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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Horse racing veterinarians."
+description: "Amends the definition of \"veterinarian\" to allow a veterinary practitioner who: (1) holds a special permit issued by the board of veterinary medical examiners; or (2) is exempt from licensing and special permit requirements and is appointed by the horse racing commission; to take or supervise the taking of biological samples from race horses."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 1021"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1021 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["LICENSES AND LICENSING", "VETERINARIANS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jean Leising", "Michael Crider", "Robert Cherry"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-04"
+last_action: "2022-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61a3e355-38a8-4882-aa89-2fdcf600f67f"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1021"
+source_hash: "a6c600bf177b5882912ac2ae08bb4a13d9caeab9e92fe41220f4677117088fa7"
+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 1021 (2022) — Horse racing veterinarians.
+
+Amends the definition of "veterinarian" to allow a veterinary practitioner who: (1) holds a special permit issued by the board of veterinary medical examiners; or (2) is exempt from licensing and special permit requirements and is appointed by the horse racing commission; to take or supervise the taking of biological samples from race horses.
+
+## 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/2022/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.04.ENRS)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.02.COMH)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.03.COMS)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1021 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jean Leising — primary (person)
+- Michael Crider — primary (person)
+- Robert Cherry — primary (person)
+- Don Lehe — coauthor (person)
+- Jeffrey Thompson — coauthor (person)
+- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-04** Coauthored by Representatives Thompson, Austin, Lehe
+- **2022-01-04** Authored by Representative Cherry
+- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-24** Senate sponsors: Senators Leising and Crider
+- **2022-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 55: yeas 93, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-01-25** Referred to the Senate
+- **2022-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 214: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-22** Returned to the House without amendments
+- **2022-02-24** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2022-02-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2022-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2022-03-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-03-14** Public Law 111
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61a3e355-38a8-4882-aa89-2fdcf600f67f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+