---
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 49"
citation: "Indiana SB 49 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Child Support", "Custody", "and Visitation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Zent", "Jon Ford", "Michael Young", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7500db9c-9f7c-4378-9236-f92b2812ef34"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/49"
source_hash: "845dd21de69f0193e36cef71adb19d6225a17c92fad57bd56ab6b9f52d759b82"
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 49 (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 (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0049/versions/sb0049.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0049/versions/sb0049.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0049/versions/sb0049.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0049/versions/sb0049.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0049/versions/sb0049.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 49 - Glick - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 49 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Earl Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Lloyd Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Glick
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-23** Senator Ford added as second author
- **2017-01-26** Amendment #1 (Glick) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Senator Lanane added as coauthor
- **2017-01-26** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 31: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Zent
- **2017-01-30** Senator Young M added as third author
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Representatives Arnold, Harris, Klinker added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 279: yeas 96, 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
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 42
- **2017-04-13** 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/7500db9c-9f7c-4378-9236-f92b2812ef34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).