republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/sb-61.md

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Bill	EMS personnel licensure interstate compact.	Implements the emergency medical services personnel licensure interstate compact.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	SB 61	Indiana SB 61 (2020)	bill	EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES LICENSES AND LICENSING UNIFORM STATE LAWS AND COMPACTS	enacted	Chris Garten Ed Charbonneau James Merritt Ronald Bacon	4	25	2	2020-01-06	2020-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/27751147-811b-4717-ad04-0b6eb5a875a9	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/61	6b3cf15d5a1a8e31c7e3f2625392cb71516c8f6df4737ebf3c41c38d227eb338	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 61 (2020) — EMS personnel licensure interstate compact.

Implements the emergency medical services personnel licensure interstate compact.

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 61 - Bacon - 3rd Reading — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 61 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Garten — primary (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Ronald Bacon — primary (person)
• Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
• Ann Vermilion — cosponsor (person)
• Cindy Kirchhofer — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)
• Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Authored by Senator Charbonneau
• 2020-01-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 Senator Merritt added as second author
• 2020-01-09 Senator Garten added as third author
• 2020-01-14 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-16 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 24: yeas 50, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-01-21 House sponsor: Representative Bacon
• 2020-01-21 Cosponsor: Representative Vermilion A
• 2020-01-21 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2020-01-21 Senator Tallian added as coauthor
• 2020-01-21 Senator Zay added as coauthor
• 2020-01-22 Referred to the House
• 2020-02-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Statutory Committee on Interstate and International Cooperation reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-13 Representative Kirchhofer added as cosponsor
• 2020-02-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-17 Representative Macer added as cosponsor
• 2020-02-18 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 186: yeas 94, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-19 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2020-02-20 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-03 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-09 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-11 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-11 Public Law 3

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27751147-811b-4717-ad04-0b6eb5a875a9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).