| HB1001 | STATE BUDGET. (HUSTON T) 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. Renames the build Indiana fund the lottery surplus fund. Eliminates all the build Indiana fund accounts. Declares the policy of the state that no person may be denied coverage for a preexisting condition under a plan of health coverage offered or administered by the state. Specifies that the preexisting condition exclusion provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) are in effect and enforced in Indiana, regardless of the legal status of the PPACA. Establishes the Indiana-Michigan boundary line commission to administer and oversee a survey and remonumentation of the Indiana-Michigan border. Eliminates the office of state based initiatives. Makes the budget agency responsible for coordinating federal assistance to state agencies. Prohibits certain state agency action regarding federal assistance. Requires state agencies to provide federal assistance information to the budget agency. Requires the budget agency to: (1) prepare an annual report summarizing the federal assistance received by state agencies during the preceding federal fiscal year; (2) publish a comprehensive federal assistance review plan; and (3) perform a review of the current impact and projected future impact of federal mandates and regulations on Indiana. Makes the budget agency the state's single point of contact to review and coordinate proposed federal financial assistance and direct federal development. Adds the two deputy budget directors as alternate members of the budget committee, and specifies that one of the deputy directors shall take the place of the budget director when the budget director is not present. Removes the restriction on the Indiana horse racing commission using money distributed under a distribution agreement for administrative purposes. Requires 0.45% of the adjusted gross receipts from each casino to be deposited in the horse racing commission's operating fund. Establishes the problem gambling program fund. Specifies that the part of the problem gambling fee that is retained annually by the Indiana gaming commission must be deposited into the fund. Provides that the money in the fund is continuously appropriated. Permits the trust fund for self-insurance for employees, including retired employees, for the state police department, conservation officers of the department of natural resources, and the state excise police to invest in the same investments as the state police pension plan instead of the public employees' retirement fund (the trust fund could not invest in equity securities). Permits the retiree health benefit trust fund to invest in the same investments as the public employees' retirement fund instead of in the same manner as public deposits may be invested. Requires a periodic actuarial study of the retiree health benefit trust fund. Provides that employer contributions to the retirement medical benefits account (RMBA) on behalf of a participant must be sufficient to provide the specified benefit. Changes the administration and investment decisions for the RMBA from the budget agency to the Indiana public retirement system (INPRS). Changes responsibility for reports concerning other post-employment benefits (OPEB) from the office of management and budget (OMB) to the INPRS. Changes responsibility for reports concerning local pensions from the OMB to the INPRS. Changes references to Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statements that apply to OPEB reports. Repeals the Indiana technology fund. Provides that a taxpayer may submit, beginning in 2021, a personal property tax return using an online submission system established by the department of local government finance in collaboration with county assessors. Replaces the postwar construction fund with a fund named the state construction fund. Dedicates $1,800,000 to the state construction fund from a part of the cigarette tax revenue formerly appropriated to the department of natural resources. Repeals the state police building account and directs the revenue formerly deposited in the account to the state construction fund. Establishes requirements to be eligible to claim the Indiana research expense income tax credit effective January 1, 2019. Increases the cap on the scholarship granting organization scholarship tax credit from $14,000,000 to $15,000,000 for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, and to $16,500,000 for state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2020. Repeals the income tax credit for property taxes paid by a for-profit acute care hospital. Provides various tax exemptions for the College Football Playoff Group for the College Football Playoff National Championship, including ancillary events. Provides that money in the department of state revenue pilot program fund for functions related to motor carrier services is continuously appropriated. Allocates a percentage of St. Joseph County innkeeper's tax revenue: (1) for the development and operation of an indoor sports complex in the city of Mishawaka; and (2) to finance projects for the Potawatomi Zoo in the city of South Bend. Expires both of these allocations and decreases the innkeeper's tax rate by the percentage allocated for the respective purposes on the later of: (1) July 1, 2024; or (2) a specified date to occur. Removes the reduction from the motor vehicle highway account fund for the appropriation to the department of transportation for traffic safety. Transfers $325,000 each month to the motor carrier regulation fund from the motor vehicle highway account fund. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles to determine the allocation to counties from the motor vehicle highway account fund that is based on motor vehicle registrations. Provides that proceeds received under the First Amendment to the Amended and Restated Indiana Toll Road Concession and Lease Agreement entered on September 21, 2018, are to be deposited in a new fund known as the toll road lease amendment proceeds fund for certain state highway projects. Appropriates $239,400,000 from the toll road lease amendment proceeds fund in state fiscal year 2019 to be used for the purposes of the fund. Terminates the appropriation to the state police department of part of the handgun license fees as of July 1, 2019. Transfers any balance remaining in the fund holding these fees to the state general fund on June 30, 2021. Requires the division of disability and rehabilitative services to establish a cost participation schedule for purposes of the first steps program. Repeals the statutory cost participation schedule. Provides that the money in the division of family resources child care fund is continuously appropriated. Removes the requirement that a school corporation distribute to the state general fund 3% of the federal reimbursement for claims paid under the federal Medicaid program. (Under current law, these funds distributed to the state general fund are dedicated for consulting to encourage school participation in the Medicaid program.) Extends the prohibition on the office of Medicaid policy and planning from including certain Medicaid recipients who receive nursing facility services in a Medicaid risk based managed care program or a capitated managed care program through June 30, 2020. Specifies conditions that apply to a Medicaid disproportionate |
| | Current Status: | 4/29/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/24/2019 - Conference Committee Report Adopted (H) Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 657: yeas 67, nays 31; Rules Suspended
4/24/2019 - Conference Committee Report Adopted (S) Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 625: yeas 41, nays 8; Rules Suspended
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1001 |
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| HB1029 | PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICING STUDY COMMITTEE. (SHACKLEFORD R) Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services the task of studying issues consumers face related to prescription drug pricing, access, and costs. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/10/2019 - Signed by the Governor
4/9/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1029 |
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| HB1084 | IDENTIFICATION THROUGH SURGICAL IMPLANTS. (MORRISON A) Allows a coroner to positively identify a dead person by tracking a unique identifying number on a surgically implanted medical device in the dead person's body. |
| | Current Status: | 4/18/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/17/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
3/28/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
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| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1084 |
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| HB1094 | AMBULANCE SERVICE PROGRAM MEMBERSHIP. (LINDAUER S) Increases from one year to five years the maximum period permitted for membership in an ambulance service program for the program to be exempt from regulation as an insurance product. |
| | Current Status: | 4/18/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/17/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
3/28/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1094 |
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| HB1182 | WORKER'S COMPENSATION. (LEHMAN M) Provides that, for worker's compensation purposes, an employee who leaves work to serve as a volunteer firefighter or member of a volunteer emergency medical services association (volunteer member) is considered an employee of the firefighting unit while in the performance of duties as a volunteer firefighter or volunteer member. Increases the maximum amount of burial expenses that an employer must pay under the worker's compensation act for the burial expenses of a covered employee who dies from an injury by an accident arising out of the employee's employment from $7,500 to $10,000. Increases the maximum amount of burial expenses that an employer must pay under the worker's occupational diseases compensation act for the burial expenses of an employee who dies from an occupational disease arising out of the employee's employment from $7,500 to $10,000. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/9/2019 - Signed by the President Pro Tempore
4/4/2019 - House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 412: yeas 65, nays 30
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| | Priority: | Tier 2 - Medium |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1182 |
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| HB1211 | ABORTION MATTERS. (MAYFIELD P) Provides that a person may not knowingly or intentionally perform a dismemberment abortion unless reasonable medical judgment dictates that performing the dismemberment abortion is necessary to: (1) prevent serious health risks to the mother; or (2) save the mother's life. Provides that the penalty for performing a dismemberment abortion is a Level 5 felony. Provides that certain individuals: (1) may petition for an injunction; (2) may bring an action for the recovery of damages; and (3) are entitled to attorney's fees; if a dismemberment abortion is performed. Provides anonymity safeguards in court or administrative actions for a woman on whom a dismemberment abortion was performed. Amends the definition of "abortion complication". |
| | Current Status: | 4/24/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/23/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
