All Roll Calls
Yes: 229 • No: 0
IndianaHB 1466First Regular Session 124th General Assembly (2025)House
Various agency administrative procedures.
Sponsored By: Jennifer Meltzer (Republican)
Signed by Governor
Summary
Provides that the department of natural resources is subject to the jurisdiction of the office of administrative law proceedings. Provides that the secretary of family and social services is the ultimate authority for Medicaid applicants and recipient eligibility appeals. Provides that in Medicaid applicant eligibility cases, except in certain circumstances, the order from the administrative law judge is final after 61 days without further affirmation from the ultimate authority. Provides that the review of certain professional disciplinary reviews are not subject to the office of administrative law proceedings. Sets forth the process to select a hearing officer for the professional disciplinary reviews. Makes changes to motor vehicle dealer services statutes to be consistent with the jurisdiction of the office of administrative law proceedings. Provides that the department of child services (DCS) is the ultimate authority of the review of decisions concerning residential child care base rates. Removes the duty of DCS to adopt rules concerning the administrative review by DCS of a proposed or approved substantiated report of child abuse or neglect, before or after an administrative hearing is available or conducted. Makes conforming changes. Makes technical corrections and conforming amendments required by HEA 1003-2024 concerning the office of administrative law proceedings.
judiciarythe senate
Personalized for You
How does this bill affect your finances?
Personalize government policy and PRIA will tell you what this bill means for your household, plus every other piece of legislation we track. PRIA reads each provision against your financial profile to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
12 provisions identified: 6 benefits, 3 costs, 3 mixed.
Medicaid applicant appeals get automatic finality
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Family and Social Services Administration secretary is the final authority for Medicaid eligibility appeals. In applicant cases, a judge's order becomes final after 61 days without further approval. This applies only when no objection or notice under the state's order-review procedure is filed. The change does not alter Medicaid eligibility standards or benefit amounts.
Dealers gain clearer paths to challenges
Beginning July 1, 2025, vehicle franchisees can challenge proposed manufacturer or distributor actions through the Office of Administrative Law Proceedings. They must petition within 30 days after receiving notice; an appointed judge holds a hearing and decides whether good cause exists. Dealers harmed by covered unfair practices can also file complaints, petitions, or requests for legal rulings without first demanding mediation. A judge can still order mediation.
Dealers get simpler warranty rate disputes
Beginning July 1, 2025, dealers can use customer-paid repair orders from the 180 days before submitting warranty-rate declarations. Retail-rate samples use the lesser of 100 sequential customer-paid repair orders or 90 consecutive days. After a timely manufacturer or distributor rebuttal, dealers can file a complaint without first demanding mediation. They must file with the dealer services division within 30 days after receiving the rebuttal.
Bee notice hearings allow easier access
People challenging a written notice about an apiary, where bees are kept, can request a hearing for temporary relief. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the hearing must occur within five days after the request is received. It can take place virtually or at a location convenient for both parties, rather than in the apiary's county.
New procedures for natural resource disputes
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Natural Resources Commission follows the applicable state administrative procedures. Parties can request combined water cases that share legal or factual questions and a common party besides the agencies. Judges must combine them when doing so may improve efficiency; at least two judges hear the combined case. Surface-water users in a watershed dispute can also request mediation through the Office of Administrative Law Proceedings, rather than the commission.
Residents can request high-hazard safety oversight
Property owners, their representatives, and downstream residents can ask the Department of Natural Resources to classify structures as high hazard. Requests must be written and concern structures outside the department's jurisdiction under these rules. The requester must believe failure threatens life or serious damage to homes, businesses, public utilities, major highways, or railroads. The chapter's safety rules apply only if the department makes the high-hazard designation.
High-hazard violations can enter property records
The Division of Water can record a sworn notice of an unresolved high-hazard structure violation in county property records. This follows exhausted agency appeals without timely court review, court review that leaves enforcement standing, or a settlement. The department must record a release when the problem is resolved. The notice is not a judgment lien and does not invalidate a transfer or remove marketable record title.
Lake emergency orders lose hearing notices
Temporary freshwater lake emergency orders no longer must include notice of a hearing to be held as soon as practicable. After a hearing, the director can continue, change, or end the order.
Pest notice challenges face longer waits
People challenging pest or pathogen notices from inspections can request a hearing for temporary relief. The hearing deadline increases from five days to 30 days after the request is received. The parties can agree to a different schedule.
