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| Bill | Hospital and health facility visitation. | Allows a person admitted as a patient to a hospital or ambulatory outpatient surgical center (facility) to receive visitation by specified individuals during a declared emergency or public health emergency. Requires visitors to comply with applicable disease control or prevention guidelines issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when visiting a patient. Requires a facility to permit the visitation of a person admitted as a patient in a facility during specified compassionate care scenarios. Allows a facility to limit visitation in certain instances. Provides certain civil immunity for a facility, its employees, and contractors for an injury or harm caused by or resulting from: (1) the exposure of a contagious disease or other harmful agent that is specified during a disaster emergency; or (2) acts or omissions by visitors who are present in the facility; as a result of the implementation of the required protocols. Requires health facilities and residential care facilities (health facilities) to allow visitation of a resident in a compassionate care situation. Requires the state department of health to adopt standards and guidelines concerning the essential family caregiver program during a declared emergency or public health emergency and requires facilities to participate in the program. Allows for the designation of an essential family caregiver for a resident of a health facility and allows for visitation during restricted visitation at the health facility. Specifies requirements for an individual to be designated as an essential family caregiver and allows for the reconsideration and reporting of a denial of a request for designation. Allows the state department of health to adopt certain rules concerning the program. Provides certain civil immunity for a health facility, its employees, and contractors for an injury or harm caused by or resulting from: (1) the exposure of a contagious disease or other harmful agent that is specified during a disaster emergency; or (2) acts or omissions by visitors who are present in the health facility; as a result of the implementation of the required protocols. | us/states/in | Indiana General Assembly | 2021 | SB 202 | Indiana SB 202 (2021) |
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Indiana SB 202 (2021) — Hospital and health facility visitation.
Allows a person admitted as a patient to a hospital or ambulatory outpatient surgical center (facility) to receive visitation by specified individuals during a declared emergency or public health emergency. Requires visitors to comply with applicable disease control or prevention guidelines issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when visiting a patient. Requires a facility to permit the visitation of a person admitted as a patient in a facility during specified compassionate care scenarios. Allows a facility to limit visitation in certain instances. Provides certain civil immunity for a facility, its employees, and contractors for an injury or harm caused by or resulting from: (1) the exposure of a contagious disease or other harmful agent that is specified during a disaster emergency; or (2) acts or omissions by visitors who are present in the facility; as a result of the implementation of the required protocols. Requires health facilities and residential care facilities (health facilities) to allow visitation of a resident in a compassionate care situation. Requires the state department of health to adopt standards and guidelines concerning the essential family caregiver program during a declared emergency or public health emergency and requires facilities to participate in the program. Allows for the designation of an essential family caregiver for a resident of a health facility and allows for visitation during restricted visitation at the health facility. Specifies requirements for an individual to be designated as an essential family caregiver and allows for the reconsideration and reporting of a denial of a request for designation. Allows the state department of health to adopt certain rules concerning the program. Provides certain civil immunity for a health facility, its employees, and contractors for an injury or harm caused by or resulting from: (1) the exposure of a contagious disease or other harmful agent that is specified during a disaster emergency; or (2) acts or omissions by visitors who are present in the health facility; as a result of the implementation of the required protocols.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Engrossed Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
- Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SB 202 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Brad Barrett — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
- Justin Busch — coauthor (person)
- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Grooms — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Mishler — coauthor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-07 Authored by Senator Rogers
- 2021-01-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
reading-1, referral-committee - 2021-01-11 Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- 2021-01-11 Senator Niemeyer added as third author
- 2021-01-26 Senator Doriot added as coauthor
- 2021-01-26 Senator Zay added as coauthor
- 2021-02-04 Senator Niemeyer added as coauthor
- 2021-02-04 Senator Niemeyer removed as third author
- 2021-02-04 Senator Leising added as third author
- 2021-02-04 Senators Becker, Donato, Mishler, Grooms added as coauthors
- 2021-02-04 Senator Yoder added as coauthor
- 2021-02-04 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
committee-passage - 2021-02-08 Second reading: ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2021-02-09 Senator Koch added as coauthor
- 2021-02-09 Senator Raatz added as coauthor
- 2021-02-11 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 94: yeas 47, nays 0
passage, reading-3 - 2021-02-11 House sponsor: Representative Barrett
- 2021-02-11 Cosponsors: Representatives Lehman, Miller, Wesco
- 2021-02-11 Senators Busch and Gaskill added as coauthors
- 2021-02-11 Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- 2021-02-11 Senator Melton added as coauthor
- 2021-02-11 Senator Tomes added as coauthor
- 2021-02-12 Referred to the House
- 2021-03-01 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
reading-1, referral-committee - 2021-04-01 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
committee-passage - 2021-04-06 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2021-04-06 Amendment #5 (Barrett) prevailed; voice vote
amendment-failure, amendment-passage - 2021-04-08 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 374: yeas 88, nays 0
passage, reading-3 - 2021-04-09 Returned to the Senate with amendments
amendment-failure - 2021-04-09 Motion to concur filed
- 2021-04-13 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 432: yeas 50, nays 0
amendment-failure - 2021-04-21 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- 2021-04-22 Signed by the Speaker
- 2021-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate
- 2021-04-29 Public Law 142
- 2021-04-29 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62e29c18-3524-4cb1-b096-3de52336cb51. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).