| HB1001 | STATE BUDGET. (THOMPSON J) Appropriates money for capital expenditures, the operation of the state, K-12 and higher education, the delivery of Medicaid and other services, and various other distributions and purposes. Requires a researcher to execute a data sharing agreement that is approved by the management performance hub to receive access to confidential records. Provides that the auditor of state is also known as the state comptroller. Provides that, after June 30, 2023, the auditor of state shall use the title "state comptroller" in conducting state business, in all contracts, on business cards, on stationery, and with other means of communication as necessary. Establishes the attorney general contingency fee fund. Establishes the: (1) state opioid settlement fund; and (2) local opioid settlement fund; into which funds received from opioid litigation settlements must be deposited. Provides that the office of the inspector general shall provide informal advisory opinions and that the opinions are confidential. Allows the budget committee to submit the budget report and budget bill or bills to the governor on or before the second Monday of January, or the third Monday of January in the year in which a gubernatorial election is held (instead of before that date). Requires the state personnel department to require a contractor, when contracting for health care coverage for state employees, to use value based coverage. Repeals a provision that makes a state general fund appropriation to the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system if the money available in the special death benefits fund is insufficient to pay death benefit claims. Allows the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) to certify an applicable tax credit that exceeds the maximum allowable amount after review by the budget committee. Provides that the regional economic acceleration and development initiative program expires June 30, 2026. Specifies that the county or municipality that did not approve the relocation of an outdoor advertising sign is responsible for compensation of the taking of the outdoor advertising sign. Provides that an owner may relocate an outdoor advertising sign that is subject to a pending eminent domain action. Allows an individual to claim an increased exemption amount for a dependent child in the first year in which the exemption amount may be claimed for the child. Reduces the individual income tax rate to 2.9% by 2027 and eliminates all trigger provisions in current law. Establishes the regional public safety training fund. Repeals provisions relating to the establishment of the: (1) Indiana homeland security foundation; (2) Indiana homeland security fund; and (3) fire training infrastructure fund. Allows certain members of the public employees' retirement fund or Indiana state teachers' retirement fund to file an election to begin receiving retirement benefits while holding a position. Changes the state police pre-1987 benefit and supplemental pension benefit calculation from being based on the sixth year of service to the fourth year of service. Repeals the public mass transportation fund. Repeals the financial responsibility compliance verification fund. Changes the number of years of service on which the salary matrix for state police employees is based to 15 years (instead of 20 years). Requires the department of correction to deposit the amount appropriated for the county misdemeanant fund by a county's multiplier. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning (office) to: (1) develop a schedule for the review of Medicaid reimbursement rates; and (2) provide a copy of the schedule to the budget committee; not later than November 1, 2023. Creates the residential water testing fund to test the water supply of an individual property owner of an eligible township. Requires the director of the state personnel department to submit a revision or adjustment to a pay plan developed for state employees to the state budget committee for review before the revision may take effect. Provides that the general assembly shall convene: (1) on the second Tuesday after the first Monday in June for the first regular technical session; and (2) on the second Tuesday after the first Monday in May for the second regular technical session. Provides that a technical session is not required to convene if the president pro tempore and the speaker jointly issue an order that convening is not necessary. Requires the general assembly to convene no later than the fourth Monday in January after organization day. Repeals provisions relating to emergency sessions and makes conforming amendments. Recouples the state earned income tax credit qualifications with the federal earned income tax credit qualifications under the Internal Revenue Code as in effect January 1, 2023. Requires a contractor that provides tangible personal property incorporated into real property in a project located in an innovation development district to maintain records of all state gross retail and use tax paid or collected during a state fiscal year. Adds state adjusted gross income taxes paid by an individual who is not an employee with respect to income received for services performed in an innovation development district for purposes of calculating income tax incremental amounts. Establishes the commission on improving the status of children fund to support the staffing and operations of the commission. Provides that a part of state user fees shall be deposited in the Indiana secured school fund. Repeals the distribution schedule for appropriations made for certain child development programs. Requires the department of local government finance to prepare an annual report and abstract concerning property tax data (instead of the auditor of state). Deletes reimbursement rate parameters for reimbursement of managed care organizations under the healthy Indiana plan. Extends the sunset of the collection of hospital assessment fees and health facility quality assessment fees from June 30, 2023, to June 30, 2025. Increases the total number of adult learner students at the Excel Centers for Adult Learners and Christel House DORS centers for whom the school may receive state funding. Establishes the Indiana education scholarship account donation fund to accept donations for administration of the Indiana education scholarship account program. Repeals the special education fund. Establishes a state tax credit for a taxpayer that makes certain qualified child care expenditures in providing child care to the taxpayer's employees. Extends provisions for the gasoline tax and the special fuel tax rates. Amends a statute concerning powers and duties of a regional water, sewage, or solid waste district established under prior law. Extends the sunset for the invasive species council and fund from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2031. Prohibits school corporations and charter schools from charging a fee for curricular materials to students. Provides that the parent of a student or an emancipated minor who attends an accredited nonpublic school and who meets financial eligibility requirements may request reimbursement of fees charged for curricular materials. Establishes the curricular materials fund. Requires a county auditor to distribute a portion of revenue received from an operations fund levy imposed by a school corporation located in certain counties to certain charter schools (excludes school corporations that are designated as a dist |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 201
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| HB1002 | EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. (GOODRICH C) Establishes the: (1) career scholarship account program (CSA program); (2) career scholarship account program fund; (3) career scholarship account administration fund; (4) career scholarship account donation fund; (5) connecting students with careers fund; (6) teacher higher education and industry collaboration grant program and fund; (7) career coaching grant fund; and (8) intermediary capacity building fund. Provides that the department of education (department), in consultation with the commission for higher education (commission), shall designate and approve a course sequence, career course, modern youth apprenticeship, apprenticeship, or program of study for grants under the CSA program. Provides for revocation of the approval if the sequence, course, modern youth apprenticeship, apprenticeship, or program of study fails to achieve an adequate outcome, as determined by the department, in consultation with the commission. Establishes eligibility requirements to participate in the CSA program. Provides that the commission may approve participating entities that meet certain requirements to participate in the CSA program. Provides that grant amounts that career scholarship students receive are not included in adjusted gross income for tax purposes. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2024, certain school corporations shall include instruction for all students regarding career awareness. Provides that the state board of education (state board), in consultation with the commission, shall create certain standards for a career awareness course. Requires the department to collect and aggregate certain data. Requires the department to publish on the department's website a list of skill competencies identified by certain approved participating entities. Requires the state board, in consultation with the department, to establish new high school diploma requirements. Removes a provision that provides that a student who satisfies an Indiana diploma with a Core 40 with academic honors designation through a certain alternative course shall not count toward a school's honor designation award. Requires the commission to create a list of approved intermediaries, employers, and labor organizations. Requires certain high school and college students to meet with an approved postsecondary educational institution, an intermediary, an employer, or a labor organization. Requires certain committed offenders to meet with an intermediary, employer, or labor organization. Provides that during each school year, a public high school must hold at least one career fair during regular school hours. Amends requirements for certification of qualified education programs by INvestED Indiana. Repeals certain provisions in law regarding a comprehensive navigation and coaching system and career coaching grant fund and requires the commission to: (1) develop and implement a comprehensive career navigation and coaching system for Indiana; and (2) award grants from the career coaching grant fund to certain eligible entities to establish or implement comprehensive career navigation and coaching systems. Provides that the department shall approve career coaching providers for the purpose of eligibility for a career coaching grant. Provides that the commission shall receive, distribute, and account for all funds received for career and technical education under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act. Requires the department to establish and maintain an online platform that allows teachers to access and share information regarding connecting daily classroom lessons with innovations in workplace practices and postsecondary education research. Repeals provisions relating to the industry collaboration certification program. Repeals and replaces a definition of "participating entity" with "ESA participating entity". |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 202
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| HB1007 | ELECTRIC UTILITY SERVICE. (SOLIDAY E) Provides that it is the continuing policy of the state that decisions concerning Indiana's electric generation resource mix, energy infrastructure, and electric service ratemaking constructs must take into account the following attributes of electric utility service: (1) Reliability. (2) Affordability. (3) Resiliency. (4) Stability. (5) Environmental sustainability. Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to take each of these attributes into account when: (1) reviewing, and preparing a final director's report for, an integrated resource plan submitted by an electric utility; (2) acting upon a petition for the construction, purchase, or lease of an electric generation facility; and (3) reviewing whether the public convenience and necessity continues to require the completion of an electric generation facility under construction. Requires the IURC to commence before September 1, 2023, a comprehensive study to consider the appropriate: (1) design and framework for; and (2) requirements with respect to; performance based ratemaking for investor-owned electricity suppliers. Sets forth certain topics that the IURC shall consider and evaluate in conducting the required study. Requires the IURC to include in its annual report that is due before October 1, 2025, a report containing the IURC's analysis and recommendations on the specified topics. Provides that the report must contain recommendations, supported by sufficient data and analysis from the IURC's study, with respect to the appropriate: (1) design and framework for; and (2) requirements with respect to; performance based ratemaking for electricity suppliers, so as to enable the general assembly to fully evaluate the impact of performance based ratemaking on all classes of ratepayers, while considering the five attributes of electric utility service set forth as state policy in the bill. Amends the statute governing reliability adequacy metrics for certain electric utilities ("public utilities" under the statute) as follows: (1) Defines the terms: (A) "fall unforced capacity", or "fall UCAP"; and (B) "spring unforced capacity", or "spring UCAP"; for purposes of the prescribed reliability adequacy metrics. (2) Reduces to 15% the 30% limit (under current law) for a public utility's summer or winter unforced capacity (UCAP) that the public utility is authorized to acquire from capacity markets, for purposes of the reliability adequacy metrics included in a resource planning report (report) submitted to the IURC after June 30, 2023. (3) Provides that the reliability metrics included in a report submitted to the IURC after June 30, 2026, must include specified information concerning a public utility's ability to meet its spring UCAP and fall UCAP. (4) Provides that if, after reviewing a public utility's report, the IURC is not satisfied that the public utility can: (A) provide reliable electric service to its Indiana customers; or (B) either: (i) satisfy both its planning reserve margin requirement or other federal reliability requirements and the reliability adequacy metrics set forth in the bill; or (ii) provide sufficient reason as to why it is unable to satisfy both its planning reserve margin requirement or other federal reliability requirements and the reliability adequacy metrics set forth in the bill; the IURC may conduct an investigation into the matter. (Current law does not require the IURC to consider whether the public utility can provide sufficient reason as to its inability to satisfy both its planning reserve margin requirement or other federal reliability requirements and the reliability adequacy metrics set forth in the bill.) (5) Requires the IURC to include in its 2025 annual report its analysis regarding the appropriate percentage or portion of: (A) total spring UCAP; and (B) total fall UCAP; that public utilities should be authorized to acquire from capacity markets. |
| | Current Status: | 4/20/2023 - Public Law 55