4/2/2019 - added as cosponsor Senator Young M
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| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1211 |
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| HB1269 | ADMINISTRATIVE BOARDS. (GUTWEIN D) Establishes the governor's security council. Abolishes the counterterrorism and security council and transfers the council's duties to the governor's security council. Abolishes the emergency alert system advisory committee. Abolishes: (1) the boiler and pressure vessel rules board; and (2) the regulated amusement device safety board; and transfers the boards' duties to the fire prevention and building safety commission (commission). Abolishes the emergency medical commission's technical advisory committee. Provides that the department of homeland security (department) may grant waivers to: (1) certain rules adopted by the Indiana emergency medical services commission; and (2) rules adopted by the board of firefighting personnel standards and education. Makes the following changes to the process for obtaining a variance to fire safety, building, and equipment rules: (1) Provides that the department and the commission may grant variances to rules adopted by the commission. (2) Provides that the department shall make each application for a variance available for review on a public portal. (3) Provides that local fire and building officials shall receive notice of variance applications filed within their respective jurisdictions. (4) Provides that a local fire official, local building official, or other interested party may submit documentation regarding a variance application to the department or the commission for review and consideration prior to an initial determination being made on the application by the department or the commission. (5) Provides that the department or commission shall wait at least five business days after a variance application is filed before making an initial determination on the application. (6) Provides that the commission may adopt emergency rules to implement the bill's changes to the variance application process. Provides that the department may engage in studies and consult with any person to implement fire safety, building, and equipment laws and rules, and that the commission may consult with industry experts or call a special meeting to discuss boiler and pressure vessels or regulated amusement devices. Requires the state building commissioner to create a data base cataloging variance rulings. (Current law allows the commissioner to create the data base.) Abolishes the Indiana dietitians certification board and transfers the board's duties to the medical licensing board of Indiana. Provides that members appointed to boards staffed by the professional licensing agency: (1) have four year term limits; (2) may serve multiple terms; (3) in certain instances, may not have more than two members from the same congressional district; (4) serve at the pleasure of the governor; and (5) must be removed under certain circumstances. Restructures the membership of the following boards: (1) Indiana board of accountancy. (2) Board of registration for architects and landscape architects. (3) Indiana athletic trainers board. (4) Indiana auctioneer commission. (5) Board of chiropractic examiners. (6) State board of funeral and cemetery service. (7) Indiana state board of health facility administrators. (8) Home inspectors licensing board. (9) State board of registration for professional surveyors. (10) State board of massage therapy. (11) Midwifery committee. (12) Behavioral health and human services licensing board. (13) Manufactured home installer licensing board. (14) Indiana optometry board. (15) Indiana plumbing commission. (16) Board of podiatric medicine. (17) Private investigator and security guard licensing board. (18) State psychology board. (19) Real estate appraiser licensure and certification board. (20) Speech-language pathology and audiology board. Amends professional experience qualifications for appointment of registered architects and registered landscape architects to the board of registration for architects and landscape architects to provide that the professional experience qualifications are preferences rather than requirements. Provides that to the extent possible, the governor shall appoint to the state board of registration for professional engineers individuals who serve or have served in diverse areas of professional practice. Makes technical changes. |
| | Current Status: | 5/5/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/11/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
4/10/2019 - House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 462: yeas 86, nays 7
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1269 |
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| HB1275 | SEPSIS TREATMENT GUIDELINES. (MAHAN K) Requires a hospital to adopt, implement, and periodically update evidence based sepsis guidelines for the early recognition and treatment of patients with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock that are based on generally accepted guidelines. Exempts certain hospitals. Establishes the sepsis treatment guideline task force (task force). Assigns the task force certain duties concerning evidence based sepsis guidelines, best practices, education materials, and appropriate data measures. Requires the state department of health to prepare a report on the implementation of the sepsis guidelines. |
| | Current Status: | 4/29/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/15/2019 - Signed by the President Pro Tempore
4/11/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
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| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1275 |
