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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 446"
+citation: "Indiana SB 446 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["DRUGS", "Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies", "BUDGETS AND APPROPRIATIONS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "James Merritt"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-12"
+last_action: "2017-04-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fcb42d4-c10d-4322-afc6-b8091e520e9c"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/446"
+source_hash: "f8c85ca11841eb079fb4e99bfd7802bbfac34332053b9b2f284dd8fc21a8102e"
+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 446 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0446/versions/sb0446.05.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0446/versions/sb0446.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0446/versions/sb0446.03.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0446/versions/sb0446.04.comh)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0446/versions/sb0446.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 446 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 446 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
+- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
+- James Merritt — primary (person)
+- Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
+- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Davisson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-12** Authored by Senator Merritt
+- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2017-01-26** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-20** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
+- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 163: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
+- **2017-02-21** Cosponsor: Representative Davisson
+- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-23** Representatives Zent and Brown, C. added as cosponsors
+- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 323: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-28** Rule 105.1 suspended
+- **2017-03-28** Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-17** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-18** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 477: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-25** Public Law 174
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fcb42d4-c10d-4322-afc6-b8091e520e9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+