Indiana House Bill 1545 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on April 29 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-04-29 - Public Law 138
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Public health matters. Amends the definition of "food instrument" to state that a participant under the federal Women, Infants, and Children program uses an electronic benefit transfer card to obtain food. Requires the state department of health (department) to provide to the local vital records offices guidelines concerning the interpretation of the laws and the department's rules concerning vital statistics to assure uniform application of the state laws and rules. Removes expired language. Provides that if the Indiana birth registration system (IBRS) or the Indiana death registration system (IDRS) is unavailable for more than 48 hours, the state registrar may issue a notice that allows the filing of a paper record of a live birth, a death, or both. Provides that certain birth, stillborn, and death permanent records may be maintained by the IBRS and IDRS. Requires that a paper copy of the permanent record of a birth, stillborn, or death certificate be provided upon request by an individual. Allows the department to disclose identifiable vital statistics information to a legitimate researcher, if the researcher complies with certain requirements.

Public health matters. Amends the definition of "food instrument" to state that a participant under the federal Women, Infants, and Children program uses an electronic benefit transfer card to obtain food. Requires the state department of health (department) to provide to the local vital records offices guidelines concerning the interpretation of the laws and the department's rules concerning vital statistics to assure uniform application of the state laws and rules. Removes expired language. Provides that if the Indiana birth registration system (IBRS) or the Indiana death registration system (IDRS) is unavailable for more than 48 hours, the state registrar may issue a notice that allows the filing of a paper record of a live birth, a death, or both. Provides that certain birth, stillborn, and death permanent records may be maintained by the IBRS and IDRS. Requires that a paper copy of the permanent record of a birth, stillborn, or death certificate be provided upon request by an individual. Allows the department to disclose identifiable vital statistics information to a legitimate researcher, if the researcher complies with certain requirements.

Rep. Cindy Kirchhofer [R]	Rep. Shane Lindauer [R]	Rep. Robin Shackleford [D]	Rep. Rita Fleming [D]
Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. John Ruckelshaus [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]

2019-04-10 - House - House - House concurred in Senate amendments (Y: 93 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2019-04-02 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2019-03-27 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-31 - House - Third reading (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2019-01-23 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-04-29	House	Public Law 138
2019-04-29	House	Signed by the Governor
2019-04-29	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2019-04-18	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2019-04-18	House	Signed by the Speaker
2019-04-10	House	House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 479: yeas 93, nays 0
2019-04-10	House	Motion to concur filed
2019-04-03	Senate	Returned to the House with amendments
2019-04-02	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 378: yeas 48, nays 0
2019-04-01	Senate	Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
2019-04-01	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2019-03-28	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2019-03-21	Senate	Senator Ruckelshaus added as second sponsor
2019-02-27	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2019-02-01	House	Referred to the Senate
2019-01-31	House	Senate sponsor: Senator Charbonneau
2019-01-31	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 80: yeas 96, nays 0
2019-01-29	House	Representatives Lindauer, Shackleford, Fleming added as coauthors
2019-01-28	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2019-01-24	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2019-01-17	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2019-01-17	House	Authored by Representative Kirchhofer

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/house/1545/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/c/0/9/5c09d5c0/HB1545.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/1/d/2/71d2835a/HB1545.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/5/2/3/f523b73f/HB1545.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/a/5/1/da5191c0/HB1545.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/d/2/5/9d25c7a6/HB1545.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/2/3/c/e23c96a7/HB1545.04.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/0/d/a/c0dab28e/HB1545.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/8/2/9/c82948c2/HB1545.80.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/7/7/6/e776e3b6/HB1545.02.COMH.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/c/8/9/0c89fe24/HB1545.378.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/3/a/d/33ad40ce/HB1545.479.pdf