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HB1100 - Sale of bureau of motor vehicles information.
Gregory W. Porter
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Sale of bureau of motor vehicles information. Prohibits the bureau of motor vehicles (BMV) from selling the personal information of an individual who: (1) is less than 21 years of age; (2) is 65 years of age or older; or (3) opts out of the sale of the individual's personal information. Prohibits a person to which the BMV provides such information from selling or disclosing the information (sales prohibition). Requires the BMV to provide an easily understandable and easily accessible means by which an individual may opt out of the sale of the individual's personal information. Permits the state board of finance, upon approval by the governor, to transfer funds to the BMV to offset a shortfall in funding for the BMV that occurs in a state fiscal year beginning before July 1, 2026, as a result of the sales prohibition.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1364 - Supplemental homestead property tax credit.
Gregory W. Porter
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Supplemental homestead property tax credit. Establishes a supplemental homestead credit (credit) in the amount of $200. Provides that the source of the credit is the state general fund. Provides a procedure for application of the credit to an individual's homestead property tax liability. Makes an appropriation.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1260 - Indiana department of health.
Bradford J. Barrett, Julie Olthoff, Lori Goss-Reaves
Last updated 10 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Indiana department of health. Specifies that provisions of law governing the office of administrative law proceedings apply to the Indiana department of health (state department) in matters concerning the involuntary transfer or discharge of a resident of a health facility. Requires the fee amount for a service provided by the state health laboratory to be based on the federal Medicare reimbursement rate for the service or if the service does not have a Medicare reimbursement rate, the Medicaid reimbursement rate. Amends the list of crimes or acts that preclude a home health aide, nurse aide, or other unlicensed employee from employment at a home health agency and certain health care facilities. Requires the state department to: (1) investigate any report that a nurse aide or home health aide has been convicted of a certain crime; and (2) after an administrative hearing, remove the individual from the state nurse aide registry. Makes it a Class A infraction for a person convicted of a certain crime to knowingly or intentionally apply for a job as a home health aide or other unlicensed employee at a home health agency or certain health care facilities. For provisions concerning the women, infants, and children nutrition program (WIC program), defines "WIC vendor agreement" and requires the state department to include in a WIC vendor agreement a list of sanctions for failing to comply with the agreement. Requires the state department to: (1) select WIC program vendors based on selection criteria set forth in federal regulations; (2) review the selection criteria annually; (3) include the selection criteria in the WIC state plan; and (4) publish the selection criteria on the state department's website. Includes reporting to local child fatality review teams, the statewide child fatality review committee, local fetal-infant mortality review teams, and suicide and overdose fatality review teams for the release of mental health records without the consent of the patient. For provisions governing home based food products, repeals the term "potentially hazardous food product" and defines "time temperature control for safety food". Adds the state health commissioner or the commissioner's designee as a member of the rare disease advisory council (council). Adjusts the number of council members required to establish a quorum. Amends the membership of the statewide child fatality review committee. Repeals the expiration of the maternal mortality review laws.
STATUS
Engrossed
HR0014 - Recognizing February 19, 2024, as Jack and Jill Day at the Indiana State Capitol.
Gregory W. Porter, Cherrish S. Pryor, Robin Shackleford
Last updated 10 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Recognizing February 19, 2024, as Jack and Jill Day at the Indiana State Capitol. Recognizing February 19, 2024, as Jack and Jill Day at the Indiana State Capitol.
STATUS
Passed
HB1004 - Pension matters.
