| HB1001 | ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY; COVID-19 IMMUNIZATIONS. (LEHMAN M) Allows the secretary of family and social services (secretary) to issue a waiver of human services statutory provisions and administrative rules if the secretary determines that the waiver is necessary to claim certain enhanced federal matching funds available to the Medicaid program. Allows the secretary to issue an emergency declaration for purposes of participating in specified authorized federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) emergency allotments. Requires the secretary to prepare and submit any waivers or emergency declarations to the budget committee. Allows the state health commissioner of the state department of health or the commissioner's designated public health authority to issue standing orders, prescriptions, or protocols to administer or dispense certain immunizations for individuals who are at least five years old (current law limits the age for the commissioner's issuance of standing orders, prescriptions, and protocols for individuals who are at least 11 years old). Defines "Indiana governmental entity" and specifies that an Indiana governmental entity (current law refers to a state or local unit) may not issue or require an immunization passport. Provides that an individual is not disqualified from unemployment benefits if the individual has complied with the requirements for seeking an exemption from an employer's COVID-19 immunization requirements and was discharged from employment for failing or refusing to receive an immunization against COVID-19. Provides that an employer may not impose a requirement that employees receive an immunization against COVID-19 unless the employer provides individual exemptions that allow an employee to opt out of the requirement on the basis of medical reasons, religious reasons, or immunity from COVID-19 acquired from a prior infection with COVID-19. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2022 - Public Law 1
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| HB1016 | PILOT PROGRAM TO FUND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT. (BARTLETT J) Establishes the parent education assistance pilot program (pilot program). Provides that the office of the secretary of family and social services shall administer the pilot program. Specifies the requirements an individual must satisfy to be eligible to participate in the pilot program. Provides requirements for maintaining participation in the pilot program. Specifies the amount of an eligible individual's grant under the pilot program. Establishes the parent education assistance pilot program fund (fund) for the purpose of funding the pilot program. Provides that the office of the secretary administers the fund. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1031 | WAGE HISTORY AND WAGE RANGE INQUIRIES. (ERRINGTON S) Prohibits, with certain exceptions, an employer from using an applicant's wage history in the hiring process. Prohibits, in certain situations, an employer from relying on the wage history of an applicant for employment. Prohibits employers from failing or refusing to provide an applicant for employment the wage range for the position for which the applicant is applying. Requires an employer to provide to an employee the wage range for the employee's job under certain circumstances. Allows for the department of labor (department) to receive and investigate complaints. Provides that the department may do the following: (1) Issue a warning for the first violation. (2) Impose a civil penalty of $50 for the second violation. (3) Impose a civil penalty of $100 for the third violation and each subsequent violation. Requires the department to maintain a list of employers who have four or more violations and provide the list to the office of the chief equity, inclusion, and opportunity officer (office). Requires the office to post the list on the equity data portal. Provides that if an employer is found to have violated this chapter, the employer shall notify its employees of the violation. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1033 | PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYER ORGANIZATIONS. (TORR J) Provides that, for purposes of the unemployment compensation system law, a professional employer organization (PEO): (1) that enters into a professional employer agreement is not treated as a successor employer or as receiving a transfer of a trade or business; (2) that elects to use the PEO level reporting method is liable for contributions, interest, penalties, and surcharges for the duration of a professional employer agreement unless the PEO elects to change to the client level reporting method; and (3) is permitted to apply certain wages to the maximum amount of wages that are subject to contributions to the system. Provides that certain changes in a PEO relationship do not make a client a successor employer. Provides that a PEO that has made an election to use the client level reporting method may file a request for clearance with the department of workforce development. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1035 | HIGHWAY WORK ZONE SPEED ENFORCEMENT PILOT PROGRAM. (PRESSEL J) Authorizes the state police department and the Indiana department of transportation to establish the automated work zone speed enforcement pilot program (pilot program) to enforce highway work zone speed limits. Creates the automated work zone speed enforcement pilot program fund to deposit fines collected by the pilot program. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1040 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (PRESCOTT J) Defines "qualified school". Provides that a school corporation or qualified school is prohibited from subjecting any student to, or making available, disseminating, or providing to any student, any obscene matter or performance or certain matters or performances harmful to minors. Provides that each school corporation or qualified school shall provide for all students in grades 6 through 12 as part of required recitation concerning the system of government in Indiana and in the United States, instruction that socialism, Marxism, communism, totalitarianism, or similar political systems are incompatible with and in conflict with the principles of freedom upon which the United States was founded. Provides that a school corporation or qualified school may not provide instruction that socialism, Marxism, totalitarianism, or similar political systems are compatible with the principles of freedom upon which the United States was founded. Provides that a parent of a student or an emancipated student who attends a school corporation or qualified school may opt out of a face mask or face covering requirement. Requires the department of education (department) to develop a notice form that may be used by a parent or an emancipated student to indicate that the parent or emancipated student opts out of the face mask or face covering requirement. Provides that the governor, a state agency, a local health board or local health officer, or a school corporation or qualified school may not require a student of a school corporation or qualified school to quarantine against COVID-19 or other communicable disease if the student is asymptomatic. Provides that the governor, a state agency, a local health board or local health officer, or a school corporation or qualified school may not require, as a condition for employment, enrollment, attendance, or participation in a school corporation or qualified school or in a school extracurricular activity, a student to be immunized against COVID-19 or other communicable disease. Provides that, after December 31, 2020, the list of communicable diseases that require documentation of immunity for a student may be expanded or modified only by an act of the general assembly. Establishes certain consent requirements regarding students. Provides that, if the attorney general determines that a school corporation or qualified school: (1) discloses a student education record, or any information in a student education record; or (2) has a student who is less than 18 years of age and is not emancipated participate in any medical inspection, medical treatment, mental health assessment, mental health service, psychiatric or psychological examination or test, or psychiatric or psychological treatment without the informed written consent of the student's parent; the attorney general may assess a civil penalty against the school corporation, charter school, or laboratory school. Provides that the parent of a student or protected right petitioner may bring a civil action for certain violations. Defines "protected right violations". Defines "protected right petitioner". Establishes procedures for a protected right petitioner to file a complaint form alleging a protected right violation occurred within a school corporation or qualified school. Provides that a protected right petitioner may appeal a school corporation's or qualified school's findings to the department. Requires the department to appoint an administrative law judge to adjudicate appeals. Requires the department to issue a final order. Requires the attorney general or the attorney general's designee to review a school corporation's or qualified school's findings or the department's final order. Provides that the attorney general may assess civil penalties if the attorney general determines a protected right violation occurred. Provides that a school corporation or qualified school may not take retaliatory action against a protected right petitioner or an individual related to or associated with the protected right petitioner. Provides that, if a school corporation or qualified school uses a third party vendor in providing a personal analysis, evaluation, or survey that reveals or attempts to affect a student's attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings, the third party vendor and the school corporation or public school may not collect or maintain the responses to or results of the analysis, evaluation, or survey in a manner that would identify the responses or results of an individual student. Provides that the consent requirements for certain student personal analysis, evaluations, or surveys apply even if the analysis, evaluation, or survey is directly related to academic instruction. Requires, not later than June 30, 2022, and not later than June 30 each year thereafter, each qualified school to post on the qualified school's Internet web site, in a manner that is accessible by the public, certain information regarding learning materials and educational activities. Requires the department to develop and post on the department's Internet web site a model plan for presenting the learning material or educational activity information. Makes changes to information that must be included on a school corporation's annual performance report. Makes changes to information that must be included on a school's longitudinal dashboard. Reconciles versions of IC 10-21-1-2 that were enacted by the 2019 general assembly. Repeals provisions requiring the department to develop the children's social, emotional, and behavioral health plan. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1042 | VARIOUS SCHOOL BOARD MATTERS. (THOMPSON J) Provides that the primary voting history of each candidate for school board office for the two most recent primary elections must be indicated on the ballot and if a candidate did not vote in the most recent primary elections, that fact must also be stated. Provides a procedure to adjust the term of office of certain elected members of the governing body of a school corporation. Increases the maximum annual salary of a school board member from $2,000 per year to $5,000 per year. Requires the state board of education to establish a maximum per diem rate for meetings of members of the governing bodies of school corporations, including Indianapolis Public Schools. Removes a provision that provides that, if a governing body is totally comprised of appointed members, the appointive authority must approve the per diem rate before the governing body may make payments to the members. Requires the governing body of each school corporation to file with the department of education (department) a copy of the school corporation's organization plan and all amendments to the organization plan. Requires the department to publish each school corporation's organization plan on the department's Internet web site. Requires a school employer that is seeking to hire a prospective employee to contact the school employer that previously employed (or is currently employing) the prospective employee and request certain information. Requires a school employer that receives a request for certain employment information to comply with that request within 10 days. Provides that a school employer who receives a request for information must provide the prospective employee, upon request, with a copy of any information that is sent to the requesting school employer. