A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Bishop Chatard High School Trojans football team on its Class 3A state championship.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Noblesville High School girls soccer team on winning the 2019 Indiana High School Athletic Association ("IHSAA") Class 3A state championship title.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing FFA and all of its work to advance the quality of agricultural education both locally and nationally.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the 21st Century Scholars Program for 30 years of helping Hoosiers afford a college education.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the League of Women Voters on the 100th anniversary of its founding.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the Indiana Rangers, Company D of the 151st Infantry Regiment of the Indiana National Guard.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the creation of a Medal of Honor Memorial Highway in Indiana.
Requires the state personnel department to: (1) evaluate whether to offer state employees a health reimbursement arrangement benefit and consider the population of state employees to whom the benefit should be offered; and (2) report to the general assembly on the department's findings by November 1, 2020. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to study the feasibility of: (1) changing Indiana's Medicaid program to a block grant; (2) establishing a consumer-directed Medicaid pilot program; and (3) restructuring Medicaid payments for long term care. Requires a nonprofit hospital that deducts an amount for charity care that exceeds the Medicare reimbursement rate for the services to disclose in its annual report to the state department of health a breakdown of the components of the deduction that were taken by the nonprofit hospital in determining net patient revenue. Establishes limitations on covenants not to compete concerning physicians. Requires specified licensing boards to submit information and recommendations on various licensure matters. Allows a party to audit a pharmacy benefit manager with which it has a contract. Requires the department of insurance (department) to take certain action on association health plans in compliance with federal law. Sets forth requirements of short term insurance plans and insurers that issue these plans. Requires the department to examine various integration opportunities. Urges the legislative council to assign various topics for study during the 2020 legislative interim. Requires the department to assess the feasibility of allowing the sale of health insurance across state lines and a multistate reciprocity system. Requires specified agencies to report on Medicaid claim auditing and fraud. Requires the department and the secretary of family and social services to develop a framework for long term care insurance policies and sets requirements. Requires the attorney general to make recommendations on enhancing strict antitrust enforcement of anticompetitive practices. Requires the commission on higher education to provide an executive summary on medical training programs. Requires the department of workforce development to provide an executive summary on health worker supply needs. Requires the medical licensing board of Indiana to provide an executive summary concerning the creation and implementation of expedited licensure pathways. Requires the trustee of the net level Indiana trust fund to report on trust assets in health care related infrastructure. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation to provide a report concerning incentive programs related to health care infrastructure. Requires the department and the office of the secretary of family and social services to assess the feasibility of applying for federal 1332 waivers concerning the insurance market.
A SENATE RESOLUTION congratulating the Fishers Junior High School "We the People" team on winning the 2019 "We the People" State Finals.
Provides that, as part of the fiscal and management analysis of a bill, the legislative services agency shall indicate in the statement of fiscal impact prepared for the bill whether the bill includes one or more specified regulations affecting businesses. Requires the small business ombudsman, in coordination with the Indiana economic development corporation, the office of management and budget, and the department of workforce development (DWD), to submit: (1) an executive summary listing each state agency that may issue a license, and each of the specific license types that may be issued by each state agency; (2) an executive summary concerning the comparative advantages of regions across the state and strategies to promote small businesses and entrepreneurship; and (3) an executive summary with recommendations regarding regulatory oversight. Requires the Indiana professional licensing agency (IPLA) to prepare an executive summary concerning the portability and reciprocity of Indiana occupational licenses relative to other states. Requires the department of education (DOE), in coordination with the commission for higher education (CHE), to submit to the legislative council and the interim committee on commerce and economic development: (1) a report concerning the portability and reciprocity of Indiana teaching licenses relative to other states; and (2) an executive summary, and any recommendations, concerning portability and reciprocity of Indiana teaching licenses relative to other states. Requires the IPLA to: (1) identify bills enacted in the 2020 and 2021 legislative sessions that affect the portability and reciprocity of Indiana licenses relative to other states; and (2) issue to: (A) the legislative council; and (B) the interim committee on commerce and economic development; a report concerning the effect of the bills on the portability and reciprocity of Indiana licenses relative to other states. Requires the Indiana state board of education (state board), in consultation with the DOE, to issue an executive summary during the 2020 and 2021 legislative interims regarding: (1) guidance issued by the state board and by the DOE; (2) administrative rules proposed, adopted, amended, or repealed by the state board and by the DOE; and (3) executive orders and directives pertaining to K-12 education; in 2020 and 2021. Requires the CHE, in collaboration with the governor's workforce cabinet (GWC) and the DWD, to issue an executive summary during the 2020 and 2021 legislative interims regarding: (1) guidance issued by the CHE, by the GWC, and by the DWD; (2) administrative rules proposed, adopted, amended, or repealed by the CHE, by the GWC, and by the DWD; and (3) executive orders and directives pertaining to postsecondary education; in 2020 and 2021. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the topic of relocation and talent incentives, and specifies issues the study must encompass.
