republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/sb-474.md

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Bill	Home health agencies.	Allows a home health agency to: (1) provide services in any county in Indiana; and (2) satisfy supervising home health aide services requirements by complying with federal law. Allows: (1) the Indiana department of health (state department) to adopt rules concerning the oversight and supervision of the services a home health agency provides in noncontiguous counties; and (2) the state health commissioner to waive rules adopted concerning home health agencies if certain conditions are met. Provides that a home health agency is not required to conduct a preemployment physical on a job applicant before the individual has contact with a home health agency patient. Allows a registered home health aide to administer gastrointestinal and jejunostomy tube feedings to a specific patient if specified conditions are met. Requires the state department to approve at least one training curriculum concerning the administration of tube feedings. Repeals laws concerning drug testing of home health agency employees.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2023	SB 474	Indiana SB 474 (2023)	bill	HEALTH Health Care Professionals HEALTH Home Health Care HEALTH State Department and Agencies NURSES AND NURSING	enacted	Cindy Ledbetter Tyler Johnson Vaneta Becker	4	21	1	2023-01-19	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d8f48985-399d-4a3d-8c2f-a97ff64c8743	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/474	b7e1bcf771b5e6f32de55aaa5b37052803569b5fdb6aeb6564185cc741b7b7f3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 474 (2023) — Home health agencies.

Allows a home health agency to: (1) provide services in any county in Indiana; and (2) satisfy supervising home health aide services requirements by complying with federal law. Allows: (1) the Indiana department of health (state department) to adopt rules concerning the oversight and supervision of the services a home health agency provides in noncontiguous counties; and (2) the state health commissioner to waive rules adopted concerning home health agencies if certain conditions are met. Provides that a home health agency is not required to conduct a preemployment physical on a job applicant before the individual has contact with a home health agency patient. Allows a registered home health aide to administer gastrointestinal and jejunostomy tube feedings to a specific patient if specified conditions are met. Requires the state department to approve at least one training curriculum concerning the administration of tube feedings. Repeals laws concerning drug testing of home health agency employees.

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 474 - Ledbetter C - 3rd Reading — 97–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cindy Ledbetter — primary (person)
• Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
• Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
• Brad Barrett — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
• James Tomes — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-19 Authored by Senators Becker and Johnson
• 2023-01-19 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-01-30 Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor
• 2023-02-02 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-02-06 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-02-07 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 88: yeas 48, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-02-07 House sponsor: Representative Ledbetter
• 2023-02-07 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2023-02-09 Referred to the House referral
• 2023-02-28 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-10 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 437: yeas 97, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-04-18 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2023-04-18 Senator Tomes added as coauthor
• 2023-04-21 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2023-04-24 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 117 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d8f48985-399d-4a3d-8c2f-a97ff64c8743. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).