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1046 | HEALTH INSURANCE MATTERS. (HEINE D) Requires the commissioner of the department of insurance to provide an order directing the discontinuance of an illegal, unauthorized, or unsafe practice of an insurance company. Provides that a health plan may not require a participating provider to seek prior authorization for a particular health service if the health plan approved at least 90% of the prior authorization requests for the particular health service in the previous six month period. Requires a health plan to post notice of a technical issue with its claims submission system on the health plan's Internet web site. Requires a health plan to post on its Internet web site not later than February 1 of each year: (1) the 30 most frequently submitted CPT codes in the previous calendar year; and (2) the percentage of the 30 most frequently submitted CPT codes that were approved in the previous calendar year. Requires a health plan to provide annual and quarterly financial statements to the department of insurance. Establishes an approval process for a health plan's proposed premium rate increase of 5% or greater as compared to the previous calendar year. Requires an insurer and a health maintenance organization to provide a contracted provider with a current reimbursement rate schedule: (1) every two years; and (2) when three or more CPT code rates change in a 12 month period. Requires an insurer and a health maintenance organization to provide a contracted provider with notice of a proposed material change to the agreement between the insurer or health maintenance organization and the contracted provider at least 90 days prior to the proposed effective date. Establishes requirements for the contents of a notice of a proposed material change. Requires an insurer or health maintenance organization to provide a contracted provider with notice at least 15 days prior to a change to an existing prior authorization, precertification, notification, referral program, edit program, or specific edits. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1050 | FAIR AND OPEN COMPETITION FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (TORR J) Provides that a public agency may not do any of the following: (1) Impose by rule, ordinance, or other action, or in the bid specifications or contract documents for a public works project, a requirement inconsistent with, in addition to, or more stringent or restrictive than certain statutory prequalifications or any other requirement of an applicable public works statute. (2) Award a public works contract to a contractor under a contract award standard other than the contract award standard of the applicable public works statute. (3) Require a potential bidder on a public works project to provide any information other than the applicable financial information required by the prequalification statutes or as prescribed by the state board of accounts under the applicable public works statute. (4) By rule, ordinance, or any other action relating to contracts for public works projects, create or impose any prequalification processes that are additional to or inconsistent with those established by the prequalification statute or impose any requirements that directly or indirectly restrict potential bidders or proposers to any predetermined class of bidders defined by labor affiliation or membership or minimum training requirements inconsistent with, or more restrictive than, those required by certain public works statutes. (5) Take certain actions based on a bidder's, offeror's, or contractor's entering into, refusing to enter into, adhering to, or refusing to adhere to an agreement with a labor organization. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1072 | SCHOOL REFERENDUM LEVIES. (BEHNING R) Provides that a school corporation must distribute a portion of revenue received from a school operating referendum tax levy or school safety referendum levy to each charter school in which students who receive not more than 50% virtual instruction and who have legal settlement in the school corporation attend. Provides that if a charter school receives a distribution from a school corporation from a school corporation tax levy or a school safety referendum tax levy, the charter school must post the certain information on the charter school's Internet web site. Provides that a charter school that may receive money from a school corporation's tax levy or a school safety referendum tax levy may not promote a position on a referendum in the same manner as a school corporation is prohibited from promoting a position on a referendum. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation in which 10% or more of the school corporation's school buildings are occupied in whole or part by: (1) one or more innovation network schools; or (2) one or more participating innovation network charter schools; may sell a closed, unused, or unoccupied school building without first offering the school building to a charter school or state educational institution. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 3/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline for House bills (Rule 79(b))
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| HB1093 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (BEHNING R) Amends the membership and duties of the early learning advisory committee. Makes changes to the definition of "school resource officer". Provides that, after June 30, 2023, if a school corporation or charter school enters into a contract for a school resource officer, certain school corporations or charter schools must enter into a memorandum of understanding with the law enforcement agency that employs or appointed the law enforcement officer who will perform the duties of a school resource officer. Provides that certain parties are prohibited from incentivizing the enrollment, reenrollment, or continued attendance of a student or prospective student by offering or giving an item that has monetary value. Requires the Indiana charter school board (board) to appoint an executive director to carry out the duties and daily operations of the board. Establishes the executive director's duties. Provides that the board shall establish certain processes. Establishes the Indiana charter school board fund and provides that money in the fund is appropriated continuously for purposes of the board. Provides that the department of education (department) may grant an accomplished practitioner's license under certain conditions. Establishes: (1) a definition for "virtual student instructional day"; and (2) requirements for virtual student instructional days. Provides that a public school may conduct not more than three virtual student instructional days that do not meet the established requirements. Provides that a public school that does not comply with these provisions may not count a student instructional day toward the 180 day student instructional day requirement. Allows the department to waive these requirements. Provides that the instructional days tuition support distribution formula take into account only certain schools and grades within a school corporation if fewer than all the schools fail to conduct the minimum number of student instructional days. Authorizes the department to study and, if recommended, use machine scoring. Provides that, after a school receives statewide assessment score reports, a teacher of a student shall discuss the student's statewide assessment results with a parent at the next parent/teacher conference or, if the school does not hold parent/teacher conferences, send a notice to a parent of the student offering to meet with the parent to discuss the results. Provides that the department may include in a contract entered into or renewed after June 30, 2022, with a statewide assessment vendor a requirement that the vendor provide a summary of a student's statewide assessment results that meets certain requirements. Changes the department's review period for certain funds. Provides that the state board of education shall assign to a school or school corporation (including adult high schools) a "null" or "no letter grade" for the 2021-2022 school year. Repeals a provision concerning staffing of the board. |
| | Current Status: | 3/15/2022 - Public Law 139
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| HB1094 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (TESHKA J) Requires, not later than December 31, 2022, the department of education (department) to: (1) issue a request for proposals for the purpose of contracting with a company to provide; or (2) enter into a memorandum of understanding with a statewide entity to facilitate the procurement of; adequate employer liability and worker's compensation insurance coverage for employers that employ students in work based learning courses. Specifies an exception. Provides that the total amount of funds that the department may expend to carry out the request for proposals or the memorandum of understanding must be less than $100,000. Provides that an employer: (1) may purchase the employer liability and worker's compensation coverage; and (2) is responsible for paying any costs associated with purchasing the coverage. Requires that, if the state board of education grants the designation of a transformation zone within a school corporation after June 30, 2022, the governing body of the school corporation may enter into an agreement with a nonprofit organization to manage and operate all of the schools included in the transformation zone. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation or entity that is a party to any agreement for the management and operation of a transformation zone may submit a complaint first to the governing body, and second to the department for an alleged violation of the agreement. Provides that, not later than 15 days after the date an entity submits a complaint to the department, the department shall issue a decision concerning the complaint. Provides that employees of a transformation zone may organize and create a separate bargaining unit to collectively bargain with the entity operating the transformation zone. |
| | Current Status: | 3/15/2022 - Public Law 140
