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| Overall Status | Sub-Status | Bill Title | Originating Chamber | Topics | Bill Category | Summary | Primary Author | Year | |
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| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 51 Postpartum care for new mothers on Medicaid | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/51/details | Senate | Maternal/Child Health | Health Workforce | Requires that: (1) certain health care providers; (2) hospitals; and (3) the office of the secretary of family and social services or a managed care organization that has contracted with the office under the Medicaid program; ensure that a Medicaid recipient or an individual eligible for Medicaid who gives birth schedules a follow-up appointment for postpartum care that is not later than 60 days from the date the woman gives birth. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services.) | Sen. La Keisha Jackson | 2026 |
| Active | 15- Awaiting Governor's Action | SB 56 Veterinary licensing | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/56/details | Senate | Animal Health | Health Workforce | Provides that the board of veterinary medicine may issue a license or registration to a qualified applicant without an examination if the qualified applicant: (1) satisfies the requirements for reciprocity of health care professionals; and (2) otherwise meets the requirements to become a licensed veterinarian or a registered veterinary technician. | Sen. Jean Leising | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 60 Advanced practice registered nurses | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/60/details | Senate | Nursing Workforce | Health Workforce | Removes the requirement that an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) have a practice agreement with a collaborating physician. Removes a provision requiring an APRN to operate under a collaborative practice agreement or the privileges granted by a hospital governing board. Removes certain provisions concerning the audit of practice agreements. Allows an APRN with prescriptive authority to prescribe a schedule II controlled substance for weight reduction or to control obesity. Makes conforming changes. | Sen. Andrea Hunley | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 68 Accelerated graduate degree programs | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/68/details | Senate | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Health Workforce | Requires each state educational institution that offers a two year graduate degree program in mental or behavioral health to evaluate the graduate degree program to determine the feasibility of providing the program in a specifically structured manner to allow full-time students to complete the program within: (1) one year; or (2) five years if the program is combined with a baccalaureate degree program. Requires certain state educational institutions to offer at least one graduate degree program in one or more certain disciplines that is structured to allow full-time students to complete the program within: (1) one year; or (2) five years if the program is combined with a baccalaureate degree program. Requires certain state educational institutions to report to the commission for higher education (commission) regarding the graduate degree programs. Requires the commission to post the submitted reports on the commission's website. | Sen. Shelli Yoder | 2026 |
| Active | 11- 2nd Reading | SB 85 Health care debt and costs | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/85/details | Senate | Cost/Insurance | Health | Authorizes the attorney general to enforce provisions concerning wage garnishment and principal residence lien restrictions and establish a complaint process. Requires hospitals to do the following: (1) Offer a person who meets certain income guidelines and has received health services the opportunity to pay the charges through a payment plan that satisfies certain requirements. (2) Develop a written notice about a charity care program operated by the hospital, provide the notice to patients, and post the notice. (3) Include certain information concerning financial assistance on a billing statement. (4) Requires a hospital that reports an annual gross patient revenue of at least $20,000,000 to provide written notice and information to a person who has requested an eligibility determination concerning a payment plan or charity care. Provides that the unpaid earnings of a consumer who meets specified income eligibility requirements may not be attached by garnishment if an individual makes 200% of the federal income poverty level or less, and limits the amount to be garnished over a certain amount of the individual's disposable earnings in satisfaction of: (1) health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by the consumer; or (2) any amount of the judgment that represents health care debt determined to be owed by the consumer. Provides that: (1) health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer; or (2) in an action against a consumer in which a judgment has been entered, the amount of the judgment that represents health care debt determined to be owed by the consumer; does not constitute a lien against the consumer's principal residence for a consumer. Provides that in any action filed in Indiana for the recovery of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer, the principal residence of the consumer is not liable to judgment or attachment or to be sold on execution against the consumer. | Sen. Ed Charbonneau | 2026 |
| Active | 13- Bill Passed 2nd Chamber | SB 90 Consent for pelvic, prostate, and rectal exams | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/90/details | Senate | Other | Health Workforce | Prohibits health practitioners and other specified individuals from performing pelvic, prostate, or rectal examinations on an anesthetized or unconscious patient except in specified circumstances. Specifies the requirements of a notice of informed consent. Provides for disciplinary action for a violation. | Sen. Michael Crider | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 109 Confidentiality of pregnancy termination reports | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/109/details | Senate | Other | Health | States that a health care provider's report concerning the performance of an abortion that is submitted to the Indiana department of health is a medical record, confidential, and not subject to disclosure as a public record. | Sen. La Keisha Jackson | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 131 Psychiatric care ombudsman | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/131/details | Senate | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Health | Requires: (1) the division of mental health and addiction to establish the psychiatric care ombudsman office (office); and (2) the office of the secretary of family and social services to appoint the psychiatric care ombudsman. Sets forth the powers and duties of the office concerning psychiatric hospitals and patients of psychiatric hospitals. Creates a criminal penalty. | Sen. Andrea Hunley | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 132 Restriction on noncompete agreements | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/131/details | Senate | Other | Workforce | Prohibits an employer and an employee from entering into a noncompete agreement if the employee's annual compensation is less than $150,000 | Sen. Lonnie Randolph | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 137 Involuntary treatment of substance use disorder | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/137/details | Senate | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Health | Allows an individual's spouse, legal guardian, friend, relative, or medical service provider to petition a court for involuntary substance use disorder treatment. Requires a petition to include certain information and allows a court to dismiss a petition, without prejudice, if it does not contain the required information. Requires the court to appoint a public defender if the individual subject to a petition seeking involuntary substance use disorder treatment is not represented by an attorney. Requires a court to order the individual to be evaluated by a medical provider if the court finds that: (1) the individual has a substance use disorder; (2) because of the individual's substance use disorder, the individual is experiencing impaired judgment and is unable to independently maintain the individual's activities of daily living or is a danger to self or others; and (3) the individual refuses to voluntarily participate in substance use disorder treatment. Allows a court to order a local law enforcement agency to consider whether an individual meets the criteria for emergency detention under certain circumstances. Requires a medical provider who completes an evaluation concerning an individual's need for substance use disorder treatment to submit the evaluation to the court. Specifies that after receiving an evaluation from a medical provider, the court may dismiss the petition or set a hearing for further evidence to be presented about the individual's need for substance use disorder treatment. Requires a court to order involuntary outpatient substance use disorder treatment for a period, not to exceed 90 days, if medical evidence supports that the individual requires immediate treatment for a substance use disorder and the individual has refused treatment. | Sen. Dan Dernulc | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 155 Doula program | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/155/details | Senate | Maternal/Child Health | Health | Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to develop and implement a doula program that includes specified components. | Sen. La Keisha Jackson | 2026 |
| Active | 11- 2nd Reading | SB 161 Education matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/161/details | Senate | Workforce Pipeline (Education) | Workforce | Requires the Indiana department of education to elect to participate as a covered state in the federal tax credit scholarship program for elementary and secondary education under Section 25F of the Internal Revenue Code (enacted in Public Law 119-21, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025). Makes conforming changes to the school scholarship tax credit in current law. Requires the commission for higher education to adopt rules that prohibit certain funding from being allocated or expended, directly or indirectly, to low earning outcome degree programs. Requires the department of workforce development to: (1) establish a process to identify and approve eligible workforce training programs; (2) establish a process for institutions and programs to apply for recognition as an eligible workforce training program; (3) coordinate certain workforce training matters; and (4) require eligible workforce training programs to provide certain datasets to the department. Provides that the department of workforce development must maintain alignment with federal rules governing workforce Pell grants. | Sen. Jeff Raatz | 2026 |
| Active | 9- Committee Hearing | SB 172 Administrative rulemaking | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/173/details | Senate | Regulatory (Agency, Boards, PLA) | Workforce | Provides that if the implementation and compliance costs of a proposed rule, provisional rule, or interim rule exceed $100,000 (instead of $1,000,000) over a two year period: (1) the rule cannot be published in the Indiana Register until the budget committee has reviewed the rule; (2) the budget agency and the office of management and budget may not approve any part of the proposed rule prior to review by the budget committee; and (3) in the case of a provisional rule or an interim rule, the governor may not approve a rule prior to the budget committee's review of the rule. Provides that an agency may adopt a rule only if the agency has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the governor that certain circumstances exist. Specifies that provisional and interim rulemaking may be used only under specified circumstances if the combined implementation and compliance costs would not exceed $500,000 for businesses, units, and individuals if effective over a two year period. | Sen. Tyler Johnson | 2026 |
