Passed
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Indiana House
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Lead sponsor
State budget.
Appropriates money for capital expenditures, the operation of the state, K-12 and higher education, the delivery of Medicaid and other services, and various other distributions and purposes. Specifies that the deadline for adjourning sine die for the 2021 session of the general assembly is November 15, 2021, and that the current deadline of April 29 remains in place for future long sessions. Provides that the regular technical session statute does not apply in calendar year 2021. Specifies the deadlines for signing enrolled acts and presenting them to the governor for bills passed after April 19, 2021, and before May 1, 2021. Specifies the following: (1) That the 2021 interim is the period beginning May 1, 2021, and ending November 15, 2021. (2) That for 2021, the prohibited period concerning fundraising activities is through April 29, 2021, rather than the date on which the general assembly adjourns sine die. (3) That the budget committee is required to meet at least once between April 30, 2021, and July 1, 2021. (Current law requires the budget committee to meet at least once in the two months following the general assembly adjournment sine die.) Provides that a redistricting commission is established to determine congressional districts if the general assembly adjourns sine die before November 15, 2021, without having enacted a law establishing congressional districts. (Current law refers to the adjournment of the general assembly without specifying an adjournment sine die or a particular date.) Provides provisions for opioid litigation and settlements, including opt out provisions for political subdivisions. Specifies distributions and uses of funds received from opioid litigation settlements that resolve existing state and political subdivision litigation lawsuits as of January 1, 2021. Establishes the Pokagon Band Tribal-state compact fund and specifies the purposes for the fund. Transfers the operations of the Indiana department of gaming research into a newly established gaming research division of the Indiana gaming commission. Repeals the exoneration fund. Removes the annual appropriation provision for the examinations fund of the state board of accounts. Establishes the Indiana career accelerator fund (fund) to be administered by the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC). Provides that the IEDC may award financial assistance awards from the fund to assist individuals in obtaining credentials from qualified education programs. Defines "qualified education program" for purposes of an award. Repeals the Indiana regional cities development fund. Establishes the regional economic acceleration and development initiative (READI) fund to provide grants and loans to support economic development and regional economic acceleration and development. Provides that the IEDC shall administer the fund. Requires the IEDC to establish a policy for the regional economic acceleration and development initiative. Replaces the state superintendent of public instruction with the secretary of education or the secretary's designee as a member of the distressed unit appeal board. Specifies the provisions that apply when the distressed unit appeal board suspends payments on loans or advances from the common school fund. Provides certain add backs and subtraction used in determining Indiana adjusted gross income. Changes the definition of "Internal Revenue Code" in the adjusted gross income tax law to mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended and in effect on March 31, 2021. Makes changes to the state income tax deduction for unemployment compensation. Amends the venture capital investment tax credit to apply to taxpayers that provide qualified investment capital to certain qualified Indiana investment funds (qualified fund). Provides that the IEDC may only certify a fund as a qualified fund if the fund meets the definition of a venture capital fund under federal regulations and the fund makes investments according to specified policy requirements and priorities. Provides that a taxpayer may not claim a credit certified with regard to a qualified fund before July 1, 2023. Specifies the maximum available tax credits in a calendar year with regard to a qualified fund. Increases the maximum available tax credits in a calendar year with regard to qualified Indiana businesses under current law, including an additional increase in the maximum amount if the qualified Indiana business is a minority business enterprise or a women's business enterprise. Caps the total amount of credits that the IEDC may award in a calendar year at $20,000,000, provided that not more than $7,500,000 is awarded for proposed investments in a qualified fund. Increases the tax credit that a taxpayer can claim for contributions made to a scholarship granting organization for state fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Provides a tax credit against adjusted gross income tax and financial institutions tax liability for monetary contributions to a qualifying foster care organization equal to 50% of the amount of the contribution, but not to exceed $10,000 for a taxable year. Defines a "qualifying foster care organization". Caps the total amount of the tax credits allowed in any state fiscal year to $2,000,000. Sunsets the tax credit on July 1, 2025. Adds certain procedural, accounting, and reporting requirements regarding the local income tax. Increases the special purpose local income tax rate that may be imposed in a county that is a member of a regional development authority. Imposes an excise tax, known as the electronic cigarette tax, on the retail sale of vapor products and consumable material in Indiana (does not include closed system cartridges). Imposes a tax on the distribution of closed system cartridges. Extends the expiration date of the Nashville food and beverage tax. Repeals the deposit of a part of the wine excise tax rate collected on each gallon of wine in the wine grape market development fund and requires the department of state revenue to instead deposit that part of the wine excise tax in the state general fund. