republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/hb-1254.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Newborn screening requirements."
description: "Provides that beginning July 1, 2022, only a disorder recommended by a perinatal genetics and genomics advisory committee (committee) with expertise in newborn screening, and through protocols prescribed by the state department, may be added to the list of disorders requiring the examination of infants. Provides that beginning July 1, 2022, a committee with expertise in newborn screening, and through protocols established by the state department, may recommend the addition of a disorder to, or deletion of a disorder from, the required examination. Provides that the state department shall adopt rules to add disorders to, or delete disorders from, the required examination. Provides that the state department shall include any disorder added to or deleted from the required examination on a list on the state department's Internet web site. Provides that the committee shall affirm the addition of, or deletion of, any disorder to the examination requirement on an annual basis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1254"
citation: "Indiana HB 1254 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS generally", "HEALTH generally", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brad Barrett", "Ed Charbonneau", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfe1eb93-0ec7-41d9-a8e6-94197f3d0a37"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1254"
source_hash: "08cfd908bab5bd680dbcea79b58d5b1748ad5e6f52b355e3bbab014b5b984a01"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana HB 1254 (2022) — Newborn screening requirements.

Provides that beginning July 1, 2022, only a disorder recommended by a perinatal genetics and genomics advisory committee (committee) with expertise in newborn screening, and through protocols prescribed by the state department, may be added to the list of disorders requiring the examination of infants. Provides that beginning July 1, 2022, a committee with expertise in newborn screening, and through protocols established by the state department, may recommend the addition of a disorder to, or deletion of a disorder from, the required examination. Provides that the state department shall adopt rules to add disorders to, or delete disorders from, the required examination. Provides that the state department shall include any disorder added to or deleted from the required examination on a list on the state department's Internet web site. Provides that the committee shall affirm the addition of, or deletion of, any disorder to the examination requirement on an annual basis.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1254/versions/HB1254.06.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1254/versions/HB1254.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1254/versions/HB1254.03.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1254/versions/HB1254.04.COMS)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1254/versions/HB1254.05.COMS)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1254/versions/HB1254.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1254 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brad Barrett — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Elizabeth Rowray — coauthor (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-06** Authored by Representative Barrett
- **2022-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-13** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Representatives Rowray E, Porter added as coauthors
- **2022-01-25** Senate sponsor: Senator Charbonneau
- **2022-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 80: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Senator Brown L added as second sponsor
- **2022-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Senator Qaddoura added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 238: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-10** Public Law 77

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfe1eb93-0ec7-41d9-a8e6-94197f3d0a37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).