| Dead | 3- Committee Hearing | SB 173 Health care matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/173/details | Senate | Other | Health Workforce | Prohibits: (1) the state employee health plan; (2) the Medicaid program; (3) an accident and sickness insurance policy; and (4) a health maintenance organization individual or group contract; from imposing a time limit on the amount of anesthesia time for a medical procedure or otherwise restricting or excluding coverage or payment of anesthesia time. Modifies the definitions of "charity care" and "community benefits" for purposes of certain hospital reporting requirements. Requires additional reporting of information by nonprofit hospitals to the Indiana department of health (state department). Requires the report to be posted on the nonprofit hospital's website and the state department's website. Increases the penalty for failure to file the report and changes the time frame in which the penalty may be assessed. Specifies that any penalty be deposited in the local public health fund. Allows for certain practitioners to provide neuroplastogen treatment concerning qualified patients with life threatening conditions if certain requirements are met. Allows for research to be conducted on neuroplastogen access. Requires reporting of adverse events and annual reporting of patient statistical information concerning the neuroplastogen treatment. Provides for immunity when treating using neuroplastogens. Amends the definition of "conduct testing" for provisions concerning the regulation of physical therapists. Removes the referral requirement for physical therapy. Removes provisions prohibiting a physical therapist from performing sharp debridement or spinal manipulation unless acting on the order or referral of a certain type of provider. Prohibits a health carrier from contracting with, entering into an agreement with, or using a pharmacy benefit manager to provide services for certain policies of health insurance coverage if the health carrier has an ownership interest in the pharmacy benefit manager. Provides that a pharmacy benefit manager may not: (1) provide services under a policy of health insurance coverage for a health carrier that has an ownership interest in the pharmacy benefit manager; and (2) have an ownership interest in a pharmacy. Requires a clinical peer to disclose certain information for a peer to peer review of an adverse determination. Prohibits a utilization review entity from using artificial intelligence as the primary means for making adverse determinations. Prohibits a health insurer from engaging in certain downcoding practices. Authorizes the department of insurance to enforce the downcoding requirements and impose certain penalties for a violation. | Sen. Tyler Johnson | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 174 Various health matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/174/details | Senate | Other | Health Workforce | Prohibits a person from adding a chemical to a public water supply in certain circumstances. Defines "medical intervention" and provides that a person may not require an individual to accept, undergo, or engage in a medical intervention in or on the individual's body as a condition of employment, entrance, admission, compensation, benefits, or participation. Provides that a person may not take a punitive measure against an individual because the individual refused to accept, undergo, or engage in a medical intervention in or on the individual's body. Allows an individual who suffers bodily injury as a result of a violation of these provisions to file an action. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally causes bodily injury to another person by violating these provisions commits battery, a class B misdemeanor, enhanced to a level 5 felony if the offense constitutes a violation of the right to bodily integrity. Allows an individual to sell certain meat products from the individual's primary residence. Establishes various requirements for an individual to sell certain meat products from the individual's primary residence. Exempts a stand or another retail building used only for the sale of certain food products or meat products from the definition of a Class 1 structure. Provides that a student enrolled in a health profession education program may not be required to receive an immunization as a condition of: (1) participating in; or (2) obtaining; clinical training or clinical experience required by the program if receiving the immunization is against the student's conscience. Amends the information that the statewide child fatality review committee and statewide maternal mortality review committee must include in each committee's annual report. Provides that a physician may not be required to receive an immunization if receiving the immunization is against the physician's conscience. Provides that a health care provider, health care entity, and a health carrier may not be required to provide or refer an individual for a health care service that violates the conscience of the health care provider, health care entity, or health carrier. Establishes an exception for a health carrier. Specifies that a health care provider, health care entity, or a health carrier may not be subject to discrimination and certain other acts and liability for declining to provide the health care service. Establishes a civil action for a violation of these provisions. Provides that a person who prevails in a civil action is entitled to certain relief. Requires a licensed child care center, school, and person that operates a before or after school program to report the ingredients of each food product provided to a child or student. Requires the division of family resources and the department of education to publish the information on each agency's website. Allows a school corporation to contract with a health care provider, health system, or community partner to establish a school based health center (center). Sets forth requirements to establish a center. Provides that, notwithstanding state or federal law, a school may not conduct a physical or mental assessment or treatment of a student unless the physical or mental assessment or treatment is related to an illness or accident that occurred during school hours or on or near school property. Repeals certain superseded laws, including provisions concerning immunizations, communicable diseases, potentially disease transmitting offenses, quarantine, medical testing, disqualification for unemployment benefits, and COVID-19 immunization requirements. Makes conforming amendments. | Sen. Tyler Johnson | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 178 Payment of insurance claims | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/178/details | Senate | Cost/Insurance | Health Workforce | Provides that an insurer may not adjust a subsequent claim filed by a provider as a method of obtaining reimbursement of an overpayment made by the insurer on a prior claim by the provider. Provides that a health maintenance organization may not adjust a subsequent claim filed by a provider as a method of obtaining reimbursement of an overpayment made by the health maintenance organization on a prior claim by the provider. Provides that an insurer may not, more than one year after the date on which an overpayment on a provider claim was made to the provider by the insurer, request that the provider repay the overpayment (current law is two years). Provides that a health maintenance organization may not, more than one year after the date on which an overpayment on a provider claim was made to the provider by the health maintenance organization, request that the provider repay the overpayment (current law is two years). Makes conforming changes. | Sen. La Keisha Jackson | 2026 |
| Active | 13- Bill Passed 2nd Chamber | SB 180 Various health care matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/180/details | Senate | Other | Health Workforce | Amends the requirements for a Medicaid home and community based services waiver. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to apply to the federal government for a new Medicaid waiver to provide assisted living services. Specifies that provisions concerning reimbursement for assisted living services for individuals who are aged and disabled and receiving services under a Medicaid waiver apply to the new assisted living Medicaid waiver. Requires certain Medicaid recipients to choose the recipient's provider of integrated health care coordination. Provides that integrated health care coordination provided by a provider of assisted living services is not duplicative of certain other services. Specifies that an individual is no longer a member of the covered population upon receiving nursing facility services for 100 consecutive days. Provides that on the one hundredth day, the individual is not a member of the covered population and shall receive Medicaid services under a fee for service program. Prohibits an operator of a mental health chat bot (operator) from sharing or selling: (1) individually identifiable health information of an Indiana user; and (2) user input. Creates an exception. Sets forth advertising and disclosure requirements for an operator. Prohibits the use of an artificial intelligence system to impersonate or act as a substitute for a licensed practitioner. Amends the effective date for a provision concerning a home health aide competency evaluation program training hour requirement. Amends the educational requirements for dental hygienists. Amends the requirements for administration of nitrous oxide by a dental hygienist. Allows the state board of dentistry to establish additional requirements for an applicant who has failed the licensure examination at least three times. Requires the department of insurance to take certain actions to ensure that health carriers comply with network adequacy standards. Requires a person to provide written notice to a provider of any amendment to a health provider contract not less than 60 days before the proposed effective date of the amendment. Prohibits the use of downcoding in a specified manner. Requires an insurer and a health maintenance organization to reimburse providers of mental illness or substance abuse services at rates that are at least as favorable as rates are for providers of medical or surgical services. Sets forth limitations on an insurer and a health maintenance organization retroactively auditing a paid claim or seeking recoupment or a refund of a paid claim. Provides that a current or former police officer or firefighter (first responder) may recover medical benefits from the first responder's employer for an employment related injury or illness without first proceeding with a worker's compensation claim. Provides that if a first responder pursues a worker's compensation claim for medical benefits and the claim is withdrawn or denied, the first responder is not precluded from recovering medical benefits from the employer. Repeals the penalty in Title 16 concerning the crime of transferring contaminated semen. (Current statute contains a transferring of contaminated body fluids crime in Title 35.) | Sen. Liz Brown | 2026 |
| Active | 8- 1st Reading/Assigned to Committee | SB 189 Nonparticipating providers | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/189/details | Senate | Cost/Insurance | Health | Prohibits a health carrier from assessing a health provider facility or a provider an administrative fee related to the provision of care to an individual that involves an out of network provider. Provides that if a health carrier assesses a health provider facility or a provider an administrative fee related to the provision of care to an individual that involves an out of network provider, the insurance commissioner shall impose on the health carrier a civil penalty that is equal to double the amount of the administrative fee assessed by the health carrier. | Sen. Scott Baldwin | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 198 Pregnancy and childbirth matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/198/details | Senate | Maternal/Child Health | Health Workforce | Requires a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract to: (1) grant an exception to a step therapy protocol for a prescription drug prescribed for the treatment of postpartum depression that is not indicated by the federal Food and Drug Administration for postpartum depression on the prescription drug's approved labeling; (2) provide coverage for biomarker testing for preeclampsia, doula services, mental health screenings, and treatment for maternal mental health; and (3) develop a maternal mental health program. Requires Medicaid pregnancy services to include reimbursement for doula services and biomarker testing for preeclampsia. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to develop and implement a program for pregnant women and children with a substance use disorder. Requires the office of women's health to: (1) develop, maintain, and disseminate certain information concerning resources that are available to pregnant women and new mothers; and (2) provide continuing education courses concerning postpartum depression and other related mental health disorders. Requires a hospital or birthing center to, before a patient's discharge from the hospital or birthing center following birth, providethe patient with information concerning postpartum depression and other related mental health disorders. Sets forth requirements for screening for preeclampsia using biomarker testing. Establishes the Hoosier family leave insurance program and the Hoosier family leave insurance trust fund. Prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee who has a condition related to pregnancy or childbirth. Repeals a chapter regarding pregnancy and childbirth accommodation. Requires certain health care practitioners to screen caregivers for signs and symptoms of postpartum depression or other related mental health disorders and provide a referral for the caregiver if the screening is positive for a mental health disorder. | Sen. Andrea Hunley | 2026 |
