Requires the board of animal health to establish: (1) standards of care for animals donating blood at an animal blood bank; and (2) a routine inspection program for animal blood banks.
Provides a sales tax exemption for the sale or furnishing of the following services or commodities by a power subsidiary or a person engaged as a public utility to a person for commercial or domestic consumption: (1) Electrical energy. (2) Natural or artificial gas. (3) Water. (4) Steam. (5) Steam heating service.
Provides an assessed value stabilization deduction for homestead property after applying the standard homestead and supplemental homestead deductions taking into account the year over year change in the homestead's assessed value compared to the year over year change in the Consumer Price Index.
Provides a maximum property tax liability credit for homestead property. Specifies a credit amount for certain qualified individuals and specifies the credit amount for all other homestead owners.
Provides that it is a deceptive act enforceable by the attorney general for a person to: (1) convey or attempt to convey; or (2) conspire to convey or attempt to convey; title to real property by recording a false or fraudulent deed or affidavit.
Increases the maximum amount of covered taxes that may be captured in the Evansville professional sports and convention development area from $10 per resident to $5,000,000.
Requires the state board of accounts to conduct examinations of townships not less than once every two years (rather than not less than once every four years under current law).
Allows a court to order that a sex offender, whose victim was under 14 years of age, may only be eligible for parole, probation, or community corrections if the sex offender consents to chemical castration treatment. Makes it a Level 4 felony if a person who consents to chemical castration treatment knowingly or intentionally stops receiving the chemical castration treatment. Requires the department of correction to administer, or contract with a provider to administer, chemical castration treatments.
Establishes the telephone assistance line for mothers program for the purpose of providing a telephone assistance line for mothers who are experiencing behavioral health issues to connect with health care providers to obtain behavioral health resources.
HJR 4 is a proposed constitutional amendment that would establish specific health care rights for patients in the state. The bill, authored by Representative Summers and referred to the Judiciary Committee, aims to define these rights but does not specify their exact nature in the provided abstract. As a constitutional amendment, it would directly affect all patients receiving health care services within the state. The official abstract states it provides "certain health care rights" but lacks details on the specific provisions or mechanisms, so the exact changes cannot be described from the given information. This is a procedural step requiring constitutional amendment approval, not a direct legislative change to existing law.
Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to, subject to federal approval, provide Medicaid reimbursement for certified medical interpretation services for Medicaid recipients who have limited English proficiency when receiving Medicaid covered services from a Medicaid provider. Requires the establishment of a community advisory committee.
HB 1465 makes minor technical corrections to align the Office of Administrative Law Proceedings' procedures with changes in HEA 1003-2024. It does not create new policies but adjusts existing administrative language to ensure consistency. The bill directly affects how the Office of Administrative Law Proceedings operates its procedural rules. This is a procedural adjustment, not a substantive policy change.
