A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing Judge Edward W. Najam, Jr., for his 30 years of service on the Indiana Court of Appeals.
A SENATE RESOLUTION congratulating Jacob and Jill Smoker for winning the Young Farmers and Ranchers Achievement Award at the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention.
Establishes the climate and environmental justice task force (task force). Provides that the task force consists of 17 members. Requires the task force to: (1) develop a climate action plan that recommends policies the state should implement to systematically mitigate climate change, facilitate adaptation to the effects of climate change in Indiana, and simultaneously enhance statewide economic development; and (2) not later than November 1, 2022, submit the climate action plan to the executive director of the legislative services agency for distribution to the members of the general assembly and the governor. Requires the utility regulatory commission, not later than June 1, 2022, to issue a report forecasting the greenhouse gas emissions that will be produced by the power generation of Indiana's investor owned utility companies in each year from 2022 to 2050, based on the investor owned utility companies' current integrated resource plans.
Provides that Medicaid, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract may not require prior authorization for a non-opioid prescription drug that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for opioid withdrawal symptoms.
Establishes a process to disannex a township from an existing school corporation and annex the township to an adjacent school corporation.
A SENATE RESOLUTION memorializing the life of Zachary Steven Eckert.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Congress of the United States to propose to the several states an amendment to the United States Constitution concerning the membership of the United States Supreme Court.
Reduces the number of members who must be appointed to a community corrections advisory board.
Beginning January 1, 2023, provides for a $0.72 per cigar tobacco products tax cap for cigars with a wholesale price exceeding $3 per cigar.
Provides that for purposes of the legislative ethics statute, the executive branch ethics statute, and the judicial ethics statute, the term "relative" includes only an individual's spouse, an individual's child, or the child of the individual's spouse.