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| HB1105 | FAIR AND OPEN COMPETITION FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (GOODRICH C) Provides that a public agency may not do any of the following: (1) Require a potential bidder on a public works project to provide any information that the potential bidder considers confidential or proprietary as a requirement for the public agency finding the bidder to be a responsive or responsible bidder. (2) By rule, ordinance, or any other action relating to contracts for public works projects for which competitive bids are required impose any requirement that directly or indirectly restricts potential bidders to any predetermined class of bidders defined by experience on similar projects, size of company, union membership, or any other criteria. (3) Take certain actions based on a bidder's, offeror's, or contractor's entering into, refusing to enter into, adhering to, or refusing to adhere to an agreement with a labor organization. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1107 | VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (CLERE E) Provides that a public agency shall not require, as part of a resolution of a due process hearing or a dispute relating to the provision of special education services to a particular student, that a parent of a student or an emancipated student enter into a nondisclosure, nondisparagement, or confidentiality agreement or clause. Provides that the department of education (department) shall establish and maintain a data base of information relating to issues addressed in due process proceedings. Requires that, on or before August 1, 2023, and each August 1 thereafter, the department shall submit a report to the state advisory council on the education of children with disabilities that summarizes the information reported in the data base for the most recent school year. Provides that in the event that a case conference committee discusses the appointment of a guardian for the student upon completion of high school, the case conference committee shall also include a discussion of alternative options or programs for the student in lieu of the appointment of a guardian. Requires the department to establish and maintain on the department's Internet web site a public data base of information concerning employees of each public school who were physically injured while on the job by students of the public school. Requires each public school to provide certain information concerning an employee of the public school who was physically injured while on the job by a student of the public school. Requires a teacher preparation program to include content within the curriculum regarding conflict deescalation techniques and conflict prevention and intervention strategies. Provides that each school corporation and charter school that receives or has received funds from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER funds) may prioritize the use of any ESSER funds for certain programs. Requires the commission for higher education (commission), in cooperation with Ivy Tech Community College, Vincennes University, and the family and social services administration's office of early and out-of-school learning, to conduct a study regarding provision of child care services on the campuses of Indiana community colleges. Requires the commission to submit a report regarding the study not later than October 15, 2022, to specified standing committees of the general assembly and to the governor's workforce cabinet. |
| | Current Status: | 3/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline for House bills (Rule 79(b))
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| HB1116 | ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES. (WESCO T) Changes the date by which a county must provide a voter verifiable paper audit trail for electronic voting systems from December 31, 2029, to July 1, 2024. Provides that, after July 1, 2022, a county must meet certain requirements when using any direct record electronic voting system that does not include a voter verifiable paper audit trail for an election. Provides that the security agreement that counties are required to enter into with the secretary of state must be funded by money received from the federal government or from money appropriated by the general assembly. Specifies requirements of a statement that must be printed on the envelope of an absentee ballot application. Provides that before an individual can access an absentee ballot application that is submitted in an electronic format using a module of the computerized list, the individual must provide either the individual's Indiana driver's license number or the last four digits of the individual's Social Security number. 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. Requires an electronic poll book to have the capacity to transmit certain information that a voter cast a provisional ballot. Requires certain information to be included in the computerized list concerning a voter's casting of a provisional ballot. Repeals language that requires the circuit court clerk to provide notice containing certain information to each voter who casts a provisional ballot. Changes the term "risk-limiting audit" to "post-election audit". Removes the word "pilot" from the chapter concerning post-election audits. Provides that the secretary of state shall determine the number of elections that are subject to a post-election audit. |
| | Current Status: | 3/14/2022 - Public Law 115
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| HB1124 | PAYMENTS TO RETIREMENT FUND MEMBERS. (PORTER G) Provides for a $250 payment in 2022 to members of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund and public employees' retirement fund from the funds made available to the state under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Provides for an additional $250 payment in 2022 to members of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund and public employees' retirement fund who received less than $20,000 in retirement benefits during calendar year 2020. Makes an appropriation to the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1145 | SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. (MORRISON A) Requires candidates for school board offices to be nominated in the same manner as candidates for all other elected offices are nominated. Repeals the current statute relating to nomination of candidates for school board offices. Repeals other superseded statutes. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1151 | AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION. (JOHNSON B) Provides that an application to obtain or renew a motor vehicle driver's license or permit or an identification card serves as a voter registration application unless the applicant expressly declines on the application to register to vote. Provides that a voter becomes registered to vote when the county voter registration office determines the voter appears to be eligible to vote at the address on the voter's voter registration application. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1153 | WORKER'S COMPENSATION. (LEHMAN M) Provides that if, after the occurrence of an accident, compensation is paid for temporary total disability or temporary partial disability, then the two year limitation period to file an application for adjustment of claim begins to run on the last date for which the compensation was paid. Increases benefits for injuries and disablements by 3% each year for four years, beginning on July 1, 2023. Adds an ambulatory outpatient surgical center to the definition of "medical service facility" under the worker's compensation law. Makes certain changes to the definition of "pecuniary liability". Establishes clean claim payment requirements related to worker's compensation claims. Removes outdated language. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 3/18/2022 - Public Law 160
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| HB1154 | STATE EMPLOYEE HEALTH PLAN ADMINISTRATION. (GUTWEIN D) Requires the entity that administers the self-insurance programs providing group coverage to state employees and retired state employees to: (1) strive to keep the costs of providing health care through the self-insurance programs as low as reasonably possible; and (2) report to the budget committee once per year on its efforts to reduce and control health care costs. Requires a state employee health plan entered into, amended, or renewed after June 30, 2022, to provide for reimbursement of a provider by the insurer using a value based payment method. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1162 | PAID FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE PROGRAM. (CAMPBELL C) Requires the department of workforce development (department) to establish a paid family and medical leave program to provide payments for employees who take family and medical leave. Establishes the family and medical leave fund to be funded with appropriations from the general assembly and payroll contributions. Specifies requirements for administration of the paid family and medical leave program. Provides for the department to approve an employer's use of a private plan to meet the paid family and medical leave program obligations. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1182 | SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. (PRESCOTT J) Provides that for school board offices, each candidate's affiliation with a political party or status as an independent candidate must be stated on the ballot. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1187 | GARY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. (BROWN T) 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. Provides that the Gary Community School Corporation is not subject to collective bargaining. Removes obsolete provisions and makes conforming amendments. Provides that, before October 31, 2024, and before each October 31 thereafter, the governing body must submit a report to the distressed unit appeal board summarizing the financial position and operations of the school corporation for the previous state fiscal year. Repeals provisions relating to the election of advisory board members for the Gary Community School Corporation. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1189 | YOUTH EMPLOYMENT. (KING J) Specifies that certain state laws concerning the employment of minors do not prevent an employer from employing a minor who is at least 14 years of age as a farm laborer during school hours on a school day if particular requirements are met, including the submission of a statement from the minor's parent stating that the minor has withdrawn from school after completing grade 8 due to the parent's deeply held religious belief. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1195 | DRIVING RECORD CARDS. (KARICKHOFF M) Provides that an individual who is an Indiana resident and cannot provide proof of identity and lawful status in the United States may apply for a driving record card learner's permit and driving record card to obtain driving privileges. Provides that a driving record card learner's permit and driving record card may not be used for federal identification or any other federal purpose. Provides that a driving record card learner's permit and driving record card may not be used for the purpose of voting or employment verification. Requires an individual who holds a driving record card learner's permit or driving record card and operates a motor vehicle to verify and continuously maintain financial responsibility on any motor vehicle the holder operates in the amount required by law. Provides that the bureau of motor vehicles may not disclose certain information unless presented with a lawful court order or judicial warrant. Makes conforming amendments. Makes technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1200 | REPEAL OF SUPPLEMENTAL FEE ON ELECTRIC VEHICLES. (ANDRADE M) Repeals the supplemental fees imposed on electric and hybrid vehicles. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1215 | WORK SHARING UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAM. (HATFIELD R) Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program (program). Requires an employer that desires to participate in the program to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce development. Establishes the work sharing benefit as equal to an affected employee's unemployment benefit reduced by a percentage equal to the percentage of the employee's normal weekly work hours that the employee works under the approved work sharing plan. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1220 | ABSENTEE VOTING. (WESCO T) 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. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1240 | SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. (GOODRICH C) Requires candidates for school board offices to be nominated in the same manner as candidates for all other elected offices are nominated, beginning after 2022. Provides that for school board offices elected in 2022, the political affiliation of each candidate, or the candidate's statement that the candidate is an independent candidate, must be stated on the ballot. Provides that the current statute relating to nomination of candidates for school board offices expires on January 1, 2023. Repeals other superseded statutes. