---
type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational licensure of military spouses."
description: "Amends as follows the law under which a provisional occupational license may be issued to the spouse of an active duty member of the armed forces assigned to Indiana: (1) Provides that the law applies to the spouse of any active military service member, including a member of a reserve component of the United States armed forces or a member of the National Guard. (2) Eliminates a provision under which a military spouse applying for a provisional occupational license is required to submit to a national criminal history background check, and provides instead that a military spouse applying for a provisional occupational license must be determined by the appropriate professional board to not have a disqualifying criminal history if a national criminal history background check is required for the regulated occupation for which the military spouse seeks a provisional license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1392"
citation: "Indiana HB 1392 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["IDENTITY", "LICENSES AND LICENSING", "VETERANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Buchanan", "David Niezgodski", "Dennis Zent"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15198ddc-05bd-42a7-896b-78629302ea60"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1392"
source_hash: "d48e1d7b6383ce3210f5d5d2b54489d87a9ba3c7e00921ca67610edc1e7af53f"
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 1392 (2021) — Occupational licensure of military spouses.

Amends as follows the law under which a provisional occupational license may be issued to the spouse of an active duty member of the armed forces assigned to Indiana: (1) Provides that the law applies to the spouse of any active military service member, including a member of a reserve component of the United States armed forces or a member of the National Guard. (2) Eliminates a provision under which a military spouse applying for a provisional occupational license is required to submit to a national criminal history background check, and provides instead that a military spouse applying for a provisional occupational license must be determined by the appropriate professional board to not have a disqualifying criminal history if a national criminal history background check is required for the regulated occupation for which the military spouse seeks a provisional license.

## 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/HB1392/versions/HB1392.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1392/versions/HB1392.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1392/versions/HB1392.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1392/versions/HB1392.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1392 - Buchanan - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- Chris Judy — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Andrade — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14** Coauthored by Representatives Frye R and Judy
- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative Zent
- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-11** Representative Andrade M added as coauthor
- **2021-02-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 195: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Senate sponsors: Senators Buchanan and Niezgodski
- **2021-02-19** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-24** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
- **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 265: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-12** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-13** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 419: yeas 92, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-23** Public Law 116

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15198ddc-05bd-42a7-896b-78629302ea60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).