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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1470: Medicaid coverage for incarcerated individuals.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1470 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Medicaid coverage for incarcerated individuals. Primary sponsor: Gregory Porter (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (January 21, 2025): First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to, not later than October 1, 2025, apply for approval of a Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver to provide prerelease services to certain incarcerated individuals beginning 90 days before the individual is released.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Gregory PorterPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse96

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
  2. Authored by Representative Porter

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source