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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Confidentiality of birth and stillbirth records."
+description: "Provides that a registration or certificate of a birth or stillbirth is open to public inspection and copying upon the request of any person that occurs 99 years (instead of 75 years) after the record is created."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1148"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1148 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["HEALTH; Medical Records", "PUBLIC RECORDS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Porter", "Vaneta Becker"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-04-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cdf934c-d349-44d3-9549-1b7de2f11e49"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1148"
+source_hash: "6e157e2359fa27af598d4f1efd3729fd751204b22a2ffefd79598cebb9173a06"
+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 1148 (2025) — Confidentiality of birth and stillbirth records.
+
+Provides that a registration or certificate of a birth or stillbirth is open to public inspection and copying upon the request of any person that occurs 99 years (instead of 75 years) after the record is created.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1148/HB1148.04.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1148/HB1148.03.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1148/HB1148.02.COMH.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1148/HB1148.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1148 - Porter - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1148 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gregory Porter — primary (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
+- Brad Barrett — coauthor (person)
+- Ed Charbonneau — cosponsor (person)
+- La Keisha Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Liz Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+- Martin Carbaugh — coauthor (person)
+- Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)
+- Shelli Yoder — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Porter
+- **2025-01-21** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-27** Representative Barrett added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-28** Representative Carbaugh added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-28** Cosponsors: Senators Jackson L and Charbonneau
+- **2025-01-28** Senate sponsor: Senator Becker
+- **2025-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 29: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-28** Representative Shackleford added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-29** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-18** Senators Brown L and Yoder added as cosponsors
+- **2025-03-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 257: yeas 45, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-21** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2025-03-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-25** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Public Law 33 `became-law`
+- **2025-04-03** 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/3cdf934c-d349-44d3-9549-1b7de2f11e49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+