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| HB1294 | INSPECT PROGRAM. (ZENT D) Moves existing language concerning the central repository for controlled substances data from Title 35 to Title 25 and makes conforming changes. Specifies that a practitioner may obtain information about a patient directly through the Indiana scheduled prescription electronic collection and tracking program data base (INSPECT data base) or through the patient's integrated health record. Decreases the instances in which a Class A misdemeanor is a violation to when a practitioner discloses confidential information without authorization. (Current law provides for a Class A misdemeanor for any violation of the chapter.) Provides for instances in which a practitioner is not required to obtain information from the INSPECT data base. |
| | Current Status: | 4/18/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/17/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
3/28/2019 - Returned to the House without amendments
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1294 |
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| HB1308 | MEDICAID RECOVERY AUDITS. (BACON R) Sets forth requirements for Medicaid recovery audits of Medicaid providers. |
| | Current Status: | 4/29/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/15/2019 - Signed by the President Pro Tempore
4/11/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
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| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1308 |
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| HB1344 | NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT. (CLERE E) Specifies requirements for participation by the state in a multistate nurse licensure compact, including provisions concerning: (1) nurse qualifications, practice, and participation; (2) a compact commission; (3) interstate commission and state board of nursing authority and rulemaking; (4) a coordinated licensure information system; (5) oversight and enforcement; and (6) termination or withdrawal from the compact. Provides that an additional fee of $25 must be paid at the time of application and renewal of a license if the license is a multistate license. |
| | Current Status: | 4/29/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/24/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
4/17/2019 - House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 547: yeas 88, nays 4
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1344 |
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| HB1546 | PRIOR AUTHORIZATION AND MEDICAID. (KIRCHHOFER C) Specifies that after December 31, 2020 the prior authorization for health care services statute applies to the risk based managed care Medicaid program. Requires, after December 31, 2020, that a Medicaid managed care organization use a standardized prior authorization form prescribed by the office of the secretary of family and social services. |
| | Current Status: | 5/5/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/23/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
4/22/2019 - House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 583: yeas 85, nays 0
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| | Priority: | Tier 2 - Medium |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1546 |
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| HB1547 | CONSENT TO PREGNANCY SERVICES OF A MINOR. (KIRCHHOFER C) Allows a minor who is at least 16 years of age and: (1) pregnant; (2) in labor; or (3) postpartum; to consent to health care concerning the pregnancy, delivery, and pospartum care. Requires a health care provider to make a reasonable effort to contact a minor's parent or guardian before or at the initial appointment before providing treatment and document in writing each attempt to contact the parent or guardian. Requires the health care provider to act in the manner that is in the best interests of the minor and the fetus. Requires the health care provider to make an additional attempt to contact the parent or guardian of a minor for consent during specified times in the provision of care. Makes technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 4/29/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/18/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
4/10/2019 - House concurred in Senate amendments;
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1547 |
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| HB1548 | MEDICAID ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (KIRCHHOFER C) Adds appointments by the Indiana Association of Health Plans and the Indiana Primary Care Association to the Medicaid advisory committee (committee). Increases the membership of the committee by providing for the president pro tempore of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives to each appoint six members (instead of one member). Provides that three of the members appointed by the president pro tempore and three of the members appointed by the speaker shall serve on a standing fiscal subcommittee of the committee. Requires that three of the members appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and three of the members appointed by the president pro tempore be members of the minority party. Requires the committee to create a standing fiscal subcommittee. Provides that subcommittees of the committee may convene as often as needed. Requires the committee to review, study, and make advisory recommendations concerning certain subjects before July 1, 2021. |
| | Current Status: | 4/29/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/18/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
4/16/2019 - House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 540: yeas 93, nays 0
