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type: "Bill"
title: "Practice of medicine terms."
description: "Provides, for purposes of the law prohibiting the unlawful practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine, that \"the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine\" includes attaching to an individual's name the words \"allergist\", \"electrophysiologist\", \"geriatrician\", \"immunologist\", \"medical geneticist\", \"neonatologist\", or \"pulmonologist\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 275"
citation: "Indiana SB 275 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Health Care Professionals", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Zent", "Liz Brown", "Tyler Johnson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f9a9dee-69bb-40ee-be3e-a9c9f4463f8a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/275"
source_hash: "4ab58409c9360c2ab3d1d1091656a8a660c1df089e6947029deca6008ccdbd19"
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 275 (2023) — Practice of medicine terms.
Provides, for purposes of the law prohibiting the unlawful practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine, that "the practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine" includes attaching to an individual's name the words "allergist", "electrophysiologist", "geriatrician", "immunologist", "medical geneticist", "neonatologist", or "pulmonologist".
## 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/2023/bills/SB0275/versions/SB0275.04.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0275/versions/SB0275.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0275/versions/SB0275.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0275/versions/SB0275.03.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0275/versions/SB0275.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 275 - Johnson - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
- Rita Fleming — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Heaton — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-11** Authored by Senator Johnson
- **2023-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-30** Senator Brown L added as second author
- **2023-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 82: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-07** House sponsor: Representative Zent
- **2023-02-09** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-11** Representative King J added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-13** Amendment #1 (Mayfield) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-13** Amendment #2 (Barrett) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-17** Representatives Heaton and Fleming added as cosponsors
- **2023-04-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 430: yeas 97, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-19** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2023-04-19** House conferees appointed: Zent and Fleming
- **2023-04-19** House advisors appointed: King, Hostettler, Ledbetter and Hatfield
- **2023-04-19** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2023-04-20** Senate conferees appointed: Brown L and Melton
- **2023-04-20** Senate advisors appointed: Yoder and Johnson
- **2023-04-25** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2023-04-25** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2023-04-26** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 508: yeas 90, nays 1
- **2023-04-26** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 489: 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 178 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f9a9dee-69bb-40ee-be3e-a9c9f4463f8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).