---
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 175"
citation: "Indiana SB 175 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS generally", "HEALTH generally", "GUARDIANSHIPS AND CONSERVATORSHIPS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Jean Leising", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98debe30-bf62-4ea3-8d95-8452345835c8"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/175"
source_hash: "88ce3b073cdd3aa4afa505d7b74448551a616103e1597d95dea1924b0f3a6728"
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 175 (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/sb0175/versions/sb0175.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0175/versions/sb0175.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0175/versions/sb0175.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0175/versions/sb0175.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0175/versions/sb0175.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 175 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 175 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **44–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Leising
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Senator Young M added as second author
- **2017-01-31** Amendment #1 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-31** Amendment #2 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-31** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-02** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2017-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 55: yeas 44, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Walker added as coauthor
- **2017-02-03** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Reassigned to Committee on Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Representatives Porter and Zent added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-30** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-03-30** Representative Bacon added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 350: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-04-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 54
- **2017-04-13** 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/98debe30-bf62-4ea3-8d95-8452345835c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).