| Active | 11- 2nd Reading | SB 199 Various education matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/199/details | Senate | Workforce Incentive Programs | Workforce | Makes changes to the composition of the case review panel established by an interscholastic athletic association. Requires the secretary of education, not later than December 1, 2026, to identify key metrics and activities concerning civic literacy and to submit the information to the general assembly. Requires the secretary of education, not later than December 1, 2026, to identify and make certain recommendations concerning paid leave for employees following certain events and to submit the findings to the general assembly. Provides that a school in which fewer than an average of 75% of the students over the course of three consecutive years achieved a valid passing score on the determinant evaluation of reading skills approved by the state board of education must comply with certain requirements. Provides that the department of education shall determine the number of grant awards under the Indiana education scholarship account program and the career scholarship account program, and specifies the amounts to cover administrative costs for each program. Requires the commission for higher education, not later than December 1, 2026, to evaluate accrediting agencies of state educational institutions and to report the commission's findings and recommendations to the general assembly. Provides that a social media service may not allow an Indiana resident who is an adolescent to hold an account with the social media service unless the social media service receives written consent to the adolescent's use of the social media service from the adolescent's parent or guardian. Provides that a social media service may not allow an Indiana resident who is a child to hold an account with the social medial service. Requires a social media service to configure the account of a registered user that the social media service knows, or reasonably should know, is: (1) an adolescent; and (2) an Indiana resident; in a specified manner. Provides that a social media service that violates these provisions is subject to: (1) an enforcement action by the attorney general; and (2) a civil action by the parent or guardian of the child or adolescent with regard to whom the violation pertains. Provides for restrictions on the retention, use, and collection of personal information for purposes of age verification by a social media service and provides that a social media service is subject to a civil action by an individual with regard to whom the social media service violates the restrictions. | Sen. Jeff Raatz | 2026 |
| Active | 8- 1st Reading/Assigned to Committee | SB 220 Health care shopping and decision support program | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/220/details | Senate | Cost/Insurance | Health | Requires, beginning January 1, 2028, a health carrier to: (1) implement a shopping and decision support program; and (2) provide incentives for covered individuals in a health plan who elect to receive a comparable health care service from a network provider that is paid less than the average allowed amount paid by the health carrier to network providers for the comparable health care service. Requires, beginning December 1, 2027, a health carrier to make available an interactive member portal that enables a covered individual to request and obtain certain information. Allows a health carrier to make the information available through a toll free telephone number. Sets forth reporting requirements for health carriers and the department of insurance concerning incentive payments made to covered individuals. | Sen. Ed Charbonneau | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 221 Pharmacist treatment by standing order | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/221/details | Senate | Other | Health | Requires the state health commissioner to issue a standing order, prescription, or protocol to allow a pharmacist to test, treat, or prescribe, if specified requirements are met. Provides a pharmacist with civil immunity in the testing, treating, or prescribing unless the pharmacist's actions constitute gross negligence, willful or wanton misconduct, or intentional wrongdoing. Requires the Indiana board of pharmacy to adopt rules concerning a pharmacist testing, treating, or prescribing for individuals. | Sen. Ed Charbonneau | 2026 |
| Active | 13- Bill Passed 2nd Chamber | SB 222 Family and social services administration matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/222/details | Senate | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Health Workforce | Adds the 9-8-8 crisis response center and a mobile crisis team as first responders. Provides civil and criminal immunity for these first responders. Requires certified peers to be trained and certified by the division of mental health and addiction. Amends the definition of "qualified provider" concerning the Medicaid program. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to limit presumptive eligibility determinations to qualified providers and sets forth requirements. Requires rules to be adopted concerning the implementation and administration of certification requirements for specified entities and amends standards. Changes the name of the division of disability and rehabilitative services to the division of disability, aging, and rehabilitative services. Repeals the division of aging and moves existing statutes and administrative rules to other locations. Renames the bureau of aging and in-home services to the bureau of better aging (bureau) and designates the bureau to perform certain duties once performed by the division of aging. Eliminates the requirement of a preferred drug list report. Extends the expiration of the micro facility pilot program. Authorizes the legislative services agency to prepare any legislation necessary to conform with the changes made. | Sen. Ed Charbonneau | 2026 |
| Active | 11- 2nd Reading | SB 225 Hospital matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/225/details | Senate | Other | Health Workforce | Amends the definition of "ambulatory outpatient surgical center" to remove the requirement that a surgical procedure is permitted to be performed only by a physician, dentist, or podiatrist who has certain hospital privileges. Prohibits a hospital, debt collector, or other third party from pursuing medical debt collection if the hospital is noncompliant with specified statutes. Requires the Indiana department of health (state department) to determine on a semiannual basis whether a hospital is in compliance with the statutes and notify a hospital concerning the state department's compliance determination. Requires a hospital to provide notice to patients concerning medical debt collection and establishes a deceptive act for failure to do so. Authorizes the attorney general to suspend the authority of a hospital to pursue medical debt collection when the state department has determined that the hospital is noncompliant and allows the attorney general to bring any action against a hospital for a deceptive act of pursuing medical debt while there is a noncompliance determination. Creates an affirmative defense for a debtor if the collection attempt occurred while the hospital was noncompliant. Requires a hospital to provide the state department with 120 days written notice if the hospital plans to: (1) close and permanently terminate hospital operations; or (2) eliminate or reduce a service line for longer than 90 days. Requires notice of the closure or reduction to be provided to certain state agencies and local units. | Sen. Justin Busch | 2026 |
| Active | 8- 1st Reading/Assigned to Committee | SB 236 Abortion inducing drugs and abortion reports | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/236/details | Senate | Other | Health Workforce | Provides that the attorney general has concurrent jurisdiction with prosecuting attorneys regarding actions concerning abortion inducing drugs. Modifies the definitions of "abortion" and "abortion inducing drug". Amends the information required to be reported to the Indiana department of health (state department) concerning the performance of an abortion and an abortion complication. Provides that a report concerning the performance of an abortion or an abortion complication is not confidential, is a public record, and shall be open to public inspection. Requires the state department to disclose these reports under Indiana's access to public records act. Requires the state department to: (1) publish the abortion complication reports on its website; and (2) send each abortion complication report to the office of the attorney general. Prohibits certain information on each form or report from being redacted. Requires the state department, if redacting: (1) a date; or (2) the age of the patient; from the form or report, to indicate on the form or report whether any applicable reporting deadline was met and whether or not the patient was a minor. Requires the state department to provide verification to the general assembly that the state department is in compliance concerning the release of these reports. Provides that an incomplete report concerning the performance of an abortion transmitted to the state department is subject to investigation by the state department and the office of the attorney general. Provides that a person who manufactures, distributes, mails, transports, delivers, prescribes, or provides an abortion inducing drug is jointly and severally liable for: (1) the wrongful death of an unborn child or pregnant woman from the use of an abortion inducing drug; and (2) personal injury of an unborn child or pregnant woman from the use of the abortion inducing drug. Allows the mother or father of an unborn child to bring a wrongful death action for the wrongful death of the unborn child from the use of abortion inducing drugs. Provides affirmative defenses. Allows for qui tam actions against certain persons. Adds an exception for the prohibition on abortion inducing drugs. | Sen. Tyler Johnson | 2026 |
