Indiana 2024 Regular Session All Bills (Page 11)

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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1378

Introduced
1/10/24  
Coverage for mobile integrated healthcare services. Requires health plans, subject to applicable deductible and coinsurance for a state employee health plan, to provide reimbursement for emergency medical services that are performed or provided during a response initiated as part of a mobile integrated healthcare program currently established in Delaware, White, and Montgomery counties. Provides that the reimbursement for emergency medical services that are performed or provided as part of a mobile integrated healthcare program in Delaware, White, and Montgomery counties shall be in effect from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027. Requires the department of insurance (department) to compile a report detailing any cost changes based on claims data, as a result of the reimbursement for emergency medical services that are performed or provided as part of a mobile integrated healthcare program in Delaware, White, and Montgomery counties. Requires the department to compile the report not later than July 1, 2026.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1354

Introduced
1/10/24  
Release from department of correction and parole. Establishes an additional sentencing modification procedure for certain individuals and requires that the department of correction annually review inmate records and transmit certain information to specified persons.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1363

Introduced
1/10/24  
Elimination of sales tax on utility service. Provides a sales tax exemption for utility services.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1379

Introduced
1/10/24  
Unborn children. Modifies the definition of "human being" in the criminal code to include an unborn child. Removes applicability language concerning certain abortions in the wrongful death or injury of a child statutes. Clarifies the duress defense relating to culpability. Repeals the section that provides that the homicide chapter does not apply to certain abortions. Removes language from the murder, manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter statutes regarding intentionally killing a fetus. Repeals the crime of feticide. Repeals the section that concerns the applicability of certain crimes related to abortion, the termination of a pregnancy, or the killing of a fetus. Provides that the homicide and battery chapters apply to a victim who is an unborn child.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1402

Introduced
1/11/24  
Local government permits for shoreline structures. Amends the law concerning public freshwater lakes to provide that a person who intends to construct a boathouse or any other permanent structure that has both walls and a roof over, along, or lakeward of the shoreline or water line of a public freshwater lake must obtain a construction permit from the local building department of the county or municipality in which the construction would take place and need not obtain a permit from the department of natural resources (department). Amends the law concerning construction in floodways to provide that a person who intends to construct a boathouse or any other permanent structure that has both walls and a roof at the edge of a body of water in a floodway must obtain a construction permit from the local building department of the county or municipality in which the construction would take place and need not obtain a permit from the department.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1313

Introduced
1/10/24  
Real estate land contracts. Defines "principal dwelling land contract" (contract) as a land contract for the sale of real property: (1) designed for the occupancy of one to two families; and (2) that is or will be occupied by the buyer as the buyer's principal dwelling. Provides that a buyer who has completed the buyer's obligations under the contract is entitled to the homestead deduction regardless of whether the seller has conveyed title. Provides that the seller under a contract must provide the buyer with certain information concerning any liens that encumber the property 10 days before the contract is executed. Sets forth disclosures that must be included in a contract. Requires all preexisting liens on the property to be satisfied by the seller by the end of the contract term. Provides that a contract must permit a buyer to pay the balance owed and receive the deed at any time. Prohibits prepayment penalties or additional charges for an early payoff. Provides a three day cancellation period for both the buyer and seller. Allows the seller and the buyer to transfer their respective interests in the contract to other parties, subject to certain conditions. Requires the seller to provide the buyer with an annual statement of account. Sets forth certain rights and responsibilities of the parties upon default by either the buyer or the seller. Sets forth acts and omissions constituting violations and establishes remedies for these violations. Provides that a violation of these provisions constitutes an incurable deceptive act that is actionable by the attorney general under the deceptive consumer sales act. Authorizes the attorney general, in consultation with the department of financial institutions, to adopt rules to implement these provisions. Requires that the executed contract or a memorandum of land contract be notarized.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1327

Introduced
1/10/24  
Refer
1/10/24  
Report Pass
1/30/24  
Engrossed
2/6/24  
Health and insurance matters. Requires reporting of certain ownership information by: (1) a hospital to the Indiana department of health (state department); (2) a physician group practice to the professional licensing agency; and (3) an insurer, a third party administrator, and a pharmacy benefit manager to the department of insurance. Requires the professional licensing agency and the department of insurance to provide the ownership information to the state department. Requires the state department to post the ownership information on the state department's website. Sets forth penalties for a violation of the ownership reporting requirements. Allows a contract holder to request an audit of a pharmacy benefit manager at least two times in a calendar year. Requires a contract with a third party administrator, pharmacy benefit manager, or prepaid health care delivery plan to provide that the plan sponsor has ownership of the claims data. Allows a plan sponsor that contracts with a third party administrator, the office of the secretary of family and social services that contracts with a managed care organization to provide services to a Medicaid recipient, or the state personnel department that contracts with a prepaid health care delivery plan to provide group health coverage for state employees to request an audit at least two times in a calendar year. Provides that a violation of the requirements concerning audits of a third party administrator, managed care organization, or prepaid health care delivery plan is an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance and allows the department of insurance to adopt rules to set forth fines for a violation.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1334

