--- type: "Bill" title: "Nursing programs and licensing matters." description: "Establishes certain requirements for the temporary licensure of retired or inactive emergency medical services personnel, retired or inactive health care professionals, out-of-state health care professionals, or recently graduated students who have applied for certain licenses. Allows a health care provider or an officer, agent, or employee of a health care provider who has a temporary license to qualify for coverage under the Medical Malpractice Act. Provides that the state board of nursing (board) shall issue by endorsement a license to practice as a registered nurse or practical nurse to an applicant who is a graduate of a foreign nursing school and provides certain documentation. Allows: (1) an eligible associate degree or bachelor's degree registered nursing program to increase enrollment at any rate deemed appropriate by the program; and (2) a nursing program that is not an eligible program but meets specified requirements to increase enrollment by not more than 100%. Allows a nursing program to substitute a certain number of simulation hours for clinical hours in certain circumstances. Establishes requirements for clinical preceptors. Provides that a majority of the faculty is not required to be full-time employees of a state educational institution that operates a nursing program that predominantly issues associate degrees." jurisdiction: "us/states/in" legislature: "Indiana General Assembly" session: "2022" identifier: "HB 1003" citation: "Indiana HB 1003 (2022)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["HIGHER EDUCATION", "Adult Education", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "Colleges and Universities", "LICENSES AND LICENSING", "NURSES AND NURSING"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Ethan Manning", "Justin Busch", "Mark Messmer"] version_count: 4 action_count: 26 vote_count: 1 first_action: "2022-01-11" last_action: "2022-03-10" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f6b7bd5-2266-4f1d-8ed1-c44dc3d5aa5f" source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1003" source_hash: "279a645adc46c7353514eb3e9b8add11fa28fab59cb0b9affa7623e86bd0b962" 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 1003 (2022) — Nursing programs and licensing matters. Establishes certain requirements for the temporary licensure of retired or inactive emergency medical services personnel, retired or inactive health care professionals, out-of-state health care professionals, or recently graduated students who have applied for certain licenses. Allows a health care provider or an officer, agent, or employee of a health care provider who has a temporary license to qualify for coverage under the Medical Malpractice Act. Provides that the state board of nursing (board) shall issue by endorsement a license to practice as a registered nurse or practical nurse to an applicant who is a graduate of a foreign nursing school and provides certain documentation. Allows: (1) an eligible associate degree or bachelor's degree registered nursing program to increase enrollment at any rate deemed appropriate by the program; and (2) a nursing program that is not an eligible program but meets specified requirements to increase enrollment by not more than 100%. Allows a nursing program to substitute a certain number of simulation hours for clinical hours in certain circumstances. Establishes requirements for clinical preceptors. Provides that a majority of the faculty is not required to be full-time employees of a state educational institution that operates a nursing program that predominantly issues associate degrees. ## 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/2022/bills/HB1003/versions/HB1003.04.ENRS) 2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1003/versions/HB1003.02.COMH) 3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1003/versions/HB1003.03.COMS) 4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1003/versions/HB1003.01.INTR) ## Votes - HB 1003 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Ed Charbonneau — primary (person) - Ethan Manning — primary (person) - Justin Busch — primary (person) - Mark Messmer — primary (person) - Blake Doriot — cosponsor (person) - Brad Barrett — coauthor (person) - Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person) - J. Davisson — coauthor (person) - Rita Fleming — coauthor (person) - Ron Alting — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2022-01-11** Authored by Representative Manning - **2022-01-11** Coauthored by Representative Barrett - **2022-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2022-01-13** Representative Davisson J. added as coauthor - **2022-01-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2022-01-18** Representative Fleming added as coauthor - **2022-01-18** Amendment #3 (Nisly) motion withdrawn `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal` - **2022-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2022-01-20** Senate sponsors: Senators Messmer, Charbonneau, Busch - **2022-01-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 40: yeas 91, nays 2 `passage, reading-3` - **2022-01-21** Referred to the Senate - **2022-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2022-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2022-02-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2022-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 210: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3` - **2022-02-17** Senator Alting added as cosponsor - **2022-02-17** Senator Doriot added as cosponsor - **2022-02-17** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor - **2022-02-18** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure` - **2022-02-23** Motion to concur filed - **2022-02-24** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 275: yeas 88, nays 2 `amendment-failure` - **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore - **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker - **2022-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate - **2022-03-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature` - **2022-03-10** Public Law 69 ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f6b7bd5-2266-4f1d-8ed1-c44dc3d5aa5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).