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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Dental plans."
+description: "Prohibits a dental plan (an insurance policy, a health maintenance organization contract, or a preferred provider plan) from directly or indirectly requiring a dental provider to provide a dental service to a covered individual at a fee amount that is: (1) set by the dental plan; or (2) subject to the approval of the dental plan; unless the dental service is a covered service under the dental plan. Prohibits a third party administrator or another person from arranging for a dental provider to provide dental services for a dental plan that sets the amount of the fee for any dental services unless the dental services are covered services under the dental plan. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to issue a cease and desist order against a person that violates any of these prohibitions and, if the person violates the cease and desist order, to impose a civil penalty upon the person and suspend or revoke the person's certificate of authority."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 136"
+citation: "Indiana SB 136 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["DENTISTS AND DENTISTRY; DENTAL HYGIENISTS", "HEALTH", "Health Care Costs; Health Insurance", "HEALTH", "Health Maintenance Organizations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Dennis Zent", "Liz Brown", "Mike Bohacek"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-04"
+last_action: "2022-03-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c48ab9af-5d5f-4f4f-9d65-243043bf2a39"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/136"
+source_hash: "fac1cf75ce1383af727489d0373feb110e3385a011da7b226b684140ecbdcdf9"
+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 136 (2022) — Dental plans.
+
+Prohibits a dental plan (an insurance policy, a health maintenance organization contract, or a preferred provider plan) from directly or indirectly requiring a dental provider to provide a dental service to a covered individual at a fee amount that is: (1) set by the dental plan; or (2) subject to the approval of the dental plan; unless the dental service is a covered service under the dental plan. Prohibits a third party administrator or another person from arranging for a dental provider to provide dental services for a dental plan that sets the amount of the fee for any dental services unless the dental services are covered services under the dental plan. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to issue a cease and desist order against a person that violates any of these prohibitions and, if the person violates the cease and desist order, to impose a civil penalty upon the person and suspend or revoke the person's certificate of authority.
+
+## 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/2022/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 136 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **93–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andy Zay — primary (person)
+- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
+- Chris Garten — coauthor (person)
+- Donna Schaibley — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
+- James Buck — coauthor (person)
+- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Zay
+- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-11** Senator Doriot added as second author
+- **2022-01-11** Senator Koch added as coauthor
+- **2022-01-12** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-13** Senator Bassler added as coauthor
+- **2022-01-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-20** Senator Koch removed as coauthor
+- **2022-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 50: yeas 46, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-01-24** House sponsor: Representative Zent
+- **2022-01-24** Cosponsors: Representatives Schaibley, Carbaugh, Lehman
+- **2022-01-24** Senator Doriot removed as second author
+- **2022-01-24** Senator Brown L added as second author
+- **2022-01-24** Senator Bohacek added as third author
+- **2022-01-24** Senator Buck added as coauthor
+- **2022-01-24** Senator Garten added as coauthor
+- **2022-01-24** Senator Rogers added as coauthor
+- **2022-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2022-01-26** Referred to the House
+- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 218: yeas 93, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2022-02-22** Motion to concur filed
+- **2022-02-24** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 257: yeas 47, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
+- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2022-03-04** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2022-03-08** Public Law 42
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c48ab9af-5d5f-4f4f-9d65-243043bf2a39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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