2022 Bowen Bi-Weekly Bill Brief
Try saying that 5 times fast.In the Bowen Bi-weekly Bill Brief (otherwise know as the B4),
we track Health and Health workforce legislation as it makes it’s way to becoming a law.
Updated as of:
2/25/22
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| Status | Bill Category (Health workforce vs. Health) | Bill Title | Primary Health Workforce Topic | Summary | Primary Author | Step | |
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| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 3: Administrative authority | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/3 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Establishes certain requirements for the temporary licensure of retired or inactive emergency medical services personnel retired or inactive health care professionals out-of-state health care professionals or recently graduated students who have applied f | Sen. Ed Charbonneau | 6 - Committee Passage |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 4: Local workforce recruiting and retention | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/4 | Workforce Incentive Programs | Local workforce recruiting and retention. Authorizes a local unit (county municipality town township or school corporation) to establish a workforce retention and recruitment program (program) and fund (fund) for the purposes of recruiting and retaining i | Sen. Travis Holdman | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Workforce | SB 5: Reciprocity | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/5 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Establishes a procedure to grant licenses and certificates to practice certain health care professions in Indiana. Requires the applicant to hold a current license or certificate from another state or jurisdiction and meet other requirements. Allows the a | Sen Liz Brown | 9 - Awaiting Governor's Action |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 30: Workplace immunization | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/30 | N/A | Workplace immunization. Prohibits an employer from requiring as a condition of employment an employee or prospective employee to receive any immunization if the immunization would pose a significant risk to the employee's or prospective employee's health | Sen. Dennis Kruse | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 31: Workplace COVID-19 immunization | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/31 | N/A | Workplace COVID-19 immunization. Prohibits an employer from requiring as a condition of employment an employee or prospective employee to receive an immunization against COVID-19 if the immunization would pose a significant risk to the employee's or prosp | Sen. Dennis Kruse | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 34: Prohibited services relating to care of minors. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/34 | N/A | Prohibits specified health care professionals from: (1) performing certain medical procedures on a minor; or (2) subjecting a minor to certain activities; that purposely attempt to change reinforce or affirm a minor's perception of the minor's own sexual | Sen. Dennis Kruse | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 36: Audiology and speech-language pathology compact | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/36 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Audiology and speech-language pathology compact. Adopts the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact. Establishes requirements regarding: (1) speech-language pathology assistants; and (2) the supervision of speech-language pathology supp | Sen. Dennis Kruse | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Related | SB 84: Suicide and drug overdose death reporting | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/84 | N/A | Suicide and drug overdose death reporting. Provides that the state department of health (department) shall annually prepare a report concerning all suicide and overdose fatalities in Indiana that occurred during the preceding calendar year. Requires the r | Sen. Jean Leising | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 88: Prescription drug rebates and pricing | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/88 | N/A | Provides that the defined cost sharing for a prescription drug under a covered individual's health insurance coverage must be calculated at the point of sale and based on a price that is reduced by an amount equal to at least 85% of all rebates received b | Sen. Ed Charbonneau | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 112: Medicaid advisory committee | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/112 | N/A | Medicaid advisory committee. Adds one member representing the Alzheimer's Association Greater Indiana Chapter to the Medicaid advisory committee. | Sen. Stacey Donato | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Related | SB 136: Dental plans and access to dental networks | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/136 | Oral health | Prohibits a dental plan (an insurance policy a health maintenance organization contract or a preferred provider plan) from directly or indirectly requiring a dental provider to provide a dental service to a covered individual at a fee amount that is: (1) | Sen. Andy Zay | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 140: Advanced practice registered nurses | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/140 | Nursing Workforce | Prohibits a state employee health plan a state educational institution employee health plan an accident and sickness insurance policy and a health maintenance organization contract from requiring authorization for covered early intervention services under | Sen. Jean Leising | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 151: Scholarship for minority students in health care | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/151 | Workforce Incentive Programs | Establishes the scholarship for minority students pursuing health care careers (scholarship) and the minority students pursuing health care careers fund (fund). Provides that the commission for higher education (commission) administers the scholarship pro | Sen. Jean Leising | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 154: Medicaid advisory committee | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/154 | N/A | Adds a member to the Medicaid advisory committee who represents an organization that serves underserved or minority communities. | Sen. Jean Breaux | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 162: Commission to combat substance use disorder | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/162 | N/A | Changes the name of the Indiana commission to combat drug abuse to the Indiana commission to combat substance use disorder. | Sen. Shelli Yoder | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 171: Teachers and counselors | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/171 | School Health | Requires the department of education (department) to establish and maintain a data base of information concerning employees of public schools who were physically injured while on the job by students of the public schools. Requires public schools to provid | Sen. J.D. Ford | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 172: Behavior analysis services. