---
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 246"
citation: "Indiana SB 246 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Crimes Against Children", "HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "Immunity and Exemption from Liability"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Martin Carbaugh", "Randall Head", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/828eb8d7-6ffd-4d68-b6f6-b198a05f259a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/246"
source_hash: "aa525f96d5eda50aed2f087456cb68fe8da308fa1b92236342b0a3b6745320ad"
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 246 (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. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 246 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **92–4** (pass) · legislature
- SB 246 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **46–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Holdman
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Head added as second author
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Senator Ford added as coauthor
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 199: yeas 46, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Carbaugh
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #1 (Heine) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 411: yeas 92, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-13** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 467: yeas 47, nays 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-05-02** Public Law 263
- **2017-05-02** 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/828eb8d7-6ffd-4d68-b6f6-b198a05f259a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).