Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying specific issues concerning homeowners associations.
Memorializing Representative Sally J. Siegrist.
Establishes a "right to start act". Requires the department of administration, the department of workforce development, and the Indiana economic development corporation to annually file reports with the general assembly. Requires the state to encourage 5% of the total number of state contracts to be awarded to businesses that have been in operation for fewer than five years and whose principal place of business is in Indiana. Requires the state to encourage 5% of workforce development funding, including funding allocated by workforce development boards across Indiana, to be used to support organizations or programs for individuals starting new businesses or to those organizations or programs that provide services to businesses established within the previous five years and whose principal place is located within Indiana. Requires the state to encourage 5% of funding budgeted for economic development programs to be allocated to supporting organizations or programs for individuals starting new businesses or to those organizations or programs that provide services to businesses established within the previous five years and whose principal place of business is located within Indiana. Requires the state to encourage the elimination of all first year business fees relating to any license or registration for any new business or person establishing a new business, including home based businesses, whose principal place of business is located within Indiana.
Provides that if the dispositional decree entered in the case of a child who is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian provides for reunification of the child with the parent, guardian, or custodian, the department of child services (department) shall conduct random, unannounced, in-home, face-to-face assessments of the child not less than once each week for the first six months following the child's return to the home. Provides that: (1) if the dispositional decree entered in the case of a child who is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian: (A) provides for reunification of the child with the parent, guardian, or custodian; and (B) requires the parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in an addiction treatment program; the dispositional decree must require the parent, guardian, or custodian to submit to weekly, random drug testing for the first six months following the child's return to the home; and (2) if the parent, guardian, or custodian tests positive for a controlled substance or fails to submit to a required drug test after the child's return to the home, the department shall change the placement of the child and file an emergency motion with the court or request the court to issue a temporary order for an emergency change in the child's placement. Provides that if a child who is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian is returned to the home of the parent, guardian, or custodian for purposes of a trial home visit, the department shall conduct random, unannounced, in-home, face-to-face assessments of the child not less than once each week for the duration of the trial home visit. Provides that: (1) if a child is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian and the child's dispositional decree requires the child's parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in an addiction treatment program, the dispositional decree must require that the parent, guardian, or custodian submit to weekly, random drug testing for the duration of a trial home visit; and (2) if the parent, guardian, or custodian tests positive for a controlled substance or fails to submit to a required drug test during a trial home visit, the department shall terminate the trial home visit. Provides that a trial home visit must be at least three months in duration, subject to circumstances necessitating removal of the child from the home. Provides that if a dispositional decree requires a child's parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in a program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation and the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian has failed to make consistent and timely progress toward the goals set forth in the dispositional decree: (1) the department: (A) shall not allow the parent, guardian, or custodian supervised visitation with the child until the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian is making consistent and timely progress toward the goals set forth in the dispositional decree; and (B) shall not return the child to the home of the parent, guardian, or custodian, including for purposes of a trial home visit, or allow the parent, guardian, or custodian unsupervised visitation with the child, until the parent, guardian, or custodian completes the services required under the program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation; and (2) the court shall not modify the dispositional decree to reduce the number of services in which the parent, guardian, or custodian is required to participate unless the court finds that a compelling reason exists for the modification.
Establishes the child services workforce stabilization fund (fund) for the provision of grants by the department of child services (department) to child services providers for the purpose of addressing costs associated with increased wages for direct care staff. Prescribes: (1) requirements for grant applications; and (2) reporting requirements for grant recipients. Prescribes requirements for reporting by the department to: (1) the commission on improving the status of children in Indiana; and (2) the general assembly; regarding the grant program. Provides that the fund sunsets on June 30, 2025.
Increases the amount from $1,000 to $1,500 per dependent child for purposes of the unreimbursed education expenditure tax deduction. Repeals the provision providing a tax credit for contributions to an ABLE account and replaces it with a provision with retroactive language that increases the credit to: (1) $750 for an individual filing a single return; and (2) $1,500 for a married couple filing a joint return. Provides a tax credit for contributions made to a public school foundation in an amount that may not exceed: (1) $750 for an individual filing a single return; and (2) $1,500 for a married couple filing a joint return. Provides that any combination of credits claimed under the ABLE account credit and the public school foundation credit may not exceed: (1) $750 for an individual filing a single return; and (2) $1,500 for a married couple filing a joint return.
