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HB1001: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration and to make an appropriation.

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Legislators

Authors (1)
Coauthors (3)
Sponsors (3)
Cosponsors (0)
Advisors (14)
Conferees (3)

Actions (99 total)

Digest

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. Extends the review, analysis, and evaluation of tax incentives by the legislative services agency through 2030. Requires the legislative services agency to perform a fiscal impact analysis for each executive order issued by the governor under the emergency management and disaster law. Requires state officials to report to the budget committee expenses and funding used for trips taken in their official capacity. Appropriates $2,000,000 per state fiscal year from the Pokagon Band Tribal-state compact fund to the Midwest continental divide commission fund. Changes the name of the state agency contingency fund to the personal services/fringe benefits contingency fund and makes certain amending changes to the provisions for the fund. Requires the budget director to withhold not less than 5% of any appropriation to a state agency to be used for salaries or other wages for state agency employees or general operating expenses of the state agency, with certain exclusions. Establishes the Indiana local government investment pool board for the purpose of establishing policies governing the investment of funds contributed to the local government investment pool. Amends provisions regarding the investment authority of the treasurer of state. Removes political affiliation requirements that apply to members appointed by the governor to the board for depositories. Repeals a provision allowing the Indiana department of administration to enter into a lease with the Indiana historical society for use of a building. Requires the department of natural resources (not the Indiana department of veterans' affairs under current law) to provide staff support to the Indiana semiquincentennial commission and repeals provisions requiring certain meetings and events of the commission to be held at the World War Memorial in Indianapolis. Removes the statewide innovation development district fund as a funding source for an agreement between the Indiana economic development corporation (IEDC) and a taxpayer to receive payment in lieu of claiming an economic development for a growing economy tax credit. Establishes a home repair matching grant pilot program. Requires the secretary of commerce to develop a collaborative framework with regional economic development organizations and other regional stakeholders to identify and implement targeted, actionable economic growth strategies on a regional basis. Establishes a rural fund capital investment tax credit. Establishes the Hoosier workforce investment tax credit. Establishes a beginning farmer tax credit. Amends the cap on the aggregate amount of tax credits the IEDC may certify each year. Increases the amount of the public utility fee from 0.15% to 0.175% of the public utility's annual gross intrastate operating revenue and transfers the public utility fee revenue and certain payments to the state general fund (not the public utility fund under current law). Amends certain membership provisions regarding the Gary airport authority board. Requires that the salary matrix for state police, capitol police officers, and department of natural resources law enforcement officers be adjusted each time an adjustment is made to a pay plan for state employees in the executive branch. Adds therapeutic ibogaine research to the research that is currently funded under the therapeutic psilocybin research fund. Provides that funding to a local board of health from the local public health fund may only be used for Indiana residents who are legal citizens of the United States. Specifies provider payment requirements that apply to any managed care organization that participates in the risk based managed care program. Repeals the provisions requiring the office of the secretary of family and social services to transfer $38,000,000 each year to the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County. Makes certain eligibility changes for the On My Way Pre-k program and the CCDF program. Provides that a community mental health center that provides compensation to any individual employee in an amount that is $400,000 or more per year is not eligible to receive funding from local property taxes or state programs or grants, but excluding the Medicaid program. Requires the department of natural resources to provide free admission to state parks to a Gold Star family member. Requires the bureau of motor vehicles to update the Gold Star family member license plate form. Establishes the health care engineering fund for the purpose of funding plan reviews for certain health facilities. Imposes a fee for each plan review that is deposited in the fund. Prohibits the Indiana department of health from requiring a contracted person to meet additional requirements other than federal requirements specified in the federal Charitable Choice Act in order to receive certain funding. Amends provisions that apply to local board of health spending of certain funds for core public health services. Requires the secretary of education to provide a report and recommendation to the general assembly concerning aligning state funding for dual credit and the advanced placement program with the new high school diploma and expanding access to dual credit course work to all Indiana students. Repeals the kids first trust program chapter on June 30, 2027. Prohibits a school employer from bargaining collectively with the exclusive school employee representative regarding contract costs for curricular materials. Establishes a teacher appreciation grant program to provide grants to school corporations and charter schools to attract, reward, and retain teachers who significantly impact student outcomes. Repeals the chapter establishing the curricular materials fund and certain provisions related to procedures for reimbursement of costs of providing curricular materials. Prohibits a school corporation or career and technical education center or school from charging a career scholarship student enrolled in the career scholarship account program or an approved intermediary acting on behalf of a career scholarship student a tuition or fee amount to enroll in or attend a career and technical education program, course, or class that is more than the proportionate amount that the school corporation or career and technical education center or school would receive under the career and technical education grant if the student had enrolled in and completed the applicable career and technical education program, course, or class. Repeals provisions that allow the treasurer of state to deduct or transfer amounts from the career scholarship account (CSA) program for administration expenses. Makes similar technical and conflict resolving changes to provisions that apply to the education scholarship account (ESA) program. Changes the administration of the ESA program and the CSA program from the treasurer of state to the department of education, and in certain instances, the responsibilities related to the CSA program from the commission for higher education to the department. Repeals the nonreverting provisions for the higher education award fund and the freedom of choice grant fund. Requires the commission for higher education to annually prepare and submit to the legislative council and to the budget committee a report that examines the utilization of physical facilities for instruction at each state educational institution. Repeals the caseload limitations for the department of child services. Authorizes the department of child services to enter into a written agreement with the department of state revenue to transfer the administration of the child support bureau to the department of state revenue. Amends provisions concerning the designation of an innovation development district (district) to add certain qualification requirements. Provides for the determination of the: (1) base assessed value; (2) gross retail base period amount; and (3) income tax base period amount; in a district. Requires the executive of a city, county, or town, or, if applicable, executives, and the IEDC to enter into an agreement establishing the terms and conditions governing any district (instead of only certain districts). Repeals the statewide innovation development district fund. Establishes the economic development reserve account. Provides that unexpended and unencumbered amounts appropriated from the federal economic stimulus fund in P.L.165-2021 do not revert to the state general fund. Requires the state comptroller to transfer: (1) $15,000,000 from the addiction services fund; and (2) $25,000,000 from the department of insurance fund; to the tobacco master settlement agreement fund on July 1, 2025. Requires the budget agency to transfer to the state general fund the balance in the freedom of choice grant fund (IC 21-12-4-5) and the higher education award fund (IC 21-12-3-19) that is not needed for the payment of scholarship awards in the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. Requires the office of management and budget to submit a report to the budget committee with options for reforming a certain funding model in the Indiana office of technology in order to reduce and streamline technology costs in the executive branch, improve technology services, and reduce purchase costs for state agencies.