---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cancer clinical trial program."
description: "Allows an organization or entity to establish and administer a cancer clinical trial participation program for the purpose of providing payments to a participant for certain costs incurred by the participant while participating in a cancer clinical trial. Sets forth program requirements and participant eligibility."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1065"
citation: "Indiana HB 1065 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Health (IDOH)", "FINANCIAL SERVICES; Generally", "HEALTH; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Michael Crider", "Robin Shackleford", "Shelli Yoder"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3806e58-62fa-4fac-862f-4e8ea5f0a0b3"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1065"
source_hash: "5b99aeaac3254e3652bf0ce35fc91d80c4de03da7d2af221893454dd594aaaaf"
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 1065 (2025) — Cancer clinical trial program.

Allows an organization or entity to establish and administer a cancer clinical trial participation program for the purpose of providing payments to a participant for certain costs incurred by the participant while participating in a cancer clinical trial. Sets forth program requirements and participant eligibility.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1065/HB1065.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1065/HB1065.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1065/HB1065.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1065/HB1065.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1065 - Shackleford - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1065 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Robin Shackleford — primary (person)
- Shelli Yoder — primary (person)
- Brad Barrett — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- La Keisha Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Shackleford
- **2025-01-27** Representative Aylesworth added as coauthor
- **2025-02-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-17** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau, Crider, Yoder
- **2025-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 166: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** Representative Aylesworth removed as coauthor
- **2025-02-17** Cosponsor: Senator Jackson L
- **2025-02-17** Representatives Barrett, Aylesworth, Porter added as coauthors
- **2025-02-18** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-19** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 242: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Public Law 29 `became-law`
- **2025-04-03** 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/d3806e58-62fa-4fac-862f-4e8ea5f0a0b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).