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type: "Bill"
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title: "Veterinary licensing."
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description: "Provides that the board of veterinary medicine may issue a license or registration to a qualified applicant without an examination if the qualified applicant: (1) satisfies the requirements for reciprocity of health care professionals; and (2) otherwise meets the requirements to become a licensed veterinarian or a registered veterinary technician."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2026"
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identifier: "SB 56"
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citation: "Indiana SB 56 (2026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["AGENCIES; Professional Licensing Agency (PLA)", "ANIMALS; Generally", "BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Generally", "VETERINARIANS"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Beau Baird", "Jean Leising", "Shelli Yoder", "Susan Glick"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-12-08"
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last_action: "2026-02-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebb615e1-a2b0-46c8-a97c-1f6eb698cdef"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0056"
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source_hash: "c733824a75279459cff016d535771a97cfb312326bcfeb7ef3f0b4ef4f0d0d0a"
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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 SB 56 (2026) — Veterinary licensing.
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Provides that the board of veterinary medicine may issue a license or registration to a qualified applicant without an examination if the qualified applicant: (1) satisfies the requirements for reciprocity of health care professionals; and (2) otherwise meets the requirements to become a licensed veterinarian or a registered veterinary technician.
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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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0056/SB0056.04.ENRH.pdf)
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2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0056/SB0056.01.INTR.pdf)
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3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0056/SB0056.02.COMS.pdf)
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4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0056/SB0056.03.COMH.pdf)
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## Votes
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- SB 56 - Baird - 3rd Reading — **94–1** (pass) · lower
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- SB 56 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Beau Baird — primary (person)
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- Jean Leising — primary (person)
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- Shelli Yoder — primary (person)
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- Susan Glick — primary (person)
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- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
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- Brett Clark — coauthor (person)
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- Daryl Schmitt — coauthor (person)
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- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
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- Hunter Smith — cosponsor (person)
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- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
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- Mark Spencer — coauthor (person)
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- Randy Novak — cosponsor (person)
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- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
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- Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
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- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-12-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-12-08** Authored by Senator Leising
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- **2025-12-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-12-10** Senator Yoder added as third author
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- **2025-12-10** Senator Glick added as second author
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- **2025-12-10** Senators Doriot, Byrne, Spencer, Tomes, Clark added as coauthors
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- **2026-01-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2026-01-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 13: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2026-01-06** House sponsor: Representative Baird
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- **2026-01-08** Senator Schmitt added as coauthor
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- **2026-01-12** Referred to the House `referral`
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- **2026-01-12** Senators Alting, Deery, Becker added as coauthors
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- **2026-01-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2026-02-05** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2026-02-05** Representative Smith H added as cosponsor
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- **2026-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2026-02-10** Representative Novak R added as cosponsor
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- **2026-02-11** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
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- **2026-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 235: yeas 94, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2026-02-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2026-02-18** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2026-02-19** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2026-02-24** Public Law 9 `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/ebb615e1-a2b0-46c8-a97c-1f6eb698cdef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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