| Active | 7- Bill Passed 1st Chamber, Referred to 2nd Chamber | SB 239 Various education matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/239/details | Senate | Workforce Pipeline (Education) | Workforce | Requires the department of education (department) to: (1) compile a list of business and industry partners that provide guaranteed incentives to high school students who earn the honors employment plus seal; and (2) publish the list on the department's website. Provides that, in addition to conditions established in current law to convert an existing public elementary or secondary school, an existing public elementary or secondary school may be converted into a charter school if certain other conditions apply. Allows, if the conditions are met, the governing body of a school corporation to: (1) convert more than one existing public elementary or secondary school within the school corporation; and (2) operate two or more conversion charter schools under a single charter. Amends provisions regarding participating innovation network charter schools to allow an organizer to enter into an agreement with more than one school corporation. Amends requirements regarding the location of a participating innovation network charter school and terms of an agreement. Amends the duties of the department with regard to participating innovation network charter schools. Makes conforming changes, including changes to the complexity index. Provides that a school corporation that fails to report certain information to the department will receive reduced state tuition support. Provides that if a school corporation files an appeal of the department's determination as to whether a covered school building must be made available to a charter school or state educational institution and the school corporation is determined to be the nonprevailing party, the school corporation is responsible for reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the prevailing party. Provides that an appeal of final determination issued by the state board of education as to whether a covered school building must be made available to a charter school or state educational institution must go directly to the court of appeals. Requires a school corporation to transfer a covered school building within 10 days of a final unappealable order and provides that a charter school or state educational institution may file a civil action to enforce transfer and seek liquidated damages in the amount of $10,000 for each day the transfer exceeds the10 day time frame. Provides that a lease or sale of a covered school building to a charter school or state educational institution includes certain assets. Requires parental notification if a school determines a student is at risk of not achieving grade level proficiency in mathematics. Removes the income limits of an eligible student with respect to a scholarship granting organization. Provides that money in terminated education scholarship accounts and career scholarship accounts does not revert to the state general fund. Provides that money in the Indiana education scholarship account program fund, Indiana education scholarship account administration fund, and career scholarship account program fund at the end of a state fiscal year does not revert to the state general fund. Allows state accredited nonpublic schools to apply for the teacher residency grant pilot program. | Sen. Linda Rogers | 2026 |
| Active | 8- 1st Reading/Assigned to Committee | SB 262 INSPECT program | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/262/details | Senate | Other | Health Workforce | Amends the definition of "dispense" for purposes of the INSPECT program. Allows the board of pharmacy to disclose prescription drug monitoring program data to a representative of the Indiana department of health and the office of the secretary of family and social services in certain circumstances. | Sen. Michael Crider | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | SB 269 Youth peer support program | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/269/details | Senate | School Health | Health Workforce | Permits a school corporation to establish a youth peer support program (program). Requires a program to: (1) be developed in consultation with one or more local mental health organizations serving the school's geographic area; (2) utilize evidence based training models approved by the department of education; (3) include written referral protocols to school based and community based mental health services; (4) provide ongoing supervision by a school counselor, school social worker, licensed mental health professional, or qualified community partner; and (5) include safeguards to protect student confidentiality and well-being. Provides that a program may not: (1) provide clinical diagnosis or treatment; (2) be established to replace school counselors or mental health professionals; or (3) require participation by a student. Requires a school corporation to provide certain students voluntary, online mental health screenings. Establishes parameters for certain partnerships between school corporations and local mental health organizations participating in the school corporation's program. Creates the youth peer support advisory committee. | Sen. Ron Alting | 2026 |
| Active | 8- 1st Reading/Assigned to Committee | SB 275 FSSA fiscal matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/275/details | Senate | Cost/Insurance | Health | Establishes a time frame in which the bureau of disabilities services must review and approve or deny requests for an increase in service units provided to certain individuals with a disability. Reduces the income levels as a percentage of the federal poverty level for purposes of the Medicaid eligibility of certain Medicare beneficiaries. Repeals a provision prohibiting the office of the secretary of family and social services from reducing reimbursement for home health services. Specifies that public notice of at least six months (rather than one year) must be provided before a health facility service reimbursement that results in a reduction in reimbursement may be changed. Removes language providing that a claim by the estate recovery unit of the office of Medicaid policy and planning (estate recovery unit) is forever barred unless the estate recovery unit takes certain action against the decedent's estate not later than 120 days after the date of death of the decedent. | Sen. Ryan Mishler | 2026 |
| Active | 7- Bill Passed 1st Chamber, Referred to 2nd Chamber | SB 282 Compounding drugs and medical spas | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/282/details | Senate | Regulatory (Agency, Boards, PLA) | Health | Restricts compounding of drugs using bulk drug substances unless certain requirements are met. Requires persons selling, transferring, or distributing compounded drugs to maintain specified records. Requires the Indiana department of health to prepare a report concerning the oversight of drug compounding and the posed risks of compounding. Beginning January 1, 2027, requires the registration of medical spas under the Indiana board of pharmacy (board). Requires the board to establish and maintain a public data base concerning registered medical spas. Requires a medical spa to designate a responsible person that is physically present for a sufficient time to ensure compliance with requirements as part of registration. Requires a medical spa to notify the board after a serious adverse event. Allows the board to take disciplinary action, including the suspension of a medical spa registration. | Sen. Ed Charbonneau | 2026 |
| Active | 8- 1st Reading/Assigned to Committee | SB 293 Pharmacist licensure | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/293/details | Senate | Regulatory (Agency, Boards, PLA) | Health Workforce | Requires the Indiana board of pharmacy to establish standards and requirements for courses of education concerning Indiana and federal statutes and rules governing the practice of pharmacy. Requires an individual to pass the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination to be eligible for licensure as a pharmacist. Repeals or requires the amendment of certain administrative rules. Makes technical changes. | Sen. Brian Buchanan | 2026 |
| Active | 8- 1st Reading/Assigned to Committee | HB 1003 Boards and commissions | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1003/details | House | Regulatory (Agency, Boards, PLA) | Health Workforce | Makes changes to requirements for the readoption of administrative rules. Repeals, merges, consolidates, or otherwise modifies various boards, commissions, committees, councils, authorities, and funds. Removes certain appointed members from various boards, commissions, and districts. Modifies the appointing authority for particular funds, boards, and councils. Provides that the professional licensing agency may adopt and enforce procedural rules for the administration of a board if the rule: (1) will affect multiple boards; and (2) is not inconsistent with any rule adopted by the affected board. Establishes certain funds. Repeals the fire prevention and building safety commission (commission). Transfers the commission's responsibilities and administrative rules to the department of homeland security (department). Provides that variances relating to the building code shall be administered by the department or, with the approval of the department, the state building commissioner. Requires the department, on or before July 1, 2028, to adopt rules to supersede certain building rules. Provides that, if the rules adopted incorporate provisions included in a model code, rule, or requirement, the provisions: (1) may not be incorporated by reference and must be included in the rule; and (2) must be free and accessible to the public. Provides that, on or before July 1, 2027, the department shall submit a report to the legislative council that includes any provision that is included in the current building code rules on July 1, 2026, which the department recommends to be codified by the general assembly. Makes conforming amendments. Relocates certain provisions pertaining to the adoption of building rules. Establishes the athletic trainer interstate compact. Makes an appropriation. | Rep. Steve Bartels | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1011 End of life options | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1011/details | House | Other | Health | Allows individuals with a terminal illness who meet certain requirements to make a request to an attending provider for medication that the individual may self-administer to bring about death. Specifies requirements a provider must meet in order to prescribe the medication to a patient. Prohibits an insurer from denying payment of benefits under a life insurance policy based upon a suicide clause in the life insurance policy if the death of the insured individual is the result of medical aid in dying. Establishes a Level 1 felony if a person: (1) without authorization of the patient, willfully alters, forges, conceals, or destroys a request for medication or a rescission of a request for medication with the intent or effect of causing the individual's death; or (2) knowingly or intentionally coerces or exerts undue influence on an individual to request medication to bring about death or to destroy a rescission of a request for medication to bring about death. Establishes a Class A misdemeanor if a person, without authorization of the patient, willfully alters, forges, conceals, or destroys a request for medication or a rescission of a request for medication in order to affect a health care decision by the individual. Establishes certain criminal and civil immunity for health care providers. | Rep. Matt Pierce | 2026 |
| Dead | 3- Committee Hearing | HB 1012 Medicaid matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1012/details | House | Regulatory (Agency, Boards, PLA) | Health | Amends the duties of the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) concerning home and community based services waivers (waiver). Requires a waiver recipient to review the recipient's monthly statement and report errors or inconsistencies. Requires a provider of waiver services to provide a recipient and the recipient's care coordinator with certain billing statements. Establishes the home and community based services waiver waiting list assistance fund (fund) to provide individuals on a waiver waiting list with access to certain supports. Provides that when the office determines an individual is ineligible for Medicaid, the office shall provide the specific reason for determining the individual is ineligible. Provides that appropriations in the budget bill for Medicaid assistance that are budgeted for a waiver that remain unexpended and unencumbered at the close of the state fiscal year and that would otherwise lapse and be returned to the state general fund do not revert to the state general fund, but instead shall be deposited in the fund. | Rep. Victoria Garcia Wilburn | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1014 Sonography | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1014/details | House | Regulatory (Agency, Boards, PLA) | Health Workforce | Specifies that the term "radiation" includes sound waves commonly used for sonography. Prohibits a person from performing sonography unless certain conditions are met, and provides both criminal and civil penalties. Makes conforming changes. | Rep. Maureen Bauer | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1016 Selection of primary care provider | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1016/details | House | Other | Health Workforce | Provides that a policy of accident and sickness insurance and health maintenance organization that require an insured to select a primary care provider to receive coverage may permit an insured to select a participating provider who is a physical therapist to provide physical therapy services or an occupational therapist to provide occupational therapy services. | Rep. Victoria Garcia Wilburn | 2026 |