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| HB1008 | PENSION INVESTMENTS. (MANNING E) Specifies certain entities, actions taken, or factors considered to which the ESG commitment provisions do not apply. Provides that if the treasurer of state concludes that the service provider has made an ESG commitment, the treasurer of state shall provide the name of the service provider and research supporting the conclusion to the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system (board). Prohibits the board from making an investment decision with the purpose of influencing any social or environmental policy or attempting to influence the governance of any corporation for nonfinancial purposes. Prohibits the Indiana public retirement system (system) from making an ESG commitment with respect to system assets. Provides that in making and supervising investments of the system, the board shall discharge its duties solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system for the exclusive purposes of providing financial benefits to participants and beneficiaries and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the system. Provides that the board, in accordance with certain fiduciary duties, shall make investment decisions with the primary purpose of maximizing the target rate of return on the board's investments. Prohibits the board from entering a contract or modifying, amending, or continuing a contract with a service provider that has made an ESG commitment unless taking the action violates the board's fiduciary duty to the system's participants and beneficiaries. Requires the board to continue contracting with a service provider that has made an ESG commitment if the board determines that there is not a comparable service provider to replace the service provider. Requires the board to, at least annually, tabulate and report all proxy votes made by a service provider that is not a private market fund in relation to the administration of the system. Specifies certain persons and entities that are immune from civil liability and entitled to indemnification. Requires the board to: (1) ensure that reasonable efforts are made during the due diligence process before an investment is made and in monitoring investments in the public employees' defined contribution plan, an annuity savings account for the public employees' retirement fund or the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund, the teachers' defined contribution plan, the legislators' defined contribution plan, and a private market fund to determine whether any investments would violate the requirement that the board discharge its duties solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system; and (2) take appropriate action, if necessary, consistent with the board's fiduciary duties. Defines terms and makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 206
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| HB1015 | WORKSITE SPEED CONTROL PILOT PROGRAM. (PRESSEL J) Requires the Indiana department of transportation (department) to establish the worksite speed control pilot program (pilot program) for the purpose of enforcing worksite speed limits. Requires that the department: (1) work with the state police department to administer the pilot program; and (2) enter into an agreement with the state police department to share information regarding the pilot program. Permits the department to contract with a third party vendor to assist in implementing the pilot program. Provides that an individual who is recorded by a worksite speed control system may not be assessed a civil penalty unless the violation is at least 11 miles per hour above the established worksite speed limit. Replaces the term "work zone" with "worksite" throughout the relevant statutes. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2023 - Public Law 120
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| HB1024 | PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (TORR J) 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: | 4/18/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline for House bills (Rule 79(b))
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| HB1025 | FIREFIGHTER DISCIPLINE. (TORR J) Provides that a fire department of a fire protection district or fire protection territory is subject to certain disciplinary and due process requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 4/20/2023 - Public Law 57
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| HB1028 | THIRTEENTH CHECK. (CHERRY R) Provides for a thirteenth check in 2023 and 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. Provides for a $50 payment in 2023 and 2024 to members of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund and Indiana public employees' retirement fund, and to participants of the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan. |
| | Current Status: | 4/18/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline for House bills (Rule 79(b))
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| HB1033 | LOCAL UNIT WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FUND. (FRYE R) Establishes the local unit water infrastructure fund (fund) to provide grants, loans, and other financial assistance to counties, cities, and towns for projects to: (1) repair, replace, or increase the capacity of water infrastructure; or (2) replace lead water service lines; in community water systems. Requires the Indiana finance authority (authority) to administer the fund. Provides that the fund consists of appropriations from the state general fund and money from other sources. Requires the authority to adopt guidelines to establish criteria for the making of grants and the providing of loans and other financial assistance from the fund. Provides that an application for a grant, a loan, or other financial assistance must be accompanied by all supporting materials required by the authority. Requires a local unit that applies for a grant, a loan, or other financial assistance to develop an asset management program for its community water system. Authorizes the authority to establish a maximum amount that one county, city, or town may receive as a grant. Requires the authority, if possible, to allocate at least 50% of the total amount of grants to counties having a population of less than 50,000 and cities and towns located in counties having a population of less than 50,000. Authorizes the authority to make the award of a grant conditional upon the local unit contributing a local match of funds to be combined with the grant, but imposes an upper limit on the amount of a matching grant that can be required of a county, city, or town falling within certain population parameters. Requires the authority to establish the interest rate or interest rate parameters for each loan from the fund, and allows the authority to take into account certain factors in setting interest rates or interest rate parameters. Provides that the authority may require a local unit that receives a loan to enter into a binding financial assistance agreement. Requires a biennial report on grants awarded and loans and other financial assistance provided from the fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1036 | SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. (CASH B) 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: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1037 | ENFORCEMENT OF EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY. (JETER C) Defines "antisemitism", specifies that the public policy of the state is to provide educational opportunities free of religious discrimination, and provides that antisemitism is discrimination on the basis of religion. |
| | Current Status: | 4/18/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline for House bills (Rule 79(b))
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| HB1039 | MEDICAL AND ADULT USE CANNABIS. (TESHKA J) After marijuana is removed as a federal schedule I controlled substance, permits the use of cannabis by: (1) a person at least 21 years of age; and (2) a person with a serious medical condition as determined by the person's physician. Establishes the adult use cannabis excise tax, and requires a retailer to transfer the tax to the department of state revenue for deposit in the state general fund. Exempts veterans from payment of the sales tax on medical or adult use cannabis. Establishes a cannabis program to permit the cultivation, processing, testing, transportation, and sale of cannabis by holders of a valid permit. Establishes the Indiana cannabis commission (ICC) as a state agency to oversee, implement, and enforce the program, and establishes the ICC advisory committee to review the effectiveness of the program. Requires that permit holders take steps to prevent diversion of cannabis to unauthorized persons. Requires that cannabis and cannabis products be properly labeled, placed in child resistant packaging, and tested by an independent testing laboratory before being made available for purchase. Prohibits packaging cannabis in a manner that is appealing to children. Authorizes research on cannabis in accordance with rules set forth by the ICC. Establishes a procedure for the expungement of a cannabis related conviction if the act constituting the conviction becomes legal. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1046 | TRANSPORTATION MATTERS. (MORRISON A) Provides that a transit development district may be established in a municipality that is located in a county that is a member of the development authority and has operated regularly scheduled commuter bus services to Chicago, Illinois, with prior financial assistance from the development authority, and shuttle bus services that transport riders to a train station or a regular train stop along the Chicago to South Bend line. Provides for a public transportation corporation located in a county having a population of more than 185,000 and less than 200,000 to expand service beyond the boundary of the county to an adjacent county if the counties have entered into an interlocal cooperation agreement to expand service. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 210
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| HB1054 | TUITION CAPS. (HARRIS JR. E) Provides that the commission for higher education shall determine a tuition rate and mandatory fee cost of living adjustment for specified postsecondary educational institutions. Requires that, except for cost of living adjustments, the tuition rate and mandatory fees at specified postsecondary educational institutions may not increase from the time the student initially enrolls until the student graduates for an undergraduate student who is an Indiana resident. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1065 | CANNABIS REGULATION. (ERRINGTON S) Establishes the cannabis compliance advisory committee to review and evaluate certain rules, laws, and programs. Establishes the cannabis compliance commission to regulate all forms of legal cannabis in Indiana, including hemp and low THC hemp extract. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1069 | AIRPORTS. (CHERRY R) Voids an administrative rule concerning eligibility of projects for which funding is available from the airport development grant fund (grant fund) and relocates (with stylistic changes) the contents of the voided administrative rule. Requires the Indiana department of transportation, in determining the match for a state grant for which federal grants are not available, to: (1) consider the airport classification and the type of project; and (2) require matching funds of at least 25%. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2023 - Public Law 123
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| HB1074 | SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. (MORRISON A) Provides that for school board offices, each candidate's affiliation with a political party or status as an independent candidate must be stated on a petition of nomination and on the ballot. Specifies: (1) requirements that apply to a candidate who claims affiliation with a major political party; and (2) a process to challenge a candidate's statement that the candidate is affiliated with a major political party. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1079 | SPECIAL PERMIT FOR OVERWEIGHT VEHICLES AND LOADS. (HEINE D) Establishes a special permit for oversize or overweight vehicles and loads for multiple routes for a period of not more than 90 days. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1086 | ROAD FUNDING. (MOED J) Provides that the amounts currently distributed from the motor vehicle highway account and the local road and street account to counties, cities, and towns based upon the proportionate share of road and street mileage shall instead be distributed based on the proportionate share of road and street vehicle miles traveled. Provides that the Indiana department of transportation shall establish guidelines outlining the procedures required to determine vehicle miles traveled. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1102 | REPEAL OF RIGHT TO WORK LAW. (GORE M) Repeals the chapter prohibiting an employer from requiring: (1) labor organization membership; (2) payment of dues or fees to a labor organization; or (3) payment to a charity or other third party an amount equivalent to fees required by a labor organization; as a condition of employment. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1123 | ELIMINATION OF TEXTBOOK FEES. (MILLER K) Requires each public school to provide curricular materials at no cost to each student enrolled in the public school. Establishes the curricular materials fund (fund) to provide state advancements for costs incurred by public schools in providing curricular materials to students at no cost. Provides that the department of education shall administer the fund. Provides that money in the fund is continually appropriated. Provides that a governing body or organizer of a charter school: (1) may purchase from a publisher any curricular materials selected by proper officials; (2) may rent curricular materials to certain nonpublic schools; and (3) may not rent the curricular materials to any student enrolled in any public school. Repeals a requirement that a school corporation must offer curricular materials at a reasonable rate to a family that moves during the school term. Repeals a requirement that a township trustee must use specified accounting methods for a curricular materials rental fund. Makes conforming changes. Appropriates from the state general fund to the office of the secretary of family and social services an amount sufficient to meet maintenance of effort requirements in the state budget for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025. Appropriates from the state general fund an amount sufficient to fully fund advancements and reimbursements from the curricular materials fund in the state budget for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1130 | MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS. (CASH B) 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 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1135 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPATIBLE CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS. (JACKSON C) Provides that with respect to the construction of a Class 2 structure for which a building permit is issued after December 31, 2023, the structure must be designed, constructed, and wired so as to enable an occupant of the structure to charge an electric vehicle (EV) through the use of EV supply equipment supplied by the occupant or a third party. Specifies that this requirement does not require a person who designs, constructs, or wires a Class 2 structure to: (1) provide EV supply equipment for use on the premises; or (2) install, or inspect EV supply equipment that is installed, on the premises. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1137 | EQUAL PAY; WAGE DISCLOSURE PROTECTION. (JACKSON C) Provides that it is an unlawful employment practice to: (1) pay wages that discriminate based on sex for substantially similar work; (2) discharge, discipline, discriminate against, coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any employee or other person because the employee inquired about, disclosed, compared, or otherwise discussed the employee's wages; (3) require as a condition of employment nondisclosure by an employee of the employee's wages; or (4) require an employee to sign a waiver or other document that purports to deny the employee the right to disclose the employee's wage information. Provides that the civil rights commission has jurisdiction for the investigation and resolution of complaints of these employment actions. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1160 | WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PILOT PROGRAMS. (CLERE E) Provides that the commission for higher education may establish an education and career support services pilot program to provide career and support services to adult students of state educational institutions. Provides that the office of the secretary of family and social services (FSSA), in consultation with Erskine Green Training Institute and the department of workforce development, may establish a manufacturing workforce training pilot program to provide training and other services to: (1) individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities; and (2) incumbent workers who are identified to fill higher paying jobs as a result of increased workforce participation by individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Specifies requirements and permitted actions for each pilot program. Requires FSSA to amend administrative rules. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 216
