---
type: "Bill"
title: "Administration of anesthesia in dental office."
description: "Provides that a rule requiring an office based setting to be accredited by an accreditation agency does not apply to certain individuals providing anesthesia in a dental office. Allows an anesthesiologist, a certified registered nurse anesthetist, and an anesthesiologist assistant to administer moderate sedation, deep sedation, or general anesthesia to a patient in a dental office if certain standards are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 273"
citation: "Indiana SB 273 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DENTISTS AND DENTISTRY; DENTAL HYGIENISTS", "HEALTH", "Health Care Professionals", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Zent", "Ed Charbonneau", "Tyler Johnson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ea4f0b5-1e35-4308-bcf9-2ba3b86c0bbf"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/273"
source_hash: "50f0fdd56d92fdf823dc9182f66c7ed3ca3789f70f2f2da22045ac4ba66e802e"
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 273 (2023) — Administration of anesthesia in dental office.

Provides that a rule requiring an office based setting to be accredited by an accreditation agency does not apply to certain individuals providing anesthesia in a dental office. Allows an anesthesiologist, a certified registered nurse anesthetist, and an anesthesiologist assistant to administer moderate sedation, deep sedation, or general anesthesia to a patient in a dental office if certain standards are met.

## 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/2023/bills/SB0273/versions/SB0273.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0273/versions/SB0273.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0273/versions/SB0273.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0273/versions/SB0273.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 273 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
- Brad Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Renee Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rita Fleming — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Authored by Senator Johnson
- **2023-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 51: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** House sponsor: Representative Zent
- **2023-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-02** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-04** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-06** Representative Pack R added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-10** Representatives Barrett and Fleming added as cosponsors
- **2023-04-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 386: yeas 97, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-12** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-13** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 391: yeas 47, nays 0
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Public Law 106 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ea4f0b5-1e35-4308-bcf9-2ba3b86c0bbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).