---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 20"
citation: "Indiana SB 20 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "MEMBERS", "GOVERNOR", "LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lonnie Randolph", "Susan Glick", "William Friend"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef23d915-3ae5-410f-a8c5-0b76663a8ab3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/20"
source_hash: "bf36fcbe81b85663de5fe1896c9bf2d4b6673707f84a94c27c6b497fd084e93d"
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 20 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0020/versions/sb0020.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0020/versions/sb0020.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0020/versions/sb0020.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0020/versions/sb0020.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 20 - Friend - 3rd Reading — **83–15** (pass) · legislature
- SB 20 - Glick - 3rd Reading — **30–17** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Lonnie Randolph — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- William Friend — primary (person)
- Kathy Richardson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Glick
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Senator Randolph added as second author
- **2017-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 84: yeas 30, nays 17 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-09** House sponsor: Representative Friend
- **2017-02-10** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Representative Richardson added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #3 (Pierce) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 366: yeas 83, nays 15 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-04-10** 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 93
- **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/ef23d915-3ae5-410f-a8c5-0b76663a8ab3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).