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| HB1171 | SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING. (CLERE E) Makes changes to the categories used to determine special education grants. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1177 | FIREARMS TRAINING FOR TEACHERS. (LUCAS J) Authorizes funds from the: (1) Indiana secured school fund; and (2) school corporation and charter school safety advance program; to be used for the purpose of providing specialized firearms instruction to certain teachers, school staff, and school employees, and for providing counseling services to students, teachers, school staff, and school employees in the event of a school shooting. Creates a specialized firearms safety, education, and training curriculum (curriculum) for teachers, school staff, and school employees. Specifies curriculum requirements. Requires a charter school, accredited nonpublic school, or school corporation to ensure that a teacher, school staff member, or school employee who receives training funded by a grant from the Indiana secured school fund complies with certain requirements. Provides that the identity of any person who: (1) enrolls in; (2) participates in; or (3) completes; the curriculum is confidential. Requires the department of education, in collaboration with the state police department, to identify a set of best practices and develop a set of educational materials concerning the safe possession and storage of a firearm in a home with a child. Provides that the department of education shall provide the best practices and educational materials to certain schools for annual distribution to parents of students. Provides that a public school or a state accredited nonpublic school may not conduct a training or drill for an employee of the school that includes, as any part of the training or drill, the expelling of any type of projectile at the employee unless: (1) the school informs the employee of the use of projectiles in the training or drill; and (2) the employee provides written consent. Provides that certain schools may not conduct or approve a training or drill for a student of the school that includes, as any part of the training or drill, the expelling of any type of projectile at a student. Provides that the prohibition on the possession of a firearm in or on school property or on a school bus does not apply to certain qualified law enforcement officers and qualified retired law enforcement officers. Makes conforming and technical amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 218
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| HB1180 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (CLERE E) Requires reporting concerning students injuring teachers and training for teachers in de-escalation, prevention, and intervention strategies. Requires information concerning the following to be presented to a school corporation's governing body: (1) Responsibilities and nature of employment of the superintendent. (2) Commencement of an internal investigation. (3) Legal expenditure of more than $1,000 in an adjudicative action. Provides that the superintendent must certify under penalties of perjury that the legal expenditure information has been given. Increases from seven to 14 days the time that must elapse after a public hearing before a school corporation may enter into a contract with the superintendent, specifies additional information that must be disclosed concerning the contract, and limits allowable compensation increases. Requires special education grade 8 through 12 case conference committees to discuss decision making skills and alternatives to appointing a guardian. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1192 | MINIMUM WAGE. (BOY P) Amends 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, 2024, from $7.25 an hour to $9.02 an hour. (2) After December 31, 2024, from $9.02 an hour to $10.07 an hour. (3) After December 31, 2025, from $10.07 an hour to $11.11 an hour. (4) After December 31, 2026, from $11.11 an hour to $12.10 an hour. Provides that after December 31, 2027, 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, 2024, from $2.13 an hour to $3.30 an hour. (2) After December 31, 2024, from $3.30 an hour to $4.71 an hour. (3) After December 31, 2025, from $4.71 an hour to $6.12 an hour. (4) After December 31, 2026, from $6.12 an hour to $7.54 an hour. Provides that after December 31, 2027, 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1203 | ELIMINATION OF TEXTBOOK FEES. (O'BRIEN T) Requires each public school to provide curricular materials at no cost to each student enrolled in the public school. Establishes the student resource fund (fund) to provide state advancements for costs incurred by public schools in providing curricular materials to students at no cost. Provides that the department of education (department) shall administer the fund. Provides that for state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2023, money in the fund is continually appropriated. Provides that a governing body or organizer of a charter school: (1) may purchase from a publisher any curricular materials selected by proper officials; (2) may rent curricular materials to certain nonpublic schools; and (3) may not rent the curricular materials to any student enrolled in any public school. Repeals a requirement that a school corporation must offer curricular materials at a reasonable rate to a family that moves during the school term. Repeals a requirement that a township trustee must use specified accounting methods for a curricular materials rental fund. Makes conforming changes. Requests an appropriation in the state budget to the fund for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025. Appropriates from the state general fund to the office of the secretary of family and social services an amount sufficient to meet maintenance of effort requirements in the state budget for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1205 | MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT FOR SCHOOL SERVICES. (KARICKHOFF M) Adds a school psychologist as a qualified provider for purposes of the Medicaid program. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid state plan amendment before September 1, 2023, to allow school corporations to obtain Medicaid reimbursement for specified services. Provides that a school psychologist does not need supervision or authorization from another qualified provider in order to obtain Medicaid reimbursement for certain services provided to a Medicaid recipient. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1211 | WELDING CERTIFICATIONS ON PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (KARICKHOFF M) Requires that contractors on a public works project meet certain standards relating to the welding of structural steel. |
| | Current Status: | 4/20/2023 - Public Law 70
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| HB1227 | SCHOOL DISTRIBUTION OF FIREARM SAFETY INFORMATION. (BAUER M) Requires the department of education, in collaboration with the state police department, to identify a set of best practices and develop a set of educational materials concerning the safe possession and storage of a firearm in a home with a child. Provides that the department of education shall provide the best practices and educational materials to certain schools for annual distribution to parents of students. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1230 | DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY. (SWEET L) Removes the requirement that to determine a candidate's affiliation with a major political party, the candidate must have voted in the political party's most recent primary elections or the county chairman of the political party must certify the candidate's affiliation with that major political party. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1241 | EMPLOYMENT LEAVE FOR VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS. (CAMPBELL C) Provides that a state agency, political subdivision, or private employer may provide not more than five days of paid leave to an employee who is a volunteer firefighter and takes a leave of absence: (1) to respond to a fire or emergency call; or (2) for an injury that occurs while the employee is engaged in emergency firefighting or other emergency response activity. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1243 | 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: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1246 | AUTOMATED TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT SAFETY DEVICES. (JOHNSON B) Authorizes a county or municipality to adopt and enforce an ordinance that regulates the use of an automated traffic enforcement safety device (device) to detect certain violations. Provides a civil penalty for a violation. Specifies that a civil penalty must first be applied to defray the cost of the installation, operation, and maintenance of the device. Specifies the manner in which the remaining money from the civil penalty must be distributed. Prohibits: (1) reporting a violation on a driving record; (2) using a violation to determine rates for motor vehicle insurance; (3) assessing points under the point system by the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) for a violation; and (4) reselling data collected by an agent operating a device. Requires notification to the bureau, and the suspension of the registration of a motor vehicle if a violation is not paid. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1248 | CANNABIS. (JOHNSON B) Establishes a procedure for the lawful production and sale of cannabis in Indiana. Makes conforming amendments. Makes an appropriation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1253 | OVERTIME COMPENSATION. (HATFIELD R) Provides that, after December 31, 2023, certain employees must be paid compensation for employment in certain circumstances at a rate not less than 1.5 times the regular rate at which the employee is employed and, under certain circumstances, not less than two times the regular rate at which the employee is employed. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1254 | 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: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1255 | ELIMINATION OF TEXTBOOK FEES. (HATFIELD R) Requires each public school to provide curricular materials at no cost to each student enrolled in the public school. Establishes the curricular materials fund (fund) to provide state advancements for costs incurred by public schools in providing curricular materials to students at no cost. Provides that the department of education (department) shall administer the fund. Provides that for state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2023, money in the fund is continually appropriated. Provides that a governing body or organizer of a charter school: (1) may purchase from a publisher any curricular materials selected by proper officials; (2) may rent curricular materials to certain nonpublic schools; and (3) may not rent the curricular materials to any student enrolled in any public school. Repeals a requirement that a school corporation must offer curricular materials at a reasonable rate to a family that moves during the school term. Repeals a requirement that a township trustee must use specified accounting methods for a curricular materials rental fund. Makes conforming changes. Requests an appropriation in the state budget to the fund for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025. Appropriates from the state general fund to the office of the secretary of family and social services an amount sufficient to meet maintenance of effort requirements in the state budget for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1263 | MEDICAL MARIJUANA. (LUCAS J) Permits the use of medical marijuana by persons with serious medical conditions as determined by their physician. Establishes a medical marijuana program to permit the cultivation, processing, testing, transportation, and dispensing of medical marijuana by holders of a valid permit. Requires the Indiana department of health (state department) to implement and enforce the medical marijuana program. Requires that permit holders undertake steps to prevent diversion of medical marijuana to unauthorized persons. Requires that medical marijuana and medical marijuana products be properly labeled, placed in child resistant packaging, and tested by an independent testing laboratory before being made available for purchase. Prohibits packaging medical marijuana in a manner that is appealing to children. Authorizes research on medical marijuana in accordance with rules set forth by the state department. Prohibits discrimination against medical marijuana users. Prohibits harassment of medical marijuana users by law enforcement officers, and prohibits cooperation with federal law enforcement officials seeking to enforce federal laws that criminalize the use of marijuana authorized in Indiana. Establishes the medical marijuana oversight board to review appeals and grievances concerning the medical marijuana program. Provides a defense to prosecution for a person who operates a vehicle or motorboat with marijuana or its metabolite in the person's blood under certain conditions that involve medical marijuana. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1288 | PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (GOODRICH C) Provides that certain public works statutes do not apply in the context of design-build public construction. 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. 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: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1289 | 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: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1297 | DECRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA. (VANNATTER H) Decriminalizes possession of two ounces or less of marijuana. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1298 | WORKER'S COMPENSATION. (LEHMAN M) Provides that a contract, bid specification, or agreement that is entered into, issued, amended, or renewed after June 30, 2023, may not contain a provision requiring an employer to have or maintain a specified experience rating. Requires the worker's compensation rating bureau of Indiana to nominate a president and submit the nominee for approval or denial to the commissioner of the department of insurance. Requires certain insurance companies that make a successful subrogation claim to revise an insured party's prior experience ratings in a specified manner. Provides exceptions. Defines terms and makes a conforming amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1307 | HIGH VALUE WORKFORCE READY CREDIT-BEARING GRANT. (LEDBETTER C) Provides that an applicant who has previously received a baccalaureate degree or an associate degree may be eligible for a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant if the applicant: (1) received a diploma of graduation, high school equivalency certificate, or state of Indiana general educational development diploma five or more years before the applicant applies for a grant; and (2) is not working in the subject matter field in which the applicant received the baccalaureate degree or associate degree. (Current law provides that an applicant for a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant may not have previously received a baccalaureate degree, an associate degree, or an eligible certificate.