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1548 |
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| HB1569 | PROFESSIONAL LICENSING MATTERS. (ZENT D) Provides for an annual renewal process for appraisal management companies. Changes the designation of certified dietician to licensed dietician. Allows for a hearing aid dealer in training to fit or dispense hearing aids while under the supervision and direction of an individual who holds a temporary or valid hearing aid dealer certificate of registration. Defines a conviction of concern. Amends a provision concerning the way a conviction for a crime of concern affects an individual with a professional license or certification. Removes a provision that requires a dental hygienist to obtain and maintain a national provider identifier number. Allows for the state board of dentistry (board) to issue dental residency permits and dental faculty licenses. (Current law allows for the board to issue limited dental residency permits and limited faculty licenses.) Removes a provision that prohibits an Indiana dental school from having more than 10% of its full-time faculty licensed with an instructor's license. Makes various changes to provisions concerning how a conviction for a crime of concern affects an individual with a professional license or certification. |
| | Current Status: | 4/24/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/23/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
4/18/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1569 |
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| HB1652 | INSULIN ADMINISTERED BY MEDICATION AIDES. (LINDAUER S) Provides that the education and optional training programs approved by the state department of health (state department) for qualified medication aides must include a competency test and an optional training module for qualified medication aides in administering insulin. Provides that a qualified medication aide certified by the state department may administer insulin to a specific patient of a licensed health facility if certain requirements are met. Requires the state department, not later than December 31, 2019, to approve at least one optional training module in administering insulin. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/22/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
4/18/2019 - House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 568: yeas 90, nays 0
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | HB1652 |
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| SB112 | ANATOMICAL GIFTS AND INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES. (KOCH E) Prohibits certain health care entities from discriminating against potential transplant recipients solely on the basis of disability, and authorizes an individual to seek injunctive relief against an entity believed to be in violation of the law. Defines "covered entity". Defines "qualified recipient". Prohibits a state employee health plan, insurer, or health maintenance program from denying coverage for anatomical gifts, transplantation, or related treatment and services solely on the basis of disability. |
| | Current Status: | 4/3/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
3/19/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
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| | Priority: | Tier 2 - Medium |
| | State Bill Page: | SB112 |
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| SB133 | PRESCRIPTION DRUG LABEL. (LEISING J) Provides that if a pharmacist dispenses a prescription drug that contains or is derived from opium, the prescription label must bear a statement that the drug is an opioid. |
| | Current Status: | 5/1/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/22/2019 - Conference Committee Report Adopted (S) Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 551: yeas 48, nays 0
4/22/2019 - , (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 2:30 PM, Rm. 404
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB133 |
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| SB141 | OFFICE BASED OPIOID TREATMENT PROVIDERS. (HOUCHIN E) Specifies requirements that a health care provider that prescribes for a patient in an office based opioid treatment setting must meet in the treatment of the patient. Requires the medical licensing board of Indiana, in consultation with the state department of health and the office of the secretary of family and social services, to adopt rules or protocols concerning office based opioid treatment providers and: (1) treatment agreements; (2) periodic scheduled patient visits; (3) urine toxicology screenings; (4) HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C testing; and (5) the medical record documentation required for the prescribing of buprenorphine over a specified dosage. |
| | Current Status: | 5/5/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/9/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
4/4/2019 - Signed by the President Pro Tempore
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB141 |
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| SB170 | CHILD FATALITY REPORT INFORMATION. (LEISING J) Specifies that the report concerning child fatalities in Indiana must be completed before December 31 of each year for the preceding calendar year and include information concerning whether the death occurred: (1) while the child was placed in foster care; or (2) after the child, who was once placed in foster care, was returned to a natural parent. |
| | Current Status: | 4/25/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/24/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
4/9/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB170 |
