---
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 263"
citation: "Indiana SB 263 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Local Boards and Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dave Heine", "Dennis Kruse", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4fce4d4-43b8-494c-8f84-a9f0e59b4ceb"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/263"
source_hash: "336572d89613f52ec6bd479cb7d98816c7bace9e116b7c221f94a50617261bf3"
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 263 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0263/versions/sb0263.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0263/versions/sb0263.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0263/versions/sb0263.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0263/versions/sb0263.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 263 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 263 - Heine - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dave Heine — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- David Ober — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2017-02-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 113: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** House sponsor: Representative Heine
- **2017-02-14** Cosponsor: Representative Ober
- **2017-02-15** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-09** Representative GiaQuinta added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 253: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-15** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-03-29** Public Law 5
- **2017-03-29** 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/b4fce4d4-43b8-494c-8f84-a9f0e59b4ceb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).