*HB1354.1*
February 6, 2025
HOUSE BILL No. 1354
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DIGEST OF HB 1354 (Updated February 6, 2025 9:15 am - DI 148)
Citations Affected: IC 25-0.5; IC 25-1.
Synopsis: Veterinary medicine. Amends the licensure applicability
provision for veterinarians to include registration and permits for
veterinary technicians. Requires certain individuals to submit to both
a state and national background check. Allows the state police
department to release the results of a national criminal history
background check to an authorized employee of the board of animal
health. Makes a technical correction.
Effective: July 1, 2025.
Aylesworth
January 13, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural
Development.
February 6, 2025, amended, reported — Do Pass.
HB 1354—LS 7205/DI 148 February 6, 2025
First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1354
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
professions and occupations.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 25-0.5-1-23, AS ADDED BY P.L.3-2014,
2 SECTION 5, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
3 JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 23. IC 25-1-1.1-4 applies to an individual:
4 (1) licensed; or
5 (2) certified;
6 (3) registered; or
7 (4) permitted;
8 under IC 25-38.1 (veterinarians and veterinary technicians).
9 SECTION 2. IC 25-1-1.1-4, AS AMENDED BY P.L.15-2024,
10 SECTION 1, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
11 JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 4. (a) This section applies to an individual who is
12 applying for, or will be applying for an initial:
13 (1) license; or an initial
14 (2) certificate;
15 (3) registration; or
16 (4) permit;
17 under one (1) of the occupations or professions described in
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1 IC 25-0.5-1.
2 (b) As used in this chapter, "national criminal history background
3 check" means the criminal history record system maintained by the
4 Federal Bureau of Investigation based on fingerprint identification or
5 any other method of positive identification.
6 (c) An individual applying for an initial:
7 (1) license; or initial
8 (2) certificate;
9 (3) registration; or
10 (4) permit;
11 specified in subsection (a) shall submit to a state and national criminal
12 history background check at the cost of the individual.
13 (d) The state police department shall release the results of a national
14 criminal history background check conducted under this section: to:
15 (1) to the Indiana professional licensing agency; or
16 (2) for a license or certificate issued under IC 25-38.1, to the
17 following:
18 (A) The chief administrative officer of the board of veterinary
19 medicine.
20 (B) An authorized agent of the chief administrative officer
21 described in clause (A).
22 (B) An employee of the board of animal health authorized
23 to perform activities to carry out the purpose of the board
24 of veterinary medicine under IC 15-17.5-3-2.
25 (e) A board, a commission, or a committee may conduct a random
26 audit and require an individual seeking a renewal of a license or a
27 certificate specified in subsection (a) to submit to a national criminal
28 history background check at the cost of the individual.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Agriculture and Rural
Development, to which was referred House Bill 1354, has had the same
under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the
House with the recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
Page 2, strike lines 20 through 21.
Page 2, line 22, delete "(C)" and insert "(B)".
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
(Reference is to HB 1354 as introduced.)
AYLESWORTH
Committee Vote: yeas 10, nays 0.
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