Indiana Senate Bill 223 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Passed on May 17 2011 - 100% progression
Action: 2011-05-18 - Effective 05/10/2011
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Authorizes the medical licensing board of Indiana (board) to investigate and assess civil penalties for specified violations by licensed physicians. Requires the division of consumer protection within the office of the attorney general to forward complaints for specified violations to the board unless certain circumstances are met. Allows a physician who is determined by the board to have committed a violation to appeal the board's determination. Establishes the physician compliance fund consisting of penalties assessed and collected by the board for violations determined by the board through investigations. Specifies reporting requirements that the board is required to make to the National Practitioner Data Bank concerning disciplinary action taken by the board, and prohibits the board from reporting specified administrative penalties.

Medical licensing board investigations.

Sen. Jean Breaux [D]

Sen. Beverly Gard [R]

Sen. Patricia Miller [R]

2011-04-29 - House - House - Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the House (Y: 97 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-04-29 - Senate - Senate - Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the Senate (Y: 50 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-04-12 - House - House - Third reading: passed (Y: 93 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-08 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-18		Effective 05/10/2011
2011-05-17		Public Law 149
2011-05-10		Signed by the Governor
2011-05-05		Signed by the President of the Senate
2011-05-05		Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2011-05-05		Signed by the Speaker
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the House; Roll Call 721: yeas 97, nays 0
2011-04-29		Rules suspended
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 502: yeas 50, nays 0
2011-04-28		Conference committee report 1 : filed in the House
2011-04-27		House advisors appointed: Dodge, T. Brown and Reske
2011-04-27		House conferees appointed: Crouch and Welch
2011-04-26		Senate advisors appointed: Gard and Simpson
2011-04-26		Senate conferees appointed: Miller and Breaux
2011-04-26		Senate dissented from House amendments
2011-04-12		Returned to the Senate with amendments
2011-04-12		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 484: yeas 93, nays 0
2011-04-11		Amendment 2 (Lehe), prevailed; voice vote
2011-04-11		Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2011-04-07		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-03-28		First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2011-02-08		Cosponsors: Reps. Welch, Dodge and Reske
2011-02-08		House sponsor: Rep. Crouch
2011-02-08		Referred to the House
2011-02-08		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 81: yeas 49 and nays 0
2011-01-31		Senator Gard added as second author
2011-01-31		Second reading: ordered engrossed
2011-01-27		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-01-25		Senator Breaux added as coauthor
2011-01-05		First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2011-01-05		Authored by Senator Miller

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0223
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN0223.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0223.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/ES/ES0223.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/ES/ES0223.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0223.1.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0081.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0484.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0502.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0721.PDF.pdf