republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2026/sb-180.md

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Bill	Various health care matters.	Eliminates a requirement that home health aide competency evaluation program training include at least 75 hours of training and 16 hours of classroom training before supervised practical training. Amends the educational requirements for dental hygienists. Amends the requirements for administration of nitrous oxide by a dental hygienist. Allows the state board of dentistry to establish additional requirements for an applicant who has failed the licensure examination at least three times. Amends the licensure and temporary permit requirements for respiratory care practitioners. Provides that a current or former police officer or firefighter (first responder) may recover medical benefits from the first responder's employer for an employment related injury or illness without first proceeding with a worker's compensation claim. Provides that if a first responder pursues a worker's compensation claim for medical benefits and the claim is withdrawn or denied, the first responder is not precluded from recovering medical benefits from the employer. Repeals the penalty in Title 16 concerning the crime of transferring contaminated semen. (Current statute contains a transferring of contaminated body fluids crime in Title 35 remains in law.)	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2026	SB 180	Indiana SB 180 (2026)	bill	ADVERTISEMENTS AND NOTICES AGENCIES; Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) AGENCIES; Professional Licensing Agency (PLA) CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Persons FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; Generally FIREFIGHTERS; Generally HEALTH CARE FACILITIES; Long Term Care Facilities HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; Dentistry HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; Doctors and Physicians HEALTH; Behavioral Health; Generally HEALTH; Billing and Costs HEALTH; Dental and Vision HEALTH; Disease Control HEALTH; Emergency Medical Services (EMS) HEALTH; Generally HEALTH; Home Health Care HEALTH; Medicaid LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining Benefits and Wages LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Worker's Compensation LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally TECHNOLOGY; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics	enacted	Ed Charbonneau Liz Brown Lonnie Randolph Lori Goss-Reaves	4	27	3	2026-01-05	2026-03-05	openstates	ocd-bill/5de65cc4-2ec8-4375-aa4f-7d0ec48a30cf	https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0180	4859276924d4269d8f9c33eee79d8dba3502b90c996ac965cc210b70c1272c59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 180 (2026) — Various health care matters.

Eliminates a requirement that home health aide competency evaluation program training include at least 75 hours of training and 16 hours of classroom training before supervised practical training. Amends the educational requirements for dental hygienists. Amends the requirements for administration of nitrous oxide by a dental hygienist. Allows the state board of dentistry to establish additional requirements for an applicant who has failed the licensure examination at least three times. Amends the licensure and temporary permit requirements for respiratory care practitioners. Provides that a current or former police officer or firefighter (first responder) may recover medical benefits from the first responder's employer for an employment related injury or illness without first proceeding with a worker's compensation claim. Provides that if a first responder pursues a worker's compensation claim for medical benefits and the claim is withdrawn or denied, the first responder is not precluded from recovering medical benefits from the employer. Repeals the penalty in Title 16 concerning the crime of transferring contaminated semen. (Current statute contains a transferring of contaminated body fluids crime in Title 35 remains in law.)

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 180 - Brown L — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 180 - Goss-Reaves - 3rd Reading — 87–4 (pass) · lower
• SB 180 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
• Liz Brown — primary (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — primary (person)
• Lori Goss-Reaves — primary (person)
• Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
• Julie McGuire — cosponsor (person)
• La Keisha Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Lindsay Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-05 Authored by Senator Brown L
• 2026-01-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2026-01-15 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2026-01-22 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2026-01-22 Senator Charbonneau added as second author
• 2026-01-26 Amendment #1 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2026-01-26 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2026-01-27 Senator Jackson L added as coauthor
• 2026-01-27 Senator Randolph added as third author
• 2026-01-27 Senators Raatz, Becker added as coauthors
• 2026-01-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 100: yeas 45, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2026-01-27 Cosponsor: Representative McGuire
• 2026-01-27 House sponsor: Representative Goss-Reaves
• 2026-01-28 Referred to the House referral
• 2026-01-29 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health reading-1, referral-committee
• 2026-02-09 Representative Patterson added as cosponsor
• 2026-02-10 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2026-02-12 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2026-02-16 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 253: yeas 87, nays 4 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2026-02-17 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2026-02-17 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2026-02-25 Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 280: yeas 47, nays 0
• 2026-02-27 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2026-03-05 Public Law 118 became-law
• 2026-02-27 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2026-02-27 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2026-03-05 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5de65cc4-2ec8-4375-aa4f-7d0ec48a30cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).