Indiana Senate Bill 298 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Passed on March 10 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-10 - Public Law 62
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Certificates of public advantage. Defines "merger" and "merger agreement" for purposes of the certificate of public advantage (certificate) for certain hospital mergers. Requires the state department of health (state department) to actively supervise a merger. Allows the state department to enter into an agreement with a nonprofit organization or a postsecondary educational institution to study the impacts of the certificate of public advantage on the community's health metrics and outcomes. Requires holders of a certificate to pay for reasonable charges incurred by the state department.

Certificates of public advantage.

Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. Jon Ford [R]	Rep. Alan Morrison [R]	Rep. Bradford Barrett [R]
Rep. Rita Fleming [D]

2022-03-02 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House amendments (Y: 46 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-23 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 89 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 9) [PASS]
2022-02-09 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2022-01-20 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 46 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2022-01-12 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-10	Senate	Public Law 62
2022-03-10	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2022-03-09	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2022-03-08	House	Signed by the Speaker
2022-03-07	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2022-03-02	Senate	Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 323: yeas 46, nays 0
2022-02-24	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2022-02-24	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2022-02-23	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 262: yeas 89, nays 1
2022-02-22	House	Amendment #2 (Morrison) prevailed; voice vote
2022-02-22	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2022-02-14	House	Representative Fleming added as cosponsor
2022-02-10	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2022-02-01	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2022-01-21	Senate	Referred to the House
2022-01-20	Senate	Senator Ford Jon added as second author
2022-01-20	Senate	Cosponsor: Representative Barrett
2022-01-20	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Morrison
2022-01-20	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 36: yeas 46, nays 0
2022-01-18	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2022-01-12	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2022-01-10	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2022-01-10	Senate	Authored by Senator Charbonneau

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/298/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/1/f/5/01f5e082/SB0298.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/7/d/b/d7dbb415/SB0298.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/0/4/5/30458ca6/SB0298.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/1/2/8/b1280221/SB0298.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/b/b/c/5bbca8c1/SB0298.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/6/2/e/a62e2fc8/SB0298.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/6/2/2/d6227984/SB0298.04.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/6/5/4/a654f1f7/SB0298.04.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/3/1/b/e31b44f9/SB0298.05.ENRH.pdf
Amendment	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/a/6/8/9a68bac7/SB0298.03.COMH.AMH001.pdf
Amendment	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/0/e/8/c0e85b1e/SB0298.03.COMH.AMH002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/4/e/f/74efdfcb/SB0298.01.INTR.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/9/e/1/49e1ba70/SB0298.02.COMS.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/3/c/c/23ccd7df/SB0298.01.INTR.CRS001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/6/1/b/d61b07fd/SB0298.02.COMS.FN002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/7/b/e/67be8ce2/SB0298.02.COMS.FN003.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/9/b/9/29b97e81/SB0298.02.COMS.CRH001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/7/d/3/47d3da1f/SB0298.03.COMH.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/c/1/a/3c1ad2b8/SB0298.04.ENGH.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/b/1/f/eb1fc99b/SB0298.04.ENGH.FN002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/4/8/2/2482191a/SB0298.04.ENGH.CON01.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/1/2/b/a12bbba0/SB0298.05.ENRH.FN001.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/f/e/9/bfe963c5/SB0298.01.INTR.01.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/c/d/0/0cd07f16/SB0298.36_S.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/a/4/1/ea412f87/SB0298.02.COMS.01.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/d/5/6/1d560704/SB0298.262_H.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/d/f/b/ddfb5717/SB0298.323_S.pdf