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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Occupational licensure of military spouses."
+description: "Amends as follows the law under which a provisional occupational license may be issued to the spouse of an active duty member of the armed forces assigned to Indiana: (1) Provides that the law applies to the spouse of any active military service member, including a member of a reserve component of the United States armed forces or a member of the National Guard. (2) Eliminates a provision under which a military spouse applying for a provisional occupational license is required to submit to a national criminal history background check, and provides instead that a military spouse applying for a provisional occupational license must be determined by the appropriate professional board to not have a disqualifying criminal history if a national criminal history background check is required for the regulated occupation for which the military spouse seeks a provisional license."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1392"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1392 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["IDENTITY", "LICENSES AND LICENSING", "VETERANS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Buchanan", "David Niezgodski", "Dennis Zent"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-01-14"
+last_action: "2021-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15198ddc-05bd-42a7-896b-78629302ea60"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1392"
+source_hash: "d48e1d7b6383ce3210f5d5d2b54489d87a9ba3c7e00921ca67610edc1e7af53f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana HB 1392 (2021) — Occupational licensure of military spouses.
+
+Amends as follows the law under which a provisional occupational license may be issued to the spouse of an active duty member of the armed forces assigned to Indiana: (1) Provides that the law applies to the spouse of any active military service member, including a member of a reserve component of the United States armed forces or a member of the National Guard. (2) Eliminates a provision under which a military spouse applying for a provisional occupational license is required to submit to a national criminal history background check, and provides instead that a military spouse applying for a provisional occupational license must be determined by the appropriate professional board to not have a disqualifying criminal history if a national criminal history background check is required for the regulated occupation for which the military spouse seeks a provisional license.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1392/versions/HB1392.04.ENRS)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1392/versions/HB1392.02.COMH)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1392/versions/HB1392.03.COMS)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1392/versions/HB1392.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1392 - Buchanan - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
+- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
+- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
+- Chris Judy — coauthor (person)
+- J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Andrade — coauthor (person)
+- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-14** Coauthored by Representatives Frye R and Judy
+- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative Zent
+- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-11** Representative Andrade M added as coauthor
+- **2021-02-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 195: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-18** Senate sponsors: Senators Buchanan and Niezgodski
+- **2021-02-19** Referred to the Senate
+- **2021-02-24** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-16** Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
+- **2021-03-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 265: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-24** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-12** Motion to concur filed
+- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2021-04-13** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 419: yeas 92, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2021-04-22** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2021-04-23** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-04-23** Public Law 116
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15198ddc-05bd-42a7-896b-78629302ea60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+