INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Debt collectors could face limits on how much they could collect from medical debtors under legislation a Senate panel discussed Wednesday.

State lawmakers have been negotiating for more than a year over how to address Indiana’s rising medical debts. The latest proposal from Sens. Ed Charbonneau, R-Valparaiso, and Fady Qaddoura, D-Indianapolis, would require hospitals to offer a payment plan to any patients who make less than 400% of the federal poverty level, currently about $128,000 per year for a family of four. In addition, debt collectors would not be able to take more than 10% of a person’s paycheck as a wage garnishment for medical debt. Wages could not be garnishe...