Adds any variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to the list of diseases considered an exposure risk disease for purposes of emergency and public safety employee death and disability presumed in the line of duty.
Modifies the term "entertainment complex." Allows a county or municipality to designate an area of the county or municipality as an outdoor refreshment area (refreshment area) with the approval of the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission). Provides that if a refreshment area is approved, the commission designates retailer permittees (designated permittees) located within the refreshment area. Allows a consumer to exit a designated permittee's premises with one open container of an alcoholic beverage at a time to consume within the refreshment area. Limits the volume of an open container (based upon the type of alcoholic beverage) that a designated permittee may sell or furnish to a consumer for a refreshment area. Requires a consumer to wear a wristband in order to exit a licensed premises into a refreshment area with an open container. Allows a minor to be present in a refreshment area. Allows a county or municipality to adopt an ordinance at any time to dissolve a refreshment area. Makes the following acts a Class C infraction: (1) A person who exits a designated permittee's premises with an open container of an alcoholic beverage without wearing a wristband identification. (2) A designated permittee who allows a person with an open container of an alcoholic beverage to exit the premises without wearing a wristband identification. (3) A designated permittee who sells or furnishes a person with: (A) an open container of an alcoholic beverage that exceeds the container volume limitations; or (B) two or more open containers of alcoholic beverages at a time. (4) A person who consumes an open container of an alcoholic beverage purchased from a designated permittee outside the refreshment area. (5) A person who brings an alcoholic beverage into a refreshment area that was not purchased from a designated permittee.
Provides that if, after the occurrence of an accident, compensation is paid for temporary total disability or temporary partial disability, then the two year limitation period to file an application for adjustment of claim begins to run on the last date for which such compensation was paid. Increases benefits for injuries and disablements by 2% each year for three years, beginning on July 1, 2021. Makes conforming amendments.
Provides, for a two year period and contingent upon the availability of specified funds, that: (1) the jurisdictional amount in small claims court is $20,000 in residential landlord tenant cases (under current law, the amount is $8,000); and (2) the landlord and the tenant may agree to participate in the landlord tenant settlement conference program.
Provides that the rules of the environmental rules board may not allow coal combustion residuals produced by the burning of coal to generate electric power (CCR) to be disposed of if, after the disposal: (1) any of the CCR or any portion of the disposal structure, landfill, or impoundment in which the CCR would be disposed of would be within a 500 year flood zone; (2) any portion of the CCR would be in contact with ground water during any portion of the year; or (3) there would be potential for migration of the hazardous constituents of the CCR into the uppermost aquifer. Prohibits the department of environmental management from approving a plan for closure of a disposal facility for CCR located at the site where the CCR were generated if: (1) any portion of the disposal structure, landfill, or impoundment at the site is within a 500 year flood zone; (2) any portion of the CCR disposed of at the site would be in contact with ground water during any portion of the year; (3) there has been documented migration of the hazardous constituents of the CCR into the uppermost aquifer at the site; (4) there is potential for migration of the hazardous constituents of the CCR into the uppermost aquifer at the site; or (5) the impoundment that would be used for disposal of the CCR at the site does not have a liner compliant with federal liner design criteria or is structurally unstable. Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to review an electric utility's plan for closure of its CCR surface impoundment and provides that the IURC must require the utility to provide an assessment of the potential cost of remediating ground water contamination resulting from the surface impoundment. Permits the IURC to allow the utility to recover the costs of closing its surface impoundment if the closure plan is in the public interest and the costs of the plan are not excessive.
Requires a transitional services plan for foster children to include information about: (1) the healthy Indiana plan; (2) the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; (3) the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program; (4) basic banking and account management; (5) student loan and grant application completion; and (6) individual development accounts.
Halts the phased changes to the corporate adjusted gross income tax rate at 5.25%. Halts the phased changes to the financial institutions tax rate at 6%.
Provides that if: (1) the most serious crime with which an arrestee is charged is a misdemeanor which did not result in bodily injury to another person and which is not operating while intoxicated; (2) the arrestee does not have a felony conviction; and (3) certain other conditions apply; the court shall release the arrestee without money bail unless the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that requiring money bail is reasonably necessary.
Requires the auditor of state to transfer $100,000,000 each state fiscal year from the pension stabilization fund to the department of education to be used by the department of education to provide supplemental funding for teacher salaries. Makes a continuing appropriation for this purpose. Requires the board of the Indiana public retirement system to revise the amortization period used by the board for the actuarial determination with regard to the pension stabilization fund to extend the amortization period for the required appropriations to the fund beyond an ending year of 2038, which was used by the board for the actuarial determination for the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, to an amortization period for the actuarial determination that extends beyond year 2038 in order to account for the annual transfers from the pension stabilization fund, but without any increase to contribution rates for those state fiscal years. Extends the allowable amortization period from 30 years to 37 years.
Changes credit Class A to include any noncredit restricted felon who is charged with a crime. Changes credit Class B to permit a credit restricted felon imprisoned for a crime, or imprisoned and awaiting trial or sentencing for a crime, to earn one day of good time credit for every three days of confinement.
