Indiana 2022 Regular Session All Bills (Page 58)

Page 58 of 72
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1259

Introduced
1/10/22  
Remote worker grants and remote work sites. Establishes the new remote worker grant program (program). Provides that the Indiana destination development corporation (corporation) shall administer the program, including awarding grants to a new remote worker for qualifying remote worker expenses. Requires that: (1) the corporation; and (2) the commissioner of the department of administration; shall submit reports to the legislative council.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0286

Introduced
1/10/22  
Prohibition on employer immunization requirements. Prohibits an employer from requiring an employee or prospective employee to inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise incorporate an immunization in the employee's or prospective employee's body as a condition of employment or as a condition of receiving additional compensation or benefits. Allows for a civil action against an employer for a violation.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0299

Introduced
1/10/22  
Refer
1/10/22  
Report Pass
1/24/22  
Engrossed
2/2/22  
Refer
2/8/22  
Report Pass
2/17/22  
Enrolled
2/23/22  
Passed
3/7/22  
Chaptered
3/7/22  
Annexation of fire protection district territory. Provides the following with regard to certain annexations that include property within a fire protection district (district) for which the annexation ordinance was adopted after December 31, 2020: (1) The annexation is effective at least 30 days after the annexation ordinance is adopted, published, and filed with state and county officials. (Under current law, with certain exceptions, an annexation of property within a district takes effect the second January 1 after the ordinance is adopted and filed with state and county officials.) (2) Exempts the municipality from provisions requiring the municipality to: (A) commence fire protection service to the annexed territory on the ordinance's effective date; and (B) notify the district within 10 days of commencing fire protection service to the annexed territory. Makes stylistic changes.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1273

Introduced
1/10/22  
Local veteran service officers. Provides that a county or city service officer hired after June 30, 2022, must: (1) be an honorably discharged veteran who has at least six months of active service in the armed forces of the United States; and (2) have resided in Indiana for at least two years before submitting an application for employment as a county or city service officer. (Current law permits a county or city service officer to have experience as a service officer assistant in lieu of being an honorably discharged veteran and permits nonresidents of Indiana to be hired upon the condition of establishing residence in Indiana within six months.) Makes conforming changes to the employment requirements for service officer assistants hired after June 30, 2022.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0256

Introduced
1/10/22  
Minimum age for bartenders. Permits the employment of a person as a bartender who: (1) is at least 20 years of age but less than 21 years of age; and (2) has successfully completed an alcohol server training program. Makes conforming changes and a technical correction.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0365

Introduced
1/11/22  
Refer
1/11/22  
Report Pass
1/20/22  
Engrossed
1/26/22  
Refer
2/1/22  
Report Pass
2/10/22  
Report Pass
2/21/22  
Enrolled
2/25/22  
Passed
3/10/22  
Chaptered
3/10/22  
Psychology interjurisdictional compact. Establishes the psychology interjurisdictional compact concerning interjurisdictional telepsychology and the temporary authorization to practice psychology in another compact state. Sets forth requirements of a compact state. Sets forth the duties of the psychology interjurisdictional compact commission.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0259

Introduced
1/10/22  
Prohibited pension system investments. Prohibits the Indiana public retirement system from investing in companies controlled by the People's Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0295

Introduced
1/10/22  
Criminal forfeiture. Repeals the existing civil forfeiture law and establishes a procedure for criminal forfeiture. Makes conforming amendments.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0272

Introduced
1/10/22  
Refer
1/10/22  
Report Pass
1/18/22  
Engrossed
1/26/22  
Refer
2/1/22  
Report Pass
2/15/22  
Enrolled
2/22/22  
Passed
3/7/22  
Chaptered
3/7/22  
Wastewater infrastructure. Provides that the Indiana finance authority (authority) shall serve as the executive branch coordinator for funds allocated or made available to the state or local communities from federal, state, and other sources for purposes related to drinking water, wastewater, or storm water infrastructure and systems. Sets forth the duties of the authority with respect to this role. Specifies that the authority shall coordinate the executive branch activities related to the state's drinking water and wastewater programs. (Current law provides that the authority shall serve such a role with respect to the state's water programs.) Authorizes the establishment of a drinking water and wastewater infrastructure research and extension program (program) to provide data collection and information, training, and technical assistance concerning: (1) drinking water infrastructure; (2) wastewater infrastructure; and (3) storm water infrastructure; in Indiana. Provides that the authority may: (1) contract with a state supported college or university in Indiana to provide the program; and (2) financially support the program from existing funds appropriated to the authority. Provides that the program may be housed within, or share staff with, the existing research and highway extension program at Purdue University. Provides that the program may provide the following services and programs to, or for the benefit of, utilities providing drinking water, wastewater, or storm water service in Indiana: (1) Assisting utilities in the development of asset management programs. (2) Serving as a central repository for data concerning infrastructure used to provide drinking water, wastewater, or storm water service in Indiana. (3) Providing training and technical assistance to utilities and Indiana's drinking water, wastewater, and storm water utility industry workforces. Requires the authority to make, not later than July 1, 2023, all: (1) utility asset management programs; and (2) information concerning utility asset lifecycle management costs; submitted to or reviewed by the authority available on an Internet web site maintained by the authority or the program. Requires that in carrying out all information gathering and reporting duties under the bill's provisions, the authority and the program shall use any data the authority or the program acquires in a manner that: (1) protects the confidential information of individual utilities and customers; and (2) is consistent with applicable statutory exclusions from disclosure under the state's public records act. Provides that as a condition for receiving a loan, grant, or other financial assistance after June 30, 2023, through the wastewater revolving loan program, the drinking water revolving loan program, the water infrastructure assistance program, or the water infrastructure grant program, a participant must do the following: (1) Submit the participant's required asset management program to the authority not later than the time of submission of the participant's preliminary engineering report for any project for which the loan, grant, or other financial assistance will be provided. (Current law does not specify when the asset management program must be submitted.) (2) Submit to the authority information on the estimated and actual life cycle management costs over the useful life of the asset financed. (3) In the case of a participant that is not under the jurisdiction of the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC), regularly report to all: (A) customers; (B) counties; and (C) municipalities; within the participant's service territory information concerning the participant's asset management program. Provides that money in the: (1) supplemental drinking water and wastewater assistance fund; (2) water infrastructure assistance fund; and (3) water infrastructure grant fund; may be used to provide grants, loans, or other financial assistance for the planning, designing, acquisition, construction, renovation, improvement, or expansion of septic relief systems, in accordance with guidelines of the authority. Provides that the authority's project prioritization system for awarding assistance from the water infrastructure assistance fund and the water infrastructure grant fund must include as a variable the effect of a project on the environment. Provides for the following with respect to a wastewater utility that is not subject to the jurisdiction of the IURC for the approval of rates and charges and that has been issued one or more enforcement orders (orders) relating to environmental or health and human safety issues by the department of environmental management (department) after June 30, 2022: (1) For the first order, the utility is subject to an informal review of its: (A) rates and charges; and (B) asset management program; by the IURC, in accordance with procedures determined by the IURC. (2) For a second order that is issued within two years of the first order, the utility is subject to rate regulation, following two base rate cases, by the IURC for a minimum period of: (A) five years from the IURC's order in the first base rate case; and (B) one year from the IURC's order in the second base rate case. (3) For any order issued during the required rate regulation period, the IURC may, in consultation with the department, initiate a receivership proceeding with respect to the utility. Requires the state board of education (state board) to approve, for purposes of the state's career and technical education graduation pathway, a utility career cluster that allows students to acquire knowledge and skills related to employment in the electric, natural gas, communications, water, and wastewater utility industries. Requires the governor's workforce cabinet, in consultation with the state board, the department of education, and the department of workforce development, to create course sequences for the utility career cluster.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1323

