Provides tax credits for: (1) the sale of higher ethanol blend; and (2) the: (A) sale of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel; and (B) blending of biodiesel or renewable diesel. Provides that the amount of the higher ethanol blend tax credit is $0.05 per gallon of higher ethanol blend sold at the taxpayer's fueling station. Provides that the total amount of higher ethanol blend tax credits that may be awarded for a state fiscal year may not exceed $10,000,000. Provides that the amount of the tax credit for blended biodiesel or renewable diesel is computed as follows: (1) $0.05 per gallon of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel of at least 5% but not more than 10%: (A) sold at the taxpayer's fueling station; or (B) sold by a distributor directly to the final user. (2) $0.10 per gallon of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel that is more than 10% but not more than 20%: (A) sold at the taxpayer's fueling station; or (B) sold by a distributor directly to the final user. (3) $0.18 per gallon of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel that is more than 20%: (A) sold at the taxpayer's fueling station; or (B) sold by a distributor directly to the final user. (4) For a person who blends biodiesel or renewable diesel the product of: (A) $0.035; multiplied by (B) the number of gallons of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel that is more than 5% and produced by blending biodiesel or renewable diesel at a terminal located in Indiana. Provides that the tax credit for blended biodiesel or renewable diesel is refundable. Provides that the total amount of blended biodiesel or renewable diesel tax credits that may be awarded for a state fiscal year may not exceed $5,000,000.
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION opposing assisted medical suicide.
Requires the Indiana department of health (state department) to establish and implement a statewide stroke plan. Sets forth requirements of the plan and requirements for certain health care providers to report stroke data. Requires the state department to establish a data base for the reported data and sets forth additional requirements. Requires the state department to annually report certain stroke data to the governor and the executive director of the legislative services agency.
Requires the Indiana department of health (department) to establish and administer a medical school loan forgiveness pilot program (program) for the purpose of attracting physicians to practice medicine in Indiana. Establishes the medical school loan forgiveness fund (fund). Sets forth criteria for the program. Requires the department to, not later than November 1, 2025, and each November 1 thereafter, prepare and submit a report to the general assembly regarding the program. Makes an appropriation to the fund.
Authorizes the managed care assessment fee to be assessed against specified insurers and administered by the office of the secretary of family and social services. Establishes the managed care assessment fee committee. Sets forth requirements of the managed care assessment fee. Establishes the high risk pool fund. Expires the managed care assessment fee on June 30, 2025. Allows certain providers to contractually agree to a different reimbursement rate with a managed care organization as part of a value based services contract. Excludes hospitals and private psychiatric hospitals. Provides for payments to hospitals out of the phase out trust fund and expires the fund. Exempts: (1) physician owned hospitals; and (2) hospitals that only provide respite care to certain individuals; from the hospital assessment fee. Makes assessment of the hospital assessment fee subject to federal approval of changes made by this act. Requires the hospital assessment fee committee to: (1) review and approve the quality program; and (2) be guided to ensure hospitals are reimbursed at a rate that meets specified requirements. Specifies components of a state directed payment program. Specifies uses of the hospital assessment fee and that hospital assessment fees will not be used for disproportionate share payments if the state directed payment program is implemented. Reduces the hospital fee assessment by the managed care assessment fee and the payment from the phase out trust fund. Requires the commissioner of the department of insurance to revoke or suspend the authority of a managed care organization to do business in Indiana if the managed care organization fails to pay the managed care assessment fee. Repeals language concerning the hospital care for the indigent program. Repeals language specifying the distribution of the hospital assessment fee.
