Indiana 2024 Regular Session Status: Passed House Bipartisan · 6 R · 1 D cosponsors

HB 1260 — Indiana department of health.

Last action — First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services

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

This bill died with 2024 Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there are no live odds of enactment. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Specifies that provisions of law governing the office of administrative law proceedings apply to the Indiana department of health (state department) in matters concerning the involuntary transfer or discharge of a resident of a health facility. Requires the fee amount for a service provided by the state health laboratory to be based on the federal Medicare reimbursement rate for the service or if the service does not have a Medicare reimbursement rate, the Medicaid reimbursement rate. Amends the list of crimes or acts that preclude a home health aide, nurse aide, or other unlicensed employee from employment at a home health agency and certain health care facilities. Requires the state department to: (1) investigate any report that a nurse aide or home health aide has been convicted of a certain crime; and (2) after an administrative hearing, remove the individual from the state nurse aide registry. Makes it a Class A infraction for a person convicted of a certain crime to knowingly or intentionally apply for a job as a home health aide or other unlicensed employee at a home health agency or certain health care facilities. For provisions concerning the women, infants, and children nutrition program (WIC program), defines "WIC vendor agreement" and requires the state department to include in a WIC vendor agreement a list of sanctions for failing to comply with the agreement. Requires the state department to: (1) select WIC program vendors based on selection criteria set forth in federal regulations; (2) review the selection criteria annually; (3) include the selection criteria in the WIC state plan; and (4) publish the selection criteria on the state department's website. Includes reporting to local child fatality review teams, the statewide child fatality review committee, local fetal-infant mortality review teams, and suicide and overdose fatality review teams for the release of mental health records without the consent of the patient. For provisions governing home based food products, repeals the term "potentially hazardous food product" and defines "time temperature control for safety food". Adds the state health commissioner or the commissioner's designee as a member of the rare disease advisory council (council). Adjusts the number of council members required to establish a quorum. Amends the membership of the statewide child fatality review committee. Repeals the expiration of the maternal mortality review laws.

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Action History

  1. First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services

  2. Senator Brown L added as second sponsor

  3. Senator Johnson T added as third sponsor

  4. Referred to the Senate

  5. Representatives Olthoff, Goss-Reaves, Porter added as coauthors

  6. Senate sponsor: Senator Charbonneau

  7. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 23: yeas 96, nays 0

  8. Amendment #1 (Barrett) prevailed; voice vote

  9. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  10. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  11. First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health

  12. Authored by Representative Barrett

Sponsors

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4 sponsors · 3 co-sponsors · 143 not signed on

Sponsors (4)

Co-sponsors (3)

Not signed on (143)

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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 1260 do?
Specifies that provisions of law governing the office of administrative law proceedings apply to the Indiana department of health (state department) in matters concerning the involuntary transfer or discharge of a resident of a health facility. Requires the fee amount for a service provided by the state health laboratory to be based on the federal Medicare reimbursement rate for the service or if the service does not have a Medicare reimbursement rate, the Medicaid reimbursement rate. Amends the list of crimes or acts that preclude a home health aide, nurse aide, or other unlicensed employee from employment at a home health agency and certain health care facilities. Requires the state department to: (1) investigate any report that a nurse aide or home health aide has been convicted of a certain crime; and (2) after an administrative hearing, remove the individual from the state nurse aide registry. Makes it a Class A infraction for a person convicted of a certain crime to knowingly or intentionally apply for a job as a home health aide or other unlicensed employee at a home health agency or certain health care facilities. For provisions concerning the women, infants, and children nutrition program (WIC program), defines "WIC vendor agreement" and requires the state department to include in a WIC vendor agreement a list of sanctions for failing to comply with the agreement. Requires the state department to: (1) select WIC program vendors based on selection criteria set forth in federal regulations; (2) review the selection criteria annually; (3) include the selection criteria in the WIC state plan; and (4) publish the selection criteria on the state department's website. Includes reporting to local child fatality review teams, the statewide child fatality review committee, local fetal-infant mortality review teams, and suicide and overdose fatality review teams for the release of mental health records without the consent of the patient. For provisions governing home based food products, repeals the term "potentially hazardous food product" and defines "time temperature control for safety food". Adds the state health commissioner or the commissioner's designee as a member of the rare disease advisory council (council). Adjusts the number of council members required to establish a quorum. Amends the membership of the statewide child fatality review committee. Repeals the expiration of the maternal mortality review laws.
Who sponsors HB 1260?
HB 1260 is sponsored by Tyler Johnson (Republican), Liz Brown (Republican), Ed Charbonneau (Republican), Gregory Porter (Democrat), Lori Goss-Reaves (Republican), Julie Olthoff (Republican), and Brad Barrett (Republican).
What is the current status of HB 1260?
This bill died with 2024 Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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