| Dead | 3- Committee Hearing | HB 1024 Veterinary student loan repayment program | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1024/details | House | Workforce Incentive Programs | Health Workforce | Establishes the veterinary medicine student loan repayment program (program) and the veterinary medicine student loan repayment fund (fund). Provides that the Indiana state board of animal health shall administer the program and the fund. | Rep. Mike Aylesworth | 2026 |
| Active | 10- Committee Passage | HB 1029 Alzheimer's disease and dementia education | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1029 | House | Prevention and Awareness (public health, infrastructure, and healthy and active living) | Health | Requires the Indiana department of health (state department) to: (1) collaborate with a national Alzheimer's disease and dementia organization in educating the public about Alzheimer's disease and dementia; and (2) identify and collaborate with additional partners in the education. Requires the state department to partner for outreach in the education and publish certain educational materials on the state department's website. Allows the state department to accept grants, services, and property from public and private entities for the education. | Rep. Gregory Porter | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1030 Electrology services | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1030/details | House | Regulatory (Agency, Boards, PLA) | Health Workforce | Provides that an applicant for an electrologist license does not need to hold a cosmetologist license or esthetician license before applying for an electrologist license. Requires an applicant to complete a combined total of 600 hours of education and experience required under the rules adopted by the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners (board) beginning July 1, 2027. Requires the board to amend the rules for electrology training in a beauty culture school not later than June 30, 2027. | Rep. Sue Errington | 2026 |
| Active | 10- Committee Passage | HB 1031 County coroners | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1031/details | House | Other | Health Workforce | Removes minimum hour of instruction requirements for certain training courses provided by the coroners training board, and provides that a coroner or deputy coroner who has not successfully completed that training may not conduct a death investigation or sign a death certificate. Provides that a coroner or deputy coroner who conducts a death investigation or signs a death certificate without completing certain training commits a Class B misdemeanor. Provides that, if a coroner or deputy coroner fails to complete the required training course within the time required, the county shall reimburse the coroners training board for the cost of the training. Provides that the county may recover from an individual the amount the county reimbursed the coroners training board. | Rep. Karen Engleman | 2026 |
| Active | 10- Committee Passage | HB 1040 Battery against vulnerable workers | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1040/details | House | Other | Health Workforce | Increases the penalty for battery on certain health care employees and school employees. Specifies that the enhancement for battery committed against a department of child services (DCS) employee applies only to those DCS employees whose responsibilities include personally supervising a child or parent, personally providing services to a child or parent, or personally interviewing a child or parent as part of an investigation. | Rep. Wendy McNamara | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1049 Coverage for doula services | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1049/details | House | Maternal/Child Health | Health | Requires a state employee health plan, policy of accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organization contract to provide coverage for doula services. Requires Medicaid pregnancy services to include reimbursement for doula services. | Rep. Vaness Summers | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1050 Prohibition on lien for medical debt | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1050/details | House | Cost/Insurance | Health | Provides that: (1) any amount of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer; or (2) in an action against a consumer in which a judgment has been entered, any amount of the judgment that represents health care debt determined to be owed by the consumer; does not constitute a lien against the consumer's principal residence. Provides that in any action filed, in a court of competent jurisdiction in Indiana, for the recovery of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer, the principal residence of the consumer is not liable to judgment or attachment or to be sold on execution against the consumer. | Rep. Vaness Summers | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1060 Emergency medical services | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1060/details | House | EMS Workforce | Health Workforce | Exempts state educational institution degree programs primarily focused on emergency medical services from a certain elimination provision | Rep. Victoria Garcia Wilburn | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1061 Veterinary telehealth | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1061/details | House | Animal Health | Health Workforce | Requires an initial in-person examination to establish a veterinarian-client-patient relationship beginning July 1, 2026. Provides an exception for veterinarian-client-patient relationships established on or before June 30, 2026. | Rep. Mike Aylesworth | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1069 Choice of physician for worker injury or disease | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1069/details | House | Physician Workforce | Health Workforce | Permits an employee to choose the attending physician who will provide services and goods resulting from an employment injury or occupational disease for purposes of the worker's compensation law. | Rep. Chuck Moseley | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1071 Twenty-first century scholarship eligibility | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1071 | House | Workforce Incentive Programs | Workforce | Provides that the commission for higher education may allow a student who does not meet full-time enrollment or credit hour requirements under the twenty-first century scholars program to be eligible or to maintain eligibility for a twenty-first century scholarship award if the student is a student with a disability and meets certain other requirements. Provides that a scholarship may be renewed for the student for the number of academic terms that constitute eight undergraduate academic years. Makes conforming changes. | Rep. Chuck Moseley | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1097 Chronic disease registry | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1097/details | House | Prevention and Awareness (public health, infrastructure, and healthy and active living) | Health | Adds Parkinson's disease to the definition of "chronic disease" for provisions concerning the chronic disease registry. | Rep. Carey Hamilton | 2026 |
| Active | 11- 2nd Reading | HB 1098 Work based learning liability | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1098/details | House | Workforce Pipeline (Education) | Workforce | Sets forth the responsibilities of an intermediary and an employer if an intermediary connects a student with an employer to obtain work experience as part of a work based learning course. Requires an intermediary to assume liability for any legal or administrative claims arising from the student's employment as part of a work based learning course. Prohibits an insurer from taking certain actions relating to a policy of employer's liability insurance, worker's compensation insurance, or any other class of insurance to provide coverage for a participant of a work based learning course solely on the basis that a student to be covered under the policy is less than 18 years of age or is enrolled in a work based learning course. Provides that any underwriting decision made by an insurer or rating factor applied to a participant must be based on objective risk based criteria that are applied uniformly and without regard to the age of the student to be covered under the policy. | Rep. Matt Commons | 2026 |
| Active | 8- 1st Reading/Assigned to Committee | HB 1102 Applied behavioral analysis therapy services | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1102 | House | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Health Workforce | Requires, upon request, a public school to consult with and allow certain licensed or board certified behavior analysts and certified registered behavior technicians to provide applied behavioral analysis therapy services in the public school to a student under certain conditions in accordance with the student's special education program or plan. Provides immunity from civil liability for any actions taken in good faith to comply with the requirements. Requires the department of education to prepare and provide information and guidance to assist public schools in implementing the requirements. | Rep. Robb Greene | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1103 Applied behavior analysis coverage | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1103/details | House | Cost/Insurance | Health | Requires a state employee health plan to reimburse the provider of behavior analysis services that provides behavior analysis services to a covered individual at a rate of not less than 110% of the Medicaid reimbursement rate for behavior analysis services under certain circumstances. Requires a policy of accident and sickness insurance to reimburse the provider of behavior analysis services that provides behavior analysis services to an insured at a rate of not less than 110% of the Medicaid reimbursement rate for behavior analysis services under certain circumstances. Requires a health maintenance organization contract to reimburse the provider of behavior analysis services that provides behavior analysis services to an enrollee at a rate of not less than 110% of the Medicaid reimbursement rate for behavior analysis services under certain circumstances. | Rep. Robb Greene | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1129 Advanced practice registered nurses | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1129/details | House | Nursing Workforce | Health Workforce | Removes the requirement that an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) have a practice agreement with a collaborating physician. Removes a provision requiring an APRN to operate under a collaborative practice agreement or the privileges granted by a hospital governing board. Removes certain provisions concerning the audit of practice agreements. Allows an APRN with prescriptive authority to prescribe a schedule II controlled substance for weight reduction or to control obesity. Makes conforming changes. | Rep. Cindy Ledbetter | 2026 |
