Indiana House Bill 1353 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 11 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-01-13 - Representative Eberhart added as coauthor
Pending: House Ways and Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Accommodation of refugees. Allows the office of community and rural affairs (office) to use money in the rural economic development fund to provide grants for use by a nonprofit organization in assisting one or more refugees, or other individuals eligible to receive benefits or services from the Office of Refugee Resettlement of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (eligible individuals), in establishing permanent or temporary residence in an Indiana county that has provided notice to the office of the county's willingness to accommodate refugees or other eligible individuals. Provides for distribution of 90% of a grant to the nonprofit organization that applies for the grant, and 10% of the grant to the county specified in the grant application as the county that will accommodate the refugees or other eligible individuals.

Accommodation of refugees.

Rep. Edward DeLaney [D]

Rep. Sean Eberhart [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-01-13	House	Representative Eberhart added as coauthor
2022-01-11	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means
2022-01-11	House	Authored by Representative DeLaney

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1353/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/0/8/b/a08bd587/HB1353.01.INTR.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/f/1/0/df10a8f5/HB1353.01.INTR.FN001.pdf