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2021, all aviation fuel excise tax revenue is transferred to the airport development grant fund. (Under current law, 50% of the aviation fuel excise tax revenue is transferred to the general fund and 50% is transferred to the airport development grant fund.) Removes annual budget committee review of the distribution formula established by Indiana department of transportation for the public mass transportation fund. Requires budget committee review before any money may be transferred from the local road and bridge matching grant fund. Establishes the Internet crimes against children fund to be administered by the state police department. Specifies the uses of the fund. Requires an authorized service provider to use at least 85% (instead of 75%) of the reimbursement rate increase to pay payroll tax liabilities and to increase wages and benefits paid to direct care staff. Makes a conforming change to a provision for annual transfers to the Marion County health and hospitals corporation. Provides that the office of the secretary of family and social services shall apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services regarding a waiver to implement the mobile integrated healthcare program and to receive funding through Section 9813 of the American Rescue Plan (ARP). Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to report on the progress in the development of a risk based managed care program for Medicaid recipients who are eligible to participate in the Medicare program and receive nursing facility services. Requires state budget committee review of a request for proposal for the procurement of a Medicaid program before the request for proposal may be issued. Specifies that the office of the secretary of family and social services may not give certain preference under the in-home early education services reimbursement program based on the county in which a child is located. Adds certain fee provisions under the state permit program for the implementation of federal regulations for the disposal of coal combustion residuals in landfills and surface impoundments contained in Senate Bill 271. Extends the expiration of the hospital assessment fee and the quality assessment fee from June 30, 2021, to June 30, 2023. Extends the expiration date for funding of certain charter schools for adults. Extends the ability of the state board of education to authorize new innovation network charter schools from June 30, 2021, to June 30, 2023. Provides that before a governing body of a school corporation may enter a public-private agreement the project plan and other information must be reviewed by the budget committee. Provides that a student who was unable to take a graduation examination during the 2020-2021 school year due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) may still be eligible to graduate. Increases the amount of a grant under the charter and innovation network school grant program. Specifies provisions that apply to advances under the charter school and innovation school advance program. Specifies factors in determining an eligible pupil for purposes of the ADM count. Provides that, for purposes of determining basic tuition support for a school corporation, the department of education (department) must review the daily attendance of each student to determine whether, of the instructional services that the student receives from a school corporation, at least 50% is virtual instruction. Specifies the school days for which the department must review daily attendance. Requires the department to take into consideration whether a student transferred to the school corporation during the dates that the department reviews daily attendance. Changes the eligibility requirements to receive choice scholarships. Makes changes to the amount of tuition an eligible choice scholarship student is entitled to receive to attend a choice scholarship school. Repeals provisions that provide eligibility to certain students if the student's household income increases. Removes a provision that prevents unused money appropriated to the department of education for the advanced placement program from reverting to the state general fund. Removes all fees for a license to carry a handgun and makes conforming amendments. Requires, with exceptions, the department of child services to: (1) enter into an agreement and provide an adoption subsidy to each adoptive parent of a child with special needs who is eligible for an adoption subsidy; and (2) allocate to the adoption assistance account funds necessary to make the adoption subsidy payments. Specifies the amount of adoption subsidy payments. Provides that, in the case of an allocation area established by the redevelopment commission of a qualified city for the purpose of financing a mixed use development project, if the legislative body of the qualified city adopts a resolution to approve an independent analysis of the proposed development project that demonstrates the need for an allocation area that exceeds 25 years, the legislative body of the qualified city may adopt a resolution to renew the allocation area for an additional period of not more than 25 years. Defines "qualified city" and "mixed use development project" for purposes of these provisions. Extends the judicial and legislative branch leave conversion pilot program through June 30, 2023. Appropriates amounts for defeasing bonds. Provides that unexpended and unencumbered amounts appropriated to the legislative services agency in a state fiscal year ending before July 1, 2022, do not revert to the state general fund. Appropriates $400,000,000 from the state general fund to the pre-1996 account of the teachers' retirement fund. Makes appropriations to the Indiana public retirement system and the treasurer of state for specified cost of living adjustments. Provides that augmentation is allowed from funds in each account created within the federal economic stimulus fund. Establishes the higher education funding task force as a 2021 interim study committee for the purpose of studying funding for higher education. Specifies the members of the task force. Requires the task force to submit and present a report to the budget committee before November 1, 2021. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee during the 2021 legislative interim the task of studying the issues of affordable housing, workforce housing, and "missing middle" housing in Indiana. Requires the department of education to prepare and submit a report to the legislative council concerning the availability of federal funding that may be used to hire school counselor for high schools, with a focus on career counseling and planning for technical or vocational training paths. Makes conforming changes.
