republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/sb-136.md

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Bill	Dental plans.	Prohibits a dental plan (an insurance policy, a health maintenance organization contract, or a preferred provider plan) from directly or indirectly requiring a dental provider to provide a dental service to a covered individual at a fee amount that is: (1) set by the dental plan; or (2) subject to the approval of the dental plan; unless the dental service is a covered service under the dental plan. Prohibits a third party administrator or another person from arranging for a dental provider to provide dental services for a dental plan that sets the amount of the fee for any dental services unless the dental services are covered services under the dental plan. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to issue a cease and desist order against a person that violates any of these prohibitions and, if the person violates the cease and desist order, to impose a civil penalty upon the person and suspend or revoke the person's certificate of authority.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2022	SB 136	Indiana SB 136 (2022)	bill	DENTISTS AND DENTISTRY; DENTAL HYGIENISTS HEALTH Health Care Costs; Health Insurance HEALTH Health Maintenance Organizations	enacted	Andy Zay Dennis Zent Liz Brown Mike Bohacek	4	31	1	2022-01-04	2022-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c48ab9af-5d5f-4f4f-9d65-243043bf2a39	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/136	fac1cf75ce1383af727489d0373feb110e3385a011da7b226b684140ecbdcdf9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 136 (2022) — Dental plans.

Prohibits a dental plan (an insurance policy, a health maintenance organization contract, or a preferred provider plan) from directly or indirectly requiring a dental provider to provide a dental service to a covered individual at a fee amount that is: (1) set by the dental plan; or (2) subject to the approval of the dental plan; unless the dental service is a covered service under the dental plan. Prohibits a third party administrator or another person from arranging for a dental provider to provide dental services for a dental plan that sets the amount of the fee for any dental services unless the dental services are covered services under the dental plan. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to issue a cease and desist order against a person that violates any of these prohibitions and, if the person violates the cease and desist order, to impose a civil penalty upon the person and suspend or revoke the person's certificate of authority.

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 136 - Zent - 3rd Reading — 93–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andy Zay — primary (person)
• Dennis Zent — primary (person)
• Liz Brown — primary (person)
• Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
• Chris Garten — coauthor (person)
• Donna Schaibley — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
• James Buck — coauthor (person)
• Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-04 Authored by Senator Zay
• 2022-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-01-11 Senator Doriot added as second author
• 2022-01-11 Senator Koch added as coauthor
• 2022-01-12 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-01-13 Senator Bassler added as coauthor
• 2022-01-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-20 Senator Koch removed as coauthor
• 2022-01-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 50: yeas 46, nays 1 passage, reading-3
• 2022-01-24 House sponsor: Representative Zent
• 2022-01-24 Cosponsors: Representatives Schaibley, Carbaugh, Lehman
• 2022-01-24 Senator Doriot removed as second author
• 2022-01-24 Senator Brown L added as second author
• 2022-01-24 Senator Bohacek added as third author
• 2022-01-24 Senator Buck added as coauthor
• 2022-01-24 Senator Garten added as coauthor
• 2022-01-24 Senator Rogers added as coauthor
• 2022-01-25 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2022-01-26 Referred to the House
• 2022-01-31 First reading: referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-15 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-02-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 218: yeas 93, nays 4 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-22 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2022-02-22 Motion to concur filed
• 2022-02-24 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 257: yeas 47, nays 1 amendment-failure
• 2022-03-01 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2022-03-04 Signed by the Speaker
• 2022-03-08 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-08 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-08 Public Law 42

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c48ab9af-5d5f-4f4f-9d65-243043bf2a39. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).