A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the creation of a Medal of Honor Memorial Highway in Indiana.
Authorizes the town of Clarksville to adopt a town food and beverage tax. Provides that the tax rate may not exceed 1%. Provides that money received from the tax shall be distributed by the treasurer of state to the town of Clarksville. Specifies the uses to which receipts from the food and beverage tax may be applied.
Allows the judges of the Gibson superior court and Gibson circuit court to appoint a magistrate. Allows the appointed magistrate for Gibson County to serve both the Gibson superior court and the Gibson circuit court. Allows the judges of the Hamilton circuit and superior courts to jointly appoint an additional magistrate to serve the Hamilton County courts.
Removes the requirement that rules adopted by the state department of health, in consultation with the department of veterans' affairs, include patient health improvement as a condition for approval of payment for treatment under the hyperbaric oxygen treatment pilot program (pilot program). Removes the requirement that the state department of health receive pretreatment and posttreatment evaluation documentation as a condition for approval of payment for hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Requires that rules adopted by the state department of health concerning the pilot program not include criteria requiring patient health improvement as a condition for approval of payment for treatment.
Honoring Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs).
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the 2019 Castle High School archery team for winning their twelfth state championship and second consecutive national championship.
Prohibits a person who is less than 21 years of age from buying or possessing: (1) cigarettes; (2) tobacco products; (3) e-liquid; or (4) electronic cigarettes. Makes conforming changes regarding enforcement provisions, sales certificates, prohibition of delivery sales, and notices posted at retail establishments and at vending machines. Repeals employment protections for individuals who smoke cigarettes or use other tobacco products. Makes technical corrections. Requires the label of an e-liquid to have a scannable bar code or QR code linked to a document containing information regarding the manufacturing of the e-liquid, a certificate of analysis for the batch of e-liquid, and the ingredients used in an e-liquid. Requires a certificate of analysis prepared by an independent testing laboratory for the distribution of e-liquid in Indiana. Expands the applicability of the vapor pens and e-liquids article to include closed system vapor products. Provides that the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) has the duty and responsibility to investigate violations of the vapor pens and e-liquid laws. Provides that a person may not sell or distribute e-liquids without a valid tobacco sales certificate issued by the commission. Requires a person who desires to sell e-liquid to pay a fee and provide certain information to the commission.
Specifies Medicaid reimbursement rates that are required of the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) and a managed care organization for durable and home medical equipment and supplies, prosthetics, orthotics, and services. Requires the office and a managed care organization to cover the same: (1) health care codes; (2) scope and quantities of certain items; and (3) time frames for submissions of claims and discrepancies; as under the Medicaid program. Specifies that if the office fails to correctly process a clean claim in the specified time requirements, the office may not claim that the provider failed to meet the time requirements for submission of the clean claim. Repeals language that specifies that Medicaid law is controlling when Medicaid law conflicts with insurance law.
Provides that, in a county other than Marion County, an individual may not be a candidate for township trustee or a candidate for membership on the township board if a member of the individual's immediate family (parent, sibling, spouse, or child) is the township trustee or a member of the township board and whose term of office does not end after that election. Provides that, in a county other than Marion County, if an immediate family member of a candidate for election to a township board is elected as the township trustee, the candidate for election to the township board is not elected to the township board (if the township board candidate would otherwise be elected). Provides that, in a county other than Marion County, if two or more candidates for election to a township board are immediate family members, only one of the candidates can be elected. Provides that, if an individual is an immediate family member of: (1) the township trustee of a township; or (2) a member of the township board of the township; that individual is not eligible to fill a vacancy in the office of township trustee or to become a township board member.
Congratulating Maggie Speicher on her retirement.
