republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1118.md

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Bill	Critical incident stress management debriefings.	Provides that a first responder recipient of critical incident stress management (CISM) services may not be compelled to testify or otherwise disclose a communication made to a CISM services provider or peer support team member relating to the first responder recipient's CISM services in a civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding. Provides that a first responder recipient or the first responder recipient's employer may not be held liable for damages for any act, error, or omission committed by the first responder recipient based on a communication provided between a first responder recipient and CISM team, CISM services provider, or peer support team as part of the CISM services unless the act, error, or omission constitutes wanton, willful, or intentional misconduct.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1118	Indiana HB 1118 (2025)	bill	CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Generally CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Generally HEALTH; Behavioral Health; Generally HEALTH; Emergency Medical Services (EMS)	enacted	Scott Baldwin Wendy McNamara	4	23	2	2025-01-08	2025-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/a80654df-4dfc-4a79-9aac-ccfe96411d6e	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1118	00d6da1444d4fc17658303d48f887044869e8516f4c9a728bce228ad30a8a9b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1118 (2025) — Critical incident stress management debriefings.

Provides that a first responder recipient of critical incident stress management (CISM) services may not be compelled to testify or otherwise disclose a communication made to a CISM services provider or peer support team member relating to the first responder recipient's CISM services in a civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding. Provides that a first responder recipient or the first responder recipient's employer may not be held liable for damages for any act, error, or omission committed by the first responder recipient based on a communication provided between a first responder recipient and CISM team, CISM services provider, or peer support team as part of the CISM services unless the act, error, or omission constitutes wanton, willful, or intentional misconduct.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• HB 1118 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — 90–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1118 - Baldwin - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
• Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
• Brett Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Cyndi Carrasco — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Schmitt — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Koch — cosponsor (person)
• Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)
• Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Coauthored by Representative Bartels
• 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-08 Authored by Representative McNamara
• 2025-01-21 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Representatives Pressel and Gore added as coauthors
• 2025-01-28 Senate sponsor: Senator Baldwin
• 2025-01-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 26: yeas 90, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-01-28 Cosponsor: Senator Clark
• 2025-01-29 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-18 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-13 Senators Koch and Carrasco added as cosponsors
• 2025-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-20 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 263: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-24 Senator Schmitt added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-25 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-10 Public Law 51 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a80654df-4dfc-4a79-9aac-ccfe96411d6e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).