---
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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1091"
citation: "Indiana HB 1091 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Adoption"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Delph", "Woody Burton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83ec302a-08d6-4143-a308-de2c76bdb97d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1091"
source_hash: "e9a56bd4b8b0fc50ad354703cd6e3535aacf75b43e455fc5e2cbc0e80fdb47d5"
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 HB 1091 (2018) — 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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1091/versions/hb1091.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1091/versions/hb1091.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1091/versions/hb1091.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1091/versions/hb1091.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1091 - Burton - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1091 - Delph - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Michael Delph — primary (person)
- Woody Burton — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — coauthor (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — coauthor (person)
- Dale DeVon — coauthor (person)
- David Frizzell — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Erin Houchin — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
- Kevin Mahan — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie Wright — coauthor (person)
- Milo Smith — coauthor (person)
- Richard Hamm — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)
- Vanessa Summers — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Representative Burton
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Representative Olthoff added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Representatives Klinker and Cook added as coauthors
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Delph
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 83: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-12** Senators Houchin, Kruse, Walker added as cosponsors
- **2018-02-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 227: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-05** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-03-05** Representatives Ziemke, Frizzell, DeVon, Hamm, Mahan, Smith, M., Bartels, Summers, Taylor J, Wright added as coauthors
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08** Public Law 26

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83ec302a-08d6-4143-a308-de2c76bdb97d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).