| Active | 13- Bill Passed 2nd Chamber | HB 1131 Licensed estheticians | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1131/details | House | Other | Health Workforce | Amends the definition of "esthetician" to include certain services. Adds a definition for "microneedling". Requires a person who provides microneedling to provide the professional licensing agency proof of advanced training or certification at the agency's request. | Rep. Cory Criswell | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1134 Insurance for mental health and substance use | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1134/details | House | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Health Workforce | Amends the definition of "treatment of a mental illness or substance abuse" for certain provisions of the Indiana Code. | Rep. Mike Andrade | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1136 Tuition caps | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1136/details | House | Workforce Pipeline (Education) | Workforce | Provides that the commission for higher education shall determine a tuition rate and mandatory fee cost of living adjustment for specified postsecondary educational institutions. Requires that, except for cost of living adjustments, the tuition rate and mandatory fees at specified postsecondary educational institutions may not increase from the time the student initially enrolls until the student graduates for an undergraduate student who is an Indiana resident. | Rep. Earl Harris | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1162 Medicaid waiver direct care staff compensation | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1162 | House | Direct Care Workforce | Health | Sets forth requirements for a home and community based services attendant care service Medicaid provider to meet in the use of the state fund share of Medicaid reimbursement for compensation of direct care staff. Requires the provider to submit a cost report annually to verify compliance. | Rep. Randy Novak | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1180 Health facility matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1180/details | House | Regulatory (Agency, Boards, PLA) | Health Workforce | Requires the state health commissioner to establish a work group to study methods of reducing and preventing health facility resident neglect and submit a report to the general assembly. Requires a health facility to do the following: (1) Designate at least one employee to act as a family advocacy liaison. (2) Establish an independent third party review process for written resident or other individual complaints alleging neglect of a resident. (3) Offer grief support to the family of a deceased resident. Prohibits a health facility from taking retaliatory action against an employee because the employee: (1) discloses actions or practices by the health facility that the employee reasonably believes violate state or federal law; (2) provides information or testifies in investigations or hearings; or (3) assists or participates in proceedings to enforce state law. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim committee during the 2026 interim the study of requiring health facilities to meet certain staff-to-patient ratios. | Rep. Robin Shackleford | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1196 Employment and vaccinations | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1196/details | House | Other | Workforce | Provides that an employer may require an immunization only if the employer respects the employee's right to refuse an immunization. Provides that an employee shall be free from coercion or an adverse action based on the employee's refusal of an immunization. Requires an employer that offers an immunization at no cost to an employee to provide certain notice to the employee. Provides that a violation may be reported to the department of labor (department). Requires the department to impose a civil penalty of $5,000 per incident. Allows an employee to bring a civil action against an employer to enforce the provisions. Repeals provisions concerning exemptions from COVID-19 immunization requirements. Makes a corresponding change. | Rep. Bruce Borders | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1197 Hysterectomy and oophorectomy informed consent | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1197/details | House | Physician Workforce | Health Workforce | Requires a physician to provide certain information to a patient and obtain oral and written consent before a hysterectomy or an oophorectomy may be performed. Allows for an exception in an emergency. Allows for the modification of an informed consent form by the patient and specifies requirements for the modification. | Rep. Bruce Borders | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1201 Various mental health and insurance matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1201/details | House | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Health Workforce | Prohibits the use of an artificial intelligence system to impersonate or act as a substitute for a licensed mental health professional. Requires the department of insurance to contract with an objective third party to verify that health carriers are in compliance with network adequacy standards. Sets forth notice requirements for an amendment to a health provider contract. Prohibits the use of downcoding in a specified manner. Requires an insurer and a health maintenance organization to reimburse providers of mental illness or substance abuse services at rates that are at least as favorable relative to Medicare rates as reimbursement rates are for providers of medical or surgical services relative to Medicare rates. Prohibits an insurer and a health maintenance organization from retroactively auditing a paid claim or seeking recoupment or a refund of a paid claim after a certain time frame. Sets forth a limitation on the amount that an insured or enrollee may be charged for receiving mental and behavioral care services from an out of network provider under certain circumstances. | Rep. Elizabeth Rowray | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1216 Hyperbaric oxygen treatment program | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1216/details | House | Other | Health Workforce | Requires the Indiana department of veterans' affairs to establish and administer a hyperbaric oxygen treatment program (program) to make grants to certain providers to provide diagnostic testing and hyperbaric oxygen treatment to qualified service members. Establishes program requirements. Requires the Indiana department of health to: (1) issue a request for proposals to offer treatment under the program; and (2) adopt rules to implement these provisions, including rules concerning program eligibility, treatment plan requirements, criteria for approving payments for treatment, and confidentiality. Provides that funding for the program is paid from the military family relief fund. Makes conforming amendments related to the sunset of the hyperbaric oxygen treatment pilot program. | Rep. Carey Hamilton | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1224 Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1224/details | House | Prevention and Awareness (public health, infrastructure, and healthy and active living) | Health Workforce | Requires the Indiana department of health (department) to establish an Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system (IVAERS) for reporting the occurrence of adverse events relating to childhood vaccines. Provides that IVAERS must enable a health care provider to report the occurrence of an adverse event experienced by a child residing in Indiana who is under the care of the health care provider. Requires the department to create a searchable Internet data base for publishing information reported through IVAERS. Provides that the health information of a particular individual is confidential. Specifies the requirements for releasing health information of a particular individual and who may receive the information. Provides that a person who knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly discloses confidential information received through IVAERS in violation of the statute commits a Class A misdemeanor. Requires the department to adopt certain rules concerning IVAERS. Makes an appropriation. | Rep. Bruce Borders | 2026 |
| Active | 11- 2nd Reading | HB 1230 Professional licensing agency | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1230/details | House | Regulatory (Agency, Boards, PLA) | Health Workforce | Provides that a state agency must determine if an alleged violator has substantially corrected the violation and notify an alleged violator whether the alleged violator is in substantial compliance with a state rule or state statute not more than 90 days after certain occurrences (current law provides for 30 days). Adds certification language for purposes of renewals. Allows certain boards to assess different fines for individuals and businesses for purposes of disciplinary sanctions. Makes various changes to the following boards: (1) The state board of cosmetology and barber examiners. (2) The state board of dentistry. (3) The committee of hearing aid dealer examiners. (4) The respiratory care committee. Provides that certain persons may not own an interest in an appraisal management company. Repeals the Indiana Code chapter relating to the professional licensing agency's duties and merges the agency's duties in another existing Indiana Code chapter. | Rep. Doug Miller | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1237 Use of opioid settlement funds | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1237/details | House | EMS Workforce | Health Workforce | Provides that distributions to the local abatement opioid settlement account to cities, counties, and towns may be used for the procurement of mobile radio equipment by a city, county, or town for use by first responders, in addition to programs of treatment, prevention, and care that are best practices as defined or required by a settlement document or court order under current law. | Rep. Mark Genda. | 2026 |
| Active | 10- Committee Passage | HB 1251 Emergency ambulance services | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1251/details | House | EMS Workforce | Health Workforce | Specifies that emergency medical services, including emergency ambulance services, are essential services in Indiana. Specifies that the provision of emergency medical services is an essential purpose of political subdivisions. Requires the county commissioners of each county to: (1) identify areas that are unserved by emergency ambulance services; and (2) provide emergency ambulance services to those areas by establishing a county emergency ambulance service, contracting with a public, private, or nonprofit provider of emergency ambulance services, or by any other available means. | Rep. Timothy O'Brien | 2026 |
| Active | 11- 2nd Reading | HB 1254 Various dental matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1254/details | House | Oral Health | Health Workforce | Amends the educational requirements for dental hygienists. Amends the requirements for administration of nitrous oxide by a dental hygienist. Allows the state board of dentistry to establish additional requirements for an applicant who has failed the licensure examination at least three times. Amends the licensure and temporary permit requirements for respiratory care practitioners. | Rep. Lori Goss-Reaves | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1255 Presumption of continuation of life | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1255/details | House | Other | Health Workforce | Establishes a presumption that the continuation of life is in a minor's best interests. Requires a health care provider to obtain the consent of each parent or each legal guardian before issuing a do not resuscitate order or otherwise withholding or withdrawing treatment to allow the natural death of a minor. Prohibits a health care provider from interfering with the transfer of a minor patient at the request of a parent or guardian or otherwise preventing life saving measures before or during the transfer. States that a court does not have jurisdiction to withdraw life sustaining treatment for a minor. | Rep. Lorissa Sweet | 2026 |