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1243 | REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. (MILLER D) Renames the "unemployment compensation system" to the "reemployment assistance program". Changes the maximum total amount of reemployment assistance benefits, with respect to initial claims filed for any week beginning on and after January 1, 2023, to a range between 12 times the individual's weekly benefit if the state average unemployment rate is not more than 5.5% and 20 times the individual's weekly benefit if the state average unemployment rate is greater than 9%. (Under current law, the maximum total amount of benefits is 26 times the individual's weekly benefit, or 28% of the individual's wage credits with respect to the individual's base period, whichever is less.) Makes corresponding changes. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1269 | PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (CARBAUGH M) Provides that a contractor that employs 10 or more employees on a design-build public works project must provide its employees access to a training program applicable to the tasks to be performed in the normal course of the employee's employment with the contractor on the public project. Provides that a tier 1 or tier 2 contractor that employs 50 or more journeymen must participate in an apprenticeship or training program that meets certain standards. Requires design-builders and any member of a team working on a design-build public works project to comply with certain statutes. Provides that a public agency awarding a contract for a construction manager as constructor project may not take certain actions based on a bidder's, offeror's, or contractor's entering into, refusing to enter into, adhering to, or refusing to adhere to an agreement with a labor organization. |
| | Current Status: | 3/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline for House bills (Rule 79(b))
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| HB1305 | SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. (MILLER D) Requires candidates for school board offices to be nominated in the same manner as candidates for all other elected offices are nominated, beginning with the 2022 primary election. Adjusts the deadlines and other details for a candidate for a school board office to file a declaration of candidacy to accommodate the date of the 2022 primary election. Repeals the current statute relating to nomination of candidates for school board offices. Provides that a superintendent hired by a school corporation must hold: (1) a master's degree from an accredited postsecondary educational institution; or (2) a bachelor's degree in business administration. Requires the state board of education to adopt rules to implement this provision. Repeals other superseded statutes. Makes conforming changes. Changes population parameters to reflect the population count determined under the 2020 decennial census. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1307 | EMPLOYEE MISCLASSIFICATION. (MOSELEY C) 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. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1316 | SCHOOL CHOICE. (PAYNE Z) Expands the Indiana education scholarship account program to include any individual who: (1) has legal settlement in Indiana; and (2) is at least five years of age and less than 22 years of age on August 1 of the school year in which the student applies for participation in the program. Makes changes to the definition of a "qualified school". Makes conforming amendments. Repeals provisions that: (1) require the treasurer of state to determine, based on the amount of funds available for the program, the number of grants that the treasurer of state will award under the program; and (2) require a qualified school that is a participating entity to administer the statewide assessment. Makes a continuing appropriation. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1317 | VARIOUS ELECTION LAW MATTERS. (MORRISON A) Prohibits the Indiana election commission from: (1) instituting, increasing, or expanding vote by mail or absentee vote by mail; and (2) changing the time, place, or manner of holding an election. Prohibits a person from providing an absentee ballot application with the driver's license number or last four digits of the voter's Social Security number already printed on the form. Requires an applicant for an absentee ballot application to include the driver's license number or last four digits of the individual's Social Security number. Prohibits the governor from changing, during a declared disaster emergency, the time, place, or manner of holding an election. Requires a risk-limiting audit to be conducted after each election before the results are certified. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1333 | MINIMUM WAGE. (BOY P) Makes changes to the definition of "employee" for the purposes of the minimum wage statute. Increases the minimum wage paid to certain employees in Indiana as follows: (1) After June 30, 2023, from $7.25 an hour to $9.02 an hour. (2) After December 31, 2023, from $9.02 an hour to $10.07 an hour. (3) After December 31, 2024, from $10.07 an hour to $11.11 an hour. (4) After December 31, 2025, from $11.11 an hour to $12.10 an hour. Provides that after December 31, 2026, and each subsequent December 31, the hourly minimum wage increases at the same percentage as any increase in the Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year. Increases the cash wage paid to tipped employees as follows: (1) After June 30, 2023, from $2.13 an hour to $3.30 an hour. (2) After December 31, 2023, from $3.30 an hour to $4.71 an hour. (3) After December 31, 2024, from $4.71 an hour to $6.12 an hour. (4) After December 31, 2025, from $6.12 an hour to $7.54 an hour. Provides that after December 31, 2026, and continuing for each subsequent December 31, the cash wage required to be paid to employees is equal to 70% of the hourly minimum wage. Provides that, if the federal minimum wage or cash wage is higher than the state minimum wage or cash wage, employers are required to pay the higher federal rate. Makes technical corrections and corresponding changes. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1336 | REPORTING ON WORKER MISCLASSIFICATION. (BOY P) 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 September 1 in 2022 through 2025 to the interim study committee on employment and labor for the immediately preceding three state fiscal years and in the aggregate for the three state fiscal year period: (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 the revenue not collected or the additional costs to the state that the department or board attributes to the improperly classified workers; and (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. Excepts residential contractors from the term "employer" for purposes of the reporting requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1362 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (GOODRICH C) Provides that a school corporation or charter school may not do the following: (1) Make available to a student who is enrolled in kindergarten through grade 5 any inappropriate sexual material. (2) Make available to a student who is enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 any sexually explicit material. Provides that, if a school corporation or public school uses a third party vendor in providing a personal analysis, evaluation, or survey that reveals or attempts to affect a student's attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings, the third party vendor and the school corporation or public school may not collect or maintain the responses to or results of the analysis, evaluation, or survey in a manner that would identify the responses or results of an individual student. Provides that the consent requirements for certain student personal analysis, evaluations, or surveys apply even if the analysis, evaluation, or survey is directly related to academic instruction. Requires, not later than June 30, 2022, and not later than June 30 each year thereafter, each public school to post on the public school's Internet web site, in a manner that is accessible by the public, certain information regarding learning materials and educational activities. Requires the department of education (department) to develop and post on the department's Internet web site a model plan for presenting the learning material or educational activity information. Requires the governing body of a school corporation to: (1) create a learning materials advisory committee (committee) comprised of parents, teachers, administrators, and community members; and (2) establish and implement educational activities and curricular materials review, discussion, and recommendation procedures for the committee. Requires the department to post on the department's Internet web site certain materials that assist staff in developing cultural competency for use in providing professional development programs. Provides that: (1) a state agency, a school corporation, or a qualified school or an employee of the state agency, school corporation, or qualified school shall not direct or otherwise compel a school employee to personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to; (2) a state agency, school corporation, or qualified school shall not include or promote concepts as part of a course of instruction or in a curriculum or instructional program, or allow teachers or other employees to use supplemental instruction materials that include or promote; or (3) teacher preparation programs shall not include or promote as part of a course of instruction or in a curriculum or instruction program, or allow faculty or other employees to use supplemental instructional materials that include or promote; certain tenets or concepts regarding sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, or political affiliation or any anti-American ideologies. Prohibits requiring an employee of a school corporation or qualified school to engage in training that presents certain stereotyping or blame. Provides a duty to ensure that students are free to express their own beliefs and viewpoints if engaged in certain activities. Establishes a complaint process and allows for certain civil actions for violations. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1365 | COMPENSATION OF CITY EMPLOYEES. (HATCHER R) Requires a city legislative body to approve an increase or decrease in the fixed compensation of an appointive officer, deputy, or other employee of the city. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1368 | UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION. (MORRIS R) Establishes various work search requirements for the purpose of unemployment compensation. Provides that the department of workforce development (department) shall establish a process to share information with an individual who is receiving unemployment benefits regarding open positions that are submitted to a job board that is administered by a state agency. Requires the department to refer individuals to the open positions. Requires the department to perform certain cross-check activities to verify an individual's eligibility for unemployment benefits. Provides that the department shall cooperate and enter into a memorandum of understanding with the family and social services administration and the Indiana housing and community development authority to share information concerning whether an individual who receives benefits becomes employed. Requires an employer to report to the department if the employer offers paid work to an individual and the individual refuses the offer of work. Specifies that an employer is not required to report an individual's refusal of work if the employer has reason to believe that the individual is employed at the time the offer was made. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1389 | VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (JUDY C) Defines a "qualified school". 