Rodney Pol Jr.

Voted for House Bill 1004, which caps what big hospital groups may charge employers. A non-profit hospital group with at least $2 billion in Indiana patient income must offer employers a direct deal. The price may not top 260 percent of what Medicare pays. That starts in September 2025 for the largest groups and September 2026 for the rest. The state health office checks this each year and may fine $10,000 a day. From 2029 a large non-profit group whose average prices sit above the state average loses its state tax break for at least a year. Non-profit hospitals must file their full community benefit worksheets each year. Those go on a public website. The law also rebuilds how Medicaid pays hospitals. It scraps a fee committee drawn from a hospital industry list and gives that power to the state Medicaid office. Brokers must tell employers what they are paid before a sale. Hospitals may no longer tie one contract or product to another. The Indiana Senate adopted the final version 37-13, and it became law.

April 24, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 140, which sets rules for the firms that run drug benefits for health plans. These firms are called pharmacy benefit managers. A plan's pharmacy network must be big enough, and must put a walk-in pharmacy within 30 miles of each member. A firm may not pay a pharmacy less than it pays itself, or a pharmacy it owns, for the same drug. It may not claw back money after it has approved a claim, unless the claim was fraudulent or the pharmacy was truly overpaid. It may not force a member to use a pharmacy the firm owns. It may not charge a member less for using one. It may not punish a pharmacist for telling a patient about a cheaper option. Members, pharmacies and pharmacists may complain to the state insurance commissioner. The commissioner must look into every complaint and may order money paid back. The Indiana Senate adopted the final version 39-10, and it became law.

April 24, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 409, which protects a parent's job when they go to a school meeting about their child. An employer may not punish an employee for missing work to attend a school attendance meeting. The same protection covers a special education case conference. The protection is limited. It covers one of each meeting per year. The employee must give five days' notice. The employee must not be away longer than needed, and must show proof of going. The employer need not pay for the time. The employee must try to attend online where possible. The chapter ends on July 1 2029. The Indiana Senate passed the bill 30-19, and it became law.

February 20, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 1634, which adds maths testing and help in Indiana schools. From the 2026-2027 school year every school must screen all children in kindergarten, first and second grade. The screening finds children at risk of falling behind in maths. A school must then give extra help to any child from kindergarten to grade 8 who is at risk. The help must be layered, from lighter to more intense, and must track each child's progress. Middle schools must place a student in an advanced maths class if the student scored above proficient on the state test and earned a C or better. A parent may opt out. The state must report each year how many high-scoring students did and did not get an advanced class. Teacher training courses must teach methods backed by evidence. A course that does not may lose the right to call itself accredited. The Indiana Senate passed the bill 38-11, and it became law.

April 8, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 409, which protects a parent's job when they go to a school meeting about their child. An employer may not punish an employee for missing work to attend a school attendance meeting. The same protection covers a special education case conference. The protection is limited. It covers one of each meeting per year. The employee must give five days' notice. The employee must not be away longer than needed, and must show proof of going. The employer need not pay for the time. The employee must try to attend online where possible. The chapter ends on July 1 2029. The Indiana Senate passed the bill 30-19, and it became law.

February 20, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted against Senate Bill 285, which makes camping or sleeping on state or local government land a crime. An officer must first check whether the person needs urgent mental health care. If not, the officer must give a warning and say where shelter and services can be found. Doing it again in the same area after 48 hours is a Class C misdemeanor. It is a defense that no shelter bed was open within five miles. Cities and counties may not adopt or enforce a policy that blocks or discourages the enforcing of camping bans. The law also widens who may be held for mental health care against their will. It now covers a person with no fixed shelter who was offered a shelter and turned it down. That person must be staying outdoors in weather likely to kill or badly hurt them. The Indiana Senate agreed to the final version 28-22, and it became law.

February 26, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 1150, which limits what homeowners groups and local governments may regulate. A homeowners group runs a housing subdivision and enforces its rules. Such a group may not stop a member flying the United States or Indiana flag. It may still set fair rules on flagpole size, materials and upkeep. It may not run a camera that reads license plates. It may allow one on its land only if police put it there and the group cannot see the data. It may not treat cars or outdoor machines differently based on the fuel they run on. Counties and cities may no longer make building owners or utility firms report how much energy or water is used. The same fuel rule now covers local rules on cars, machines and outdoor cooking gear. The Indiana Senate passed the bill 37-10, and it became law.

February 12, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 258, which removes Indiana's own permit system for nuclear power plants and plants that reuse nuclear fuel. It repeals the rule that a company needed a state permit to build or run one. It repeals the state's power to write rules on air and water pollution from these plants. It repeals the public hearing where people nearby could speak about the harm to air, water and land. It also repeals three permit rules. A permit had to cap how much radiation may be let out. Releases had to be watched, and each one reported. A company must still file a study of the harm to nature. It goes to the state when the company files its federal papers. The Indiana Senate passed the bill 36-9, and it became law.

January 22, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 358, which raises school reading standards and tightens a school choice fund. A school where fewer than 70 percent of pupils passed the state reading test must join the state reading training program for teachers, if money allows. The state's list of approved teaching material now covers English and language arts. Staff must work with teachers when they judge that material. Whether it suits a child's age is now part of the test. The law also deals with education scholarship accounts, a state fund parents can spend on schooling. A parent who signs up as a provider may not claim fees for teaching only their own child. Doing so can cost them provider status. The state treasurer may close the account and take back money wrongly received. The attorney general may seek a fine of up to $5,000. One change runs the other way. A school with only provisional approval may now take choice scholarship pupils. The Indiana Senate adopted the final version 37-12, and it became law.