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1338 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (LINDAUER S) Provides that a teacher, administrator, or other employee of a school corporation or charter school shall not promote in any course certain concepts related to race or sex. Provides that a state educational institution may not require a student enrolled at the state educational institution to engage in any form of mandatory gender or sexual diversity training or counseling. Provides that a state educational institution may not require a student of the state educational institution to attend any student orientation or other training or presentation that presents information regarding race or sex stereotyping or bias on the basis of race or sex. Provides that a student shall not be required to participate in a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey that is established or administered by: (1) a school corporation; (2) a public school; (3) a state accredited nonpublic school; (4) the department of education (department); or (5) a third party vendor of a school corporation, a school, or the department; without the prior consent of the student if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor or the prior written consent of the student's parent if the student is an unemancipated minor. (Current law provides that a student shall not be required to participate in a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey that is not directly related to academic instruction and that reveals or attempts to affect the student's attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings concerning certain matters without the prior consent of the student if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor or the prior written consent of the student's parent if the student is an unemancipated minor.) Establishes certain requirements regarding contracts or agreements with third party vendors to: (1) collect or share information from a student personal analysis, evaluation, or survey; or (2) provide software or software tools that can be used for data collection, analysis, evaluation, or survey of a student. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1375 | 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: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1378 | WORKSITE SAFETY. (MOSELEY C) Requires the state police and the Indiana department of transportation to establish a pilot program for the deployment of a worksite speed control system to enforce a worksite speed limit. Provides that a worksite speed limit violation recorded by a worksite speed control system may not be enforced unless the violation is at least 12 miles per hour above the established worksite speed limit. Creates the worksite speed control pilot fund. Replaces the term "work zone" with "worksite" throughout the relevant statutes. Makes an appropriation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1379 | WORKSITE SPEED CONTROL PILOT PROGRAM. (MOSELEY C) Requires the Indiana department of transportation (department) to establish the worksite speed control pilot program (pilot program) for the purpose of enforcing worksite speed limits. Requires that the department: (1) work with the state police department to administer the pilot program; and (2) enter into an agreement with the state police department to share information regarding the pilot program. Permits the department to contract with a third party vendor to assist in implementing the pilot program. Provides that an individual who is recorded by a worksite speed control system may not be assessed a civil penalty unless the violation is at least 11 miles per hour above the established worksite speed limit. Replaces the term "work zone" with "worksite" throughout the relevant statutes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1386 | MINIMUM TEACHER SALARIES. (KLINKER S) Provides that, for each school year beginning after June 30, 2024, a school corporation shall, if the school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot establish a minimum salary of $50,000 for each full-time teacher, submit a report to the department of education explaining the school corporation's inability to meet the minimum threshold requirement. (Current law establishes this requirement if a school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot establish a minimum salary of $40,000 for each full-time teacher.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1392 | TAX CREDIT FOR TEACHERS' CLASSROOM SUPPLIES. (ANDRADE M) 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: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1394 | MINIMUM WAGE. (ANDRADE M) Increases, for any work week beginning on or after July 1, 2023, the minimum wage paid to certain employees from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour. Makes conforming amendments and a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1428 | SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. (PRESCOTT J) Provides that a candidate for a school board office may not be an employee or agent of that school corporation. Establishes a process for a school board or the voters in a school corporation to change the method by which the members of the school board are nominated and elected. Provides that the members of a school board may be nominated and elected by one of the following processes: (1) Through nonpartisan election (as is the case under current law). (2) Through nonpartisan nomination (under the current process) and designation of a candidate's political affiliation or independent status on the general election ballot. (3) Through nomination and election in a partisan process as other candidates for elected office are nominated and elected. Provides that a school board may adopt a resolution to initiate a change or the voters of the school corporation may initiate a change through petition. Provides that, in either case, the voters of the school corporation must approve any change by public question. Provides that the method of election of members of a school board may not be changed until after 10 years after the most recent change was made. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1444 | INTERSTATE TEACHER MOBILITY COMPACT. (ERRINGTON S) Adopts the interstate teacher mobility compact. Sets forth the requirements of a compact state. Sets forth the duties of the interstate teacher mobility compact commission. Provides that a receiving state determines equivalency standards. Amends the definition of "unencumbered license" in the compact. Removes certain provisions concerning compensation from the compact. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1451 | UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION. (CARBAUGH M) Amends the definition of "deductible income" for purposes of the unemployment compensation laws. Provides that, subject to certain exceptions, the department of workforce development may accept an offer in compromise from an employer or claimant to reduce past due debts arising from contributions or benefit overpayments. Provides that an individual is ineligible for benefits for any week that the individual receives payments equal to or exceeding the individual's weekly benefit amount in pension, retirement, or annuity payments under any plan of an employer where the employer contributes all of the money. (Under current law, the disqualification provision applies under any plan of an employer where the employer contributes a portion or all of the money.) Provides that the state of Indiana is not required to participate in or precluded from ceasing to participate in any offered or enacted voluntary, optional, special, or emergency federal program. Makes corresponding changes. |
| | Current Status: | 4/20/2023 - Public Law 85
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| HB1468 | FUNDING FOR SCHOOL CORPORATIONS. (BOY P) Requires the department of education (department) to determine the amount of money that was: (1) intended to be distributed to school corporations; (2) reverted in the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2011; and (3) not replaced through appropriations made in subsequent years. Requires the department to distribute the money to school corporations for the purpose of replacing the reverted money. Makes an appropriation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1469 | TEACHER COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. (BOY P) Requires a school employer to bargain collectively class size, health and safety matters, and teacher preparation time with an exclusive representative. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1470 | WORKER MISCLASSIFICATION. (BOY P) Requires, for public works contracts awarded after June 30, 2023, a: (1) bidder to submit a statement, under oath, that the contractors in all contractor tiers working on the public works project will not misclassify an employee as an independent contractor; and (2) public agency that will own a public works project to conduct a specified audit concerning employee misclassification. Requires the department of state revenue, the department of labor, the worker's compensation board of Indiana, and the department of workforce development to report before September 1 in 2023 through 2026 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: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1491 | GARY COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION. (SMITH V) Terminates the Gary Community School Corporation's (school corporation) status as a distressed political subdivision on June 30, 2024. Provides that the members of the governing body of the school corporation shall be elected at the municipal general election held on November 7, 2023, and take office upon taking the oath required by the Constitution of the State of Indiana not later than November 14, 2023. Requires the governing body to select a superintendent not later than February 1, 2024. Requires the emergency manager and chief financial officer to consistently inform the superintendent of the school corporation regarding the day to day operations of the school corporation. Requires the emergency manager to provide monthly financial and academic reports to the governing body. Provides that the current emergency manager's appointment terminates on June 30, 2024. Provides that the elected governing body assumes all powers, rights, duties, and obligations of the school corporation on July 1, 2024. Provides that, before the governing body sells real property, a building, or another structure owned by the school corporation, the governing body shall: (1) provide written notice to the mayor of the city of Gary at least 30 days before selling the real property, building, or other structure; and (2) provide public notice and hold at least one public hearing within the geographic boundaries of the school corporation to hear public testimony on the proposed sale. Transfers, not later than July 1, 2023, to the common school fund from the state general fund an amount sufficient to pay off all debts from advances and loans that were made to the school corporation from the common school fund. Removes or repeals provisions regarding the establishment and use of a school improvement fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1516 | COMPARATIVE COLLEGE AND CAREER INFORMATION. (PRESCOTT J) Tasks the commission for higher education (commission), the department of education, and the department of workforce development to collect and compile certain information concerning: (1) postsecondary education; (2) career and technical education; (3) workforce qualifications; (4) workforce earnings; and (5) workforce debt. Requires the commission to create an interactive website known as the student horizon dashboard to provide public access to certain collected and compiled information. Requires the commission, the department of education, and the department of workforce development to create a report known as the student graduate horizon scorecard (scorecard) for annual distribution. Specifies that the scorecard contain certain information concerning high paying civilian and military careers and in demand jobs. Requires the commission to prepare an annual report for the legislative council. Requires state educational institutions and career and technical education programs to collect and provide information as requested by the commission. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1518 | POSSESSION OF FIREARMS ON SCHOOL PROPERTY. (MILLER K) Provides that certain persons otherwise allowed to possess a firearm on school property may not possess a firearm on school property if they are less than 21 years of age. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1522 | MATERIAL HARMFUL TO A MINOR. (BORDERS B) Removes the defense to prosecution for dissemination of matter or conducting a performance harmful to minors that the matter was disseminated or displayed to or that the performance was performed before the recipient by a bona fide school, museum, or public library that qualifies for certain property tax exemptions, or by an employee of such a school, museum, or public library acting within the scope of the employee's employment. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1523 | DIGNITY AND NONDISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION. (BORDERS B) Provides that a school corporation or qualified school shall not promote certain concepts as part of a course of instruction or in a curriculum or instructional program, or allow teachers or other employees to use supplemental learning materials to promote certain concepts regarding sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin. Requires requesting to meet with a teacher for certain complaints. Requires each school corporation or qualified school to establish grievance procedures for certain complaints. Provides that, if a parent of a student or a student, if the student is an adult or emancipated minor, is not satisfied with a final decision, the parent or student may submit a request to the department of education to review the complaint and decision. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1528 | NEXT GENERATION HOOSIER EDUCATORS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. (HEINE D) Provides that an individual enrolled in a transition to teaching program may apply for a one time scholarship under the next generation Hoosier educators scholarship program. Establishes requirements to qualify for the one time scholarship. Provides that the maximum amount of a scholarship is $10,000. Provides that the total annual amount of scholarships awarded from the next generation Hoosier educators scholarship fund to individuals enrolled in a transition to teaching program may not exceed $1,000,000. Requires that an awarded scholarship must be repaid under certain conditions. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 242