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| SB174 | FERTILITY FRAUD AND DECEPTION. (SANDLIN J) Establishes a cause of action for civil fertility fraud and provides that a prevailing plaintiff may be awarded: (1) compensatory and punitive damages; or (2) liquidated damages of $10,000. Specifies the statute of limitations for civil fertility fraud. Increases the penalty for deception involving the identity of a person or the identity or quantity of property to a Level 6 felony if the offense involves a misrepresentation relating to: (1) a medical procedure, device, or drug; and (2) human reproductive material. Urges the legislative council to assign the topic of fertility laws, including gestational surrogacy, to an appropriate study committee. |
| | Current Status: | 5/5/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/23/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
4/16/2019 - Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 510: yeas 44, nays 1
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB174 |
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| SB176 | PRESCRIPTIONS. (GROOMS R) Allows certain prescriptions to be transmitted electronically. Requires dentists, physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, optometrists, physician assistants, and podiatrists to issue a prescription for a controlled substance in an electronic format and by electronic transmission after December 31, 2020. Provides exceptions to issuing an electronically transmitted prescription for a controlled substance. Requires the Indiana board of pharmacy to adopt rules concerning electronically transmitted prescriptions for controlled substances. Provides that dentists, physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, optometrists, physician assistants, and podiatrists are subject to disciplinary action for violating these provisions. Requires a pharmacy to transfer, upon the request of a patient, a prescription for the patient that the pharmacy has received but not filled to another pharmacy. Sets forth exceptions. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying: (1) the advantages, disadvantages, and feasibility of requiring health care providers to issue prescriptions in an electronic format and by electronic transmission; and (2) any exceptions that would be needed to a requirement for health care providers to issue prescriptions in an electronic format and by electronic transmission. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 4/18/2019 - Public Law 28
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| | Recent Status: | 4/18/2019 - Signed by the Governor
4/17/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB176 |
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| SB201 | HEALTH PROVIDER ETHICAL EXEMPTION. (BROWN L) Includes: (1) nurses; (2) physician assistants; and (3) pharmacists; in the prohibition from being required to perform an abortion or assist or participate in procedures intended to result in an abortion if the health care provider objects to the procedures on ethical, moral, or religious grounds. (Current law applies only to physicians and employees.) Adds a prohibition on requiring certain providers to prescribe, administer, or dispense an abortion inducing drug. |
| | Current Status: | 4/24/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/23/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
4/9/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB201 |
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| SB228 | DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MATTERS. (CHARBONNEAU E) Allows the state health commissioner to issue standing orders (current law allows for statewide standing orders) and sets forth requirements of a standing order. Removes the requirement that the state department of health (state department) adopt rules defining a birth problem. Requires the state department to publish a list annually of birth problems required to be reported and allows for the state department to update the list. Adds considerations by the state department in compiling the birth problem list. Allows the state department to release information in the immunization data registry to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Requires the state department to publish a list of reportable communicable diseases and other diseases and conditions that are a danger to health and to publish the list of control measures for the diseases and conditions on the state department's Internet web site. Sets forth considerations in updating the list of communicable diseases and conditions. |
| | Current Status: | 5/5/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/18/2019 - Conference Committee Report Adopted (S) Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 539: yeas 44, nays 0
4/18/2019 - Conference Committee Report Adopted (H) Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 561: yeas 91, nays 0; Rules Suspended
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB228 |
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| SB278 | LOCAL FETAL-INFANT MORTALITY REVIEW TEAMS. (LEISING J) Allows certain persons to establish a local fetal-infant mortality review team (review team) to review fetal deaths and infant deaths to gather information to improve community resources and systems of care. Sets forth duties of a review team. Specifies records related to a death that may be reviewed by the review team, access to the records, and confidentiality of the records. Requires the employment of a statewide fetal-infant mortality review coordinator and specifies duties of the coordinator. Requires a review team to submit a report before July 1 of each year to the state department of health concerning the reviews conducted by the review team. Provides certain civil and criminal immunity for review team members and certain individuals who attend meetings at the invitation of the chairperson of a review team. |
