---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterinary medicine."
description: "Amends the licensure applicability provision for veterinarians to include registration and permits for veterinary technicians. Requires certain individuals to submit to both a state and national background check. Allows the state police department to release the results of a national criminal history background check to an authorized employee of the board of animal health. Makes a technical correction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1354"
citation: "Indiana HB 1354 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Board of Animal Health (BOAH)", "AGENCIES; Indiana State Police (ISP)", "ANIMALS; Vaccines and Vaccinations", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; DNA and Fingerprinting", "VETERINARIANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean Leising", "Mike Aylesworth", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c20e893d-94df-4241-b29a-88ec98b81ec2"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1354"
source_hash: "41fc255fa879508491c21fc945e8296bdd2555a16102be186700bdc71048337e"
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 (2025) — Veterinary medicine.

Amends the licensure applicability provision for veterinarians to include registration and permits for veterinary technicians. Requires certain individuals to submit to both a state and national background check. Allows the state police department to release the results of a national criminal history background check to an authorized employee of the board of animal health. Makes a technical correction.

## 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/HB1354/HB1354.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1354/HB1354.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1354/HB1354.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1354/HB1354.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1354 - Aylesworth — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1354 - Aylesworth - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1354 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** Authored by Representative Aylesworth
- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 136: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-11** Senate sponsor: Senator Leising
- **2025-02-12** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** Senator Glick added as second sponsor
- **2025-03-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 220: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-11** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-03-17** Motion to concur call withdrawn `withdrawal`
- **2025-03-24** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 306: yeas 94, nays 0
- **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 62 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c20e893d-94df-4241-b29a-88ec98b81ec2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).