Introduced
1/10/24  
Employer immunization requirements. Provides that an employer may require an immunization only if the employer respects the employee's right to refuse an immunization. Provides that an employee shall be free from coercion or an adverse action based on the employee's refusal of an immunization. Requires an employer that offers an immunization at no cost to an employee to provide certain notice to the employee. Provides that a violation may be reported to the department of labor (department). Requires the department to impose a civil penalty of $5,000 per incident. Allows an employee to bring a civil action against an employer to enforce the provisions. Repeals provisions concerning exemptions from COVID-19 immunization requirements. Makes a corresponding change.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SB0252

Introduced
1/11/24  
Refer
1/11/24  
Report Pass
1/29/24  
Engrossed
2/6/24  
Refer
2/12/24  
Report Pass
2/27/24  
Enrolled
3/5/24  
Passed
3/13/24  
Chaptered
3/13/24  
Notice publication. Changes the qualifications required for a newspaper to publish legal notices as follows: (1) A newspaper must have been published for 12 consecutive months (instead of three years). (2) A newspaper must have had an average paid circulation during the preceding year of at least 500 (instead of 200) that may include the number of website page views reported by a website's host provider. (Current law only includes the average requested or paid circulation as reported in the United States Postal Service Statement of Ownership.) Requires a locality newspaper to have been published for 12 consecutive months (instead of three years) to be eligible to publish legal notices. Requires a paid circulation threshold for a newspaper published in a county of 2% of the county population. Makes technical corrections.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1364

Introduced
1/10/24  
Supplemental homestead property tax credit. Establishes a supplemental homestead credit (credit) in the amount of $200. Provides that the source of the credit is the state general fund. Provides a procedure for application of the credit to an individual's homestead property tax liability. Makes an appropriation.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1399

Introduced
1/11/24  
Refer
1/11/24  
Report Pass
1/18/24  
Engrossed
1/24/24  
PFAS chemicals. Defines "PFAS chemicals" and requires the environmental rules board to use the definition in certain rules concerning industrial processes and research and development.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1381

Introduced
1/11/24  
Property tax deductions and credits. Makes the following property tax changes for assessment dates occurring after December 31, 2024: (1) Increases the assessed value cap from $240,000 to $350,000 that applies to an individual's eligibility for the: (A) over 65 property tax deduction; and (B) over 65 circuit breaker credit; without altering the requirement in current law that any subsequent increases in assessed value are not considered unless the increase is attributable to substantial renovation or new improvements to the property. (2) Eliminates the assessed value cap that applies to the property tax deduction for a veteran who: (A) has a total disability; or (B) is at least 62 years of age and has at least a 10% disability.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1362

Introduced
1/10/24  
Prevention of child sex trafficking. Requires employees and staff members of schools to complete child sexual trafficking prevention training.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1338

Introduced
1/10/24  
Refer
1/10/24  
Report Pass
1/16/24  
Engrossed
1/23/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Report Pass
2/29/24  
Enrolled
3/5/24  
Passed
3/18/24  
Chaptered
3/18/24  
Security of property and meeting decorum. Allows the governing bodies of certain local government agencies (local agencies) to adopt rules or policies governing the conduct of meetings. Provides that a rule or policy may provide that the presiding member of the governing body of the local agency may: (1) issue warnings to disruptive attendees and direct them to leave the meeting on the third warning; and (2) direct a law enforcement officer to remove disruptive attendees. Provides that the rules and policies must be posted at the meeting entrance or announced before taking public testimony. Specifies that a provision of the tort claims law providing immunity to a government entity or employee in adopting and enforcing a law or rule applies. Provides that a person commits criminal trespass by knowingly or intentionally: (1) entering a locked area without permission; or (2) refusing to leave an area not publicly accessible after being asked to leave by a law enforcement officer or agent of the property owner or operator. Specifies that: (1) the public access counselor serves at the pleasure of the governor; and (2) when issuing an advisory opinion, the public access counselor may consider only the plain text of the public access laws and valid Indiana court opinions. Provides that a committee appointed directly by the governing body or a governing body's designee does not constitute a governing body that is subject to the open door law if the committee: (1) is appointed for the sole purpose of receiving information, deliberating, or making recommendations to the governing body; and (2) has not more than one member of the governing body as a member.
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Indiana 2024 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HB1350

Introduced
1/10/24  
Cannabis legalization. Establishes a procedure for the lawful production and sale of cannabis in Indiana. Makes conforming amendments.