---
type: "Bill"
title: "Deceptive lead generation."
description: "Makes false, misleading, or deceptive advertisements for claims related to medical devices and legend drugs and certain other actions a deceptive act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1125"
citation: "Indiana HB 1125 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADVERTISEMENTS", "DRUGS AND MEDICINES", "INDIANA CODE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karen Tallian", "Liz Brown", "Matt Lehman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff80ecb1-70c4-4381-90b3-84626ab3232d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1125"
source_hash: "e410527d01949b742e0210761415caf15f4c13596cd133871ac0d37bc453b019"
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 1125 (2021) — Deceptive lead generation.

Makes false, misleading, or deceptive advertisements for claims related to medical devices and legend drugs and certain other actions a deceptive act.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1125/versions/HB1125.03.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1125/versions/HB1125.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1125/versions/HB1125.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1125/versions/HB1125.04.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1125/versions/HB1125.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1125 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07** Authored by Representative Lehman
- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-15** Representatives Steuerwald, Schaibley, Hatfield added as coauthors
- **2021-02-16** Amendment #1 (Steuerwald) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-16** Representatives Schaibley and Hatfield removed as coauthors
- **2021-02-16** Representatives Olthoff and Hatfield added as coauthors
- **2021-02-17** Senate sponsors: Senators Brown L and Tallian
- **2021-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 179: yeas 97, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-24** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 255: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-25** Motion to dissent filed
- **2021-03-30** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-05** House conferees appointed: Lehman and Hatfield
- **2021-04-05** House advisors appointed: Olthoff, Jeter and Bauer M
- **2021-04-06** Senate conferees appointed: Brown L and Taylor G
- **2021-04-06** Senate advisors appointed: Gaskill, Lanane and Tallian
- **2021-04-19** Senator Gaskill removed as advisor
- **2021-04-19** Senator Taylor G removed as conferee
- **2021-04-19** Senator Gaskill added as conferee
- **2021-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2021-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2021-04-20** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 474: yeas 90, nays 0
- **2021-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 474: yeas 31, nays 18
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-29** Public Law 176
- **2021-04-29** 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/ff80ecb1-70c4-4381-90b3-84626ab3232d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).