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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 246"
+citation: "Indiana SB 246 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Crimes Against Children", "HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "Immunity and Exemption from Liability"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Martin Carbaugh", "Randall Head", "Travis Holdman"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-05-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/828eb8d7-6ffd-4d68-b6f6-b198a05f259a"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/246"
+source_hash: "aa525f96d5eda50aed2f087456cb68fe8da308fa1b92236342b0a3b6745320ad"
+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 246 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.04.engh)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.02.coms)
+5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 246 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **92–4** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 246 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **46–3** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
+- Randall Head — primary (person)
+- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
+- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Holdman
+- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Senator Head added as second author
+- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20** Senator Ford added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 199: yeas 46, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Carbaugh
+- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
+- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Amendment #1 (Heine) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 411: yeas 92, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-13** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 467: yeas 47, nays 3 `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
+- **2017-05-02** Public Law 263
+- **2017-05-02** 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/828eb8d7-6ffd-4d68-b6f6-b198a05f259a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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