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HB1393Introduced in the House

Health care debt and duty to provide care.

IntroducedHouse Public Health

Introduced by Vanessa Summers, District 99

What does this bill do?

Plain-English breakdown

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Official description

Health care debt and duty to provide care. Prohibits a health care provider from refusing to provide necessary care solely on the basis of health care debt owed or alleged to be owed by the consumer to the health care provider for health care services, products, or devices provided by the health care provider to the consumer or to a minor or an incapacitated individual who is under the responsibility of the consumer. Provides that a person that violates this prohibition commits a deceptive act that is actionable under the Indiana statute concerning deceptive consumer sales by the attorney general only.

Where it stands

First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health

January 8, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

No recorded vote is available for this bill yet.

Bill history

  1. Authored by Representative Summers

  2. First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health

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