Rep. Matt Lehman

Creates a procedure to establish a community infrastructure improvement district (district). Specifies that the procedure added by the bill allowing for the establishment of a district does not authorize the unit to establish a district that overlaps with an economic improvement district. Requires a petition for the establishment of a district to include a rate and methodology report. Specifies the contents of the report. Specifies the basis upon which benefits accruing to parcels of real property within a district may be apportioned among those parcels. Requires a determination that the aggregate assessments within a district do not exceed 30% of the projected assessed value of property within the district before a legislative body may adopt an ordinance to establish a district. Requires a community infrastructure improvement board (board) to assist the county treasurer in order to make certain specified determinations and designations regarding annual assessments within a district. Adds specific provisions that apply to the board's issuance of revenue bonds.

Amends the Uniform Consumer Credit Code to provide that the authorized loan finance charge for a consumer loan, other than a supervised loan, that is entered into after June 30, 2022, may not exceed 36% (versus 25% for a consumer loan that is entered into before July 1, 2022) per year on the unpaid balances of the principal. Amends the definition of "supervised loan" to mean a consumer loan that: (1) is entered into before July 1, 2022, and with respect to which the rate of the loan finance charge exceeds the authorized 25% annual rate for consumer loans under current law; or (2) is entered into after June 30, 2022, and is made in accordance with the requirements for supervised loans set forth in the bill. Sets forth requirements and limitations with respect to the following for supervised loans made after June 30, 2022: (1) Authorized fees and charges. (2) The maximum principal amount. (3) The minimum and maximum lengths of the loan term. (4) Information and disclosures to be included in the loan contract. (5) A borrower's right to rescind a supervised loan transaction. Provides that when a borrower enters into a supervised loan, the lender shall provide the borrower with a pamphlet approved by the department of financial institutions (department) that describes: (1) the availability of debt management and credit counseling services; (2) the borrower's rights and responsibilities; and (3) the availability of the 211 telephone dialing code for human services information and referrals. Sets forth prohibited acts and practices in connection with a supervised loan. Provides that a lender may not take a security interest in real or personal property in connection with a supervised loan, other than a security interest in a personal check of the borrower. Specifies the applicability of the bill's provisions to supervised loans made by persons exempt from: (1) the bill's finance charge limitations; and (2) licensure by the department. Requires a lender that makes at least one supervised loan in Indiana during a calendar year to remit to the department: (1) an annual fee of $250; and (2) an additional fee of $250 per Indiana branch location (after the first location). Establishes the consumer financial education fund (fund), and provides that the annual fees collected from lenders making supervised loans are to be deposited in the fund. Provides that the fund is to be: (1) administered by the department; and (2) used by the department for paying expenses relating to consumer financial education. Requires a person that enters into at least one supervised loan transaction in Indiana in any calendar year to file with the department a report concerning the person's business and operations with respect to that calendar year. Requires the director of the department to prescribe: (1) the time and manner for filing the report; and (2) the information to be included in the report. Requires the department to publish and make available to the public, at least annually, an analysis of the information provided in the reports filed with the department. Sets forth the information that must be included in the department's analysis. Makes conforming amendments to existing references to supervised loans throughout the Indiana Code.

Specifies that the compliance of a practitioner and a provider facility with federal law meets the good faith estimate requirements concerning health service costs. Allows the commissioner of the department of insurance to issue an order to discontinue a violation of a law (current law specifies orders or rules). Requires a domestic stock insurer to file specified information with the department of insurance. Prohibits a health plan from requiring a health care provider to submit a prior authorization request to a third party and requires the health plan to transmit the request to the third party through secure electronic transmission. Amends the deadline by which a health plan must respond to a nonurgent care prior authorization request. Requires a health plan to offer a health care provider that submitted a prior authorization and received an adverse determination the option to request a peer to peer review by a clinical peer concerning the adverse determination. Requires a health plan to post notice of a technical issue with its claims submission system on the health plan's Internet web site. Requires a health plan to post on its Internet web site not later than February 1 of each year: (1) the 30 most frequently submitted CPT codes in the previous calendar year; and (2) the percentage of the 30 most frequently submitted CPT codes that were approved in the previous calendar year. Establishes an approval process for a health plan's proposed premium rate increase of 5% or greater as compared to the previous calendar year. Prohibits an insurer and a health maintenance organization from altering a CPT code for a claim unless the medical record of the claim has been reviewed by an employee who is a licensed physician. Requires an insurer and a health maintenance organization to provide a contracted provider with a current reimbursement rate schedule: (1) every two years; and (2) when three or more CPT code rates change in a 12 month period. Urges the study by an interim committee of prior authorization exemptions for certain health care providers.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the Don Wood Foundation's support of CTE in Northeast Indiana.

