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type: "Bill"
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title: "Fiduciary duty in health plan administration."
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description: "Provides that any third party administrator or pharmacy benefit manager acting on behalf of a plan sponsor owes a fiduciary duty to the plan sponsor."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 3"
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citation: "Indiana SB 3 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Insurance (IDOI)", "HEALTH; Behavioral Health; Generally", "HEALTH; Billing and Costs", "INSURANCE; Health Insurance", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining", "Benefits", "and Wages"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Chris Garten", "Ed Charbonneau", "Justin Busch", "Martin Carbaugh"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 25
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2025-01-14"
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last_action: "2025-04-16"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40a2bbe2-1cdf-4b00-9e23-b48583feea27"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0003"
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source_hash: "e2ba316ba1ed3f27c2ea43de0925985ff3c9df452ef61fc5c5d6b1e6a6ef6ed5"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana SB 3 (2025) — Fiduciary duty in health plan administration.
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Provides that any third party administrator or pharmacy benefit manager acting on behalf of a plan sponsor owes a fiduciary duty to the plan sponsor.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.04.ENRH.pdf)
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2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.01.INTR.pdf)
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3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.02.COMS.pdf)
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4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.03.COMH.pdf)
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## Votes
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- SB 3 - Busch - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 3 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · lower
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- SB 3 - Carbaugh - 2nd Reading — **28–61** (fail) · lower
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- SB 3 - Busch — **48–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Chris Garten — primary (person)
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- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
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- Justin Busch — primary (person)
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- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
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- Chris Campbell — cosponsor (person)
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- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
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- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-14** Authored by Senator Busch
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- **2025-01-16** Senator Garten added as third author
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- **2025-01-16** Senator Johnson T added as coauthor
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- **2025-01-16** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
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- **2025-01-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
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- **2025-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 134: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-17** House sponsor: Representative Carbaugh
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- **2025-02-18** Referred to the House `referral`
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- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-13** Representative Campbell added as cosponsor
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- **2025-03-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-27** Amendment #1 (Campbell) failed; Roll Call 317: yeas 28, nays 61 `amendment-failure, failure`
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- **2025-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 329: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-01** Motion to concur filed `filing`
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- **2025-04-01** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
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- **2025-04-03** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 337: yeas 48, nays 0
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- **2025-04-08** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2025-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2025-04-16** Public Law 69 `became-law`
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- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40a2bbe2-1cdf-4b00-9e23-b48583feea27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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