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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Medicare supplement insurance."
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description: "Prohibits an issuer of a Medicare supplement policy or certificate from denying, conditioning the issuance or effectiveness of, or discriminating in the pricing of a Medicare supplement policy or certificate because of the health status, claims experience, receipt of health care, or medical condition of an applicant who meets certain conditions."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 1226"
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citation: "Indiana HB 1226 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["INSURANCE; Generally", "INSURANCE; Health Insurance", "INSURANCE; Medicare"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Fady Qaddoura", "Kyle Walker", "Wendy Dant Chesser"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-01-09"
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last_action: "2025-04-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82d0dffa-c439-468d-85ff-7361695d8ba0"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1226"
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source_hash: "db341d21483aa919f7eba28e1a5e33df6770f12ad6f0e3d89b661d655c27ff8e"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana HB 1226 (2025) — Medicare supplement insurance.
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Prohibits an issuer of a Medicare supplement policy or certificate from denying, conditioning the issuance or effectiveness of, or discriminating in the pricing of a Medicare supplement policy or certificate because of the health status, claims experience, receipt of health care, or medical condition of an applicant who meets certain conditions.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1226/HB1226.03.ENGH.pdf)
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2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1226/HB1226.05.ENRS.pdf)
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3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1226/HB1226.04.COMS.pdf)
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4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1226/HB1226.01.INTR.pdf)
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## Votes
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- HB 1226 - Dant Chesser - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
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- HB 1226 - Walker K - 3rd Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Fady Qaddoura — primary (person)
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- Kyle Walker — primary (person)
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- Wendy Dant Chesser — primary (person)
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- Chris Campbell — coauthor (person)
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- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
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- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
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- Martin Carbaugh — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-09** Authored by Representative Dant Chesser
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- **2025-01-09** Coauthored by Representative Clere
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- **2025-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-10** Representatives Carbaugh and Campbell added as coauthors
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- **2025-02-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-13** Amendment #1 (Dant Chesser) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 170: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-17** Senate sponsors: Senators Walker K and Qaddoura
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- **2025-02-18** Referred to the Senate `referral`
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- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
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- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 283: yeas 45, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-26** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
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- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2025-04-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-04-10** Public Law 56 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82d0dffa-c439-468d-85ff-7361695d8ba0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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