---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health matters."
description: "Amends the definitions of \"practitioner\", for purposes of the health professions and professional standards of practice laws, to include individuals who held a license, certificate, registration, or permit when the alleged violation of the standard of practice occurred. Makes technical corrections and conforming changes to certain health related laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1255"
citation: "Indiana HB 1255 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH generally", "HEALTH", "Health Care Professionals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brad Barrett", "Ed Charbonneau"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe2f646b-0f01-4dc1-bf70-d219f47f7667"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1255"
source_hash: "fe3168015de3d708451255fa76fb6a54ca07bd3297972c21a6588c4f3c76f6c4"
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 1255 (2022) — Health matters.

Amends the definitions of "practitioner", for purposes of the health professions and professional standards of practice laws, to include individuals who held a license, certificate, registration, or permit when the alleged violation of the standard of practice occurred. Makes technical corrections and conforming changes to certain health related laws.

## 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/HB1255/versions/HB1255.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1255/versions/HB1255.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1255/versions/HB1255.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1255/versions/HB1255.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1255 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brad Barrett — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — coauthor (person)
- Don Lehe — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-06** Authored by Representative Barrett
- **2022-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Representatives Ziemke, Lehe, Hatfield added as coauthors
- **2022-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 81: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-25** Senate sponsor: Senator Charbonneau
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 204: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-16** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-07** Public Law 36
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-07** 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/fe2f646b-0f01-4dc1-bf70-d219f47f7667`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).