Establishes the workforce development board grant program and the workforce development board grant program fund. Requires the department of workforce development to annually award grants to each of the 12 workforce development boards in Indiana. Specifies that grants must be used to: (1) serve individuals that are not eligible for services; and (2) leverage existing funding; under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014. Makes an appropriation.
Removes medical equipment and supplies from the list of items or services for which the office of the secretary of family and services (office) may seek competitive bids for the Medicaid program. Specifies that the office, managed care organizations, subcontractors, and third party administrators must reimburse: (1) durable medical equipment; (2) complex rehabilitation technology; and (3) supplies; at a rate that is at least 100% of the rate in specified fee schedules. Requires the office to develop and implement a tool to assist in the determination of capped rental payments for certain items. Adds a member to the Medicaid advisory committee.
Provides that if the department of child services (department) takes a child into custody, the department may not release the child to the child's parent, guardian, or custodian if: (1) the parent, guardian, or custodian, or a household member of the parent, guardian, or custodian, is the subject of a substantiated allegation of abuse of a child; and (2) the child expresses a desire to not be released to the parent, guardian, or custodian; and may not allow the parent, guardian, or custodian to have contact with the child until: (A) the child consents to contact with the parent, guardian, or custodian; or (B) the child's child in need of services case is closed; whichever occurs first. Provides that if a dispositional decree requires a child's parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in a program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation and the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian has failed to make consistent and timely progress toward the goals set forth in the dispositional decree, the department: (1) may not return the child to the home of the parent, guardian, or custodian; and (2) may not allow the parent, guardian, or custodian in person contact with the child unless the contact is approved as being in the child's best interest by: (A) a court appointed special advocate or guardian ad litem; and (B) a licensed marriage and family therapist, if one has been appointed for the child; until the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian is making consistent and timely progress toward the goals set forth in the dispositional decree. Provides that if, in a 12 month periodic case review for a child in need of services, the court finds that the child's parent, guardian, or custodian has failed to make consistent and timely progress in any service that was ordered by the court and that was made available to the parent, guardian, or custodian by the department, the court shall order: (1) that the permanency plan for the child be changed to a concurrent plan in which at least one intended permanency arrangement is not reunification; or (2) that the intended permanency arrangement for the child be changed to placement of the child for adoption. Provides: (1) that in a 15 month periodic case review for a child in need of services, the court shall order: (A) that the permanency plan for the child be changed to a concurrent plan in which at least one intended permanency arrangement is not reunification; or (B) that the intended permanency arrangement for the child be changed to placement of the child for adoption; and (2) that thereafter, the intended permanency arrangement for the child may not be changed to solely reunification. Amends and adds to the conditions under which reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian, or preserve a child's family, are not required. Provides that: (1) if a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child in need of services is involuntarily discharged three or more times from a program or service in which the parent, guardian, or custodian is required to participate under the child's dispositional decree, the court may order the parent, guardian, or custodian to pay the cost of subsequent participation in the program or service; and (2) if the dispositional decree requires the parent, guardian, or custodian to submit to drug testing and the parent, guardian, or custodian: (A) tests positive for a controlled substance; or (B) fails to submit to a required drug test; three or more times, the court may order the parent, guardian, or custodian to pay the cost of any subsequent drug testing required under the dispositional decree. Establishes conditions under which a parent's consent to termination of the parent's parent-child relationship with respect to a child is implied without further action of the court, and provides that the parent's implied consent is a factor weighing in favor of terminating the parent's relationship with the child. Provides that a court finding that a parent has failed to make consistent and timely progress in any service that was ordered by the court in a dispositional decree and that was made available to the parent by the department is a factor weighing in favor of terminating the parent's relationship with the child. Requires termination of the parent-child relationship with regard to a child who is: (1) taken into custody; and (2) adjudicated a child in need of services; on two separate occasions in a two year period. Provides, for purposes of a petition to terminate the parent-child relationship, that: (1) the court finding that there is a satisfactory plan for the care and treatment of the child, and that the plan is in the child's best interests, is a factor weighing in favor of terminating the parent-child relationship; and (2) if the intended permanency arrangement for the child is placement of the child for adoption, a specific adoptive home need not have been identified in order for the plan to be satisfactory or in the child's best interests.
Provides that the department of child services (department) shall disclose to the public certain information regarding child fatalities or near fatalities. Provides that, upon request, the department shall provide additional information regarding cases of child fatalities or near fatalities after consulting with the county attorney about the potential for specific, material harm to a criminal investigation or prosecution. Allows a person to bring a cause of action to seek judicial review of the department's decision not to disclose additional information. Makes technical and conforming changes.
