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MISSION:

Provide pathways for Hoosier citizens, businesses, & communities to take it to their Next Levels

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BUDGET

  • Pass 10th straight honestly balanced budget
  • Fund agency priorities
  • Maintain healthy reserves
  • Guarantee an additional $1B goes to pay down pre-96 teacher retirement fund
  • Follow through on cash funding mega projects in FY23
      • State Archives, State Park Inn, Blind & Deaf Schools, Westville Prison

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

  • Modernize state economic development tools:
      • Establish $300M/yr deal closing fund
      • Formalize $300M/yr tax credit flexibility
      • New $150M revolving fund for site acquisition
      • Create Budget Committee process release valve
  • Continue investment in entrepreneurship, innovation and marketing
  • Double funding for Manufacturing Modernization grants ($40M over biennium)

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DESTINATION PROMOTION

    • Increase tourism funding
        • Focus on connecting with Indiana college students & visitors
    • Support statewide sports bid fund

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EDUCATIONAL & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

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A. Early Childhood

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B. K-12

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C. Post Secondary/Higher Education

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D. Adult Learner Programs

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A. EARLY CHILDHOOD

  • Establish a $25M Innovation Grant with federal funds to provide funding & licensing support for employer sponsored childcare options
  • Administratively reduce regulatory burdens for existing and new childcare providers
  • Modernize and update Paths to Quality to better measure kindergarten readiness standards
  • Expand access to the Child Care & Development Fund (CCDF) and On My Way Pre-K by raising eligibility criteria to allow another 5,000 more families to qualify

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B. K-12 EDUCATION

  • Increase K-12 Tuition Support (+6% / +2%) by $1.157B totaling over $17.5B over the biennium
  • Eliminate textbook fees for Hoosier families
    • Indiana is 1 of 7 states that still allows schools to charge parents for textbooks & curriculum materials
    • By explicitly prohibiting these fees, we can deliver on the spirit of Indiana’s constitutional promise to provide a free education
    • State would provide $160M/yr ($39M current + $120M/yr) to cover curriculum materials for the families of over 1M students at ALL traditional public and charter schools as well as students who qualify for free and reduced lunch at non-public schools

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  • Literacy Initiatives
      • GOAL = By 2027, 95% of students in the 3rd grade will demonstrate reading proficiency skills by implementing Science of Reading Program (81.6% passed 2021)
      • Continue expanding the Science of Reading in Indiana classrooms
      • Create new incentive program to reward schools & teachers that improve IREAD 3
      • Launch Dolly Parton Imagination Library statewide to provide books every month to eligible kids ages birth to 5
  • Ensure high-quality STEM curriculum (DOE)
  • Restore JAG funding to pre-pandemic levels

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C. POST SECONDARY/HIGHER EDUCATION

  • Significantly increase Higher Education funding (+6%, +2%) by $184M totaling over $3B for the biennium
  • Support Commission for Higher Education’s (CHE) new outcomes-based performance funding focused on retaining graduating students in Indiana
  • Automatically enroll all eligible students in the 21st Century Scholarship Program
  • Provide support for Martin University, Indiana’s only Predominantly Black Institution (PBI) serving many first-generation college and low-income minority students

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D. ADULT LEARNER PROGRAMS

  • Expand Excel Centers across the state to expand access to adult learning
  • Increase funding for Graduation Alliance for adults to earn diploma or credentials online
  • Increase funding for Adult Education programs
  • Increase funding for Next Level Jobs ($29M/yr)
      • Triple funding for Workforce Ready grant program ($12M/yr)
      • Sustain Employer Training grant funding ($17M/yr)
  • Pilot program to incentivize UI recipients to obtain HS diploma
  • Fund key GWC recommendations ($7.5M/yr)
  • Increase INVETS program to recruit more veterans to move to Indiana and connect them to jobs/careers ($2M/yr)

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A. PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION

  • GOAL: Ensure all Hoosiers have access to foundational health services by increasing the state investment and providing stable, recurring, and accessible funding. Improve Indiana’s life expectancy and public health funding ranking among states through increased local access to core services.
    • Increase annual state public health appropriation +$120M/yr in FY23and +$227M in FY24
        • Out of these increases, $100M in 1st year and $200M in 2nd year will be solely dedicated to locals who opt-in for public health funding (up from $6.9M/yr)
        • Remainder of state level public health funding will assist in areas such as healthcare workforce planning, data analytics, emergency preparedness, and promoting child screenings & oral health programs
    • Complete 92 county rollout of My Healthy Baby program

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B. MENTAL HEALTH

  • Expand 9-8-8
  • Expand local Crisis Stabilization Units
  • Continue transitioning to certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics
  • Further address veteran suicide with more local grants to veteran groups

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C. DRUG ADDICTION

    • 13,000 overdose deaths in the last 7 years
    • 2,775 overdose deaths in 2021, up 483 from 2020
    • 85%-90% of those deaths involved fentanyl
  • In 2023 we will:
    • Launch a new Treatment Finder program
    • Continue building regional system of recovery hubs
    • Invest national opioid settlement dollars to create more community substance use programs
    • Expand evidence-based treatment to incarcerated individuals in jails

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - CONNECTIONS

  • Fund READI 2.0 at $500M
  • Add $50M more for NextLevel Trails
  • Provide $25M more for land conservation
  • Invest Remaining NextLevel Broadband internet dollars and prepare for new federal dollars
  • Pursue more international & domestic direct flights
  • Support Gary Airport’s cargo development projects
  • Double state food bank funding to supplement locals

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT – PUBLIC SAFETY

  • Increase School Safety Fund from $19M to $25M/yr
  • Increase Indiana State Police starting pay ($53,690🡪$70,000)
  • Implement regional firefighter training (Hub & Spoke) Infrastructure by enhancing 14 sites, building 16 new sites and investing in mobile equipment
  • Provide critical PPE for volunteer firefighters
  • Support fully funding courts request to upgrade data and technology and expand key problem-solving courts

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ALL ON A FOUNDATION OF

GOOD GOVERNMENT