---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medicare supplement insurance."
description: "Prohibits an issuer of a Medicare supplement policy or certificate from denying, conditioning the issuance or effectiveness of, or discriminating in the pricing of a Medicare supplement policy or certificate because of the health status, claims experience, receipt of health care, or medical condition of an applicant who meets certain conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1226"
citation: "Indiana HB 1226 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INSURANCE; Generally", "INSURANCE; Health Insurance", "INSURANCE; Medicare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fady Qaddoura", "Kyle Walker", "Wendy Dant Chesser"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82d0dffa-c439-468d-85ff-7361695d8ba0"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1226"
source_hash: "db341d21483aa919f7eba28e1a5e33df6770f12ad6f0e3d89b661d655c27ff8e"
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 1226 (2025) — Medicare supplement insurance.

Prohibits an issuer of a Medicare supplement policy or certificate from denying, conditioning the issuance or effectiveness of, or discriminating in the pricing of a Medicare supplement policy or certificate because of the health status, claims experience, receipt of health care, or medical condition of an applicant who meets certain conditions.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1226/HB1226.03.ENGH.pdf)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1226/HB1226.05.ENRS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1226/HB1226.04.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1226/HB1226.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1226 - Dant Chesser - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1226 - Walker K - 3rd Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fady Qaddoura — primary (person)
- Kyle Walker — primary (person)
- Wendy Dant Chesser — primary (person)
- Chris Campbell — coauthor (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09** Authored by Representative Dant Chesser
- **2025-01-09** Coauthored by Representative Clere
- **2025-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Representatives Carbaugh and Campbell added as coauthors
- **2025-02-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13** Amendment #1 (Dant Chesser) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 170: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** Senate sponsors: Senators Walker K and Qaddoura
- **2025-02-18** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 283: yeas 45, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-10** Public Law 56 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82d0dffa-c439-468d-85ff-7361695d8ba0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).