---
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 1493"
citation: "Indiana HB 1493 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["NURSING HOMES", "WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Ryan Mishler", "Timothy Brown"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/370cc951-3d3e-449b-ada0-084e9b9a71fd"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1493"
source_hash: "960991b74717e17cd03bbbb8305435f5033e69adc51363b5868952fbb3fc20ad"
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 1493 (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. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1493/versions/hb1493.07.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1493/versions/hb1493.04.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1493/versions/hb1493.08.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1493/versions/hb1493.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1493/versions/hb1493.03.comh)
6. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1493/versions/hb1493.05.coms)
7. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1493/versions/hb1493.06.coms)
8. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1493/versions/hb1493.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1493 - Mishler - 3rd Reading — **46–1** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1493 - Brown, T. - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Timothy Brown — primary (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Brown T
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Representative Clere added as coauthor
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Brown T) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 228: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** Senate sponsor: Senator Mishler
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Health and Provider Services `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Senator Charbonneau added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #1 (Hershman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Charbonneau removed as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Senator Charbonneau added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 401: yeas 46, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-11** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** House advisors appointed: Frizzell, Clere and Shackleford
- **2017-04-12** House conferees appointed: Brown T and Bauer
- **2017-04-12** Senate conferees appointed: Mishler and Stoops
- **2017-04-12** Senate advisors appointed: Charbonneau, Breaux and Bohacek
- **2017-04-20** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-20** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 510: yeas 95, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Public Law 224
- **2017-04-27** 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/370cc951-3d3e-449b-ada0-084e9b9a71fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).