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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 402"
+citation: "Indiana SB 402 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Child Support", "Custody", "and Visitation", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Juvenile Courts and Proceedings", "DRUGS", "Testing", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Foster Care"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Rodric Bray", "Vaneta Becker", "Wendy McNamara"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-08"
+last_action: "2018-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f948da0-bba1-457c-99ff-5deed1bc4a59"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/402"
+source_hash: "cc28baa98a1014afa7d5f0f4020169438c06f90df8caa0d0bfdb8f40f4571a3c"
+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 402 (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. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.03.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.02.coms)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.04.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 402 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 402 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
+- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
+- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
+- Holli Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Ronald Bacon — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Becker
+- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-23** Senator Bray added as second author
+- **2018-01-23** Senator Houchin added as third author
+- **2018-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-05** Amendment #1 (Bray) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-02-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-05** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 190: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
+- **2018-02-06** Cosponsors: Representatives Bacon and Sullivan
+- **2018-02-06** Senator Tomes added as coauthor
+- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
+- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 292: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-13** Public Law 62
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f948da0-bba1-457c-99ff-5deed1bc4a59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+