units from establishing, mandating, or requiring: (1) a minimum wage that exceeds the state or federal minimum wage; and (2) certain employee benefits. Makes conforming amendments and a technical correction.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0199

Introduced
1/6/22  
Worker's compensation. Provides that if, after the occurrence of an accident, compensation is paid for temporary total disability or temporary partial disability, then the two year limitation period to file an application for adjustment of claim begins to run on the last date for which such compensation was paid. Increases benefits for injuries and disablements by: (1) 10% on and after July 1, 2022; (2) 6% on and after July 1, 2023; (3) 4% on and after July 1, 2024; (4) 4% on and after July 1, 2025; (5) 4% on and after July 1, 2026; and (6) 4% on and after July 1, 2027. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0316

Introduced
1/11/22  
Medicaid long term services and supports. Requires: (1) the office of the secretary of family and social services; (2) an entity that has contracted with the office of the secretary; and (3) a person that has contracted with an entity; to contract with the area agencies on aging as the primary provider to perform specified long term services and supports programing for certain Medicaid applicants, enrollees, and recipients.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0313

Introduced
1/11/22  
Community solar facility program. Requires each electric utility other than a municipally owned utility or a rural electric membership corporation (electricity provider) to biennially establish, or issue a request for third party proposals to establish, at least five community solar facilities, in which customers of the electricity provider: (1) subscribe to pay for and receive a specified amount of electricity generated by the community solar facility; and (2) are credited by the electricity provider in each billing cycle for the amount of electricity from the community solar facility for which the customer subscribes. Establishes a process for: (1) solicitation and selection of proposals by an electricity provider for the construction, ownership, and operation of community solar facilities in the electricity provider's service area; (2) submission of a community solar facility project plan by each electricity provider to the Indiana utility regulatory commission (commission); and (3) review and approval of submitted community solar facility project plans by the commission.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0337

Introduced
1/11/22  
Public safety matters. Defines "personally identifying information" and prohibits, after June 30, 2023, the broadcast of personally identifying information by police radio unless the broadcast is encrypted. Provides that a person who refuses to follow the lawful commands of a law enforcement officer while the officer is engaged in the officer's official duties commits a Class B misdemeanor.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1306

Introduced
1/11/22  
Refer
1/11/22  
Report Pass
1/20/22  
Engrossed
1/26/22  
Refer
2/2/22  
Report Pass
2/21/22  
Enrolled
3/2/22  
Passed
3/11/22  
Chaptered
3/11/22  
Housing task force. Establishes the housing task force (task force) to review issues related to housing and housing shortages in Indiana. Sets forth membership, and requires the task force to issue a report to the general assembly and the governor not later than November 1, 2022.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0301

Introduced
1/10/22  
Refer
1/10/22  
Report Pass
1/25/22  
Engrossed
2/2/22  
Refer
2/8/22  
Report Pass
2/15/22  
Enrolled
2/22/22  
Passed
3/8/22  
Chaptered
3/8/22  
Wastewater holding tanks in RV campgrounds. Provides that a recreational vehicle campground that is not connected to a public sewer system may include one or more holding tanks in which wastewater from recreational vehicles is stored before processing. Limits the capacity of a holding tank to not more than 10,000 gallons.