The Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s plan to restore performance funding for the state’s seven public colleges and universities is premature, Ball State University President Geoffrey Mearns told the commission Thursday.
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Property redistribution programs save taxpayers thousands of dollars.
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The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration quietly paused determinations for disability Medicaid waivers in August to review how case managers were implementing the agency’s new assessment system.
Estimates suggest as many as 12% of current Healthy Indiana Plan members are at risk of losing coverage when the agency begins enforcement of Medicaid work requirements for new and existing members on Jan. 1.
Indiana is one of 18 states approved by the USDA to test restrictions on the use of SNAP benefits to purchase unhealthy foods as part of President Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” campaign.
Indiana’s gas taxes of nearly 61 cents a gallon will remain off the pump price until at least early November
Lawmakers want Hoosier farmers to be allowed to use off-road diesel fuel in their tractor-trailors this harvest season to offset record diesel prices.
The facility would provide intermediate-level care for intellectually disabled adults with severe behavioral, psychiatric or medical needs demanding intensive, coordinated and around-the-clock clinical support, according to the state’s RFP.
For the second year, the volunteer advocacy group Indiana Coalition for Public Education surveyed superintendents about the financial outlook of their schools in the wake of Senate Enrolled Act 1, which set forth a series of major property tax reforms.
The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration still doesn’t know who will qualify for a medical frailty exemption from the state’s forthcoming Healthy Indiana Plan work requirements.
Lawmakers expanded the state’s ban on student cellphone use in K-12 classrooms to cover the entire school day through Senate Enrolled Act 78, which took effect July 1.
The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration will begin issuing additional Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit replacements to Hoosiers in 19 counties whose food perished in power outages on Aug. 11.
The Indiana State Board of Finance previously approved reimbursements for losses incurred from April through June at its July and August meetings.
Motorists would pay an extra 61 cents per gallon in excise and usage taxes this month had the governor not renewed the emergency order before it expired Sept. 5.
The digital license would not replace a person’s physical driver’s license, but would instead grant Hoosiers the ability to verify their age or identity through a mobile application.
Major changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, are coinciding with Medicaid turmoil.
A new compensation study identified 37 state jobs that pay more than 20% below the market.
Indiana is the third state in the nation to discontinue the practice as a temporary solution to hospital overcrowding
The Interim Study Committee on Public Health, Behavioral Health and Human Services met in House chambers Tuesday to hear testimony on the topic — the first hearing of the summer as legislators prepare for next year’s budget session.
The public backlash over such cameras is intensifying, but Indiana law says little about use of the technology.
Private school vouchers are now available to all Hoosier families following a Republican push to eliminate income limits.
The caucus is questioning the governor’s authority to eliminate race- and sex-based preferences in the Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises Program without legislative approval.
