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type: "Bill"
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title: "Practitioner advertising."
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description: "Provides that, beginning January 1, 2023, certain practitioners are subject to disciplinary sanctions if the practitioner communicates or disseminates to the general public an advertisement that includes deceptive or misleading information or does not prominently state the profession or license held by the practitioner. Establishes certain exceptions. Provides, for purposes of the law prohibiting the unlawful practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine, that \"the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine\" includes attaching to an individual's name additional terms or other specified words that identify a member of a medical specialty. Establishes certain exceptions. Specifies that the exclusions to the practice of medicine and osteopathic medicine do not allow a person to use words or abbreviations that indicate or induce an individual to believe that the person is engaged in the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2022"
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identifier: "SB 239"
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citation: "Indiana SB 239 (2022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["ADVERTISEMENTS", "HEALTH", "Health Care Professionals", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Zent", "Kevin Boehnlein", "Liz Brown"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 42
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2022-01-10"
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last_action: "2022-03-15"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f5c1cfe-1187-4794-a574-e8c0778ccbab"
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source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/239"
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source_hash: "54cf990b8d47b866532ebee297f2beb544062eadf9980db24ceb1ebd5eccf8cd"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana SB 239 (2022) — Practitioner advertising.
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Provides that, beginning January 1, 2023, certain practitioners are subject to disciplinary sanctions if the practitioner communicates or disseminates to the general public an advertisement that includes deceptive or misleading information or does not prominently state the profession or license held by the practitioner. Establishes certain exceptions. Provides, for purposes of the law prohibiting the unlawful practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine, that "the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine" includes attaching to an individual's name additional terms or other specified words that identify a member of a medical specialty. Establishes certain exceptions. Specifies that the exclusions to the practice of medicine and osteopathic medicine do not allow a person to use words or abbreviations that indicate or induce an individual to believe that the person is engaged in the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0239/versions/SB0239.05.ENGH)
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2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0239/versions/SB0239.03.ENGS)
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3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0239/versions/SB0239.06.ENRH)
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4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0239/versions/SB0239.01.INTR)
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5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0239/versions/SB0239.04.COMH)
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6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0239/versions/SB0239.02.COMS)
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## Votes
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- SB 239 - Boehnlein - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
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- Kevin Boehnlein — primary (person)
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- Liz Brown — primary (person)
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- Brad Barrett — cosponsor (person)
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- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
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- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
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- Jack Jordan — cosponsor (person)
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- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
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- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
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- Rita Fleming — cosponsor (person)
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- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
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- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
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- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-01-10** Authored by Senator Boehnlein
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- **2022-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-13** Senator Melton added as coauthor
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- **2022-01-20** Senators Leising, Brown L, Becker, Yoder added as coauthors
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- **2022-01-24** Senator Brown L removed as coauthor
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- **2022-01-24** Senator Brown L added as second author
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- **2022-01-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2022-01-27** Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
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- **2022-01-31** Amendment #1 (Boehnlein) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
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- **2022-01-31** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2022-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
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- **2022-02-01** Senator Pol added as coauthor
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- **2022-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 162: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
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- **2022-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Zent
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- **2022-02-02** Referred to the House
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- **2022-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2022-02-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2022-02-22** Representatives Jordan and Barrett added as cosponsors
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- **2022-02-23** Amendment #2 (Zent) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
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- **2022-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2022-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 271: yeas 84, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
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- **2022-02-24** Representative Fleming added as cosponsor
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- **2022-02-25** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
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- **2022-02-28** Motion to dissent filed
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- **2022-02-28** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
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- **2022-02-28** House conferees appointed: Zent and Fleming
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- **2022-02-28** House advisors appointed: Barrett, Lehe and Shackleford
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- **2022-02-28** Representative Barrett removed as advisor
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- **2022-02-28** Representative Zent removed as conferee
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- **2022-02-28** Representative Barrett added as conferee
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- **2022-02-28** Representative Jordan added as advisor
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- **2022-03-01** Senate conferees appointed: Brown L and Ford J.D.
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- **2022-03-01** Senate advisors appointed: Boehnlein and Melton
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- **2022-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
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- **2022-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the House
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- **2022-03-07** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 356: yeas 88, nays 6
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- **2022-03-08** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 346: yeas 40, nays 10
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- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
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- **2022-03-09** Signed by the Speaker
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- **2022-03-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2022-03-15** Public Law 128
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- **2022-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f5c1cfe-1187-4794-a574-e8c0778ccbab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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