Indiana House Bill 1208 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 7 2023 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-27 - First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations
Pending: Senate Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Opioid settlement. Specifies that the distribution of funds from an opioid litigation settlement is subject to a bankruptcy court order or bankruptcy settlement. Provides that an annual distribution of less than $5,000 payable to a city or town pursuant to an opioid litigation settlement agreement must be paid instead to the county. (Under current law, the threshold is $1,000.) Specifies that amounts owed by the state for attorney's fees and costs incurred in connection with opioid litigation must be deducted from the opioid settlement distribution payable to the state. Permits a city, county, or town that receives an opioid litigation settlement payment to transfer all or part of the payment to another city, county, or town to be used for the benefit of both communities. Permits a city, county, or town that receives an opioid litigation distribution to sell the right to receive the distribution. Excludes from the agency settlement fund any amount owed for outside counsel attorney's fees, costs, or expenses.

Opioid settlement.

Rep. Michael Karickhoff [R]	Rep. Gregory Steuerwald [R]	Rep. Chris Jeter [R]	Rep. Philip GiaQuinta [D]
Sen. Ryan Mishler [R]

2023-02-06 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 97 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-27	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations
2023-02-07	House	Referred to the Senate
2023-02-06	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 73: yeas 97, nays 0
2023-02-06	House	Senate sponsor: Senator Mishler
2023-02-02	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2023-01-30	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2023-01-24	House	Representatives Steuerwald, Jeter C, GiaQuinta added as coauthors
2023-01-19	House	Representative GiaQuinta removed as coauthor
2023-01-12	House	Representative GiaQuinta added as coauthor
2023-01-10	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means
2023-01-10	House	Authored by Representative Karickhoff

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1208/details
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1208/#1.INTR
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1208/#2.COMH
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1208/#H73