Repeals the health care account and cost sharing requirements of an individual for the healthy Indiana plan.
Provides that certain eligible applicants for higher education cost exemptions are entitled to a 100% reduction in educational costs.
Requires the behavioral health and human services licensing board to administer the professional counselors licensure compact (compact). Adopts the compact. Sets forth requirements of a member state. Sets forth the duties and authority of the counseling compact commission (commission). Allows a counselor in a home state to practice via telehealth in a member state. Allows each member state to have one delegate on the commission. Establishes the procedure to withdraw from the compact. Makes conforming changes.
Requires the governing body of a school corporation or chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school system to authorize the absence and excuse of a student due to the student's mental or behavioral health concerns. Limits the number of excused absences for mental or behavioral health concerns, without documentation, to three instructional days in a school year. Allows a student to be excused for more than three instructional days if the student provides certain documentation. Requires that a school selected to participate in the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behaviors Survey or a successor survey participate in the survey. Provides that the commission for higher education shall, before January 1, 2024, work with the statewide suicide prevention coordinator to develop a suicide prevention training for students at each state educational institution (institution). Requires each student at an institution, after July 1, 2024, to participate in the training in the student's first year at the institution. Requires each institution to collect and report certain information concerning suicide prevention to the statewide suicide prevention coordinator. Establishes a mental health and suicide prevention in higher education task force (task force). Provides that the task force shall create a statewide suicide prevention resource guide for institutions. Makes conforming changes.
Requires that an absentee ballot marked and forwarded by a voter who subsequently dies be counted if the absentee ballot would otherwise be entitled to be counted if the voter had not died.
Requires, for state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2023, the state board of education to determine each school corporation's complexity index two times each year. Provides that the complexity index count dates coincide with the average daily membership count days. Allows a school corporation to request an adjustment to the school corporation's complexity index. Provides a maximum amount of money attributable to complexity index calculations that may be distributed for all school corporations in a particular state fiscal year.
Makes it a Class C infraction for a person to fail to report a lost or stolen firearm to a specified law enforcement agency within 30 days after the firearm is lost or stolen.
Extends certain antidiscrimination educational rights statutes to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Provides that from June 21 through September 23, an electric or gas utility, including a municipally owned, privately owned, or cooperatively owned utility, may not terminate residential electric or gas service for an individual who is eligible for and has applied for assistance from a home energy assistance program administered by the lieutenant governor.
Enhances the criminal penalty of animal cruelty from a Level 6 felony to a Level 5 felony.