| Active | 9- Committee Hearing | HB 1266 Department of education and education matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1266/details | House | Workforce Pipeline (Education) | Workforce | Makes various changes to education provisions concerning the following: (1) Schools eligible for grants from the Indiana secured school fund, teacher appreciation grants, grants under the robotics competition program, and funding for certain advanced placement examinations. (2) Creating and updating a list of employers that have agreed to provide career support for or interview Indiana residents who graduate with an Indiana diploma with an employment honors plus seal. (3) Creating a teaching and learning framework for the implementation of mathematics academic standards. (4) Development of a data science math pathway. (5) Establishing a process and strategies to support academic and fiscally underperforming schools, development of a plan to intervene, and submission of the process and plan to the general assembly. (6) Evaluating, approving, and publishing high quality curricular materials time lines. (7) Local board membership for a local centralized school facilities board and local student transportation board. (8) Salary differentiation regarding teachers who possess a literacy endorsement. (9) Amounts expended in participating in an interlocal cooperative included in determining amounts school corporations expend on full-time teacher salaries for purposes of teacher salary minimum funding requirements. (10) Summer school program and reimbursement administration. (11) Criteria required for eligibility of a waiver for conducting four day school weeks. (12) Oversight of career and technical education program designation. (13) Uses of teacher appreciation grants. (14) The calculation of school safety referendum distributions to charter schools with regard to virtual instruction. (15) Petitions regarding reconsidering payments of choice scholarships. (16) Eligibility for teacher appreciation grants by the department of correction. (17) Membership of the board for proprietary education. (18) The effective date regarding the changes to the definition of "eligible choice scholarship student". Provides that an emergency permit may be granted up to two times to an individual enrolled in an alternative teacher certification program if the program provides documentation verifying the individual's good standing in the program to the department of education. Creates a new qualification option for a transition to teaching program participant who seeks to obtain a license to teach in grades 5 through 12. Joins the interstate teacher mobility compact. Provides that: (1) state accredited nonpublic schools; and (2) nonpublic schools that are accredited by a national or regional accreditation agency that is recognized by the state board of education; are eligible to participate in the teacher residency grant pilot program. Removes a provision that provides that the department may not release less than 10 items per subject matter level per grade level regarding the statewide summative assessment. Removes a requirement that for a parent or student to use a career scholarship account (CSA) annual grant amount for costs related to transportation a CSA participating entity must pay a matching amount for the transportation costs. Repeals the chapter concerning the commission for higher education and postsecondary career and technical education. | Rep. Robert Behning | 2026 |
| Active | 9- Committee Hearing | HB 1271 Payment of health claims | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1271/details | House | Cost/Insurance | Health | Requires a hospital to: (1) disclose information concerning payment assistance programs; (2) post signs concerning the programs in specified locations of the hospital; and (3) make information concerning the programs available to individuals through the hospital's patient portal system. Requires a hospital to notify individuals of available payment assistance programs before beginning a collection action against the individual. Requires the department of insurance to initiate rulemaking to effectuate the provisions regarding out-of-pocket expense credits not later than July 1, 2026. Prohibits an insurer that issues a policy of accident and sickness insurance (insurer) and a health maintenance organization from using downcoding in a specified manner. Prohibits an insurer and a health maintenance organization from retroactively reducing the reimbursement rate for any CPT code. Sets forth limitations on an insurer and a health maintenance organization retroactively auditing a paid claim or seeking recoupment or a refund of a paid claim. | Rep. Julie McGuire | 2026 |
| Active | 9- Committee Hearing | HB 1277 Long term care | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1277/details | House | Direct Care Workforce | Health | Amends the requirements for a Medicaid home and community based services waiver. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to apply to the federal government for: (1) a new Medicaid waiver to provide assisted living services; and (2) an amendment to a specific Medicaid home and community based services waiver to establish an individual cost limit of not more than the institutional cost of nursing facility services. Specifies that provisions concerning reimbursement for assisted living services for individuals who are aged and disabled and receiving services under a Medicaid waiver apply to the new assisted living Medicaid waiver. Requires certain Medicaid recipients to choose the recipient's provider of integrated health care coordination. Provides that integrated health care coordination provided by a provider of assisted living services is not duplicative of certain other services. Specifies that an individual is no longer a member of the covered population upon receiving nursing facility services for 100 consecutive days. Provides that on the one hundredth day, the individual is not a member of the covered population and shall receive Medicaid services under a fee for service program. Requires the office to conduct a comprehensive study of Medicaid reimbursement rates paid to providers of assisted living services. | Rep. Brad Barrett | 2026 |
| Active | 11- 2nd Reading | HB 1278 Nursing education programs | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1278 | House | Nursing Workforce | Health Workforce | Allows an institution that has been operating an eligible nursing program for at least five years to increase the enrollment in any eligible nursing program at any rate the institution considers appropriate. | Rep. Brad Barrett | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1279 Collection of cost sharing | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1279/details | House | Cost/Insurance | Health Workforce | Provides that an insurer: (1) must pay a health care provider the full amount due for health care services under the health care provider's agreement with the insurer, including any cost sharing; (2) has the sole responsibility for collecting cost sharing from a covered individual; and (3) upon request of the covered individual, must collect cost sharing throughout the policy year in increments defined by the insurer. Prohibits an insurer from taking certain actions regarding the collection of cost sharing. Requires each insurer to certify to the insurance commissioner, before December 31 of each year, that the insurer has fully and completely complied with the requirements during the previous calendar year. | Rep. Brad Barrett | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1295 Hospital disclosures and requirements | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1295/details | House | Maternal/Child Health | Health Workforce | Requires a hospital to: (1) inform a woman in premature labor of the hospital's capabilities of treating the born alive infant and managing a high risk pregnancy; and (2) if the hospital's capabilities interfere with the woman's care, provide this information before the woman is admitted to the hospital. Provides that if a born alive infant is transported to a hospital with an appropriate perinatal level of care, the woman must be offered an opportunity to be transported to the same hospital. Requires a local prosecuting attorney to investigate and seek criminal prosecution if the prosecuting attorney has probable cause to believe that a health care provider may have knowingly or intentionally: (1) violated the requirements concerning the treatment and care of a born alive infant or mother or the professional standards of practice through the health care provider's actions or inactions; and (2) caused harm or death to the born alive infant or mother. | Rep. Lorissa Sweet | 2026 |
| Active | 15- Awaiting Governor's Action | HB 1296 Mental health services | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1296/details | House | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Health | Requires the secretary of family and social services to certify integrated reentry and correctional support programs. Requires the owner of a recovery residence to register with the division of mental health and addiction (division). Sets forth the requirements for registration. Requires the division to post a list of registered recovery residences on the division's public website and include certain information concerning each recovery residence. Requires the division to adopt rules concerning: (1) the investigation of certain complaints; (2) the issuance, revocation, and denial of a registration; and (3) any rules necessary to implement these provisions. Allows the division to contract with certain entities to administer the registration of recovery residences. | Rep. Brad Barrett | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1328 Charges for hospital administered drugs | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1328/details | House | Cost/Insurance | Health | Prohibits a hospital from billing for an administered drug an amount that exceeds the lesser of the following: (1) 120% of the Medicare reimbursement rate for the administered drug. (2) The amount the hospital bills for the administered drug on June 30, 2026. Creates an exception. Requires a hospital to update the Medicare reimbursement rate for an administered drug on January 1 and July 1 of each year. | Rep. Julie McGuire | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1334 Directory of in network providers | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1334/details | House | Cost/Insurance | Health Workforce | Requires, upon issuance and renewal of a policy, an insurer to provide a directory of providers with which the insurer has entered into a reimbursement agreement to an insured or prospective insured. (Under current law, an insurer may provide a directory of providers to an insured.) Provides that: (1) a directory of providers provided by an insurer must include every provider that has entered into a reimbursement agreement with the insurer; and (2) a list of providers provided by a health maintenance organization must include every provider who provides health care services through the health maintenance organization. | Rep. Martin Carbaugh | 2026 |
| Active | 8- 1st Reading/Assigned to Committee | HB 1335 Nonprofit hospitals | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1335/details | House | Cost/Insurance | Health | Sets forth additional requirements for a nonprofit hospital's community benefits plan (plan). Requires a nonprofit hospital to spend more under the nonprofit hospital's plan than the nonprofit hospital's estimated tax exemption value. Allows the Indiana department of health (state department) to enforce compliance with the plan requirements. Sets forth additional reporting requirements for a nonprofit hospital's annual plan report (report). Requires the state department to review the report for compliance and to verify certain reported expenditure data. Allows for the assessment of a penalty for violations. Requires a nonprofit hospital to: (1) disclose information concerning payment assistance programs; (2) post signs concerning the programs in specified locations of the hospital; and (3) make information concerning the programs available to patients through the hospital's patient portal system. Requires a nonprofit hospital to notify a patient or the patient's representative of available payment assistance programs before beginning a collection action against the patient. | Rep. Martin Carbaugh | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1338 Physician standards of practice | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1338/details | House | Physician Workforce | Health Workforce | Specifies that the provisions prohibiting a physician or practitioner from aiding or abetting in the provision of gender transition procedures to a minor do not prohibit a physician or other practitioner from: (1) releasing a minor's health information to another physician or other practitioner in the course of the receiving practitioner's care of the minor; or (2) discussing a minor's medical history with another physician or other practitioner providing care to the minor. | Rep. Chris Campbell | 2026 |