Introduced
1/11/22  
Byron Ratcliffe Sr. racial profiling reform act. Honors the memory of Byron Ratcliffe Sr. by doing the following: (1) Prohibits law enforcement agencies and law enforcement officers from conducting discriminatory profiling or pretextual stops based upon an individual's perceived age, gender, race, or ethnicity. (2) Requires the state police department before October 1, 2022, to adopt a model policy regarding discriminatory profiling and pretextual stops for other law enforcement agencies to consider in adopting their own agency policies not later than January 1, 2023. (3) Requires law enforcement agencies to submit data regarding traffic and pedestrian stops, and citizen complaints regarding discriminatory profiling or pretextual stops to the Indiana attorney general for analysis and inclusion in an annual report to the legislative council. (4) Establishes training requirements for law enforcement officers regarding discriminatory profiling and pretextual stops. (5) Establishes the discriminatory profiling review commission to review complaints of discriminatory profiling and pretextual stops. (6) Permits a person to bring a civil action based on discriminatory profiling or a pretextual stop. (7) Requires a law enforcement agency to establish standards concerning the use of vehicle and body cameras.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0159

Introduced
1/10/22  
Reserve city and town police officers. Provides that after June 30, 2023, the number of police reserve officers that a law enforcement agency or department for a city or town may appoint may not exceed the greater of: (1) six police reserve officers; or (2) 40% of the number of law enforcement officers employed by the law enforcement agency or department who have met the basic training requirements established by the law enforcement training board (board). Provides that the board may revoke, suspend, modify, or restrict a document showing compliance and qualifications for a city or town police reserve officer who has committed misconduct. Provides that, after June 30, 2022, a police reserve officer appointed by a law enforcement agency or department for a city or town does not have police powers for purposes of employment outside the direct supervision of the law enforcement agency or department that appointed the police reserve officer unless: (1) the police reserve officer who previously served as a law enforcement officer has completed Tier I or Tier II basic training and remains compliant with inservice training requirements; or (2) an exigent circumstance exists that creates pressing health, safety, or law enforcement needs for the police reserve officer.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1283

Introduced
1/10/22  
Refer
1/10/22  
Report Pass
1/20/22  
Engrossed
1/26/22  
Refer
2/2/22  
Report Pass
2/10/22  
Enrolled
2/16/22  
Passed
3/15/22  
Chaptered
3/15/22  
Exoneration payments. Provides that a person applying to the Indiana criminal justice institute seeking compensation for wrongful incarceration must prove that he or she is actually innocent by a preponderance of the evidence. Specifies that payments may be suspended while a defendant is incarcerated for a different offense.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0264

Introduced
1/10/22  
Refer
1/10/22  
Report Pass
1/27/22  
Engrossed
2/2/22  
Refer
2/7/22  
Report Pass
2/17/22  
Enrolled
2/23/22  
Passed
3/7/22  
Chaptered
3/7/22  
Administrative rules review task force. Establishes the administrative rules review task force (task force). Describes the duties required of the task force.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0215

Introduced
1/6/22  
Mental health education and screenings. Requires a school corporation's health education curriculum to include mental health wellness education. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation may provide mental health screenings to students. Provides that the department of education shall provide a school corporation with resources regarding mental health wellness upon request by the school corporation.
IN

Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0336

Introduced
1/11/22  
Refer
1/11/22  
Report Pass
1/25/22  
Engrossed
2/2/22  
Refer
2/8/22  
Report Pass
2/17/22  
Enrolled
2/23/22  
Passed
3/7/22  
Chaptered
3/7/22  
Racketeering and fraud. Specifies that "racketeering activity", for purposes of the crime of corrupt business influence, includes certain forgery, fraud, and deception offenses.