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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Jury duty exemption for women breastfeeding."
+description: "Exempts a woman who is breastfeeding from jury duty. Sets forth requirements."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 139"
+citation: "Indiana SB 139 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COURTS; Generally", "COURTS; Juries", "HEALTH; Pregnancy"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Julie Olthoff", "Linda Rogers", "Stacey Donato"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-05"
+last_action: "2026-03-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24750632-0137-414c-b522-808a2e926f8c"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0139"
+source_hash: "7d1234752c4e1efa690c3ebfcdb07c78dce17f47e0300ad88956829b79ef7c2f"
+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 (2026) — Jury duty exemption for women breastfeeding.
+
+Exempts a woman who is breastfeeding from jury duty. Sets forth requirements.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0139/SB0139.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0139/SB0139.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0139/SB0139.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0139/SB0139.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 139 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 139 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
+- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
+- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
+- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
+- Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)
+- James Buck — coauthor (person)
+- Jennifer Meltzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Michael Young — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-05** Authored by Senator Donato
+- **2026-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-06** Senator Doriot added as second author
+- **2026-01-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-12** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2026-01-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-13** Senator Young M added as coauthor
+- **2026-01-13** Senator Buck added as coauthor
+- **2026-01-13** House sponsor: Representative Olthoff
+- **2026-01-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 22: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-13** Senator Rogers added as third author
+- **2026-01-14** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2026-01-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-29** Representative King added as cosponsor
+- **2026-02-02** Representative Meltzer added as cosponsor
+- **2026-02-17** Representative Cash added as cosponsor
+- **2026-02-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 340: yeas 98, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-25** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2026-02-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** Public Law 69 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24750632-0137-414c-b522-808a2e926f8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+