IN SB0356 | 2010 | Regular Session

Status

Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Passed on March 25 2010 - 100% progression
Action: 2010-03-25 - Sections 6 through 105 effective 07/01/2010
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Summary

Establishes procedures for the attorney general to seize, secure, store, and destroy abandoned or at risk health records and other records containing personally identifying information. Creates a health records and personal identifying information protection trust fund to pay for costs associated with securing and maintaining the records. Allows a criminal history check for employees of home health agencies and personal services agencies to be provided through a private agency. Removes the July 1, 2010 expiration that allows limited criminal histories to be used for employees of home health agencies and personal services agencies. Establishes a uniform procedure to allow a board of a regulated occupation to issue a cease and desist order to an unlicensed person who engages in an activity that requires a license. Repeals and makes conforming changes concerning cease and desist and injunction orders. Merges and changes membership on the cosmetology and barber boards. Relocates barber statutes. Prohibits a person from professing to be a social worker unless the person is licensed as a social worker. Establishes a mental health counselor associate license. Establishes a water well driller and water well pump license. Prohibits a person from installing a water well pump unless the person is licensed. Allows persons who meet certain qualifications to be issued a water well driller and water well pump license without taking the examination. Establishes a continuing education requirement for a water well driller and water pump installer licensee. Eliminates the controlled substances advisory committee and transfers responsibilities to the Indiana board of pharmacy. Provides for automatic revocation of controlled substances permit if a physician's license is revoked. (Current law requires a separate administrative process to take place if physician's license is revoked.) Provides that at a retail pharmacy a controlled substance may not be dispensed to a person who is not personally known to the pharmacist, pharmacy technician, or person authorized by a pharmacist to dispense a controlled substance unless the person taking possession of the controlled substance provides documented proof of the person's identification. Requires the Indiana scheduled prescription electronic collection and tracking program's (INSPECT) data base to include information on a controlled substance recipient's method of payment for the controlled substance dispensed. Allows INSPECT information to be released to the following: (1) state toxicologist; (2) the Medicaid retrospective and prospective drug utilization review program; and (3) a substance abuse assistance program for certain licensed health care providers. Provides criminal and civil immunity for a practitioner who in good faith provides information to a law enforcement agency based on a report from INSPECT. Requires certain boards to establish prescribing norms and dispensing guidelines for the unsolicited dissemination of INSPECT exception reports to certain persons. Repeals laws concerning the certification of environmental health specialists and licensure of hypnotists. Requires the health finance commission to study the issue of paramedic licensure. Makes conforming changes.

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Title

Professional licensing.

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History

DateChamberAction
2010-03-25 Sections 6 through 105 effective 07/01/2010
2010-03-25 Sections 3 through 5 effective 06/30/2010
2010-03-25 Sections 1 through 2 effective 07/01/2010
2010-03-25 Public Law 84
2010-03-18 Signed by the Governor
2010-03-16 Signed by the President of the Senate
2010-03-11 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2010-03-11 Signed by the Speaker
2010-03-08 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 290: Yeas 38, Nays 7
2010-03-08 Motion to concur in House amendments filed
2010-03-04 Representative C. Brown added as conferee
2010-03-04 Representative Messmer removed as conferee
2010-03-03 Dissent withdrawn
2010-03-01 House advisors appointed: Crawford, Fry, T. Brown and Crouch
2010-03-01 House conferees appointed: Welch and Messmer
2010-03-01 Senate advisors appointed: Kenley, Mishler and Rogers
2010-03-01 Senate conferees appointed: Delph and Errington
2010-03-01 Senate dissented from House amendments
2010-02-25 Returned to the Senate with amendments
2010-02-25 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 254: Yeas 95, Nays 0
2010-02-24 Amendment 1 (Welch), prevailed; Voice Vote
2010-02-24 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2010-02-22 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2010-02-11 Reassigned to the Committee on Public Health
2010-02-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Labor and Employment
2010-02-02 Cosponsor: Rep. Messmer
2010-02-02 House sponsor: Rep. Welch
2010-02-02 Referred to the House
2010-02-02 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 153: Yeas 50 and Nays 0
2010-02-01 Second reading: ordered engrossed
2010-01-28 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2010-01-19 Senator Mishler added as second author
2010-01-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2010-01-12 Authored by Senator Delph

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