Urges the legislative council to assign the topic of witness protection and assistance pilot programs in Lake County, Marion County, and Vanderburgh County to the appropriate interim study committee.
Defines an "unlicensed real estate solicitor". Requires an unlicensed real estate solicitor to include a specific solicitation disclosure on all advertisements promoting the unlicensed real estate solicitor's intent to purchase a residential, single-family home. Provides remedies to a homeowner that enters into an agreement with an unlicensed real estate solicitor. Provides that it is a deceptive act enforceable by the attorney general for an unlicensed real estate solicitor to solicit the sale or purchase of real estate through print or broadcast advertising without the required solicitation disclosure.
Provides that an action for injury to a person that results from the sexual abuse of a child, that has expired under the current statute of limitations, may be commenced at any time against certain entities seeking bankruptcy protections.
Requires the environmental rules board to amend the administrative rules concerning spill reporting to require the party responsible for a spill or release of a substance into a body of water to give timely notice of the spill or release to the operator of a water utility or water treatment plant if there is a substantial risk that the spill or release: (1) will cause a threat to human health or the environment; or (2) will: (A) impair the operation of; or (B) adversely affect the quality of the water produced by; the water utility or water treatment plant.
Decriminalizes possession of two ounces or less of marijuana.
Modifies the definition of "salary of a first class patrolman or first class firefighter" for the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund (fund). Increases the fund's maximum annual cost of living adjustment from 3% to 5%.
Provides the following: (1) Allows a coroner to determine the means of copying an original record of the coroner. (2) Allows a coroner to destroy or transfer the original record at the time determined by the coroner after copying the record. Provides that a coroner is immune from criminal liability for destroying a public record if the coroner acts in accordance with the coroner's authority to copy and destroy the coroner's records.
Provides, for purposes of satisfying the minimum annual or monthly gross food sales requirement for a three-way restaurant permit in an unincorporated area, that the sum of the gross food sales of: (1) the restaurant; and (2) a food truck that sells food near the restaurant during the restaurant's hours of operation; shall be considered the gross food sales of the restaurant.
Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program (program). Requires an employer that desires to participate in the program to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce development. Establishes the work sharing benefit as equal to an affected employee's unemployment benefit reduced by a percentage equal to the percentage of the employee's normal weekly work hours that the employee works under the approved work sharing plan.
Provides that, after December 31, 2023, certain employees must be paid compensation for employment in certain circumstances at a rate not less than 1.5 times the regular rate at which the employee is employed and, under certain circumstances, not less than two times the regular rate at which the employee is employed.
