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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adult guardianship services."
+description: "Combines the volunteer advocates for seniors program and the volunteer advocates for incapacitated adults programs into one program. Requires that, in submitting a progress report to the court, a volunteer advocate for seniors and incapacitated adults shall include a person centered care plan in the progress report."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 139"
+citation: "Indiana SB 139 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["GUARDIANSHIPS AND CONSERVATORSHIPS", "SUPREME COURT AND COURT OFFICERS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "Eric Koch", "Timothy Lanane", "Vaneta Becker"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-06"
+last_action: "2020-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f525435-e7a2-4301-85e3-19e24656bcf4"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/139"
+source_hash: "c78f4feaccda6433b2f4286184d895f2c15b59ea61ca0f45e753405fa0579a56"
+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 139 (2020) — Adult guardianship services.
+
+Combines the volunteer advocates for seniors program and the volunteer advocates for incapacitated adults programs into one program. Requires that, in submitting a progress report to the court, a volunteer advocate for seniors and incapacitated adults shall include a person centered care plan in the progress report.
+
+## 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/2020/bills/SB0139/versions/SB0139.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0139/versions/SB0139.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0139/versions/SB0139.02.COMS)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0139/versions/SB0139.03.COMH)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 139 - Lanane - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 139 - Cook - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Anthony Cook — primary (person)
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
+- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
+- B Patrick Bauer — cosponsor (person)
+- Carey Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
+- James Buck — coauthor (person)
+- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
+- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Lanane
+- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-16** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
+- **2020-01-27** Senator Becker added as second author
+- **2020-01-27** Senator Koch added as third author
+- **2020-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-30** Senators Buck, Freeman, Rogers, Glick added as coauthors
+- **2020-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2020-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 139: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-02-04** House sponsor: Representative Cook
+- **2020-02-04** Cosponsors: Representatives Bauer and Hamilton
+- **2020-02-04** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
+- **2020-02-05** Referred to the House
+- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 195: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-02-25** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2020-03-02** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2020-03-03** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-11** Public Law 4
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f525435-e7a2-4301-85e3-19e24656bcf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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