SB0317: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning trade regulation.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Senate Bill (S)
• Current Chamber: senate
• Origin Chamber: senate
• Description: Health care debt and costs.

Legislators

Actions (10 total)

• Feb 20, 2025, 7:15 AM: Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 183: yeas 23, nays 26
• Feb 18, 2025, 9:52 AM: Second reading: ordered engrossed
• Feb 17, 2025, 1:41 PM: Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• Feb 13, 2025, 9:08 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Feb 10, 2025, 10:43 AM: Senator Johnson T removed as third author
• Jan 30, 2025, 11:02 AM: Senator Deery added as coauthor
• Jan 29, 2025, 9:02 AM: Senators Yoder, Ford J.D., Jackson L, Becker added as coauthors
• Jan 13, 2025, 11:33 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
• Jan 13, 2025, 11:33 AM: Authored by Senators Qaddoura and Charbonneau
• Jan 13, 2025, 9:34 AM: Senator Johnson T added as third author

Digest

Requires hospitals to do the following: (1) Offer the person who has received health services the opportunity to pay the charges through a payment plan that satisfies certain requirements. (2) Develop a written notice about a charity care program operated by the hospital, provide the notice to patients, and post the notice. (3) Include certain information concerning financial assistance on a billing statement. (4) Requires a hospital that reports an annual gross patient revenue of at least $20,000,000 to provide written notice and information to a person who has requested an eligibility determination concerning a payment plan or charity care. Provides that the unpaid earnings of a consumer who meets specified income eligibility requirements may not be attached by garnishment in satisfaction of: (1) any amount of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by the consumer; or (2) any amount of the judgment that represents health care debt determined to be owed by the consumer. Provides that: (1) any amount of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer; or (2) in an action against a consumer in which a judgment has been entered, any amount of the judgment that represents health care debt determined to be owed by the consumer; does not constitute a lien against the consumer's principal residence for a consumer that meets specified income requirements. Provides that in any action filed in Indiana for the recovery of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by a consumer, the principal residence of the consumer is not liable to judgment or attachment or to be sold on execution against the consumer.