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type: "Bill"
title: "Reciprocity and audiology compact."
description: "Establishes a procedure to grant licenses and certificates to practice certain health care professions in Indiana. Requires the applicant to hold a current license or certificate from another state or jurisdiction and meet other requirements. Allows the applicant who meets certain requirements to apply for a provisional license or provisional certificate. Requires the provisional license or provisional certificate to be issued within 30 days. Provides for penalties for submitting false information on an application for a provisional license or provisional certificate. Requires a board to make a final decision on a license or certificate application before the expiration of a provisional license or provisional certificate. Provides that if a board has a pending application for initial licensure or certification that requires final approval by the board, the board shall meet not more than 31 days after the application is ready for approval. Provides that the medical licensing board may not issue a physician's license to an applicant using the reciprocity law beginning July 1, 2026. Eliminates certain requirements for an applicant seeking licensure as a clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, mental health counselor, addiction counselor, or clinical addiction counselor. Requires the boards that regulate bachelor's degree social workers, social workers, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, licensed addiction counselors, licensed clinical addiction counselors, and respiratory care practitioners to issue a license by reciprocity within 30 days if certain requirements are met. Requires the speech-language pathology and audiology board to, before January 1, 2023, initiate and make every effort to enter into reciprocity agreements with contiguous states for individuals licensed as: (1) a speech-language pathologist; and (2) an audiologist; to practice the individual's profession under the license from one state in the other state. Adopts the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact. Makes conforming amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "Indiana SB 5 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Health Care Professionals", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals", "LICENSES AND LICENSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ann Vermilion", "Ed Charbonneau", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25932746-bb8f-47ed-a522-93423f80be2e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/5"
source_hash: "f279e2bd7b241047236580b298d53e2b60392f24e00bc1b81aa2f201855d6165"
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 5 (2022) — Reciprocity and audiology compact.
Establishes a procedure to grant licenses and certificates to practice certain health care professions in Indiana. Requires the applicant to hold a current license or certificate from another state or jurisdiction and meet other requirements. Allows the applicant who meets certain requirements to apply for a provisional license or provisional certificate. Requires the provisional license or provisional certificate to be issued within 30 days. Provides for penalties for submitting false information on an application for a provisional license or provisional certificate. Requires a board to make a final decision on a license or certificate application before the expiration of a provisional license or provisional certificate. Provides that if a board has a pending application for initial licensure or certification that requires final approval by the board, the board shall meet not more than 31 days after the application is ready for approval. Provides that the medical licensing board may not issue a physician's license to an applicant using the reciprocity law beginning July 1, 2026. Eliminates certain requirements for an applicant seeking licensure as a clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, mental health counselor, addiction counselor, or clinical addiction counselor. Requires the boards that regulate bachelor's degree social workers, social workers, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, licensed addiction counselors, licensed clinical addiction counselors, and respiratory care practitioners to issue a license by reciprocity within 30 days if certain requirements are met. Requires the speech-language pathology and audiology board to, before January 1, 2023, initiate and make every effort to enter into reciprocity agreements with contiguous states for individuals licensed as: (1) a speech-language pathologist; and (2) an audiologist; to practice the individual's profession under the license from one state in the other state. Adopts the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact. Makes conforming amendments.
## 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/SB0005/versions/SB0005.06.ENGH)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0005/versions/SB0005.03.ENGS)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0005/versions/SB0005.07.ENRH)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0005/versions/SB0005.01.INTR)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0005/versions/SB0005.04.COMH)
6. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0005/versions/SB0005.05.COMH)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0005/versions/SB0005.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 5 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ann Vermilion — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Earl Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Shane Lindauer — cosponsor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-06** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2022-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2022-01-12** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-18** Senator Yoder added as coauthor
- **2022-01-20** Amendment #4 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-20** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2022-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 42: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-24** House sponsor: Representative Vermilion
- **2022-01-24** Cosponsor: Representative Zent
- **2022-01-24** Senator Zay added as coauthor
- **2022-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-22** Representatives Lindauer and Harris added as cosponsors
- **2022-02-23** Amendment #1 (Vermilion) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 274: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-25** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-02** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-03-03** Concurrence withdrawn
- **2022-03-03** Motion to dissent filed
- **2022-03-03** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-03** House conferees appointed: Vermilion and Harris
- **2022-03-03** House advisors appointed: Zent, Lindauer, Barrett, Hatfield and Shackleford
- **2022-03-03** Senate conferees appointed: Brown L and Breaux
- **2022-03-03** Senate advisors appointed: Charbonneau and Yoder
- **2022-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2022-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2022-03-08** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 343: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2022-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 372: yeas 93, nays 1
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-18** Public Law 149
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25932746-bb8f-47ed-a522-93423f80be2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).