April 24, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1003, which makes health care prices easier to see and cuts some patient bills. Labs and scan centers must post cash prices for 50 common services by July 2026. They must post the range of prices they have agreed with insurers too, in plain words. Hospitals join an existing posting rule. A patient who asks for a written price estimate must get it in two working days instead of five. Copies of X-rays become free. A provider may not charge for a digital copy of a health record. Hospitals may not bill an office visit using hospital facility codes. From January 2026 they must be paid the doctor fee rate instead. A hospital that breaks that rule can be fined $1,000 a day. Insurers and drug benefit firms lose the secrecy shields that kept audits hidden. They must show fee rates and denial rules while agreeing a contract. A claim may not be refused only because the referring doctor is out of network. A doctor moving practices gets 60 days of temporary approval to treat patients. The Indiana Senate adopted the final version 30-20, and it became law.

April 24, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 526, which changes how Indiana handles absentee ballots that must be thrown out. The test run before an election must now include a ballot that has to be rejected. The machine must void that ballot before any votes are counted. A voting system may add a feature that pulls such a ballot back out. If a system uses that feature, it must give each absentee ballot a private tracking number. That number may not hold the voter's name, address, phone number, birth date or Social Security number. The law also updates one of the three federal standards a voting system may meet to win approval, swapping the 2015 guidelines for the 2021 ones, and lets counties keep older machines approved and bought before October 2025. The Indiana Senate backed the final version 40-10, and it became law.

April 24, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 289, which bars Indiana public schools, colleges and other public employers from using race, sex, religion, color, national origin or ancestry to decide who is hired, promoted, admitted or given aid, unless a job truly calls for it. It also bars them from making people sign, or sit through training that says, that one group is better than another. It rewrites three teacher scholarships that were limited to minority students. New applicants now qualify by coming from, living in or agreeing to teach in one of five named counties, and people who got a scholarship before July 2025 can keep renewing it. The Indiana Senate backed the final version 34-16, and it became law.

April 24, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1680, which tightens voter sign-up rules and adds regular election checks. Someone who signs up using an ID number from a temporary license or card must now prove citizenship. The state sends a notice. The sign-up is refused if no proof arrives within 30 days. A post office box or rented mailbox may no longer be given as a home address. Outside groups may not print details onto sign-up forms before mailing them. The secretary of state may now check how any primary or general election was run. Before, a check needed an inquiry or a recount. The secretary picks the counties and must consult experts and county staff. The check must be done by a set date. Every county must give the state the name and contact details of its computer support firm. Someone holding a candidate petition they believe is badly false must hand it to the county election board within ten days. Money given through a payment app now counts as a donation. It must be reported at its full value, before the app's fee. The state election commission loses its power to issue guidance letters. Every letter it issued before July 2025 is void. The Indiana Senate adopted the final version 36-9, and it became law.

April 23, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 2, which tightens who can get Medicaid in Indiana. Adults on the Healthy Indiana Plan must now work, train in a work program, or volunteer at least 20 hours a week. Eight other paths also qualify a person, such as pregnancy, caring for a child under six, being medically unfit to work, or attending school full time. The state must also cap how many people the plan covers, so it spends no more than the money set aside. The state may no longer take an applicant's word on income, address, age or household. It must check state and federal records on a set schedule for changes, most of those checks monthly and some quarterly or yearly. State agencies may no longer advertise the program. The Indiana Senate passed the bill 37-10, and it became law.

April 17, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 423, which sets up a program for building small nuclear reactors in Indiana. A large electric utility may join with investors, big customers, reactor makers, military bases or state universities. With state approval, it may then raise customer bills to pay for early design and permit work. It may do this before it holds a permit to build anything. It collects 80 percent of that money as it spends, and the rest at its next rate review. If the project is later dropped, the utility keeps what customers paid only if state regulators find the spending was reasonable, necessary and prudent. It normally gives up its profit on those costs. The program ends in 2035. The Indiana Senate passed the bill 34-12, and it became law.

April 17, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1037, which stops local governments setting stricter rules on building site run-off than the state does. A county, city or town may no longer adopt any rule that goes beyond the state's construction stormwater permit. That includes money guarantees and drainage reports after building. Any local rule that does go beyond it is void. The local unit must still carry out its duties under the state permit. One power stays for small sites. Where work disturbs less than one acre, and is not part of a bigger plan, the local unit or the state may warn a person whose site is letting soil or dust escape. If nothing is done within 48 hours, they may order the work stopped. The Indiana Senate passed the bill 31-18, and it became law.

April 15, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 424, which lets any Indiana electric utility charge customers for the cost of planning a small nuclear reactor. It may do this before it holds a permit to build one. The utility must first get state approval and a cost estimate. It then collects 80 percent of the money as it spends, and the rest at its next rate review. If the project is dropped, the utility keeps what customers paid only if state regulators find the spending was reasonable, necessary and prudent. It normally gives up its profit on those costs. Unlike the pilot program passed the same year, this change is permanent and needs no partner. The Indiana Senate passed the bill 32-15, and it became law.

March 25, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1393, which tells an Indiana jail to alert the county sheriff when it books someone. The alert is required if the arrest was for a crime and there is good reason to believe the person is in the country unlawfully. The sheriff must then pass that word to the proper agency. The law does not change who can be arrested, and only adds a report after an arrest has happened. The Indiana Senate passed it 37-10, and it became law.

March 24, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 450, which sets new rules for the people Indiana would send to a national convention on amending the United States Constitution. A delegate must have lived in Indiana for five years. A delegate may not have worked as a paid lobbyist in the past five years, and may not have a serious criminal record. While serving, a delegate may not take a gift worth $200 or more. The state must also order its delegates never to back an amendment that changes the Bill of Rights or other named parts of the Constitution. The Indiana Senate passed the bill 33-16, and it became law.

February 10, 2025

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