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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mental health diagnosis."
+description: "Defines \"mental health diagnosis\" and sets forth requirements that must be met in order for certain licensed professionals to provide a mental health diagnosis. Requires certain mental health professionals who are making a mental health diagnosis and who determine that the patient may have a physical condition that requires medical attention or has not been examined by a physician, an advanced practice registered nurse, or a physician assistant in the preceding 12 months to: (1) advise the patient to schedule, and offer to assist the patient with scheduling, a physical examination for the patient; (2) provide the patient with a list of practitioners and certain information concerning the practitioners; and (3) coordinate patient care with the practitioner as appropriate. Requires documentation of the actions of the licensed professional in the patient's medical record."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 82"
+citation: "Indiana SB 82 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals", "MENTAL HEALTH", "Mentally Ill or Impaired Persons", "PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "Ed Charbonneau", "Michael Crider"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-01-05"
+last_action: "2021-04-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03e715e0-7c58-4e8f-8923-131e6fdaf7ff"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/82"
+source_hash: "78d28e0f1bf21ab33a53cad4be7a330bef2b1a18ad361c72dbb42fac88628fd7"
+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 82 (2021) — Mental health diagnosis.
+
+Defines "mental health diagnosis" and sets forth requirements that must be met in order for certain licensed professionals to provide a mental health diagnosis. Requires certain mental health professionals who are making a mental health diagnosis and who determine that the patient may have a physical condition that requires medical attention or has not been examined by a physician, an advanced practice registered nurse, or a physician assistant in the preceding 12 months to: (1) advise the patient to schedule, and offer to assist the patient with scheduling, a physical examination for the patient; (2) provide the patient with a list of practitioners and certain information concerning the practitioners; and (3) coordinate patient care with the practitioner as appropriate. Requires documentation of the actions of the licensed professional in the patient's medical record.
+
+## 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/SB0082/versions/SB0082.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0082/versions/SB0082.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0082/versions/SB0082.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0082/versions/SB0082.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 82 - Cook - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Anthony Cook — primary (person)
+- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
+- Michael Crider — primary (person)
+- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
+- Cindy Ziemke — cosponsor (person)
+- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
+- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
+- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
+- Mike Andrade — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald Grooms — coauthor (person)
+- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-05** Authored by Senator Crider
+- **2021-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-25** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
+- **2021-01-25** Senator Doriot added as coauthor
+- **2021-01-28** Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
+- **2021-02-04** Senator Becker added as coauthor
+- **2021-02-04** Senators Breaux, Yoder, Grooms added as coauthors
+- **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 82: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-09** House sponsor: Representative Cook
+- **2021-02-09** Cosponsor: Representative Ziemke
+- **2021-02-09** Senator Ford Jon added as coauthor
+- **2021-02-10** Referred to the House
+- **2021-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **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 288: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-23** Representative Andrade M added as cosponsor
+- **2021-03-24** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-19** Motion to dissent filed
+- **2021-04-19** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-19** Senate conferees appointed: Crider and Yoder
+- **2021-04-19** Senate advisors appointed: Charbonneau and Melton
+- **2021-04-20** House conferees appointed: Cook and Porter
+- **2021-04-20** House advisors appointed: Saunders, Snow and Shackleford
+- **2021-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
+- **2021-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
+- **2021-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 490: yeas 92, nays 0
+- **2021-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 480: yeas 49, nays 0
+- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2021-04-28** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2021-04-29** Public Law 138
+- **2021-04-29** 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/03e715e0-7c58-4e8f-8923-131e6fdaf7ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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