Department of health name change.
Summary
Requires the legislative services agency to prepare legislation for introduction in the 2023 regular session of the general assembly to make appropriate amendments to the Indiana Code to change references from the "state department of health" to the "Indiana department of health".
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Feb 2022
House Passage
Jan 2022
Senate Passage
Feb 2022
Signed into Law
Mar 2022
Introduced Jan 10, 2022
Signed Mar 7, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Feb 15, 2022
How they voted
43–0
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 47
Feb 15, 2022
D
Democratic11
72% Yea
R
Republican36
97% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
5
Committee
3
Amendments
1
Mar 7, 2022
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor
executive
Feb 16, 2022
Introduced
Returned to the House without amendments
upper
Feb 15, 2022
Upper · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 206: yeas 46, nays 0
upper
Feb 10, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
upper
Jan 26, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Senate
lower
Jan 25, 2022
Lower · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 85: yeas 84, nays 7
lower
Jan 13, 2022
Lower · Passed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
lower
3 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Michael Crider
RRepublican
P
Vaneta Becker
RRepublican
P
Wendy McNamara
RRepublican
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