Indiana 2023 Regular Session All Bills (Page 38)

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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1390

Introduced
1/17/23  
Closed captioning. Requires that an owner or operator of a public accommodation must activate closed captioning on all television receivers that are in use during regular hours. Specifies that an owner or operator of a public accommodation that has multiple television receivers on display for sale is required to activate closed captioning on at least one television receiver per group of five television receivers. Allows the civil rights commission to investigate violations and enforce compliance.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1393

Introduced
1/17/23  
Child care assistance. Raises the income eligibility limit for grants under the On My Way Pre-K program from 127% of the federal poverty level to 185% of the federal poverty level. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to report to the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services (study committee): (1) whether: (A) Indiana's Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) plan for state fiscal years 2022 through 2024; and (B) the policies and administrative rules of the family and social services administration (FSSA); qualify Indiana for the maximum CCDF block grant amount for which Indiana is eligible under federal law; and (2) if not, the: (A) changes in Indiana's CCDF plan or in FSSA policies or rules; or (B) legislative changes; necessary to qualify Indiana for the maximum CCDF block grant amount for which Indiana is eligible under federal law. Urges the legislative council to assign to the study committee the task of: (1) considering the report; and (2) recommending to the general assembly legislation for introduction in the 2024 legislative session necessary to qualify Indiana for the maximum CCDF block grant amount for which Indiana is eligible under federal law.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1458

Introduced
1/17/23  
Refer
1/17/23  
Report Pass
1/24/23  
Engrossed
1/31/23  
Refer
2/27/23  
Report Pass
3/9/23  
Enrolled
3/15/23  
Passed
4/20/23  
Chaptered
4/20/23  
Doctor scope of treatment and do not resuscitate. Provides that a declarant may include a person for whom a proxy has executed an out of hospital do not resuscitate (DNR) declaration if the person: (1) is at least 18 years of age and is certified as a qualified person; (2) is incapacitated or incompetent; and (3) has no representative who is able and available to execute an out of hospital DNR declaration. Defines "incapacitated" as related to an out of hospital DNR declaration. Defines "proxy" as related to an out of hospital DNR declaration and a physician order for scope of treatment (POST). Provides that a person's proxy may execute an out of hospital DNR declaration if certain conditions are met. Creates a declaration and order form to be used by hospitals if the declarant is incapacitated or incompetent. Allows a qualified person's proxy to complete a POST form if the person is incapable of making health care decisions and no representative is able and available to act. Allows a proxy to revoke a POST form or request alternative treatment. Provides that if alternative treatment is requested, the treating medical provider shall review the POST form with the declarant, the declarant's representative, or the proxy who has priority to act for the declarant. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1362

Introduced
1/17/23  
Child protection. Adds a school's human resources professional to the list of people to whom records that are sealed by the central repository for criminal history information maintained by the state police department may be disclosed. Provides that a person at least 18 years of age who knowingly or intentionally communicates with an individual whom the person believes to be a child less than 18 years of age concerning sexual activity with the intent to gratify the sexual desires of the person or the individual commits inappropriate communication with a child, a Class B misdemeanor. (The current law is less than 14 years of age for the child victim.)
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1372

Introduced
1/17/23  
Refer
1/17/23  
Report Pass
1/24/23  
Engrossed
1/31/23  
Credentialing for Medicaid services. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning (office) to prescribe a credentialing application form to be used by: (1) a provider who applies for credentialing by a managed care organization or a contractor of the office (contractor); and (2) a managed care organization or contractor that performs credentialing activities. Requires a managed care organization or contractor to notify a provider concerning: (1) any deficiency in the provider's unclean credentialing application; and (2) the status of the provider's clean credentialing application. Provides that if the managed care organization or contractor fails to issue a credentialing determination within 30 days after receiving a provider's completed credentialing application, the managed care organization or contractor shall provisionally credential the provider if the provider meets certain criteria. Provides that if the managed care organization or contractor fully credentials a provider, then reimbursement payments to the provider shall be paid retroactive to the date on which the initial credentialing application was received and the provider shall be reimbursed at the rates determined by the contract between the provider and the managed care organization or contractor.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1494

Introduced
1/17/23  
Prohibition on charging residual interest. Defines "residual interest", with respect to a credit card, as interest that: (1) accrues on the outstanding balance on a credit card account from the close of a particular billing cycle until the cardholder's payment on the account posts; and (2) may result in a cardholder owing interest even if the cardholder pays off the full amount shown as outstanding on the statement issued as of the close of the billing cycle. Prohibits a card issuer from doing the following: (1) Issuing, or offering to issue, a credit card to an Indiana consumer if, under the terms and conditions of use for the credit card, the card issuer is permitted to charge residual interest on outstanding balances. (2) Charging residual interest on the outstanding balance on a credit card account. Provides that a card issuer that violates these provisions commits a deceptive act that is: (1) actionable by the attorney general or by a consumer under the deceptive consumer sales act (act); and (2) subject to the remedies and penalties set forth in the act.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1375

