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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning probate."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning probate."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 247"
+citation: "Indiana SB 247 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["PROBATE COURTS AND PROCEEDINGS", "WELFARE", "Medicaid", "TRUSTS AND FIDUCIARIES", "FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Joseph Zakas", "Michael Young"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-03"
+last_action: "2018-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/232b630d-1eee-47f8-bd57-f8b6c383b634"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/247"
+source_hash: "c10867f169ad97ef73f5cf89d421b1a313a8b83ed98404e4f45effc90223c39a"
+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 247 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning probate.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0247/versions/sb0247.03.engs)
+2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0247/versions/sb0247.05.engh)
+3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0247/versions/sb0247.06.enrh)
+4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0247/versions/sb0247.01.intr)
+5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0247/versions/sb0247.04.comh)
+6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0247/versions/sb0247.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 247 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 247 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
+- Joseph Zakas — primary (person)
+- Michael Young — primary (person)
+- Edward DeLaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Koch
+- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-01** Senator Zakas added as second author
+- **2018-02-01** Senator Young M added as third author
+- **2018-02-05** Amendment #1 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-02-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 175: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
+- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
+- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-22** Representative DeLaney added as cosponsor
+- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-28** Amendment #1 (Steuerwald) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-02-28** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 285: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-08** Motion to dissent filed
+- **2018-03-08** Senate conferees appointed: Koch and Randolph Lonnie M
+- **2018-03-08** Senate advisors appointed: Zakas, Taylor G and Young M
+- **2018-03-08** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-08** House conferees appointed: Steuerwald and DeLaney
+- **2018-03-08** House advisors appointed: Engleman, Washburne and Hatfield
+- **2018-03-12** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the House
+- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
+- **2018-03-14** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 384: yeas 48, nays 0
+- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 394: yeas 98, nays 0
+- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-03-21** Public Law 163
+- **2018-03-21** 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/232b630d-1eee-47f8-bd57-f8b6c383b634`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+