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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 226"
+citation: "Indiana SB 226 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["DRUGS AND MEDICINES", "PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS", "PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACIES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "James Merritt", "John Ruckelshaus"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-04-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de78d976-ab64-4974-9af4-f997335e5b05"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/226"
+source_hash: "9f1260ac5636758c2547ec5f9bca58b61adfaccf34310bba9241b6d58c0358ba"
+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 226 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.
+
+## 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/sb0226/versions/sb0226.03.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0226/versions/sb0226.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0226/versions/sb0226.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0226/versions/sb0226.04.comh)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0226/versions/sb0226.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 226 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **39–10** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 226 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
+- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
+- James Merritt — primary (person)
+- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
+- Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Cindy Ziemke — cosponsor (person)
+- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
+- Frank Mrvan — coauthor (person)
+- Steven Davisson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Merritt
+- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-12** Senator Ruckelshaus added as second author
+- **2017-01-24** Senator Charbonneau added as third author
+- **2017-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-13** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-16** Amendment #3 (Merritt) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 141: yeas 39, nays 10 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
+- **2017-02-20** Cosponsor: Representative Davisson
+- **2017-02-20** Senator Mrvan added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-21** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-21** Representatives Ziemke and Brown, C. added as cosponsors
+- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 286: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-26** Public Law 182
+- **2017-04-26** 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/de78d976-ab64-4974-9af4-f997335e5b05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+