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Read. Follow. Verify.Indiana Bill 1306 Bars Individuals with Certain Criminal Convictions from Providing Paid In-Home Care and Operating Hospice Programs
Last action · January 6, 2026: First reading: referred to Committee on Public HealthSponsor: Ryan Lauer
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What This Bill Proposed
Indiana House Bill 1306 prohibits individuals convicted of specific crimes, such as sex crimes, murder, or recent theft and fraud offenses, from registering as s, operating hospice programs, or running home health and personal services agencies starting July 1, 2026. The legislation also bars these entities from employing individuals with disqualifying criminal backgrounds to provide in-home or hospice care.
Changes employment eligibility and operating rules for home health agencies, hospice programs, and s by tying professional registration and licensing directly to criminal history screening timelines and conviction records.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Personal services attendants
Must submit expanded background check documentation and face absolute registration bars based on specific past criminal convictions.
Home health and personal services agencies
Prohibited from hiring individuals with specified disqualifying convictions and restricted from employing care providers past twenty-one days without background check receipts.
Hospice program operators
Subject to misdemeanor penalties for owning or operating a program with certain disqualifying criminal convictions.
Endangered adults and in-home care recipients
Receive care services subject to stricter criminal history vetting standards for attending personnel.
Key Facts
- The division of aging is prohibited from registering individuals for attendant care services if they have convictions for sex crimes, exploitation of an endangered adult, failure to report abuse, murder, or voluntary manslaughter.
- Individuals convicted of felony theft, identity deception, or fraud are barred from personal services attendant registration if the conviction occurred less than ten years before application, or less than five years for misdemeanors.
- Owners and operators of hospice programs, home health agencies, and personal services agencies are barred from operating if they have specified disqualifying convictions.
- Hospice programs and home health agencies cannot employ individuals or allow volunteers to provide in-home services without receiving a limited or national criminal history background check within twenty-one calendar days.
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- A person who knowingly or intentionally applies for a job as a home health aide or unlicensed employee after a conviction for a disqualifying offense commits a Class A infraction.
- Persons operating a home health or personal services agency before July 1, 2025, with certain misdemeanor convictions for theft, identity deception, or fraud are permitted to continue operating.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Are existing agency operators with older misdemeanor convictions grandfathered in?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
2 actions- Jan 6, 2026HouseIntroducedFirst reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
- Jan 6, 2026HouseAuthored by Representative Lauer
Version history
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Expanded Disqualification Framework
The bill systematically aligns conviction lookback periods and criminal exclusions across personal services attendants, hospice programs, home health agencies, and personal services agencies.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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