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type: "Bill"
title: "Telehealth matters."
description: "Consolidates Medicaid telehealth language. Provides that \"health care services\" does not include certain case management services, care management services, service coordination services, or care coordination services for purposes of telehealth. Adds occupational therapist assistants, school psychologists, specified developmental therapists, peers, clinical fellows, students and graduates of certain professional programs, physical therapist assistants, and certain community mental health center providers to the definition of \"practitioner\" for purposes of practicing telehealth. Allows behavior health analysts to temporarily perform telehealth during the time when the professional licensing agency is preparing to implement licensure for the profession."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 284"
citation: "Indiana SB 284 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH generally", "HEALTH", "Health Care Professionals", "HEALTH", "Home Health Care", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "Telephone", "Television", "Radio", "and Internet"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Brad Barrett", "Ed Charbonneau"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/162fe1f6-1cdf-4b0c-bac5-6df27bd3deb6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/284"
source_hash: "0b68a2118eb9d622adcf24e4feae0ebff19ac32a8e718d451804c9dece0792ba"
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 SB 284 (2022) — Telehealth matters.
Consolidates Medicaid telehealth language. Provides that "health care services" does not include certain case management services, care management services, service coordination services, or care coordination services for purposes of telehealth. Adds occupational therapist assistants, school psychologists, specified developmental therapists, peers, clinical fellows, students and graduates of certain professional programs, physical therapist assistants, and certain community mental health center providers to the definition of "practitioner" for purposes of practicing telehealth. Allows behavior health analysts to temporarily perform telehealth during the time when the professional licensing agency is preparing to implement licensure for the profession.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0284/versions/SB0284.04.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0284/versions/SB0284.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0284/versions/SB0284.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0284/versions/SB0284.03.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0284/versions/SB0284.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 284 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **460** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Brad Barrett — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-10** Authored by Senator Charbonneau
- **2022-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, 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** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 77: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-25** House sponsor: Representative Barrett
- **2022-01-25** Senator Doriot added as second author
- **2022-01-25** Senator Bassler added as coauthor
- **2022-01-25** Senators Becker and Breaux added as coauthors
- **2022-01-25** Senator Pol added as coauthor
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2022-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Amendment #2 (Vermilion) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Amendment #1 (Barrett) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** Representatives Olthoff, Ledbetter C, Shackleford added as cosponsors
- **2022-02-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 191: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-16** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-23** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-02-24** Concurrence withdrawn
- **2022-02-24** Motion to dissent filed
- **2022-02-24** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-28** House conferees appointed: Barrett and Shackleford
- **2022-02-28** House advisors appointed: Ziemke, Olthoff and Fleming
- **2022-02-28** Senate conferees appointed: Charbonneau and Yoder
- **2022-02-28** Senate advisors appointed: Doriot and Breaux
- **2022-03-03** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2022-03-03** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2022-03-07** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 340: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2022-03-07** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 348: yeas 94, nays 0
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-14** Public Law 109
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/162fe1f6-1cdf-4b0c-bac5-6df27bd3deb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).