Indiana 2022 Regular Session All Bills (Page 63)

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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1193

Introduced
1/6/22  
Refer
1/6/22  
Report Pass
1/20/22  
Engrossed
1/27/22  
Refer
2/2/22  
Report Pass
2/17/22  
Enrolled
2/25/22  
Passed
3/10/22  
Chaptered
3/10/22  
Opioid litigation. Amends the deadline by which a political subdivision may opt back in to an opioid litigation settlement. Requires a political subdivision to submit a copy of the agreement executed between the political subdivision and the private legal counsel of the political subdivision when opting back into the opioid litigation settlement. Removes language providing that no political subdivision has any claim to any settlement proceeds for litigation against any opioid party not yet filed by the state as of a certain date. Removes certain requirements concerning the payment of costs, expenses, and attorney's fees and costs arising from opioid litigation. Changes the basis by which the agency settlement fund distributes funds to cities, counties, and towns. Reduces the percentage of opioid litigation settlement funds distributed for use of statewide treatment, education, and prevention programs for opioid use disorder. Provides that 35% of opioid litigation settlement funds are to be distributed to cities, counties, and towns for programs for treatment, prevention, and care that are best practices for opioid use disorder. Provides that funds received from the opioid settlement may not be distributed to a city, county, or town that has opted out of the settlement and that the remaining funds shall be distributed to the cities, counties, or towns that have opted into the settlement.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1254

Introduced
1/6/22  
Refer
1/6/22  
Report Pass
1/13/22  
Report Pass
1/20/22  
Engrossed
1/26/22  
Refer
2/2/22  
Refer
2/10/22  
Report Pass
2/17/22  
Enrolled
2/23/22  
Passed
3/10/22  
Chaptered
3/10/22  
Newborn screening requirements. Provides that beginning July 1, 2022, only a disorder recommended by a perinatal genetics and genomics advisory committee (committee) with expertise in newborn screening, and through protocols prescribed by the state department, may be added to the list of disorders requiring the examination of infants. Provides that beginning July 1, 2022, a committee with expertise in newborn screening, and through protocols established by the state department, may recommend the addition of a disorder to, or deletion of a disorder from, the required examination. Provides that the state department shall adopt rules to add disorders to, or delete disorders from, the required examination. Provides that the state department shall include any disorder added to or deleted from the required examination on a list on the state department's Internet web site. Provides that the committee shall affirm the addition of, or deletion of, any disorder to the examination requirement on an annual basis.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1141

Introduced
1/6/22  
Refer
1/6/22  
Mental health. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a state Medicaid waiver to reimburse providers who provide behavioral health services to committed offenders held by the department of correction. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to: (1) establish a plan to expand the use of certified community behavioral health clinics in Indiana; and (2) make certain considerations in preparing the plan.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0183

Introduced
1/6/22  
Home based vendors. Specifies the requirements for the preparation and sale of food products as a home based vendor. Reorganizes provisions concerning the sale of certain food products by an individual vendor at a farmers' market or roadside stand. Requires an individual who sells rabbits at a farmers' market or roadside stand to comply with certain requirements. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1183

Introduced
1/6/22  
Refer
1/6/22  
Report Pass
1/24/22  
Engrossed
1/28/22  
Refer
2/8/22  
Report Pass
2/22/22  
Enrolled
3/2/22  
Passed
3/15/22  
Chaptered
3/15/22  
Natural resources matters. Extends the time for an individual to check a trap that captures and kills a furbearing animal from 24 hours to 48 hours. Requires the department of natural resources to publish a recommendation that the best practice to tend or visit, or have tended or visited a furbearing trap that is the person's property within a period not to exceed 24 hours. Establishes a one day license for fur buyers. Provides that in a county having a population with certain parameters, a local flood plain administrator may issue a variance allowing a structure located in a floodway to remain in its location without a permit issued by the director of the department of natural resources if: (1) the structure is an abode or residence; (2) a permit for the construction of the abode or residence was issued by the appropriate official of the county before December 19, 2018; and (3) other conditions are met.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1222

Introduced
1/6/22  
Refer
1/6/22  
Report Pass
1/13/22  
Engrossed
1/21/22  
Refer
2/1/22  
Report Pass
2/7/22  
Enrolled
2/15/22  
Passed
3/10/22  
Chaptered
3/10/22  
Various FSSA matters. Allows the family and social services administration to deny or revoke licensing for a child care home based on a household member's conviction for certain specified criminal offenses. Removes a limitation specifying that an occupancy provision regarding school-age children in class I child care homes applies only during the school year. Eliminates the bureau of quality improvement services and reassigns the bureau's responsibilities to the bureau of developmental disabilities services. Renames the bureau of child care as the office of early childhood and out of school learning. Amends the required composition of mobile crisis teams that provide behavioral health services in conjunction with the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline. Provides that a contract entered into with a third party by the division of mental health and addiction (division) for provision of competency restoration services to a defendant may confer to the third party all authority the division would have in providing the services to the defendant at a state psychiatric institution. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to: (1) establish a plan to expand the use of certified community behavioral health clinics in Indiana; and (2) make certain considerations in preparing the plan. Allows the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to provide behavioral health services to a committed offender held by the department of correction. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1281