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 school; (3) the department of education (department); or (4) 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.) Provides that a state agency, state educational institution, school corporation, or qualified school, or an employee of the state agency, state educational institution, school corporation, or qualified school acting in an official capacity, may not include or promote certain concepts as part of a course of instruction or in a curriculum or direct or otherwise compel a school employee or student to adhere to certain tenets relating to the individual's sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, or political affiliation. Defines an "operator". Establishes online privacy protection requirements to protect the disclosure of certain information of a student of a school corporation or qualified school by an operator. Provides that a student shall not be required to participate in a personal analysis, evaluation, or survey that reveals or attempts to affect the student's attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings without parental consent. Provides that before a school corporation or qualified school may provide or administer school psychology services to a student, the school must provide the parent of the student or the student, if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor, with a written request for consent to provide or administer school psychology services. Establishes procedures for a petitioner to file a complaint form alleging that certain violations occurred within a school corporation or applicable school. Provides that a petitioner may appeal a school corporation's or applicable school's findings to the department. Requires the department to appoint an administrative law judge to adjudicate appeals. Requires the department to issue a final order. Requires the attorney general or the attorney general's designee to review a school corporation's or applicable school's findings or the department's final order. Provides that the attorney general may assess civil penalties if the attorney general determines a violation occurred. Provides that a school corporation or applicable school may not take retaliatory action against a petitioner or an individual related to or associated with the petitioner. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1394 | HIGHWAY WORK ZONE SAFETY. (MOSELEY C) Requires the state police and the department of transportation to establish a pilot program for the deployment of an automated work zone speed control system to enforce highway work zone speed limits. Provides that a work zone speed limit violation recorded by an automated work zone speed control system may not be enforced unless the violation is at least 12 miles per hour above the established work zone speed limit. Creates the highway work zone pilot fund. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| HB1408 | PROHIBITION ON COVID-19 VACCINE MANDATES. (BROWN T) Prohibits a governmental entity or an employer from implementing, requiring, or otherwise enforcing a COVID-19 immunization mandate. Authorizes the department of labor to: (1) investigate any complaints of a violation; and (2) issue a fine for a violation. Establishes an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require a COVID-19 immunization as a condition of employment or to fail to hire, discharge, penalize, or otherwise discriminate against an employee or prospective employee because of an employee's COVID-19 immunization status. Provides for a civil cause of action if an individual suffers an injury as a result of a violation or threatened violation. |
| | Current Status: | 1/31/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.2)
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| SB2 | VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (RAATZ J) Provides that, in determining whether at least 50% of the instructional services that a student receives from a school corporation is virtual instruction for purposes of the 2021 fall count of ADM, the department of education (department) shall review the attendance of each student on each school day from the school corporation's first day of school until the school corporation's last day of school of the 2021 fall semester. Makes an exception regarding the school days the department reviews for students who transferred to or from a school corporation during the 2021 fall semester. Provides that, if a school corporation's tuition support amount is adjusted as a result of the application of this provision, the department shall, after December 31, 2021, settle any overpayment or underpayment of state tuition support to a school corporation resulting from the adjustment of tuition support on the schedule determined by the department. Requires each school corporation and charter school to annually report to the department the number of students who, during the students' expected graduation year: (1) were enrolled in the school corporation on the September ADM count day; (2) completed graduation requirements before the February ADM count day; and (3) were not enrolled in the school corporation on the February ADM count day. Requires, not later than September 1 of each year, the department to: (1) compile and prepare a report regarding the information reported by school corporations and charter schools; and (2) submit the report to the legislative council. |
| | Current Status: | 3/18/2022 - Public Law 148
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| SB4 | LOCAL WORKFORCE RECRUITING AND RETENTION. (HOLDMAN T) Authorizes a local unit (county, municipality, town, township, or school corporation) to establish a workforce retention and recruitment program (program) and fund (fund) for the purposes of recruiting and retaining individuals who will satisfy the current and future workforce needs of the unit's employers or provide substantial economic impact to the unit, including providing incentives in the form of grants or loans to qualified workers. Defines "qualified worker" for purposes of the program. Requires a qualified worker who receives a grant or loan from the fund to enter into an incentive agreement. Authorizes the unit to transfer money into the fund from other sources. Provides that the executive of the unit shall administer the fund in coordination with a workforce fund board of managers (workforce fund managers) appointed by the executive of the unit. Requires the workforce fund managers to annually submit a report setting out their activities during the preceding calendar year to the executive of the unit, the fiscal body of the unit, and the department of local government finance. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
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| SB13 | SELECT COMMISSION ON PASSENGER RAIL. (KRUSE D) Establishes the select commission on passenger rail (commission) under the Indiana department of transportation (department). Provides for the membership of the commission. Requires the commission to adopt bylaws governing: (1) the activities and procedures of the commission; (2) the powers and duties of the commission and its officers; (3) the appointment procedures and terms of the members of the commission; (4) the voting rights of the members of the commission; (5) the voting procedures of the commission; (6) conducting the business of the commission; and (7) any other matters necessary to fulfill the duties of the commission. Requires the commission to advocate for long-term, sustainable funding to implement and expand passenger rail. Requires the commission to identify and develop public and private partnerships to implement and expand passenger rail. Requires the commission to, before November 1 of each year, publish an annual report regarding the activities of the commission in an electronic format to the legislative council and the legislative services agency for the use of the members of the general assembly. Provides that the commission may: (1) advocate for passenger rail systems included in the State Rail Plan and approved by the department; (2) educate local officials and the public on the advantages of passenger rail service; and (3) establish committees. Provides that the commission may not study, advocate, or promote passenger rail in Marion County. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
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| SB21 | PAID EMPLOYEE LEAVE. (RANDOLPH L) Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee during the 2022 legislative interim the task of studying paid personal leave from employment. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB22 | TAX CREDIT FOR TEACHERS' CLASSROOM SUPPLIES. (RANDOLPH L) Increases the maximum amount of the income tax credit for an individual employed as a teacher for amounts expended for classroom supplies from $100 to $500 per taxable year. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB23 | PROTECTIVE ORDERS AND EMPLOYMENT. (RANDOLPH L) Provides that an employer may not discriminate against an employee with respect to compensation and benefits from the employer or terms and conditions of employment based on: (1) the employee's filing of a petition for a protective order, whether or not the protective order has been issued; or (2) the actions of an individual against whom the employee has filed a protective order. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB26 | USE OF CONSUMER REPORTS FOR EMPLOYMENT PURPOSES. (RANDOLPH L) Prohibits an employer from using a consumer report for employment purposes unless certain conditions apply. Allows a consumer to bring a civil action against an employer for a violation of this provision. Provides that if the attorney general has reason to believe that an employer has violated the provision, the attorney general may bring one or both of the following: (1) An action to enjoin the violation. (2) An action to recover damages sustained by Indiana residents as a result of the violation. Makes it: (1) a Class B infraction for a knowing or intentional violation of the provision; or (2) a Class A infraction if an employer has a prior unrelated judgment for a violation of the provision. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB30 | WORKPLACE IMMUNIZATION. (KRUSE D) Prohibits an employer from requiring, as a condition of employment, an employee or prospective employee to receive any immunization if the immunization would pose a significant risk to the employee's or prospective employee's health or if receiving the immunization is against the employee's religious beliefs or conscience. Allows for a civil action against an employer for a violation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB31 | WORKPLACE COVID-19 IMMUNIZATION. (KRUSE D) Prohibits an employer from requiring, as a condition of employment, an employee or prospective employee to receive an immunization against COVID-19 if the immunization would pose a significant risk to the employee's or prospective employee's health or if receiving the immunization is against the employee's religious beliefs. Allows for a civil action against an employer for a violation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB63 | EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY. (FORD J) Extends certain antidiscrimination educational rights statutes to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB71 | ABSENTEE VOTING FOR THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED. (FORD J) Provides that an elderly voter or a voter with disabilities may apply for permanent absentee voter status. Provides that absentee ballots would be sent automatically to voters who have permanent absentee voter status. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB73 | ANNEXATION. (BOOTS P) Provides, with certain exceptions, that the following apply to annexations for which an annexation ordinance is adopted after March 31, 2022: (1) To proceed with an annexation initiated by the municipality, the municipality must file a petition with the court signed by: (A) at least 51% of the owners of non-tax exempt land; or (B) the owners of at least 75% in assessed valuation of non-tax exempt land; in the annexation territory. (2) If the petition has enough signatures, the court must hold a hearing to review the annexation. (3) Adds provisions regarding the validity of signatures. (4) Eliminates remonstrances and reimbursement of remonstrator's attorney's fees and costs. (5) Voids remonstrance waivers. (6) Eliminates provisions regarding contiguity of a public highway and that prohibit an annexation from taking effect in the year before a federal decennial census is conducted. Voids a settlement agreement in lieu of annexation executed after March 31, 2022. (7) Eliminates the requirement that a municipality adopt a fiscal plan if the annexation is petitioned for by 100% of the owners of land within the annexation territory. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