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| HB1531 | TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION. (PORTER G) Establishes a teacher recruitment and retention fund, administered by the department of education, to: (1) attract qualified teachers to geographic areas of Indiana where a critical shortage of teachers exists; and (2) retain qualified teachers in teacher shortage areas; by providing student loan repayment assistance. Provides that as a condition of participating in the program and receiving student loan repayments, a teacher must agree to employment as a licensed teacher in a school district located in a teacher shortage area for at least five years. Establishes the goal that by 2032 there will be at least one teacher who is certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (national board) in every public school. Establishes the teachers' national board certification incentive fund for purposes of: (1) funding stipends of $200 per day for two days for teachers preparing for national board certification; (2) reimbursing 75% of the national board certification fee; (3) funding stipends for national board certified teachers who serve as mentors to other teachers; (4) reimbursing school corporations for the cost of paying teachers who have attained national board certification as of July 1, 2023, or thereafter an annual salary supplement of $2,000 for the life of the certificate; and (5) reimbursing school corporations for the cost of persons who serve as substitute teachers for national board certification candidates. Requires a school corporation to allow a teacher pursuing national board certification at least five days of paid release time during the school year. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1537 | ACQUISITION OF STEM LEARNING TECHNOLOGY. (SNOW C) Requires the department of education (department) to purchase the licensing to a three-dimensional game-based learning platform that meets certain criteria. Makes an appropriation to the department to purchase the licensing. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1543 | STUDENT BEHAVIOR. (GOODRICH C) Establishes the behavioral health fund (fund) for the purpose of improving funding for individualized educational programs that have a behavioral intervention plan component for certain schools. Provides that the department of education, in coordination with the Indiana behavioral health commission, shall administer the fund. Creates an application and review process for the disbursement of a grant from the fund. Defines certain terms. Provides a procedure for a principal to place an aggressive student, who has been removed from a class, into the aggressive student's original class, another appropriate class or placement, or inschool suspension. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1549 | 1977 PENSION AND DISABILITY FUND. (JUDY C) Modifies the definition of "salary of a first class patrolman or first class firefighter" for the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (fund). Increases the fund's maximum annual cost of living adjustment from 3% to 5%. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1558 | SCIENCE OF READING. (TESHKA J) Defines "science of reading". Requires the state board of education (state board) in collaboration with the department of education (department) to prepare and submit a report regarding the alignment of science of reading concepts in IREAD. Requires a school corporation and charter school to report certain information regarding reading and writing curricula, remedial programs, and administrative contact information on the school corporation's or charter school's website. Provides that, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, a superintendent, advisory committee, or governing body or the equivalent for a charter school: (1) shall adopt curriculum or supplemental materials for reading that are aligned with the science of reading and to the student's reading proficiency; and (2) may not adopt curriculum or supplemental materials for reading that are based on the three-cueing model. Requires the department to develop guidelines for science of reading integration into teacher preparation programs. Makes changes to the education law concerning the science of reading and teacher preparation and licensing requirements. Requires a school corporation to differentiate the amount of salary increases or increments for teachers who possess a required literacy endorsement. Removes a requirement that a discussion regarding teacher supplemental payment be held. Requires the state board to establish and require literacy endorsements for certain individuals first licensed after June 30, 2025. Provides that, not later than July 1, 2024, the state board shall adopt rules to establish early childhood content area licenses and required endorsements. Requires the department to publish an advisory list of science of reading curricula on the department's website. Provides that the state board and the department: (1) shall implement academic standards for reading that are aligned with the science of reading and developmentally appropriate based on student need; and (2) may not implement an academic standard for reading based on the three-cueing model. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 243
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| HB1561 | MUNCIE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION PILOT PROGRAM. (ROWRAY E) Requires the Muncie Community school corporation (Muncie) to create a pilot program with an appropriate third party vendor (vendor) to provide students with college and career preparation experiences. Requires Muncie to work with a vendor to create in school academies to provide students with certain career and aptitude experiences. Provides that Muncie shall establish an intermediary to act as a liaison between Muncie and a person who is interested in partnering with Muncie for the purposes of the pilot program. Creates certain requirements for the establishment of the pilot program and the operational readiness of the academies. Annually appropriates $900,000 to Muncie for a certain period of time. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1566 | INSTRUCTION ON HUMAN SEXUALITY. (ROWRAY E) Requires instruction in state accredited schools on human sexuality or sexually transmitted diseases to be based on information that is medically and scientifically accurate and age appropriate. Lists the criteria that instruction on human sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases must meet. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1572 | TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SCHOLARS PROGRAM. (MORRIS R) Amends the twenty-first century scholars program eligibility requirements for certain students. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1588 | PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. (MCGUIRE J) Provides that there shall be no dedicated lanes for any portion of a public street that is located outside of the one square mile area surrounding Monument Circle at the intersection of Meridian Street and Market Street in the city of Indianapolis for the exclusive use of public transit vehicles. Provides an exception for certain rapid transit lines. Defines the term "blue line". Provides that bonds may not be used to fund a dedicated lane for any portion of a public street that is located outside of the one square mile area. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1590 | VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (BEHNING R) Makes various changes to the education law concerning the following: (1) The science of reading and licensing requirements. (2) The grant for benchmark, formative, interim, or similar assessments with regards to certain assessments, including universal screeners that screen for dyslexia. (3) Eligibility requirements for the next level computer science program. (4) Reading deficiency remediation plan requirements. (5) Payments and funding for excess costs of educating certain students with disabilities. (6) The use of funds from the Senator David C. Ford educational technology fund. (7) Requirements for public schools regarding adopting or replacing data technology systems. (8) The evaluation of curricular materials by the department of education (department). Requires the department to evaluate, approve, and publish a list of high quality curricular materials in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math. Provides that, before curricular material is included on the list, the publisher of the curricular material must enter into a data share agreement with the department. Requires, not later than July 1, 2024, the department to conduct a statewide survey to determine which curricular materials have been adopted for use in certain subjects. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 245
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| HB1591 | VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (BEHNING R) Requires the Indiana archives and records administration to: (1) establish procedures to retain an original record, document, plat, paper, or instrument-in-writing in an electronic format; (2) establish a period of time after which an original record, document, plat, paper, or instrument-in-writing may be destroyed; and (3) prepare and submit, not later than November 1, 2023, a report to the general assembly regarding these matters. Amends the duties of the early learning advisory committee. Changes the prekindergarten pilot program to the prekindergarten program and removes the expiration date. Provides that, at least once every five years, the office, in cooperation with the department of education (department), must carry out a longitudinal study regarding students who participate in the prekindergarten program. Amends requirements regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for child care centers, child care homes, and child care ministries. Requires: (1) each public school to provide information to the department concerning certain physical injuries to employees; and (2) the department to report the information on the department's website. Requires the department to provide certain information to public schools and state accredited nonpublic schools and requires each school to post the information on the school's website home page. Amends innovation network school and participating innovation network charter school provisions regarding: (1) certain agreement requirements and limitations; (2) appeals to the state board of education regarding the failure to follow an agreement renewal process; and (3) negotiating the requirement of specific services. Allows an innovation network team or organizer to enter into an agreement with a school corporation to transfer the ownership of a school corporation facility to the team or organizer and provides that a transfer is not subject to provisions in the law concerning the transfer of vacant school buildings to charter schools. Provides that a school corporation may not require an innovation network team or an organizer to contract for specific goods or services provided by the school corporation or any other entity. Requires information regarding certain possible criminal activity, concluded personnel matter investigations, and matters involving legal expenses be provided to the governing body of a school corporation. Provides that at-risk students who are receiving certain educational services are not included in a public school's four year graduation rate and are included in an eligible school's graduation rate under certain conditions. Amends the definition of "teacher" regarding certain teacher compensation provisions and requires a school corporation to expend at least 62% of the school corporation's state tuition support on teacher compensation. (Current law requires a school corporation to expend at least 45% on full-time teacher salaries.) Requires special education grade 8 through 12 case conference committees to discuss decision making skills and alternatives to appointing a guardian. Requires the department to, subject to appropriation by the general assembly, provide schools the same per pupil exam fee amounts for international baccalaureate and Cambridge International exams as is provided for advanced placement exams. Provides that: (1) any course that meets the requirements of a career and technical education program may be taught virtually by a virtual provider if certain conditions are met; and (2) the virtual course is eligible for a career and technical education grant. Amends the definition of "school scholarship", with regard to scholarship granting organizations. Removes a provision that requires choice scholarship schools to conduct random drawings in a public meeting if applicants for enrollment exceed the number of choice scholarships available to the school. Provides that the state board shall assign to a school or school corporation (including adult high schools) a "null" or "no letter grade" for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years. Provides that, when developing a proposal for a revised school performance designation, the department shall consider using certain metrics. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 246
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| HB1606 | EMPLOYER TAX CREDIT FOR APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS. (BEHNING R) Provides for a nonrefundable apprenticeship tax credit (credit) for an eligible employer. Provides that the amount of the credit is equal to not more than $1,250 for each apprentice employed. Provides that an eligible employer may claim: (1) a credit for not more than 10 apprentices employed for a taxable year; and (2) the credit for an individual apprentice for not more than three taxable years. Provides that the total amount of credits that may be awarded for a state fiscal year may not exceed $10,000,000. Allows the department of state revenue to adopt rules to implement the credit. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1607 | CHARTER SCHOOL MATTERS. (BEHNING R) Provides all charter schools access to loans through the Indiana bond bank. Requires a county auditor to distribute a portion of revenue received from a school corporation's operations fund property tax levy to each: (1) charter school in which students who receive not more than 50% virtual instruction and who have legal settlement in the school corporation attend; and (2) transferee school corporation that a transferred student who has legal settlement in the school corporation attends. Phases in the distributions over three years. Provides that, for a resolution to adopt a school operating referendum tax levy adopted after June 30, 2023, a county auditor must distribute a portion of revenue received from the levy or school safety referendum tax levy to each transferee school corporation and 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 operating referendum tax levy or a school safety referendum tax levy, the charter school must post certain information on the charter school's website. Provides that a charter school or transferee school corporation that may receive money from a school operating referendum 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 maximum length of a charter is 15 years. (Current law provides that the maximum length of a charter is seven years.) Amends the definition of "school building construction program" to: (1) include the purchase, lease, or financing of land, the construction and equipping of school buildings, and the remodeling, repairing, or improving of school buildings by a charter school; and (2) replace "adjusted assessed valuation" with "assessed valuation" with regard to school corporation eligibility for an advance from the common school fund. Establishes the public school options program and fund. Provides that a charter school (excluding a virtual charter school or adult high school) may receive an advance from the common school fund if the charter school's authorizer approves the application. Provides that the state board of education shall repay a charter school's advance from proceeds in the public school options fund. Provides that the department of state revenue shall make a distribution from the state retail and use tax that it collects to the public school options fund. Makes conforming amendments. Makes a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1608 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (DAVIS M) Provides that a school, an employee or staff member of a school, or a third party vendor used by a school to provide instruction may not provide any instruction to a student in prekindergarten through grade 3 on human sexuality. Provides that a school employee or a school staff member is not prohibited from responding to a question from a student regarding certain topics. Requires a school to notify in writing at least one parent of a student, if the student is an unemancipated minor, of a request made by the student to change the student's name or pronoun, title, or word to identify the student. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 248
