republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/hb-1343.md

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Bill	Occupational regulations.	Provides that all occupational regulations must be limited to those demonstrably necessary and carefully tailored to fulfill legitimate public health, safety, or welfare objectives. Requires each public agency to conduct a review of all occupational regulations within the public agency's jurisdiction not later than July 1, 2025. Provides that a public agency shall take certain actions to modify or repeal an occupational regulation that does not conform to these standards. Provides that after July 1, 2025, a person who engages in an occupation or profession to which an occupational regulation applies may file a petition for repeal or modification of the occupational regulation with the public agency having jurisdiction over enforcement of the occupational regulation.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2023	HB 1343	Indiana HB 1343 (2023)	bill	OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY PUBLIC AGENCIES PUBLIC SAFETY	enacted	Jake Teshka Kyle Walker Mike Gaskill	5	21	1	2023-01-17	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/c5152c10-eb81-46c3-9a3f-a3b0ef3318d9	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1343	9ca495c7fecad160784d5b447746729d983e2c2173f394657107b90d2368b3d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1343 (2023) — Occupational regulations.

Provides that all occupational regulations must be limited to those demonstrably necessary and carefully tailored to fulfill legitimate public health, safety, or welfare objectives. Requires each public agency to conduct a review of all occupational regulations within the public agency's jurisdiction not later than July 1, 2025. Provides that a public agency shall take certain actions to modify or repeal an occupational regulation that does not conform to these standards. Provides that after July 1, 2025, a person who engages in an occupation or profession to which an occupational regulation applies may file a petition for repeal or modification of the occupational regulation with the public agency having jurisdiction over enforcement of the occupational regulation.

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1343 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jake Teshka — primary (person)
• Kyle Walker — primary (person)
• Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
• Mike Speedy — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-17 Coauthored by Representative Speedy
• 2023-01-17 Authored by Representative Teshka
• 2023-01-17 First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-02-21 Senate sponsors: Senators Gaskill and Walker K
• 2023-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 178: yeas 93, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-02-22 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2023-03-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-06 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-04-10 Amendment #3 (Gaskill) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2023-04-10 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-04-11 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 371: yeas 48, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-04-12 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2023-04-18 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2023-04-18 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 444: yeas 86, nays 4
• 2023-04-24 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2023-04-25 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2023-04-26 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2023-05-01 Public Law 142 became-law
• 2023-05-01 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c5152c10-eb81-46c3-9a3f-a3b0ef3318d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).