---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavior analysts."
description: "Reenacts an expired provision in the definition of \"practitioner\" as it relates to behavior analysts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 462"
citation: "Indiana SB 462 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Professional Licensing Agency (PLA)", "HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; Generally", "HEALTH; Behavioral Health; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Michael Crider", "Robb Greene"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f87175e2-dec2-4ddb-9222-2a8e90217e33"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0462"
source_hash: "6599843a66deb4eda792fc4bb252333c78a3311439d1c81a7802ef1158dae1fa"
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 462 (2025) — Behavior analysts.

Reenacts an expired provision in the definition of "practitioner" as it relates to behavior analysts.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0462/SB0462.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0462/SB0462.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0462/SB0462.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0462/SB0462.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 462 - Greene - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 462 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Robb Greene — primary (person)
- Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)
- Chris Judy — cosponsor (person)
- John Bartlett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Authored by Senator Charbonneau
- **2025-01-21** Senator Crider added as second author
- **2025-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 35: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28** House sponsor: Representative Greene
- **2025-01-29** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Representatives Judy, Cash, Bartlett added as cosponsors
- **2025-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 405: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-10** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-15** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-22** Public Law 102 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f87175e2-dec2-4ddb-9222-2a8e90217e33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).