Quick Takeaways
Key Points

• Keep Social Distancing
• 20% of the infected are in hospitals; 80% are not!
• Expect to see infections ramp-up over the weekend
  
  Executive Actions
  
• All K-12 schools in Indiana, public or private, shall close and cease in-person instruction through May 1, 2020
• Cancelling all student assessments for this year. 
• Extending both the filing date and the payment date for Income Tax returns to July 15
• Foreclosures and evictions banned
• Courts shut down except for emergency situations
  
• UI benefits to paid to individuals filing lat
• Employees will continue to accrue eligibility through COVID-19 period.
• If you’re laid off, apply! File an unemployment insurance claim, and DWD will sort it out. (If applicable, state that you were laid off due to COVID-19 displacement.)
• Suspending cash payment of the $300M in capital projects and will move ahead with already authorized bonding.
• No need for a special session at this time.  
• Holcomb supports postponing the May 5th primary elections for the safety of poll workers and voters, but it not his decision.  He's talking with Secretary of State Connie Lawson (R) and the respective state party chairs.
• There is not a need to for a "Shelter In Place" order at this time. 
  

• Thanks to all for working to flatten the curve
• We can control our own individual behavior: wash hands, donate blood, check-in on loved one
  
  Indiana State Department of Health (IDSH) Commissioner Kristina Box
• Keep social distancing
• Limited PPE and swabs to perform COVID-19 tests
• Otherwise, hospitals have the necessary supplies right now, but concerned about next 96 hours and a shortage of supplies
• ISDH is getting composite demographic data of the COVID-19-positive population to the governor today or tomorrow
• 20% of the infected are in hospital; 80% are not
• Expect to see infections ramp-up over the weekend
  
  Holcomb -- School
• All K-12 schools in Indiana, public or private, shall close and cease in-person instruction through May 1, 2020.
• Cancelling all student assessments for this year. 
  
   Indiana Supreme Court Justice Loretta Rush
• Courts shut down except for emergency situations.
  
   Holcomb -- Unemployment Insurance Claims
• 3,100 claims were filed this week last yea
• In total, 22,583 claims were filed on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week
• Federal grants are available for dislocated workers
• UI benefits to paid to individuals filing late
• Employees will continue to accrue eligibility through COVID-19 period
• If you’re laid off, apply! File an unemployment insurance claim, and DWD will sort it out. (If applicable, state that you were laid off due to COVID-19 displacement.) 
  
  Indiana Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Cris Johnston
  State Income Taxes
• Extending both the filing date and the payment date for Income Tax return
• 1.9M of 3.4M income tax returns have been processed.
• Processing time is 10 days.
• April is largest income tax collections month.
• Expect 50% of state income tax revenue to be deferred 
• 60-day waiver of penalties for May 11 property tax bills
• Tax Payment deadline delayed until July 15
• Foreclosures and evictions banned
• Suspending cash payment of the $300M in capital projects and will move ahead with already authorized bonding
• Waiving work search requirement for TANF
• BMV waiving late fees
  
  Holcomb – Special Session?
• No need for a special session at this time.  As there are no budget concerns, he believes the executive branch has the necessary tools at this time.
  
   Holcomb -- May 5th Primary Election?
• Under Discussion with Secretary of State Connie Lawson (R) and the State Republican and Democratic Party Chairs
• Holcomb supports postponing for the safety of poll workers and voters
  
  Holcomb -- Shelter in Place Order?
• Not yet; no intention to issue such an order at this time.
  
  ISDH Commissioner Box
• Maintain social distancing, but go for a walk, go to a park, get outside
  
   Unemployment Provisions of EXECUTIVE ORDER 20-05
  
   A.The DWD shall interpret, consistent with federal law, Indiana's unemployment laws to provide benefits to claimants displaced by COVID-19.
  
   B.The DWD shall not assess certain experience rate penalties to employers as a result of employees receiving unemployment benefits related to COVID-19.
  
   C.If the DWD finds that if a claimant's untimely filing was due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DWD shall not deny the claimant's benefits for that reason.
  
   D.The DWD shall permit individuals to continue to accrue unemployment eligibility if they elect to take leave due to COVID-19.
  
   E.The DWD shall seek federal authorization to provide unemployment benefits to those individuals who may not otherwise be eligible for unemployment benefits because they were short-term employees who now find themselves out of work due to COVID-19.