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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 154"
+citation: "Indiana SB 154 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "HUMAN SERVICES", "STUDY COMMITTEES", "WELFARE generally", "WELFARE", "SNAP Program", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["James Merritt", "Jon Ford", "Julie Olthoff", "Vaneta Becker"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-04"
+last_action: "2017-04-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c71d51d-5e28-4b58-a1b9-debdd4138862"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/154"
+source_hash: "7c2eee18255c6b2b315a5345b25697ab20b995f94371507b5a7e8d058f9ddf5f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana SB 154 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0154/versions/sb0154.03.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0154/versions/sb0154.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0154/versions/sb0154.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0154/versions/sb0154.02.coms)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0154/versions/sb0154.04.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 154 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 154 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **34–16** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- James Merritt — primary (person)
+- Jon Ford — primary (person)
+- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
+- Cindy Ziemke — cosponsor (person)
+- David Frizzell — cosponsor (person)
+- Linda Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-04** Senator Becker added as second author
+- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Merritt
+- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-24** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
+- **2017-01-26** Senator Ford added as third author
+- **2017-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-16** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-23** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-27** Amendment #1 (Merritt) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-27** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 216: yeas 34, nays 16 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Olthoff
+- **2017-02-28** Cosponsor: Representative Frizzell
+- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
+- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-30** Representative Lawson added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-03** Representative Ziemke added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 374: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-12** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-17** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 471: yeas 28, nays 17 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-27** Public Law 207
+- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c71d51d-5e28-4b58-a1b9-debdd4138862`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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