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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Forensic nurses."
+description: "Specifies requirements that a registered nurse must meet in order to practice as a forensic nurse. Requires biennial continuing education for a forensic nurse. Provides that a forensic nurse who is practicing as a forensic nurse on June 30, 2021, is not required to meet the biennial forensic nursing education requirements until June 30, 2023."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 7"
+citation: "Indiana SB 7 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["FORENSIC SCIENCES", "NURSES AND NURSING"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Julie Olthoff", "Michael Crider"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-01-07"
+last_action: "2021-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7540074-b872-4c58-bb7a-51f3a3e66da6"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/7"
+source_hash: "3721c903965c045c66379eb4bfe809d442901a96d1af1806577b8de4c5cb40f8"
+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 SB 7 (2021) — Forensic nurses.
+
+Specifies requirements that a registered nurse must meet in order to practice as a forensic nurse. Requires biennial continuing education for a forensic nurse. Provides that a forensic nurse who is practicing as a forensic nurse on June 30, 2021, is not required to meet the biennial forensic nursing education requirements until June 30, 2023.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0007/versions/SB0007.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0007/versions/SB0007.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0007/versions/SB0007.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0007/versions/SB0007.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 7 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **93–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
+- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
+- Michael Crider — primary (person)
+- Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
+- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
+- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
+- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Maureen Bauer — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-07** Authored by Senator Crider
+- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-04** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-08** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 77: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-09** House sponsor: Representative Olthoff
+- **2021-02-09** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
+- **2021-02-09** Senators Becker, Breaux, Melton added as coauthors
+- **2021-02-10** Referred to the House
+- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-11** Representative Vermilion A added as cosponsor
+- **2021-03-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 263: yeas 93, nays 3 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-16** Representative Vermilion A removed as cosponsor
+- **2021-03-16** Representatives Ledbetter C, King J, Bauer M added as cosponsors
+- **2021-03-17** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-03-29** Motion to concur filed
+- **2021-04-01** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2021-04-05** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 341: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2021-04-21** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2021-04-22** Public Law 90
+- **2021-04-22** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7540074-b872-4c58-bb7a-51f3a3e66da6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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