---
type: "Bill"
title: "Horse racing veterinarians."
description: "Amends the definition of \"veterinarian\" to allow a veterinary practitioner who: (1) holds a special permit issued by the board of veterinary medical examiners; or (2) is exempt from licensing and special permit requirements and is appointed by the horse racing commission; to take or supervise the taking of biological samples from race horses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1021"
citation: "Indiana HB 1021 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LICENSES AND LICENSING", "VETERINARIANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean Leising", "Michael Crider", "Robert Cherry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61a3e355-38a8-4882-aa89-2fdcf600f67f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1021"
source_hash: "a6c600bf177b5882912ac2ae08bb4a13d9caeab9e92fe41220f4677117088fa7"
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 1021 (2022) — Horse racing veterinarians.

Amends the definition of "veterinarian" to allow a veterinary practitioner who: (1) holds a special permit issued by the board of veterinary medical examiners; or (2) is exempt from licensing and special permit requirements and is appointed by the horse racing commission; to take or supervise the taking of biological samples from race horses.

## 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/2022/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1021 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Robert Cherry — primary (person)
- Don Lehe — coauthor (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — coauthor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Coauthored by Representatives Thompson, Austin, Lehe
- **2022-01-04** Authored by Representative Cherry
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-24** Senate sponsors: Senators Leising and Crider
- **2022-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 55: yeas 93, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-25** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 214: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-14** Public Law 111

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61a3e355-38a8-4882-aa89-2fdcf600f67f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).