Urges the legislative council to assign the topic of various housing matters to the appropriate interim study committee.
Allows a state agency to adopt a policy governing electronic meetings conducted by a board or committee of the agency, if the board or committee has not adopted a policy. Allows the reinstatement of a professional license that was retired, inactive, or surrendered (inactive) if the applicant meets the requirements for a delinquent or lapsed license. Provides that provisions regarding reinstatement of a retired license do not apply if the license was retired while a complaint or investigation regarding professional conduct was pending. Provides that the reinstatement law applies to all licenses that were inactive for more than three years. Requires, for purposes of the license reinstatement law, that each board make available a list of standards that require a personal appearance before the board. Requires a provider of a continuing education course to: (1) obtain approval of the course from the licensing board; and (2) provide the licensing board or agency with a certificate showing that a practitioner completed a course. Eliminates random continuing education audits of practitioners. Adds certain nonhealth professions to the professions that an out-of-state applicant may use to apply for license under the general reciprocity law. Provides that if a board does not act on an application within one year for an applicant who holds a provisional license or provisional certificate under the reciprocity law, the professional licensing agency shall issue the applicant a license or certificate. Allows the use of certain titles by an individual who is enrolled in or has graduated from a school of architecture or an accredited curriculum of landscape architecture.
Removes certain sentencing enhancements for battery and malicious mischief that relate to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Repeals certain offenses concerning the donation, sale, or transfer of blood or semen that contains HIV. Defines "responding safety officer" and makes battery by body waste a Level 5 felony if committed against a responding safety officer and certain other circumstances apply. Makes it a Level 6 felony for a person with a serious communicable disease who is not in compliance with a treatment plan to engage in a high risk activity with another person and not inform the other person of the disease.. Makes conforming amendments.
Makes changes to the membership compositions of redevelopment commissions. Provides that the president and vice president of a redevelopment commission shall not have the same appointing authority. Requires a commission to provide an annual spending plan listing planned expenditures for the next calendar year. Provides that a commission may accelerate payments toward debt service obligations, in order to retire debt service earlier, regardless of whether that use is listed in the annual spending plan. Provides that a commission making accelerated debt payments may retain the assessed value associated with the original debt service schedule. Requires a commission to provide fund balances to the department of local government finance at the end of a calendar year. Provides that except for property tax proceeds transferred to a school corporation or public school, including a charter school, allocated property tax proceeds may be expended for projects located outside an allocation area only if the commission adopts a declaratory resolution that finds that the expenditures: (1) will directly benefit the allocation area; or (2) will result in the creation or retention of jobs in the private sector. Provides that specified amounts collected in an allocation area must be allocated to certain taxing units that provide police or fire services in the allocation area and specifies the manner in which those allocation calculations are to be made. Provides that the amount of assessed value in excess of the 200% required to make principal and interest payments on bonds may be used for non-debt, one time purposes within a calendar year before allocating the balance of the excess assessed value to the respective taxing units. Provides that the expiration date of an allocation area may not be extended. Provides that a commission may, pursuant to the approval of the local legislative body, create an account for a specific infrastructure purpose. Provides that for a bond issuance related exclusively for infrastructure in an allocation area, new bonds may only be issued by an existing commission between July 1, 2023, and January 1, 2025. Provides that, for 2023, an ordinance or resolution to establish or expand a fire protection territory is adopted after the legislative body holds at least three public hearings to receive public comment on the proposed ordinance or resolution in which: (1) at least one public hearing must be held at least 25 days before the legislative body votes on the adoption of the ordinance or resolution; and (2) at least two additional public hearings must be held not later than five days before the legislative body votes on the adoption of the ordinance or resolution. Provides that the excess of the proceeds of the property taxes attributable to an increase in the property tax rate for a participating unit of a fire protection territory that is established after the establishment of a tax increment financing area located outside of Marion County shall be allocated to and distributed in the form of an assessed value pass back to the participating unit of the fire protection territory and not to the redevelopment district.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing Wednesday, February 15, 2023, as a day to honor the work and mission of the regions of the American Red Cross serving Indiana.
Specifies that Medicaid dental service reimbursement rates (reimbursement rates) must at least be in the fiftieth percentile of one of the specified fee schedules. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to: (1) annually review reimbursement rates; and (2) adjust the reimbursement rates based on the review. Requires the new reimbursement rates to be provided before December 15 of each year to the house committee on ways and means and the senate committee on appropriations.
Specifies Medicaid reimbursement rates for specified services in the Medicaid risk based managed care program and the Medicaid fee for service program.
Provides that, notwithstanding any increase in assessed value of property from the previous assessment date, the total amount of operating referendum tax that may be levied by a school corporation for taxes first due and payable in 2024 may not increase by more than 5% over the maximum operating referendum tax that could be levied by the school corporation in the previous year.
Allows a municipality in a county (excluding Marion County) to reorganize with a township that has at least 70% of its population within the municipality, if: (1) the municipality adopts a reorganization plan; and (2) more than 50% of the sum of all voters in the municipality and the unincorporated area of the township approve the reorganization plan. Allows the reorganized political subdivision to provide township assistance within the former boundaries of the reorganizing township by contracting with nonprofit organizations.
Provides that art therapy services provided by a licensed art therapist to an individual who receives mental health services or to an individual who receives services from a community mental health center are reimbursable under Medicaid. Provides for the licensure of music therapists, art therapists, and art therapist associates. Adds music therapists and art therapists to the behavioral health and human services licensing board (board). Creates the music therapist and art therapist sections of the board. Requires music therapists to be licensed. Establishes requirements and procedures for an individual to be licensed as a music therapist, art therapist, and art therapist associate. Prohibits a person who is not licensed as a music therapist, art therapist, or an art therapist associate from using certain titles or certain words in a title. Makes technical and conforming changes.
