Indiana State Bill Tracker

Indiana State Bills

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Issue	Number & Name	Summary	Text	Sponsor	Position	Last Activity
Sign language & education	SB 57	Sign language interpreters in schools. Requires the advisory board of the division of professional standards of the department of education, before July 1, 2010, to adopt rules setting standards for sign language interpreters working in an educational setting.	Link to full text	Lubbers, Sipes	Law Enacted!	04/14/2009: Signed by the Governor - 05/15/2009: Public Law 12, Effective 07/01/2009
Health care	SB 438	Requires self-directed care options and services to be available for: (1) Medicaid waiver recipients; and (2) community and home options to institutional care for the elderly and disabled (CHOICE) program recipients. Requires certain Medicaid funds to follow a Medicaid recipient transferring from institutional care to Medicaid home and community based care. Specifies services available to a Medicaid waiver recipient. (The introduced version of this draft was prepared by the health finance commission.)	Link to full text	Becker, Miller	Law Enacted	04/30/2009: Signed by the Governor - 05/15/2009: Public Law 47, Effective 07/01/2009
MRDD Commission	HB 1049	Change the name of the MRDD Commission. Changes the name of the "commission on mental retardation and developmental disabilities" to the "commission on developmental disabilities". Makes conforming changes. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the commission on mental retardation and developmental disabilities.)	Link to full text	Klinker, Crouch, Day, Noe	Law Enacted!	4/08/2009: Signed by the Governor - 05/15/2009: Public Law 3, Effective 07/01/2009
Autism	HB 1455	Autism training. Requires certain firefighter and law enforcement personnel to be trained in interacting with individuals with Autism.	Link to full text	Tyler, Duncan	Law Enacted!	05/06/09 Signed: by the Governor - 05/15/2009: Public Law 93, Section 1 effective 07/01/2009, Section 2 effective 01/10/2010, Section 3 effective 07/01/2009
Health Insurance	HB 1311	Insurance coverage for hearing aids. Requires a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract to provide hearing aid coverage.	Link to full text	Goodin	Law Enacted	05/11/2009: Signed by the Governor - 05/15/2009:Public Law 119, Effective 07/01/2009
Home health care	HB 1028	Requires individuals to register with the division of aging before they may receive compensation for providing attendant care services. Requires individuals in need of self-directed in-home care and a personal services attendant to submit their services contract to the division, and requires the division to keep the contract on file. Requires the division to provide a list of personal services attendants upon request. Provides that certain information may not be released unless the attendant agrees. Requires individuals in need of self-directed in-home care or their fiscal agents to direct deposit and perform other deductions upon the request of the individual providing attendant care services. Requires the division and the office of Medicaid policy and planning to ensure that self-directed in-home care is offered as an option throughout Indiana.	Link to full text	Day	Law Enacted!	05/11/2009: Signed by the Governor - 05/15/2009: Public Law 117, Effective 05/11/2009
Service animals	HB 1603	Service animals. Provides that it is the policy of the state that individuals with a mental disability: (1) are encouraged to participate fully in the social and economic life of the state and engage in remunerative employment; and (2) shall be employed in positions with state and local government, public schools, and other entities supported by public funds (current law is limited to individuals who are blind or have another visual or physical disability). Provides that a person with a disability is entitled to be accompanied by a guide animal (instead of a guide dog) in certain public accommodations (including various educational entities) without an extra charge. Provides that an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee must allow an employee with a disability to keep a guide animal, hearing animal, or assistance animal with the employee at all times.	Link to full text	Leonard	Law Enacted!	05/12/2009: Signed by the Governor- 05/15/2009: Public Law 155, Effective 07/01/2009
FSSA & Medicaid	HB 1195	Requirements for certain FSSA contractors. Requires an employee of a county office of the division of family resources to directly assist any individual who enters the county office and requests assistance in completing an application for a program serviced by the county office. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to require a contractor that assists in the administration of eligibility determinations to do the following: (1) Implement a document tracking and verification system. (2) Provide a health care facility with a telephone number and specified assistance.	Link to full text	Crawford	Passed House, In Committee	03/19/2009: Senators Lanane and Errington added as cosponsors
Public Transportation	HB 1660	Regional transportation districts. Permits counties to establish a regional transportation district to operate and support public transportation systems. Establishes a fee on vehicle registrations, and permits the creation of allocation areas, the establishment of a special allocation of county option income taxes, and the imposition of a food and beverage tax, a county economic development income tax, or a special benefits property tax to provide funding to regional transportation districts. Permits other public transportation agencies to merge into a regional transportation district. Requires the governor to appoint a deputy commissioner for the department of transportation to assist the commissioner with the public transportation responsibilities of the department.	Link to full text	Austin	In Senate Committee	03/03/2009: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy
Developmental Disabilities	HB 1050	Funding for programs for developmentally disabled. Appropriates money to the family and social services administration for the adult guardianship project and for self-advocate programs.	Link to full text	Klinker, Crouch, Day	Passed House	02/19/09: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Civil rights	HB 1250	Civil rights. Extends antidiscrimination and civil rights statutes to include prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and ancestry.	Link to full text	Sullivan	In committee	01/12/2009: Referred to House Committee on Public Policy
Special Education	HB 1136	Allows a student with a disability to participate in the ISTEP test or an alternate assessment approved by the state board and as determined by the student's case conference committee. Provides that the case conference committee may determine that the student is eligible to graduate if the student passes an appropriate alternative assessment, maintains a 95% attendance rate and a "C" average or equivalent; and satisfies all nonacademic graduation requirements. Provides that a student with a disability may receive a certificate of completion if the student completes the goals set out in the student's individualized education program. Requests the legislative council to create a study committee concerning special education rules and the placement of special education students during the 2009 legislative interim.	Link to full text	Reske	In Senate Committee	03/02/2009: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
Voting	SB 14	Accessibility of satellite voting locations. Requires a satellite office for voting to meet the same accessibility requirements that apply to a polling place for a precinct.	Link to full text	Miller	In Senate	04/28/2009: Senate conferees appointed: Lubbers and Sipes