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Votes at a glance: Indiana Senate session, March 19, 2025
Summary
The Senate adopted committee reports and passed several bills and resolutions on March 19, 2025, including measures on school safety commissions, birth-certificate access and telehealth; several bills were ordered to engrossment or amended.
The Indiana Senate adopted committee reports by unanimous voice vote and approved a number of bills and resolutions during its March 19, 2025 session.
Major floor actions and final votes recorded on the transcript include:
- House Bill 10-16: Passed on third reading, roll call 46 ayes, 0 noes. The bill requires counties' school safety commissions to include representation from fire officials; Senator Dery presented the bill.
- House Bill 11-48: Passed on third reading, roll call 45 ayes, 1 no. Senator Becker said the bill amends rules on birth-certificate access and noted the bill concerns registration or certificate availability; on the floor a senator asked whether the bill would recognize stillbirths at 20 weeks as death certificates and the presenter confirmed this would create a death-certificate recognition in those instances.
- House Bill 15-72: Passed on third reading, roll call 46 ayes, 0 noes. Senator Becker said the bill adds speech and language pathology assistance to telehealth provisions and adjusts requirements related to hearing-aid prescriptions to align with federal law.
The Senate also adopted House Resolution 30 (congratulating Jennifer Sanders as Indiana Small and Rural Schools Association 2024 Indiana Teacher of the Year) and Senate Concurrent Resolution 28 (congratulating the Lawrence North High School girls basketball team on winning the 2025 IHSAA Class 4A championship). Both resolutions were adopted by voice vote.
Other floor activity included second-reading action and amendments ordered to engrossment on multiple bills (for example, House Bill 14-25 — an amendment was adopted to impose a one-year moratorium and require a study by the Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health and Department of Health; that bill was ordered to engrossment). Several bills were placed on second reading and ordered to engrossment without floor amendments.
The clerk recorded messages from the president pro tempore indicating that several enrolled acts were signed on March 19, 2025. The Senate adjourned to reconvene on Monday, March 24, 2025, at 1:30 p.m.
