republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/sb-53.md

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Bill	Testing and reporting of diseased animals.	Provides that a veterinarian, owner, caretaker, or custodian of an animal who knows or suspects that an animal has a disease or condition declared reportable by the state board of animal health (board) must report the existence of the disease or condition to the state veterinarian or local health officer not later than 24 hours after discovering the occurrence or suspected occurrence of the disease or condition. (Currently, they have 48 hours to report a disease.) Provides that a laboratory or animal health professional shall report: (1) the type of test performed; and (2) positive diagnoses for certain diseases; not later than 24 hours after a test renders a positive diagnosis. Authorizes the board to adopt rules it considers necessary to carry out the reporting of diseases and conditions. Provides that the board may issue notice by electronic mail.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2021	SB 53	Indiana SB 53 (2021)	bill	AGRICULTURE Farm Products and Commodities ANIMALS (other than Livestock) HEALTH Disease Control VETERINARIANS	enacted	Don Lehe Jean Leising Susan Glick	4	21	1	2021-01-04	2021-04-01	openstates	ocd-bill/aa7d779e-7588-44e8-aae6-7fe9b8076f45	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/53	086ad1c74c7e7bf02ab1ca1e5557440df01eb02d3ef51e299b04d9b165667a0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 53 (2021) — Testing and reporting of diseased animals.

Provides that a veterinarian, owner, caretaker, or custodian of an animal who knows or suspects that an animal has a disease or condition declared reportable by the state board of animal health (board) must report the existence of the disease or condition to the state veterinarian or local health officer not later than 24 hours after discovering the occurrence or suspected occurrence of the disease or condition. (Currently, they have 48 hours to report a disease.) Provides that a laboratory or animal health professional shall report: (1) the type of test performed; and (2) positive diagnoses for certain diseases; not later than 24 hours after a test renders a positive diagnosis. Authorizes the board to adopt rules it considers necessary to carry out the reporting of diseases and conditions. Provides that the board may issue notice by electronic mail.

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 53 - Leising - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Don Lehe — primary (person)
• Jean Leising — primary (person)
• Susan Glick — primary (person)
• J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-04 Authored by Senator Leising
• 2021-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-12 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-01-14 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-01-14 Senator Glick added as second author
• 2021-01-25 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 9: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-25 House sponsor: Representative Lehe
• 2021-01-25 Cosponsor: Representative Prescott
• 2021-01-26 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2021-01-26 Referred to the House
• 2021-02-23 First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-09 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-03-11 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-03-11 Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
• 2021-03-15 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 255: yeas 95, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-16 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2021-03-17 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2021-03-23 Signed by the Speaker
• 2021-03-31 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-01 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-04-01 Public Law 5

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa7d779e-7588-44e8-aae6-7fe9b8076f45. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).