Child services reviews gain and lose protections
Beginning July 1, 2025, Department of Child Services decisions come under the applicable state administrative procedures. The specified Division of Family Resources decisions remain excluded. Child Services no longer must create a separate review process for substantiated abuse or neglect reports in the child protection index. People named as perpetrators still have the right to request and receive an administrative hearing.
Dealer discipline appeals carry firm deadlines
Beginning July 1, 2025, people facing dealer-services disciplinary orders have 30 days after service to petition for review. The Office of Administrative Law Proceedings assigns a judge to handle the case under state administrative procedures. The judge must set a hearing date within 30 days after receiving the petition. Without a timely petition, the disciplinary order becomes final automatically.
Only owners can challenge water baselines
Only facility owners can seek administrative review of covered baseline water-use determinations under the compact for Indiana basin waters. Before completing its investigation, the department must tell the owner the proposed baseline amount. The owner gets at least 30 days to submit supporting documents. Other people cannot seek administrative review of that determination.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Jennifer Meltzer
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Alex Zimmerman
Republican • House
Chris Jeter
Republican • House
Cyndi Carrasco
Republican • Senate
Gregory Steuerwald
Republican • House
Rodney Pol
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/1/2025
House concurred with Senate amendments
Yes: 91 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/25/2025
Third reading: passed
Yes: 47 • No: 0
House vote • 2/20/2025
Third reading: passed
Yes: 91 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor
4/16/2025HousePublic Law 92
4/16/2025HouseSigned by the President of the Senate
4/9/2025SenateSigned by the Speaker
4/3/2025HouseSigned by the President Pro Tempore
4/3/2025SenateHouse concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 353: yeas 91, nays 0
4/1/2025HouseMotion to concur filed
3/27/2025HouseReturned to the House with amendments
3/26/2025SenateThird reading: passed; Roll Call 288: yeas 47, nays 0
3/25/2025SenateSecond reading: ordered engrossed
3/24/2025SenateSenator Pol added as cosponsor
3/24/2025SenateCommittee report: amend do pass, adopted
3/20/2025SenateFirst reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
3/3/2025SenateReferred to the Senate
2/21/2025HouseSenate sponsor: Senator Carrasco
2/20/2025HouseThird reading: passed; Roll Call 250: yeas 91, nays 0
2/20/2025HouseSecond reading: ordered engrossed
2/19/2025HouseCommittee report: do pass, adopted
2/17/2025HouseRecommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
2/10/2025HouseCommittee report: amend do pass, adopted
2/10/2025HouseAuthored by Representative Meltzer
1/21/2025HouseFirst reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
1/21/2025HouseCoauthored by Representatives Steuerwald, Jeter, Zimmerman
1/21/2025House
Bill Text
Enrolled House Bill (H)
House Bill (H)
House Bill (S)
Introduced House Bill (H)
Related Bills
SB 324, Criminal procedures.
Increases the penalty levels of crimes related to fentanyl. Provides that a court shall consider requiring certain persons charged with a crime of domestic violence to wear a monitoring device as a condition of bail. Requires that a bail hearing for a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee be held in open court and provides that before releasing a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee on bail the court must review the probable cause affidavit or arrest warrant and impose money bail payable by surety bond or cash deposit. Provides that in accordance with IC 27-10-2-4.5(g)(2), a charitable bail organization may not pay money bail on behalf of a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee. Makes conforming changes.
SB 231, Various corrections matters.
Eliminates requirements that the department of correction: (1) maintain farm programs for offenders committed to the department; and (2) prepare a report calculating the savings realized as a result of sentencing changes. Replaces a reference to a rule repealed by the department of correction with a requirement that the custody and treatment of juveniles meet the standards and licensing requirements adopted in the administrative rules of the department.
SB 80, Code publication.
Makes Indiana Code publication amendments. Repeals and relocates specific Indiana Code definitions chapters for organization of the defined terms by alphabetical order and to provide for future expansion of the chapters. Makes conforming cross-reference updates. Makes technical amendments to remove tabulation designations from the certain criminal law and procedure sections for consistency with similar statutes and to streamline amendment of those sections. Resolves technical conflicts between various enrolled acts passed during the 2025 legislative session.
SB 453, Various tax matters.
