---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning Medicaid."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning Medicaid."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1541"
citation: "Indiana HB 1541 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WELFARE", "Medicaid", "DRUGS", "Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "James Merritt", "Ronald Grooms", "Steven Davisson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e398a519-f241-425f-902e-0e926deb5e7c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1541"
source_hash: "3bf4962029dc89623427be477b2ea33d3d57f296a69c5ee7c7eb2da3b1ddfeb5"
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 1541 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning Medicaid.

## 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/2017/bills/hb1541/versions/hb1541.05.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1541/versions/hb1541.04.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1541/versions/hb1541.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1541/versions/hb1541.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1541/versions/hb1541.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1541 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **45–3** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1541 - Davisson - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Steven Davisson — primary (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — coauthor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-18** Coauthored by Representatives Ziemke and Shackleford
- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Davisson
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsors: Senators Merritt, Charbonneau and Grooms
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 183: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** Representative Porter added as coauthor
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Mrvan added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 383: yeas 45, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Charbonneau, Mrvan and Grooms
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Merritt and Breaux
- **2017-04-11** House advisors appointed: Ziemke, Kirchhofer and Porter
- **2017-04-11** House conferees appointed: Davisson and Shackleford
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 526: yeas 99, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 514: yeas 47, nays 2
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-26** Public Law 203
- **2017-04-26** 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/e398a519-f241-425f-902e-0e926deb5e7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).