Direct contact with specified animals. Prohibits a person that owns or possesses a specified animal from allowing a member of the public to come into direct contact, or enter into a proximity that allows for or permits direct contact, with the specified animal. Prohibits the department of natural resources from adopting a rule to designate additional specified animals. Requires that a person who owns a specified animal must have a commercial animal dealer, breeder, or exhibitor's license issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. Provides that a violation of the law is a Class B infraction. Excludes from the substance of the bill physical contact or proximity between certain persons and a specified animal. Defines terms.

Vaccines and employment. Provides that if an employer requires an employee to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, the employer must waive the COVID-19 vaccine requirement if an employee requests a waiver and submits certain statements to the employer on the basis of medical reasons, religious reasons, or previous COVID-19 infection. Provides that an individual is not disqualified from unemployment benefits if the individual has requested an exemption from an employer's COVID-19 immunization requirement, has complied with the requirements for seeking an exemption, and was discharged from employment for failing or refusing to receive an immunization against COVID-19. Provides that charges based on the wage credits shall only be charged to the experience or reimbursable account of the employer who discharged the employee for failing or refusing to receive an immunization against COVID-19.

Prohibition of race discrimination based on hair. Prohibits race discrimination based on traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles.

Removes the superintendent of public instruction from the list of officeholders who shall discharge the powers and duties of the governor if the office of the governor and lieutenant governor are both vacant. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.

Employee misclassification. Requires the department of state revenue, the state department of labor, the worker's compensation board of Indiana, and the department of workforce development to report before November 1 of each year for three years, beginning November 1, 2022, to the interim study committee on employment and labor for the immediately preceding state fiscal year: (1) the number of employers that each department or the board determined during the immediately preceding state fiscal year improperly classified at least one worker as an independent contractor; (2) the total number of improperly classified workers employed by those employers; (3) the department's or board's calculation of actual revenue not collected or the additional costs to the state that the department or board attributes to the improperly classified workers; (4) the amount of the penalties and interest assessed against those employers by each department or the board, and the amount of the penalties and interest assessed that has been collected; and (5) the classification criteria used by the department or board to classify workers. Requires that the reports include information only in the form of aggregate statistics and not include information that can be used to identify specific employers or workers.

Federal funding for early childhood education. Provides that any funds that Indiana receives under the American Rescue Plan Act or any other federal funds that Indiana receives for the purpose of providing funding for early childhood education, including prekindergarten, or kindergarten: (1) must be used for early childhood education, including prekindergarten, or kindergarten; (2) may not be used for any other purpose; and (3) may not revert to the state general fund or any other fund to be used for any other purpose.

Disabled veterans. Removes the assessed value limit for a property tax exemption for an individual or the surviving spouse of an individual who is killed in action or who receives an honorable discharge and is totally disabled or 62 years of age with a disability of at least 10%.

PFAS chemical blood testing program. Establishes the PFAS chemical blood testing program under the department of health (department) for the purpose of blood testing certain individuals for a higher concentration of PFAS chemicals to study the health effects of a higher concentration of PFAS chemicals in an individual's blood. Provides that not later than November 1 of each year, the department shall report to the legislative council on the results of the PFAS blood testing program for the previous state fiscal year.

Construction worker infection control program. Requires a construction worker to complete an infection control training program (program) every two years before working onsite on the erection, installation, alteration, repair, or remodeling of a hospital or ambulatory outpatient surgical center construction project. Establishes requirements for the program. Requires that the state department of health or an approved organization that conducts a program to provide each construction worker who successfully completes the program a certificate of completion.

Government investments and contracts. Provides that the state or the Indiana public retirement system may not make certain investments in companies that boycott energy companies or companies that do business with energy companies. Provides that a state agency may not enter into a contract with certain companies for the purchase of supplies or services unless the contract contains a written verification from the company that the company does not boycott energy companies and will not boycott energy companies during the term of the contract.

Education enrichment accounts. Establishes the Indiana student enrichment grant program (program). Provides that an enrichment student is eligible to establish an Indiana enrichment scholarship account. Provides that an enrichment student may receive $1,000 to be used for certain qualified expenses. Provides that the department of education shall administer the program.

Gary Community School Corporation debt. Appropriates from the state general fund the amount needed to pay advances made to the Gary Community School Corporation from the common school fund that are outstanding as of June 30, 2022, regardless of the due dates for the payments.

Absentee voting. Requires all absentee ballot applications sent by an entity other than the county clerk's office to have a disclaimer that the application was sent unsolicited and to list the organization responsible for sending the application. Provides that an agency of the state or a political subdivision may not provide an individual with an application for an absentee ballot unless requested by the individual. Provides that an absentee ballot application must request that the applicant include: (1) the last four digits of the applicant's Social Security number; and (2) one of the following: (A) The applicant's Indiana driver's license number. (B) The applicant's Indiana identification card number for nondrivers. (C) The unique identifying number assigned to the applicant's voter registration record in the computerized list. Requires a county election board to deny an absentee ballot application if the county election board cannot match at least one of the numbers with the applicant's voter's registration record. Provides that under certain circumstances, a person is entitled to vote by absentee ballot by mail if the person is unable to vote: (1) during the period of time a voter may vote by absentee ballot in person before the absentee voter board; (2) on election day; or (3) on election day during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open. (Current law provides that under certain circumstances, a person is entitled to vote by absentee ballot by mail if the person is unable to vote on election day or on election day during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open.) Requires that voting before an absentee voter board at the circuit court clerk's office or at a satellite office be referred to as "early voting" on all forms prescribed by the election division and in all communications with voters. Makes conforming changes.

Property taxation. Allows a total tax rate levied upon the formation of a fire protection territory established after December 31, 2022, to be implemented over a number of years, not exceeding five, and subject to review and approval by the department of local government finance. Provides that the maximum permissible ad valorem property tax levy that would otherwise apply to a participating unit does not apply to property taxes imposed by the participating unit to meet obligations to the fire protection territory over the period of years in which a total tax rate is implemented. Provides that a participating unit's proceeds of property taxes imposed to meet the participating unit's obligations to a fire protection territory are exempt from areas needing redevelopment, redevelopment project areas, urban renewal project areas, economic development areas, or economic development districts established after December 31, 2021. Provides that incremental revenues may be used by a redevelopment commission to pay operating costs, in whole or in part, of: (1) a unit's law enforcement agency; (2) a unit's fire department, including a fire protection district established under IC 36-8-11 or a fire protection territory established under IC 36-8-19; and (3) emergency medical services operated or maintained by a unit; that serve the allocation area. Provides that incremental revenues shared by a redevelopment commission with a school corporation for an education or worker program may also be used by the school corporation to pay operating costs of the school corporation.

Call center worker and consumer protection. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) to compile a list of all employers that relocate a call center to a foreign country and to disqualify employers on that list from state grants, loans, and tax credits. Requires an employer receiving a state grant, loan, or tax credit to notify the IEDC if the employer intends to relocate a call center. Imposes a civil penalty on an employer that does not notify the IEDC.