Introduced
1/10/22  
Civil forfeiture. Requires the Indiana prosecuting attorneys council to establish and maintain a case tracking system and searchable public Internet web site that includes certain civil forfeiture data, and requires each prosecuting attorney to upload civil forfeiture data to the web site. Establishes the civil forfeiture data fund to be used to defray expenses incurred in complying with civil forfeiture reporting requirements. Provides that, after deducting certain expenses, the greater of: (1) $250; or (2) 1% of a civil forfeiture judgment; shall be deposited in the civil forfeiture data fund. Authorizes the attorney general to assess a civil penalty against a prosecuting attorney who fails to report civil forfeiture data without good cause and specifies that the civil penalty shall be deposited in the civil forfeiture data fund.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0240

Introduced
1/10/22  
Service dog endorsement on driver's license. Provides that the bureau of motor vehicles shall place an identifying symbol on certain driver's licenses, permits, and identification cards to indicate the use of a service animal due to a person's disability.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1279

Introduced
1/10/22  
Release of offender to county of residence. Requires the department of correction to transport a released offender to the county of residence at the time of the conviction unless certain criteria are met.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0354

Introduced
1/11/22  
Marijuana offenses. Adds to the defense of operating a vehicle and committing a traffic offense with a controlled substance that the substance was identified as marijuana through a chemical test offered by a law enforcement officer. Provides that possession or consumption of marijuana by a minor is a delinquent act. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally possesses more than two ounces of marijuana commits the offense of possession of marijuana. (Current law provides that the offense of possession of marijuana can be for any amount of marijuana.) Repeals the offense of possession of marijuana, hash oil, hashish, or salvia as a Level 6 felony. Establishes a penalty for a minor who possesses or consumes marijuana. Provides for the suspension of the minor's driving privileges if the minor possessed or consumed the marijuana while operating a motor vehicle. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0326

Introduced
1/11/22  
Funding for defendant competency examinations. Requires the office of judicial administration to establish and administer a program to provide a regional pool of mental health examiners who are available for appointment upon request by a court to conduct a competency examination of a defendant in a criminal case. Provides that the establishment of the program is subject to appropriation by the general assembly.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1261

Introduced
1/10/22  
Consumer privacy. Requires businesses to disclose certain information to consumers. Outlines different requests a consumer may make with businesses regarding the consumer's personal information. Assigns enforcement of consumer privacy law to the Indiana division of consumer protection. Exempts certain government entities and certain types of information. Provides certain business exceptions.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0271

Introduced
1/10/22  
Refer
1/10/22  
Report Pass
1/24/22  
Engrossed
2/2/22  
Refer
2/7/22  
Report Pass
2/15/22  
Enrolled
2/23/22  
Passed
3/18/22  
Chaptered
3/18/22  
Small modular nuclear reactors. Amends the statute governing certificates of public convenience and necessity (certificates) that are issued by the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) for the construction, lease, or purchase of electric generation facilities to require the IURC, in consultation with the department of environmental management (department), to adopt rules concerning the granting of certificates for the construction, purchase, or lease of small modular nuclear reactors: (1) in Indiana for the generation of electricity to be used to furnish public utility service to Indiana customers; or (2) at the site of a nuclear energy production or generating facility that supplies electricity to Indiana retail customers on July 1, 2011. Requires the IURC to adopt the rules not later than July 1, 2023. Provides that the rules adopted by the IURC must provide that in acting on a public utility's petition for a certificate for one or more small modular nuclear reactors, the IURC shall consider the following: (1) Whether, and to what extent, the one or more small modular nuclear reactors proposed by the public utility will replace a loss of generating capacity in the public utility's portfolio resulting from the retirement or planned retirement of one or more of existing electric generating facilities that: (A) are located in Indiana; and (B) use coal or natural gas as a fuel source. (2) Whether one or more of the small modular nuclear reactors will be located on the same site as or near the facility to be retired and, if so, potential opportunities for the public utility to: (A) make use of any land and existing infrastructure or facilities already owned or under the control of the public utility; or (B) create new employment opportunities for workers who have been, or would be, displaced as a result of the retirement of the existing facility. Provides that the IURC's rules must provide that the IURC may grant a certificate under circumstances and for locations other than these. Sets forth additional requirements for small modular nuclear reactors that must be included in the IURC's rules, including the requirement that the owner or operator of a proposed small modular nuclear reactor must provide evidence of a plan to apply for all licenses or permits to construct or operate the proposed small modular nuclear reactor required by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the department, or any other relevant state or federal regulatory agency. Amends the statute providing certain financial incentives for energy utilities that invest in clean energy projects by providing that, for purposes of the statute, a "clean energy project" and a "nuclear energy production or generating facility" include a small modular nuclear reactor that is constructed after June 30, 2023: (1) in Indiana for the generation of electricity to be used to furnish public utility service to Indiana customers; or (2) at the site of a nuclear energy production or generating facility that supplies electricity to Indiana retail customers on July 1, 2011; under the rules adopted by the IURC under the bill. Defines "small modular nuclear reactor" for purposes of the bill's provisions.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0217

Introduced
1/6/22  
Reduction of educational costs. Provides that certain eligible applicants for higher education cost exemptions are entitled to a 100% reduction in educational costs.
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Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0247

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  
Report on 911 and regionalized trauma systems. Requires the department of homeland security, the state department of health, the integrated public safety commission, and the statewide 911 board to make recommendations before November 1, 2022, to the general assembly regarding: (1) improving emergency medical services response through increased interoperability of the 911 system; and (2) the effectiveness of regionalized trauma systems and the systems' impact on patient care.