A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Beverly Brown upon her retirement from the Indiana Senate.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Indiana University in recognition of its Bicentennial Anniversary on January 20, 2020.
Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally sells an e-liquid or an electronic cigarette that contains: (1) a concentration of nicotine that is more than 20 milligrams per milliliter; or (2) vitamin E acetate; commits a Class B infraction. Requires the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) to issue licenses for low THC hemp extract distributors and sellers licenses (licenses). Provides that the commission may revoke a license if the distributor or seller does not have a certificate of analysis or documentation proving chain of custody for low THC hemp extract. Requires the commission to adopt rules concerning the process for issuance and renewal of licenses and violations that result in suspension or revocation of a license. Provides that a person who sells or distributes low THC hemp extract without a valid license commits a Class A infraction. Provides that it is a Class B infraction if a person knowingly or intentionally sells or distributes to another person food to which has been added certain active ingredients that include a drug product that has been approved under the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Provides for the licensure of behavior analysts and assistant behavior analysts. Requires a behavior analyst or an assistant behavior analyst to be certified by an approved certifying entity. Prohibits a person who is not licensed or exempt from licensing from practicing behavior analysis. Establishes penalties. Repeals current law that prohibits the use of certain titles unless the person is certified as a behavior analyst or assistant behavior analyst. Makes conforming changes.
Requires the department of education (department) to: (1) adopt a value added growth and projection analytics system; and (2) incorporate the system into the department's reporting requirements under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. Requires the department to establish a web based reporting system that provides student growth and projection information provided from the value added growth and projection analytics system to educators in Indiana. Requires the department, not later than December 31, 2020, to contract with a vendor to do the following: (1) Provide the value added growth and projection analytics system. (2) Upon entering into the contract, immediately begin creating the value added growth and projection analytics system using 2019-2020 school year data.
Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to administer a drug testing program (program) for individuals who are receiving TANF assistance or receiving TANF assistance on behalf of a child. Establishes requirements for the program and ineligibility penalties. Prohibits an individual who is ineligible to receive TANF assistance under the program from receiving assistance on behalf of a child and provides for an exception. Requires the office to collect data to assess and avoid discrimination in the program.
Amends the statutory priorities for the funding of projects from the rural broadband fund to provide that the office of community and rural affairs (office) shall establish as a priority the funding of projects to extend the deployment of eligible broadband service to areas in which the only available connections to the Internet are at actual speeds of not more than 25 megabits per second downstream. (Current law prioritizes the funding of projects to deploy eligible broadband service to rural areas based on two different levels of broadband speed available in such areas.) Requires the office to amend, not later than April 15, 2020, the office's guidelines implementing the broadband grant program as necessary to reflect the changes to the funding priorities made by the bill's provisions. Provides that not later than 90 days before the date on which applications for grant funding may first be submitted with respect to a particular round of funding, the office shall issue to any persons providing broadband service in rural areas a request for information soliciting: (1) data identifying each service address for which the person provides broadband service in a rural area, including information on upload and download speeds of the service provided; and (2) information identifying service addresses or other locations in rural areas to which the person will provide eligible broadband service not later than 18 months after the date on which applications for grant funding may first be submitted with respect to the particular round of grant funding. Provides that if the information received by the office in response to a request for information does not indicate that any person is providing broadband service to a particular service address, the office shall consider the service address to be: (1) without broadband service; and (2) eligible for inclusion in any proposed broadband project for which grant funding is sought. Provides that with respect to any service addresses or other locations identified by a person for the deployment of eligible broadband service not later than 18 months after the date on which applications may first be submitted for a particular round of funding, the office shall consider the service addresses or locations identified to be ineligible for inclusion in any proposed broadband project for which funding is sought, subject to the person submitting: (1) a plan for the proposed deployment; and (2) quarterly progress reports on the person's activities in furtherance of the plan. Provides that before each round of grant funding, the office shall publish on the office's Internet web site: (1) data, not identified by provider, as to which service addresses in rural areas receive broadband service at certain specified speeds; (2) data, not identified by provider, as to which service addresses in rural areas are planned for broadband deployment within the 18 month period beginning with the date applications may first be submitted for the particular round of funding; and (3) a map of Indiana showing the general locations of these service addresses or locations. Provides that any information submitted to the office under these provisions: (1) is confidential for purposes of the statute concerning access to public records; (2) is subject to certain protections concerning confidential or proprietary business information; and (3) may not be disclosed by the office, other than in a form that does not identify the person providing the information.
Repeals the boot camp for youthful offenders article.
Provides that if a petition alleges that a child is a child in need of services as a victim of human or sexual trafficking, the juvenile court shall make a determination on the petition. Requires that before or at the initial hearing, the court shall appoint an attorney for a child alleged to be a child in need of services as a victim of human or sexual trafficking.
Provides that an individual is a grandparent for purposes of the grandparent visitation statute if the individual is, or was at any time, the: (1) parent of a parent of the child; (2) adoptive parent of a parent of the child; or (3) parent of an adoptive parent of the child. Provides that a paternal grandparent of a child does not have standing to seek grandparent visitation if the child's father has not established paternity in relation to the child. (Under current law, such a grandparent has standing to seek grandparent visitation, but may not be awarded grandparent visitation.) Provides that in determining whether grandparent visitation is in the best interests of a child, the court may consider whether the child's parent has prevented the grandparent from having meaningful contact with the child due to estrangement of the relationship between the parent and the grandparent. Removes a requirement that a petition to seek grandparent visitation must be filed before the adoption of the child. Provides that a court may modify an order granting or denying grandparent visitation only if modification would serve the best interests of the child. Provides conditions under which standing to seek grandparent visitation survives: (1) establishment of the paternity of the child; and (2) the adoption of the child by certain family members. Provides that grandparent visitation awarded before adoption of the child by certain family members does not survive the adoption if neither of the child's parents has parental rights at the time of the adoption. Removes the requirement that a grandparent must be notified of a grandchild's pending adoption by a family member. Makes conforming amendments.
