---
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 51"
citation: "Indiana SB 51 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Disease Control", "HEALTH generally", "PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Ronald Grooms", "Steven Davisson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b351cfdf-86a6-4d52-be21-41e360dcff92"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/51"
source_hash: "81e2c22a233d9abe914f0f8a0bd3455ec502f4b2d67b2d85dd10b1c54a97c41a"
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 51 (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/sb0051/versions/sb0051.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0051/versions/sb0051.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0051/versions/sb0051.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0051/versions/sb0051.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 51 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **46–3** (pass) · legislature
- SB 51 - Davisson - 3rd Reading — **96–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Steven Davisson — primary (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Grooms
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2017-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 32: yeas 46, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Davisson
- **2017-01-30** Cosponsors: Representatives Clere and Stemler
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 367: yeas 96, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Representative Porter added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 446: yeas 42, nays 4 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **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 96
- **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/b351cfdf-86a6-4d52-be21-41e360dcff92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).