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type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational regulations."
description: "Provides that all occupational regulations must be limited to those demonstrably necessary and carefully tailored to fulfill legitimate public health, safety, or welfare objectives. Requires each public agency to conduct a review of all occupational regulations within the public agency's jurisdiction not later than July 1, 2025. Provides that a public agency shall take certain actions to modify or repeal an occupational regulation that does not conform to these standards. Provides that after July 1, 2025, a person who engages in an occupation or profession to which an occupational regulation applies may file a petition for repeal or modification of the occupational regulation with the public agency having jurisdiction over enforcement of the occupational regulation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1343"
citation: "Indiana HB 1343 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY", "PUBLIC AGENCIES", "PUBLIC SAFETY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jake Teshka", "Kyle Walker", "Mike Gaskill"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5152c10-eb81-46c3-9a3f-a3b0ef3318d9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1343"
source_hash: "9ca495c7fecad160784d5b447746729d983e2c2173f394657107b90d2368b3d2"
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 1343 (2023) — Occupational regulations.
Provides that all occupational regulations must be limited to those demonstrably necessary and carefully tailored to fulfill legitimate public health, safety, or welfare objectives. Requires each public agency to conduct a review of all occupational regulations within the public agency's jurisdiction not later than July 1, 2025. Provides that a public agency shall take certain actions to modify or repeal an occupational regulation that does not conform to these standards. Provides that after July 1, 2025, a person who engages in an occupation or profession to which an occupational regulation applies may file a petition for repeal or modification of the occupational regulation with the public agency having jurisdiction over enforcement of the occupational regulation.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1343/versions/HB1343.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1343/versions/HB1343.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1343/versions/HB1343.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1343/versions/HB1343.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1343/versions/HB1343.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1343 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **480** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jake Teshka — primary (person)
- Kyle Walker — primary (person)
- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
- Mike Speedy — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-17** Coauthored by Representative Speedy
- **2023-01-17** Authored by Representative Teshka
- **2023-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** Senate sponsors: Senators Gaskill and Walker K
- **2023-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 178: yeas 93, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-10** Amendment #3 (Gaskill) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-10** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 371: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-18** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-18** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 444: yeas 86, nays 4
- **2023-04-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-25** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Public Law 142 `became-law`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5152c10-eb81-46c3-9a3f-a3b0ef3318d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).