Senate passes wide slate of bills on March 3, 2025; key tallies and short summaries

The Indiana Senate completed a long floor session on March 3, 2025, voting on a broad series of bills spanning alcohol licensing, health-care regulation, public safety, education and other subjects. The roll calls below record the vote outcome as announced on the Senate floor. Text summaries are drawn from the bill presentations on the floor.

Votes at a glance

- Senate Bill 109 (artisan distillery rules): Passed 42-7. Expanded production caps and onsite collaboration rules for artisan distilleries; increased event and direct-sale limits. (Floor presentation: Senator Alting; vote announced at roll call.)

- Senate Bill 119 (Terre Haute hospital review/COPPA clarification): Passed 49-0. Clarifies review requirements and sets an end date for the process established to review a proposed hospital transaction in Terre Haute. (Senator Charbonneau presented.)

- Senate Bill 140 (PBM and insurer contracting limits): Passed 47-2. Prohibits certain insurer–PBM ownership linkages, requires network adequacy measures and annual reporting, creates a complaint process for pharmacists and gives the state authority over some PBM data. (Senator Charbonneau presented; extended floor discussion.)

- Senate Bill 141 (eyewitness ID and AI protections): Passed 49-0. Criminal-defense and identification protections related to eyewitness and AI-generated imagery. (Senator Brown presented.)

- Senate Bill 260 (Alcohol and Tobacco Commission swift suspension authority): Passed 47-2. Allows the ATC to suspend certain on-premises retail permits without notice for up to five days in narrowly defined circumstances where listed serious crimes occur on licensed premises and the permit holder has failed to take reasonable steps; requires a hearing within five days. (Long floor debate; Senator Alting presented.)

- Senate Bill 317 (medical-debt protections; garnishment/primary-residence limits): DEFEATED, 23-26. The bill would have required hospitals to offer clearer charity-care notice, prohibited wage garnishment for certain households (those at or below 250% of the federal poverty line), and limited liens on primary residences for qualifying patients; the Senate vote defeated the bill on constitutional grounds after extended debate. (Senator Gudora presented; roll call: defeated.)

- Senate Bill 358 (various education-related changes): Passed 39-10. (Senator Rods presented; roll call announced.)

- Senate Bill 371 (public safety/fund adjustments for 77 fund members): Passed 49-0. (Senator Rogers presented.)

- Senate Bill 388/389/403/409/418 and others: A number of agency and technical bills passed with recorded roll-call tallies as announced on the floor. Examples include Senate Bill 403 (Department of Workforce Development technical updates) passed 49-0; Senate Bill 409 (parental leave access for special-education meetings; four-year sunset) passed 30-19; Senate Bill 419 (health-care workplace protections) passed 42-7. (See the transcript roll calls; presentation names are in each recorded floor segment.)

What to watch next

Several bills that passed will move to the House for further consideration and possible amendment. A subset of bills (for example the PBM bill and the ATC suspension authority) drew extended floor debate and are likely to be discussed further in conference or by House committees. The charter/education funding measure discussed elsewhere in the session (Senate Bill 5 18) received lengthy floor debate and a close vote; its implementation and fiscal details were central to arguments from senators on both sides.

Note: vote tallies and brief bill descriptions are drawn from the Senate floor clerk roll calls and floor presentations on March 3, 2025. This glance summarizes outcomes reported on the Senate floor; readers looking for full text, fiscal notes, or conference changes should consult the enrolled bill text and House committee schedules once bills are transmitted.