---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medicaid reimbursement for children's hospitals."
description: "Extends the expiration date of language specifying Medicaid reimbursement of certain out of state children's hospitals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1313"
citation: "Indiana HB 1313 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS generally", "HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES", "WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan Dernulc", "Harold Slager", "Mike Bohacek", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d4b0913-6bd1-479d-b57c-17a5c6ed9ae7"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1313"
source_hash: "5f301da5826729205c46bd2f6b4183fc0b6ab95b8996b74a0ed6f3e5c4d11be3"
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 1313 (2023) — Medicaid reimbursement for children's hospitals.

Extends the expiration date of language specifying Medicaid reimbursement of certain out of state children's hospitals.

## 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/2023/bills/HB1313/versions/HB1313.05.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1313/versions/HB1313.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1313/versions/HB1313.03.COMS)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1313/versions/HB1313.04.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1313/versions/HB1313.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1313 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dan Dernulc — primary (person)
- Harold Slager — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Carolyn Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Chuck Moseley — coauthor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Authored by Representative Slager
- **2023-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** Representative Moseley added as coauthor
- **2023-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-09** Representative Jackson added as coauthor
- **2023-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 106: yeas 99, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Senate sponsors: Senators Niemeyer, Bohacek, Dernulc
- **2023-02-13** Cosponsor: Senator Randolph
- **2023-02-14** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Senator Charbonneau added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 271: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-28** Senator Alting added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-29** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 76 `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** 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/4d4b0913-6bd1-479d-b57c-17a5c6ed9ae7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).