Financial literacy. Provides that, beginning with the cohort of students who are expected to graduate from a public school, a charter school, or a state accredited nonpublic school in 2027, an individual must successfully complete a personal financial responsibility course before the individual may graduate. Creates requirements for content that must be covered in a personal financial responsibility course.

Dubois County courts. Allows the Dubois County judicial district to establish a second superior court. Makes conforming changes.

Climate solutions task force. Establishes the climate solutions task force (task force) to review issues related to sustainable and clean energy solutions. Sets forth membership, and requires the task force to issue a report to the general assembly and the governor not later than November 1, 2024.

Audit of Medicaid program prescription drug costs. Provides that the office of the attorney general, or an independent auditor with experience auditing expenses related to prescription drugs that is hired through a request for proposal process by the attorney general, shall conduct an audit concerning prescription drug costs for the Medicaid program. Requires the auditor to examine cost sharing, spread pricing, patient steering, proper brand and generic definitions, effective rate clawbacks, medical loss ratio inflation, formulary compliance, discriminatory pricing, and any other metric determined by the attorney general. Provides that the audit look back period for the initial audit must be the previous five state fiscal years. Provides that the audit look back period for every audit conducted thereafter must be the previous three state fiscal years. Provides that the results of an audit must be provided to the legislative council.

Electric utility service. Provides that it is the continuing policy of the state that decisions concerning Indiana's electric generation resource mix, energy infrastructure, and electric service ratemaking constructs must take into account the following attributes of electric utility service: (1) Reliability. (2) Affordability. (3) Resiliency. (4) Stability. (5) Environmental sustainability. Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to take each of these attributes into account when: (1) reviewing, and preparing a final director's report for, an integrated resource plan submitted by an electric utility; (2) acting upon a petition for the construction, purchase, or lease of an electric generation facility; and (3) reviewing whether the public convenience and necessity continues to require the completion of an electric generation facility under construction. Requires the IURC to commence before September 1, 2023, a comprehensive study to consider the appropriate: (1) design and framework for; and (2) requirements with respect to; performance based ratemaking for investor-owned electricity suppliers. Sets forth certain topics that the IURC shall consider and evaluate in conducting the required study. Requires the IURC to include in its annual report that is due before October 1, 2025, a report containing the IURC's analysis and recommendations on the specified topics. Provides that the report must contain recommendations, supported by sufficient data and analysis from the IURC's study, with respect to the appropriate: (1) design and framework for; and (2) requirements with respect to; performance based ratemaking for electricity suppliers, so as to enable the general assembly to fully evaluate the impact of performance based ratemaking on all classes of ratepayers, while considering the five attributes of electric utility service set forth as state policy in the bill. Amends the statute governing reliability adequacy metrics for certain electric utilities ("public utilities" under the statute) as follows: (1) Defines the terms: (A) "fall unforced capacity", or "fall UCAP"; and (B) "spring unforced capacity", or "spring UCAP"; for purposes of the prescribed reliability adequacy metrics. (2) Reduces to 15% the 30% limit (under current law) for a public utility's summer or winter unforced capacity (UCAP) that the public utility is authorized to acquire from capacity markets, for purposes of the reliability adequacy metrics included in a resource planning report (report) submitted to the IURC after June 30, 2023. (3) Provides that the reliability metrics included in a report submitted to the IURC after June 30, 2026, must include specified information concerning a public utility's ability to meet its spring UCAP and fall UCAP. (4) Provides that if, after reviewing a public utility's report, the IURC is not satisfied that the public utility can: (A) provide reliable electric service to its Indiana customers; or (B) either: (i) satisfy both its planning reserve margin requirement or other federal reliability requirements and the reliability adequacy metrics set forth in the bill; or (ii) provide sufficient reason as to why it is unable to satisfy both its planning reserve margin requirement or other federal reliability requirements and the reliability adequacy metrics set forth in the bill; the IURC may conduct an investigation into the matter. (Current law does not require the IURC to consider whether the public utility can provide sufficient reason as to its inability to satisfy both its planning reserve margin requirement or other federal reliability requirements and the reliability adequacy metrics set forth in the bill.) (5) Requires the IURC to include in its 2025 annual report its analysis regarding the appropriate percentage or portion of: (A) total spring UCAP; and (B) total fall UCAP; that public utilities should be authorized to acquire from capacity markets.

Exemption for certain cemetery property. Makes various changes to a provision granting a property tax exemption to cemetery owners.

Medicaid reimbursement for children's hospitals. Extends the expiration date of language specifying Medicaid reimbursement of certain out of state children's hospitals.

