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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 497"
+citation: "Indiana SB 497 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["WELFARE", "Medicaid", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Foster Care", "FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Ronald Grooms", "Susan Glick"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-17"
+last_action: "2017-04-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a83d8c66-7930-478c-be2e-3257287cd47a"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/497"
+source_hash: "3033dd45088d6783e697a3d6e577724c411308ddd2a40b2fcfd0a3a37765d6f8"
+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 497 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0497/versions/sb0497.05.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0497/versions/sb0497.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0497/versions/sb0497.03.comh)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0497/versions/sb0497.02.coms)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0497/versions/sb0497.04.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 497 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 497 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Edward Clere — primary (person)
+- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
+- Susan Glick — primary (person)
+- Brandt Hershman — coauthor (person)
+- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Steven Davisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Summers — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Grooms
+- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Senator Hershman added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-06** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-09** Senator Glick added as second author
+- **2017-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 99: yeas 48, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-13** House sponsor: Representative Clere
+- **2017-02-13** Cosponsors: Representatives Davisson and Stemler
+- **2017-02-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-15** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-23** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-23** Representative Summers added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 357: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 456: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-21** Public Law 124
+- **2017-04-21** 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/a83d8c66-7930-478c-be2e-3257287cd47a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+