Robert W. Cherry, Gregory W. Porter, Michael Karickhoff
Last updated 9 months ago
104 Co-Sponsors
Pension matters. Provides that a state employee may affirmatively elect to enroll in the deferred compensation plan prior to the auto enroll date on day 31 of the state employee's employment. Removes a provision that sets a maximum employer surcharge for the legislators' defined benefit plan, state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan, public employees' retirement fund, and Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (fund). Requires the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system (board) to develop the technological and administrative capabilities sufficient to categorize fund members into separate groups in which: (1) certain members receive a service based thirteenth check; and (2) certain members receive a cost of living adjustment. Requires the board to set the surcharge rates at a level to actuarially prefund: (1) annual indexed thirteenth checks for all current retired members and beneficiaries retired before July 1, 2025; and (2) 1% annual cost of living adjustments to future in-payment members and beneficiaries retired on or after July 1, 2025. Provides that the board shall not reduce the surcharge rates from the prior year. Allows the board to increase the surcharge rates by not more than 0.1% of payroll from the prior year. Requires certain political subdivisions to present to the interim study committee on pension management oversight regarding a delinquent employee retirement plan offered by the political subdivision. Requires, effective July 1, 2025, the trustee of the state police pension trust to maintain two supplemental allowance reserve accounts for the purpose of paying postretirement benefit adjustments. Increases the maximum date that a member or participant of certain retirement funds can participate in the deferred retirement option plan from 36 to 60 months. Requires the member or participant to notify their employer if the member or participant elects to enter or extend the deferred retirement option plan. Provides for a thirteenth check in 2024 for certain members, participants, or beneficiaries of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) Indiana 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.
STATUS
Passed
HR0041 - Recognizing the month of February as Turner Syndrome Awareness Month.
Ryan Michael Dvorak, David Abbott, Mike Andrade
Last updated 9 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
Recognizing the month of February as Turner Syndrome Awareness Month. Recognizing the month of February as Turner Syndrome Awareness Month.
STATUS
Introduced
HR0039 - Honoring Indianapolis native Mike Epps.
Gregory W. Porter, Earl L. Harris, John L. Bartlett
Last updated 9 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Honoring Indianapolis native Mike Epps. Honoring Indianapolis native Mike Epps.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0183 - County option property tax exemption.
Jeff Raatz, Lonnie Marcus Randolph, Jean Leising
Last updated 9 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
County option property tax exemption. Provides that a county fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to exempt mobile homes and manufactured homes located in the county from property taxation (exemption ordinance). Provides that for an annual assessment date in which an exemption ordinance is in effect, a county assessor shall not assess a mobile home or a manufactured home granted the property tax exemption. Specifies that the discretionary adoption of an exemption ordinance does not apply to mobile homes and manufactured homes that are assessed as: (1) inventory; or (2) real property; under the property tax laws and administrative rules. Makes conforming changes.
STATUS
Passed
SB0273 - Biomarker testing coverage.
Ed Charbonneau, Vaneta G. Becker, Jean Leising
Last updated 9 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Biomarker testing coverage. Requires a health plan (which includes a policy of accident and sickness insurance, a health maintenance organization contract, the Medicaid risk based managed care program, and a state employee health plan) to provide coverage for biomarker testing for the purposes of diagnosis, treatment, appropriate management, or ongoing monitoring of an enrollee's disease or condition when biomarker testing is supported by medical and scientific evidence. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to provide biomarker testing as a Medicaid program service, and to apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for approval of any waiver necessary under the federal Medicaid program for the purpose of providing biomarker testing. Provides that coverage is not required for biomarker testing for screening purposes. Provides that if a prior authorization requirement applies to biomarker testing, the health plan or a third party acting on behalf of the health plan must: (1) approve or deny a request for prior authorization; and (2) notify the covered individual of the approval or denial; in not more than five business days in the case of a nonurgent request or in not more than 48 hours in the case of an urgent request. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to report certain information to the budget committee on Medicaid reimbursement rates provided for biomarker testing.
STATUS
Passed
HCR0027 - Recognizing April as Parkinson's Awareness Month and April 11, 2024, as Parkinson's Awareness Day.
Carey Hamilton, Blake Johnson, Charles A. Moseley
Last updated 9 months ago
78 Co-Sponsors
Recognizing April as Parkinson's Awareness Month and April 11, 2024, as Parkinson's Awareness Day. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing April as Parkinson's Awareness Month and April 11, 2024, as Parkinson's Awareness Day.
STATUS
Passed
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