---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental plans."
description: "Prohibits a dental plan (an insurance policy, a health maintenance organization contract, or a preferred provider plan) from directly or indirectly requiring a dental provider to provide a dental service to a covered individual at a fee amount that is: (1) set by the dental plan; or (2) subject to the approval of the dental plan; unless the dental service is a covered service under the dental plan. Prohibits a third party administrator or another person from arranging for a dental provider to provide dental services for a dental plan that sets the amount of the fee for any dental services unless the dental services are covered services under the dental plan. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to issue a cease and desist order against a person that violates any of these prohibitions and, if the person violates the cease and desist order, to impose a civil penalty upon the person and suspend or revoke the person's certificate of authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 136"
citation: "Indiana SB 136 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DENTISTS AND DENTISTRY; DENTAL HYGIENISTS", "HEALTH", "Health Care Costs; Health Insurance", "HEALTH", "Health Maintenance Organizations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Dennis Zent", "Liz Brown", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c48ab9af-5d5f-4f4f-9d65-243043bf2a39"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/136"
source_hash: "fac1cf75ce1383af727489d0373feb110e3385a011da7b226b684140ecbdcdf9"
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 SB 136 (2022) — Dental plans.

Prohibits a dental plan (an insurance policy, a health maintenance organization contract, or a preferred provider plan) from directly or indirectly requiring a dental provider to provide a dental service to a covered individual at a fee amount that is: (1) set by the dental plan; or (2) subject to the approval of the dental plan; unless the dental service is a covered service under the dental plan. Prohibits a third party administrator or another person from arranging for a dental provider to provide dental services for a dental plan that sets the amount of the fee for any dental services unless the dental services are covered services under the dental plan. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to issue a cease and desist order against a person that violates any of these prohibitions and, if the person violates the cease and desist order, to impose a civil penalty upon the person and suspend or revoke the person's certificate of authority.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 136 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **93–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Chris Garten — coauthor (person)
- Donna Schaibley — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Zay
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Senator Doriot added as second author
- **2022-01-11** Senator Koch added as coauthor
- **2022-01-12** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-13** Senator Bassler added as coauthor
- **2022-01-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-20** Senator Koch removed as coauthor
- **2022-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 50: yeas 46, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-24** House sponsor: Representative Zent
- **2022-01-24** Cosponsors: Representatives Schaibley, Carbaugh, Lehman
- **2022-01-24** Senator Doriot removed as second author
- **2022-01-24** Senator Brown L added as second author
- **2022-01-24** Senator Bohacek added as third author
- **2022-01-24** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2022-01-24** Senator Garten added as coauthor
- **2022-01-24** Senator Rogers added as coauthor
- **2022-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 218: yeas 93, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-22** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-02-24** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 257: yeas 47, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-04** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-08** Public Law 42

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c48ab9af-5d5f-4f4f-9d65-243043bf2a39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).