---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterinary licensing."
description: "Provides that the board of veterinary medicine may issue a license or registration to a qualified applicant without an examination if the qualified applicant: (1) satisfies the requirements for reciprocity of health care professionals; and (2) otherwise meets the requirements to become a licensed veterinarian or a registered veterinary technician."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "Indiana SB 56 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Professional Licensing Agency (PLA)", "ANIMALS; Generally", "BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Generally", "VETERINARIANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beau Baird", "Jean Leising", "Shelli Yoder", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-08"
last_action: "2026-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebb615e1-a2b0-46c8-a97c-1f6eb698cdef"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0056"
source_hash: "c733824a75279459cff016d535771a97cfb312326bcfeb7ef3f0b4ef4f0d0d0a"
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 56 (2026) — Veterinary licensing.

Provides that the board of veterinary medicine may issue a license or registration to a qualified applicant without an examination if the qualified applicant: (1) satisfies the requirements for reciprocity of health care professionals; and (2) otherwise meets the requirements to become a licensed veterinarian or a registered veterinary technician.

## 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/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0056/SB0056.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0056/SB0056.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0056/SB0056.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0056/SB0056.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 56 - Baird - 3rd Reading — **94–1** (pass) · lower
- SB 56 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beau Baird — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Shelli Yoder — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Brett Clark — coauthor (person)
- Daryl Schmitt — coauthor (person)
- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
- Hunter Smith — cosponsor (person)
- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
- Mark Spencer — coauthor (person)
- Randy Novak — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-08** Authored by Senator Leising
- **2025-12-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-12-10** Senator Yoder added as third author
- **2025-12-10** Senator Glick added as second author
- **2025-12-10** Senators Doriot, Byrne, Spencer, Tomes, Clark added as coauthors
- **2026-01-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 13: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-06** House sponsor: Representative Baird
- **2026-01-08** Senator Schmitt added as coauthor
- **2026-01-12** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-12** Senators Alting, Deery, Becker added as coauthors
- **2026-01-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-05** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-05** Representative Smith H added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-10** Representative Novak R added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-11** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 235: yeas 94, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-18** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-24** Public Law 9 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ebb615e1-a2b0-46c8-a97c-1f6eb698cdef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).