Indiana Senate Bill 366 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Passed on May 17 2011 - 100% progression
Action: 2011-05-18 - SECTIONS 35 through 42 effective 07/01/2011
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Transfers responsibilities from administering specified federal food and nutrition program funds from the office of the lieutenant governor to the state department of health (state department). Requires the state department to annually inspect certain department of corrections facilities only if the facility is not accredited by a national accrediting organization. Creates the health care facility advisory council within the state department. Requires, beginning October 1, 2013, hospitals to record external cause-of-injury code for each individual who receives care in the emergency department of the hospital. Requires certain certified nurse aides to be certified by the state department, and requires the state department to: (1) establish a program; (2) prescribe education and training programs; (3) determine specified standards; and (4) establish annual certification fees; for certified nurse aides who work in health facilities. Requires the state department to maintain a registry for certified nurse aides and registered home health aides. Removes the requirements that a candidate must meet to be appointed director of the program for children with special health care needs. Authorizes a physician last in attendance of a deceased to initiate the document process for the death record and defines physician to include individuals with specified physician permits. Specifies that certain licensed professionals are subject to discipline under the person's license instead of committing a Class B misdemeanor for violating the statutes concerning vital statistics and specifies that the state department may not start sanctioning providers for certain violations until January 1, 2012. Requires the health finance commission to study whether hospitals should be required to report hospital employee influenza immunization rates to the state department. Repeals: (1) provisions establishing the hospital council, the home health care services and hospice services council, and the Indiana health facilities council; and (2) the requirement that the state department design, promote, and sell heirloom birth certificates.

State department of health matters.

Sen. Connie Lawson [R]

Sen. Patricia Miller [R]

Sen. Vi Simpson [D]

2011-04-29 - House - House - Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the House (Y: 87 N: 10 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-04-29 - Senate - Senate - Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the Senate (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-04-19 - House - House - Third reading: passed (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2011-02-22 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-18		SECTIONS 35 through 42 effective 07/01/2011
2011-05-18		SECTION 34 effective 05/10/2011
2011-05-18		SECTION 33 effective retroactive to 12/31/2010
2011-05-18		SECTIONS 1 through 32 effective 07/01/2011
2011-05-17		Public Law 156
2011-05-10		Signed by the Governor
2011-05-05		Signed by the President of the Senate
2011-05-05		Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2011-05-05		Signed by the Speaker
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 516: yeas 49, nays 0
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the House; Roll Call 724: yeas 87, nays 10
2011-04-29		Rules suspended
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 1 : filed in the House
2011-04-25		House advisors appointed: Crouch, VanNatter and Reske
2011-04-25		House conferees appointed: T. Brown and C. Brown
2011-04-25		Senate advisors appointed: Lawson and Grooms
2011-04-25		Senate conferees appointed: Miller and Simpson
2011-04-25		Senate dissented from House amendments
2011-04-19		Returned to the Senate with amendments
2011-04-19		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 567: yeas 94, nays 0
2011-04-18		Amendment 1 (T. Brown), prevailed; voice vote
2011-04-18		Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2011-04-12		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-03-28		First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2011-02-22		Cosponsor: Rep. C. Brown
2011-02-22		House sponsor: Rep. T. Brown
2011-02-22		Referred to the House
2011-02-22		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 199: yeas 48 and nays 0
2011-02-17		Second reading: ordered engrossed
2011-02-15		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-01-27		Committee report: amended, reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy
2011-01-18		Senator Simpson added as third author
2011-01-18		Senator Lawson added as second author
2011-01-11		First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2011-01-11		Authored by Senator Miller

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0366
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN0366.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0366.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0366.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/ES/ES0366.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/ES/ES0366.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0366.1.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0199.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0567.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0516.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0724.PDF.pdf