Allows an authorized property and casualty insurance company to provide group property and casualty insurance to a religious not-for-profit association consisting of at least 10 religious not-for-profit organizations that have a relationship to one another in a common denomination, association, affiliation, or fellowship.

Prohibits, with certain exceptions, a supplier of nonalcoholic packaged beverages (supplier) from discriminating among retailers as to a delivery method, price, discount, allowance, or service charge. Specifies restrictions concerning: (1) a distribution agreement to which a supplier is a party; (2) means of delivery; (3) communication by a supplier; and (4) the purchase and sale of beverages from one retailer to another.

Creates a film and media tax incentive under the venture capital investment tax credit provision. Adds organizations engaged in the business of making qualified media productions in Indiana to the definition of "qualified Indiana business" for purposes of the venture capital investment tax credit. Defines "qualified media production" and "qualified production expenditure" for purposes of the venture capital investment tax credit. Provides that credits allowed under the venture capital investment tax credit are transferrable among qualified businesses. Requires the Indiana destination development corporation (corporation) to conduct an economic impact study on a production being produced in a neighboring state with media production incentives. Requires the corporation to establish a pilot program and select a film or television project that features an Indiana based story set at an Indiana specific setting. Provides an enhanced tax credit for the pilot participant, provided the participant begins production of the project within one year of selection. Encourages the corporation to cooperate with the Indiana economic development corporation to establish a permanent multiyear film and media production program, to be known as "Film Indiana", and to employ a film commissioner and necessary staff in the Film Indiana program, and requires, when necessary, the film commissioner to: (1) work with the Indiana economic development corporation to develop a plan to attract the needed components to build the infrastructure for a film and media production industry in the state of Indiana; and (2) work with the department of workforce development and Indiana film and media schools to create a workforce development plan to include training for film and media professionals and internship opportunities for students attending film and media schools within Indiana. Requires the film commissioner to report on the plans to the Indiana economic development corporation and the corporation by December 1, 2022. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation to expand the venture capital investment tax credit so as to establish a permanent multiyear film and media production incentive. Requires an applicant for the tax credit to agree to various requirements surrounding the production.

Provides that the true tax value of a self-service storage facility for property tax purposes shall be determined by the cost approach less normal depreciation and normal obsolescence under the rules and guidelines of the department of local government finance. Specifies other conditions applicable to the valuation of self-service storage facilities for property tax purposes. Defines "self-service storage facility".

Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office of the secretary) to apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for a Medicaid waiver or state plan amendment to implement, not earlier than January 1, 2024, a fee for service integrated care model program for specified category of Medicaid recipients. Sets forth requirements of the program. Sets forth certain requirements, including contract requirements for any contract between the office of the secretary and specified entities, in the operation of a risk based managed care program or integrated care model program for the specified covered population.

Provides that if a local order addresses an aspect of a declared emergency addressed by an executive order, the local order may be less stringent than the executive order to the extent permitted by the executive order. Provides that if a local order addresses an aspect of a declared emergency that is not addressed by an executive order or if a local order addresses an aspect of a declared emergency more stringently than an executive order, the local order may not take effect, or remain in effect, unless the local order is approved by the county legislative body (in the case of a county health department) or by an ordinance adopted by the city legislative body and approved by the mayor (in the case of a city health department). Provides that the appointment of a county health officer is subject to the approval of the county legislative body. Adds other good cause to the reasons for which a local health officer may be removed in counties other than Marion County. Specifies that a local health officer serves until a successor is appointed and qualified. Establishes an appeals process before legislative bodies of enforcement actions taken by local boards of health and local health officers in response to declared state and local public health emergencies.