---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medicaid reimbursement for children's hospitals."
description: "Specifies the reimbursement rate for inpatient and outpatient Medicaid services that are provided by an out-of-state children's hospital located in a state bordering Indiana in state fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Requires budget committee review of the reimbursements provided to those out-of-state children's hospital. Requires the children's hospitals to provide information required in the review to the family and social services administration not later than August 1."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1305"
citation: "Indiana HB 1305 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Health Care Costs; Health Insurance", "WELFARE", "Aid to Families with Dependent Children", "WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Harold Slager", "Mike Bohacek", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cfa835f-0095-4274-8ea9-54f1d07ddfd8"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1305"
source_hash: "12a87f9382d5ce889fbf68aab56e616373fb495a3a1e9d541845afaf536e164d"
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 1305 (2021) — Medicaid reimbursement for children's hospitals.

Specifies the reimbursement rate for inpatient and outpatient Medicaid services that are provided by an out-of-state children's hospital located in a state bordering Indiana in state fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Requires budget committee review of the reimbursements provided to those out-of-state children's hospital. Requires the children's hospitals to provide information required in the review to the family and social services administration not later than August 1.

## 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/2021/bills/HB1305/versions/HB1305.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1305/versions/HB1305.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1305/versions/HB1305.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1305/versions/HB1305.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1305 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Harold Slager — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Carolyn Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Chris Garten — cosponsor (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
- Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Soliday — coauthor (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
- Karen Tallian — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14** Coauthored by Representatives Soliday, Clere, Olthoff
- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative Slager
- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-08** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 110: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-11** Cosponsor: Senator Tallian
- **2021-02-11** Senate sponsors: Senators Bohacek, Charbonneau, Niemeyer
- **2021-02-12** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-25** Senator Garten added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 293: yeas 50, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-30** Senator Alting added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-30** Senator Leising added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-30** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-30** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2021-04-01** Senator Melton added as cosponsor
- **2021-04-01** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 399: yeas 83, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-15** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2021-04-15** Representatives Jackson and Harris added as coauthors
- **2021-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-26** Public Law 132
- **2021-04-26** 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/3cfa835f-0095-4274-8ea9-54f1d07ddfd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).