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/172 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Adds one member to the behavior analyst committee (committee). Requires the state department of health to inspect at least one time per year each facility where a licensed behavior analyst practices behavior analysis. Requires the committee to recommend p | Sen. J.D. Ford | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 174: Student health. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/174#digest-heading | N/A | Requires the governing body of a school corporation or chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school system to authorize the absence and excuse of a student due to the student's mental or behavioral health concerns. Limits the number of excused absen | Sen. J.D. Ford | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 189: Pharmacist contraceptive prescriptions | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/189 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Allows pharmacists who meet certain requirements to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptive patches and self-administered oral hormonal contraceptives (contraceptives). Establishes requirements for pharmacists who prescribe and dispense contraceptiv | Sen. Susan Glick | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 226: Marriage and family therapists | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/226 | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Decreases the number of experiential practice hours required to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or a therapist associate. Specifies that the hours must be completed during at least 12 months. | Sen. Stacey Donato | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 231: Medical marijuana | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/231 | N/A | Establishes a medical marijuana program (program) and permits caregivers and patients who have received a physician recommendation to possess a certain quantity of marijuana for treatment of certain medical conditions. Establishes a regulatory agency to o | Sen. Greg Taylor | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Workforce | SB 239: Practitioner identification and advertising | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/239 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Provides that beginning January 1 2023 a practitioner holding a license issued by the board of chiropractic examiners the state board of dentistry the state board of health facility administrators the medical licensing board the state board of nursing the | Sen. Kevin Boehnlein | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 243: Prior authorization for addiction treatment | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/243 | N/A | 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 opioi | Sen. Kyle Walker | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Related | SB 247: Report on 911 and regionalized trauma systems | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/247 | N/A | Requires the department of homeland security the state department of health and the statewide 911 board to make recommendations before November 1 2022 to the general assembly regarding: (1) improving emergency medical services response through increased i | Sen. Kyle Walker | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 249: Health insurance transparency | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/249 | N/A | Requires the commissioner of the department of insurance to provide an order directing the discontinuance of an illegal unauthorized or unsafe practice of an insurance company. Amends the deadlines by which a health plan must respond to a prior authorizat | Sen. Liz Brown | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 250: Health care providers | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/250 | Nursing Workforce | Removes language allowing an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) to: (1) certify that an individual has a permanent disability for purposes of obtaining a permanent parking placard; and (2) enter or sign a record on a death into the Indiana death re | Sen. Liz Brown | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Workforce | SB 251: Interstate medical licensure compact | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/251 | Physician Workforce | Requires the medical licensing board of Indiana to administer the interstate medical licensure compact (compact). Adopts the compact. Sets forth requirements of a compact state. Sets forth the duties and authority of the interstate medical licensure compa | Sen. Liz Brown | 10 - Public Law |
| Active | Health Workforce | SB 284: Telehealth matters | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/284 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Consolidates Medicaid telehealth language. Adds specified health care providers and students to the definition of "practitioner" for purposes of practicing telehealth. Allows behavior health analysts to temporarily perform telehealth during the time when | Sen. Ed Charbonneau | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 285: Practitioner discipline | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/285 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Amends the definitions of "practitioner" for purposes of the health professions and professional standards of practice laws to include individuals who held a license certificate registration or permit when the alleged violation of the standard of practic | Sen. Ed Charbonneau | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 287: Health and immunization matters | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/287 | Physician Workforce | Specifies that a state educational institution may not require an immunization passport. Provides that a state educational institution with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate is not entitled to certain statutory immunities. Specifies that the