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| SB74 | PREFERENCES IN PUBLIC WORKS AND PUBLIC PURCHASING. (BOOTS P) Provides that a manufacturing business, defined as a business that processes raw materials or parts into finished goods, is not a small business if it employs more than 100 persons or if its annual sales for its most recently completed fiscal year exceed $4,000,000. Provides that any state agency that purchases goods, supplies, or services for the state must report by October 1 of each year to the budget committee the amount of Indiana business and Indiana small business preferences granted in the agency's procurement of goods, supplies, or services for the state. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2022 - Public Law 50
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| SB76 | MEET AND CONFER FOR PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES. (BOOTS P) Allows an employer or an exclusive recognized representative of full-time employees of a police or fire department (exclusive representative) to request, in specified circumstances, an advisory opinion from the commissioner of labor (commissioner). Specifies a process by which an employer or exclusive representative may appeal in certain instances to the commissioner to request mediation and conciliation. Makes technical corrections and a conforming amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 3/7/2022 - Public Law 6
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| SB77 | STATE POLICE PENSION TRUSTEE. (BOOTS P) Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on pension management oversight the task of studying whether the trustee of the state police pension trust and the police benefit fund should be the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system. Specifies that the corpus and income of the pension trust shall be distributed to participants and their beneficiaries in accordance with certain provisions. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
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| SB78 | 1977 PENSION AND DISABILITY FUND. (BOOTS P) Provides that after July 1, 2022, if the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system (system board) determines that a new police officer or firefighter in the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) should be a member of the 1977 fund, the system board shall require the employer to transfer the member into the 1977 fund and contribute the amount that the system board determines is necessary to fund fully the member's service credit in the 1977 fund for all service earned as a police officer or firefighter in PERF. Provides that a police officer or firefighter who is an active member of the 1977 fund with an employer that participates in the 1977 fund, separates from that employer, and more than 180 days after the date of the separation becomes employed as a full-time police officer or firefighter with the same or a second employer that participates in the 1977 fund, is a member of the 1977 fund without meeting the age limitations under certain circumstances. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.) |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2022 - Public Law 85
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| SB79 | 1977 PENSION AND DISABILITY FUND. (BOOTS P) Establishes the 1977 fund defined contribution plan (plan). Provides that current employees may make contributions to the plan. Specifies rules and requirements for the plan concerning items that include member elections, member contributions, vesting, rollover distributions, and withdrawal of funds. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
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| SB80 | CODE PUBLICATION AMENDMENTS. (YOUNG M) Makes Code publication corrections. Repeals and relocates specific Indiana Code chapters consisting of definitions or statutory lists for organization of the provisions by alphabetical or Code cite order. Updates the statutory lists. Resolves technical conflicts: (1) between various enrolled acts passed during the 2022 legislative session; and (2) between various enrolled acts passed during the 2022 legislative session and ESB 80. Makes technical corrections in HEA 1363-2022. |
| | Current Status: | 3/14/2022 - Public Law 105
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| SB81 | SCHOOL CURRICULUM. (LEISING J) Requires each school corporation, charter school, and state accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB83 | OPEN MEETINGS. (LEISING J) Requires a governing body of a school corporation or charter school to permit oral public comment on a topic before the governing body takes final action on the topic. Allows the governing body of a state or local public agency to conduct a meeting electronically without any governing body members physically present if a state or local disaster emergency is declared and the following circumstances exist: (1) Meeting in person would present an imminent risk to the health or safety of the governing body and public. (2) In the case of a governing body of a school corporation or charter school, in addition to the presence of the circumstances described in (1), at least one school within the jurisdiction of the school corporation or charter school is closed because of the disaster emergency. Adds a definition of "charter school" for purposes of the open door law that includes a virtual charter school. |
| | Current Status: | 3/15/2022 - Public Law 124
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| SB88 | PRESCRIPTION DRUG REBATES AND PRICING. (CHARBONNEAU E) Provides that, for individual health insurance coverage, the defined cost sharing for a prescription drug be calculated at the point of sale and based on a price that is reduced by an amount equal to at least 85% of all rebates received by the insurer in connection with the dispensing or administration of the prescription drug. Requires that, for group health insurance coverage, an insurer: (1) pass through to a plan sponsor 100% of all rebates received or estimated to be received by the insurer concerning the dispensing or administration of prescription drugs to the covered individuals of the plan sponsor; (2) provide a plan sponsor, at the time of contracting, the option of calculating defined cost sharing for covered individuals of the plan sponsor at the point of sale based on a price that is reduced by some or all of the rebates received or estimated to be received by the insurer concerning the dispensing or administration of the prescription drug; and (3) disclose specified information to the plan sponsor. Allows the department of insurance to enforce the provisions and impose a civil penalty. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
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| SB91 | TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS. (ROGERS L) Allows a teacher preparation program to report the program's admission practices, in accordance with the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP) standards, for teacher preparation programs accredited by the AAQEP. Requires the department of education (department) to approve at least two accreditors that: (1) accredit teacher preparation programs; and (2) are recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation; to accredit teacher preparation programs for use in Indiana. Requires the department to annually report to the legislative council the percentage of teachers who complete a particular teacher preparation program who are teaching in Indiana: (1) five years; and (2) ten years; after completion of the particular teacher preparation program. Removes a requirement that each charter school and school corporation annually provide to the department: (1) the name of the teacher preparation program that recommended the initial license for each teacher employed by the school; and (2) the annual retention rate for teachers employed by the school. |
| | Current Status: | 3/8/2022 - Public Law 41
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| SB92 | SCHOOL BUS STOPS. (BOHACEK M) Provides that a person driving a vehicle who approaches a stationary school bus displaying alternately flashing amber lights must take certain actions to yield the right of way. Provides that under certain conditions, including the display of alternately flashing amber lights, a school bus driver may load or unload students without extending the school bus stop arm. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB93 | SCHOOL CORPORATION DISANNEXATION. (BOHACEK M) Establishes a process to disannex a township from an existing school corporation and annex the township to an adjacent school corporation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB93 |
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| SB112 | MEDICAID ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (DONATO S) Adds one member representing the Alzheimer's Association, Greater Indiana Chapter, to the Medicaid advisory committee. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB112 |
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| SB113 | INDIANA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. (RAATZ J) Amends the membership of the state board of education. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB114 | VACCINE STATUS DISCRIMINATION. (TOMES J) Provides that certain acts by a person or a government entity concerning an individual's vaccination status or whether an individual has an immunity passport are against public policy. Provides that the Indiana department of labor may investigate and issue administrative orders for violations or threatened violations. Establishes a separate private right of action for violations or threatened violations. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB115 | SCHOOL EMPLOYEE MISCONDUCT. (FREEMAN A) Provides that a policy adopted by a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school with at least one employee addressing expanded criminal history checks or expanded child protection index checks (background checks) must prohibit the hiring of, continuing the employment of, contracting with, or continuing to contract with a person who has been convicted of an offense requiring license revocation, unless the conviction has been reversed, vacated, or set aside on appeal. (Current law provides that such a policy addressing background checks must prohibit the hiring of a person who has been convicted of an offense requiring license revocation, unless the conviction has been reversed, vacated, or set aside on appeal.) Provides that: (1) a school corporation; (2) a charter school; or (3) an entity: (A) with which a school corporation contracts for services; and (B) that has employees who are likely to have direct, ongoing contact with children within the scope of the employees' employment; shall consider whether information obtained from the background checks concerning an individual's conviction for certain offenses constitutes grounds to not employ, not contract with, or to terminate the employment of or contract with the individual. Provides that, in the event that an entity obtains information that an individual employed by the entity who works at a particular school corporation or charter school has been convicted of certain offenses, the entity shall immediately notify the school corporation or charter school of the employee's conviction. Makes changes to the list of offenses for which the department of education shall permanently revoke a teacher's license. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 3/15/2022 - Public Law 125