Introduced
1/17/23  
Employee misclassification. Requires the department of labor to employ an investigator to investigate complaints of employee misclassification. Provides that the investigator shall be located at the Marion County prosecutor's office. Extends certain protections to an employee who reports, complains, or testifies about employee misclassification.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1361

Introduced
1/17/23  
Funding of juvenile justice oversight. Makes certain amendments to the juvenile diversion grant program, the juvenile community alternatives grant program, and the juvenile behavioral health competitive grant pilot program (programs). Appropriates specified amounts for the state budget biennium to the juvenile diversion and community alternatives grant program fund and juvenile behavioral health competitive grant pilot program fund for purposes of those programs to be administered by the Indiana criminal justice institute in consultation with the juvenile justice oversight committee (oversight committee) and the grant process workgroup created by that oversight committee, taking into considering the grant program report prepared and submitted to the commission on improving the status of children in Indiana by the oversight committee.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0311

Introduced
1/12/23  
Abortion. Reestablishes the licensure of abortion clinics. Changes statutes concerning when an abortion may be performed. Removes the eight week limitation on the use of an abortion inducing drug. Allows, rather then requires, the revocation of a physician's license for the performance of an abortion in violation of the law.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1330

Introduced
1/12/23  
Advanced practice registered nurses. Removes the requirements that an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) have a practice agreement with a collaborating physician. Removes a provision requiring an APRN to operate under a collaborative practice agreement or the privileges granted by a hospital governing board. Repeals law concerning the audit of practice agreements. Allows an APRN with prescriptive authority to prescribe a schedule II controlled substance for weight reduction or to control obesity. Makes conforming changes.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0308

Introduced
1/12/23  
Cannabis legalization. Establishes a procedure for the lawful production and sale of cannabis in Indiana. Makes conforming amendments.
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Indiana Senate Bill SB0316

Introduced
1/12/23  
Refer
1/12/23  
Refer
1/24/23  
Report Pass
2/6/23  
Engrossed
2/14/23  
Refer
2/28/23  
Report Pass
3/13/23  
Enrolled
3/21/23  
Passed
4/20/23  
Chaptered
4/20/23  
Computer aided emergency dispatch systems. Provides that the statewide 911 board (board) may conduct a feasibility study on potential ways in which the computer aided dispatch (CAD) systems used by public safety answering points (PSAPs) in Indiana could be made interoperable to facilitate the standard dispatch of EMS resources based on using the EMS resource that represents the closest and most appropriate EMS resource to respond to an emergency. Provides that the board may submit a report on the study to the following not later than July 1, 2024: (1) The executive director of the legislative services agency to distribute to members of the general assembly. (2) The department of homeland security. (3) The integrated public safety commission. (4) The Indiana department of health. Sets forth information that may be included in the report. Provides that these provisions expire January 1, 2025.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1332

Introduced
1/12/23  
Economic development fees. Eliminates the $100,000 fee cap for purposes of the formula specifying the amount of the fee paid to the county treasurer by a property owner receiving a property tax abatement.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0327

Introduced
1/12/23  
Refer
1/12/23  
Report Pass
2/9/23  
Engrossed
2/15/23  
Refer
2/28/23  
Report Pass
4/11/23  
Enrolled
4/18/23  
Passed
5/4/23  
Chaptered
5/4/23  
Gary Community Schools. Establishes procedures to appoint members to the governing body of the Gary Community School Corporation. Establishes procedures for transferring responsibility of financial and academic matters from the emergency manager to the governing body. Removes obsolete provisions and makes conforming amendments. Provides that not later than October 31, 2025, and each October 31 thereafter, the governing body must submit a report to the distressed unit appeal board (DUAB) summarizing the financial position and operations of the school corporation for the previous state fiscal year. Requires: (1) the governing body to submit a report concerning specified topics to the DUAB and the budget committee before July 1, 2026; and (2) the DUAB to present that report to the budget committee before November 1, 2026. Repeals provisions relating to the election of advisory board members for the Gary Community School Corporation. Provides that the DUAB may employ staff (instead of an executive director). Repeals provisions requiring the DUAB to pay the Muncie Community School's emergency manager's compensation and to reimburse the Muncie Community School's emergency manager for actual and necessary expenses. Repeals the fiscal and qualitative indicators committee (committee). Replaces references to the committee with references to the DUAB.
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Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0302

Introduced
1/12/23  
Refer
1/12/23  
Report Pass
1/19/23  
Engrossed
1/27/23  
Refer
2/7/23  
Report Pass
3/14/23  
Enrolled
3/21/23  
Passed
4/20/23  
Chaptered
4/20/23  
Regulation of charitable organizations. Prohibits a state agency or a state official from imposing on a charitable organization any filing or reporting requirements that are more stringent or burdensome than those imposed by, or authorized under, state or federal law. Provides that this limitation does not apply: (1) to requirements imposed in connection with: (A) state grants or contracts; or (B) fraud investigations; or (2) in connection with an enforcement action against a specific charitable organization.