budget agency may no | Sen. Andy Zay | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 291: Workforce retention and recruitment fund | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/291 | Workforce Incentive Programs | Authorizes a local unit (county municipality town township or school corporation) to establish a workforce retention and recruitment program (program) and fund (fund) for the purposes of recruiting and retaining individuals who will satisfy the current an | Sen. Jeff Raatz | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Related | SB 298: Certificates of public advantage | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/298 | N/A | Defines "merger" and "merger agreement" for purposes of the certificate of public advantage (certificate) for certain hospital mergers. Specifies the state's best interest and intent in the passage of the certificate. Requires the state department of heal | Sen. Ed Charbonneau | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 316: Medicaid long term services and supports | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/316 | N/A | Requires: (1) the office of the secretary of family and social services; (2) an entity that has contracted with the office of the secretary; and (3) a person that has contracted with an entity; to contract with the area agencies on aging as the primary pr | Sen. Vaneta Becker | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 317: Art therapy | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/317 | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Provides that art therapy services provided by a certified art therapist or certified art therapist associate to an individual who receives mental health services or to an individual who receives services from a community mental health center are reimburs | Sen. Vaneta Becker | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 319: Study of pharmacy deserts | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/319 | N/A | Creates a task force to study pharmacy deserts in Indiana. Requires the task force to report findings and recommendations to the general assembly and the governor not later than November 1 2023. | Sen. Eddie Melton | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 332: Department of health reversion. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/332 | N/A | Provides that money appropriated to the state department of health for a state fiscal year that remains unexpended and unencumbered at the close of the state fiscal year does not revert to the state general fund and is not subject to transfer assignment o | Sen. Jean Breaux | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 338: Graduate retention incentives. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/338 | Workforce Incentive Programs | Provides for an exemption from the adjusted gross income tax for up to five years for an individual who graduates from a public or private four year college or university if the individual accepts a full-time position of employment in Indiana after gradua | Sen. Linda Rogers | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Workforce | SB 353: Home health aide training requirements | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/353 | Direct Care Workforce | Requires a registered home health aide who: (1) is employed as a home health aide; and (2) provides care to an individual who has been diagnosed with or experiences symptoms of Alzheimer's disease dementia or a related cognitive disorder; to complete cert | Sen. Vaneta Becker | 10 - Public Law |
| Active | Health Workforce | SB 365: Psychology interjurisictional compact | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/365 | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Establishes the psychology interjurisdictional compact concerning interjurisdictional telepsychology and the temporary authorization to practice psychology in another compact state. Sets forth requirements of a compact state. Sets forth the duties of the | Sen. Vaneta Becker | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 384: Medicaid buy-in program | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/384 | N/A | Medicaid buy-in program. Removes consideration of countable resources in determining an individual's eligibility for participation in the Medicaid buy-in program (program). Prohibits the office of the secretary of family and social services (office of the | Sen. Shelli Yoder | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 392: Home health care associations | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/392 | N/A | Home health care associations. Provides that home health agencies may enter into cooperative agreements to carry out the following activities: (1) To form and operate either directly or indirectly one or more networks of home health agencies hospitals ski | Sen. Vaneta Becker | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 394: Medical malpractice | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/394 | Physician Workforce | Provides that medical bills and medical expenses incurred in connection with the alleged injury or death of a patient are excluded from the maximum amount of damages that may be recovered in a medical malpractice action. Increases the amount that a health | Sen. Rick Niemeyer | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | SB 400: Physician noncompete agreements | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/400 | Physician Workforce | Specifies a process by which a physician or employer may require binding arbitration to determine a reasonable price to purchase a release from a noncompete agreement. | Sen. Justin Busch | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 405: Regulation of hospitals and nursing homes. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/405 | N/A | Repeals provisions that allow a county or city hospital to withhold from disclosure the individual salaries of hospital employees. Sets forth financial reporting requirements for hospitals concerning revenue generated from the ownership operation or manag | Sen. Fady Qaddoura | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 407: Risk based managed care and integrated care | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/407 | N/A | Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office of the secretary) to apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for a Medicaid waiver or state plan amendment to implement not earlier than January 1 2024 a | Sen. Mark Messmer | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | SB 413: Mental health care | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/413 | N/A | Provides for purposes of provisions of law under which a mentally ill individual may be committed if the individual is dangerous that an individual may be "dangerous" even though the individual is not inclined toward violent behavior. Amends the provision | Sen. David Niezgodski | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Status | Bill Category (Health workforce vs. Health) | Bill Title | Primary Health Workforce Topic | Summary | Primary Author | Step | |