Defines "DNR best available data" as: (1) flood hazard mapping data that were created by the department of natural resources (department) and are available on January 1, 2024, on the Indiana Floodplain Information Portal; or (2) any other mapping data created by the department after October 2018 at least in part through the use of techniques other than direct observation and measurement by individuals physically present on the land that is the subject of the mapping data. Amends the law under which a person applying to a county or municipality for a permit authorizing a structure or construction activity in or near a floodplain must be allowed to make an election as to the mapping data to be used by the local floodplain administrator when reviewing the person's permit application to provide that the person may elect to have the local floodplain administrator use the applicable flood insurance rate map (FIRM) if the county or municipality participates in the National Flood Insurance Program. Amends the law giving the holder of an interest in a parcel of property the right to obtain, at no cost, a detailed hydraulic modeling method review by the department of the DNR best available data applying to the parcel to provide that, if a review results in a revision of the DNR best available data applying to the parcel, the department: (1) shall incorporate the revised data applying to the parcel into the DNR best available data accessible on the Indiana Floodplain Information Portal; and (2) shall ensure that the revised DNR best available data is used in the preparation by the department of any new preliminary FIRM. Provides that, after March 31, 2024, when the department makes public any new DNR best available data, the department shall provide a written notice about the new DNR best available data by first class mail to the owners of parcels of property that were not previously included in a floodway or flood hazard area under the applicable FIRM or other mapping data but may be so included under the new DNR best available data, or that were previously included in a floodway or flood hazard area under the applicable FIRM or other mapping data but may not be so included under the new DNR best available data. Provides that, after March 31, 2024, the department may not participate in an action to prepare a new FIRM for a county or municipality participating in the National Flood Insurance Program based on DNR best available data unless the department has: (1) provided a written notice by first class mail to an owner of each parcel that was not previously included in a floodway or flood hazard area under the existing FIRM but may be so included under the new FIRM based on the DNR best available data, or was previously included in a floodway or flood hazard area under the existing FIRM but may not be so included under the new FIRM based on the DNR best available data; and (2) held a public meeting about the DNR best available data. Provides that a parcel owner who is provided a written notice from the department about the potential preparation of a new FIRM based on the DNR best available data may request a department review of the DNR best available data applying to the parcel, but must do so not more than 120 days after the department holds the public meeting about the DNR best available data. Provides that if a review by the department of the DNR best available data applying to a parcel is requested, the department may not prepare a new FIRM based on the DNR best available data applying to the parcel until the review is concluded.
Requires health plans, subject to applicable deductible and coinsurance for a state employee health plan, to provide reimbursement for emergency medical services that are performed or provided during a response initiated as part of a mobile integrated healthcare program currently established in Delaware, White, and Montgomery counties. Provides that the reimbursement for emergency medical services that are performed or provided as part of a mobile integrated healthcare program in Delaware, White, and Montgomery counties shall be in effect from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027. Requires the department of insurance (department) to compile a report detailing any cost changes based on claims data, as a result of the reimbursement for emergency medical services that are performed or provided as part of a mobile integrated healthcare program in Delaware, White, and Montgomery counties. Requires the department to compile the report not later than July 1, 2026.
Provides that the price that a health plan, third party administrator, or pharmacy benefit manager sets for a covered individual's purchase of a prescription drug from a pharmacist or pharmacy must be equal to or less than the amount directly or indirectly paid by the health plan, third party administrator, or pharmacy benefit manager to the pharmacist or pharmacy for the prescription drug.
Changes the name of the bureau of developmental disabilities services to the bureau of disabilities services. Removes certain members from the 211 advisory committee. Repeals Medicaid copayment provisions that: (1) require the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to apply a copayment for certain Medicaid services; (2) require a recipient to make a copayment upon the receipt of services and for a provider not to voluntarily waive a copayment; (3) set forth exemptions from copayment requirements; and (4) require the provider to charge the maximum allowable copayment. Allows for an enrollment fee, a premium, a copayment, or a similar charge to be imposed as a condition of an individual's eligibility for the healthy Indiana plan and the children's health insurance program. Removes a prohibition on the office from: (1) requiring certain providers to submit non-Medicaid revenue information in the provider's annual historical financial report; and (2) only requesting balance sheets from certain providers that apply directly to the provider's facility. Allows the office to implement an end of therapy reclassification methodology in a successor of the RUG-IV, 48-Group model for payment of nursing facility services.
Provides that, subject to certain procedures and requirements, the office of the secretary of family and social services may apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services: (1) for a Medicaid state plan amendment, a waiver, or an amendment to an existing waiver to require reimbursement for eligible certified community behavioral health clinic services; or (2) to participate in the expansion of a community mental health services demonstration program. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to establish and maintain a help line: (1) to provide confidential emotional support and referrals to certain resources to individuals who call the help line; and (2) that is accessible by calling a toll free telephone number. Establishes the Indiana behavioral health commission (commission) and sets forth the commission's membership. Changes the name of the "9-8-8 crisis hotline center" to "9-8-8 crisis response center". Makes conforming changes.