republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2026/sb-180.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Various health care matters."
description: "Eliminates a requirement that home health aide competency evaluation program training include at least 75 hours of training and 16 hours of classroom training before supervised practical training. Amends the educational requirements for dental hygienists. Amends the requirements for administration of nitrous oxide by a dental hygienist. Allows the state board of dentistry to establish additional requirements for an applicant who has failed the licensure examination at least three times. Amends the licensure and temporary permit requirements for respiratory care practitioners. Provides that a current or former police officer or firefighter (first responder) may recover medical benefits from the first responder's employer for an employment related injury or illness without first proceeding with a worker's compensation claim. Provides that if a first responder pursues a worker's compensation claim for medical benefits and the claim is withdrawn or denied, the first responder is not precluded from recovering medical benefits from the employer. Repeals the penalty in Title 16 concerning the crime of transferring contaminated semen. (Current statute contains a transferring of contaminated body fluids crime in Title 35 remains in law.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 180"
citation: "Indiana SB 180 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADVERTISEMENTS AND NOTICES", "AGENCIES; Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA)", "AGENCIES; Professional Licensing Agency (PLA)", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Persons", "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; Generally", "FIREFIGHTERS; Generally", "HEALTH CARE FACILITIES; Long Term Care Facilities", "HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; Dentistry", "HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; Doctors and Physicians", "HEALTH; Behavioral Health; Generally", "HEALTH; Billing and Costs", "HEALTH; Dental and Vision", "HEALTH; Disease Control", "HEALTH; Emergency Medical Services (EMS)", "HEALTH; Generally", "HEALTH; Home Health Care", "HEALTH; Medicaid", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining", "Benefits", "and Wages", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Worker's Compensation", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally", "TECHNOLOGY; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Liz Brown", "Lonnie Randolph", "Lori Goss-Reaves"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-05"
last_action: "2026-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5de65cc4-2ec8-4375-aa4f-7d0ec48a30cf"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0180"
source_hash: "4859276924d4269d8f9c33eee79d8dba3502b90c996ac965cc210b70c1272c59"
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 180 (2026) — Various health care matters.

Eliminates a requirement that home health aide competency evaluation program training include at least 75 hours of training and 16 hours of classroom training before supervised practical training. Amends the educational requirements for dental hygienists. Amends the requirements for administration of nitrous oxide by a dental hygienist. Allows the state board of dentistry to establish additional requirements for an applicant who has failed the licensure examination at least three times. Amends the licensure and temporary permit requirements for respiratory care practitioners. Provides that a current or former police officer or firefighter (first responder) may recover medical benefits from the first responder's employer for an employment related injury or illness without first proceeding with a worker's compensation claim. Provides that if a first responder pursues a worker's compensation claim for medical benefits and the claim is withdrawn or denied, the first responder is not precluded from recovering medical benefits from the employer. Repeals the penalty in Title 16 concerning the crime of transferring contaminated semen. (Current statute contains a transferring of contaminated body fluids crime in Title 35 remains in law.)

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0180/SB0180.04.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0180/SB0180.06.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0180/SB0180.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0180/SB0180.05.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 180 - Brown L — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 180 - Goss-Reaves - 3rd Reading — **87–4** (pass) · lower
- SB 180 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — primary (person)
- Lori Goss-Reaves — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
- Julie McGuire — cosponsor (person)
- La Keisha Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Lindsay Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-05** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2026-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-15** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-22** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2026-01-26** Amendment #1 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-27** Senator Jackson L added as coauthor
- **2026-01-27** Senator Randolph added as third author
- **2026-01-27** Senators Raatz, Becker added as coauthors
- **2026-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 100: yeas 45, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-27** Cosponsor: Representative McGuire
- **2026-01-27** House sponsor: Representative Goss-Reaves
- **2026-01-28** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-29** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** Representative Patterson added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 253: yeas 87, nays 4 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2026-02-17** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-25** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 280: yeas 47, nays 0
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Public Law 118 `became-law`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-03-05** 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/5de65cc4-2ec8-4375-aa4f-7d0ec48a30cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).