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| Active | Health Workforce | HB 1001: A Bill for an Act to amend the Indiana Code concerning health | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1001 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | COVID-19 immunizations. Allows the secretary of family and social services (secretary) to issue a waiver of human services statutory provisions and administrative rules if the secretary determines that the waiver is necessary to claim certain enhanced fed | Rep. Lehman | 10 - Public Law |
| Active | Health Workforce | HB 1003: Nursing programs and licensing matters | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1003 | Nursing Workforce | Provides that the state board of nursing (board) shall issue by endorsement a license to practice as a registered nurse or practical nurse to an applicant who is a graduate of a foreign nursing school and provides certain documentation. Allows an eligible | Rep. Ethan Manning | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1018: Mental health and addiction matters | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1018 | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Specifies that an individual's incarceration hospitalization or other temporary cessation in substance or chemical use may not be used as a factor in determining the individual's eligibility for coverage in: (1) a state employee health care plan; (2) Medi | Rep. Shackleford | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1020: End of life options. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1020 | N/A | Allows individuals with a terminal illness who meet certain requirements to make a request to an attending provider for medication that the individual may take to bring about death. Specifies requirements a provider must meet in order to prescribe the med | Rep. Pierce | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1030: Mental health professionals | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1030 | Corrections | Allows a political subdivision in consultation with the technical assistance center to contract with mental health providers for the purpose of supplementing existing crisis intervention teams with mental health professionals. Specifies certain eligibilit | Rep. Earl Harris | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1046: Health insurance matters | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1046 | N/A | Requires the commissioner of the department of insurance to provide an order directing the discontinuance of an illegal unauthorized or unsafe practice of an insurance company. Provides that a health plan may not require a participating provider to seek p | Rep. Dave Heine | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1057: Prescription drug donation repositories | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1057 | N/A | Establishes the prescription drug donation repository program (program). Allows a person to donate prescription drugs and supplies to a central repository or local repository for use by an individual who is an eligible recipient or qualified individual. | Rep. Steve Bartels | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1060: Professional licensing agency. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1060 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Reduces the membership of the following boards to five members: (1) The state board of dentistry. (2) The state board of registration for professional engineers. (3) The Indiana board of veterinary medical examiners. Reduces the membership of the state bo | Rep. Dennis Zent | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1061: Ambulance assesssment fee and fund | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1061 | N/A | Establishes the ambulance assessment fee (fee) and the ambulance assessment fee fund (fund). Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to establish the fee based upon the best available data. Requires a provider organizat | Rep. Harold Slager | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1065: Cultural awareness and competence training. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1065 | Other | Provides that the state health data center (center) shall maintain statistics concerning race and ethnicity sex primary language and disability status. (Under current law the center is required to maintain statistics concerning gender and ethnicity.) Requ | Rep. Robin Shackleford | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1066: Saftey PIN program grants | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1066 | N/A | Requires a grant proposal for the safety PIN (protecting Indiana's newborns) program to include the targeted area or targeted population. (Current law requires the targeted area be included.) Specifies that the targeted area or targeted population may inc | Rep. Robin Shackleford | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1069: Psychology interjurisdictional compact. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1069 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Establishes the psychology interjurisdictional compact concerning interjurisdictional telepsychology and the temporary authorization to practice psychology in another compact state. Sets forth requirements of a compact state. Sets forth the duties of the | Rep. Cindy Ziemke | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1087: Dementia services coordinator | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1087 | Direct Care Workforce | Requires the division of aging to employ a full-time statewide dementia coordinator. Provides the duties of the coordinator. | Rep. Ethan Manning | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1088: Health workforce student loan repayment program | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1088 | Workforce Incentive Programs | Establishes the following: (1) The health workforce student loan repayment program (program). (2) The health workforce advisory council (council). (3) The health workforce student loan repayment program fund (fund); for the purpose of providing funds to r | Rep. Ethan Manning | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1090: Direct service professionals | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1090 | Direct Care Workforce | Requires the bureau of developmental disabilities services (bureau) to: (1) semi-annually provide to each authorized service provider a report containing information concerning direct service professionals against whom substantiated incident reports have | Rep. Julie Olthoff | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Workforce | HB 1094: Education Matters | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1094 | Workforce Pipeline (Education) | Requires the department of education to provide adequate employer liability and worker's compensation insurance coverage for students enrolled in a work based learning course. Provides that the department of workforce development shall designate certain c | Rep. Jake Teshka | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1095: Information required on reimbursement forms | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1095 | Safety net (Medicaid SNAP TANF SNAP etc.) | Requires a provider to include the service facility location in order to obtain Medicaid reimbursement from the office of the secretary of family and social services or a managed care organization. Requires health care providers to include the address of | Rep. Donna Schaibley | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1104: Assisted reproduction and gestational surrogacy. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1104 | N/A | Amends provisions regarding testing of donated human sperm and eggs. Repeals current Indiana law regarding surrogacy agreements. Enacts the gestational surrogacy act which establishes: (1) presumptions regarding parentage; (2) prerequisites for individual | Rep. Sean Eberhart | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1108: Physician owned hospitals Medicaid waiver. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1108 | N/A | Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to allow physician owned hospitals to expand in Indiana to provide access to health care for Medicaid recipients. | Rep. Harold Slager | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Related | HB 1112: Medicaid EMS reimbursement rates. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1112 | N/A | Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services and a managed care organization to reimburse under Medicaid an emergency medical services provider organization that is a Medicaid provider at a rate comparable to the federal Medicare rei | Rep. Harold Slager | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1113: Practitioner identification and advertising. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1113 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Provides that beginning January 1 2023 a practitioner holding a license issued by the board of chiropractic examiners the state board of dentistry the state board of health facility administrators the medical licensing board the state board of nursing the | Rep. Dennis Zent | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1117: Health provider contracts | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1117 | N/A | Makes various changes to the provisions that are prohibited in a health provider contract. Allows the insurance commissioner to grant a waiver to allow certain prohibited provisions in a health provider contract if certain conditions are met. Establishes | Rep. Donna Schaibley | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1119: Income tax deduction for recent graduates | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1119 | Workforce Pipeline (Education) | Provides an adjusted gross income tax deduction for Indiana residents who obtain: (1) a bachelor or an associate degree from a postsecondary educational institution; or (2) a certificate from a high value workforce certificate program as determined by the | Rep. Timothy O'Brien | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1121: Gender transition therapies report | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1121 | Other | Requires health care professionals to report certain information concerning gender transition to the state department of health (state department). Requires the state department to compile the reported data and annually submit the compiled data to the gen | Rep. Michelle Davis | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1123: Medicaid advisory committee | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1123 | N/A | Adds one member representing the Alzheimer's Association Greater Indiana Chapter to the Medicaid advisory committee. | Rep. Gregory Porter | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1131: Emergency powers and orders | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1131 | N/A | Removes specified emergency powers of the governor. Provides that an emergency order issued by: (1) the Indiana state department of health expires after 14 days unless renewal is authorized by the general assembly; and (2) a local health officer order exp | Rep. Jim Lucas | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1134: Education Matters | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1134#document-7671e6e6 | School Health | A licensed psychologist or school psychologist at a qualified13school (as defined in IC 20-30-17-4) or an employee of the qualified school may not:(1) provide a student with ongoing or recurring consultation collaboration or intervention services for ment | Rep. Anthony Cook | 6 - Committee Passage |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1133: Prior authorization for addiction treatment. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1133 | N/A | 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 opioi | Rep. Dennis Zent | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Related | HB 1140: Medicaid coverage for pregnant women. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1140 | N/A | Repeals the statute specifying Medicaid eligibility for qualified pregnant women. Increases the Medicaid income eligibility requirements for pregnant women. Removes the Medicaid limitation for pregnant women of medical assistance coverage only for pregnan | Rep. Ann Vermilion | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1141: Mental health. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1141 | N/A | Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a state Medicaid waiver to reimburse providers who provide behavioral health services to committed offenders held by the department of correction. Requires the division of men | Rep. Ann Vermilion | 3 - Committee Passage |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1142: Reporting of insureds' health indicators. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1142 | N/A | Requires an insurer to report aggregate information regarding certain health indicators of its covered individuals in Indiana to the department of insurance on an annual basis. Requires the department of insurance to publish the information on its Intern | Rep. Ann Vermilion | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1158: Various health and human services matters. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1158#digest-heading | Direct Care Workforce | Various health and human services matters. Allows an advanced practice registered nurse to sign certain individualized family service plans. Changes the composition and duties of the division of the disability and rehabilitative services advisory council. | Rep. Edward Clere | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1168: Medical marijuana | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1168 | N/A | Permits the use of medical marijuana by persons with serious medical conditions as determined by their physician. Establishes a medical marijuana program to permit the cultivation processing testing transportation and dispensing of medical marijuana by ho | Rep. Jim Lucas | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Related | HB 1169: Department of health matters. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1169 | Other | epeals and relocates laws concerning: (1) rules regulating the sanitary operation of tattoo parlors and body piercing facilities; (2) allowing the executive board of the state department of health (board) to adopt rules on behalf of the state department o | Rep. Edward Clere | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1175: Physician noncompete agreements. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1175 | Physician Workforce | Specifies that the reasonable price of a noncompete agreement buyout may not exceed $75000 under the following circumstances: (1) the physician's employer is a hospital system located in Allen County; (2) the physician has completed a minimum of eight yea | Rep. Heath VanNatter | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1178: Implicit bias training. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1178#digest-heading | Maternal/Child Health | Provides that after December 31 2023 a hospital that provides inpatient maternity services and a birthing center shall implement an evidence based implicit bias training program for all health care providers who regularly provide perinatal treatment and c | Rep. Vanessa Summers | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Workforce | HB 1192: Qualified providers and Medicaid school services. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1192 | School Health | Defines "qualified provider" and "school based nurse" for purposes of providing Medicaid covered services in a school setting. Specifies conditions that must be met in order for the school based Medicaid services to be provided. | Rep. Michael Karickhoff | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1194: Risk based managed care and integrated care | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1194 | N/A | Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office of the secretary) to apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for a Medicaid waiver or state plan amendment to implement not earlier than January 1 2024 a | Rep. Michael Karickhoff | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1202: Professional counselors licensure compact | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1202 | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Requires the behavioral health and human services licensing board to administer the professional counselors licensure compact (compact). Adopts the compact. Sets forth requirements of a member state. Sets forth the duties and authority of the counseling c | Rep. Mike Andrade | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health | HB 1222: Various FSSA matters | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1222 | N/A | Allows the family and social services administration to deny or revoke licensing for a child care home based on a household member's conviction for certain specified criminal offenses. Removes a limitation specifying that an occupancy provision regarding | Rep. Cindy Ziemke | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health | HB 1229: Vaccines and employment | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1229#digest-heading | N/A | Provides that if an employer requires an employee to receive a COVID-19 vaccine the employer must waive the COVID-19 vaccine requirement if an employee requests a waiver and submits certain statements to the employer on the basis of medical reasons religi | Rep. Shane Lindauer | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1230: Telemedicine services. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1230 | Other | Expands the application of the telehealth statute to additional practitioners. | Rep. Shane Lindauer | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1234: Occupational licensure reciprocity | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1234 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Requires a board that issues a license for certain regulated occupations to issue a license to an individual who: (1) is licensed in another state or jurisdiction in the regulated occupation; (2) has established residency in Indiana; (3) has passed a subs | Rep. Martin Carbaugh | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1239: Music and art therapy. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1239 | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Provides that art therapy services provided by a licensed art therapist to an individual who receives mental health services or to an individual who receives services from a community mental health center are reimbursable under Medicaid. Provides for the | Rep. Chris Judy | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1241: Military family occupational licenses. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1241 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Provides that a military service applicant who has held an occupational license certification registration or permit (license) in another jurisdiction for at least one year may qualify for an Indiana license. Removes the requirement that an applicant have | Rep. Chris May | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Related | HB 1254: Newborn screening requirements | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1254 | N/A | Authorizes the perinatal genetics and genomics advisory committee (committee) to recommend an additional disorder to the newborn screening examination requirements in a manner prescribed by the state department of health (state department). Requires the a | Rep. Brad Barrett | 10 - Public Law |
