Indiana 2021 Regular Session Status: Enacted Bipartisan · 4 R · 4 D cosponsors

SB 232 — Exposure risk diseases.

Last action — Signed by the Governor

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed House
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 07, 2021. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 78% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 11 sponsors

    4 primary, 7 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (4 R · 4 D) — cross-party backing.

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Summary

Adds any variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to the list of diseases considered an exposure risk disease for purposes of emergency and public safety employee death and disability presumed in the line of duty. Provides, for any employee who is diagnosed after June 30, 2021, with a health condition caused by any variant of SARS, including COVID-19, that if the health condition results in disability or death and the employee wishes to have a presumption of disability or death incurred in the line of duty apply to the employee, the employee shall, by written affidavit executed before death, provide verification that the employee has not, outside the scope of the employee's current employment, been exposed to another individual known to have any variant of SARS, including COVID-19. Makes technical corrections.

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Action History

  1. Signed by the Governor

  2. Public Law 143

  3. Signed by the Speaker

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate

  5. Signed by the President Pro Tempore

  6. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 458: yeas 43, nays 5

  7. Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 464: yeas 85, nays 1

  8. CCR # 1 filed in the House

  9. CCR # 1 filed in the Senate

  10. Senate advisors appointed: Baldwin and Tallian

  11. Senate conferees appointed: Ford Jon and Niezgodski

  12. House advisors appointed: Frye R, Gutwein, Gore and Pack

  13. House conferees appointed: Judy and Andrade

  14. Senate dissented from House amendments

  15. Motion to dissent filed

  16. Concurrence withdrawn

  17. Motion to concur filed

  18. Returned to the Senate with amendments

  19. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 339: yeas 89, nays 0

  20. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  21. Amendment #4 (Frye R) prevailed; voice vote

  22. Committee report: do pass, adopted

  23. Representative Lauer added as cosponsor

  24. Referred to the Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127

  25. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  26. First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety

  27. Referred to the House

  28. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 129: yeas 45, nays 1

  29. Senator Kruse removed as coauthor

  30. Cosponsors: Representatives Frye and Andrade M

  31. House sponsor: Representative Judy

  32. Second reading: ordered engrossed

  33. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  34. Senators Doriot, Crane, Kruse, Niezgodski, Qaddoura added as coauthors

  35. Senator Baldwin added as second author

  36. Senator Tallian added as third author

  37. Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations

  38. First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor

  39. Authored by Senator Ford Jon

Sponsors

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4 sponsors · 7 co-sponsors · 139 not signed on

Sponsors (4)

Co-sponsors (7)

Not signed on (139)

139 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 232 do?
Adds any variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to the list of diseases considered an exposure risk disease for purposes of emergency and public safety employee death and disability presumed in the line of duty. Provides, for any employee who is diagnosed after June 30, 2021, with a health condition caused by any variant of SARS, including COVID-19, that if the health condition results in disability or death and the employee wishes to have a presumption of disability or death incurred in the line of duty apply to the employee, the employee shall, by written affidavit executed before death, provide verification that the employee has not, outside the scope of the employee's current employment, been exposed to another individual known to have any variant of SARS, including COVID-19. Makes technical corrections.
Who sponsors SB 232?
SB 232 is sponsored by Scott Baldwin (Republican), Karen Tallian, Blake Doriot (Republican), John Crane, David Niezgodski (Democrat), Fady Qaddoura (Democrat), Chris Judy (Republican), Randall Frye, Mike Andrade (Democrat), Ryan Lauer (Republican), and J.D. Ford (Democrat).
What is the current status of SB 232?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 07, 2021. Enacted.
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