---
type: "Bill"
title: "Service animals."
description: "Provides that only a dog or miniature horse qualify as a service animal. Provides that a public accommodation shall make reasonable modifications in policies, practices, or procedures to permit the use of a miniature horse by an individual with a disability. Sets forth certain requirements when permitting or not permitting a person with a disability to bring a service animal on the premises of a public accommodation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1354"
citation: "Indiana HB 1354 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS (other than Livestock)", "PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Ledbetter", "Jean Leising", "Mark Messmer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0086396f-0adc-41bc-90c6-830fa45b42b7"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1354"
source_hash: "84d4aca08fe298f99b0fc170a92ddbc1ce934c5c06410df5b84a6fc955729e9b"
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 1354 (2023) — Service animals.

Provides that only a dog or miniature horse qualify as a service animal. Provides that a public accommodation shall make reasonable modifications in policies, practices, or procedures to permit the use of a miniature horse by an individual with a disability. Sets forth certain requirements when permitting or not permitting a person with a disability to bring a service animal on the premises of a public accommodation.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1354/versions/HB1354.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1354/versions/HB1354.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1354/versions/HB1354.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1354/versions/HB1354.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1354/versions/HB1354.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1354 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **39–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cindy Ledbetter — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — coauthor (person)
- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — cosponsor (person)
- Stacey Donato — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17** Authored by Representative Ledbetter
- **2023-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** Representatives Karickhoff and Klinker added as coauthors
- **2023-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** Senate sponsors: Senators Leising and Messmer
- **2023-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 108: yeas 99, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-13** Senators Donato and Breaux added as cosponsors
- **2023-04-13** Senator Yoder added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-17** Amendment #1 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-17** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 437: yeas 39, nays 11 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-24** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-24** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 481: yeas 93, nays 1
- **2023-04-24** Representative Morris added as coauthor
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 230 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0086396f-0adc-41bc-90c6-830fa45b42b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).