---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMS personnel licensure interstate compact."
description: "Implements the emergency medical services personnel licensure interstate compact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 61"
citation: "Indiana SB 61 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES", "LICENSES AND LICENSING", "UNIFORM STATE LAWS AND COMPACTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Garten", "Ed Charbonneau", "James Merritt", "Ronald Bacon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27751147-811b-4717-ad04-0b6eb5a875a9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/61"
source_hash: "6b3cf15d5a1a8e31c7e3f2625392cb71516c8f6df4737ebf3c41c38d227eb338"
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 61 (2020) — EMS personnel licensure interstate compact.

Implements the emergency medical services personnel licensure interstate compact.

## 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/SB0061/versions/SB0061.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0061/versions/SB0061.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0061/versions/SB0061.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0061/versions/SB0061.03.COMH)

## Votes

- SB 61 - Bacon - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 61 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Ronald Bacon — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Ann Vermilion — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Kirchhofer — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)
- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Charbonneau
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** Senator Merritt added as second author
- **2020-01-09** Senator Garten added as third author
- **2020-01-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 24: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-21** House sponsor: Representative Bacon
- **2020-01-21** Cosponsor: Representative Vermilion A
- **2020-01-21** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2020-01-21** Senator Tallian added as coauthor
- **2020-01-21** Senator Zay added as coauthor
- **2020-01-22** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Statutory Committee on Interstate and International Cooperation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-13** Representative Kirchhofer added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-17** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 186: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-19** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2020-02-20** 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 3

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27751147-811b-4717-ad04-0b6eb5a875a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).