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| SB120 | DISTRIBUTION OF REVENUE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PURPOSES. (NIEMEYER R) Provides that, subject to the approval of a county adopting body, a fire protection district or a qualified fire protection territory may apply for distributions of tax revenue. Provides that a township that provides fire protection or emergency medical services (other than a township in Marion County) may apply to a county adopting body for a distribution of tax revenue for public safety purposes. Requires the adopting body to conduct a public hearing to review and approve the application. Specifies the method for determining the amount of the distribution to the qualified township. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
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| SB121 | SCHOOL BUS STOP ARM VIOLATION ENFORCEMENT. (NIEMEYER R) Provides that a registered owner of a motor vehicle commits an infraction if the owner's vehicle is used to violate the school bus stop arm law. Provides a defense for a registered owner who provides certain information to law enforcement and fully cooperates with law enforcement, if: (1) the vehicle was stolen; (2) the registered owner routinely engages in the business of renting the vehicle; (3) the registered owner provided the vehicle for the use of an employee; or (4) the registered owner provides documentary evidence that the owner was out of state at the time the violation was committed. Specifies that: (1) the bureau of motor vehicles may not assess points for the infraction; and (2) an adjudication for the infraction does not create a presumption of liability in a civil action. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
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| SB127 | STUDY OF LOW-CARBON AND GREEN INDUSTRIES. (LANANE T) Requires the Indiana University Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs to: (1) assess the potential for the development of low-carbon and green industries in Indiana and the job creation, economic growth, and wealth generation that could result for Indiana communities from the development of these industries; and (2) report the results of its assessment to the legislative council in an electronic format not later than December 1, 2022. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB128 | PROHIBITED DISCRIMINATION IN CIVIL RIGHTS STATUTES. (LANANE T) Extends certain antidiscrimination and civil rights statutes to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and veteran status. Provides that every discriminatory practice relating to the acquisition or sale of real estate, education, public accommodations, employment, or the extending of credit is considered unlawful unless it is specifically exempted. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB130 | STATEWIDE ASSESSMENT RESULTS. (LEISING J) Provides that, after a school receives statewide assessment score reports, a teacher of a student shall discuss the student's statewide assessment results with a parent at the next parent/teacher conference or, if the school does not hold parent/teacher conferences, send a notice to a parent of the student offering to meet with the parent to discuss the results. (Current law requires that, after a school receives statewide assessment score reports, the school shall offer a parent/teacher conference to discuss a student's statewide assessment results with a parent who requests the parent/teacher conference or the parent of each student who does not receive a passing score on the test.) Requires the department of education to include in a contract entered into or renewed after June 30, 2022, with a statewide assessment vendor a requirement that the vendor provide a summary of a student's statewide assessment results that meets certain requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB144 | SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. (BALDWIN S) Provides that a candidate for election to the governing body of a school corporation may not be any of the following: (1) A teacher employed by the school corporation. (2) A member, an employee, or a contractor of a labor organization with which the school corporation engages in collective bargaining. Provides that candidates for election to the governing body of a school corporation may request that the candidate's affiliation with a major political party be indicated with the candidate's name on the general election ballot. Provides that, beginning with the 2022 general election, all members of the governing body of a school corporation must be elected, eliminating the appointment of members of the governing body. Changes population parameters to reflect the population count determined under the 2020 decennial census. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB146 | ATTACHMENTS TO ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION POLES. (KOCH E) Amends the statute concerning attachments of equipment by cable operators (attaching entities) to electric distribution poles owned or controlled by rural electric cooperatives or by municipalities providing electric service (pole owners) as follows: (1) Specifies that a pole owner's duty under the law to permit attachments to the pole owner's poles is subject to the terms of a written agreement between the pole owner and the attaching entity. (2) Provides that the written agreement between the attaching entity and the pole owner must establish the process by which the attaching entity may apply for access to the pole owner's poles. (3) Sets forth: (A) a time frame for the pole owner to respond to the attaching entity's application based on the number of poles included in the application; and (B) a pole owner's duty to do one of the following within that time frame: (i) Approve the application and authorize the attaching entity to make the attachments without the need for any make ready work. (ii) Submit to the attaching entity an invoice setting forth all necessary make ready work, the estimated make ready costs, and the estimated make ready completion date. (iii) Reject all or part of the attaching entity's application based on certain concerns that cannot be resolved by make ready work. (4) Specifies that an attaching entity must have the pole owner's written permission specifically authorizing an attachment for each pole on which the attaching entity seeks to place an attachment. (5) Provides that if the attaching entity violates this requirement, the attaching entity shall pay to the pole owner accrued rental fees for each pole on which an unauthorized attachment is made, dating back to the date the attachment is considered to have been made under existing law, plus a $500 penalty for each pole on which an unauthorized attachment is made. (6) Provides that before January 1, 2023, if a contract granting the pole owner's written permission for an attachment to a particular pole does not exist at the time an attachment is made, the attaching entity shall pay to the pole owner accrued rental fees for each pole on which an attachment is made without a contract authorizing the attachment on that pole, dating back to the date the attachment is considered to have been made under existing law, plus any penalty that may be prescribed for such an attachment under any existing contract between the pole owner and the attaching entity. (7) Provides that if, after December 31, 2022, the attaching entity has not paid all accrued rental fees for such attachments made before January 1, 2023, the attaching entity shall, in addition to the accrued rental fees that remain outstanding, be liable for the $500 fine that otherwise applies for each pole on which such an attachment was made before January 1, 2023, and for which the attaching entity has not paid all accrued rental fees. (8) Changes from 90 days (under current law) to 60 days the amount of time by which an attaching entity is responsible for transferring an authorized attachment after receiving written notice from the pole owner to do so. Makes a corresponding change in the amount of time after which the pole owner may rearrange, transfer, or relocate the attaching entity's system (or portion of the system) after the attaching entity has failed to do so. (9) Provides that the pole owner is immune from civil liability for the pole owner's actions in rearranging, transferring, or relocating the attaching entity's system, as long as the pole owner exercises reasonable care in taking such actions, and unless the pole owner's actions constitute gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. (10) Creates the offense of unlawful pole attachment, a Class C misdemeanor, for the knowing and intentional attachment to a pole without the pole owner's written permission specifically authorizing the attachment. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
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| SB147 | UNDERGROUND PUMPED STORAGE HYDROPOWER. (KOCH E) Adds underground pumped storage hydropower using: (1) abandoned coal mines; (2) abandoned quarries; or (3) other suitable sites; located in Indiana to the list of sources and technologies that qualify as "clean energy resources" for purposes of the statute governing the Indiana voluntary clean energy portfolio standard program. Provides that this technology qualifies as a "renewable energy resource" for purposes of the statute providing certain financial incentives for energy utilities to invest in clean energy projects. Requires the state utility forecasting group to include this technology in its annual study on the use, availability, and economics of clean energy resources in Indiana. |
| | Current Status: | 3/18/2022 - Public Law 152
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| SB154 | MEDICAID ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (BREAUX J) Adds a member to the Medicaid advisory committee who represents an organization that serves underserved or minority communities. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB167 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (BALDWIN S) Defines a "qualified school". Requires each qualified school to post educational activities and curricular materials on the school's Internet web site. Provides that public records that are available on a qualified school's Internet web site shall be excepted from public record requests for individuals that have access to the school's Internet web site at the discretion of the qualified school. Requires the school corporation or qualified school to add functionality that allows parents of students in the school corporation to opt in to or opt out of certain educational activities and curricular materials under certain conditions. