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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: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 179"
+citation: "Indiana SB 179 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Child Support", "Custody", "and Visitation", "COURTS generally", "PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS", "ADVERTISEMENTS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John Ruckelshaus", "Peggy Mayfield", "Rodric Bray"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-08"
+last_action: "2018-03-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa5acab6-76b1-4148-8421-c66214c22941"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/179"
+source_hash: "31a3016148426aaaba02f7704c01bb75caafca7005d3ffcaef8f7181d58d5f61"
+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 179 (2018) — 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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0179/versions/sb0179.04.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0179/versions/sb0179.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0179/versions/sb0179.02.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0179/versions/sb0179.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 179 - Mayfield - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 179 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
+- Peggy Mayfield — primary (person)
+- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Bray
+- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-22** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-25** Senator Ruckelshaus added as second author
+- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 130: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-02-05** House sponsor: Representative Mayfield
+- **2018-02-06** Referred to the House
+- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 277: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-06** Motion to concur filed
+- **2018-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 357: yeas 45, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-03-15** Public Law 94
+- **2018-03-15** 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/fa5acab6-76b1-4148-8421-c66214c22941`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+