---
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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1191"
citation: "Indiana HB 1191 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sex Crimes", "HEALTH", "Health Care Professionals", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karen Engleman", "Michael Crider", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/641537b6-2fb7-4c46-9129-277ef2cae985"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1191"
source_hash: "3a5c08546e0b3850d9ff113a345294e11c5c4f9959e9a8e0ab94d9c3dcb0e60a"
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 1191 (2018) — 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 House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1191/versions/hb1191.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1191/versions/hb1191.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1191/versions/hb1191.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1191/versions/hb1191.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1191 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1191 - Engleman - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Karen Engleman — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Cindy Kirchhofer — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — cosponsor (person)
- James Tomes — cosponsor (person)
- Liz Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie Wright — coauthor (person)
- Michael Young — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09** Authored by Representative Engleman
- **2018-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Representative Bacon added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Representative Wright added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Representative Kirchhofer added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Senate sponsors: Senators Crider and Becker
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 89: yeas 90, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Senators Tomes and Young M added as cosponsors
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Senator Brown L added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 217: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-20** Senator Buck added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08** Public Law 35

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/641537b6-2fb7-4c46-9129-277ef2cae985`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).