Education matters. Provides that a teacher, administrator, or other employee of a school corporation or charter school shall not promote in any course certain concepts related to race or sex. Provides that a state educational institution may not require a student enrolled at the state educational institution to engage in any form of mandatory gender or sexual diversity training or counseling. Provides that a state educational institution may not require a student of the state educational institution to attend any student orientation or other training or presentation that presents information regarding race or sex stereotyping or bias on the basis of race or sex. Provides that a student shall not be required to participate in a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey that is established or administered by: (1) a school corporation; (2) a public school; (3) a state accredited nonpublic school; (4) the department of education (department); or (5) a third party vendor of a school corporation, a school, or the department; without the prior consent of the student if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor or the prior written consent of the student's parent if the student is an unemancipated minor. (Current law provides that a student shall not be required to participate in a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey that is not directly related to academic instruction and that reveals or attempts to affect the student's attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings concerning certain matters without the prior consent of the student if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor or the prior written consent of the student's parent if the student is an unemancipated minor.) Establishes certain requirements regarding contracts or agreements with third party vendors to: (1) collect or share information from a student personal analysis, evaluation, or survey; or (2) provide software or software tools that can be used for data collection, analysis, evaluation, or survey of a student.

Workforce retention incentives. Provides that an individual who is enrolled in certain associate degree programs may be eligible for the high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant. Requires the commission of higher education (commission), in conjunction with the department of workforce development, to determine which associate degree programs are eligible, including associate degree programs in advanced manufacturing, information technology, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Establishes the workforce retention and brain gain loan forgiveness program (program). Provides that the commission shall administer the program. Establishes the workforce retention and brain gain loan forgiveness fund to provide annual student loan forgiveness payments to individuals who meet certain requirements.

Appropriation for aviation education. Appropriates $600,000 to the department of transportation (department) for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025, to be used by the department to: (1) address the significant nationwide pilot shortage; (2) provide opportunities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); (3) provide funding to finish the interior of a new building at Indy South Greenwood Airport constructed to be used by youths in educational and training programs designed to promote aviation and careers in aviation; and (4) supply a training center associated with the educational and training programs with necessary equipment and classroom teaching aids.

Health care staffing. Requires a hospital to establish a nurse staffing council or assign the functions of the council to an entity in the hospital to develop a nurse staffing plan and review any reported deviations from the plan. Prohibits a hospital from taking certain actions against an employee or contract worker for filing a deviation report. Prohibits a hospital, ambulatory outpatient surgery center, health facility, or residential care facility from requiring a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse to work mandatory overtime. Establishes exceptions. Prohibits a hospital, ambulatory outpatient surgery center, health facility, or residential care facility from taking certain actions against an employee who does not consent to work mandatory overtime.

Underground utility facilities. Amends the Indiana Code chapter concerning damage to underground utility facilities as follows: (1) Defines the term "communications service provider". (2) Specifies that an "operator" for purposes of the chapter includes: (A) a communications service provider; or (B) any other person; who owns or operates an underground facility, regardless of whether the communications service provider or person is considered a public utility for purposes of the Indiana Code title concerning utilities or of any other law, and regardless of whether the communications service provider or person is subject to the jurisdiction of the Indiana utility regulatory commission. (3) Specifies that a communications service provider that violates a provision of the chapter is subject to: (A) liability in a civil action brought by another operator; and (B) the penalties set forth in the chapter for the violation, as applicable.

Machine guns. Revises, for purposes of an enhancement and certain criminal offenses, a definition of "machine gun". Provides that particular criminal offenses concerning machine guns do not apply to certain persons, including persons possessing machine guns or other items not required to be registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record maintained by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Makes a conforming amendment.

Worksite safety. Requires the state police and the Indiana department of transportation to establish a pilot program for the deployment of a worksite speed control system to enforce a worksite speed limit. Provides that a worksite speed limit violation recorded by a worksite speed control system may not be enforced unless the violation is at least 12 miles per hour above the established worksite speed limit. Creates the worksite speed control pilot fund. Replaces the term "work zone" with "worksite" throughout the relevant statutes. Makes an appropriation.

Scholarship for minority students in health care. Establishes the scholarship for minority students pursuing health care careers (scholarship) and the minority students pursuing health care careers fund (fund) for the purpose of providing scholarships to minority individuals who are working in an entry-level health care position involving direct patient care and wish to pursue a career as a licensed nurse in Indiana. Provides that the commission for higher education (commission) administers the scholarship program and the fund. Prescribes qualifications necessary to: (1) receive an initial scholarship; and (2) qualify for renewal of the scholarship. Requires a scholarship recipient to enter into a written agreement with the commission to: (1) use the scholarship solely to fund a course of study resulting in an associate's degree or certificate that enables the individual to practice as a licensed nurse in Indiana; (2) apply for a position as a licensed nurse in Indiana following the individual's licensure as a nurse; and (3) if hired, practice as a licensed nurse in Indiana for at least three years. Requires a scholarship recipient to repay the scholarship if the scholarship recipient fails to: (1) complete the scholarship recipient's program of study; or (2) complete the terms of the scholarship recipient's agreement with the commission. Provides that the amount of the scholarship awarded for an academic year is the lesser of: (1) the balance of the scholarship recipient's total cost of attendance for the academic year after the application of any other financial assistance for which the scholarship recipient qualifies; or (2) $4,000. Appropriates annually to the fund from the state general fund an amount sufficient to carry out the purposes of the scholarship program. Requires the commission to report to the general assembly not later than December 1, 2027, regarding the effect of the scholarship program.