Indiana Senate Bill 554 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)
Status: Passed on May 13 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-05-13 - Public Law 204
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning (office) to reimburse a home health agency for telehealth services under the Medicaid program. Requires the office to reimburse a federally qualified health center, a rural health clinic, a community mental health center, and a critical access hospital for telemedicine services under the Medicaid program regardless of the distance between the provider and the patient. Requires the health finance commission to study during the 2013 legislative interim issues concerning extending telehealth and telemedicine services under the Medicaid program.

Telehealth and telemedicine services reimbursement under Medicaid.

Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Sen. Vaneta Becker [R]	Sen. Jean Breaux [D]	Sen. Patricia Miller [R]
Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. Ronald Grooms [R]	Sen. Brandt Hershman [R]	Sen. Karen Tallian [D]
Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]

2013-04-24 - House - House - Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the House (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2013-04-24 - Senate - Senate - Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the Senate (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2013-03-25 - House - House - Third reading: passed (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2013-02-26 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 50 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-05-13	House	Public Law 204
2013-05-08	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2013-05-01	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2013-04-29	House	Signed by the Speaker
2013-04-26	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2013-04-24	Senate	Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 518: yeas 49, nays 0
2013-04-24	House	Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the House; Roll Call 585: yeas 96, nays 0
2013-04-24	House	Rules suspended
2013-04-09	House	House advisors appointed: Clere, Porter and Shackleford
2013-04-09	House	House conferees appointed: Bacon and C. Brown
2013-03-28	Senate	Senate advisor appointed: Grooms and Hume
2013-03-28	Senate	Senate conferee appointed: Becker and Breaux
2013-03-28	Senate	Senate dissented from House amendments
2013-03-25	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2013-03-25	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 333: yeas 94, nays 0
2013-03-21	House	Amendment 1 (Bacon), prevailed; voice vote
2013-03-21	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2013-03-18	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2013-03-05	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2013-02-26	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2013-02-26	Senate	Cosponsors: Reps. C. Brown, T. Brown and Porter
2013-02-26	Senate	House sponsor: Rep. Bacon
2013-02-26	Senate	Referred to the House
2013-02-26	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 243: yeas 50 and nays 0
2013-02-25	Senate	Senator Tallian added as coauthor
2013-02-25	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2013-02-21	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2013-02-12	Senate	Senator Hershman added as coauthor
2013-02-07	Senate	Senators Pat Miller, Charbonneau and Grooms added as coauthors
2013-02-07	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
2013-02-05	Senate	Senator Breaux added as coauthor
2013-02-05	Senate	Senator Leising added as second author
2013-01-14	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2013-01-14	Senate	Authored by Senator Becker

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2013&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0554
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/IN/IN0554.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/SB/SB0554.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/SB/SB0554.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/ES/ES0554.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/ES/ES0554.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/SE/SE0554.1.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/PDF/Srollcal/0243.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/PDF/Hrollcal/0333.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/PDF/Srollcal/0518.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2013/PDF/Hrollcal/0585.PDF.pdf