Overview
- Representatives voted 62–31 to advance Senate Bill 1, a Republican priority that now must clear the Senate again before it can go to the governor.
- The bill tightens SNAP eligibility by ending expanded categorical eligibility, setting income and asset rules, and requiring referral to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security when an applicant’s immigration status cannot be verified.
- Medicaid and Healthy Indiana Plan rules would shift to semiannual renewals with shorter redetermination timelines, and HIP would add copays for certain services including nonemergency emergency-room visits.
- HIP participants would face a work requirement of 80 hours per month that must be met in each of the three months before applying, with ongoing verification at least quarterly and a narrower definition of medical frailty.
- Democratic lawmakers and more than 80 advocacy groups warn eligible Hoosiers could lose coverage due to added paperwork, noting House Republicans rejected amendments to ease burdens for patients and students, while supporters cite program sustainability and an FSSA estimate of roughly $10 million in recoverable improper payments.