---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional licensing."
description: "Provides that a unit may not regulate behavioral health and human services that are: (1) licensed or certified; or (2) exempted from licensure or certification; by the behavioral health and human services licensing board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 350"
citation: "Indiana SB 350 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Health Care Professionals", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J.D. Prescott", "Jeff Raatz", "John Crane"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b3d0ecb-5991-4ff6-99d4-a2a97510bf61"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/350"
source_hash: "bc6f19b10c3e59128c61c87c503021544d80cf389ab0c44e3c887e57df6264f4"
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 350 (2023) — Professional licensing.

Provides that a unit may not regulate behavioral health and human services that are: (1) licensed or certified; or (2) exempted from licensure or certification; by the behavioral health and human services licensing board.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0350/versions/SB0350.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0350/versions/SB0350.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0350/versions/SB0350.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0350/versions/SB0350.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0350/versions/SB0350.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 350 - Prescott - 3rd Reading — **68–29** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J.D. Prescott — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- John Crane — primary (person)
- Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)
- Chris May — cosponsor (person)
- Dale DeVon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12** Authored by Senator Raatz
- **2023-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Senator Crane added as second author
- **2023-02-27** Amendment #4 (Raatz) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-27** Amendment #2 (Ford J.D.) failed; Roll Call 159: yeas 9, nays 40 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-02-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 197: yeas 34, nays 14 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Prescott
- **2023-02-28** Cosponsors: Representatives DeVon and May
- **2023-03-01** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-30** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-04** Representative Klinker removed as cosponsor
- **2023-04-04** Representative Cash B added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 356: yeas 68, nays 29 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-06** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-10** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 356: yeas 42, nays 6
- **2023-04-13** 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 111 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b3d0ecb-5991-4ff6-99d4-a2a97510bf61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).