Title 16, HEALTH

Sec. 6. In order to comply with this chapter, a mental health provider needs to obtain only one (1) consent for mental health services for a patient while admitted in or treated as an outpatient at the main facility or a clinic of any of the following: (1) A psychiatric hospital …

Sec. 7. If a patient's written consent is: (1) signed by the patient or the patient's authorized representative; (2) witnessed by an individual who is at least eighteen (18) years of age; and (3) explained, orally or in the written consent, to the patient or the patient's authori…

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "approved laboratory" means a laboratory approved by the state department for making serological tests. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-11-1 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24.

Sec. 10. A physician who diagnoses a pregnancy of a woman shall take or cause to be taken a sample of blood: (1) at the time of diagnosis of pregnancy; and (2) during the third trimester of pregnancy, if the woman belongs to a high risk population for which the Centers for Diseas…

Sec. 11. A person other than a physician who is permitted by law to attend a pregnant woman, but who is not permitted by law to take blood specimens, shall cause a sample of the blood of the pregnant woman to be taken by a licensed physician, who shall submit the sample to an app…

Sec. 12. If at the time of delivery positive evidence is not available to show that standard serological tests for syphilis have been made in accordance with section 10 of this chapter, the person in attendance at the delivery shall take or cause to be taken a sample of the blood…

Sec. 13. (a) The state department shall require in each birth certificate and stillbirth certificate, in addition to information otherwise required in the certificate, the following information: (1) Whether a serological test for syphilis was made for the woman who bore the child…

Sec. 14. The fact that a person has a sexually transmitted infection may not bar the person's admission to a benevolent, charitable, or penal institution or correctional facility supported and maintained in any part by state funds. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-11-17.] …

Sec. 15. Whenever a person with a sexually transmitted infection is admitted to a benevolent, charitable, or penal institution or correctional facility of Indiana, the warden or official in charge of the institution or correctional facility shall institute and provide the proper …

Sec. 16. The services of the laboratory of the state department shall be available without charge for the laboratory diagnoses and tests as may be necessary to carry out sections 14 and 15 of this chapter. The state institutions and the state department shall cooperate in every r…

Sec. 17. Sections 10 through 12 of this chapter do not apply to the following: (1) A person who administers to or treats the sick or suffering by spiritual means or prayer. (2) A person who, because of the person's religious belief, in good faith selects and depends upon spiritua…

Sec. 18. (a) Except as otherwise provided, a person who recklessly violates or fails to comply with this chapter commits a Class B misdemeanor. (b) Each day a violation continues constitutes a separate offense. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-35-1.] As added by P.L.2-1993…

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "standard serological test for syphilis" means a test recognized as a standard serological test for syphilis by the state department. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-11-1 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24.

Sec. 3. The local board of health or health officer may request from the appropriate body an appropriation for a sexually transmitted infection prevention and control program, which may include hospitalization and quarantine, when the local board of health or health officer deter…

Sec. 4. The local health officer shall transmit the request for funds to establish the sexually transmitted infection prevention and control program to the appropriate governing body, which may appropriate, out of any money that may be available in the governing body's general fu…

Sec. 5. The appropriate governing body may levy annually a tax of not more than one cent ($0.01) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of taxable property for the control and prevention of sexually transmitted infection. The tax is in addition to other taxes of the local governing b…

Sec. 6. A person in professional attendance at a birth shall carefully examine the eyes of the infant and if there is reason for suspecting infection in one (1) or both eyes, the person in professional attendance at the birth shall apply such prophylactic treatment as may be pres…

Sec. 7. The state department shall require in each birth certificate, in addition to information otherwise required in the certificate, an answer to the question "Were precautions taken against ophthalmia neonatorum?". [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-11-6.] As added by P.…

Sec. 8. It is unlawful for any person in professional attendance at a birth to fail to include an answer to the question on a birth certificate: "Were precautions taken against ophthalmia neonatorum?". [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-11-7.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24.…

Sec. 9. (a) If: (1) one (1) or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen, or show an unnatural discharge or secretion at any time within two (2) weeks after birth; and (2) there is no legally qualified person in professional attendance; the parent or other person who is in …

Sec. 1. This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any member state, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining member states. As added by P.L.3-2020,…

Sec. 2. Nothing in this compact supersedes state law or rules related to licensure of EMS agencies. As added by P.L.3-2020, SEC.1.

