---
type: "Bill"
title: "Equine dentistry at horse racing tracks."
description: "Allows the horse racing commission (commission) to issue a license for certain individuals to provide teeth floating on a licensed horse race track in Indiana. Provides an exception to the licensing and special permits requirements of veterinary medicine for certain individuals who are licensed by the commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1490"
citation: "Indiana HB 1490 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["GAMBLING", "GAMING", "AND WAGERING; Horse Racing", "VETERINARIANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beau Baird", "Blake Doriot", "Jean Leising"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3650fdca-fcb3-4884-bcd9-4a6f61543cc7"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1490"
source_hash: "549e4e18d9b805e3543dab924d9fbef810922315072beceaa51752d6f704c779"
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 1490 (2025) — Equine dentistry at horse racing tracks.

Allows the horse racing commission (commission) to issue a license for certain individuals to provide teeth floating on a licensed horse race track in Indiana. Provides an exception to the licensing and special permits requirements of veterinary medicine for certain individuals who are licensed by the commission.

## 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/HB1490/HB1490.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1490/HB1490.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1490/HB1490.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1490/HB1490.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1490 - Baird — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1490 - Baird - 3rd Reading — **92–1** (pass) · lower
- HB 1490 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beau Baird — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Brad Barrett — coauthor (person)
- Justin Moed — coauthor (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Baird
- **2025-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Representative Barrett added as coauthor
- **2025-02-04** Representative Aylesworth added as coauthor
- **2025-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 117: yeas 92, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10** Senate sponsor: Senator Leising
- **2025-02-11** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Senator Doriot added as second sponsor
- **2025-03-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 275: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-25** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-25** Representative Moed added as coauthor
- **2025-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-03** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 367: yeas 90, nays 0
- **2025-04-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-16** Public Law 94 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3650fdca-fcb3-4884-bcd9-4a6f61543cc7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).