---
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 77"
citation: "Indiana SB 77 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH generally", "RETAIL MERCHANTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "James Merritt", "Jon Ford"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c99f38fc-4e36-42d8-a0b2-3884df8d4be1"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/77"
source_hash: "0d4b6e152ed63cf88876ebef52558a3dff58b66b3b1292e06bd351e3e15ffb92"
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 77 (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/sb0077/versions/sb0077.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0077/versions/sb0077.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0077/versions/sb0077.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0077/versions/sb0077.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 77 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 77 - Ford - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Ober — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Heaton — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Ford
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Senator Lanane added as coauthor
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Senator Merritt added as second author
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 74: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** House sponsor: Representative Ober
- **2017-02-07** Cosponsors: Representatives Carbaugh and Heaton
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 282: 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 46
- **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/c99f38fc-4e36-42d8-a0b2-3884df8d4be1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).