Removes various reporting requirements for the Indiana department of health (state department) and requires the state department to make certain information available on the state department's website. Changes the statewide standing order for the dispensing of a smoking cessation product to a tobacco, vaping, or nicotine cessation product. Amends the date by which a hospital must submit the hospital's fiscal report and patient information report to the state department. Requires: (1) the state department to maintain a trauma registry; and (2) certain health care facilities to submit data to the registry. Establishes requirements for the handling and transporting of infectious waste. Sets forth factors the state department must consider in determining the nature of and civil penalty for a violation of infectious waste requirements. Expands provisions concerning epinephrine, including provisions allowing a pharmacist to dispense and an entity to prescribe epinephrine, to epinephrine. Removes the expiration of provisions concerning lead screening for children. Requires a registered manufacturer, processor, repackager, or wholesale distributor of food, drugs, or cosmetics to comply with federal regulations concerning good manufacturing practices. Allows the state health commissioner to enter and inspect the premises of the manufacturer, processor, repackager, or wholesale distributor. Permits a local health department to conduct inspections of certain manufacturers, processors, repackagers, or wholesale distributors. Amends the information a local child fatality review team and the statewide child fatality review committee may review in conducting a child fatality review. Allows a suicide and overdose fatality review team and a fetal-infant mortality review team to provide records to the state department. Requires the state department to maintain the confidentiality of these records. Requires a medical school to: (1) include nutrition education in the school's curriculum; and (2) require students to complete a rural health rotation. Voids administrative rules concerning infectious waste and the state trauma registry.
Statutes affected: Introduced House Bill (H): 4-12-4-14, 16-18-2-110, 16-18-2-179, 16-18-2-211, 16-18-2-338.3, 16-19-4-11, 16-21-2-12.5, 16-21-6-3, 16-21-6-6, 16-29-7-13, 16-41-39.4-5, 16-41-39.4-10, 16-41-39.4-11, 16-41-43-2.3, 16-41-43-2.5, 16-41-43-3, 16-41-43-3.5, 16-41-43-4, 16-41-43-5, 16-41-43-5.5, 16-41-43-6, 16-42-1-13, 16-46-7-10, 16-49-3-3, 16-49-4-5, 16-49-6-8, 16-49.5-2-2, 16-50-1-9, 34-30-2.1-253, 34-30-2.1-254, 34-30-2.1-255