| Active | 11- 2nd Reading | HB 1358 Indiana department of health | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1358/details | House | Other | Health Workforce | Removes various reporting requirements for the Indiana department of health (state department) and requires the state department to make certain information available on the state department's website. Changes the statewide standing order for the dispensing of a smoking cessation product to a tobacco, vaping, or nicotine cessation product. Amends the date by which a hospital must submit the hospital's fiscal report and patient information report to the state department. Requires: (1) the state department to maintain a trauma registry; and (2) certain health care facilities to submit data to the registry. Establishes requirements for the handling and transporting of infectious waste. Sets forth factors the state department must consider in determining the nature of and civil penalty for a violation of infectious waste requirements. Expands provisions concerning epinephrine, including provisions allowing a pharmacist to dispense and an entity to prescribe epinephrine, to epinephrine. Removes the expiration of provisions concerning lead screening for children. Requires a registered manufacturer, processor, repackager, or wholesale distributor of food, drugs, or cosmetics to comply with federal regulations concerning good manufacturing practices. Allows the state health commissioner to enter and inspect the premises of the manufacturer, processor, repackager, or wholesale distributor. Permits a local health department to conduct inspections of certain manufacturers, processors, repackagers, or wholesale distributors. Amends the information a local child fatality review team and the statewide child fatality review committee may review in conducting a child fatality review. Allows a suicide and overdose fatality review team and a fetal-infant mortality review team to provide records to the state department. Requires the state department to maintain the confidentiality of these records. Requires a medical school to: (1) include nutrition education in the school's curriculum; and (2) require students to complete a rural health rotation. Voids administrative rules concerning infectious waste and the state trauma registry. | Rep. Brad Barrett | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1366 Workforce development incentives | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1366/details | House | Workforce Pipeline (Education) | Workforce | Provides for a nonrefundable apprenticeship tax credit (credit) for an eligible employer. Provides that the amount of the credit is $2,500 for each apprentice employed. Specifies procedures for claiming the credit. Requires a board to issue a license, certificate, registration, or permit to an individual to allow the individual to practice the individual's occupation in Indiana if the individual satisfies certain conditions. | Rep. Carolyn Jackson | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1367 Involuntary treatment of substance use disorder | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1367/details | House | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Health Workforce | Allows an individual's spouse, legal guardian, friend, relative, or medical service provider to petition a court for involuntary substance use disorder treatment. Requires a petition to include certain information and allows a court to dismiss a petition, without prejudice, if it does not contain the required information. Requires the court to appoint a public defender if the individual subject to a petition seeking involuntary substance use disorder treatment is not represented by an attorney. Requires a court to order the individual to be evaluated by a medical provider if the court finds that: (1) the individual has a substance use disorder; (2) because of the individual's substance use disorder, the individual is experiencing impaired judgment and is unable to independently maintain the individual's activities of daily living or is a danger to self or others; and (3) the individual refuses to voluntarily participate in substance use disorder treatment. Allows a court to order a local law enforcement agency to consider whether an individual meets the criteria for emergency detention under certain circumstances. Requires a medical provider who completes an evaluation concerning an individual's need for substance use disorder treatment to submit the evaluation to the court. Specifies that after receiving an evaluation from a medical provider, the court may dismiss the petition or set a hearing for further evidence to be presented about the individual's need for substance use disorder treatment. Requires a court to order involuntary outpatient substance use disorder treatment for a period, not to exceed 90 days, if medical evidence supports that the individual requires immediate treatment for a substance use disorder and the individual has refused treatment. | Rep. Edmond Soliday | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1370 Payment of claims for emergency services | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1370/details | House | EMS Workforce | Health | Prohibits a utilization review entity from requiring prior authorization for ambulance services provided: (1) to a covered individual; (2) by a nonparticipating ambulance service provider; and (3) within 12 hours after the ambulance services are requested. Prohibits a utilization review entity from requiring prior authorization for emergent response services or urgent response services that are provided: (1) to a covered individual; (2) in good faith; and (3) within 24 hours after the emergent response services or urgent response services are requested. Provides that a policy of accident and sickness insurance that provides coverage for emergency medical services must provide reimbursement for emergency medical services that are, among other things, performed or provided during a response initiated through the 911 system or an equivalent telephone number, a texting system, or any other method of summoning emergency medical services. Provides that a policy of accident and sickness insurance that provides coverage for emergency medical services must provide reimbursement for emergency medical services that are, among other things, performed or provided when an individual is determined to require emergency medical services by a physician. Provides that an individual contract and a group contract that provide coverage for emergency medical services must provide reimbursement for emergency medical services that are, among other things, performed or provided during a response initiated through the 911 system or an equivalent telephone number, a texting system, or any other method of summoning emergency medical services. Provides that an individual contract and a group contract that provide coverage for emergency medical services must provide reimbursement for emergency medical services that are, among other things, performed or provided when an individual is determined to require emergency medical services by a physician. Repeals certain code provisions addressing advanced life support services. | Rep. Tony Isla | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1383 Military health care personnel pathways | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1383/details | House | Workforce Pipeline (Education) | Health Workforce | Provides that an institution may develop academic career pathways and integrated academic bridge programs (program) for military health care personnel that are designed to enable current and former military health care personnel to achieve credentialing outcomes in reduced time. Creates program parameters and requirements. Requires a participating institution to submit certain program information to the legislative council. Requires an institution that participates in a program to coordinate with the United States Department of Labor and the Indiana department of veterans' affairs. Provides that the Indiana professional licensing agency shall collaborate with participating institutions to integrate academic career pathways and academic bridge programs for military health care personnel into the agency's licensure requirements. | Rep. Chris Judy | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1385 Various hospital matters | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1385/details | House | Cost/Insurance | Health | Requires (rather than allows) the development of programs designed to increase Medicaid reimbursement. Specifies that the reimbursement rates for a state directed payment program must be at least the Medicare reimbursement rates. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to perform a reconciliation of the capitation attributable to the incremental hospital fee. Prohibits money in the incremental hospital fee fund from being used to fund Medicaid. Amends the permissible use of funds collected under the hospital assessment fee. Removes language that allowed the hospital assessment fee to be used to fund a state directed payment program that depended upon the collection of the managed care assessment fee. Changes the definition of "prices" concerning the hospital statewide average rate study and pricing (study). Amends the requirements to conduct the study and the date by which the study must be completed. | Rep. Brad Barrett | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1392 Involuntary substance use disorder treatment | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1392/details | House | Behavioral Health (substance use and mental health) | Health Workforce | Allows an individual's spouse, legal guardian, friend, or relative to petition a court for involuntary substance use disorder treatment. Requires a petition to include certain information and allows a court to dismiss a petition, without prejudice, if it does not contain the required information. Requires the court to appoint a public defender if the individual subject to a petition seeking involuntary substance use disorder treatment is not represented by an attorney. Requires a court to order the individual to be evaluated by two medical providers, one of which must be a licensed physician, if the court finds that: (1) the individual has a substance use disorder; (2) because of the individual's substance use disorder, the individual is experiencing impaired judgment and is unable to independently maintain the individual's activities of daily living or is a danger to self or others; and (3) the individual refuses to voluntarily participate in substance use disorder treatment. Allows a court to order a local law enforcement agency to consider whether an individual meets the criteria for emergency detention under certain circumstances. Requires a medical provider who completes an evaluation concerning an individual's need for substance use disorder treatment to submit the evaluation to the court. Specifies that after receiving an evaluation from a medical provider, the court may dismiss the petition or set a hearing for further evidence to be presented about the individual's need for substance use disorder treatment. Requires a court to order involuntary substance use disorder treatment for a period of between 60 and 360 days if medical evidence supports that the individual requires immediate treatment for a substance use disorder and the individual has refused treatment. Requires the petitioner to pay all medical expenses that result from a respondent receiving court ordered involuntary substance use disorder treatment. Specifies that a respondent may be subject to contempt proceedings for a failure or refusal to comply with a court order issued in response to the petition for involuntary substance use disorder treatment. | Rep. Lindsay Patterson | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1393 Health care debt and duty to provide care | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1393/details | House | Cost/Insurance | Health Workforce | Prohibits a health care provider from refusing to provide necessary care solely on the basis of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by the consumer to the health care provider for health care services, products, or devices provided by the health care provider to the consumer or to a minor or an incapacitated individual who is under the responsibility of the consumer. Provides that a person that violates this prohibition commits a deceptive act that is actionable under the Indiana statute concerning deceptive consumer sales by the attorney general only. | Rep. Vanessa Summers | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1426 Training concerning Alzheimer's disease and dementia | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1426/details | House | EMS Workforce | Health Workforce | Requires firefighters and persons who are certified or licensed providers of emergency medical services to complete training on Alzheimer's disease and dementia. | Rep. Hunter Smith | 2026 |
| Dead | 2- 1st Reading: Committee Hearing | HB 1427 Reporting on gender transition procedures | https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/house/1427/details | House | Regulatory (Agency, Boards, PLA) | Health Workforce | Requires practitioners who perform gender transition procedures to report on a quarterly basis certain information to the practitioner's regulating board concerning the gender transition procedures. Requires the submitted reports to be provided to the professional licensing agency (agency) to be compiled as an annual report. Requires the agency to post the annual report on the agency's website and submit the report to the general assembly. | Rep. Hunter Smith | 2026 |
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