Sec. 1. The state department shall meet with representatives of at least the following associations to study and make recommendations on issues concerning Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS): (1) The Indiana Hospital Association. (2) The Indiana Perinatal Network. (3) The Indiana …

Sec. 2. (a) Before November 1, 2014, the state department, in consultation with the persons described in section 1 of this chapter, shall report the following to the legislative council in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6 for distribution to the appropriate interim study comm…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to medical debt incurred after June 30, 2026. As added by P.L.124-2026, SEC.5.

Sec. 2. (a) As used in this chapter, "medical debt" means any amount owed that is past due by at least one hundred twenty (120) days for health care services, products, or devices provided to an individual by or in a hospital. (b) The term does not include debt purchased by, paya…

Sec. 3. (a) A hospital, or a debt collector or other third party on behalf of a hospital, may not pursue collection of a medical debt unless the hospital is in compliance with the following statutes, if applicable to the hospital: (1) IC 16-21-6. (2) IC 16-21-9. (3) IC 16-21-17.1…

Sec. 4. (a) The state department shall post and update a list of the noncompliant hospitals on the state department's website. (b) The state department shall adopt procedures for the following: (1) The state department's review of a hospital's compliance under this chapter, inclu…

Sec. 5. (a) The attorney general shall enforce any suspension under section 3(e) of this chapter and may do any of the following: (1) Investigate alleged violations. (2) Impose civil penalties of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per violation. (3) Order restitution to…

Sec. 6. An individual injured by a violation of this chapter may bring a civil action to recover in an appropriate court any of the following: (1) Actual damages. (2) Statutory damages not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). (3) Injunctive relief. As added by P.L.124-2026, S…

Sec. 1. This chapter prescribes the procedures to be followed by the state department in processing: (1) voter registration applications; and (2) records concerning an individual's declining to register to vote; under 52 U.S.C. 20506(a)(2)(A) and IC 3-7-15. As added by P.L.12-199…

Sec. 10. Voter registration information received or maintained under this chapter is confidential. As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.123.

Sec. 11. The co-directors of the election division shall notify the commissioner of the following: (1) The scheduled date of each primary, general, municipal, and special election. (2) The jurisdiction in which the election will be held. As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.123. Amended …

Sec. 12. The commissioner shall provide the co-directors of the election division with a list stating the following: (1) The address and telephone number of each WIC office. (2) The name of each employee designated by the commissioner to be responsible for performing voter regist…

Sec. 2. The definitions set forth in IC 16-35-1.5 apply throughout this chapter. As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.123.

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "WIC office" refers to an office providing assistance to a WIC participant. As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.123.

Sec. 4. The commissioner shall designate an employee of each WIC office as the individual responsible for performing the voter registration duties of the bureau under this chapter at that office. The employee designated under this section shall supervise the registration of voter…

Sec. 5. (a) As required under 52 U.S.C. 20506(d)(1), the designated office employee shall transmit a completed voter registration application: (1) to the circuit court clerk or board of registration of the county in which the individual's residential address (as indicated on the …

Sec. 7. A designated employee may use any of the following methods to transmit voter registration applications or declinations under section 5 of this chapter: (1) Hand delivery to the circuit court clerk or board of registration. (2) Delivery by the United States Postal Service,…

Sec. 8. If a designated employee transmits registration applications or declinations by hand delivery under section 7(1) of this chapter, the circuit court clerk or board of registration shall provide the designated employee with a receipt for the forms. The receipt must state th…

Sec. 9. The election division shall provide the commissioner with a list of the current address and telephone number of the county voter registration office in each county. The commissioner shall promptly forward the list and each revision of the list to each WIC office. As added…

Sec. 1. (a) This chapter applies to persons and facilities that handle infectious waste, including the following: (1) Hospitals. (2) Ambulatory surgical facilities. (3) Medical laboratories. (4) Diagnostic laboratories. (5) Blood centers. (6) Pharmaceutical companies. (7) Academi…

Sec. 1.5. As used in this chapter, "blood and blood products in liquid or semiliquid form" means blood and blood products that have intermediate fluid properties and are capable of flowing in a manner similar to a liquid. As added by P.L.96-2026, SEC.25.

Sec. 1.6. As used in this chapter, "container" means any portable device or material in which infectious waste is: (1) stored; (2) transported; (3) treated; (4) disposed of; or (5) otherwise handled. As added by P.L.96-2026, SEC.26.

Sec. 10. (a) The state department may commence an action under IC 4-21.5-3-6 or IC 4-21.5-4 for issuance of an order of compliance and a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) per violation per day against a person who: (1) fails to comply with this chapter or …

Sec. 11. (a) Except as otherwise provided, a person who recklessly violates or fails to comply with this chapter commits a Class B misdemeanor. (b) Each day a violation continues constitutes a separate offense. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-35-1.] As added by P.L.2-1993…