Bill Sponsors: IN SB0491 | 2019 | Regular Session

Bill Title: Funding for veterans programs. Extends to 2021 the veterans pilot program that provides assistance for certain providers to provide diagnostic testing and hyperbaric oxygen treatment to veterans. (Under current law, the program expires June 30, 2020.) Eliminates the requirement that a veteran must pay a co-pay equal to 10% of the cost of treatment billed to the Indiana department of veterans' affairs (department) or the state department of health for diagnostic testing and hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Provides that an individual veteran may not be required to pay a co-pay under the program. Voids the rule of state department of health defining "co-pay" for purposes of the program. Requires the state department of health to adopt emergency rules to amend specified existing program rules to do the following: (1) Remove the requirement that a veteran must pay a co-pay equal to 10% of the cost of treatment billed to the department. (2) Provide that grants may not be made under the program after June 30, 2021.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-3)

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-01 - Public Law 156 [SB0491 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Sponsors

NameTypeSponsorshipDistrictFinancialEncyclopediaBiography
Senator James Tomes [R]PrimarySponsored BillsSD-049FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Chris Garten [R]PrimarySponsored BillsSD-045FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Jack Sandlin [R]PrimarySponsored BillsSD-036FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Philip Boots [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-023FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator James Merritt [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-031FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Blake Doriot [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-012FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Frank Mrvan [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-001FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Lonnie Randolph [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-002FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Randall Frye [R]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-067FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Doug Gutwein [R]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-016FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Steve Bartels [R]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-074FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Karlee Macer [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-092FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart

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