republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/hb-1513.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "FSSA matters."
description: "Changes the name of the bureau of developmental disabilities services to the bureau of disabilities services. Removes certain members from the 211 advisory committee. Repeals Medicaid copayment provisions that: (1) require the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to apply a copayment for certain Medicaid services; (2) require a recipient to make a copayment upon the receipt of services and for a provider not to voluntarily waive a copayment; (3) set forth exemptions from copayment requirements; and (4) require the provider to charge the maximum allowable copayment. Allows for an enrollment fee, a premium, a copayment, or a similar charge to be imposed as a condition of an individual's eligibility for the healthy Indiana plan and the children's health insurance program. Removes a prohibition on the office from: (1) requiring certain providers to submit non-Medicaid revenue information in the provider's annual historical financial report; and (2) only requesting balance sheets from certain providers that apply directly to the provider's facility. Allows the office to implement an end of therapy reclassification methodology in a successor of the RUG-IV, 48-Group model for payment of nursing facility services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1513"
citation: "Indiana HB 1513 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "NURSING HOMES", "WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brad Barrett", "Ed Charbonneau"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d24a0614-4917-4c00-b349-7f3dd76a427a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1513"
source_hash: "cf63107de291b461cd31db29d3e86b3f363c311086c59e1e05bd82895641ff2d"
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 1513 (2023) — FSSA matters.

Changes the name of the bureau of developmental disabilities services to the bureau of disabilities services. Removes certain members from the 211 advisory committee. Repeals Medicaid copayment provisions that: (1) require the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to apply a copayment for certain Medicaid services; (2) require a recipient to make a copayment upon the receipt of services and for a provider not to voluntarily waive a copayment; (3) set forth exemptions from copayment requirements; and (4) require the provider to charge the maximum allowable copayment. Allows for an enrollment fee, a premium, a copayment, or a similar charge to be imposed as a condition of an individual's eligibility for the healthy Indiana plan and the children's health insurance program. Removes a prohibition on the office from: (1) requiring certain providers to submit non-Medicaid revenue information in the provider's annual historical financial report; and (2) only requesting balance sheets from certain providers that apply directly to the provider's facility. Allows the office to implement an end of therapy reclassification methodology in a successor of the RUG-IV, 48-Group model for payment of nursing facility services.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1513/versions/HB1513.04.ENGH)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1513/versions/HB1513.07.ENGS)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1513/versions/HB1513.08.ENRS)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1513/versions/HB1513.02.COMH)
5. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1513/versions/HB1513.03.COMH)
6. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1513/versions/HB1513.05.COMS)
7. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1513/versions/HB1513.06.COMS)
8. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1513/versions/HB1513.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1513 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **44–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brad Barrett — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Becky Cash — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Authored by Representative Barrett
- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-31** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
- **2023-02-09** Representative Porter added as coauthor
- **2023-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-14** Amendment #1 (Barrett) prevailed; Roll Call 112: yeas 68, nays 27 `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-14** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** Representative Cash B added as coauthor
- **2023-02-16** Representative Olthoff added as coauthor
- **2023-02-16** Senate sponsor: Senator Charbonneau
- **2023-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 149: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-17** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-17** Amendment #1 (Charbonneau) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-17** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 447: yeas 44, nays 6 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-19** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2023-04-19** House dissented from Senate amendments
- **2023-04-19** House conferees appointed: Barrett and Porter
- **2023-04-19** House advisors appointed: Cash, Olthoff and Fleming
- **2023-04-20** Senate conferees appointed: Charbonneau and Hunley
- **2023-04-20** Senate advisors appointed: Melton and Busch
- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2023-04-26** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 519: yeas 94, nays 0
- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 511: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 241 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d24a0614-4917-4c00-b349-7f3dd76a427a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).