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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Marriage and family therapists."
+description: "Decreases the number of experiential practice hours required to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or a therapist associate. Specifies that the hours must be completed during at least 12 months."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 11"
+citation: "Indiana SB 11 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jon Ford", "Julie Olthoff", "Liz Brown", "Stacey Donato"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-09"
+last_action: "2023-04-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9829a4e2-4b2e-4d88-85ff-0e9e1026d1d5"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/11"
+source_hash: "156bf74b4c7ceffe8e5498108115fce5b39b94716ba84ee15e4e43d19b627769"
+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 11 (2023) — Marriage and family therapists.
+
+Decreases the number of experiential practice hours required to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or a therapist associate. Specifies that the hours must be completed during at least 12 months.
+
+## 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/2023/bills/SB0011/versions/SB0011.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0011/versions/SB0011.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0011/versions/SB0011.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0011/versions/SB0011.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 11 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jon Ford — primary (person)
+- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
+- Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)
+- Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Donato
+- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-26** Senator Ford Jon added as second author
+- **2023-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 32: yeas 45, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Olthoff
+- **2023-01-30** Senator Brown L added as third author
+- **2023-02-01** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-30** Representatives Ledbetter C and Cash B added as cosponsors
+- **2023-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 333: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-04** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-04-20** Public Law 15 `became-law`
+- **2023-04-20** 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/9829a4e2-4b2e-4d88-85ff-0e9e1026d1d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+