| Active | Health Workforce | HB 1255: Health matters. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1255 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Amends the definitions of "practitioner" for purposes of the health professions and professional standards of practice laws to include individuals who held a license certificate registration or permit when the alleged violation of the standard of practice | Rep. Brad Barrett | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1270: Nonprofit hospital and insurer reporting | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1270#digest-heading | N/A | Requires a nonprofit hospital with more than 100 beds to report annually specified financial information to the state department of health. Requires a nonprofit hospital and a health carrier to post and send certain information at least 45 days before a p | Rep. Donna Schaibley | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1271: Health care prior authorization | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1271#digest-heading | N/A | Provides that when a health plan makes an adverse determination in response to a health care provider's request for prior authorization of a health care service: (1) the health plan is required to provide the health care provider with an opportunity to ha | Rep. Donna Schaibley | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1275: Medicaid providers and Medicaid administration | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1275 | N/A | Medicaid providers and Medicaid administration. Allows a provider that has entered into a contract with a managed care organization after exhausting any internal procedures of the managed care organization for provider grievances and appeals to request an | Rep. Edward Clere | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1284: Telehealth | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1284 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | equires a health care provider who provides telehealth services to obtain written health care consent for the provision of telehealth services. Requires a prescriber who provides telehealth services to a patient to conduct certain components of a physical | Rep. Cindy Ledbetter | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Active | Health Related | HB 1291: Department of health name change | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1291 | Regulatory (Agency Boards PLA) | Requires the legislative services agency to prepare legislation for introduction in the 2023 regular session of the general assembly to make appropriate amendments to the Indiana Code to change references from the "state department of health" to the "Indi | Rep. Wendy McNamara | 10 - Public Law |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1295: Physician noncompete agreements. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1295 | Physician Workforce | Specifies a process by which a physician or employer may require binding arbitration to determine a reasonable price to purchase a release from a noncompete agreement. | Rep. Chris Judy | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1331: Dental hygienist | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1331 | Oral health | Provides that a dental hygienist may administer an immunization that is recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for individuals who are not less than 11 years of age on the order o | Rep. Dennis Zent | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1332: Employment agencies | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1332#digest-heading | Other | Provides that an employment agency (agency) commits price gouging if an agency's charge is in excess of three times the fair market value of the health care services of a health care employee or temporary worker. Raises the surety bond for an agency from | Rep. Cindy Ziemke | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Workforce | HB 1346: Physician assistants. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1346 | Physician Workforce | Amends current requirements for a collaborative agreement between a physician and a physician assistant with the following: (1) the collaborative agreement must include limitations; (2) the collaborative agreement must set forth the method of collaborati | Rep. Ann Vermilion | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1350: Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1350 | N/A | Requires the Indiana department of health (department) to establish an Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system (IVAERS) for reporting the occurrence of adverse events relating to childhood vaccines. Provides that IVAERS must enable a health car | Rep. Bruce Borders | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health workforce | HB 1372: Dispensing ivermectin | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1372#digest-heading | Other | Allows a physician or advanced practice registered nurse to create a standing order that allows a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin. Provides that a prescription dispensed under a standing order is considered to be issued for a legitimate medical purpose | Rep. Curt Nisly | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1373: Ambulance services | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1373#digest-heading | N/A | Provides for the attending physician or the physician's designee of a patient needing transportation by ambulance to sign an order that states the level of ambulance service needed for the patient and the condition or diagnosis of the patient that makes t | Rep. Brad Barrett | 5 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1383: Withdrawal from Medicare advantage networks. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1383 | N/A | Withdrawal from Medicare advantage networks. Provides that a hospital physician or physician group: (1) may not withdraw from a Medicare advantage network for any part of a calendar year after the calendar year has begun; (2) may withdraw from a Medicare | Re.p Heath VanNatter | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
| Dead | Health Related | HB 1416: Maternal morbidity reporting. | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1416 | N/A | Requires the state department of health to report annually to the legislative council on maternal morbidity from postpartum complications. | Vanessa Summers | 2 - Assigned to Committee |
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