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation shall create a curricular materials advisory committee (committee) comprised of parents, teachers, administrators, and community members. Requires the committee to submit recommendations regarding curricular materials and educational activities to the governing body of a school corporation. Provides parameters for the composition of the committee, the appointment of committee members, and the appointment of a committee chairperson. Requires the governing body to create educational activities and curricular materials review, discussion, and recommendation procedures for the committee. Provides that the committee shall meet a certain number of times annually. Provides that a state agency, state educational institution, school corporation, or qualified school or an employee of the state agency, state educational institution, school corporation, or qualified school acting in an official capacity may not include or promote certain concepts as part of a course of instruction or in a curriculum or direct or otherwise compel a school employee or student to adhere to certain tenets relating to the individual's sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, or political affiliation. Provides that a state agency, school corporation, qualified school, or state educational institution or an employee of the state agency, school corporation, qualified school, or state educational institution acting in an official capacity may not require an employee of the school corporation, qualified school, or state educational institution to engage in training, orientation, or therapy that presents any form of racial or sex stereotyping or blame on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, or political affiliation. Provides that a student shall not be required to participate in a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey that reveals or attempts to affect the student's attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings without parental consent. Provides that, if a school corporation or qualified school uses a third party vendor in providing a personal analysis, evaluation, or survey that reveals, identifies, collects, maintains or attempts to affect a student's attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings, the third party vendor and the school corporation or qualified school may not collect or maintain the responses to or results of the analysis, evaluation, or survey in a manner that would identify the responses or results of an individual student. Provides that before a school corporation or qualified school may provide or administer certain mental, social-emotional, or psychological services to a student, the school must provide the parent of the student or the student, if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor, with a written request for consent to provide or administer certain mental, social-emotional, or psychological services. Makes changes to the definition of "sexually explicit" for the purpose of trade regulation. Removes schools and certain public libraries from the list of entities eligible for a specified defense to criminal prosecutions alleging: (1) the dissemination of material harmful to minors; or (2) a performance harmful to minors. Adds colleges and universities to the entities eligible for a specified defense to criminal prosecutions alleging: (1) the dissemination of material harmful to minors; or (2) a performance harmful to minors. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB171 | TEACHERS AND COUNSELORS. (FORD J) Requires the department of education (department) to establish and maintain a data base of information concerning employees of public schools who were physically injured while on the job by students of the public schools. Requires public schools to provide information concerning an employee of a public school who was physically injured while on the job by a student of the public school. Requires: (1) teacher preparation programs to include content within the curriculum regarding; and (2) certain teacher training to include training on; conflict deescalation techniques and conflict prevention and intervention strategies. Provides that each school corporation and charter school that receives or has received funds from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER funds) shall prioritize the use of any ESSER funds the school corporation or charter school, after June 30, 2022, has or receives for hiring additional: (1) licensed school counselors; (2) licensed social workers; or (3) licensed school psychologists. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on education the task of studying the impediments that may exist for underrepresented groups in seeking to become teachers and other licensed school employees. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB178 | TEACHER COMPENSATION AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. (FORD J) Provides that, in calculating whether a school corporation has met the 45% teacher compensation threshold, a school corporation: (1) may include only salaries paid from the state tuition support distributions during the state fiscal year; and (2) shall count the total funds received in state tuition support distributions to the school corporation during the state fiscal year. Provides that a school corporation is not considered to be in deficit financing if the sum of the ending respective cash balance on June 30 of the immediately preceding state fiscal year of: (1) the school corporation's rainy day fund; plus (2) the school corporation's education fund; exceeds an amount equal to 20% of the school corporation's most recently adopted annual budget. Requires a school employer to bargain collectively class size, health and safety matters, and teacher preparation time with an exclusive representative. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB179 | AUTOMATED TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM PILOT PROGRAM. (FORD J) Provides that the Indiana department of transportation (department) may establish the automated traffic control system pilot program (program) for the purpose of enforcing work zone speed limits. Provides that, if the department establishes the program, the department shall work with the state police department to enforce the program. Provides that the department and the state police department may enter into an agreement to implement the program. Provides that the program expires on July 1, 2026. Adds an entry to the statutory list of crimes codified outside of Title 35. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.2)
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| SB198 | EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS STUDY COMMISSION. (POL R) Creates a commission to identify information concerning educational support professionals in each school corporation. Requires the commission to report its findings to the general assembly. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB199 | WORKER'S COMPENSATION. (POL R) Provides that if, after the occurrence of an accident, compensation is paid for temporary total disability or temporary partial disability, then the two year limitation period to file an application for adjustment of claim begins to run on the last date for which such compensation was paid. Increases benefits for injuries and disablements by: (1) 10% on and after July 1, 2022; (2) 6% on and after July 1, 2023; (3) 4% on and after July 1, 2024; (4) 4% on and after July 1, 2025; (5) 4% on and after July 1, 2026; and (6) 4% on and after July 1, 2027. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB200 | DRIVING CARDS. (NIEZGODSKI D) Provides that an individual who is an Indiana resident and cannot provide proof of identity and lawful status in the United States may apply for a driving card learner's permit and driving card to obtain driving privileges. Provides that a driving card learner's permit and driving card may not be used for federal identification or any other federal purpose. Requires an individual who holds a driving card learner's permit or driving card and operates a motor vehicle to verify and continuously maintain financial responsibility on any motor vehicle the holder operates in the amount required by law. Provides that the bureau of motor vehicles may not disclose certain information unless presented with a lawful court order or judicial warrant. Makes conforming changes. Makes technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB201 | HIGHWAY SAFETY. (NIEZGODSKI D) Defines a cable-barrier system. Defines a median. Requires the department of transportation to place a cable-barrier system in a median that is not more than 65 feet wide along a highway. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB203 | EMPLOYEE MISCLASSIFICATION. (NIEZGODSKI D) 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB204 | CALL CENTER WORKER AND CONSUMER PROTECTION. (NIEZGODSKI D) 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB206 | THIRTEENTH CHECK. (NIEZGODSKI D) Provides for a thirteenth check in 2022 for certain members of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (4) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (5) state police 1987 benefit system. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB211 | COVID-19 VACCINE OR MASK MANDATE CAUSE OF ACTION. (TOMES J) Provides a cause of action for an individual who experiences an adverse medical condition due to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate or mask mandate. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB213 | ACADEMIC TRANSPARENCY. (TOMES J) Requires, not later than June 30, 2023, and not later than June 30 each year thereafter, each public school to post on the public school's Internet web site, in a manner that is accessible by the public, certain information regarding learning materials and educational activities that are used for student instruction. Requires each public school to update the information and post a notice of the update on the public school's Internet web site. Provides that a resident of a school district may bring an action to compel the governing board to comply with transparency requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB215 | MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND SCREENINGS. (MRVAN F) Requires a school corporation's health education curriculum to include mental health wellness education. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation may provide mental health screenings to students. Provides that the department of education shall provide a school corporation with resources regarding mental health wellness upon request by the school corporation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB216 | FEDERAL FUNDING FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. (MRVAN F) 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB221 | ABSENTEE VOTING. (MRVAN F) Permits a voter who is qualified to vote in person to vote by absentee ballot. Removes all other qualifications for a voter to vote by absentee ballot except for a voter with disabilities who is unable to make a voting mark on the ballot or sign the absentee ballot secrecy envelope. (Such a disabled voter is currently required to vote before an absentee voter board.) Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB222 | MINIMUM WAGE. (MRVAN F) After December 31, 2022, increases the minimum wage paid to certain employees in Indiana from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour. Provides that after December 31, 2023, and each subsequent December 31, the hourly minimum wage increases at the same percentage as any increase in the Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year. Makes technical corrections and conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB222 |
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| SB229 | CONSTRUCTION WORKER INFECTION CONTROL PROGRAM. (QADDOURA F) 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB229 |
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| SB286 | PROHIBITION ON EMPLOYER IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS. (KRUSE D) Prohibits an employer from requiring an employee or prospective employee to inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise incorporate an immunization in the employee's or prospective employee's body as a condition of employment or as a condition of receiving additional compensation or benefits. Allows for a civil action against an employer for a violation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2022 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB286 |
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| SB297 | SCHOOL EMPLOYEE DUES DEDUCTIONS. (BOOTS P) Amends the content of the statement that is required to be included on an authorization form for deducting school employee organization dues from school employee pay. Provides that the provision regarding the content of the statement applies only to collective bargaining agreements or contracts entered into, renewed, modified, extended, or amended after June 30, 2022. |
| | Current Status: | 3/7/2022 - Public Law 22
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| | State Bill Page: | SB297 |
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