---
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 279"
citation: "Indiana SB 279 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Disease Control", "HEALTH generally", "HEALTH", "Health Care Costs; Health Insurance", "VICTIMS OF CRIME"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "Timothy Lanane"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b35004f-dea8-4e69-be5a-44a4b7983db6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/279"
source_hash: "3b09bc3e9ee70124051bf9045c7ead3e3541d6396defe33b36fa379071f34c2f"
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 279 (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/sb0279/versions/sb0279.06.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0279/versions/sb0279.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0279/versions/sb0279.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0279/versions/sb0279.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0279/versions/sb0279.05.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0279/versions/sb0279.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 279 - Lanane - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 279 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
- Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
- Sue Errington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Lanane
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Crider added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 223: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2017-02-28** Cosponsors: Representatives Brown, C. and Errington
- **2017-02-28** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Representative Zent added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 412: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-07** 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 104
- **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/3b35004f-dea8-4e69-be5a-44a4b7983db6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).