---
type: "Bill"
title: "Physician noncompete agreements."
description: "Provides that a physician and a hospital, a parent company of a hospital, an affiliated manager of a hospital, or a hospital system may not enter into a noncompete agreement on or after July 1, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 475"
citation: "Indiana SB 475 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Contracts and Legal Documents", "HEALTH CARE FACILITIES; Generally", "HEALTH CARE FACILITIES; Hospitals", "HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; Doctors and Physicians", "HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; Physician Assistants", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining", "Benefits", "and Wages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Ethan Manning", "Justin Busch", "Tyler Johnson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbea5c5d-6260-4362-87cf-93050e2dcab9"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0475"
source_hash: "74f9c9ba7cf755a524f1b46ed7e6e48b3be4f73cc8f1b01ef83f110bc52ae632"
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 SB 475 (2025) — Physician noncompete agreements.

Provides that a physician and a hospital, a parent company of a hospital, an affiliated manager of a hospital, or a hospital system may not enter into a noncompete agreement on or after July 1, 2025.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0475/SB0475.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0475/SB0475.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0475/SB0475.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0475/SB0475.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 475 - Busch — **46–4** (pass) · upper
- SB 475 - Manning - 3rd Reading — **71–23** (pass) · lower
- SB 475 - Busch - 3rd Reading — **47–2** (pass) · upper
- SB 475 - Manning — **65–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Ethan Manning — primary (person)
- Justin Busch — primary (person)
- Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
- Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)
- Brad Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Chris Judy — cosponsor (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
- La Keisha Jackson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Authored by Senator Busch
- **2025-01-16** Senator Johnson T added as third author
- **2025-01-16** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2025-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-23** Senator Jackson L added as coauthor
- **2025-01-23** Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
- **2025-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-28** House sponsor: Representative Manning
- **2025-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 36: yeas 47, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-01-29** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-01-29** Senator Qaddoura added as coauthor
- **2025-02-17** Representative Judy added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Reassigned to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
- **2025-03-17** Representative Cash added as cosponsor
- **2025-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 410: yeas 71, nays 23 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Representative Barrett added as cosponsor
- **2025-04-10** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2025-04-10** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2025-04-10** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-14** Senate advisors appointed: Yoder and Charbonneau
- **2025-04-14** Senate conferees appointed: Busch and Ford J.D.
- **2025-04-15** House advisors appointed: Judy, Cash, VanNatter, Bauer and Shackleford
- **2025-04-15** House conferees appointed: Manning and Garcia Wilburn
- **2025-04-24** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2025-04-25** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Public Law 207 `became-law`
- **2025-05-06** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 556: yeas 65, nays 21
- **2025-04-24** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 521: yeas 46, nays 4
- **2025-04-24** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbea5c5d-6260-4362-87cf-93050e2dcab9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).