---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care facility employees."
description: "Provides an exception to one of the disqualifying conditions for a nurse aide or other unlicensed employee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1385"
citation: "Indiana HB 1385 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Professional Licensing Agency (PLA)", "HEALTH CARE FACILITIES; Generally", "HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; Nurses (Excluding Advanced Practice Registered Nurses)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garrett Bascom", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd95cfeb-1300-4156-8f59-19fc568ce9cf"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1385"
source_hash: "80e05ad3ae539077edd33fcf54f78b551905a13899c6bab2e2425ac689a936b0"
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 1385 (2025) — Health care facility employees.

Provides an exception to one of the disqualifying conditions for a nurse aide or other unlicensed employee.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1385/HB1385.04.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1385/HB1385.05.ENRS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1385/HB1385.03.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1385/HB1385.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1385 - Bascom - 3rd Reading — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1385 - Bascom — **91–2** (pass) · lower
- HB 1385 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Garrett Bascom — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Lori Goss-Reaves — coauthor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — cosponsor (person)
- Victoria Garcia Wilburn — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Dant Chesser — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Authored by Representative Bascom
- **2025-01-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Representative Goss-Reaves added as coauthor
- **2025-01-27** Representative Dant Chesser added as coauthor
- **2025-01-28** Representative Garcia Wilburn added as coauthor
- **2025-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 68: yeas 88, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-03** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2025-02-04** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Senator Yoder added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-18** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-18** Placed back on second reading
- **2025-03-20** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** Amendment #2 (Crider) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 269: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-25** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-27** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-01** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 352: yeas 91, nays 2
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-16** Public Law 89 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd95cfeb-1300-4156-8f59-19fc568ce9cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).