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type: "Bill"
title: "Home health services."
description: "Amends the definition of \"home health agency\", for purposes of the home health agency licensure laws, to provide that a person may provide or offer to provide nursing services and at least one home health service for compensation. Specifies that the term does not include: (1) services under the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); or a person that only administers home infusion therapy based on a specialty medication prescription."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1497"
citation: "Indiana HB 1497 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGED PERSONS", "HEALTH", "Home Health Care", "LICENSES AND LICENSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brad Barrett", "Ed Charbonneau", "Jeff Raatz"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3964ae0c-d106-47d1-a3a1-c374be58b227"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1497"
source_hash: "dbdab173675a00cf10358cb00bc163d2405ff62c99145e03859a1cd413cfce36"
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 1497 (2021) — Home health services.
Amends the definition of "home health agency", for purposes of the home health agency licensure laws, to provide that a person may provide or offer to provide nursing services and at least one home health service for compensation. Specifies that the term does not include: (1) services under the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); or a person that only administers home infusion therapy based on a specialty medication prescription.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1497/versions/HB1497.03.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1497/versions/HB1497.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1497/versions/HB1497.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1497/versions/HB1497.04.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1497/versions/HB1497.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1497 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brad Barrett — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative Barrett
- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Amendment #1 (Barrett) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Amendment #2 (Barrett) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-18** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau and Raatz
- **2021-02-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 187: yeas 85, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-19** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-03-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 360: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2021-04-07** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-12** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-15** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 452: yeas 87, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-16** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-29** Public Law 210
- **2021-04-29** 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/3964ae0c-d106-47d1-a3a1-c374be58b227`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).