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| HB1609 | WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT MATTERS. (DAVIS M) Repeals provisions concerning the work Indiana program. Defines "adult education and literacy activities" and requires that certain money appropriated by the general assembly be used for workforce preparation activities and integrated education and training. Removes or amends certain provisions regarding: (1) reimbursements to eligible providers for adult education that is provided to certain individuals; and (2) adult education grants provided to employers of eligible employees. Allows the department of workforce development to grant a specified diploma to an individual who demonstrates high school level skills through certain competency based assessments and obtains an industry recognized credential. Specifies the meaning of "authorization" for the purpose of certain provisions related to postsecondary proprietary educational institutions. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2023 - Public Law 157
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| HB1611 | SKILLED TRADES PILOT PROGRAM AND FUND. (FLEMING R) Establishes the skilled trades pilot program (pilot program) and fund. Provides that the department of education (department) shall administer the pilot program. Provides that the department may approve one or more school corporations to participate in the pilot program. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1613 | INDIANA EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP ACCOUNT PROGRAM. (PAYNE Z) Amends the: (1) definition of "eligible student" for purposes of eligibility under the Indiana education scholarship account program; and (2) grant amount that an eligible student may receive under the program. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1617 | POSSESSION OF PEPPER SPRAY ON CAMPUS. (PAYNE Z) Provides that state educational institutions may not adopt regulations that prohibit students, faculty, employees, and others on the educational institution's property from carrying pepper spray. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1620 | SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. (PAYNE Z) 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: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1633 | STUDENT 529 ACCOUNT FUNDING. (BEHNING R) Provides that when a person who receives Medicaid has a child born after December 31, 2023, the treasurer of state (treasurer) shall open a college choice 529 education savings plan (529 plan) in the child's name and make a deposit of $250 into the account. Provides that if the student completes one or more age appropriate career exploration activities as determined by the state board of education, and if the child's parent makes certain contributions to the 529 plan, the treasurer shall continue to make intermittent deposits into the 529 plan throughout the child's kindergarten through grade 12 education. Provides that contributions made by a parent to a 529 plan are eligible for a credit against a taxpayer's adjusted gross income. Provides that a parent making a contribution to a 529 plan shall report the contribution to the treasurer. Provides that if a parent contributes volunteer hours to the child's school in lieu of making a contribution to a 529 plan, the child's school shall report the contribution of volunteer hours to the treasurer. Provides that a person in attendance at a live birth shall report to the local health officer whether or not the mother is receiving Medicaid and advise the mother that a 529 plan is being established. Provides that the treasurer shall provide all relevant information to a parent receiving Medicaid regarding the 529 plan contribution program available to a parent receiving Medicaid. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1635 | VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (BEHNING R) Requires each school corporation to publish on the school corporation's website the graduation rate for each high school in the school corporation. Amends the: (1) definition of "graduation" for the high school graduation rate determination; and (2) graduation rate calculation. Allows charter schools and nonpublic schools to issue an adjunct teacher permit to certain individuals. Provides that an individual who holds an adjunct teacher permit may teach in a career and technical education content area in which the school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school allows the individual to teach based on the individual's experience. Requires the state board of education (state board) to: (1) develop algebra I, algebra II, and geometry courses that include real world application and project based and inquiry based learning; and (2) implement the courses not later than the 2025-2026 school year. Provides that, if the state board establishes an Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery as a graduation pathway, the state board shall require a student who elects the pathway to submit documentation that demonstrates the student's intent to enlist in the military as a condition of meeting the pathway requirements. Requires the state board to, not later than July 1, 2023, review and update any guidance issued by the state board regarding the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery as a graduation pathway requirement. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school may not require a student enrolled in the school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school to participate in any particular graduation pathway to be eligible to graduate. Removes a provision that provides that not more than 1% of students of a cohort may receive an alternate diploma. Provides that, for purposes of determining a school's or school corporation's graduation rate, not more than one percent of a school's or school corporation's graduation cohort that receives an alternate diploma may be counted as having graduated. Removes a requirement that a school corporation record or include certain immunization information in the official high school transcript for a high school student. Removes a provision that allows a school corporation to include additional information on a student's high school transcript. Provides that any notification or materials provided or distributed by the Indiana department of health or a school to a parent of a student regarding required or recommended immunizations for the student must clearly delineate or label immunizations that are required and immunizations that are only recommended. Provides that the department of education shall develop a proposal for a revised school performance designation not later than December 1, 2024. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2023 - Public Law 160
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| HB1637 | TEACHER EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS. (BEHNING R) Increases the annual scholarship amount that the commission for higher education (commission) may award under the next generation Hoosier educators scholarship program from $7,500 to $10,000. Removes limits on the number of next generation Hoosier educators scholarships that may be awarded. Establishes the next generation Hoosier minority educators scholarship program and fund. Provides that the commission may award a next generation Hoosier minority educators scholarship to an eligible applicant in an amount of $10,000 each academic year for not more than four academic years. Establishes criteria an applicant must meet and terms an applicant must agree to in order to receive a next generation Hoosier minority educators scholarship. Increases the annual scholarship amount that an Earline S. Rogers student teaching scholarship for minority students recipient may receive from $4,000 to $5,000. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2023 - Public Law 161
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| HB1638 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (BEHNING R) Requires the department of education (department) to report to the legislative council findings and recommendations for reducing the amount of redundant data that schools are required to submit to state agencies. Provides that a student presently enrolled in a public high school may retake a virtual course that was previously completed by the student at the same public high school under certain conditions. Provides that if a student elects to retake a virtual course, the retaken course must meet certain criteria. Provides that a student who has retaken a course before July 1, 2023, must receive full credit and a replacement grade for the course under certain conditions. Provides that the department shall require publication of a corrected graduation rate as prescribed by the department (instead of in the next school year's report). Provides that before July 1, 2024, the department may establish or license for use an online platform to provide certain required training programs. Moves up deadlines for recommending and approving streamlined academic standards in order to implement the new standards in the 2023-2024 school year. Provides that the department shall: (1) consider the skills, knowledge, and practices that are necessary to understand and utilize emerging technologies and that may be rendered obsolete by emerging technologies; (2) consider for removal any academic standards that may be obsolete as a result of emerging technologies; and (3) provide support to school corporations regarding the implementation of revised academic standards that have an emerging technologies component. Provides that individuals appointed to an academic standards committee must be racially and geographically diverse. Requires employers to report the employment of students enrolled in work based learning courses to the department of workforce development. Requires a secondary or postsecondary educational institution to ensure that a student's completion of a work based learning course is indicated on the student's transcript. Establishes a science of reading grant. Repeals: (1) the school corporation annual performance report law; (2) the charter school obligation to publish an annual performance report; (3) the performance based awards law; and (4) annual financial reports by school corporations. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 250
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| SB12 | MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS. (TOMES J) Establishes a procedure: (1) to allow a parent or guardian of a child enrolled in a school to submit a complaint that a book in the school library is inappropriate; and (2) for the school to respond to the complaint. Establishes an appeal procedure. Provides that a school library may not make a book available that contains obscene matter or matters harmful to children. Removes schools 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 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. |
| | Current Status: | 4/17/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB13 | ELIMINATION OF LOWER SPEED LIMIT FOR TRUCKS. (TOMES J) Excepts an alley from the maximum speed limit of 55 miles per hour. Increases the maximum speed limit for a vehicle having a declared gross weight greater than 26,000 pounds from 65 miles per hour to 70 miles per hour when the vehicle is operated on a highway that is: (1) on the national system of interstate and defense highways located outside an urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000; or (2) the responsibility of the Indiana finance authority. |
| | Current Status: | 4/17/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB30 | THIRTEENTH CHECK. (NIEZGODSKI D) Provides for a thirteenth check in 2023 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: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB31 | 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: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB32 | 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, 2023, 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 do not include information that can be used to identify specific employers or workers. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB39 | EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY. (FORD J) Extends certain antidiscrimination educational rights statutes to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB70 | MARIJUANA. (BOHACEK M) Decriminalizes possession of one ounce or less of marijuana. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB100 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (RAATZ J) Provides that a: (1) school that seeks state accreditation; and (2) national or regional accreditation agency that seeks to be recognized by the state board of education (state board); must complete and submit the applicable application form established by the state board. Requires the state board to do the following: (1) Not later than six months after the date a completed application is submitted, approve or deny the accreditation or recognition. (2) If the state board denies an accreditation or recognition, send notice to the school or national or regional accreditation agency stating the reasons for the denial. Requires the department of education (department) to post a copy of the application forms on the department's website. Provides that the Internet dashboard on the state board's website must include: (1) a school's disciplinary incident data; (2) data regarding a school's socioeconomic status and poverty rate; and (3) a school's proportion of fully licensed teachers. Allows the department to award grants under the student learning recovery grant program (program) in state fiscal years 2024 and 2025 from funds appropriated during the 2021 regular session of the Indiana general assembly that have not been obligated. Establishes additional dates for reporting requirements regarding the program. Provides that, as a component of the program application, the department may include a requirement for a school corporation or charter school to provide a matching grant. Provides that funds appropriated to the student learning recovery grant program fund do not revert to the state general fund and remain available to be spent for purposes of the program. Amends agreement requirements for the Indiana student enrichment grant program. Provides that an enrichment student who currently maintains an account is entitled to a grant amount that is subject to available funding and determined by the department. Repeals a provision that establishes a one time enrichment grant amount. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 171
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| SB141 | AUTOMATED VEHICLES. (TOMES J) Provides that a person may not operate an automated vehicle on a highway to transport passengers or goods unless a human safety operator is physically present in the automated vehicle to monitor the performance of the automated vehicle and to intervene if necessary. Provides that a registered automated vehicle must meet federal motor vehicle standards and regulations. Provides that a human safety operator shall meet all state and federal qualifications to operate a motor vehicle and an automated vehicle. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB146 | REQUIRING LOCAL INPUT FOR TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. (RANDOLPH L) Provides that the Indiana department of transportation (department) may not perform traffic surveys of, engage in planning for, or perform construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, or repair to an intersection until the department has received input and approval from the legislative body of the unit that has control over the intersection. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB150 | 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 $1,500 per taxable year. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB165 | WELDING CERTIFICATIONS ON PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (DORIOT B) Requires that contractors on a public works project meet certain standards relating to the welding of structural steel. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB168 | STATEWIDE ASSESSMENT RESULTS. (LEISING J) Requires (rather than permits) the department of education to include in a contract with a statewide assessment vendor entered into or renewed after June 30, 2023, a requirement that the vendor provide a summary of a student's statewide assessment results. Makes a conforming change and a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 4/20/2023 - Public Law 30
