Indiana Senator J.D. Ford [D]

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INSB0163Intro
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Social work licensure compact. Establishes the social work licensure compact.
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2025-01-21
To Senate Appropriations Committee
INSB0111Intro
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Coverage for living organ donors. Prohibits an insurer that issues a policy of life insurance, disability insurance, or long term care insurance from taking certain actions with respect to the coverage of individuals who are living organ donors. Spec...
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2025-01-21
Second reading: ordered engrossed
INSB0074Intro
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Extension of lifeline law immunity. Provides that an individual who is: (1) reasonably believed to be suffering from a health condition which is the direct result of alcohol consumption; and (2) assisted by a person who requested emergency medical as...
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2025-01-21
Senators Pol, Clark B, Taylor G added as coauthors
INSB0176Intro
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Licensed practical nurses. Removes the requirement that a state accredited program of practical nursing only accepts students who have a high school diploma or its equivalent. Requires that an individual applying for license to practice as a licensed...
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2025-01-21
Senator Charbonneau added as second author
INSR0005PassHonoring Chloe Montague-Himmell. A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Zionsville High School senior Chloe Montague-Himmell.
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2025-01-21
First reading: adopted voice vote
INSR0006PassRecognizing Young Men, Inc. A SENATE RESOLUTION recognizing Young Men, Inc. for their public service.
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2025-01-21
First reading: adopted voice vote
INSR0009Intro
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Memorializing Joseph Olofson. A SENATE RESOLUTION to memorialize Joseph Olofson, former Pike Township Fire Chief and Marion County Firefighter.
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2025-01-21
First reading: adopted standing vote
INSR0007PassHonoring Jeff Stant. A SENATE RESOLUTION to honor Jeff Stant upon his retirement from the Indiana Forest Alliance.
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2025-01-21
First reading: adopted voice vote
INSJR0017Intro
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State comptroller. Proposes an amendment to the Indiana Constitution to do the following: (1) Require the election of a state comptroller instead of an auditor of state. (2) Provide, effective June 30, 2023, that an individual serving as auditor of s...
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2025-01-21
Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
INSB0527Intro
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Satellite offices for voting absentee. Specifies that if a county adopts a resolution to authorize the circuit court clerk to establish a satellite office for a voter to cast an absentee ballot, the resolution must establish at least one satellite of...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Elections Committee
INSB0004Intro
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Water matters. Prohibits the construction, operation, purchase, sale, and lease of a long haul water pipeline, except as to a water utility that obtains a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Indiana utility regulatory commission....
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2025-01-21
To Senate Utilities Committee
INSB0181Intro
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Nurse training in trauma informed care. Requires the state board of nursing to adopt or amend rules to require trauma informed care training as part of the required curriculum for nursing education programs.
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2025-01-21
Senators Leising, Yoder, Becker, Jackson L, Ford J.D. added as coauthors
INSB0255Intro
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Education matters. Requires the department of education to grant an initial practitioner license to an individual who: (1) holds a bachelor's degree with a major in any combination of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics; (2) successfully...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
INSB0513Intro
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State administered retirement program. Establishes a board to design, establish, and operate a state administered retirement program (program) that automatically enrolls specified private sector employees. Requires program compliance by certain emplo...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Appropriations Committee
INSB0221Intro
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State comptroller. Changes certain references from "auditor of state" to: (1) "state comptroller (referred to as "auditor of state" in the Constitution of the State of Indiana)"; or (2) "state comptroller (auditor of state)". Requires "state comptrol...
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2025-01-21
Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
INSB0531Intro
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Ban on corporal punishment in schools. Prohibits the use of corporal punishment on certain students. Allows the use of reasonable and necessary force in certain situations.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
INSB0532Intro
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Ballot tracking commission. Establishes the ballot tracking commission to review data concerning technology to track an absentee ballot using real-time tracking information. Provides that the commission expires June 30, 2026.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Elections Committee
INSB0122Intro
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Nonprofit loan center loans for state employees. Provides that not later than: (1) September 1, 2025, in the case of a state agency other than a state educational institution or a school corporation; (2) September 1, 2026, in the case of a state agen...
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2025-01-16
To Senate Insurance & Financial Institutions Committee
INSB0226Intro
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Utility customer assistance programs. Amends the statute that authorizes a water or wastewater utility, in the context of a general rate case, to establish a customer assistance program for qualified residential customers, to provide the same authori...
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2025-01-16
To Senate Utilities Committee
INSB0164Intro
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Licensed professional music therapists. Provides for the licensure of professional music therapists by the medical licensing board. Establishes a music therapy advisory council to advise the medical licensing board. Establishes requirements and proce...
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2025-01-16
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
INSB0480Intro
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Prior authorization. Provides that a utilization review entity may only impose prior authorization requirements on less than 1% of unique health care services covered under the health plan overall and 1% of participating health care providers overal...
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2025-01-16
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
INSB0131Intro
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Access to employee restrooms. Provides that if a retail establishment has a restroom facility on its premises for the use of the retail establishment's employees, a customer who suffers from an eligible medical condition must, upon request, be allowe...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee
INSB0501Intro
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Discussable items for teachers. Requires a school employer to discuss certain items with the exclusive representative of certificated employees. Provides that the obligation to discuss does not require either party to enter into a contract, agree to ...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
INSB0500Intro
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Cardiac arrest action plans. Requires a school corporation, charter school, and nonpublic school with at least one employee to develop a venue specific emergency action plan for sudden cardiac arrest, in consultation with an emergency medical service...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
INSB0435Intro
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Prohibition on copay accumulator adjustments. Provides that under certain circumstances, the administrator of the state employee health plan shall include any amount paid by a covered individual or another person on behalf of the covered individual f...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
INSB0033Intro
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Consumer genetic testing providers. Provides that a person may not discriminate against an individual on the basis of the individual's solicitation and use of consumer genetic testing services or on the basis of the results of genetic testing perform...
