Articles tagged as: IPB
February 18, 2025
FSSA adjusts proposed changes to ABA therapy Medicaid coverage, introduces coverage tiers
The Family and Social Services Administration made changes to its proposal to rein in Medicaid spending on a common behavioral treatment. The agency is keeping the lifetime limit on Applied Behavioral Analysis, or ABA, therapy but is introducing coverage tiers based on need.
Read MoreFebruary 18, 2025
House Democrats' budget priorities focused on boosts to public education, health care funding
Indiana House Democrats say the state budget should prioritize public education, health care funding, and relief for working-class Hoosiers.
Read MoreFebruary 17, 2025
Senate passes bill to clarify financial responsibility in employer-sponsored health plans
Employers who sponsor health plans typically utilize administrators, like pharmacy benefits managers, to facilitate those plans. The Senate approved legislation that would clarify those intermediaries have a financial responsibility to the plan sponsors.
Read MoreFebruary 17, 2025
Senate approves 'work in progress' property tax reform legislation, sending it to House
Major property tax reform legislation that proponents call a “work in progress” advanced to the House Monday.
Read MoreFebruary 17, 2025
Report: Child poverty drops to decade low, but Indiana youth face 'epidemic of loneliness'
The Indiana Youth Institute said there’s some good and some bad in this year’s Kids Count Data Book. Among the positives: Indiana’s median household income grew and child poverty is at its lowest in a decade.
Read MoreFebruary 17, 2025
'Discriminatory' bill empowers greater state enforcement of immigration laws
Republicans on a House committee approved a bill Monday to give the attorney general more power to go after businesses that employ undocumented immigrants.
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2025
House GOP budget: 2% K-12 increases, agency spending reductions — but no new tax cuts
The House Republicans’ state budget proposal includes 2% per year increases in K-12 education funding; hundreds of millions of new dollars for the Department of Child Services and Department of Correction; and no new tax cuts.
Read MoreFebruary 14, 2025
IYG: Statehouse allies for LGBTQ+ Hoosiers 'walked away' on collegiate transgender sports ban
IYG, North America’s oldest continuously operating organization for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults, is speaking up after a House committee passed a collegiate transgender sports ban.
Read MoreFebruary 14, 2025
School superintendents would not need advanced education degree in measure advanced by Senate
A bill that would reduce education requirements for school superintendents passed the Senate this week. Under SB 366, superintendents would be preferred, instead of required, to have at least a master’s degree in education.
Read MoreFebruary 14, 2025
House passes bill to create approval board for health care mergers, acquisition
Last year, Indiana lawmakers passed legislation requiring hospitals and other health care entities to notify the attorney general of any mergers or acquisitions over $10 million. This year, lawmakers want to go even further to create competition.
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