Amends estimated quarterly tax payment provisions. Restructures tax collection requirements for kerosene to eliminate specialized tax filing. Streamlines the filing requirements for gasoline use tax to eliminate multiple filing requirements. Specifies the liability and remittance requirements for the gross retail tax, gasoline use tax, and other listed taxes in certain circumstances. Amends provisions that apply to passenger and household goods carriers. Amends the college savings tax credit. Replaces the term "college choice 529 education savings plan" with "Indiana529 plan". Makes a clarifying change to the closed system cartridge tax. Extends the renewal period from one year to two years for businesses licensed to collect the electronic cigarettes tax, closed systems cartridge tax, and other tobacco products tax. Specifies that the fiscal officer of an entity that has adopted an innkeeper's tax, a food and beverage tax, or an admissions tax must enter into an agreement with the department of state revenue (department) before the department provides certain information to the fiscal officer as required under current law. Specifies when certain tax information may be disclosed by the department. Provides for the transfer of certain funds from the bureau of motor vehicles commission fund to the motor carrier regulation fund. Provides that a person who commits a violation involving a consumer transaction entailing the transportation of passengers or household goods commits a deceptive act that is actionable by the attorney general and is subject to certain remedies and penalties. Specifies remittance procedures for the gasoline use tax. Specifies recapture procedures for certain reduced estimated tax payments. Makes corresponding changes.
SB 464, Financial institutions and consumer credit.
Provides that a reference to federal law in: (1) the First Lien Mortgage Lending Act; (2) the Uniform Consumer Credit Code (UCCC); or (3) the Indiana Code title governing financial institutions; is a reference to the law as in effect December 31, 2024 (rather than December 31, 2023, under current law). Amends the definition of "principal" for purposes of the UCCC provisions governing consumer loans to specify that the term does not include any loan proceeds held as security for the loan. Makes a technical change to the Indiana Code provision governing the prepayment of consumer loans to incorporate a cross reference to the Indiana Code provision setting forth the authorized nonrefundable prepaid finance charge for supervised loans. (Current law references only the authorized nonrefundable prepaid finance charge for consumer loans other than supervised loans.) Amends the definition of "consumer transaction" for purposes of the deceptive consumer sales act (act) to include the provision of a product or service to a: (1) state law enforcement agency; or (2) local law enforcement agency; in Indiana. Amends the definition of "supplier" for purposes of the act to include an entity that provides a product or service to a state or local law enforcement agency in Indiana. Provides that an action that arises from a transaction involving: (1) a state law enforcement agency may be brought and enforced only by the attorney general; and (2) a local law enforcement agency may be brought and enforced only by an attorney acting on behalf of the local law enforcement agency involved in the transaction, unless the local unit of government served by the local law enforcement agency requests the attorney general to bring and enforce an action on behalf of the local unit. Amends the Indiana Code provision governing audit requirements for credit unions to provide that department of financial institutions may establish by policy or rule accounting and auditing standards necessary to define the audit requirements.
SB 371, Workforce matters.
Amends the definitions of "discharge for just cause", "employment", and "gross misconduct" for purposes of unemployment insurance. Provides that an unemployment claimant: (1) is required to verify the claimant's identity before a claim can be filed, and as a condition for continued eligibility; and (2) has the right to request a wage investigation and to appeal the results of the investigation to a liability administrative law judge. Allows an unemployment claimant or employing unit to appeal regarding the claimant's status as an insured worker. Requires that all hearings before an administrative law judge or the unemployment insurance review board concerning disputed unemployment claims be set as telephone hearings, unless an objection is made. Allows a disputed unemployment claim to be directly filed with a liability administrative law judge. Provides that administrative records of the department of workforce development (department) are self-authenticating and admissible in an administrative hearing. Provides that the department may release certain confidential records to the extent permitted by federal law. Makes certain changes regarding the reemployment service and eligibility assessment program. Makes various changes regarding extended unemployment benefits. Provides that repayment of a benefits overpayment may be waived if certain conditions are met. Alters certain fee and payment provisions. Removes or alters notice and delivery requirements and extends certain deadlines. Requires the department to issue a written notice of violation to a person who fails to comply with certain authorization requirements. Provides that the department may assess a civil penalty against a person under certain circumstances. Requires civil penalties collected by the department to be deposited in the proprietary educational institution authorization fund. Establishes the unemployment insurance modernization fund (fund). Requires the department to annually submit a report to the budget committee detailing the expenditures made from the fund during the previous state fiscal year. Requires the department to annually submit a report to the budget committee concerning the status of the department's unemployment insurance program. Provides that the department may establish a reemployment pilot program. Makes conforming changes.