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Votes at a glance: key bills the Indiana Senate acted on April 9, 2025
Summary
The Senate completed third‑reading votes, concurrence motions and agency bill passage on multiple measures. This roundup lists the bills recorded on the floor, short descriptions and final roll call tallies where available.
The Indiana Senate recorded final actions or concurrence motions on a number of bills during the April 9, 2025 floor session. Below are the measures that received recorded votes or formal floor action in the transcript, with short descriptions and recorded tallies.
House bills (selected)
- House Bill 12 92 — Northwest Indiana Professional Sports Development Commission. Creates a locally funded, 17‑member regional commission to attract professional sports franchises; Senate third‑reading passage recorded 46 ayes, 2 noes.
- House Bill 13 76 — Amends definition of emergency medication allowable in schools to replace a specific nasal spray name with “a federal Food and Drug Administration‑approved opioid overdose reversal medication, including a nasal spray”; sponsor said the change removes specific references and permits FDA‑approved products; final recorded vote: 49 ayes, 0 noes.
- House Bill 13 90 — Bureau of Motor Vehicles/agency cleanup bill. Includes technical updates on credentials, license plates and transfer of the slow‑moving vehicle program to the BMV; final passage recorded 38 ayes, 11 noes.
- House Bill 14 57 — Department of Health agency bill (technical cleanups, background checks, epinephrine training etc.); final passage recorded 48 ayes, 1 no.
- House Bill 14 68 — Creates a supplemental cigar sales certificate for temporary cigar sales at public events and allows regulated in‑restaurant cigar rooms where locally permitted; final passage recorded 41 ayes, 8 noes.
- House Bill 15 55 — Allows certain foreign‑trained physicians who complete approved residencies and meet licensing requirements to practice under supervision for up to five years as a stopgap to address provider shortages; final passage recorded 48 ayes, 1 no.
- House Bill 15 95 — Request to FSSA to reapply for a Medicaid plan amendment by a statutory deadline; final passage recorded 49 ayes, 0 noes.
- House Bill 16 34 — Math proficiency/early screening and interventions: requires screeners and targeted interventions and automatic enrollment in advanced middle‑school math for students meeting certain scores and grade criteria; final passage recorded 38 ayes, 11 noes.
- House Bill 16 89 — Clarifies oversight, reporting and stakeholder engagement for Medicaid home‑and‑community‑based services and ombudsman coverage for certain waivers; final passage recorded 47 ayes, 1 no.
Senate concurrence motions and other actions
- Motion to concur with House changes for Senate Bill 4 — Passed on the floor, recorded 45 ayes, 2 noes (concurrence motion). Sponsor noted mainly minor technical changes from the House, with one substantive notice requirement related to long‑haul water pipeline ownership transfers.
- Motion to concur with House changes for Senate Bill 119 — Passed on the floor, recorded 46 ayes, 1 no (COPA bill re consolidation of hospitals; House changed a date).
- Motion to concur with House changes for Senate Bill 143 — Passed on the floor, recorded 43 ayes, 4 noes (concurrence on parental‑rights measure as amended by the House).
Notes and context
- Where the transcript records only committee placement, amendment activity, or an amendment roll call but not final engrossment or final passage for a specific bill, this roundup reports only the recorded actions shown on the Senate floor transcript.
- The transcript shows other bills called for second or third reading but not all had contested votes in the excerpted record; items with recorded roll‑call tallies above are the items that produced a floor vote or concurrence action in the provided transcript.
- Several bills were presented as agency cleanup or technical changes; the transcript includes short sponsor explanations and recorded roll calls for each.
