---
type: "Bill"
title: "Long acting reversible contraceptives."
description: "Allows a long acting reversible contraceptive that is prescribed to and obtained for a Medicaid recipient to be transferred to another Medicaid recipient if certain requirements are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 252"
citation: "Indiana SB 252 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH generally", "WELFARE", "Medicaid", "WOMEN'S ISSUES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Sharon Negele", "Shelli Yoder", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0591f382-513f-495b-91e0-56087aff58d9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/252"
source_hash: "641d031595abef1db3ccfff675329cf8ec258de924aa522b6190aced408664c3"
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 252 (2023) — Long acting reversible contraceptives.

Allows a long acting reversible contraceptive that is prescribed to and obtained for a Medicaid recipient to be transferred to another Medicaid recipient if certain requirements are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0252/versions/SB0252.04.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0252/versions/SB0252.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0252/versions/SB0252.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0252/versions/SB0252.03.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0252/versions/SB0252.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 252 - Yoder - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Sharon Negele — primary (person)
- Shelli Yoder — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Andrea Hunley — coauthor (person)
- Ann Vermilion — cosponsor (person)
- Brad Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Justin Busch — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
- Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Authored by Senator Yoder
- **2023-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Senator Glick added as second author
- **2023-01-30** Senator Charbonneau added as third author
- **2023-01-31** Senator Becker added as coauthor
- **2023-02-02** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Senator Busch added as coauthor
- **2023-02-02** Senator Johnson added as coauthor
- **2023-02-02** Senators Melton, Breaux, Bohacek added as coauthors
- **2023-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 81: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-07** House sponsor: Representative Negele
- **2023-02-07** Cosponsors: Representatives Vermilion A, Barrett, Shackleford
- **2023-02-07** Senators Ford J.D., Hunley, Pol, Deery added as coauthors
- **2023-02-07** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-09** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-13** Amendment #1 (Vermilion) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 428: yeas 88, nays 8 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-18** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2023-04-18** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2023-04-18** Senate conferees appointed: Glick and Yoder
- **2023-04-18** Senate advisors appointed: Breaux, Charbonneau and Busch
- **2023-04-18** House conferees appointed: Negele and Fleming
- **2023-04-18** House advisors appointed: Vermilion, Barrett and Summers
- **2023-04-24** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2023-04-24** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2023-04-25** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 498: yeas 82, nays 0
- **2023-04-25** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 477: yeas 40, nays 8
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 177 `became-law`
- **2023-05-04** 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/0591f382-513f-495b-91e0-56087aff58d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).