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type: "Bill"
title: "Home health services."
description: "Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to: (1) perform a comprehensive review of existing home health services for children with complex medical needs; (2) assess the home health services and policies for a person-centered approach; and (3) engage stakeholders in the assessment to solicit feedback on issues securing and maintaining home health services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 438"
citation: "Indiana SB 438 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "HEALTH", "Home Health Care"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ann Vermilion", "Ed Charbonneau", "Fady Qaddoura", "Ron Alting"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36d201af-47bb-45d0-b28a-14abbb82d424"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/438"
source_hash: "4842e796ac365ed37be67d85897d06d2d91e930f829d43aed49ce75107bf47cd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---
# Indiana SB 438 (2023) — Home health services.
Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to: (1) perform a comprehensive review of existing home health services for children with complex medical needs; (2) assess the home health services and policies for a person-centered approach; and (3) engage stakeholders in the assessment to solicit feedback on issues securing and maintaining home health services.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0438/versions/SB0438.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0438/versions/SB0438.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0438/versions/SB0438.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0438/versions/SB0438.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 438 - Vermilion A - 3rd Reading — **952** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Ann Vermilion — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — primary (person)
- Ron Alting — primary (person)
- Brad Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-19** Authored by Senator Qaddoura
- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Senator Alting added as second author
- **2023-02-13** Senator Charbonneau added as third author
- **2023-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Senators Brown L, Becker, Yoder, Bohacek added as coauthors
- **2023-02-16** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2023-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 154: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-23** House sponsor: Representative Vermilion
- **2023-02-23** Cosponsor: Representative Shackleford
- **2023-02-24** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20** Representative Barrett added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 436: yeas 95, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-18** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Public Law 113 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36d201af-47bb-45d0-b28a-14abbb82d424`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).