---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1006"
citation: "Indiana HB 1006 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DRUGS", "Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse", "FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "MENTAL HEALTH", "State Department and Institutions", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "James Merritt"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87abdd90-b8cc-492c-8ea7-8329fddafc6f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1006"
source_hash: "7cd3dc4312ff47d61d470ec666999a2dad2658dab0d395a7f7556ddcf2b60bf1"
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 HB 1006 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.05.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.06.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.03.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.04.coms)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.02.comh)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1006 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1006 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — coauthor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-10** Coauthored by Representatives Ziemke and Steuerwald
- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Kirchhofer
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Representative Shackleford added as coauthor
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 164: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsors: Senators Merritt and Charbonneau
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Mrvan added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #4 (Merritt) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #5 (Head) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 406: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Senator Buck added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-12** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** House advisors appointed: Ziemke, Steuerwald, McNamara and Hamilton
- **2017-04-13** House conferees appointed: Kirchhofer and Shackleford
- **2017-04-17** Senate conferees appointed: Merritt and Breaux
- **2017-04-17** Senate advisors appointed: Charbonneau, Mrvan and Ruckelshaus
- **2017-04-17** Representative Bacon added as advisor
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 517: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 533: yeas 97, nays 0
- **2017-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 243
- **2017-04-28** 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/87abdd90-b8cc-492c-8ea7-8329fddafc6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).