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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 233"
+citation: "Indiana SB 233 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Foster Care"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jon Ford", "Mike Bohacek", "Ronald Grooms", "Wendy McNamara"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-03"
+last_action: "2018-03-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/343e37a6-4fda-4e14-8a53-6157772a4f6d"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/233"
+source_hash: "c332fd84b58ff701a25d8001dc86167bcb14246be52e51725d37db22c9802f22"
+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 233 (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/sb0233/versions/sb0233.04.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0233/versions/sb0233.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0233/versions/sb0233.02.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0233/versions/sb0233.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 233 - Ford - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 233 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jon Ford — primary (person)
+- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
+- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
+- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
+- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
+- David Frizzell — cosponsor (person)
+- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
+- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
+- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
+- John Crane — coauthor (person)
+- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Randall Head — coauthor (person)
+- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Ford
+- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-09** Senator Grooms added as second author
+- **2018-01-09** Senator Bohacek added as third author
+- **2018-01-16** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-16** Senators Zay, Holdman, Becker added as coauthors
+- **2018-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-22** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 71: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-01-25** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
+- **2018-01-25** Cosponsor: Representative Frizzell
+- **2018-01-25** Senator Head added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-25** Senator Crane added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-29** Referred to the House
+- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-13** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
+- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-20** Representative Zent added as cosponsor
+- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 199: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2018-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-07** Public Law 13
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/343e37a6-4fda-4e14-8a53-6157772a4f6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+