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2025-01-14
To Senate Commerce & Technology Committee
INSB0276Intro
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Medicaid for over-the-counter birth control. Specifies that the Medicaid program covers over-the-counter birth control. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for any Medicaid state plan amendment or waiver necess...
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2025-01-13
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
INSB0445Intro
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Homeowners association matters. Provides that the governing documents of a homeowners association may authorize any vote to be conducted by electronic means. Requires a homeowners association to send certain notices to members of the homeowners assoc...
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2025-01-13
To Senate Local Government Committee
INSB0444Intro
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Incarcerated women's maternal health fund. Establishes the Officer Breann Leath Memorial Prison Nursery (nursery) within a correctional facility determined by the commissioner of the department of correction (DOC). Specifies the criteria for operatio...
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2025-01-13
To Senate Corrections & Criminal Law Committee
INSB0110Intro
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School based health centers. Requires the department of education, in consultation with the Indiana department of health, to establish a program to provide technical assistance to public schools, including charter schools, that are interested in esta...
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2025-01-13
To Senate Education and Career Development Committee
INSB0434Intro
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Utility transparency and reporting. Provides that the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) may not authorize a public utility that: (1) provides retail electric or natural gas service; and (2) is under the IURC's jurisdiction for the approval...
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2025-01-13
To Senate Utilities Committee
INSB0038Intro
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Syringe exchange programs. Amends the definition of "qualified entity" to include the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for purposes of provisions governing syringe exchange programs.
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2025-01-08
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
INSB0039Intro
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Referendum property tax levy for parks. Allows a municipal legislative body to adopt a resolution to place a referendum on the ballot to impose a capital projects referendum tax levy (capital projects referendum levy) to pay for capital expenditures ...
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2025-01-08
To Senate Local Government Committee
INSB0069Intro
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Homeowners association child safety requirements. Requires certain homeowners associations to erect a barrier that: (1) is at least four feet in height; and (2) surrounds the perimeter of a retention pond or other pond or lake that is located on prop...
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2025-01-08
To Senate Local Government Committee
INSB0130Intro
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Short term placement of endangered adults. Requires the division of aging, in consultation with the prosecuting attorneys council of Indiana, to: (1) establish an emergency short term placement option for the emergency placement of endangered adults ...
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2025-01-08
To Senate Family & Children Services Committee
INSB0132Intro
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Childhood obesity study topics. Establishes the childhood obesity commission as a temporary commission to study childhood obesity. Requires the commission to submit an annual report to the governor and the general assembly not later than June 30, 202...
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2025-01-08
To Senate Family & Children Services Committee
INSR0001PassHonoring Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch. A SENATE RESOLUTION honoring Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch upon her retirement.
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2025-01-08
Senators Alexander, Alting, Baldwin, Bassler, Becker, Bohacek, Brown L, Buchanan, Buck, Busch, Byrne, Carrasco, Charbonneau, Clark B, Crider, Deery, Dernulc, Donato, Doriot, Ford J.D., Freeman, Garten, Gaskill, Glick, Goode, Holdman, Hunley, Jackson L, Johnson T, Koch, Leising, Maxwell, Mishler, Niemeyer, Niezgodski, Pol, Qaddoura, Raatz, Randolph, Rogers, Schmitt, Spencer, Taylor G, Tomes, Walker G, Walker K, Young M, Zay added as coauthors
INSB0133Intro
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Restriction on co-pay accumulators. Provides that under certain circumstances, the administrator of a state employee health plan shall include any amount paid by a covered individual or another person on behalf of the covered individual for a prescri...
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2025-01-08
To Senate Health and Provider Services Committee
INSB0134Intro
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Water management authority. Establishes the water management authority as an agency of state government. Requires the governor to appoint an administrator of the authority (administrator). Provides for the adoption and implementation of a statewide w...
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2025-01-08
To Senate Utilities Committee
INSB0135Intro
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Data center development. Requires: (1) a person that operates a data center in Indiana to submit to the Indiana utility regulatory commission (commission) a quarterly report of the amount of electricity used by the data center in the immediately prec...
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2025-01-08
To Senate Utilities Committee
INSR0014N/A
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Memorializing Rodrick Shane Lambert. A SENATE RESOLUTION memorializing Rodrick Shane Lambert.
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INSR0012N/A
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Memorializing Officer Dave Sutton. A SENATE RESOLUTION memorializing Officer Dave Sutton of the Clermont Police Department.
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INSR0011N/A
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Honoring Indy Gateway. A SENATE RESOLUTION to honor Indy Gateway for their efforts in ensuring long-term sustainability on the west side of Indianapolis.
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INSCR0003N/A
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Honoring Dr. Michael Beresford. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Dr. Michael Beresford upon his retirement from Carmel Clay Schools.
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INSR0013N/A
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Recognizing Tru Colors Indy. A SENATE RESOLUTION recognizing Tru Colors Indy for its dedication to creating leadership opportunities for youth.
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INSR0010N/A
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Honoring Todd Duncan. A SENATE RESOLUTION to honor Todd M. Duncan for his service and commitment to the skilled trades and SMART (Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation) Union.
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