2025 Indiana Legislative Watch

These are the bills that have been presented during the 2025 Indiana Legislative session that we feel our supporters would be interested in knowing about. This year’s session ends April 29, 2025.

SENATE
SB14 – Right to Food
Provides that an individual has the right to grow, raise, produce, harvest, and consume the food that the individual chooses for the individual’s own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health, and well-being.

SB96 – Pharmacist Administration of Immunizations
Allows a pharmacist to administer an immunization that is recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to a group of individuals under a drug order, under a prescription, or according to a protocol approved by a physician if certain conditions are met.

SB110 – School Based Health Centers
Requires the department of education, in consultation with the Indiana department of health, to establish a program to provide technical assistance to public schools, including charter schools, that are interested in establishing a school based health center.

SB132 – Childhood Obesity Study
Establishes the childhood obesity commission as a temporary commission to study childhood obesity.

SB143 – Parental Rights
Provides that a governmental entity may not substantially burden certain parental rights unless the burden is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering the governmental interest.

SB145 – Pharmacy Matters
Requires the state health commissioner or the commissioner’s designated public health authority to issue a standing order, prescription, or protocol (standing order) that allows a pharmacist to treat or screen, test, administer, or dispense for certain health conditions.

SB 184 – Coverage for Clean Dietary Supplements
Requires a state employee health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance organization contract to provide coverage for clean dietary supplements that are prescribed to certain individuals by a health care provider.

SB359 – School Based Mental Health
Requires the department of education (department), in consultation with the office of the secretary of family and social services, to approve and make available student mental well-being resources for certain schools.

SB364 – Weather and the Environment
Prohibits a person who has the intent of affecting the intensity of sunlight, temperature, or weather from discharging a chemical or apparatus into the atmosphere, except in certain circumstances.

HOUSE

HB1160 – Student Immunizations
Provides that a student enrolled in a health profession education program may not be required to receive an immunization as a condition of: (1) participating in; or (2) obtaining; clinical training or clinical experience required by the program when the student has a medical or religious exemption.

HB1168 – Exemption From Certain Health Care Mandates
Prohibits an individual from being required to: (1) inject; (2) receive an injection of; (3) ingest; (4) inhale; or (5) otherwise incorporate; a qualified substance into the individual’s body. Defines "qualified substance."

HB1344 – Indiana Adverse Events Reporting System
Requires the Indiana department of health (department) to establish an Indiana vaccination adverse event reporting system (IVAERS) for reporting the occurrence of adverse events relating to childhood vaccines.

HB1335 – Weather Control
Prohibits a person who has the intent of affecting the intensity of sunlight, temperature, or weather from discharging a chemical or apparatus into the atmosphere, except in certain circumstances.

HB1388 Employment and Vaccinations
Provides that an employer may require an immunization only if the employer respects the employee’s right to refuse an immunization.