republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/hb-1138.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional licensing matters."
description: "Removes references to a quality review in provisions relating to the licensing of accountants. Requires the Indiana board of accountancy (board) to adopt rules requiring the firm to allow the administering entity to provide access to the results of its most recently accepted peer review and other objective information to the board. Removes language requiring the administering entity to make a peer review report available to the oversight committee not more than 30 days after the issuance of the peer review report. Provides that the results of a peer review may be treated as a complaint submitted by the board. Removes language requiring the peer review committee issuing a report to cooperate with an investigation of a complaint. Allows the use of certain titles by an individual who is enrolled in or has graduated from a school or college of architecture or an accredited curriculum of landscape architecture. Specifies that the renewal of a professional geologist license after June 30, 2025, requires continuing education. Allows certain individuals to take various licensing examinations early if certain conditions are met. Increases the number of clinical or supervised hours certain individuals may obtain through virtual supervision."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1138"
citation: "Indiana HB 1138 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Professional Licensing Agency (PLA)", "PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING; Generally", "SOCIAL SERVICES; Social Workers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Lori Goss-Reaves", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c08dc125-6975-4a50-b053-8487cdfc0be8"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1138"
source_hash: "a60cb4d83b2037872853a12b2e6d9d215b3087faa08f00e826c455d175199cfd"
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 1138 (2024) — Professional licensing matters.

Removes references to a quality review in provisions relating to the licensing of accountants. Requires the Indiana board of accountancy (board) to adopt rules requiring the firm to allow the administering entity to provide access to the results of its most recently accepted peer review and other objective information to the board. Removes language requiring the administering entity to make a peer review report available to the oversight committee not more than 30 days after the issuance of the peer review report. Provides that the results of a peer review may be treated as a complaint submitted by the board. Removes language requiring the peer review committee issuing a report to cooperate with an investigation of a complaint. Allows the use of certain titles by an individual who is enrolled in or has graduated from a school or college of architecture or an accredited curriculum of landscape architecture. Specifies that the renewal of a professional geologist license after June 30, 2025, requires continuing education. Allows certain individuals to take various licensing examinations early if certain conditions are met. Increases the number of clinical or supervised hours certain individuals may obtain through virtual supervision.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1138/HB1138.05.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1138/HB1138.04.ENGS.pdf)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1138/HB1138.06.ENRS.pdf)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1138/HB1138.03.COMS.pdf)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1138/HB1138.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1138 - Goss-Reaves - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1138 - Goss-Reaves — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1138 - Zay - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Lori Goss-Reaves — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Chuck Goodrich — coauthor (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth Rowray — coauthor (person)
- Heath VanNatter — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Authored by Representative Goss-Reaves
- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-29** Representative Goodrich added as coauthor
- **2024-01-29** Representative VanNatter added as coauthor
- **2024-01-29** Representative Rowray E added as coauthor
- **2024-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 84: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-30** Senate sponsors: Senators Zay and Crider
- **2024-01-31** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2024-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Senator Crane added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-15** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22** Amendment #1 (Zay) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 193: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-27** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2024-02-28** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 243: yeas 87, nays 0
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Public Law 83 `became-law`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-12** 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/c08dc125-6975-4a50-b053-8487cdfc0be8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).