| | Current Status: | 4/18/2019 - Public Law 31
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| | Recent Status: | 4/18/2019 - Signed by the Governor
4/17/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB278 |
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| SB333 | BODY CAVITY SEARCHES AND BLOOD DRAWS. (GROOMS R) Establishes a procedure authorizing licensed medical personnel to obtain a body fluid sample or to retrieve contraband from the body cavity of an individual as part of a criminal investigation, and, grants, with certain exceptions, immunity to medical personnel. Provides a method for certain emergency medical services providers and law enforcement officers who have been exposed to blood or body fluids to obtain the results of a test for a dangerous communicable disease. Establishes a procedure for a court to issue an emergency ex parte order for a blood or body fluid specimen. |
| | Current Status: | 5/5/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/24/2019 - Conference Committee Report Adopted (S) Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 614: yeas 49, nays 0; Rules Suspended
4/24/2019 - Conference Committee Report Adopted (H) Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 645: yeas 93, nays 0; Rules Suspended
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB333 |
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| SB424 | PRIVACY AND TRACKING OF RAPE KITS. (CRIDER M) Provides that a hospital or licensed medical services provider that provides forensic medical exams and additional forensic services to a victim (provider) is entitled to reimbursement from the victim services division of the Indiana criminal justice institute (division) if the provider initiates a claim for reimbursement through the sexual assault web based claims reimbursement and tracking system. Provides that personal information: (1) concerning a sexual assault victim; and (2) entered into the division's web based claims reimbursement and sexual assault examination kit tracking system; is confidential in certain instances. Provides that notification of a forensic sample's destruction may be provided by the division through the sexual assault web based claims reimbursement and tracking system. Requires law enforcement agencies and prosecuting attorneys to cooperate with the division by providing storage updates to the division via the sexual assault web based claims reimbursement and tracking system. Allows a victim to register for notifications concerning a sexual assault examination kit through the sexual assault web based claims reimbursement and tracking system. Defines certain terms. Makes conforming amendments. Makes technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 4/18/2019 - Public Law 36
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| | Recent Status: | 4/18/2019 - Signed by the Governor
4/17/2019 - Signed by the President of the Senate
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB424 |
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| SB561 | FORENSIC MEDICINE. (HOUCHIN E) Establishes the office of forensic medical studies as a division of the state police department. Requires the state police department, in consultation with the Indiana State Coroner's Association, Indiana Sheriff's Association, and coroner's training board, to study the need for a state medical examiner, and provides that the department may employ a physician to assist with the study. Specifies the qualifications of a person who may perform an autopsy. |
| | Current Status: | 4/25/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/16/2019 - Signed by the Speaker
4/8/2019 - Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 414: yeas 46, nays 2
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| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | SB561 |
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| SB575 | HOSPITALS. (CHARBONNEAU E) Requires the executive board of the state department of health to amend a rule to reflect current private publications used in hospital licensure rules. Beginning May 1, 2020, provides that a hospital license expires every two years from the date of issuance. (Current law provides that a hospital license to expire one year after issuance.) Urges legislative council to assign the topic of hospital licensure to an interim study committee during the 2019 interim and sets forth requirements of the study. |
| | Current Status: | 4/29/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/16/2019 - Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 512: yeas 47, nays 0
4/16/2019 - Concurrences Eligible for Action
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| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | SB575 |
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| SR22 | URGING THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO ASSIGN TO THE APPROPRIATE STUDY COMMITTEE THE TOPIC OF MEDICAL REIMBURSEMENT UNDER WORKER'S COMPENSATION FOR AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTERS. (BOOTS P) A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the legislative council to assign to the appropriate study committee the topic of medical reimbursement under worker's compensation for ambulatory surgical centers. |
| | Current Status: | 2/19/2019 - Second reading adopted voice vote
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| | Recent Status: | 2/19/2019 - Senate Resolutions Eligible for Adoption
2/18/2019 - Senate Resolutions Eligible for Adoption
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| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | SR22 |
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