---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 226"
citation: "Indiana SB 226 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DRUGS AND MEDICINES", "PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS", "PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "James Merritt", "John Ruckelshaus"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de78d976-ab64-4974-9af4-f997335e5b05"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/226"
source_hash: "9f1260ac5636758c2547ec5f9bca58b61adfaccf34310bba9241b6d58c0358ba"
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 226 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.

## 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/sb0226/versions/sb0226.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0226/versions/sb0226.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0226/versions/sb0226.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0226/versions/sb0226.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0226/versions/sb0226.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 226 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **39–10** (pass) · legislature
- SB 226 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — cosponsor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — coauthor (person)
- Steven Davisson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Merritt
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Senator Ruckelshaus added as second author
- **2017-01-24** Senator Charbonneau added as third author
- **2017-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Amendment #3 (Merritt) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 141: yeas 39, nays 10 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2017-02-20** Cosponsor: Representative Davisson
- **2017-02-20** Senator Mrvan added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Representatives Ziemke and Brown, C. added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 286: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-26** Public Law 182
- **2017-04-26** 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/de78d976-ab64-4974-9af4-f997335e5b05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).