Indiana House Bill 1333 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 14 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-01-14 - First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
Pending: House Public Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Cultural awareness and competence training. Provides that the state health data center (center) shall maintain statistics concerning race and ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status. (Under current law, the center is required to maintain statistics concerning gender and ethnicity.) Requires the center to adopt and implement the data collection standards established by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Provides that the state department of health, with the assistance of the office of minority health, shall establish a cultural awareness and competence training program for health care professionals. Provides that a health care professional must complete two hours of cultural awareness and competence training each year.

Cultural awareness and competence training.

Rep. Robin Shackleford [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-14	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2021-01-14	House	Authored by Representative Shackleford

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1333/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/a/1/d/9a1dfa4d/HB1333.01.INTR.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/5/9/f/859ff805/HB1333.01.INTR.FN001.pdf