republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/sb-353.md

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Bill	Home health aide training requirements.	Requires a registered home health aide who: (1) is employed as a home health aide; and (2) provides care to an individual who has been diagnosed with or experiences symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or a related cognitive disorder; to complete certain dementia training. Sets forth the requirements of dementia training. Requires the state department of health to: (1) identify and approve a dementia training program that meets certain requirements as an approved dementia training program; and (2) establish and implement a process for state department approval of a dementia training program. Allows a home health aide to produce a certificate of completion issued by an entity that provides approved dementia training as proof of compliance with the training requirements.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2022	SB 353	Indiana SB 353 (2022)	bill	ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE HEALTH Home Health Care HEALTH State Department and Agencies	enacted	J. Davisson Stacey Donato Vaneta Becker	4	23	1	2022-01-11	2022-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c9a41b0a-5995-416a-bb0c-5455cec63090	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/353	95bbc039a5ae31702bc1c78f91af3739a22a44776cb2c0ef6b901acd63c2c551	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 353 (2022) — Home health aide training requirements.

Requires a registered home health aide who: (1) is employed as a home health aide; and (2) provides care to an individual who has been diagnosed with or experiences symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or a related cognitive disorder; to complete certain dementia training. Sets forth the requirements of dementia training. Requires the state department of health to: (1) identify and approve a dementia training program that meets certain requirements as an approved dementia training program; and (2) establish and implement a process for state department approval of a dementia training program. Allows a home health aide to produce a certificate of completion issued by an entity that provides approved dementia training as proof of compliance with the training requirements.

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 353 - Davisson J. - 3rd Reading — 82–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• J. Davisson — primary (person)
• Stacey Donato — primary (person)
• Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
• Ann Vermilion — cosponsor (person)
• Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
• Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Michael Young — coauthor (person)
• Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Authored by Senators Becker and Donato
• 2022-01-11 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-01-27 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-01-31 Senators Yoder and Charbonneau added as coauthors
• 2022-01-31 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-31 Senator Young M added as coauthor
• 2022-02-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 179: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-01 House sponsor: Representative Davisson J.
• 2022-02-01 Cosponsors: Representatives Vermilion A, Ledbetter C, Shackleford
• 2022-02-01 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2022-02-02 Referred to the House
• 2022-02-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-17 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-02-17 Representative Shackleford removed as cosponsor
• 2022-02-17 Representative Porter added as cosponsor
• 2022-02-21 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-22 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 243: yeas 82, nays 10 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-23 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2022-03-01 Signed by the Speaker
• 2022-03-01 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2022-03-08 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-08 Public Law 44
• 2022-03-08 Signed by the President of the Senate

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9a41b0a-5995-416a-bb0c-5455cec63090. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).