Rep. Kyle Pierce

Provides that, beginning with the cohort of students who are expected to graduate from a public school or a charter school in 2027, an individual must successfully complete a personal financial responsibility course (course) before the individual may graduate. Creates requirements for content that must be covered in a course. Provides that a public school or charter school may offer instruction on a course as a separate subject or as units incorporated into appropriate subjects. Provides that a course may qualify as a mathematics credit for an alternative diploma under if offered as a separate subject.

Provides that the commission for higher education may administer a program to support JobSource, Inc., for the management of the Heartland/Anderson Scholar House. Provides that the purposes of the program include: (1) the expansion of program participant services; (2) residential and other support facility improvements and a one time debt reduction of $250,000; (3) outreach to impoverished single mothers in minority communities; and (4) the provision of a scholarship gap fund for graduates staying in Indiana. Provides that administration costs incurred in the management of the Heartland/Anderson Scholar House may not exceed two percent 2% of the total program costs

Recognizing Larry Van Ness.

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.

Increases the personal allowance for residential care recipients and Medicaid recipients from $52 to $100.

Legalizes the sale and use of cannabis by a person at least 18 years of age. Requires the Indiana department of health to establish a program to issue a medical cannabis identification card to a patient whose physician has recommended cannabis to treat a medical condition. Permits the sale of cannabis to a person less than 18 years of age if the person has been issued a medical cannabis identification card, and exempts purchases by a medical cannabis cardholder from sales tax. Makes conforming amendments.

Adds Elwood Community School Corporation, Anderson Community Schools, Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation, Center Grove Community School Corporation, Greenwood Community School Corporation, and Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation to the school corporations that are part of the high school equivalency pilot program. Changes the expiration date of the program from June 30, 2024, to June 30, 2026. Makes conforming changes and a technical correction.

Provides that transactions involving tangible personal property are exempt from the state gross retail and use tax if the person acquiring the property acquires it for providing services as part of a blight clearance program funded by a community development block grant administered by the office of community and rural affairs.

Provides that a segregated account (account) shall be established within the rural economic development fund to provide funding for supplemental grants. Provides that an entity that receives a community block grant from the office of community and rural affairs is entitled to a $50,000 supplemental grant from the account. Makes an appropriation.

Allows a credit against a qualified taxpayer's state tax liability in an amount equal to: (1) 20% of the qualified expenditures that a taxpayer makes for the preservation or rehabilitation of the taxpayer's residence; or (2) 55% of the qualified expenditures that a taxpayer makes for the replacement of electrical wiring and fixtures that were added to the property prior to 1940. Provides that the property must be: (1) located in Indiana; (2) at least 85 years old; and (3) owned by the taxpayer. Provides that the preservation or rehabilitation work must be completed in not more than two years. Provides that the property must be principally used and occupied by the taxpayer as the taxpayer's residence. Provides that qualified expenditures for preservation or rehabilitation of the property must exceed $5,500. Provides that the credit may be carried forward 15 years, but may not be carried back. Provides that the amount of credits allowed may not exceed $100,000 in a state fiscal year. Provides that a taxpayer that claims the credit may not also claim the residential historic rehabilitation credit for the taxable year.