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| SB170 | INTIMIDATION AGAINST UTILITY WORKERS. (LEISING J) Provides that a person who communicates a threat to another person with the intent of interfering with the provision of utility service or communications service for a dwelling, building, or other structure commits intimidation, a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that the offense is a Level 6 felony if the person to whom the threat is communicated is an employee or agent of: (1) a utility company; or (2) a communications service provider; who is engaged in the performance of the person's duties on behalf of the utility company or the communications service provider. Defines the following terms for purposes of these provisions: (1) "Communications service". (2) "Communications service provider". (3) "Utility company". (4) "Utility service". |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB175 | 1977 PENSION AND DISABILITY FUND. (WALKER K) Urges the legislative council to assign certain topics concerning the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund to an appropriate interim study committee for study during the 2023 interim. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB177 | SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE FILING DEADLINE. (KOCH E) Changes the time frame that a candidate for a school board office is required to file the candidate's petition of nomination. Modifies deadlines concerning a statement questioning the validity of a petition of nomination or contesting the denial of certification. |
| | Current Status: | 4/20/2023 - Public Law 34
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| SB185 | 1977 FUND MEMBERSHIP. (BALDWIN S) Modifies the definition of "salary of a first class patrolman or first class firefighter" for the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (1977 fund). Allows an airport authority to participate in the 1977 fund. Increases the maximum age for a firefighter to be appointed to a fire department and become a member of the 1977 fund from 35 years of age to 39 years of age. Makes corresponding changes. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2023 - Public Law 102
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| SB188 | SCHOOL CORPORATION GOVERNING BODIES. (SANDLIN 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. Standardizes language relating to what events cause a vacancy on the governing body of a school corporation and the method by which a vacancy is filled. Repeals superseded statutes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB194 | COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR TEACHERS. (FORD J) Requires a school employer to bargain collectively class size, health and safety matters, and teacher preparation time with an exclusive representative. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB224 | VARIOUS ELECTIONS MATTERS. (WALKER G) Defines "election worker" and makes it a Level 6 felony to take certain actions: (1) for the purpose of influencing an election worker; (2) to obstruct or interfere with an election worker; or (3) that injure an election worker. Permits the use of an electronic device at a precinct or vote center to display a sample ballot. Provides, beginning January 1, 2024, that in a county that is not designated as a vote center county, a local public question or referendum may be placed on the ballot only at the following elections: (1) A general election. (2) A municipal general election, but only if the election district for the public question is contained entirely within a municipality. Provides, beginning January 1, 2024, that: (1) a state public question; or (2) an election of delegates to a convention to consider ratifying an amendment to the United States Constitution; may be placed on the ballot only at a general election. Specifies a temporary exception to the provisions concerning local public questions. Makes certain changes to the public question ballot language required for a controlled project referendum, school operations fund referendum, and school safety referendum. Declares confidential particular information that directly or indirectly indicates the selections made by a voter while voting in an election. Authorizes the repurposing of an electronic poll book unit as a device to display sample ballots if the electronic poll book software is deleted from the unit. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 4/17/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB227 | PAC CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES. (HUNLEY A) Provides that a political action committee (PAC) may not make total annual contributions in excess of an aggregate of $2,000 apportioned in any manner among all candidates for school board offices. Specifies a civil and criminal penalty for a PAC that violates this limitation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB229 | CHARTER SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS. (HUNLEY A) Provides that provisions regarding the following apply to charter schools: (1) Access to financial data for local schools. (2) Bullying prevention training for employees and volunteers. (3) Child suicide awareness and prevention policy requirements. (4) Training on human trafficking. (5) Staff performance evaluation plan requirements. (6) Curriculum. (7) Student discipline. (8) Criminal organization activity. (9) Student safety reporting. (10) Government funds and accounts. (11) Certain notice requirements regarding convictions of licensed employees. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB260 | STATE TAX CREDIT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION. (BUCHANAN B) Provides a 25% state tax credit for contributions made to a public school foundation for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023, and before January 1, 2026. Provides that the amount allowable as a credit in a taxable year may not exceed: (1) $1,000 in the case of an individual filing a single return or a corporation; or (2) $2,000 in the case of a married couple filing a joint return. Provides that the maximum amount of credits that may be awarded in a state fiscal year may not exceed $100,000. |
| | Current Status: | 4/17/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB268 | PROHIBITED PENSION SYSTEM INVESTMENTS. (GARTEN C) Prohibits the Indiana public retirement system from investing in certain restricted entities or restricted investment products, including particular investments publicly confirmed to be controlled by the People's Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party. Specifies exceptions, a divestment schedule, and reporting requirements. Adds a provision urging the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on pension management oversight the topic of studying whether to cease or defer divestment or resume investment in an entity or product in accordance with the provisions regarding divestment from Chinese companies. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2023 - Public Law 104
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| SB283 | MARION COUNTY ROAD FUNDING. (FREEMAN A) Provides that at least 65% of the funds distributed to a county containing a consolidated city from the motor vehicle highway account (MVHA) shall be used for the construction, reconstruction, and preservation of highways by the county and the consolidated city respectively. (Current law provides that at least 50% of the funds distributed to a county or a municipality from the MVHA is to be used for the construction, reconstruction, and preservation of the county or municipality's highways.) Provides that, for purposes of determining the right of the consolidated city to receive a distribution of money from the MVHA based on population, the population of all the territory of the consolidated city is considered its population. Provides that, beginning in calendar year 2024, the consolidated city must use: (1) the entire amount distributed to the consolidated city from the MVHA that is attributable to the consolidated city's population in Wayne, Pike, and Decatur townships not included in the population of the fire special service district; and (2) an appropriation that is the greater of $8,000,000 or the amount of the distribution from the MVHA that is attributable to the consolidated city's population in Wayne, Pike, and Decatur townships not included in the population of the fire special service district in the previous year; for the construction, reconstruction, and preservation of the consolidated city's local streets and alleys. Requires the Indiana department of transportation (department) to: (1) conduct a study, with advisement from the consolidated city, to determine the asset condition of the consolidated city's former state highways; (2) appear before the interim study committee on roads and transportation during the 2023 legislative interim to provide testimony on the department's findings and observations from the study; and (3) not later than November 1, 2023, report the department's findings and observations to the interim study committee on roads and transportation. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 179
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| SB292 | INPRS INVESTMENTS. (HOLDMAN T) Requires the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system (board) to make investment decisions with the primary purpose of maximizing the target rate of return on the board's investments. Prohibits the board from making an investment decision with the purpose of influencing any social or environmental policy or attempting to influence the governance of any corporation for nonpecuniary purposes. Specifies an exception. Requires the board to adopt a policy that ensures proxy voting and engagement is based primarily on maximizing the target rate of return on the board's investments. Provides certain guidelines and reporting requirements for proxy voting in relation to the administration of the public pension and retirement funds of the system. |
| | Current Status: | 4/17/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB305 | INDIANA EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP ACCOUNT PROGRAM. (BUCHANAN B) Amends the: (1) definition of "eligible student" for purposes of eligibility under the Indiana education scholarship account program (program); (2) definition of "qualified expenses" under the program to include additional items, including computer hardware or other technological devices, and remove certain in-person requirements; (3) grant amount that an eligible student may receive under the program; and (4) date by which a parent or emancipated student must open an education scholarship account to participate in the program. Provides that the treasurer of state shall accept applications July 1 through June 30 of each year for the immediately following school year. (Current law requires applications to be submitted for an eligible student not later than September 1 for the immediately following school year.) Establishes requirements regarding using grants under the program for computer hardware or other technological devices. Provides that at least 50% of the total number of grants awarded each school year must be awarded to students with a disability who require special education and for whom an individualized education program, service plan, or choice special education plan has been developed. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB308 | CANNABIS LEGALIZATION. (WALKER K) Establishes a procedure for the lawful production and sale of cannabis in Indiana. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB321 | STUDENT HEALTH MATTERS. (ZAY A) Allows a school corporation to contract with a health care provider, health system, or community partner to establish a school based health center (center) and provide services to certain students. Sets forth requirements to establish a center. Provides that the state board shall amend any rules necessary to comply with the requirements to establish a center. |
| | Current Status: | 4/17/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB324 | TORTS INVOLVING COMMERCIAL TRUCKING INDUSTRY. (GLICK S) Creates a procedure to bifurcate a trial of a civil action filed against the operator of a commercial motor vehicle and the employer of the operator or the owner of the commercial motor vehicle involved in a motor vehicle accident. Requires certain defendants to file a motion to bifurcate within a specified period of time. Provides that certain evidence may be presented in the first phase of a bifurcated trial. Allows a plaintiff to pursue punitive damages in the second phase of a bifurcated trial. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB327 | GARY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. (MISHLER R) Establishes procedures to appoint members to the governing body of the Gary Community School Corporation. Establishes procedures for transferring responsibility of financial and academic matters from the emergency manager to the governing body. Removes obsolete provisions and makes conforming amendments. Provides that not later than October 31, 2025, and each October 31 thereafter, the governing body must submit a report to the distressed unit appeal board (DUAB) summarizing the financial position and operations of the school corporation for the previous state fiscal year. Requires: (1) the governing body to submit a report concerning specified topics to the DUAB and the budget committee before July 1, 2026; and (2) the DUAB to present that report to the budget committee before November 1, 2026. Repeals provisions relating to the election of advisory board members for the Gary Community School Corporation. Provides that the DUAB may employ staff (instead of an executive director). Repeals provisions requiring the DUAB to pay the Muncie Community School's emergency manager's compensation and to reimburse the Muncie Community School's emergency manager for actual and necessary expenses. Repeals the fiscal and qualitative indicators committee (committee). Replaces references to the committee with references to the DUAB. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 184
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| SB330 | PAYROLL INFORMATION ON PUBLIC FINANCE CONSTRUCTION. (BOHACEK M) Requires a contractor in any contractor tier except for tier 1 (a general or prime contractor) on a: (1) public works project; or (2) a tax advantaged construction project; to complete a weekly report of wages and hours of the contractor's employees who work on the project. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB340 | IMAGINATION LIBRARY. (BECKER V) Establishes the Indiana imagination library. Provides that the state library shall administer the Indiana imagination library. Provides that the state library, in consultation with the department of education and the family and social services administration, shall either establish a statewide nonprofit organization or enter into an agreement with a statewide nonprofit organization to carry out the responsibilities related to statewide partnerships and programs. Requires that the statewide nonprofit organization manage the daily operations of and promote the program. Establishes the Indiana imagination library fund, which is nonreverting. Requires the state library, in conjunction with the statewide nonprofit organization, to review the program and report to the governor and the interim study committee on education by November 1 of each year, beginning November 1, 2023. Sets forth the information that the report must include. |
