---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1516"
citation: "Indiana HB 1516 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STUDY COMMITTEES", "ABUSE generally", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Olthoff", "Michael Crider", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a8fae27-101c-459f-a318-63e03b0d1443"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1516"
source_hash: "4307443e94440295c942a7b73331b013afc9ffa53b65875c472cc2c7b3a55b0c"
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 1516 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services.

## 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/hb1516/versions/hb1516.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1516/versions/hb1516.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1516/versions/hb1516.03.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1516/versions/hb1516.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1516/versions/hb1516.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1516 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1516 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Donna Schaibley — coauthor (person)
- Linda Lawson — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Olthoff
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Representatives Bacon and Schaibley added as coauthors
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Representative Lawson added as coauthor
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 182: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Senator Bray added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Lanane added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Amendment #2 (Crider) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-28** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 331: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 469: yeas 89, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 258
- **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/8a8fae27-101c-459f-a318-63e03b0d1443`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).