---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning insurance."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 73"
citation: "Indiana SB 73 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DRUGS AND MEDICINES", "PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACIES", "HEALTH", "Health Care Costs; Health Insurance"]
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: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6faace51-58ca-4311-a482-b8e2a05d3f8e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/73"
source_hash: "5837a036dbf706aa5a932cec8db0ee6939179e3143609d963f88e4574e30fc9b"
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 73 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning insurance.

## 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/sb0073/versions/sb0073.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0073/versions/sb0073.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0073/versions/sb0073.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0073/versions/sb0073.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 73 - Davisson - 3rd Reading — **94–2** (pass) · legislature
- SB 73 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Steven Davisson — primary (person)
- Donna Schaibley — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — 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 33: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Davisson
- **2017-01-30** Cosponsors: Representatives Clere, Stemler, Schaibley
- **2017-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 281: yeas 94, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-30** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-03** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 348: yeas 46, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** 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 45
- **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/6faace51-58ca-4311-a482-b8e2a05d3f8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).