| | Current Status: | 4/17/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB342 | TEACHER HIRING. (FREEMAN A) Requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to consider using a more comprehensive expanded criminal history background check for employment. Repeals current law concerning a school corporation or charter school's employment of, or contracting with, certain individuals, and establishes a new section that: (1) prohibits a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school from employing or contracting with specified individuals; (2) after June 30, 2023, allows a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school to employ or contract with certain other individuals with a majority vote of the school board, or the equivalent for a charter school, or with a notification of the appointing authority. Specifies that "misconduct" includes certain specified acts. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school that receives a reference request from another school to disclose specified incidents to the requesting school. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2023 - Public Law 110
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| SB347 | WORK SHARING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS PROGRAM. (BASSLER E) 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. Makes a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB364 | PAID FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE PROGRAM. (POL R) Requires the department of workforce development (department) to establish a paid family and medical leave program (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 the administration of the program. Provides for the department to approve an employer's use of a private plan to meet the program obligations. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB366 | MINIMUM WAGE. (POL R) Increases, for any work week beginning on or after July 1, 2023, the minimum wage paid to certain employees from $7.25 per hour to $13 per hour. Repeals the prohibition of a local unit establishing, mandating, or requiring a minimum wage that exceeds the state or federal minimum wage. Makes conforming amendments and a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB367 | CHILD CARE FOR MILITARY FAMILIES. (DONATO S) Allows the family and social services administration to provide grants to assist licensed child care centers located near military bases in obtaining the national accreditation necessary for participation in a federal Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood fee assistance program. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB369 | AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR REQUIREMENTS. (ROGERS L) Provides that school coaches, assistant coaches, marching band leaders, drama and musical leaders, and extracurricular activity leaders may ensure that an operational automated external defibrillator (AED) is present at each event in which students have an increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest (event) for which the individual is providing coaching or leadership. Provides that the AED may be: (1) deployed in accordance with the venue specific emergency action plan; (2) located on the premises where the event occurs; and (3) present for the duration of the event. Allows two or more events to share an AED if certain conditions are met. Provides that school coaches, assistant coaches, marching band leaders, drama and musical leaders, and extracurricular activity leaders, at each event, may inform all individuals who are overseeing or supervising the activity of the location of the AED. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, and state accredited nonpublic school may: (1) ensure that each required AED is properly maintained; (2) develop a venue specific emergency action plan for sudden cardiac arrest (plan); (3) post the plan in a conspicuous place at an event; and (4) share the plan with the school board, school coaches, assistant coaches, marching band leaders, drama and musical leaders, extracurricular activity leaders, and applicable students. Requires a plan to: (1) establish a goal of responding within three minutes; and (2) require the performance of periodic drills. Provides that a school corporation, a charter school, a state accredited nonpublic school, or an accredited nonpublic school may apply for a grant from the Indiana secured school fund to purchase an AED under certain circumstances. Requires the department of education to conduct a statewide survey of school corporations, charter schools, and state accredited nonpublic schools to determine: (1) the number of AEDs owned before July 1, 2023, by schools; and (2) school policies in effect before July 1, 2023, regarding AEDs. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 187
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| SB394 | PREKINDERGARTEN LICENSING. (HUNLEY A) Provides that the department of education shall establish a program for individuals seeking to teach prekindergarten and that the individual needs an associate's degree from an accredited postsecondary educational institution. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB395 | ELIMINATION OF SCHOOL TEXTBOOK FEES. (HUNLEY A) Requires each public school to provide curricular materials at no cost to each student enrolled in the public school. Establishes the curricular materials fund (fund) to provide state advancements for costs incurred by public schools in providing curricular materials to students at no cost. Provides that the department of education shall administer the fund. Provides that money in the fund is continually appropriated. Provides that a governing body or organizer of a charter school: (1) may purchase from a publisher any curricular materials selected by proper officials; (2) may rent curricular materials to certain nonpublic schools; and (3) may not rent the curricular materials to any student enrolled in any public school. Repeals a requirement that a school corporation must offer curricular materials at a reasonable rate to a family that moves during the school term. Repeals a requirement that a township trustee must use specified accounting methods for a curricular materials rental fund. Makes conforming changes. Appropriates from the state general fund to the office of the secretary of family and social services an amount sufficient to meet maintenance of effort requirements for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023. Makes an appropriation from the state general fund to the curricular materials fund for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB403 | BACKGROUND CHECKS OF TEACHERS. (FREEMAN A) Requires a school to consider using a more comprehensive expanded criminal history background check for employment. Requires a school that receives a reference request from another school to disclose any known incident in which the employee was: (1) arrested; (2) charged with a criminal offense; (3) convicted of a criminal offense; (4) under court supervision or the supervision of a community correction program as the result of a conviction for a criminal offense (including being placed on home detention, work release, or intermittent incarceration); (5) the subject of a protection order; or (6) named as a defendant in a civil action if the civil action could affect the safety of students. Prohibits a school from hiring an employee involved in specified acts or incidents without a majority vote of the school board (or equivalent for a charter or nonpublic school), and provides that, if a school hires an employee involved in specified acts or incidents, the school shall: (1) notify the department of education in writing of the hiring; (2) explain why the hiring was necessary; and (3) set forth the school's plan to protect the safety of students in light of the act or incident. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB409 | TEACHER SALARIES. (DERNULC D) Provides that, for each school year beginning after June 30, 2024, a school corporation shall, if the school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot establish a minimum salary of $50,000 for each full-time teacher, submit a report to the department of education explaining the school corporation's inability to meet the minimum threshold requirement. (Current law establishes this requirement if a school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot establish a minimum salary of $40,000 for each full-time teacher.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB421 | UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. (POL R) Amends the definition of "wage credits". Specifies the rate for unemployment insurance benefits for initial claims filed by an individual who is totally unemployed for any week beginning after June 30, 2023. Specifies, for initial claims filed for any week beginning after June 30, 2023: (1) the maximum weekly benefit amount; and (2) an additional weekly benefit for eligible and qualified individuals with dependents. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB436 | GARY COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION. (MELTON E) Terminates the Gary Community School Corporation's (school corporation) status as a distressed political subdivision on June 30, 2024. Provides that the members of the governing body of the school corporation shall be elected at the municipal general election held on November 7, 2023, and take office upon taking the oath required by the Constitution of the State of Indiana not later than November 14, 2023. Requires the governing body to select a superintendent not later than February 1, 2024. Requires the emergency manager and chief financial officer to consistently inform the superintendent of the school corporation regarding the day to day operations of the school corporation. Requires the emergency manager to provide monthly financial and academic reports to the governing body. Provides that the current emergency manager's appointment terminates on June 30, 2024. Provides that the elected governing body assumes all powers, rights, duties, and obligations of the school corporation on July 1, 2024. Provides that, before the governing body sells real property, a building, or another structure owned by the school corporation, the governing body shall: (1) provide written notice to the mayor of the city of Gary at least 30 days before selling the real property, building, or other structure; and (2) provide public notice and hold at least one public hearing within the geographic boundaries of the school corporation to hear public testimony on the proposed sale. Transfers, not later than July 1, 2023, to the common school fund from the state general fund an amount sufficient to pay off all debts from advances and loans that were made to the school corporation from the common school fund. Removes or repeals provisions regarding the establishment and use of a school improvement fund. |
| | Current Status: | 3/7/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB467 | AGE FOR COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. (TAYLOR G) Provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year. (Current law provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB471 | UNIVERSAL CHILD CARE AND PRE-K. (QADDOURA F) Establishes a nonrefundable tax credit for an employer with 25 or fewer employees that makes contributions of at least $10,000 during the calendar year toward a qualified employee's cost for a qualified preschool program. Defines "qualified employee" and "qualified preschool program". Provides that the amount of the credit is equal to the lesser of: (1) $5,000; or (2) the taxpayer's adjusted gross income tax liability. Provides that a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal Child Care and Development Fund voucher program may continue to participate unless the child's family income exceeds 185% of the federal income poverty level. Increases the income cap of a family, from 125% to 185% of the federal poverty level, that may participate in the prekindergarten program (On My Way Pre-K program). Removes references in provisions pertaining to the On My Way Pre-K program as being a pilot program. Phases in a reduction in the age of compulsory school attendance, from seven years of age to four years of age. Establishes the prekindergarten capacity expansion grant program and fund. Provides that the program and fund are administered by the department of education (department). Provides that the department shall award grants to school corporations to increase the capacity of facilities to provide prekindergarten education. Repeals provisions defining a "limited eligibility child", "pilot fund" and "extended enrollment period" for purposes of the On My Way Pre-K program. Repeals the expiration date for the On My Way Pre-K program. Makes conforming amendments. Makes appropriations. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB486 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (ROGERS L) Repeals teacher training requirements regarding: (1) criminal gang organizations awareness; (2) certain information concerning homeless students; and (3) recognizing the signs and symptoms of seizures and the appropriate steps to be taken to respond to the symptoms; and requires that information concerning these subjects be included within the curriculum of teacher preparation programs. Provides that the department of education (department) may establish or license for use an online platform to provide information and training concerning these and other subjects. Removes certain requirements regarding annual performance evaluation plans for certificated employees, including: (1) certain content requirements; and (2) certain requirements that a plan be discussed. Amends requirements to be considered a probationary teacher and professional teacher. Provides that, after a school corporation has assigned an evaluator to perform a certificated employee's evaluation, the certificated employee may request the school corporation to assign another evaluator. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying current school assessments in an effort to reduce and streamline assessments for Indiana students. Removes a provision that requires a school employer to discuss certain items with the exclusive representative of certificated employees and provides that a school employer may discuss: (1) with a certificated employee or group of certificated employees; or (2) at one or more meetings that are open to all certificated employees; any topic that significantly impacts a certificated employee's working conditions or impacts the educational quality of the school employer's students. Repeals provisions concerning: (1) requirements regarding the adoption of model evaluation plans and an approval process for the plans; (2) the obligation to discuss certain items not requiring either party to enter into a contract, agree to a proposal, or make a concession; and (3) the definition of "discuss" for purposes of the collective bargaining provisions. |
| | Current Status: | 5/4/2023 - Public Law 200
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| SB488 | PAID PARENTAL LEAVE FOR SCHOOL EMPLOYEES. (BREAUX J) Establishes the families first paid parental leave program (program) for the purpose of awarding grants to eligible school corporations to provide paid parental leave to school employees. Requires the department of education (department) to establish and maintain the program. Provides that the department may award a grant to a school corporation in an amount sufficient to compensate a school employee of the school corporation for not more than six consecutive weeks of parental leave. Requires a school corporation that receives a grant to: (1) use the money from the grant to compensate a school employee at the school employee's regular rate of pay for the first six weeks of parental leave; and (2) compensate the school employee at the school employee's regular rate of pay for an additional six weeks of parental leave. Establishes the families first paid parental leave program fund. Requires the department to submit a report that includes certain information regarding the program to the general assembly not later than December 1, 2023, and December 1, 2024. Makes an appropriation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2023 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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