° making, amending and rescinding the necessary orders, rules and regulations to carry out the response to a public health disaster emergency;

° suspending the provisions of any regulatory statute prescribing the procedures for conduct of state business, including the orders, rules or regulations of any state agency if strict compliance with any of these provisions would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay necessary action in coping with the emergency;

° transferring the direction, personnel, or functions of state departments and agencies or units for performing or facilitating emergency services; and

° using any and all available resources of state government and of each political subdivision of our State as reasonably necessary to cope with the public health disaster emergency; and

1. Temporary Licensing of Health Care Workers Extended

As provided by Executive Orders 20-13, 20-19, 20-21 & 20-33, any individual in the below categories who received an initial and/or subsequent 90-day temporary authorization to provide health care in the State of Indiana in response to this public health emergency because he or she was not currently licensed to practice in the state, either because their Indiana license is no longer active or they are licensed by another state, is granted an additional 90-day authorization to continue to provide health care services during this public health emergency. All application procedures for reinstatement or approval will be reinstituted and must be followed upon expiration of these temporary licenses or the lifting of the COVID-19 public health emergency. This 90-day extension applies to the following health care workers who have been granted a 90-day temporary license:

a. Retired Health Care Professionals: Any health care professional whether licensed in the state or not, who within the past five years has retired or surrendered his or her license or whose license is otherwise inactive but whose license was not revoked, suspended or relinquished.

b. Physician Assistant Students. Physician assistant students who have successfully completed all required course work at an accredited school, have applied for a license with the Professional Licensing Agency (PLA) and supplied the PLA a certificate of completion.

c. Nursing Students: Nursing students who have successfully completed all required course work at an accredited school, have applied for a license with the PLA and have supplied PLA a certificate of completion.

d. Respiratory Care Practitioner Students. Respiratory care practitioner students who have successfully completed all required course work at an approved school, have applied for a license with the Professional Licensing Agency and supplied PLA a certificate of completion.

e. Out-of-State Health Care Professionals: Individuals who are currently licensed by another state and who were previously authorized to provide health care services in Indiana pursuant to Executive Order 20-05 [20200401-IR-GOV200191EOA].

f. Graduate Pharmacists: Pharmacy students who have successfully completed all required course work at an accredited school, have applied for licensure with the PLA, and have supplied PLA a certificate of completion.

2. Registration Requirement for Certain Indiana or Out-of-State Health Care Providers

Professionals who are granted a temporary license to provide health care services in the state in response to this public health emergency must register with the PLA via their website at www.in.gov/pla.

3. Election Worker Stipend and Unemployment Compensation Benefit Payments

To encourage recruitment of poll workers for Indiana's upcoming general election, I suspend the relevant portions of Ind. Code § 22-4-5-1 to prohibit any stipend paid to any individual working the polls for Indiana's General Election on November 3, 2020, from being considered "deductible income" under Indiana unemployment compensation benefit laws. Therefore, individuals who are receiving unemployment compensation benefits and who receive a stipend or compensation for working as a poll worker in Indiana on November 3, 2020 will not have any unemployment benefit reduced by payment of the stipend. Nothing in this directive shall impact the way in which a stipend payment is considered for federal and state income tax purposes.

4. Recission of Provision on Reinstatement of Administratively Dissolved Businesses

As businesses needing to take advantage of the waiver of statutory reinstatement requirements have had sufficient time to do so, paragraph 2 of Executive Order 20-23 [20200429-IR-GOV200243EOA] is rescinded. Executive Order 20-23 ¶2 pertained to Ind. Code § 23-0.5-6-3 which suspended the five (5) year limitation on business reinstatements and the requirement for the businesses to submit a certificate of clearance when applying for reinstatement and was done to allow businesses to qualify to seek federal assistance under programs such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL).

5. Hoosier Lottery

Based on the Hoosier Lottery's current ability to pay prize claims, paragraph 2 of Executive Order 20-15 [20200422-IR-GOV200234EOA] is rescinded. Executive Order 20-15 ¶2 pertained to Ind. Code § 4-30-11-7 which suspended the provision requiring holders of lottery tickets to claim prizes within 180 days after a drawing or at the end of the lottery game play in which the prize was won and authorized an additional 60 days to claim prizes.

6. Indiana University Trustees

In Executive Order 20-15 [20200422-IR-GOV200234EOA], paragraph 4, the relevant provisions of Ind. Code §§ 21-20-3-4(a), -7, -8, -9, -10, & -11 were suspended to the extent necessary to allow the 2020 alumni trustee election be postponed until 2021.

These statutory provisions are further modified to require the person selected in the postponed election pursuant to these provisions to serve a two (2) year term rather than a three (3) year term in order to maintain the staggered election of trustees in subsequent years.

DIN: 20201014-IR-GOV200517EOA

Composed: May 19,2024 6:02:20AM EDT

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