---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1260"
citation: "Indiana HB 1260 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies", "HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES", "LICENSES AND LICENSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Crider", "Michael Karickhoff"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86b32415-17cc-4b56-8a9a-2ad74c0b827f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1260"
source_hash: "f34c0a70abd58764f9798b3193922cbf001f1f4ce802406cd394dfce08097f62"
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 1260 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1260/versions/hb1260.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1260/versions/hb1260.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1260/versions/hb1260.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1260/versions/hb1260.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1260 - Karickhoff - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1260 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — primary (person)
- Doug Gutwein — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Coauthored by Representatives Gutwein and GiaQuinta
- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Karickhoff
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2018-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 133: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-02** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 255: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 334: yeas 92, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Public Law 81
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86b32415-17cc-4b56-8a9a-2ad74c0b827f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).