Indiana Senate Bill 59 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: Passed on April 15 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-04-15 - Public Law 45
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Occupational therapy services. Allows an occupational therapist to provide occupational therapy services to an individual during a period of not more than 42 calendar days beginning on the day on which the occupational therapist first provides occupational therapy services to the individual. Allows an occupational therapist to provide occupational therapy services to an individual after the 42 day period only if the occupational therapist obtains a referral from, or acts on the order of, a physician, podiatrist, advanced practice registered nurse, psychologist, chiropractor, optometrist, or physician's assistant. Allows an occupational therapist, without a referral or order from a health care provider, to provide: (1) ergonomic or home assessment services; (2) injury or illness prevention education and wellness services; (3) occupational therapy activities provided in an educational setting; or (4) occupational therapy activities that the medical licensing board of Indiana determines to be appropriate to be conducted in a community based environment.

Occupational therapy services.

Sen. Vaneta Becker [R]	Sen. Mark Messmer [R]	Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. James Tomes [R]
Rep. Ann Vermilion [R]	Rep. Cindy Ziemke [R]	Rep. Robin Shackleford [D]	Rep. Edward Clere [R]

2021-03-29 - House - House Floor - (Y: 91 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 7) [PASS]
2021-03-17 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2021-02-02 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 47 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2021-01-27 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-04-15	Senate	Public Law 45
2021-04-15	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2021-04-14	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2021-04-07	House	Signed by the Speaker
2021-04-05	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2021-03-30	House	Returned to the Senate without amendments
2021-03-29	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 311: yeas 91, nays 0
2021-03-23	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2021-03-18	House	Representative Clere added as cosponsor
2021-03-18	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2021-03-01	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2021-02-03	Senate	Referred to the House
2021-02-02	Senate	Senator Tomes added as coauthor
2021-02-02	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Ziemke and Shackleford
2021-02-02	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Vermilion
2021-02-02	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 40: yeas 47, nays 0
2021-02-01	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2021-01-28	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2021-01-04	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2021-01-04	Senate	Authored by Senators Becker, Messmer, Charbonneau

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/59/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/9/a/9/b9a918ed/SB0059.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/c/2/5/4c2528c3/SB0059.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/a/b/4/bab48b41/SB0059.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/c/3/d/4c3d630c/SB0059.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/5/8/6/858686dd/SB0059.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/3/4/f/434f9c96/SB0059.04.ENRH.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/1/f/7/01f785a9/SB0059.01.INTR.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/4/1/d/a41d1c93/SB0059.01.INTR.CRS001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/d/f/2/3df256c3/SB0059.02.COMS.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/0/e/2/30e2b35f/SB0059.02.COMS.FN002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/d/f/3/7df3c46e/SB0059.02.COMS.FN003.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/8/4/7/0847a693/SB0059.02.COMS.CRH001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/3/d/0/53d0a288/SB0059.03.COMH.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/3/d/d/b3dd63b2/SB0059.03.COMH.FN002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/5/3/6/15361deb/SB0059.03.COMH.FN003.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/c/d/c/fcdc3811/SB0059.04.ENRH.FN001.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/9/a/4/c9a4954a/SB0059.01.INTR.01.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/9/e/1/09e151e2/SB0059.40_S.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/a/6/1/9a614adf/SB0059.02.COMS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/0/4/3/40439d1c/SB0059.311_H.pdf