Requires state employee health plans and private insurers to cover doula services. Doulas provide support during pregnancy and childbirth — this bill says insurance should pay for it.
Lets adoption and foster care agencies turn away qualified LGBTQ+ parents if they cite religious beliefs — and bans the state from doing anything about it. Prioritizes provider ideology over children waiting for homes.
Makes the five IURC commissioners elected by voters in nonpartisan elections starting in 2026, instead of appointed by the governor. Candidates must live in the region they represent and can't have worked for a utility in the previous five years. The argument: appointed commissioners answer to the governor and his donors. Elected ones answer to the people paying the bills.
Social service benefit kiosk pilot program. Requires the division of family resources (division) of the office of the secretary of family and social services to establish a pilot program under which the division develops, deploys, and determines the ...
Health care debt and duty to provide care. Prohibits a health care provider from refusing to provide necessary care solely on the basis of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by the consumer to the health care provider for health care service...
Coverage of orthotic and prosthetic devices. Sets forth requirements for coverage of orthotic devices and prosthetic devices by a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract....
Property and local income taxes. Amends provisions added in SEA 1 in the 2025 session that require the department of local government finance to neutralize the effect of certain property tax provisions enacted in that bill. Amends the threshold for …
Physical examinations in CHINS investigations. Provides that if the department of child services (department) receives a report of known or suspected abuse of a child who is less than five years of age, a department caseworker: (1) shall physically e...
Release and sale of cemetery plots. Provides that if a burial space in a cemetery: (1) has remained unused for a period of at least 100 years from the date of sale or last recorded designation or transfer; and (2) …
Consent for pelvic, prostate, and rectal exams. Prohibits health practitioners and other specified individuals from performing pelvic, prostate, or rectal examinations on an anesthetized or unconscious patient except in specified circumstances. Spec...
Creates a new government authority to build a stadium in northwest Indiana with public financing — while schools and roads in rural districts like HD-46 keep waiting for investment.