---
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: "SB 119"
citation: "Indiana SB 119 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies", "HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Jon Ford", "Ronald Bacon", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef128a33-ba1a-4d15-b5b4-e0f89ff9119a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/119"
source_hash: "ef1be61999186dfab2675e11928f67bfb1db7af3d93e07b5a5af349482820823"
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 119 (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 Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.03.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.05.engh)
3. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.06.engh)
4. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.07.enrh)
5. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.01.intr)
6. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.04.comh)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0119/versions/sb0119.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 119 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **44–5** (pass) · legislature
- SB 119 - Bacon - 3rd Reading — **84–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Ronald Bacon — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Becker
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Senator Ford added as second author
- **2017-02-13** Senator Tomes added as third author
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-14** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Amendment #1 (Becker) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 138: yeas 44, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Bacon
- **2017-02-21** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-13** Representative Zent added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Amendment #2 (Macer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-14** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Amendment #3 (Bacon) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-21** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 298: yeas 84, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-23** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-30** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 431: yeas 43, nays 6 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 100
- **2017-04-21** 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/ef128a33-ba1a-4d15-b5b4-e0f89ff9119a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).