---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home health aide training requirements."
description: "Requires a registered home health aide who: (1) is employed as a home health aide; and (2) provides care to an individual who has been diagnosed with or experiences symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or a related cognitive disorder; to complete certain dementia training. Sets forth the requirements of dementia training. Requires the state department of health to: (1) identify and approve a dementia training program that meets certain requirements as an approved dementia training program; and (2) establish and implement a process for state department approval of a dementia training program. Allows a home health aide to produce a certificate of completion issued by an entity that provides approved dementia training as proof of compliance with the training requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 353"
citation: "Indiana SB 353 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE", "HEALTH", "Home Health Care", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Davisson", "Stacey Donato", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9a41b0a-5995-416a-bb0c-5455cec63090"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/353"
source_hash: "95bbc039a5ae31702bc1c78f91af3739a22a44776cb2c0ef6b901acd63c2c551"
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 353 (2022) — Home health aide training requirements.

Requires a registered home health aide who: (1) is employed as a home health aide; and (2) provides care to an individual who has been diagnosed with or experiences symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or a related cognitive disorder; to complete certain dementia training. Sets forth the requirements of dementia training. Requires the state department of health to: (1) identify and approve a dementia training program that meets certain requirements as an approved dementia training program; and (2) establish and implement a process for state department approval of a dementia training program. Allows a home health aide to produce a certificate of completion issued by an entity that provides approved dementia training as proof of compliance with the training requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0353/versions/SB0353.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0353/versions/SB0353.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0353/versions/SB0353.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0353/versions/SB0353.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 353 - Davisson J. - 3rd Reading — **82–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Davisson — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Ann Vermilion — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Authored by Senators Becker and Donato
- **2022-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-31** Senators Yoder and Charbonneau added as coauthors
- **2022-01-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** Senator Young M added as coauthor
- **2022-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 179: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Davisson J.
- **2022-02-01** Cosponsors: Representatives Vermilion A, Ledbetter C, Shackleford
- **2022-02-01** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2022-02-02** Referred to the House
- **2022-02-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Representative Shackleford removed as cosponsor
- **2022-02-17** Representative Porter added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 243: yeas 82, nays 10 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-08** Public Law 44
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9a41b0a-5995-416a-bb0c-5455cec63090`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).