---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1145"
citation: "Indiana HB 1145 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Zent", "Ed Charbonneau", "Jean Leising"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-05"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b40c75b5-13a7-4167-bc66-0f3ef91dd8e6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1145"
source_hash: "f9ab9c59b1871cd71a97caa5063d7fe7789436587cf3665cb850bc6bd72c9644"
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 1145 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

## 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/2017/bills/hb1145/versions/hb1145.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1145/versions/hb1145.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1145/versions/hb1145.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1145/versions/hb1145.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1145 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1145 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- B Patrick Bauer — coauthor (person)
- Charlie Brown — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Head — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-05** Authored by Representative Zent
- **2017-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Representatives Bacon, Bauer, Brown, C. added as coauthors
- **2017-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Charbonneau
- **2017-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 205: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-13** Senator Leising added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-13** Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Senator Head added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 258: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-14** Senator Buck added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-15** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 453: yeas 90, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Public Law 138
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b40c75b5-13a7-4167-bc66-0f3ef91dd8e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).