---
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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1119"
citation: "Indiana HB 1119 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH generally", "PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b38c8572-c1a8-4f46-a5b0-9d76b71c9d2c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1119"
source_hash: "1602d4ae16ad6b9e10bb7edbbfcdf0783fefb95251a55557d56d29530497d8d0"
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 1119 (2018) — 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/2018/bills/hb1119/versions/hb1119.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1119/versions/hb1119.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1119/versions/hb1119.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1119/versions/hb1119.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1119 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1119 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- B Patrick Bauer — coauthor (person)
- Charlie Brown — coauthor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Leising — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Brown — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Authored by Representative Kirchhofer
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-11** Representatives Bacon and Brown, C. added as coauthors
- **2018-01-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Representative Brown, T. added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 30: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-22** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2018-01-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-01-29** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-01-29** Representative Bauer added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 215: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-22** Senators Becker, Charbonneau, Leising added as cosponsors
- **2018-02-23** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 328: yeas 91, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 67

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b38c8572-c1a8-4f46-a5b0-9d76b71c9d2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).