---
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 303"
citation: "Indiana SB 303 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH generally", "INSURANCE generally", "HEALTH", "Health Care Reform"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "Eric Koch"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ad1993f-737a-4d7e-9efc-d6c895412d4b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/303"
source_hash: "1c9c3f2e4afe7a3d51327a42b2528b5290a58f1eb789aa281cbca75d905ea165"
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 303 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 303 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 303 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Donna Schaibley — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Heaton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2017-02-06** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Senator Leising added as coauthor
- **2017-02-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 114: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2017-02-15** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Representatives Schaibley and Heaton added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-30** Representative Carbaugh added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 377: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 449: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** 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 108
- **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/2ad1993f-737a-4d7e-9efc-d6c895412d4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).