Requires that, whenever the actual costs for the construction of a public improvement are at least $150,000, a contractor or subcontractor shall pay the workers employed in the performance of work for the construction of the public improvement a rate of wages that is not less than the prevailing wage determined by the commissioner (commissioner) of the department of labor. Requires that employer contributions for fringe benefits paid under a bona fide collective bargaining agreement be included in the prevailing wage determination unless a contractor or subcontractor is required by federal, state, or local law to provide the fringe benefit. Provides that a prevailing wage determination is conclusive for one year from the date of the determination unless the determination is superseded by a later determination. Requires that all prevailing wage determinations be publicly available. Requires that a contract or subcontract for the construction of a public improvement contain a provision stating that the contractor or subcontractor is required to pay a rate of wages that is not less than the prevailing wage, and that, if it is determined that a worker has been paid less than the prevailing wage, the public body may terminate the contract or part of the contract and continue the work with the public body's own work force or another contractor or subcontractor. Requires a contractor or subcontractor to make full payment of wages without any deductions, except for deductions required by federal or state law and deductions agreed to by the worker and approved by the contracting public body as fair and reasonable. Provides that, if a contractor or subcontractor fails to provide records requested by the commissioner concerning the payment of a prevailing wage, the commissioner may direct the fiscal or financial officer of the contracting public body to withhold from payment up to 25% of the contract amount and pay the workers directly any wages and fringe benefits due and payable. Requires the commissioner to distribute to all public bodies in the state a list of persons and firms that the commissioner can determine have not paid prevailing wages and prohibits a public body from awarding a contract or subcontract to a person or firm on the list for three years after the list is published. Provides mechanisms for the commissioner, workers, or an interested body to enforce violations of the prevailing wage law. Requires a contractor or subcontractor that fails to pay prevailing wages to pay as a civil penalty 75% of the difference between the prevailing wage rate and the wages paid to the workers. Deposits the civil penalties into a prevailing wage penalty enforcement fund to be used to pay expenses incurred by the commissioner in the administration and enforcement of the prevailing wage law. Prohibits a person from requesting or demanding all or a portion of a worker's wages in exchange for employment on the construction of a public improvement. Prohibits a public body from dividing the construction of a public improvement into two or more contracts to avoid paying the prevailing wage.
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Removes references to "smokable hemp".
Requires certain school corporations and schools to provide information and meet certain requirements regarding compatibility with the Ed-Fi Data Standard. Establishes a five year moratorium for any new school corporations, charter schools, and eligible choice scholarship schools. Limits student enrollment in virtual charter schools. Provides that a school corporation may request that the department of education (department) waive for school employees of the school corporation one or more school employee training requirements. Amends requirements regarding: (1) out of state license holders obtaining an Indiana teaching license; and (2) adding a content area to an Indiana teaching license if an individual holds a teaching license in a content area in another state. Establishes a temporary district level administrator license and a temporary building level administrator license. Provides that a special education cooperative, cooperative career and technical education program, and special education program established by an interlocal agreement may qualify for a teacher appreciation grant. Provides that an elementary school's final category or designation of school performance assigned by the state board of education (state board) for the 2018-2019 school year may not be lower than the elementary school's grade for the 2017-2018 school year. Provides that the official category or designation of school performance for any school for the 2018-2019 school year may not be used for purposes of certain consequences related to school performance. Requires the state board to adopt emergency rules to amend the points scale used to determine a school's final category or designation of school performance. Amends, beginning July 1, 2021, the day established for fall count and spring count in determining average daily membership (ADM). Amends the count dates for determining grants for special education programs and the use of the count dates in distributing grants for special education programs. Removes the requirements that: (1) teacher evaluations must include objective measures of student growth as part of the evaluation; and (2) school buses must have black reflective tape. Repeals a provision that provides that the professional growth experience points required to renew a practitioner license or an accomplished practitioner license be obtained through the completion of externships or certain other types of professional development. Repeals certain provisions regarding the fall and spring count days.
Provides that the office of the secretary of family and social services may apply for: (1) a Medicaid state plan amendment to provide Medicaid reimbursement for health care services and school based services to specified individuals provided by a school based health clinic; and (2) supplemental Medicaid reimbursement payments to qualified school based health clinics under the fee for service Medicaid program. States that provisions concerning the school based health clinic are nonseverable. Provides that state expenditures and local school expenditures for funding for Medicaid covered school based services and other health care services provided to a Medicaid recipient by a school based health clinic may be made only if: (1) the state plan amendment is approved; and (2) intergovernmental transfer funding for the nonfederal share of supplemental Medicaid payments for Medicaid fee for services program is continuously made.
Provides that a student may be suspended or expelled only upon: (1) a determination that the student's suspension or expulsion will prevent or substantially reduce the risk of interference with an educational function or school purposes, disruption of the learning environment, or physical injury to the student, other students, school employees, or school visitors; and (2) in the case of an expulsion, a determination that all other available and appropriate disciplinary and behavioral interventions have been exhausted. Provides that notice to a parent of: (1) a student's suspension or expulsion must include the rationale for the length of the suspension or expulsion; and (2) the right to appear at an expulsion meeting must include a description of the behavioral and disciplinary interventions attempted, if any, and the rationale for the length of the expulsion. Provides that if a student is suspended, the student must be provided with: (1) appropriate and available support services, as determined by the school, during the suspension period; and (2) an opportunity to receive credit for completion of make up work.
Requires a predispositional report in a delinquency proceeding regarding a child who has suffered a traumatic brain injury to include information relating to the traumatic brain injury, including the effect of the traumatic brain injury on the child's behavior and cognitive abilities.
Increases the maximum amount of the income tax credit for an individual employed as a teacher for amounts expended on classroom supplies from $100 to $500 per taxable year.
Establishes the cannabis compliance commission to regulate all forms of legal cannabis in Indiana, including industrial hemp and low THC hemp extract.
Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee during the 2020 legislative interim the task of studying paid personal leave from employment.
Requires every producer of a product or material that results in waste packaging or waste printed paper to register with the department of environmental management (department) and, either singly or jointly with one or more other producers, to submit to the department for approval a producer recycling program plan under which the producer or group of producers will provide for or finance the recycling of packaging and printed paper. Provides that a proposed producer recycling program plan must include a description of the methods by which packaging and printed paper will be collected from households in a convenient manner in all parts of Indiana and recycled, an explanation of how the plan will be financed, and other contents. Requires a producer or group of producers to solicit comments and input from stakeholders on its proposed producer recycling program plan. Provides that the department may require a producer or group of producers to revise a producer recycling program plan that does not meet the requirements of the law. Provides that a producer recycling program plan, once accepted by the department, must be updated every two years. Establishes goals of: (1) recycling 50% of all household packaging and printed paper by July 1, 2026; and (2) recycling 60% of all household packaging and printed paper by July 1, 2029. Exempts a producer of packaging or printed paper with gross sales in Indiana of less than $250,000 per year from these requirements, and provides that a producer of packaging or printed paper with gross sales in Indiana of at least $250,000 but less than $500,000 is required to pay an annual fee to a producer recycling organization of not more than $750 but is not otherwise required to comply with these requirements.