---
type: "Bill"
title: "Forensic nurses."
description: "Specifies requirements that a registered nurse must meet in order to practice as a forensic nurse. Requires biennial continuing education for a forensic nurse. Provides that a forensic nurse who is practicing as a forensic nurse on June 30, 2021, is not required to meet the biennial forensic nursing education requirements until June 30, 2023."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 7"
citation: "Indiana SB 7 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FORENSIC SCIENCES", "NURSES AND NURSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Julie Olthoff", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7540074-b872-4c58-bb7a-51f3a3e66da6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/7"
source_hash: "3721c903965c045c66379eb4bfe809d442901a96d1af1806577b8de4c5cb40f8"
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 7 (2021) — Forensic nurses.

Specifies requirements that a registered nurse must meet in order to practice as a forensic nurse. Requires biennial continuing education for a forensic nurse. Provides that a forensic nurse who is practicing as a forensic nurse on June 30, 2021, is not required to meet the biennial forensic nursing education requirements until June 30, 2023.

## 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/2021/bills/SB0007/versions/SB0007.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0007/versions/SB0007.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0007/versions/SB0007.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0007/versions/SB0007.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 7 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **93–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Maureen Bauer — cosponsor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07** Authored by Senator Crider
- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-08** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 77: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-09** House sponsor: Representative Olthoff
- **2021-02-09** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2021-02-09** Senators Becker, Breaux, Melton added as coauthors
- **2021-02-10** Referred to the House
- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11** Representative Vermilion A added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 263: yeas 93, nays 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16** Representative Vermilion A removed as cosponsor
- **2021-03-16** Representatives Ledbetter C, King J, Bauer M added as cosponsors
- **2021-03-17** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-29** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-01** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2021-04-05** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 341: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-21** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-22** Public Law 90
- **2021-04-22** 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/d7540074-b872-4c58-bb7a-51f3a3e66da6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).