republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/sb-232.md

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Bill	Exposure risk diseases.	Adds any variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to the list of diseases considered an exposure risk disease for purposes of emergency and public safety employee death and disability presumed in the line of duty. Provides, for any employee who is diagnosed after June 30, 2021, with a health condition caused by any variant of SARS, including COVID-19, that if the health condition results in disability or death and the employee wishes to have a presumption of disability or death incurred in the line of duty apply to the employee, the employee shall, by written affidavit executed before death, provide verification that the employee has not, outside the scope of the employee's current employment, been exposed to another individual known to have any variant of SARS, including COVID-19. Makes technical corrections.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2021	SB 232	Indiana SB 232 (2021)	bill	PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES PUBLIC SAFETY	enacted	Chris Judy Jon Ford Karen Tallian Scott Baldwin	8	39	0	2021-01-07	2021-04-29	openstates	ocd-bill/1c6b3bfb-af27-47d6-8b50-c4b4bafa932f	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/232	5e1f93b1ba2d8054ce3b6bf6488747f3aba259e6b19e8ae901a67041cd98ac6d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 232 (2021) — Exposure risk diseases.

Adds any variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to the list of diseases considered an exposure risk disease for purposes of emergency and public safety employee death and disability presumed in the line of duty. Provides, for any employee who is diagnosed after June 30, 2021, with a health condition caused by any variant of SARS, including COVID-19, that if the health condition results in disability or death and the employee wishes to have a presumption of disability or death incurred in the line of duty apply to the employee, the employee shall, by written affidavit executed before death, provide verification that the employee has not, outside the scope of the employee's current employment, been exposed to another individual known to have any variant of SARS, including COVID-19. Makes technical corrections.

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Chris Judy — primary (person)
• Jon Ford — primary (person)
• Karen Tallian — primary (person)
• Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
• Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
• David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
• Fady Qaddoura — coauthor (person)
• John Crane — coauthor (person)
• Mike Andrade — cosponsor (person)
• Randall Frye — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan Lauer — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-07 Authored by Senator Ford Jon
• 2021-01-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-28 Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-02-04 Senator Tallian added as third author
• 2021-02-04 Senator Baldwin added as second author
• 2021-02-04 Senators Doriot, Crane, Kruse, Niezgodski, Qaddoura added as coauthors
• 2021-02-11 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-02-15 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-02-16 House sponsor: Representative Judy
• 2021-02-16 Cosponsors: Representatives Frye and Andrade M
• 2021-02-16 Senator Kruse removed as coauthor
• 2021-02-16 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 129: yeas 45, nays 1 passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-17 Referred to the House
• 2021-03-02 First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-03-16 Referred to the Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
• 2021-03-22 Representative Lauer added as cosponsor
• 2021-03-25 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-03-30 Amendment #4 (Frye R) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-30 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-04-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 339: yeas 89, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-01 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2021-04-05 Motion to concur filed
• 2021-04-08 Concurrence withdrawn
• 2021-04-08 Motion to dissent filed
• 2021-04-08 Senate dissented from House amendments amendment-failure
• 2021-04-12 House conferees appointed: Judy and Andrade
• 2021-04-12 House advisors appointed: Frye R, Gutwein, Gore and Pack
• 2021-04-13 Senate conferees appointed: Ford Jon and Niezgodski
• 2021-04-13 Senate advisors appointed: Baldwin and Tallian
• 2021-04-19 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
• 2021-04-19 CCR # 1 filed in the House
• 2021-04-20 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 464: yeas 85, nays 1
• 2021-04-20 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 458: yeas 43, nays 5
• 2021-04-23 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2021-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-28 Signed by the Speaker
• 2021-04-29 Public Law 143
• 2021-04-29 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c6b3bfb-af27-47d6-8b50-c4b4bafa932f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).