---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insulin drugs."
description: "Repeals a provision that requires an individual to possess a prescription to purchase an insulin drug."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 255"
citation: "Indiana SB 255 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DRUGS AND MEDICINES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "Jon Ford", "Linda Rogers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-09"
last_action: "2020-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25c35104-f112-4fdc-b440-5e71d3c839c5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/255"
source_hash: "c768957c0e716f23a2752f765eaf75b0d61284e30a3a0e86635f06748fd3dc5e"
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 255 (2020) — Insulin drugs.

Repeals a provision that requires an individual to possess a prescription to purchase an insulin drug.

## 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/2020/bills/SB0255/versions/SB0255.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0255/versions/SB0255.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0255/versions/SB0255.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0255/versions/SB0255.03.COMH)

## Votes

- SB 255 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 255 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Ann Vermilion — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Grooms — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-09** Authored by Senator Charbonneau
- **2020-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Senator Ford Jon added as second author
- **2020-01-21** Senator Zay added as coauthor
- **2020-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-23** Senator Rogers added as third author
- **2020-01-23** Senator Grooms added as coauthor
- **2020-01-23** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2020-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 79: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-28** House sponsor: Representative Vermilion
- **2020-01-28** Cosponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2020-01-28** Senator Tomes added as coauthor
- **2020-01-29** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Representative Vermilion A removed as sponsor
- **2020-02-11** Representative Kirchhofer added as sponsor
- **2020-02-11** Representative Kirchhofer removed as cosponsor
- **2020-02-11** Representative Vermilion A added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-17** Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-17** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-18** Amendment #1 (Shackleford) ruled out of order `amendment-failure`
- **2020-02-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 88, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-20** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2020-02-25** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-11** Public Law 10

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25c35104-f112-4fdc-b440-5e71d3c839c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).