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type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibition on microchipping employees."
description: "Provides that the definition of an \"employer\" subject to the prohibition against requiring the implantation of devices includes the state or any individual, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, business trust, or other governmental entity or political subdivision that has one or more employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1156"
citation: "Indiana HB 1156 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MEDICAL ISSUES generally", "SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY", "TECHNOLOGY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Morrison", "Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Jon Ford"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a04073ca-7829-407e-9caa-7be97deb0bcb"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1156"
source_hash: "b9a92272dec1a06dee00ca30f8c8d021b5f1866982a7102316d640b28fb9f1c0"
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 1156 (2021) — Prohibition on microchipping employees.
Provides that the definition of an "employer" subject to the prohibition against requiring the implantation of devices includes the state or any individual, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, business trust, or other governmental entity or political subdivision that has one or more employees.
## 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/2021/bills/HB1156/versions/HB1156.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1156/versions/HB1156.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1156/versions/HB1156.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1156/versions/HB1156.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1156 - Morrison - 3rd Reading — **940** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alan Morrison — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Chris Judy — coauthor (person)
- Chuck Goodrich — coauthor (person)
- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-07** Coauthored by Representatives Morris and Goodrich
- **2021-01-07** Authored by Representative Morrison
- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-02** Senate sponsor: Senator Ford Jon
- **2021-02-02** Representative Judy added as coauthor
- **2021-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 43: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Senator Raatz added as second sponsor
- **2021-03-23** Senator Kruse added as third sponsor
- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 258: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-03-31** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-08** Public Law 35
- **2021-04-08** 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/a04073ca-7829-407e-9caa-7be97deb0bcb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).