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type title description jurisdiction legislature session identifier citation classification subjects status primary_sponsors version_count action_count vote_count first_action last_action source source_identifier source_url source_hash vintage source_snapshot retrieved_at confidence tags
Bill Veterinary licensing. Provides that the board of veterinary medicine may issue a license or registration to a qualified applicant without an examination if the qualified applicant: (1) satisfies the requirements for reciprocity of health care professionals; and (2) otherwise meets the requirements to become a licensed veterinarian or a registered veterinary technician. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2026 SB 56 Indiana SB 56 (2026)
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AGENCIES; Professional Licensing Agency (PLA)
ANIMALS; Generally
BOARDS
COMMISSIONS
AND COUNCILS; Generally
VETERINARIANS
enacted
Beau Baird
Jean Leising
Shelli Yoder
Susan Glick
4 24 2 2025-12-08 2026-02-24 openstates ocd-bill/ebb615e1-a2b0-46c8-a97c-1f6eb698cdef https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0056 c733824a75279459cff016d535771a97cfb312326bcfeb7ef3f0b4ef4f0d0d0a 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Indiana SB 56 (2026) — Veterinary licensing.

Provides that the board of veterinary medicine may issue a license or registration to a qualified applicant without an examination if the qualified applicant: (1) satisfies the requirements for reciprocity of health care professionals; and (2) otherwise meets the requirements to become a licensed veterinarian or a registered veterinary technician.

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 56 - Baird - 3rd Reading — 941 (pass) · lower
  • SB 56 - Leising - 3rd Reading — 490 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Beau Baird — primary (person)
  • Jean Leising — primary (person)
  • Shelli Yoder — primary (person)
  • Susan Glick — primary (person)
  • Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
  • Brett Clark — coauthor (person)
  • Daryl Schmitt — coauthor (person)
  • Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
  • Hunter Smith — cosponsor (person)
  • James Tomes — coauthor (person)
  • Mark Spencer — coauthor (person)
  • Randy Novak — cosponsor (person)
  • Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
  • Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
  • Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-12-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2025-12-08 Authored by Senator Leising
  • 2025-12-09 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2025-12-10 Senator Yoder added as third author
  • 2025-12-10 Senator Glick added as second author
  • 2025-12-10 Senators Doriot, Byrne, Spencer, Tomes, Clark added as coauthors
  • 2026-01-05 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2026-01-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 13: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2026-01-06 House sponsor: Representative Baird
  • 2026-01-08 Senator Schmitt added as coauthor
  • 2026-01-12 Referred to the House referral
  • 2026-01-12 Senators Alting, Deery, Becker added as coauthors
  • 2026-01-20 First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2026-02-05 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2026-02-05 Representative Smith H added as cosponsor
  • 2026-02-09 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2026-02-10 Representative Novak R added as cosponsor
  • 2026-02-11 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
  • 2026-02-10 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 235: yeas 94, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2026-02-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
  • 2026-02-18 Signed by the Speaker passage
  • 2026-02-19 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
  • 2026-02-24 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2026-02-24 Public Law 9 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ebb615e1-a2b0-46c8-a97c-1f6eb698cdef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).