Indiana 2022 Regular Session All Bills (Page 59)

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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0234

Introduced
1/6/22  
Child and dependent care tax credit. Provides a refundable child and dependent care tax credit to taxpayers whose adjusted gross income for the taxable year is not more than 250% of the federal poverty level. Provides that the credit is equal to the lesser of: (1) an amount ranging from $200 to $1,000, depending on the extent to which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds the federal poverty level; or (2) 20% of the taxpayer's employment related expenses.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1131

Introduced
1/4/22  
Emergency powers and orders. Removes specified emergency powers of the governor. Provides that an emergency order issued by: (1) the Indiana state department of health expires after 14 days unless renewal is authorized by the general assembly; and (2) a local health officer order expires after 14 days unless renewal is authorized by the local legislative body. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1139

Introduced
1/6/22  
Regulation of dams. Provides that the laws regulating dams apply only to a structure that meets two or more of the following conditions: (1) Exceeds 20 feet in height. (2) Has a drainage area above the dam of more than one square mile. (3) Impounds a volume of more than 100 acre-feet of water. Requires the department of natural resources (department) to establish a classification system for dams based on: (1) the height of the structure and the volume of water impounded by the structure; and (2) the force of the water and the likely consequences resulting from the uncontrolled release of its contents due to a failure or misoperation of the structure. Changes the classification categories for dams from high hazard, significant hazard, and low hazard to high capacity, significant capacity, and low capacity. Changes the standard to determine potential consequences for a failure from "may cause" to "likely to cause". Requires the department to have jurisdiction over a dam to raise the dam's classification to high capacity upon receiving a request from a downstream owner. Provides that changes to the law do not affect past inspections.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1140

Introduced
1/6/22  
Refer
1/6/22  
Report Pass
1/13/22  
Engrossed
1/21/22  
Refer
2/1/22  
Refer
2/10/22  
Report Pass
2/17/22  
Enrolled
2/23/22  
Passed
3/14/22  
Chaptered
3/14/22  
Medicaid coverage for pregnant women. Repeals the statute specifying Medicaid eligibility for qualified pregnant women. Increases the Medicaid income eligibility requirements for pregnant women. Removes the Medicaid limitation for pregnant women of medical assistance coverage only for pregnancy related services. Provides that the extension of postpartum Medicaid coverage for pregnant women shall be determined by the office of the secretary of family and social services and must be at least 60 days but not more than 12 months beginning on the last day of the pregnancy.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1202

Introduced
1/6/22  
Professional counselors licensure compact. Requires the behavioral health and human services licensing board to administer the professional counselors licensure compact (compact). Adopts the compact. Sets forth requirements of a member state. Sets forth the duties and authority of the counseling compact commission (commission). Allows a counselor in a home state to practice via telehealth in a member state. Allows each member state to have one delegate on the commission. Establishes the procedure to withdraw from the compact. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1186

Introduced
1/6/22  
Fertilizer runoff and Lake Michigan discharges. Amends the water pollution control law effective July 1, 2024, to: (1) eliminate an exception to the prohibition against causing water pollution that applies to fertilizer runoff from a field in a storm event or irrigation return flow if the fertilizer was applied to the land in compliance with rules of the state chemist; (2) eliminate a provision requiring the commissioner of the department of environmental management (commissioner) to allow for a mixing zone in a permit that involves a discharge into Lake Michigan if the permit applicant can demonstrate that the mixing zone will not cause harm to human health or aquatic life; and (3) eliminate a provision under which the commissioner, in issuing a permit authorizing a discharge into a mixing zone in Lake Michigan, is required to allow for mixing initiated by the use of submerged, high rate diffuser outfall structures (or their equivalent) that provide turbulent initial mixing and minimize organism exposure times. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1206

Introduced
1/6/22  
Railroad track crossings. Provides that a railroad company must make, maintain, and repair certain of its crossings at its expense unless certain conditions are met.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1151

Introduced
1/6/22  
Automatic voter registration. Provides that an application to obtain or renew a motor vehicle driver's license or permit or an identification card serves as a voter registration application unless the applicant expressly declines on the application to register to vote. Provides that a voter becomes registered to vote when the county voter registration office determines the voter appears to be eligible to vote at the address on the voter's voter registration application.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1215

Introduced
1/6/22  
Work sharing unemployment insurance program. Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program (program). Requires an employer that desires to participate in the program to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce development. Establishes the work sharing benefit as equal to an affected employee's unemployment benefit reduced by a percentage equal to the percentage of the employee's normal weekly work hours that the employee works under the approved work sharing plan.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0221

Introduced
1/6/22  
Absentee voting. Permits a voter who is qualified to vote in person to vote by absentee ballot. Removes all other qualifications for a voter to vote by absentee ballot except for a voter with disabilities who is unable to make a voting mark on the ballot or sign the absentee ballot secrecy envelope. (Such a disabled voter is currently required to vote before an absentee voter board.) Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0187

Introduced
1/6/22  
Refer
1/6/22  
Report Pass
1/11/22  
Engrossed
1/21/22  
Refer
1/31/22  
Wake boarding and wake surfing. Prohibits a person from operating on a public freshwater lake a motorboat that engages in wake boarding or wake surfing during the period between sunset and sunrise. Establishes a penalty. Provides that an individual may not operate a motorboat with: (1) an outboard engine; or (2) an outdrive unit with a propeller that extends past the motorboat's transom or swim platform; for the purpose of wake surfing.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1166

Introduced
1/6/22  
Unlawful slating. Provides that a political party or other person may not: (1) solicit or receive money or other property as a condition that the person, another person, or a political party support or slate a candidate; (2) pay money or give other property in exchange for the support or slating of a candidate by a person or a political party; or (3) require an individual to refrain from seeking the nomination of a political party for an elected office in a primary election if the political party does not slate the individual as the political party's choice for election to the office. Provides that a civil penalty may be assessed against a political party or other person of not more than three times the value of the money or property solicited, received, paid, or given in violation of the prohibition. Provides that any agreement entered into in violation of the prohibition is void.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0220

Introduced
1/6/22  
Local veteran service officers. Provides that a county or city service officer 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 six months before the service officer's start date. (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.)
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1159

Introduced
1/6/22  
Small loan finance charges. Changes the current incremental finance charge limits that apply to a small loan to a maximum annual rate. Prohibits certain acts with respect to financing of a small loan and makes a violation a deceptive act and subject to penalties.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1227

Introduced
1/6/22  
Sex offender employment restrictions. Provides that an offender against children who knowingly or intentionally: (1) obtains employment within 1,000 feet of school property, not including property of an institution providing postsecondary education, a youth program center, a public park, or a licensed day care center; (2) obtains employment within one mile of the residence of the victim of the offender's sex offense; or (3) obtains employment where a child care provider provides child care services; commits a Level 6 felony. Defines "employment". Makes conforming changes.