---
type: "Bill"
title: "Palliative care."
description: "Defines the terms \"community based palliative care\" and \"palliative care\". Provides that a hospice provider may provide community based palliative care to a patient who is not eligible for hospice care if the hospice provider: (1) meets certain licensing requirements; and (2) is certified in community based palliative care by an organization approved the state department of health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1199"
citation: "Indiana HB 1199 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOSPICES", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies", "HEALTH", "Local Boards and Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "John Ruckelshaus", "Mark Messmer", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9407291-f66a-4ba1-b32e-8fcfff65e9f3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1199"
source_hash: "8deaccd923b964ea584adff1823773d0b2136017596de2287f1e1850359889cb"
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 1199 (2020) — Palliative care.

Defines the terms "community based palliative care" and "palliative care". Provides that a hospice provider may provide community based palliative care to a patient who is not eligible for hospice care if the hospice provider: (1) meets certain licensing requirements; and (2) is certified in community based palliative care by an organization approved the state department of 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/2020/bills/HB1199/versions/HB1199.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1199/versions/HB1199.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1199/versions/HB1199.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1199/versions/HB1199.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1199 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **42–2** (pass) · upper
- HB 1199 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward Clere — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Rita Fleming — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)
- Shane Lindauer — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-13** Authored by Representative Clere
- **2020-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-23** Representatives Lindauer, Bacon, Fleming added as coauthors
- **2020-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** Senate sponsors: Senators Grooms, Messmer, Ruckelshaus
- **2020-01-28** Cosponsor: Senator Breaux
- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 93: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-29** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 245: yeas 42, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-26** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-03** Motion to concur filed
- **2020-03-04** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-04** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 308: yeas 92, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 44

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9407291-f66a-4ba1-b32e-8fcfff65e9f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).